Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.

* Shakespeare

Let his lack of years be no impediment.

* 1994 , (Green Day),

I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''

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Noun

(en noun)

The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

The cat gave its fur a lick .

The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.

Give me a lick of ice cream.

A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.

a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush

* Gray

a lick of court white wash

A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.

The birds gathered at the clay lick .

A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.

We used to play in the lick .

(colloquial) A stroke or blow.

Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.

(colloquial) A bit.

You don't have a lick of sense.

I didn't do a lick of work today.

(music) A short motif.

There are some really good blues licks in this solo.

speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.

The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.