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Suitable to a funeral. If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols. Bacon.

To affect at heart; to shock. [R.] "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.

A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon. [Written also hexacosane.]

To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. [Dial. or Colloq.] "If you persist in heaving and hiking like this." Kipling.

Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

The garfish. [Prov. Eng.]

A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.

Like an infant. Shak.

A small, two-wheeled, hooded vehicle drawn by one more men. [Japan]

To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Kinnikinic.

onijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi). [Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]

Any species of Apteryx, esp. A. australis; -- so called in imitation of its notes. Called also kiwi. See Apteryx.

Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. Hawthorne.

The quality or state of being ladylike.

Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.

A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow; -- variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. [Australia & Eng.] -- a.

Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity. "Lawyerly mooting of this point." Milton.

Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall.

Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- Life"like`ness, n. Poe.