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v. i. 1. To be pleased; to choose. [ 1913 Webster ]

He may either go or stay, as he best likes. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You like well, and bear your years very well. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To like of, to be pleased with. [ Obs. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Liked 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. R. of Gloucester. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To liken; to compare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like me to the peasant boys of France. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. gelīce. See Like, a. ] 1. In a manner like that of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him. [ 1913 Webster ]

He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. Job xii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Like, as here used, is regarded by some grammarians as a preposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a like or similar manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Ps. ciii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Likely; probably. “Like enough it will.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is equal or similar to another; the counterpart; an exact resemblance; a copy. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A liking; a preference; inclination; -- usually in pl.; as, we all have likes and dislikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Golf) The stroke which equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side; as, to play the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. See Likable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Likelihood. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Likely + -hood. ] 1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What of his heart perceive you in his face
By any likelihood he showed to-day ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Likeness; resemblance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Statistical probability; probability of being true or of occurring in the future; as, the likelihood of being abducted by aliens is close to zero.. [ PJC ]

n. 1. Likelihood; probability. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suitableness; agreeableness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]