‖ n.
“Likin, ” which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, “squeezes” imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any other form of taxation. A. R. Colquhoun. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
p. a. Looking; appearing;
Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? Dan. i. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their young ones are in good liking. Job. xxxix. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]
On liking,
Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance? Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]