2. Appearance or form; guise.
An enemy in the likeness of a friend.
L'Estrange. 3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
[How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Macaulay. 4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.]
He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself.
Wyclif (Luke iv. 23). Syn. — Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.
Likerous
(Lik"er*ous) a., Likerousness
(Lik"er*ous*ness), n. [Obs.] See Lickerish, Lickerishness.
Chaucer.
Likewise
(Like"wise`) adv. & conj. [See Wise, n.] In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also.
Go, and do thou likewise.
Luke x. 37.
For he seeth that wise men die; likewise the fool and the brutish person perish.
Ps. xlix. 10. Liking
(Lik"ing) p. a. Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort ?
Dan. i. 10. Liking
(Lik"ing), n.
1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; —
often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.
If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony
with that doctrine, and to its support.
Bacon. 3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [Archaic]
I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
Shak.
Their young ones are in good liking.
Job. xxxix. 4. On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to
hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance ?
Hazlitt. Lilac
(Li"lac) n. [Also lilach.] [Sp. lilac, lila, Ar. lilak, fr. Per. lilaj, lilanj, lilang, nilaj, nil, the indigo
plant, or from the kindred lilak bluish, the flowers being named from the color. Cf. Anil.]
1. (Bot.) A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa
vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance
and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.
2. A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.
