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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Lich

Lĭch, a.

adjective

(lĭk), a. [A-S. lĭc. See LIKE.] Like; even; equal. [Obs.] For both to be and seem to him was labor lich. Spenser.

Lĭch, n.

noun

(lĭch), n. [A-S. lic, corpse, O. Sax. lic, līk, Icel. lík, Goth. leih, D. lijk, O. H. Ger. lich, lih, M. H. Ger. lich, N. H. Ger. leich, leiche; hence Scot. lichwake, the time or act of watching with the dead; Lichfield, the field of dead bodies, a city in Staffordshire, so named from martyred Christians.] A dead body; a corpse. [Obs.]