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  • English Word Licensable Definition That can be licensed.
  • English Word License Definition Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.
  • English Word License Definition The document granting such permission.
  • English Word License Definition Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
  • English Word License Definition That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.
  • English Word License Definition To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
  • English Word Licensed Definition of License
  • English Word Licensed Definition Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic.
  • English Word Licensee Definition The person to whom a license is given.
  • English Word Licenser Definition One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.
  • English Word Licensing Definition of License
  • English Word Licensure Definition A licensing.
  • English Word Licentiate Definition One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology.
  • English Word Licentiate Definition A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
  • English Word Licentiate Definition One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor.
  • English Word Licentiate Definition On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor.
  • English Word Licentiate Definition To give a license to.
  • English Word Licentious Definition Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.
  • English Word Licentious Definition Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life.
  • English Word Lich Definition Like.
  • English Word Lich Definition A dead body; a corpse.
  • English Word Lichen Definition One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.
  • English Word Lichen Definition A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion.
  • English Word Lichened Definition Belonging to, or covered with, lichens.
  • English Word Lichenic Definition Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens.
  • English Word Licheniform Definition Having the form of a lichen.
  • English Word Lichenin Definition A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.
  • English Word Lichenographic Definition Alt. of Lichenographical
  • English Word Lichenographical Definition Of or pertaining to lichenography.
  • English Word Lichenographist Definition One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.