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lambĕre [CL], ~ēre [LL] 1 a to pass the tongue over, lick; b (fig.). c (transf. to action of touching with lips, kissing). d to suck (breast or sim.). e to fawn over. f (intr.) to fawn. a venerunt ‥ animalia ‥ ~entes [v. l. ~entia] pedes ejus V. Cuthb. II 3 (v. humiliter a); mulier paupercula ‥ nummum, quem ante deposuerat fidelis illa matrona, ~ens lingua ab altari furtive asportavit Found. Waltham 26; 1200 post primam celebrationem ‥ absorbeantur stillule de calice, et digiti sugantur vel lingua ~antur et laventur Conc. Syn. 1061; prodest ‥ boves ‥ stergere cum vispilione. eo quod affectius se ~ebunt Fleta 166; [canes] pedes sancti Coemgeni et vestimenta ‥ auribus et naribus ac lingua ~ebant (Coemgenus 27) VSH I 248. b fusa solo supplex plantas tu [sc. cartula] lambe sacratas Alcuin Carm. 4. 31; est grave mellitam lambenti lambere spinam D. Bec. 2322. c hunc genibus flexis rex ecce volutus adorat / imperiumque regens Petri vestigia lambit Wulf. Brev. 390; si de labris carpere detur favum mellis. / os dilecte lambere roseum labellis P. Blois Carm. 5. 8. 4; crucem ‥ amplexatur, pedes lacrimis et osculis rigat et ~it Ad. Eyns. Visio 5; [Judas] lambit lucentem flosculum [cf. Matth. xxvi 49] J. Howd. Ph. 102. d J. Godard Ep. 223 (v. 2a infra). e s1251 hic ‥ cum primum curiam regiam ~ere cepisset vix duas terre carucatas dinoscitur habuisse M. Par. Maj. V 242; lingua Gnatonicus lambit innocua / que peccant Cesares Walt. Wimb. Palpo 131. f pavones ‥ ante pedes ejus [sc. Junonis] ~ebant, qui a dextris et sinistris domine stabant Deorum Imag. 11. 2 to lick so as to taste or drink, to lick up; b (fig.; cf. 4 infra). bibe, ~e lapa GlP 727; de his ‥ qui antequam masticent id quod mordent ‥ quasi suggendo vel ~endo in os trahiciunt, sicut infans qui, etiam dum lac educere non curat ab ubere, papillam ‥ lambit J. Godard Ep. 223; lohoc, i. confectio que ~i dicitur SB 28; Gedeon quondam amota multitudine per ccc viros qui aquam ~uerant de multis triumphavit [cf. Jud. vii 5] Knighton I 165; [murilegus] linguam habet longam et flexibilem ‥ cum qua bibendo ~it Upton 167. b permissus ~ere sum vescentum abjectas uti catellus esuriens miculas B. Ep. 386; Dei animalibus sal ad ~endum datur dum eis ‥ vita sanctorum pronuntiatur Hon. GA 636B; felices pulli aquilarum illi qui ‥ depascunt carnem [Christi] et sanguinem ~unt [cf. Job xxxix 30] J. Ford Serm. 8. 2; [adulator] sordes lambit has quas princeps vomuit Walt. Wimb. Palpo 86. 3 a (w. fire or flame as subj.) to lick, play upon. b (w. river as subj.) to flow past, wash (town or sim.). c (w. tall or elevated thing as subj.) to touch (sky, clouds, or stars). d (w. inanimate subject) to touch lightly. a piper album, quod incenso loco ‥ homines nigrum flammis ~entibus deripiunt Lib. Monstr. III 6; cum me flamma undique ~eret [rec. prior: circumveniret, undique], combureret Alex. Cant. Dicta 5 p. 133; ignis invadit plateas civium, incipit ~ere lucella temporum et annorum Lucian Chester 55; flamme ‥ / lambunt Walt. Wimb. Carm. 88 (v. fumidus). b s1256 Bedefordia, quam fluvius ~it Usa dicta M. Par. Maj. V 561. c rorifluas muri cernuntur lambere nubes Æthelwulf Abb. 707; ut fumeorum voluminum orbes etiam sidera ~erent W. Malm. GR IV 333 p. 378; montes ‥ / quorum vertex astra lambit Walt. Wimb. Van. 98; arx lambens sydera Id. Sim. 124; hastulis maritate penne ~ebant ethera Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 45 p. 110. d 1160 [pluviale] in humeros suos tanta festinatione conjecit ut herentibus collo finbriis pavimentum ~eret pars superior indumenti Arnulf Ep. 29 p. 45; Walt. Wimb. Carm. 178 (v. flucticulus); vitta coccinea rubore lustrata / lambit et ambit lilia labiorum J. Howd. Cant. 318. 4 (w. person as subj.) to experience, ‘taste’ (state, condition, treatment at hands of others, or sim.). principes ‥ / iter agens lambis ludibrium J. Howd. Ph. 176; plerique in formam femineam non figuntur, neque luxuriam ~unt Rolle IA 149; 13‥ multos fallit seculum / et trahit in periculum, / mundi ob favorem, / ut lambeant honorem (De Judicibus) Pol. Songs ~224. 5 (in glossaries). GlP 727 (v. 2a supra); ~o, -bis, lampsi, verb. neut. et caret supinis Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 321.

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