Liking /(līk"ĭng)/

Lik·ing

Liking

p. a.
  1. Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obs.]
    Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort?
    — Dan. i. 10.

Liking

n.
  1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.
    If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.
  3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [Archaic]
    I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
    Their young ones are in good liking.
    — Job. xxxix. 4.
    Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
    — Hazlitt.

Phrases & Compounds
On liking
on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking.