like \like\ limack, 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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see also:
like to like of