lich

plural liches · plural lichs · alternative lych · alternative lytch · alternative litch · alternative lyke

1. roleplaying gamesfantasyA reanimated corpse or undead being; particularly an intelligent, undead spellcaster.

   It was a lich’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.

   1974, Karl Edward Wagner, Sticks

2. UKarchaicA corpse or dead body.First known use 9th c.

   She saw him again that eventide, but then he was a reddened lich.

   1983, Poul Anderson, Time Patrolman (Sci-Fi), →ISBN

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   […] and that, as the chronicle states, a lich-way would be made through then, assembled his servants, and attempted to stop its progress as it was carried over a bridge. A scuffle ensued, and the body was thrown into the water. The lich-way as not made ; but the Bishop of Exeter amply revenged himself for the proceedings.

   1845, Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, page 35

comparative more lich · superlative most lich

1. obsoleteLike; resembling; equal.

   1386-90, John Gower, Confessio Amantis. Anon he let two cofres make / Of one semblance, and of one make, / So lich, that no lif thilke throwe, / That one may fro that other knowe.

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   [He] rather joy'd to be than seemen sich, For both to be and seeme to him was labour lich.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 29

1. astronomyA neutron star in Milky Way Galaxy, Virgo constellation; The first star, a pulsar, at which exoplanets were discovered.
2. The star system and planetary system containing this star.

plural Lichs

1. A surname from German.