List (n.) A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet.
List (n.) A limit or boundary; a border.
List (n.) The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
List (n.) A stripe.
List (n.) A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.
List (n.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
List (n.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
List (n.) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
List (n.) The first thin coat of tin.
List (n.) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
Listed (imp. & p. p.) of List
Listing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of List
List (v. t.) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.
List (v. t.) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
List (v. t.) To enroll; to place or register in a list.
List (v. t.) To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
List (v. t.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.
List (v. i.) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
Listel (n.) Same as List, n., 6.
Listened (imp. & p. p.) of Listen
Listening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Listen
Listen (v. i.) To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
Listen (v. i.) To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.
Listen (v. t.) To attend to.
Listener (n.) One who listens; a hearkener.
Lister (n.) One who makes a list or roll.
Lister (n.) Same as Leister.
Listerian (a.) Of or pertaining to listerism.
Listerism (n.) The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.
Listful (a.) Attentive.
Listing (n.) The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.
Listing (n.) The selvedge of cloth; list.
Listing (n.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board.
Listing (n.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops.
Listless (a.) Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.
Lit () a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.
Litanies (pl. ) of Litany
Litany (n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character.
Litarge (n.) Litharge.
Litchi (n.) The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form.
Lite (adv., & n.) Little.
Liter (n.) Alt. of Litre
Litre (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.
Literacy (n.) State of being literate.
Literal (a.) According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
Literal (a.) Following the letter or exact words; not free.
Literal (a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
Literal (a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
Literal (n.) Literal meaning.
Literalism (n.) That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
Literalism (n.) The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.
Literalist (n.) One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
Literalty (n.) The state or quality of being literal.
Literalization (n.) The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.
Literalized (imp. & p. p.) of Literalize
Literalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Literalize
Literalize (v. t.) To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.
Literalizer (n.) A literalist.
Literally (adv.) According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.
Literally (adv.) With close adherence to words; word by word.
Literalness (n.) The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
Literary (a.) Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
Literary (a.) Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.
Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.
Literate (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.
Literate (n.) A literary man.
Literati (n. pl.) Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
Literatim (adv.) Letter for letter.
Literation (n.) The act or process of representing by letters.
Literator (n.) One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
Literator (n.) A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
Literator (n.) A learned person; a literatus.
Literature (n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
Literature (n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
Literature (n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
Literature (n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
Literati (pl. ) of Literatus
Literatus (n.) A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.
-lith () Alt. of -lite
-lite () Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.
Lith () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.
Lith (n.) A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.
Lithaemia (n.) A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.
Lithagogue (n.) A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
Litharge (n.) Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.
Lithargyrum (n.) Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.
Lithate (n.) A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.
Lithe (v. i. & i.) To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
Lithe (a.) Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.
Lithe (a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.
Lithe (a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.
Lithely (adv.) In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.
Litheness (n.) The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
Lither (a.) Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.
Litherly (a.) Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.
Lithesome (a.) Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
Lithia (n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium.
Lithiasis (n.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.
Lithic (a.) Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.
Lithic (a.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.