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LIKE, a. [L., Heb., Gr. See Lick and Lickerish.]
1. Equal in quantity, quality or degree; as a territory of like extent with another; men of like excellence.
More clergymen were impoverished by the late war, than ever in the like space before.
2. Similar; resembling; having resemblance.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are.
James 5.
Why might not other planets have been created for like uses with the earth, each for its own inhabitants?
Like is usually followed by to or unto, but it is often omitted.
What city is like unto this great city? Rev 18.
I saw three unclean spirits like frogs. Rev 16.
Among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Dan 1.
3. Probably; likely, that is, having the resemblance or appearance of an event; giving reason to expect or believe.
He is like to die of hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread. Jer 38.
Many were not easy to be governed, not like to conform themselves to strict rules.
LIKE, n. [elliptically, for like thing, like event, like person.]
1. some person or thing resembling another; an equal. The like lmay never happen again.
He was a man, take him for all and all, I shall not look upon his like again.
2. had like, in the phrase, "he had like to be defeated," seems to be a corruption; but perhaps like here is used for resemblance or probability, and has the character of a noun. At any rate, as a phrase, it is authorized by good usage.
LIKE, adv.
1. In the same manner.
- Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat 6. Luke 12.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Psa 103.
2. In a manner becoming.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. 1 Sam 4.
3. Likely; probably; as like enough it will.
LIKE, v.t. [L. placeo and delecto, with prefixes.]
1. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve. it expresses less than love and delight. We like a plan or design, when we approve of it as correct or beneficial. We like the character or conduct of a man when it comports with our view of rectitude. We like food that the taste relishes. We like whatever gives us pleasure.
He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving.
2. to please; to be agreeable to.
This desire being recommended to her majesty, it like her to include the same within one entire lease. Obs.
3. To liken. Obs.
LIKE, v.i.
1. To be pleased; to choose.
He may go or stay, as he likes.
2. To like of, to be pleased. Obs.
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Loch Lock Log-board Logarithm Loment Loobily Look Loom Lordly Lose Loser Loutishly Lover Lowly Lucifer Luggs Lumber Lumpish Lunated Lunular Lust Luxate Lynx Macaronic Machinery Mackerel-sky Mad Mage Magistrate Maidenlike Maidenly Maidmarian Maidpale Mail Main Maltha Mammillary Mammillated Man Manatus Manicordon Manly Mantle Manufacture Marble Marbled Marbled-hearted Marbling March Marena Mark Marline-spike Marmoraceous Marquetry Marriage Marshal Masculinely Mason Mass Mat Mealy Mechanic Meer-schaum Melancholic Meltingly Membrane Men Merchantlike Meshy Metallic Metalliform Metaphor Mettle Might Miliary Milkiness Miller Millinery Mimick Mischievousness Misle Mobbish Mockery Mode Modesty Mold Mole Moniliform Monkish Monument Moonet Moonish Moreover Moschatel Mother Mouse-ear Muffle Mulish Mullet Murmur Musk Nadir Nation Navicular Nay Nebulab Nebule Necronite Negotiation Nest Nestle Newspaper No Nod Nome Non North Nutrition Nuzzle Obcordate Odd Odds Of Ogee Oint Once One Opaline Opening 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Presentment Prevent Prick Print Prismy Probability Probable Probably Probe Profligate Promiscuously Promontory Propolis Proportion Protest Pule Puling Pulpous Pulpy Pulverous Pungency Pungent Punishment Puriform Purl Pursenet Pursue Pyrorthite Quack Quackish Quash Queenly Quill Quit Quixotic Quixotism Rack Raddock Radiation Ragoo Rain Ratio Raven Ravet Reassimilate Reassimilated Recede Recoverable Recriminate Recriminator Redented Reeded Reel Register Reign Relief Relieve Relish Remains Remembrance Remittance Repent Report Representance Representation Representative Representment Reptile Rescue Resemblance Resemble Resembled Resembling Reserve Reservoir Resinous Respect Respecting Rest Restore Resume Retailer Retain Retaliate Retaliated Retaliating Retaliation Retaliatory Reticulate Retrenchment Reward Rib Rich Rick Ringent Ringleader Ritual Roaring Roast Roguishly Roll Rolling-press Rompee Roseal Rosiny Rough Round Rounding Royally Rudd Ruffian-like Ruin Run Runcinate Rustle S 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Umbilicate Unable Unassimilated Under Undermine Underwork Underworking Undulary Unequally Unfirm Ungentlemanlike Unguent Unguentous Ungulate Uniformity Unity Unparadise Unprecedented Unreasonableness Unremoved Unresponsible Unsettled Unsuspected Uphill Upholsterer Urceolate Urge Usher Utricular Vagabond Vagient Vari Varicocele Variegate Vascular Vaulted Vegeto-animal Vein Velveted Velvety Vent Verisimilar Verisimilitude Verjuice Vermiculated Vernility Versatile Version Vice Vined Virginal Virtuoso Visible Visionary Voice Voider Volunteer Vomit Vote Voyage Vulnerary Wait Warlike Warp Warranty Water-logged Water-work Waterishness Wattle Wave Waxy Weapon Weather Wedge Weeding-rhim Welked Well-drain Well-water Whatsoever Wherry Whirlwind Whisk Whist Whistle White-meat Whittle Whiz Willowish Window Windowy Wiry Wise Wisp Withal Without Wittolly Wolfish Woo Work Worship Writ Xiphias Yamboo Yeasty Yes Yet Yoke Yolk You Zarnich

 

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