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Show L L - BT Obfolete fhew 1. Appearance What of his heart perceive you in his face By any /ikelibod he thow'd to-day - That with no man here he is offended. Shake[p 2 Obfolete Refemblance ; likenefs The mayor and all his brethren in beft fort Like to the fenators of antique Rome Go forth and fetch their conqu'ring Caefar in As by a low, but loving likelibood Were now the general of our gracious emprefs n m c a e I o f y m h m t o g i A How many would the peaceful city qui Shakefpeare's Henry V To welcome him is no likelibood between pure light an Ther black darknefs, or between rightcoufnefs and reh i l R n i a pro a p a d t l m l r v i i a 3. Pro ance of truth _ As it noteth one fuch: to have been in that age fo had there been more, it would by /ikelibood a Hooker ' well have noted many Many of Jikelibod informed me of this before which hung fo tottering in the balance, that gould neither believe nor mifdoubt Shakefpeare's Ali's awell that ends well It never yet did hurt To lay-down Jikelibod, and forms of hope. - Shakef As there is no /Jikelihood that the place coul be fo altered, fo there is no probability that thef rvivers were turned out of their courfes Raligh's Hiftory of the World Where things are leaft to be put to the venture 25 the eternal interefts of the other world ought t be; there every, even the leaft, probability, or /ikeSouth Zibood of danger, thould be provided againft There are prediétions of our Saviour recorde By the evangelifts, which were not completed til after their deaths, and had no /ikelibood of bein {o when they were pronounced by our bleffed Sa Addifon on the Chriftian Religion wiour Thus, in all /ikelibod, would it be with a liber tine, who fhould have a vifit from the other world the firfk horror it raifed would go off, as new diAtterbury verfions come on LUkRELY. adj. [from like. 1. Such as may be liked Obfolete pleafe fuch as ma mak Thefe young companion themfelves be fieve they love at the firft looking of a /ikely beauty Sidney Sir John, they are your likelizft men I wou)l' have you ferved with the beft, Sbake/ps Henry IV in reafon b as ma 2. Probable ; fuc thought or believed ; fuch as may b thought more reafonably than the con trary : as, a /ikely fory thatis a cre Li'kELY. adv. Probably; as may rea fonably be thought While man was innocent, he was /ikely ignoran of nothing that imported him to know. Glanville o L1'kEN. v. 2. [from [ike.] Toreprefent as having refemblance; to comTh prince broke your head for /ikening him t a finging man of Windfor. Shakefpeare's Henry IV For who, though with the tongu ©Of angels, can relate ? or to what, thing Liken on earth confpicuous, that may lif Human imagination to fuch heigh Li'keness i. Refemblance "They all do live, and moved ar "To multiply the likenefs of their kind Spenfer A tranflator is to make his author appear a charming as he can, provided he maintains hi charaéter an make hi no I do not know yc Alas ! how eafy my miftake I took you for your /ikenefs Cloe adv Lrkewise [like an Prior "I awife. o y a l w f a e t t u i f Jefu y l t l w i a k l m l t y i i w g i t by what authority I do thefe things. Matt. XX1e 2 So was it in the decay of the Roman empire e r a C t n a i m A o r p e t f i w k J a Bacon the Great, every bird taking a feather Li'k1~G. adj. [Perhaps becaufe plumpnefs is agreeable to the fight.] Plump in a ftate of plumpnefs I fear my lord the king, who hath appointe your meat and your drink; for why fhould he fe your faces worfe /iking, than the children whic Dane is 10 are of your fort z. /. [from Jike. plumpnefs ftate of body I'll repent, and that fuddenly, while I'm i fome Jiking; T fhall be out of heart fhortly, an then I fhall have no ftrength to repent. Shake/peare Their young ones are in good /ikug; they gro Foby XXXiXe up with corn Cappadocian flaves were famous for their lufti unlik Trapflation is 3 kind of drawing afte himfelf the life LiLY-HYACINTH 2. State of trial 3. Inclination Why do you longer feed on loathed light Or /iking find to gaze on earthly mold ? Fairy Qu #. /. [fro th verb. De There are limits to be fet betwixt the boldnef and rafhnefs of a poet; but he muft underftan thofe limits who pretends to judge, as well as h who undertakes to write: and he who has no /ikin to the whole, ought in reafon to be excluded fro c,enfuring- of the parts Dryden Lr'vacH. a. /. [lilac, Lilis, French. tree The white thorn is in leaf, and the flilach tree Bacon Embellithe n. / Milton [lilium, Latin. There are thirty-two fpecies of this plant, including white /ilies, orange /lilies, ved lilies, an martagons of various forts Miller Oh! had the monfter {een thofe /ify hand Tremble, like afpen leaves It hath a 7ily flower, compofed, of fix leaves waped like the fiower of hyacinth: the roots ar fcaly, and fhaped like thofe of the /i/y. There ar three fpecies of this plant; one with a blue flower Miller and a third red Valley of th or Ma lily. . [ [Vilium convallium. 