Part 6537

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which closely resembles; a portrait.</def>

<blockquote>[How he looked] the <b>likenesses</b> of him which still remain enable us to imagine. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A comparison; parable; proverb.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this <b>likeness</b>, Leech, heal thyself. <i>Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.</syn>

<h1>Likerous, a., Likerousness</h1> <Xpage=853>

<hw><hw>Lik"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt>, <hw>Lik"er*ous*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt><hw> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <def>See <er>Lickerish</er>, <er>Lickerishness</er>.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Likewise</h1> <Xpage=853>

<hw>Like"wise`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv. & conj.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Wise</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>In like manner; also; moreover; too. See <er>Also</er>.</def>

<blockquote>Go, and do thou <b>likewise</b>. <i>Luke x. 37.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>For he seeth that wise men die; <b>likewise</b> the fool and the brutish person perish. <i>Ps. xlix. 10.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Liking</h1> <Xpage=853>

<hw>Lik"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. a.</tt> <def>Looking; appearing; <as>as, better or worse <ex>liking</ex></as>. See <er>Like</er>, to look.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>Why should he see your faces worse <b>liking</b> than the children which are of your sort ? <i>Dan. i. 10.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Liking</h1> <Xpage=853>

<hw>Lik"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See <cref>On liking</cref>, below.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Prov. End.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with <ptcl>for</ptcl>, formerly with <ptcl>to</ptcl>; <as>as, it is an amusement I have no <ex>liking</ex> for</as>.</def>

<blockquote>If the human intellect hath once taken a <b>liking</b> to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's <b>liking</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Their young ones are in good <b>liking</b>. <i>Job. xxxix. 4.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>On liking</col>, <cd>on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service <i>on liking<i>; to engage a servant <i>on liking<i>. <mark>[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]</mark></cd></cs>

<blockquote>Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king <i>on liking</i> and on sufferance ? <i>Hazlitt.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lilac</h1> <Xpage=853>

<hw>Li"lac</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <altsp>[Also <asp>lilach</asp>.]</altsp> <ety>[Sp. <ets>lilac</ets>, <ets>lila</ets>, Ar.<ets>l\'c6lak</ets>, fr. Per. <ets>l\'c6laj</ets>, <ets>l\'c6lanj</ets>, <ets>l\'c6lang</ets>, <ets>n\'c6laj</ets>, <ets>n\'c6l</ets>, the indigo plant, or from the kindred <ets>l\'c6lak</ets> bluish, the flowers being named from the color. Cf. <er>Anil</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A shrub of the genus <spn>Syringa</spn>. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. <spn>Syringa vulgaris</spn>, the common lilac, and <spn>S. Persica</spn>, 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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.</def>