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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.

Like"ly, adv. In all probability; probably.

While man was innocent he was likely ignorant of nothing that imported him to know.

Glanvill.

Like"-mind`ed (-mnd`d), a. Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind. Tillotson.

Lik"en (lk"'n), 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.

Like"ness, n. [AS. gelcnes.] 1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

2. Appearance or form; guise.

An enemy in the likeness of a friend.

L'Estrange.

3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.

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.

{Lik"er*ous (lk"r*s), a., Lik"er*ous*ness, n. } [Obs.] See Lickerish, Lickerishness. Chaucer.

Like"wise` (lk"wz`), 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.