2. Appearance or form; guise.
An enemy in the likeness of a friend. --L'Estrange.
3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
[How he looked] the likenesses of him which still
remain enable us to imagine. --Macaulay.
4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.]
He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this
likeness, Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke
iv. 23).
Syn: Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation;
portrait; effigy.