Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete assibilated form of like .

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Like.

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Examples

  • In Cipre men hunten with papyonns, that ben lyche lepardes: and thei taken wylde bestes righte welle, and thei ben somdelle48 more than lyouns; and thei taken more scharpely the bestes and more delyverly49 than don houndes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And alle tho that ben maryed, han a countrefete, made lyche

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • There ben also manye other bestes, fullye wykked and cruelle, that ben not mocheles more than a bere; and thei han the hed lyche a bore; and thei han 6 feet: and on every foote 2 large clawes trenchant: and the body is lyche a bere, and the tayl as a lyoun.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And for the vermyn, that is with inne, thei anoynte here armes and here thyes and legges with an oynement, made of a thing that is clept lymons, that is a manere of fruyt, lyche smale pesen: and thanne have thei no drede of no cocodrilles, ne of non other venymous vermyn.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And with an instrument of sylver, he frothethe the bones; 86 and thanne ther gothe out a lytylle oyle, as thoughe it were a maner swetynge, that is nouther lyche to oyle ne to bawme; but it is fulle swete of smelle:

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • In that contree, wommen that ben unmaryed, thei han tokenes on hire hedes, lyche coronales, to ben knowen for unmaryed.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Non other citee is not lyche in comparisoun to it of faire gardynes, and of faire desportes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And this monstre, that mette with this holy heremyte, was as it hadde ben a man, that hadde 2 hornes trenchant on his forehede; and he hadde a body lyk a man, unto the nabele; and benethe he hadde the body lyche a goot.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And therefore thei maken ymages lyche to tho thinges, that thei han beleeve inne, for to beholden hem and worschipen hem first at morwe, or thei meeten ony contrarious thinges.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • The long peper comethe first, whanthe lef begynhethe to come; and it is lyche the chattes of Haselle, that comethe before the lef, and it hangethe lowe.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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