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To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

A dog; a cur. "Bobtail tike or trundle-tail." Shak.

A starch or arrow-root made from the tubes of an East Indian zinziberaceous plant (Curcuma angustifolia); also, the plant itself.

An East Indian tree (Garcinia pedunculata) having a large yellow fleshy fruit with a pleasant acid flavor.

The bulau.

A hydrocarbon, C23H48, of the methane series, resembling paraffin; -- so called because it has twenty-three atoms of carbon in the molecule.

Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice. Chapman.

ng a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1. I move upon my axle like a turnpike. B. Jonson.

Closely resembling; being a counterpart. -- Twin"like`ness, n.

In a manner not becoming to a guest. [R.] Milton.

Not according to law; being or done in violation of law; unlawful. Milton.

Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike.

Absence of likelihood.

The quality or state of being unlikely.

Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.

To make unlike; to dissimilate. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The quality or state of being unlike; want of resemblance; dissimilarity. Tennyson.

To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.

n, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.

Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak.