*ike*

a. Like or suited to an alderman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. gelīce, onlīce. ] In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. onlīc, gelīc; pref. ā + like. ] Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [ Now used only predicatively. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. cxxxix. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like-minded. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Alsike, in Sweden. ] A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. Resembling an angel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Trimmed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ An erroneous form of arithmetic, as if from L. ars metrica the measuring art. ] Arithmetic. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having an extensive gently sloping area of sand or gravel; -- of a shore or shoreline. Opposite of cliffy. [ Narrower terms: gravelly, pebbly, shingly ]
Syn. -- beachy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Like a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. be- (for by) + like. ] It is likely or probably; perhaps. [ Obs. or Archaic ] -- Be*like"ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Belike, boy, then you are in love. Shak. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ AS. beswīcan; be- + swīcan to deceive, entice; akin to OS. swīkan, OHG. swīhhan, Icel. svīkja. ] To lure; to cheat. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ethymol. unknown. ] A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. similar to a bladder.
Syn. -- bladdery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Like a block; stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. resembling bone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. resembling a box in rectangularity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as boyish.
Syn. -- boyish, schoolboyish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. resembling the sound of a brass instrument.
Syn. -- brassy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having an appearance resembling that of brass.
Syn. -- brassy. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. brice. ] A breach; ruin; downfall; peril. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. resembling a bristle in stiffness.
Syn. -- bristly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods; practical and efficient. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. serious and purposeful. [ PJC ]

a. Like a cat; stealthy; noiseless. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adj. resembling a cell. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. having a form resembling a chain; as, chainlike clusters of bacteria.
Syn. -- catenulate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. “Childlike obedience.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity; childlike modesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Becoming to a Christian. [ 1913 Webster ]

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christ"like`ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the customs or manners or dress of city people.
Syn. -- citified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. having a base shaped like a claw; -- of flower petals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Scholarlike. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. characterized by cliffs; -- of a shore or shoreline; -- contrasted with beachy. [ Narrower terms: precipitous, steep ]
Syn. -- cliffy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their services are clocklike, to be set
Backward and forward at their lord's command. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. resembling a cloud.
Syn. -- nebular. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a cow. [ 1913 Webster ]

With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Resembling death. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deadly. [ Obs. ] “Deathlike dragons.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. dīc dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. dīki dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. tei^chos (for qei^chos) wall, and even E. dough; or perh. to Gr. ti^fos pool, marsh. Cf. Ditch. ] 1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. [ 1913 Webster ]

Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . .
Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A wall of turf or stone. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Diked p. pr. & vb. n. Diking. ] [ OE. diken, dichen, AS. dīcian to dike. See Dike. ] 1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To drain by a dike or ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A ditcher. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. resembling a disk in shape; circular and having a height considerably smaller than the diameter.
Syn. -- discoid, discoidal. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disliked p. pr. & vb. n. Disliking. ] 1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. “Disliking countenance.” Marston. “It dislikes me.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness. [ 1913 Webster ]

God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hint malevolent, the look oblique,
The obvious satire, or implied dislike. Hannah More. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox. J. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories. A. W. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discord; dissension. [ Obs. ] Fairfax.

Syn. -- Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; aversion; reluctance; repugnance; disgust; antipathy. -- Dislike, Aversion, Reluctance, Repugnance, Disgust, Antipathy. Dislike is the more general term, applicable to both persons and things and arising either from feeling or judgment. It may mean little more than want of positive liking; but antipathy, repugnance, disgust, and aversion are more intense phases of dislike. Aversion denotes a fixed and habitual dislike; as, an aversion to or for business. Reluctance and repugnance denote a mental strife or hostility something proposed (repugnance being the stronger); as, a reluctance to make the necessary sacrifices, and a repugnance to the submission required. Disgust is repugnance either of taste or moral feeling; as, a disgust at gross exhibitions of selfishness. Antipathy is primarily an instinctive feeling of dislike of a thing, such as most persons feel for a snake. When used figuratively, it denotes a correspondent dislike for certain persons, modes of acting, etc. Men have an aversion to what breaks in upon their habits; a reluctance and repugnance to what crosses their will; a disgust at what offends their sensibilities; and are often governed by antipathies for which they can give no good reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]