like adv. (the use in “like as”=even as, e.g. Sonn. lx. 1, gives rise by ellipsis to “like” conj., as in Per. I. i. 163, where Ff read “as”)
1.
equally, similarly, alike
Tp. III. iii. 66
“my fellowministers Are
invulnerable,”
Err. I. i. 82, H5 II. ii. 183,
Cym. III. iii. 41
“Like war-like as the
wolf,”
Sonn. cxxxii. 12
“suit thy pity like in
every part.”
2.
as well as, as also
R3 III. v. 9.
3.
likely, probably
Tp. V. i. 265
“Very ,”
2H6 III. i. 379
“great ”
(=highly probable),
Cym. V. v. 260
“Most I did,”
Sonn. lxxxvii. 2
“like enough.”
