libant

L1I1B3A1N1T1

adjective

Sipping; touching lightly.

OriginLatin lībāns →
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Meanings

adjectivelibant (comparative more libant, superlative most libant)

comparative more libant · superlative most libant

  1. poeticSipping; touching lightly.

    The libant libellula darts to the bush / Where safe it sippeth from the laurel’s chaste

    1901, [Louis Eilshemius], “Love: Sweet Recollections”, in Poetical Works of Louis M. Elshemus, First series, New York: The Abbey Press Publishers, page 264
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    VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]

    1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book VI”, in Gebir; a Poem, […], London: […] Rivingtons, […], →OCLC, page 57, lines 123–125

    What delicate odours are blown abroad, caught by the libant wind / From the springing wheat on yonder slope, from the alden grove behind!

    1901 May, Eleanor Booth Simmons, “In May”, in The Bookman, volume 13, number 3, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 252

Origin

  1. Latinlībāns
  2. Englishlibant

Borrowed from Latin lībāns, present participle of lībō (“to taste, touch”).

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