Likeable
(Like"a*ble) a. See Likable.
Likehood
(Like"hood) n. Likelihood. [Obs.] South.
Likelihood
(Like"li*hood) n. [Likely + -hood.]
1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. [Obs.]
What of his heart perceive you in his face
By any likelihood he showed to-day ?
Shak. 2. Likeness; resemblance. [Obs.]
There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation.
Sir W. Raleigh. 3. Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. Tennyson.
Likeliness
(Like"li*ness), n.
1. Likelihood; probability.
2. Suitableness; agreeableness. [Obs.]
Likely
(Like"ly), a. [Compar. Likelier (lik"li*er); superl. Likeliest.] [That is, like- like. See Like, a.]
1. Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.
It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous.
Johnson. 2. Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; — followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.
3. Similar; like; alike. [Obs.] Spenser.
4. Such as suits; good-looking; pleasing; agreeable; handsome. Shak. Milton.
5. Having such qualities as make success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely
young man; a likely servant.
Likely
(Like"ly), adv. In all probability; probably.
While man was innocent he was likely ignorant of nothing that imported him to know.
Glanvill. Like-minded
(Like"-mind`ed) a. Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind. Tillotson.
Liken
(Lik"en) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Likened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Likening.] [OE. liknen. See Like,
a.]
1. To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built
his house upon a rock.
Matt. vii. 24. 2. To make or cause to be like. [R.] Brougham.
Likeness
(Like"ness), n. [AS. gelicnes.]
1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the
other is remarkable.
