Like , n. (Golf) The stroke which equalizes the number of
strokes played by the opposing player or side; as, to play the like.
Like (līk),
v. i.
1. To be pleased; to choose.
He may either
go or stay,
as he best
likes.
Locke. 2. To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem
to be (in a specified condition).
[Obs.]
You like well, and bear your
years very well.
Shak. 3. To come near; to
avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been
too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a. [Colloq.]
He probably got his death, as he
liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall
of Kensington Garden.
Walpole. To like of,
to be pleased with. [Obs.]
Massinger.
Like , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liked (līkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Liking.]
[OE. liken to please, AS. līcian, gelīcian, fr.
gelīc. See Like, a.]
1. To suit;
to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.]
Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there.
R. of Gloucester. I
willingly confess that it likes me much better when I
find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek
it in an ill-favored creature.
Sir
P. Sidney. 2. To be pleased
with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy.
He proceeded from
looking to liking, and from liking to loving.
Sir P. Sidney.
3. To liken; to compare.[Obs.]
Like me to
the peasant boys of France.
Shak.
Like , adv. [AS.
gelīce. See Like, a.]
1. In a manner like that of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him.
He
maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Job xii.
25. &fist; Like, as here used, is regarded by some grammarians as a preposition.
2. In a like or similar manner. Shak.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Ps. ciii.
13. 3. Likely; probably. "Like
enough it will." Shak.
Like , n.
1. That which is equal or similar to another; the counterpart; an exact resemblance; a copy.
He was a man, take him
for all in all,
I shall not look upon his
like again.
Shak.
2. A liking; a preference; inclination; -- usually in
pl.; as, we all have likes and dislikes.
Like (līk),
a. [Compar.
Liker (līk"&etilde;r); superl. Likest.]
[OE.
lik, ilik, gelic, AS.
gelīc, fr. pref. ge-
+ līc body, and orig. meaning, having the same body, shape, or appearance, and hence, like; akin to
OS. gilīk, D. gelijk, G. gleich, OHG.
gilīh, Icel. līkr, glīkr, Dan. lig, Sw. lik, Goth. galeiks, OS. lik
body, D. lijk, G. leiche, Icel. līk, Sw. lik, Goth.
leik. The English adverbial ending-ly is from
the same adjective. Cf. Each,
Such, Which.]
1. Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities,
or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the
particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character.
'T is as like you
As cherry is
to cherry.
Shak. Like master, like man.
Old
Prov. He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
Ps. cxlvii. 16. &fist; To, which formerly often followed like, is now usually omitted.
2. Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent.
More clergymen were impoverished
by the late
war than ever in the
like space before.
Sprat. 3. Having probability;
affording probability; probable; likely.
[Likely is more used now.] Shak.
But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff
at the paradox of these practices.
South. Many were not
easy to be
governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules.
Clarendon. 4. Inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel
like taking a walk.
Had like (followed by the infinitive), had nearly; came little short of.
Had like to have been my
utter overthrow.
Sir
W. Raleigh Ramona had like to
have said the literal truth, . . . but recollected herself in time.
Mrs. H. H. Jackson. Like figures (Geom.), similar figures.
&fist; Like is used as a suffix, converting nouns into
adjectives expressing resemblance to the noun; as, manlike, like a man; childlike, like a child;
godlike, like a god, etc.
Such compounds are readily formed whenever convenient, and several, as crescentlike, serpentlike,
hairlike, etc., are used in
this book, although, in some cases, not entered in the vocabulary. Such
combinations as bell-like, ball- like, etc., are hyphened.
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