\Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]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.

\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.