verb

• (transitive) To stroke with the tongue.
  "The cat licked its fur."
• (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.
  "She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it."
• (colloquial, dated) To beat with repeated blows.
  ""What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never been licked in school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a girl -- they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted. […]""
• (colloquial, dated) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
  "My dad can lick your dad."

noun

• (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
  "Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer."
• (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) A small amount; a whit.
  "You don't have a lick of sense."
• (informal) An attempt at something.
  "Well, my album did well, but "Ruby" was a timely song and that wasn't the time for it to step out. […] Then Waylon Jennings took a lick at it on an album, and my old buddy Roger Miller covered it, too, in his album. And although they're outstanding artists, nothing much happened with the song."
• (music) A short motif.
  "There are some really good blues licks in this solo."