Definition of liken

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Liken (a.) To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage..

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Likened :: Likened (imp. & p. p.) of Like.
Semblance :: Semblance (a.) Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue..
Assimilable :: Assimilable (a.) That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated..
Snapdragon :: Snapdragon (n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon..
Photograph :: Photograph (n.) A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
Community :: Community (n.) Common character; likeness.
Likeness :: Likeness (n.) That which closely resembles; a portrait.
Likeness :: Likeness (n.) A comparison; parable; proverb.
Family :: Family (v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order..
Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) A frown (likened to a frontlet).
Resemblance :: Resemblance (n.) That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness..
Likelihood :: Likelihood (n.) Likeness; resemblance.
Iconize :: Iconize (v. t.) To form an image or likeness of.
Similar :: Similar (a.) Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
Picture :: Picture (n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief..
Warlikeness :: Warlikeness (n.) Quality of being warlike.
Para- :: Para- () A prefix denoting: (a) Likeness, similarity, or connection, or that the substance resembles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and Meta-. Also used adjectively..
Unliken :: Unliken (v. t.) To make unlike; to dissimilate.
Similitude :: Similitude (n.) The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile..
Gage :: Gage (n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage..
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