libant
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin lībāns, present participle of lībō (“to taste, touch”).
Adjective
editlibant (comparative more libant, superlative most libant)
- (poetic) Sipping; touching lightly.
- 1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book VI”, in Gebir; a Poem, […], London: […] Rivingtons, […], →OCLC, page 57, lines 123–125:
- VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]
- 1901 May, Eleanor Booth Simmons, “In May”, in The Bookman, volume 13, number 3, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 252:
- What delicate odours are blown abroad, caught by the libant wind / From the springing wheat on yonder slope, from the alden grove behind!
- 1901, [Louis Eilshemius], “Love: Sweet Recollections”, in Poetical Works of Louis M. Elshemus, First series, New York: The Abbey Press Publishers, page 264:
- The libant libellula darts to the bush / Where safe it sippeth from the laurel’s chaste
Further reading
edit- “libant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editlībant