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‖ n. [ Written also lekin. ] [ Chin. li kin; li the thousandth part of a tael + kin money. ] A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Likin, ” which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, “squeezes” imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any other form of taxation. A. R. Colquhoun. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

p. a. Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? Dan. i. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their young ones are in good liking. Job. xxxix. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance? Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dislike; aversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OD. spelleken a small pin. See Spill a splinter. ] One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin. [ Written also spillikin, spilliken. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Spilikin. [ 1913 Webster ]