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