▪ I. † liche Obs.
Also 3 like, 4–5 lyke.
[OE. (man-, sw{iacu}n-)l{iacu}ca = Goth. (man-)leika, OHG. (man-)l{iacu}cha; cogn. w. lich.]
Form, figure, guise.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 29 Al swa eða þu mihtest..smiten of þin aȝen heaueð, and gan eft to þin aȝene liche. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 59 Þe deuel com on neddre liche to adam. c 1200 Ormin 5813 An der off þa fowwre der Wass inn an manness like. a 1225 Ancr. R. 224 Þe þet is com to in one wildernesse in one wummone liche. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 283 Þerfore sche [Semiramis] desgised hir self in þe childes liche. Ibid. V. 239 Þe devel appered to þe Iewes..in Moyses his liche. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 143 In stede of man a bestes lyke He syh. c 1470 Golagros & Gaw. 858 Thai lufly ledis in lyke, thai layid on in ane ling. |
▪ II. liche
obs. form of leech, like.