Obs. Also 3 like, 4–5 lyke. [OE. (man-, swín-)líca = Goth. (man-)leika, OHG. (man-)lícha; 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.
