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A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

Hermitlike.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

Elbowlike; anconal.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain.

Like an angel.

To make like an angel; to angelize. [Obs.] Farindon (1647).

ed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.

Snakelike.

Like an animal.

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. Macaulay.