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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liked} (l[imac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liking}.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[imac]cian, gel[imac]cian, fr. gel[imac]c. See {Like}, a.] 1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. --R. of Gloucester. [1913 Webster] I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy. [1913 Webster] He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 3. To liken; to compare. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Liking \Lik"ing\, 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] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: liking n 1: a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" [ant: {dislike}]