Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lich"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Lich \Lich\ (l[i^]k), a.
Like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Lich \Lich\ (l[i^]ch), n. [AS. l[=i]c body. See {Like}, a.]
A dead body; a corpse. [Obs.]

{Lich fowl} (Zo["o]l.), the European goatsucker; -- called
also {lich owl}.

{Lich gate}, a covered gate through which the corpse was
carried to the church or burial place, and where the bier
was placed to await the clergyman; a corpse gate. [Prov.
Eng.] --Halliwell.

{Lich wake}, the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before
burial. [Prov Eng.] --Chaucer.

{Lich wall}, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground.

{Lich way}, the path by which the dead are carried to the
grave. [Prov. Eng.]


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