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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Likin \[d8]Li"kin`\, n. [Written also {lekin}.] [ Chin. li kin; li the thousandth part of a tael + kin money.] A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. [bd]Likin,[b8] which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, [bd]squeezes[b8] imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any other form of taxation. --A. R. Colquhoun. | |
