liking : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: liking	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for liking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
liking n a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" Antonym(s): dislike
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liked} (l[imac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liking}.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[c6]cian, gel[c6]cian, fr. gel[c6]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[icr]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.