Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LIK'ING
LIK'ING, n.
- A good state of body; healthful appearance; plumpness. Their young ones are in good liking. – Job xxxix.
- State of trial. [Not used.] – Dryden.
- Inclination; pleasure; as, this is an amusement to your liking. – Spenser.
- Delight in; pleasure in; with to. He who has no liking to the whole, ought not to censure the parts. – Dryden.
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