a. Obs. [f. lich LIKE a. + -Y.] Like.
1370–80. XI Pains of Hell, 78, in O. E. Misc., 225. Byndeþ hem in knucchenus forþi To brenne lyk to licchi, Spousbrekers wiþ lechours [etc.].
1382. Wyclif, 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.]
