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Webster 1913 Edition


Lich

Lich

(lĭk)
,
Adj.
Like.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Spenser.

Lich

(lĭch)
,
Noun.
[AS.
līc
body. See
Like
,
Adj.
]
A dead body; a corpse.
[Obs.]
Lich fowl
(Zool.)
,
the European goatsucker; – called also
lich owl
.
Lich gate
,
a covered gate through which the corpse was carried to the church or burial place, and where the bier was placed to await the clergyman; a corpse gate.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Lich wake
,
the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial.
[Prov Eng.]
Chaucer.
Lich wall
,
the wall of a churchyard or burying ground.
Lich way
,
the path by which the dead are carried to the grave.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Lich

LICH

,
Adj.
[See Like.] Like; even; equal. Obs.

LICH

,
Noun.
[Heb. chalak, smooth. We have here an instance of the radical sense of man and body, almost exactly analogous to that of Adam, to make equal, to be like.]

Definition 2024


lịch

lịch

See also: lich, Lich, and -lich

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Noun

lịch

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