Li*cen"ti*ate (l*sn"sh*t or - sht; 106), n. [LL. licentiatus, fr.
licentiare to allow to do anything, fr. L. licentia license. See
License, n.] 1. One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a
licentiate in medicine or theology.
The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict,
requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give
gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor.
Johnson.
2. A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in
all places, independently of the local clergy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a
license therefor. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
4. On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between
that of bachelor and that of doctor.
Li*cen"ti*ate (-sh*t), v. t. To give a license to. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Li*cen"tious (-shs), a. [L. licentiosus: cf. F. licencieux. See
License.] 1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive;
abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.
A wit that no licentious pertness knows.
Savage.
2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd;
lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious
wickedness." Shak.
Syn. -- Unrestrained; uncurbed; uncontrolled; unruly; riotous;
ungovernable; wanton; profligate; dissolute; lax; loose; sensual;
impure; unchaste; lascivious; immoral.
-- Li*cen"tious*ly, adv. -- Li*cen"tious*ness, n.
Lich (lk), a. Like. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
Lich (lch), n. [AS. lc body. See Like, a.] A dead body; a corpse.
[Obs.]
Lich fowl (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker; -- called also lich owl. --
Lich gate, a covered gate through which the corpse was carried to the
church or burial place, and where the bier was placed to await the
clergyman; a corpse gate. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- Lich wake, the
wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.]
Chaucer. -- Lich wall, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. --
Lich way, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. [Prov.
Eng.]
Li"chen (l"kn; 277), n. [L., fr. Gr. leichh`n.] 1. (Bot.) One of a
class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes),
having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded,
frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously
branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by
means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form
irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color,
upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great
tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.
A favorite modern theory of lichens (called after its inventor the
Schwendener hypothesis), is that they are not autonomous plants, but
that they consist of ascigerous fungi, parasitic on algæ. Each lichen
is composed of white filaments and green, or greenish, rounded cells,
and it is argued that the two are of different nature, the one living
at the expense of the other. See Hyphæ, and Gonidia.
2. (Med.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to
one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish
pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even
fatal exhaustion.
Li"chened (l"knd), a. Belonging to, or covered with, lichens. Tennyson.
Li*chen"ic (l*kn"k), a. Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens.
Lichenic acid. (a) An organic acid, C14H24O3, obtained from Iceland
moss. (b) An old name of fumaric acid.
Li*chen"i*form (-*fôrm), a. Having the form of a lichen.
Li"chen*in (l"kn*n), n. (Chem.) A substance isomeric with starch,
extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland
moss.
{ Li`chen*o*graph"ic (l`kn**grf"k), Li`chen*o*graph"ic*al (-*kal), } a.
[Cf. F. lichénographique.] Of or pertaining to lichenography.
Li`chen*og"ra*phist (-g"r*fst), n. One who describes lichens; one
versed in lichenography.
Li`chen*og"ra*phy (l`kn*g"r*f), n. [Lichen + -graphy: cf. F.
lichénographie.] A description of lichens; the science which
illustrates the natural history of lichens.
Li`chen*ol"o*gist (-l"*jst), n. One versed in lichenology.
Li`chen*ol"o*gy (-j), n. [Lichen + -logy.] The science which treats of
lichens.
Li"chen*ous (l"kn*s), a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens;
abounding in lichens; covered with lichens. G. Eliot.
Li"chi` (l"ch`), n. (Bot.) See Litchi.
Lich"wale` (lch"wl`), n. (Bot.) The gromwell.
Lich"wort` (-wûrt`), n. (Bot.) An herb, the wall pellitory. See
Pellitory.
Lic"it (ls"t), a. [L. licitus permitted, lawful, from licere: cf. F.
licite. See License.] Lawful. "Licit establishments." Carlyle. --
Lic"it*ly, adv. -- Lic"it*ness, n.
Lic`i*ta"tion (ls`*t"shn), n. [L. licitatio, fr. licitari, liceri, to
bid, offer a price.] The act of offering for sale to the highest
bidder. [R.]
Lick (lk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Licked (lkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Licking.]
[AS. liccian; akin to OS. likkn, D. likken, OHG. lecchn, G. lecken,
Goth. bi-laign, Russ. lizate, L. lingere, Gr. lei`chein , Skr. lih,
rih. √121. Cf. Lecher, Relish.] 1. To draw or pass the tongue
over; as, a dog licks his master's hand. Addison.
2. To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
Shak.
To lick the dust, to be slain; to fall in battle. "His enemies shall
lick the dust." Ps. lxxii. 9. -- To lick into shape, to give proper
form to; -- from a notion that the bear's cubs are born shapeless and
subsequently formed by licking. Hudibras. -- To lick the spittle of, to
fawn upon. South. - - To lick up, to take all of by licking; to devour;
to consume entirely. Shak. Num. xxii. 4.
Lick, n. [See Lick, v.] 1. A stroke of the tongue in licking. "A lick
at the honey pot." Dryden.
2. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of
the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on
colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any
substance so applied. [Colloq.]
A lick of court whitewash.
Gray.
3. A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which
wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt
springs. [U. S.]
Lick, v. t. [Cf. OSw. lägga to place, strike, prick.] To strike with
repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a
pugilistic encounter. [Colloq. or Low] Carlyle. Thackeray.
Lick, n. A slap; a quick stroke.[Colloq.] "A lick across the face."
Dryden.
Lick"er (lk"r), n. [Cf. Lecher.] One who, or that which, licks.
Licker in (Carding Machine), the drum, or cylinder, by which the lap is
taken from the feed rollers.
Lick"er*ish, a. [Cf. Lecherous.] 1. Eager; craving; urged by desire;
eager to taste or enjoy; greedy. "The lickerish palate of the glutton."
Bp. Hall.
2. Tempting the appetite; dainty. "Lickerish baits, fit to insnare a
brute." Milton.