I.to lick or taste beforehand or first (poet.).
I. Lit.: “(mus) praelambens omne, quod affert,” Hor. S. 2, 6, 109.—
II. Transf., to wash or touch lightly, to bathe gently, of a river that flows by a place: “arenas,” Prud. Hamart. 357; Avien. Perieg. 494.