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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Like \Like\ (l[imac]k), v. i.
1. To be pleased; to choose.
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He may either go or stay, as he best likes. --Locke.
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2. To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to
be (in a specified condition). [Obs.]
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You like well, and bear your years very well.
--Shak.
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3. To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape
narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had
like, under {Like}, a. [Colloq.]
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He probably got his death, as he liked to have done
two years ago, by viewing the troops for the
expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.
--Walpole.
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{To like of}, to be pleased with. [Obs.] --Massinger.
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