LICK (2)

lick (2). Lick, n. a taste, blow, stroke, a place where cattle lick for salt

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Lick, n. [[See Lick, v.]] 1. 1. A stroke of the tongue in licking. “A lick at the honey pot.” Dryden.
2. 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.
A lick of court whitewash. Gray. 3. 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.