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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
lick .
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Examples
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And Moab said unto the elders of Mid'i-an, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.
Numbers 22. 1999
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This blazing fire that licketh up the trees causeth sorrow in my anxious heart and raiseth therein evil presentiments. '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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This blazing fire that licketh up the trees causeth sorrow in my anxious heart and raiseth therein evil presentiments. '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Like a raging conflagration he licketh up my troops.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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For the whelp is a piece of flesh little more than a mouse, having neither eyes nor ears, and having claws some-deal bourgeoning, and so this lump she licketh, and shapeth a whelp with licking ....
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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In his forehead when he is foaled is found Iconemor, a black skin of the quantity of a sedge, that hight also Amor's Veneficium; and the mother licketh it off with her tongue, and taketh it away and hideth it or eateth it.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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First he drinketh and licketh the blood of the beast that he slayeth, and rendeth and haleth the other-deal limb - meal, and devoureth and swalloweth it.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Avicenna saith that the bear bringeth forth a piece of flesh imperfect and evil shapen, and the mother licketh the lump, and shapeth the members with licking ....
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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He licketh and sucketh his own feet, and hath liking in the juice thereof.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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