Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIKE-MIND'ED, a.

Having a like disposition or purpose. Rom. xv.

LIK'EN, v.t. [li'kn. Sw. likna; Dan. ligner.]

To compare; to represent as resembling or similar. Whosever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him to wise man, that built his house on a rock. Matth. vi.

LIK'EN-ED, pp.

Compared.

LIKE'NESS, n.

1. Resemblance in form; similitude. The picture is a good likeness of the original.
2. Resemblance; form; external appearance. Guard against an enemy in the likeness of a friend.
3. One that resembles another; a copy; a counterpart. I took you for your likeness, Chloe. Prior.
4. An image, picture or statue, resembling a person or thing. Exod. xx.

LIK-EN-ING, n.

The forming of resemblance.

LIK'EN-ING, ppr.

Comparing; representing as similar.

LIKE'WISE, comp. [like and wise.]

In like manner; also; moreover; too. For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Ps. xlix.

LIK'ING, n.

1. A good state of body; healthful appearance; plumpness. Their young ones are in good liking. Job xxxix.
2. State of trial. [Not used.] Dryden.
3. Inclination; pleasure; as, this is an amusement to your liking. Spenser.
4. Delight in; pleasure in; with to. He who has no liking to the whole, ought not to censure the parts. Dryden.

LIK'ING, ppr.

1. of like.
2. Approving; being pleased with.
3. adj. Plump; full; of a good appearance. Dan. i. [Obs.]

LI'LAC, n. [Fr. lilas; Sp. lilac.]

A plant or shrub of the genus Syringa, a native of Persia. The common lilac is cultivated for its flowers, which are purple or white.

LIL'A-LITE, n.

A species of earth of the argillaceous kind; called also Lepidolite,—which see. Kirwan.

LIL-I-A'CEOUS, a. [L. liliaceus, from lilium, a lily.]

Pertaining to lilies; lily-like. A liliaceous corol is one that has six regular petals, or segments of the corol. Martyn.

LIL'I-ED, a.

Embellished with lilies. By sandy Ladon's lilied banks. Milton.

LILL, v.t. [See Loll. But lill is used in New England.]

Spenser.

LILT, v.i.

1. To do any thing with dexterity or quickness. [Local.] Pegge.
2. To sing or play on the bagpipe.

LIL'Y, n. [L. lilium; Gr. {foreign}; Sp. lirio.]

The English popular name of a genus of plants of many species, which are all bulbous-rooted, herbaceous perennials, producing bell-shaped, hexapetalous flowers of great beauty and variety of colors. Encyc. Lily of the valley, a plant of the genus Convallaria, with a monopetalous, bell-shaped coral, divided at the top into six segments.

LIL-Y-DAF'FO-DIL, n.

A plant and flower.

LIL'Y-HAND-ED, a.

Having white delicate hands. Spenser.

LIL-Y-HY'A-CINTH, n.

A plant. Miller.

LIL-Y-LIV'ER-ED, a.

White-livered; cowardly. [No used.] Shak.

LI-MA'TION, n. [L. limo, to file.]

The act of filing or polishing.

LI'MA-TURE, n. [L. limo, to file.]

1. A filing.
2. Filings; particles rubbed off by filing. Johnson.

LIMB, n. [lim. Sax. lim; Dan. and Sw. lem; L. limbus, edge or border, extremity; limes, limit, coinciding perhaps with W. llem, llym, sharp, or llamu, to leap. The sense of limb is from shooting or extending.]

1. Edge or border. This is the proper signification of the word; but in this sense it is limited chiefly to technical use, and applied to the sun, moon, or a star, to leaf, to quadrant, &c. We say, the sun or moon is eclipsed on its northern limb. But we never say, the limb of a board, of a tract of land or water, &c.
2. In anatomy, and in common use, an extremity of the human body; a member; a projecting part; as the arm or leg; that is, a shoot.
3. The branch of a tree; applied only to a branch of same size, and not to a small twig.
4. In botany, the border or upper spreading part of a mono-petalous corol. Martyn.

LIMB, v.t. [lim.]

1. To supply with limbs.
2. To dismember; to tear off the limbs.

LIM'BAT, n.

A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M. to the middle of the day or later. Encyc.