Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liked (l[imac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Liking.]

[OE. liken to please, AS. l[=i]cian, gel[=i]cian, fr. gel[=i]c. See Like, a.]

1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.]

Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. --R. of Gloucester.

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.

2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy.

He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving. --Sir P. Sidney.

3. To liken; to compare.[Obs.]

Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a. Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort ? --Dan. i. 10.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Liking \Lik"ing\, n.

1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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.

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.

3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [Archaic]

I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking. --Shak.

Their young ones are in good liking. --Job. xxxix. 4.

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.]

Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance ? --Hazlitt.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)