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Lik"ing (lk"ng), 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.

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.

Li"lac (l"lak), n. [Also lilach.] [Sp. lilac, lila, Ar. llak, fr. Per. llaj, llanj, llang, nlaj, nl, the indigo plant, or from the kindred llak 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.

California lilac (Bot.), a low shrub with dense clusters of purplish flowers (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus).

Lil"a*cin (ll"*sn), n. (Chem.) See Syringin.

Lil`i*a"ceous (ll`*"shs), a. [L. liliaceus, fr. lilium lily. See Lily.] (Bot.) (a) Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples. (b) Like the blossom of a lily in general form.

Lil"i*al (ll"*al), a. (Bot.) Having a general resemblance to lilies or to liliaceous plants.

Lil"ied (ll"d), a. Covered with, or having many, lilies.

By sandy Ladon's lilied banks.

Milton.

Lill (ll), v. i. To loll. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser.

Lil`li*pu"tian (ll`l*p"shan), n. 1. One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput."

2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size.

Lil`li*pu"tian, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.