Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Lisciá-re, v. a.
1. to smooth, sleek, polish, to make smooth, stroke smoothly; 2. to paint, to beautify, to embellish; 3. to blandish, cog with, to sooth, flatter. — la coda ad uno, to flatter, wheedle, cajole, coax, court, or fawn upon one. — la coda al diavolo, to lose one's labour, to make a hole in the water; v. r. 1. to paint, rouge one's self; 2. to dress or adornone's self with much care; 3. to lick one's self (as the beasts do); s. m. Lisciá-tóre, f. Lisciá-tríce.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
lisciare: to draw vpon Sleds. Also to wash in lye or in a bucke, to bucke clothes. Also to slip, to glide or slide smoothly as vpon ice. Also to smooth, to sleeke, or to polish. Also to paint as women doe their faces. Also to flatter or cog withall. Also to stroke or claw smoothly and softly.