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To like of

Like \Like\ (l[imac]k), v. i.

  1. To be pleased; to choose.

    He may either go or stay, as he best likes.
    --Locke.

  2. To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). [Obs.]

    You like well, and bear your years very well.
    --Shak.

  3. To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a. [Colloq.]

    He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.
    --Walpole.

    To like of, to be pleased with. [Obs.]
    --Massinger.