libant

English

Etymology

From Latin libans, present participle of libare (“to taste, touch”).

Adjective

libant (comparative more libant, superlative most libant)

1. Sipping; touching lightly.
   • 1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book VI”, in Gebir; a Poem: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxforshire: […] Slatter and Munday; and sold by R. S. Kirby, […], published 1803, →OCLC, page 107:

     While thus she spake, / She toucht his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Balint

Latin

Verb

lībant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lībō