† lichyadj.
Obsolete.
Like.
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of a (also one) mouldc1330
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of the same, that, every, etc. feather1581
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alike as a row of pins1785
congenerica1834
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1370–80 XI Pains of Hell 78 in Old Eng. Misc. 225 Byndeþ hem in knucchenus forþi To brenne lyk to licchi, Spous~brekers wiþ lechours [etc.].
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Matt. xi. 16 But to whom shal I gesse this generacion lichy [v.rr. lyche, lyke]? It is lichi to children sittynge in cheepynge [etc.]. [In six other passages in Wyclif lic(c)hi, lic(c)hy, lychi, lychy occur as variant readings for lich, lyke, etc.]
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