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.
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."