Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sipping; touching lightly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Sipping; touching lightly.
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- adjective
Sipping ;touching lightly.
Etymologies
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Latin libans, present participle of libare ("to taste, touch").
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Examples
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Speaking of the swift, that page says "its drink the dew;" whereas it should be "it drinks on the wing;" for all the swallow kind sip their water as they sweep over the face of pools or rivers: like Virgil's bees, they drink flying; "_flumina summa libant_."
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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a flawless performance and studied it with the air of a libant, pausing between sips of the exquisite.
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