lich

noun

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

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

2. (UK, archaic)A corpse or dead body.

   “[…] 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.”

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

adj

1. (obsolete)Like; 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.”

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

name

1. A 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.
3. A surname from German.