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Quality of being warlike.

Archaic] They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer (Ps. xcii.).

Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman. " Wifelike government." Shak.

A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker. [Prov. Eng.]

The hut used by the nomadic Indian tribes of the arid regions of the west and southwest United States, typically elliptical in form, with a rough frame covered with reed mats or grass or brushwood.

Wicked. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious. The only wise-like thing I heard anybody say. Sir W. Scott.

Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.

Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.

Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.

Like; alike. [Obs.] "All . . . yliche good." Chaucer.

An atheist or unbeliever; -- name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies.

See Zenick.

A mineral wax, vert similar to ozocerite. It is found at Zietrisika, Moldavia, whence its name.

A temple tower of the Babylonians or Assyrians, consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure, built in successive stages, with outside staircases, and a shrine at the top.

tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

elonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

ded effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.