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

  • transitive verb obsolete To please; -- chiefly used impersonally.

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Examples

  • He's wearing you know, eucalyptus leaves for -- that's what makes his pants and -- I know of Jefferson, the little purfles, that's a lyken (ph) and he's actually wearing a robe of sycamore bark that, I know, came from a tree in the front yard.

    CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2006 2006

  • [90] "And he wil that it be knowen that al those that lyke in him should lyken in hir and in the lykyng that he hath in hir and she in him."

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • “I lyken the to a sowe, for thou arte ever chyding at mete.”

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • And tell me whereto can ye lyken it: when on each eyelid sweetly doe appeare, an hundred Graces as in shade to sit.

    Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

  • sew miny peeps awl lyken each ovver an laffn and sharin!

    icanhascheezburger.com - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Be nyght, whan the Pecocke can nat see hymselfe, tha {n} he cryeth ernefully, and thynketh that he hath lost hys beautye/and with his crye he feareth all serpentes/in suche maners {tha} t they dare nat abyde in those places whereas they here hym crye/and whan the pecocke cly {m} meth hye, that is a token of rayne ... also the pecocke is envious & wylle nat knowe his yonges tyll that they haue {th} e crowne of feders vpon theyr hede, and that they begynne to lyken hym ....

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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