See Also: likeness(dictionary)
likeness(dictionary)

Lincrusta (iou) and likeness (iou)


Lincrusta (iou)



Lincrusta noun. Also lincrusta. L19.
[from Latin linum flax + crusta rind, bark, after linoleum.]
(Proprietary name for) a Wallpaper covered with embossed linoleum.

likeness (iou)



likeness noun.

A person's stature. Only in OE.
A visual representation of a person or thing; a copy, an image, a portrait. Also, a person who closely resembles another. OE.
Dylan Thomas On receiving your photograph I went immediately to have my own likeness taken.
A shape or form like or identified as something, a semblance or guise of. ME.
Shelley The likeness of a throned king came by. E. A. Freeman Spalato is putting on the likeness of a busy modern town.
The quality or fact of being like; (a) resemblance, (a) similarity. (Foll. by between, to, with.) ME.
catch a likeness: see CATCH verb.
H. James She seemed to see a far-away likeness to the vaguely-remembered image of her mother.
A comparison; a parable. Only in ME.