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3. Xttiit., n careening or leaning to one Ride: list 4 (list), r. t. [< MK. lixt<-n, li/xttii ; < lift*, .] 
as, the ship lias a lixt to port. 
In consequence of her lint and her drop aft, the forecas- 
tle was hulf-ciiipty of water. 
W. C. ttussell, Sailor's Sweet heal I, \vi. 
nivliiK :i xn-iil lift, she |u l>oal| rocked forward and aft 
several times, and went to tin- bottom in eight fathoms of 
water. Sci. Amsr., N. .S., LVII. 15. 
Ii8t :! t (list), n. [< MK. ti*t<; < AS. list, wisdom, 
cunning, = OS. lixl = OFries. lil. li:tt = D. tint 
ML<J. L<!. lixl = (UK!. MIKi. /w/f, wisdom, 
If. To border: edge. See lint*, n., 1. 
Crownes of goolde and aiiure hendes entrauerse lysted&t 
grenc as a mede, and the >tn inci s down to the handes nf 
Antony hU stlwarde. Merlin (E. E. T. S.X ii. 183. 
Mnt of tin in, I mean among your Latin Epistolizers 
go freighted with mere Bartholomew Ware, with trit and 
trivial Phrase 
boy Verses. 
only, listed with pedantic .shreds of School- 
lloweU, Letters, I. i. 1. 
A Danish Curtux, listed with gold or silver, hung ou his 
left shoulder. Hilton, Hist. Kng., vi. 
prudence, cunning, artifice, G. list,' oimui, f T T r ^SSS'Sl!!!?'*!? f , l ' 1Oth ' ! 
art itice, = Icel. Sw? Dan. K, wisdom skill, . "* m ?^ ( , a Vanegated dl8 P la y of color > or to 
ning, = Goth, lists, cunning, craft, will; orig. 
cunning' in the orig. sense of that word, 'know- 
ing'; with formative -t, < Tout. / Us in AS. tewr- 
ult. root.] 
ing'; with formative -(, < Tout. -\/ I, 
niiin (orig. 'lixiiitui), learn, lieran, teach. See 
1 , lore 1 , and al.lasfl, from the same 
('tinning; craft; skill. 
Hiuore me to kerue 
And of the cupe settle. 
Tim tech him of alle the liste. 
King Horn (K. E. T. S.X I. 236. 
n. and a. [< ME. list, liste, lyste, < 
The showery , 
With listed colours gay, or, azure, gules, 
Delights and puzzles the beholder's eye. 
J. Philips, Cider, II. 
3. To cover with list, or with lists or strips of 
cloth : as, to list a door ; hence, to mark as if 
with list; streak. 
He lifted the doors against approaching winter breezes. 
R. T. Cooke, Somebody's Neighbors, p. 64. 
4. Incarp., to take off the edge of, as a board; 
shape by chopping preparatory to finishing, as 
a block or stave. /,'. H. Knight. 5. To ridge 
a border, margin, = OHGf. lista, MHG. liste, G. 
Some uses (e.g., def . 5) of list* are C0 ru. ' Sei. "Amer., N. &., vita, m 
x-#-tt a &FssA't wspsSMBzaKiaaa 
U.] I. . 1. The outer edge of anything; a na ting beds with alleys. [Southern U. S.] 
There is much difference of opinion upon the subject of 
burning or listing |in preparing the land for a cotton crop]. 
Keu> Amer. Farm Book, p. Ml. 
list 5 (list), n. [= D. lijst = G. Dan. liste = Sw. 
lista, < OF. liste, F. liste = Sp. Pg. It. lista, orig. 
a border, baud, strip, in present use a roll or list 
of names, catalogue, < MHG. liste, G. leiste (= 
AS. list, E. list*), a border, band, edge, strip: 
see list*.'] 1 . A roll or catalogue ; an enumera- 
tion of persons or things by their names : as, a 
list of officers or members of a society ; a. list of 
books or of clothing. 
Yes : 'tis the list 
Of those that claim their offices this day 
By custom of the coronation. 
Shot., Hen. VIII., iv. 1. 15. 
I would not enter on my list of friends . . . 
the man 
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 
Cowper, Task, vL 560. 
