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Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind. Tillotson.

See Likable.

Likelihood. [Obs.] South.

earance; show; sign; expression. [Obs.] What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day Shak.

Likelihood; probability.

Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. Johnson.

To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock. Matt. vii. 24.

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

See Lickerish, Lickerishness. Chaucer.

In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also. Go, and do thou likewise. Luke x. 37. For he seeth that wise men die; likewise the fool and the brutish person perish. Ps. xlix. 10.

A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.

Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obs.] Chaucer. Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort Dan. i. 10.

Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.

See Syringin.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.

Having a general resemblance to lilies or to liliaceous plants.

Covered with, or having many, lilies. By sandy Ladon's lilied banks. Milton.

To loll. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser.

One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput."

An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained.