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2. A limit or boundary; a border.
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The very list, the very utmost bound,
Of all our fortunes. Shak.
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3. The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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4. A stripe. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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5. 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.
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He was the ablest emperor of all the list. Bacon.
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6. (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
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7. (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
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8. (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
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9. (Tin-plate Manuf.) (a) The first thin coat of tin. (b) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
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Coloq. Civil list (Great Britain & U.S.), the civil officers of government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc. Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers. More recently, the civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the reigning monarch's household. -- Coloq. Free list . (a) A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty. (b) A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.

Syn. -- Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule. -- , , , , , . A list is properly a simple series of names, etc., in a brief form, such as might naturally be entered in a narrow strip of paper. A roll was originally a list containing the names of persons belonging to a public body (as Parliament, etc.), which was rolled up and laid aside among its archives. A catalogue is a list of persons or things arranged in order, and usually containing some description of the same, more or less extended. A register is designed for record or preservation. An inventory is a list of articles, found on hand in a store of goods, or in the estate of a deceased person, or under similar circumstances. A schedule is a formal list or inventory prepared for legal or business purposes.
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List (lĭst), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Listed; p. pr. & vb. n. Listing.] [From list a roll.] 1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border. Sir H. Wotton.
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2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
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The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom. Tennyson.
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3. To enroll; to place or register in a list.
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Listed among the upper serving men. Milton.
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4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
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I will list you for my soldier. Sir W. Scott.
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5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.
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Coloq. To list a stock (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of stocks called at the meeting of the board.
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List, v. i. To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
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List (lĭst), v. t. 1. To plow and plant with a lister.
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2. In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. [Southern U. S.]
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listed adj. 1. placed on a list. Opposite of unlisted. [Narrower terms: catalogued; recorded ; traded ]
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2. officially entered in a roll or list; as, listed on a stock exchange; a listed securities trader.
Syn. -- enrolled.
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Listel (lĭstĕl), n. [F. listel, dim. of liste fillet, list. See the edge.] (Arch.) Same as , n., 6.
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Listen (lĭs'n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Listened (lĭs'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Listening.] [OE. listnen, listen, lustnen, lusten, AS. hlystan; akin to hlyst hearing, OS. hlust, Icel. hlusta to listen, hlust ear, AS. hlosnian to wait in suspense, OHG. hlosēn to listen, Gr. klyein, and E. loud. √41. See , and cf. to listen.] 1. To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
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When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to some sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary tension. Holder.
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2. To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.
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Listen to me, and by me be ruled. Tennyson.
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Coloq. To listen after , to take an interest in. [Obs.]
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Soldiers note forts, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors. Fuller.

Syn. -- To attend; hearken. See .
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Listen, v. t. To attend to. [Obs.] Shak.
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Listener (lĭs'nẽr), n. One who listens; a hearkener.
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listening n. the act of hearing attentively.
Syn. -- hearing.
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Lister (lĭstẽr), n. One who makes a list or roll.
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Lister (lĭstẽr), n. Same as .
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Lister (lĭstẽr), n. [Cf. a strip, border, prob. applied to the furrow or the ridge of earth along the furrow.] A double-moldboard plow which throws a deep furrow, and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.
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Listerian (lĭstērĭ�n), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to listerism.
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Listerism (lĭstẽrĭz'm), n. (Med.) The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.
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Listerize (lĭstẽrīz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Listerized (lĭstẽrīzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Listerizing (lĭstẽrīzĭng).] (Med.) To make antiseptic.
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Listful (lĭstfụl), a. Attentive. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Listing, n. 1. 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.
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2. The selvedge of cloth; list.
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3. (Carp.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board.
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4. (Agric.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops. [Local, U. S.]
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Listless, a. [OE. listles, lustles. See .] Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. “ A listless unconcern.” Thomson.
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Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. Dryden.
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I was listless, and desponding. Swift.

Syn. -- Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested; languid; spiritless; supine; indolent.

-- Listlessly, adv. -- Listlessness, n.
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Lit (lĭt), a form of the imp. & p. p. of .
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Litany (lĭtȧn�), n.; pl. Litanies (lĭtȧnĭz). [OE. letanie, OF. letanie, F. litanie, L. litania, Gr. litaneia, fr. litaneyein to pray, akin to litesqai, lissesqai, to pray, lith prayer.] 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.
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Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker.
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Litarge (lĭtȧrj), n. Litharge. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Litchi (lēchē), n. (Bot.) 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. [Written also lichi, and lychee.]
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2. (Bot.) A genus of East Indian sapindaceous trees consisting of a single species (Litchi Chinensis, syn. Nephelium Litchi) which bears the litchi nut.
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-lite (-līt) suff. See .
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Lite (līt), a., adv., & n. Little. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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{ Liter, Litre } (lētẽr; 277), n. [F. litre, Gr. litra a silver coin.] 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.
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Literacy (lĭtẽrȧs�), n. State of being literate.
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Literal (lĭtẽr�l), a. [F. litéral, littéral, L. litteralis, literalis, fr. littera, litera, a letter. See .] 1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
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It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. Tyndale.
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2. Following the letter or exact words; not free.
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A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. Hooker.
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3. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
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The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. Johnson.
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4. Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact; -- applied to persons.
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Coloq. Literal contract (Law), a contract of which the whole evidence is given in writing. Bouvier. -- Coloq. Literal equation (Math.), an equation in which known quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means of letters; -- distinguished from a numerical equation.
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Literal, n. Literal meaning. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Literalism (lĭtẽr�lĭz'm), n. 1. That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
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2. (Fine Arts) The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.
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Literalist, n. One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
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Literality (lĭtẽrălĭt�), n. [Cf. F. littéralité.] The state or quality of being literal. Sir T. Browne.
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Literalization (lĭtẽr�lĭzāshŭn), n. The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.
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Literalize (lĭtẽr�līz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Literalized (lĭtẽr�līzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Literalizing (lĭtẽr�līzĭng).] To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.
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Literalizer (lĭtẽr�līzẽr), n. A literalist.
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Literally, adv. 1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.
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2. With close adherence to words; word by word.
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So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.
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Literalness, n. The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
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Literary (lĭtẽr�r�), a. [L. litterarius, literarius, fr. littera, litera, a letter: cf. F. littéraire. See .]
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1. Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
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He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Johnson.
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2. Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.
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In the literary as well as fashionable world. Mason.
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Coloq. Literary property . (a) Property which consists in written or printed compositions. (b) The exclusive right of publication as recognized and limited by law.
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Literate (lĭtẽr�t), a. [L. litteratus, literatus. See .] Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.
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The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs. Landor.
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Literate, n. 1. One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. [Eng.]
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2. A literary man.
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Literati (lĭt�rätē; lĭt�rātī), n. pl. [See .] Learned or literary men. See .
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Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. Craik.
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Literatim (lĭt�rätĭm), adv. [LL., fr. L. littera, litera, letter.] Letter for letter.
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Literation (lĭtẽrāshŭn), n. [L. littera, litera, letter.] The act or process of representing by letters.
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Literator (lĭtẽrātẽr), n. [L. litterator, literator. See .] 1. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke.
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2. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
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That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter “ bibliomane,” simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.
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3. A learned person; a literatus. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Literature (lĭtẽrȧt�r; 135), n. [F. littérature, L. litteratura, literatura, learning, grammar, writing, fr. littera, litera, letter. See .] 1. Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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4. The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work. Lamb.

Syn. -- Science; learning; erudition; belles-lettres. See . -- , , . Literature, in its widest sense, embraces all compositions in writing or print which preserve the results of observation, thought, or fancy; but those upon the positive sciences (mathematics, etc.) are usually excluded. It is often confined, however, to belles-lettres, or works of taste and sentiment, as poetry, eloquence, history, etc., excluding abstract discussions and mere erudition. A man of literature (in this narrowest sense) is one who is versed in belles-lettres; a man of learning excels in what is taught in the schools, and has a wide extent of knowledge, especially, in respect to the past; a man of erudition is one who is skilled in the more recondite branches of learned inquiry.
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The origin of all positive science and philosophy, as well as of all literature and art, in the forms in which they exist in civilized Europe, must be traced to the Greeks. Sir G. C. Lewis.
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Learning thy talent is, but mine is sense. Prior.
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Some gentlemen, abounding in their university erudition, fill their sermons with philosophical terms. Swift.
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Literatus (lĭt�rätŭs; lĭt�rātŭs), n.; pl. Literati (lĭt�rätē; lĭt�rātī). [L. litteratus, literatus.] A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.
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Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.
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{ -lith (-lĭth), -lite (-līt). } suff. Combining forms fr. Gr. liqos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.
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Lith (līth), obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of , to recline, for lieth. Chaucer.
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Lith (lĭth), n. [AS. lið.] A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts. Chaucer.
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Lithæmia (l�thēmĭȧ), n. [NL., fr. Gr. liqos stone + ai^ma blood.] (Med.) A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.
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Lithagogue (lĭthȧgŏg), n. [Gr. liqos stone + 'agwgos leading.] (Med.) A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.
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Litharge (lĭthȧrj), n. [OE. litarge, F. litharge, L. lithargyrus, Gr. liqargyros the scum or foam of silver; liqos stone + 'argyros silver. Litharge is found in silverbearing lead ore.] (Chem.) 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 or minium, etc. Called also massicot.
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Lithargyrum (lĭthärjĭrŭm), n. [NL. See .] (Old Chem.) Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.
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Lithate (lĭth�t), n. (Old Med. Chem.) A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate. [Obs.] [Written also lithiate.]
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Lithe (lī�), v. t. & i. [Icel hlȳða. See .] To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
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Lithe, a. [AS. līðe, for linðe tender, mild, gentle; akin to G. lind, gelind, OHG. lindi, Icel. linr, L. lenis soft, mild, lentus flexible, and AS. linnan to yield. Cf. .] 1. Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.]
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2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. Milton.
Syn. -- lithesome.
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Lithe, v. t. [AS. līðian. See , a.] To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
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Lithely, adv. In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.
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Litheness, n. The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
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Lither (lī�ẽr), a. [AS. lȳðer bad, wicked.] Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton.
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☞ Professor Skeat thinks “ the lither sky” as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. ((Part I. IV. VII., 21) means the stagnant or pestilential sky.

-- Litherly, adv. [Obs.]. -- Litherness, n. [Obs.]
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Litherly, a. Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. [Archaic]
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He [the dwarf] was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.
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Lithesome (lī�sŭm), a. [See , a., and cf. .] Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
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-- Lithesomeness, n.
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Lithia (lĭthĭȧ), n. [NL., from Gr. liqos stone.] (Chem.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See .
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Coloq. Lithia emerald . See .
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Lithiasis (lĭthīȧsĭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. liqiasis, fr. liqos stone.] (Med.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.
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Lithic (lĭthĭk), a. [Gr. liqikos of or belonging to stones, fr. liqos stone: cf. F. lithique.] 1. Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.
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2. (Med.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.
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Coloq. Lithic acid (Old Med. Chem.), uric acid. See Uric acid, under .
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Lithic, n. (Med.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.
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Lithic, a. [From .] (Chem.) Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds. Frankland.
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Lithiophilite (lĭthĭŏfĭlīt), n. [Lithium + Gr. filos friend.] (Min.) A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.
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