libant
Sipping; touching lightly.
Adjective
- Sipping; touching lightly.
- 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,...
- 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,...
- 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...
Origin
Borrowed from Latin lībāns, present participle of lībō (“to taste, touch”).