[f. LIKE v.]
† 1. (One’s) good pleasure. (Also pl.) Obs.
a. 1425[?]. Cursor M., 2997 (Trin.). What haue I done aȝeyn þi like [Fairf. þe to myslike]?
1615. Latham, Falconry (1633), 75. Shee may doe all things at her owne likes.
† 2. A liking (for). Const. of. Obs.
1589. Nashe, Anat. Absurd., E ij b. Being wonne to haue a fauourable like of Poets wanton lines.
3. In mod. use pl. (rarely sing.), likes (coupled with dislikes): Feelings of affection or preference for particular things; predilections.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour (1861), II. 495. She used to say, ‘It was not her likes, but her husband’s, or she’d have had me back.’
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, xii. 180. Her odd likes and dislikes.
1889. F. M. Crawford, Greifenstein, III. xxii. 41. I do not care a straw for his like or dislike.
