licken, v. Obs. exc. dial.
[altered form of lippen v.]
intr. To trust to.
| 1535 Coverdale Hos. xi. 5 The stoare that they haue lickened vnto, shall be destroyed and eaten vp. 1888 in Sheffield Gloss. s.v. Lippen, ‘I know what to likken to’. ‘He's nowt to likken to’. |