Definition of like

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Like (v. i.) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a..

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Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
Mulch :: Mulch (n.) Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture..
Cribrose :: Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
Bastardly :: Bastardly (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
Withal :: Withal (adv.) Together with this; likewise; at the same time; in addition; also.
Saintish :: Saintish (a.) Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.
Probable :: Probable (a.) Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely..
Retaliate :: Retaliate (v. t.) To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense..
Patera :: Patera (n.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like..
Savor :: Savor (a.) Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like..
Acephala :: Acephala (n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca..
Arachnoid :: Arachnoid (a.) Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.
Water Bug :: Water bug () Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night..
Spicosity :: Spicosity (n.) The state of having, or being full of, ears like corn..
Varicosity :: Varicosity (n.) An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers..
Tidy :: Tidy (n.) A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like..
Embryoniform :: Embryoniform (a.) Like an embryo in form.
Matchless :: Matchless (a.) Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited.
Notochord :: Notochord (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm..
Baltimore Oriole :: Baltimore oriole () A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin..
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