a. Obs. exc. dial. Also dial. licksome. [f. LIKE v. + -SOME.] Agreeable, pleasant.

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c. 1563.  Sir T. Challoner, trans. Boethius, I. metr. i. in Q. Eliz.’s Englishings (E.E.T.S.), App. 150. Theis, of my happie lyksome yougthe ye glorye long ago.

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1577–87.  Holinshed, Chron. (1807–8), III. 163. Of favour was she counted likesome.

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a. 1650.  Will Stewart & Iohn, v. in Child, Ballads, II. 433/1. Or doe you mourne for a likesome ladye.

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1801.  Sporting Mag., XIX. 87. He had looked rather gloomy before, but now he appeared quite licksome.

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1876.  Whitby Gloss., Likesome, that which may be loved or desired.

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1877.  E. Leigh, Cheshire Gloss., 124. ‘Charly loves a licksome girl, as sweet as sugar candy.’

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