liking
    n 1: a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a
         liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" [ant:
         dislike]

Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liked (l[imac]kt); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Liking.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[imac]cian,
   gel[imac]cian, fr. gel[imac]c. See Like, a.]
   1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.]
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            Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there.
                                                  --R. of
                                                  Gloucester.
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            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.
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   2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to
      take satisfaction in; to enjoy.
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            He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking
            to loving.                            --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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   3. To liken; to compare. [Obs.]
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            Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak.
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Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a.
   Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like,
   to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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         Why should he see your faces worse liking than the
         children which are of your sort?         --Dan. i. 10.
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Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
   1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking,
      below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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   2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some
      thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure;
      preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is
      an amusement I have no liking for.
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            If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to
            any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into
            harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.
                                                  --Bacon.
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   3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
      condition. [Archaic]
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            I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
            have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Their young ones are in good liking.  --Job. xxxix.
                                                  4.
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   On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting;
      also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a
      place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking.
      [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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            Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
            . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
                                                  --Hazlitt.
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