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.Lik"ing (līk"ĭng), 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.