'T is as like you
As cherry is to cherry. Shak.

Like master, like man. Old Prov.

He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

* To, which formerly often followed like, is now usually omitted.

More clergymen were impoverished by the late war than ever in the like space before. Sprat.

But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices. South.

Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules. Clarendon.

Had like (followed by the infinitive), had nearly; came little short of.

Had like to have been my utter overthrow. Sir W. Raleigh

Ramona had like to have said the literal truth, . . . but recollected herself in time. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

Like figures (Geom.), similar figures.

* Like is used as a suffix, converting nouns into adjectives expressing resemblance to the noun; as, manlike, like a man; childlike, like a child; godlike, like a god, etc. Such compounds are readily formed whenever convenient, and several, as crescentlike, serpentlike, hairlike, etc., are used in this book, although, in some cases, not entered in the vocabulary. Such combinations as bell-like, ball- like, etc., are hyphened.

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again. Shak.

He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. Job xii. 25.

* Like, as here used, is regarded by some grammarians as a preposition.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Ps. ciii. 13.

Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. R. of Gloucester.

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.

He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving. Sir P. Sidney.

Like me to the peasant boys of France. Shak.

He may either go or stay, as he best likes. Locke.

You like well, and bear your years very well. Shak.

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.

To like of, to be pleased with. [Obs.] Massinger.