like adj. (uses now mainly dial. are)
1.
in
accordance with appearances, probable, likely
Meas. V. i. 105
“O, that it were as
as
it is true!,”
Shr. III. ii. 216
“'Tis like you'll prove
a jolly surly groom,”
Rom. IV. iii. 46
“is it not like that I .
. .?.”
2.
“like to,” (i) that may
be reasonably expected to, likely to
MND. V. i. 117
“all that you are to
know,”
1H4 III. ii. 124,
Cor. III. i. 47
“You are to do such
business,”
Rom. I. v. 139
“My grave is to be my
wedding bed”
; (ii) apparently on the point of Wiv. IV. v. 121,
Ado V. iv. 112
“thou art to be my
kinsman”
;
AYL. V. iv. 49
“I have had four
quarrels, and like to have fought
one”
(=and narrowly missed fighting one).
