libant
English
Etymology
From Latin libans, present participle of libare (“to taste, touch”).
Adjective
libant (comparative more libant, superlative most libant)
- Sipping; touching lightly.
- 1798, Walter Savage Landor, Gebir
- She toucht his eyelashes with libant lip.
- 1798, Walter Savage Landor, Gebir
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for libant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Balint
Latin
Verb
lībant
- third-person plural present active indicative of lībō