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In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

A small can or drinking vessel.

Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.

The Ingoat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) Of India.

d, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.

Becoming to a Christian. A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak.

Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christ"like`ness, n.

Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.

See Clake.

The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.

Scholarlike. [Obs.] Shak.

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.

After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.

Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.

A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also dika bread.

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.

A ditcher. Piers Plowman.

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.

Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.