'leaf, ‘is fhaped like The flower confifts of on bell and divided at the top into fix fegments' upon a lute And make the filken ftrings delight to kifs them He would not then have touch'd them for his life Shakefpeare the ovary becomes a foft globular fruit, containing feve ral round feeds Itisvery common in fhady woods. Millere Lily of the valley has a ftrong root that runs into Mortimer's Hufbandrys the ground LiLYrVveERED an [/ adj Jiver. Whitelivered; cowardly A bafe, lilyfivered, attion-taking knave Shakefpeare's King Leat L1'MATURE. 7. /. [/imatura, Latin.] Filings of any metal; the particles rubbe off by a file Saxo Lims. # /. [lhm lem, Danifh. 1. A member; a jointe art of animals and Scottith o articulate A fecond He&or, for his grim afpeét And large proportion of his ftrong knit /imbs Shakejpeare that I had her here, to tear her /imb meal Shakefpeare Now am-I come each /imb to furvey If thy appearance anfwer loud report. Milton's Ag O 2 [Limbe, French; limbus, Latin.] -A edge; a border; A philofophical word. By moving the prifms about, the colours again emerged out of the whitenefs, the violet and the blue at its inward/imb red and yellow To Lims and at its outward /iph th Neavton [from the noun. @. a 1. To fupply with limbs ‘As they pleafe They /imb themfelves, and colour, fhape, and fize Affume, as likes them beft, condenfe, or rare Milton 2. To tear afunder; to difmember Li'MBECK. #. /. [corrupted by popula pronunciation from alembick.] A fill Her cheeks, on which this fireaming near fell Still'd through the /imbeck of her diamond eye Fairfax Fires of Spain, and the line ‘Whofe countries /imbecks to our bodies be By fandy Ladon's /ilied banks LYLY Liv Dryden's Netes to Perfins The royal foul, that, like the lab'ring moon, By charms of art was hurried down Forc'd with regret to leave her native fphere Dryden Came but a while on /iking here Li'kinG 7 /- [lilz'o-lzyacintbu:. another white nefs; and, being in good /iking, were {ét on a ftall when expofed to fale, to fhew the good habit o their body [lilio-narciffus. LiLy-paFFoDIL. 7. f A foreign flower Spirit of vitriol poured to pure unmixed ferum coagulates as if it had been boiled. Spirit of feafalt makes a perfe€t coagulation of the ferum /ikeavife; but with fome different phznomena Arbuthnot on Aliments 1. Goo That on the regal feat great David's fon Aisray'd in all his robes, and types of pow'r like manner; alfo; moreover; too Li'king by his right fide a lion, holding forth in hi Shines with lefs glory than that fimple flow'r. Priyy For her the Ji/ies hang their heads, and die, Pope fobbing, fcarce could fpeak Indeed, mamma like an ole It muft by fure comparifon be fhown a Countcrpart Poor Cupid ariver of. Italy, is draw right paw a red /ily, or flower-de-luce Peacham on Draayi Take but the humblef¥ /iy,of the field ;rafl).lng And if our pride will to our reafon yield a copy Nymphs and fhepherds dance no mor fimilitude man " " " f f l ) S i m r a n a a a g o o u a f It is fafer t a b e t a t n i f o f n f J enemy in t m n - a o f n k f t i n i any man for a f L Eftrange with lilies z. /. [from like.] Arhus o f n k J t i u h m t l u Never 'camPe)Et)r l o f o m c n g i b b o t your grace ; f 3 Shakefpear, I'll hang my head, and perifh 2. Form ; appearance Li'viEp. adj. [from /lily. Milton's Paradife Loff Of God-like power Almoft no grave allow'd me! like the /ify That once was miftrefs of the field, and flourifh' Diyden e o c b t l n t n c i e and the bet light in ; pleafure in: with zo dible ftory pare Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom whete 1o piy No friends ! no hope! no kindred weep for get e o o g f n k l o r f l u where there is a d n and a bad one r w a f n k / e t b There will be fou .likely. n.fo [fro n erinoos ' L LI Canft thou for gain bear Dontte Call up, unbound In various fhapes, old Proteus from the {ea Drain'd through a /imbeck to his naked form. Milt The earth, by fecret conveyances, lets in th fea, and fends it back frefth, her bowels ferving fo Hoael a limbeck He firft furvey'd the charge with careful eyes Vet judg'd, like vapours that from /mdbecks rife It would in richer fhowers defcend agains Dryden Th |