What student came but that you planed her path 
To Lady Psyche? . . . 
Still her lifts were swell'd and mine were lean. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
2. A book, card, or slip of paper containing a 
series of names of persons or things, or pre- 
pared for the noting of such names : as, a visit- 
mg-list; a washing-/i(._ Active list, burgess list, 
descriptive list. See the qualifying words. Civil list, 
the list or the aggregate of the sums appropriated for the 
payment of the civil officers of a government ; hence, the 
body of such officers In a country. {For the use of the 
phrase in Great Britain, see net/.) Free list, a list or 
category of particular persons who or things which are 
exempt from some general requirement Specifically 
(a) A list of the articles exempt from duty under existing 
revenue laws. (6) A list of persons allowed free admit- 
tance to any public entertainment =Syn. List, Roll, Regis- 
ter, Catalogue, Inventory, Schedule. Roll applies only to 
persons, inventory and schedule only to things; the rest 
border, limit, or boundary. [Obsolete or poeti- 
cal.] 
And |if| any brother or sister yat duellcn wyt-out-cn ye 
lyttys of thre myle from ye cite deye. 
English Oilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 44. 
The . . . situation ... Is in the very farthest part & 
lift of Europe, bordering vpon Asia. 
HaHuyt's Voyages, I. 479. 
I am bound to your niece, sir; I mean, she is the Iht of 
my voyage. Shale., T. N., ill. 1. 88. 
Made her right I hand a comb of pearl to part 
The lists of such a beard as youth gone out 
Had left in ashes. Tennymn, Merlin and Vivien. 
2. The border or edge of cloth, forming the 
selvage, and usually different from the rest of 
the fabric; also, such borders collectively. This. 
which is torn or cut otf when the cloth is made up f is used 
for many purposes requiring a cheap material. 
Pint Oent. Well, there went but a pair of shears be- 
tween us. 
l.iK'in. I grant : as there may between the lifts and the 
velvet. Shale., M. for M., I. 2. SI. 
Hence 3. Any strip of cloth; a fillet; a stripe 
of any kind. 
Gartered with a red and blue list. 
Shale., T. of the 8., Hi. 2. 69. 
They make blacke littt In their flesh, razing the sklnne. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 429. 
There is a very beautiful sort of wild Ass in this Country 
[the Cape of Good Hope], whose body is curiously striped 
with equal Ijists of white and black. 
Dumpier, Voyages (1699), I. 533. 
4f. The lobe of the ear; also, the ear itself. 
By God, he smoot me ones on the lyst, 
Vor that I rente out of his book a leef, 
That of the strook myn ere wax al deef. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 634. 
Le mol de Toreille, the lug or list of th' eare. Cotgrave. 
They haue gliien it me soundly, I feele it vnder the lints 
of both eares. Dekker, Match me in London. 
5. In nrrh., a square molding; a fillet. Also 
called 
In the beginning It |the Doric] was a very simple order, 
as it appears even now in some places ; the capital con- 
sisting only of a large list or square stone and a large 
quarter round under that, and the entablature of a deep 
architrave of one face, a broad frieze, and a very simple 
cornish. Pamela, Description of the East, II. il. 166. 
6. Iii f/iri>.: (ti) A narrow strip from the edge 
of a plank. (6) The upper rail of a railing. K. 
H. Knight. 7. A woolen flap used by ro 
apply to both. 'List is much the most general. A list 
may be merely of names, without description or order, 
as a list of shops, a list of persons proscribed. Roll differs 
from list only in limitation to persons and in faint sug- 
gestion of its original meaning of a rolled-up paper or 
parchment Register suggests an official act of some 
formality and fullness of detail, perhaps according to 
a legal or customary form: as, a register of voters, of 
marriages, or of deaths. Catalogue supposes orderly ar- 
rangement and some fullness of description : as, a cata- 
logue of the paintings in a gallery, of the specimens in a 
museum, of the books in a library, or of the students in a 
college. An inventory is a list of "property, generally with 
prices or values, made for legal or business purposes, as 
n. ani.9nc.-y. A woolen nap used t>v rope- I^', a lli890 ' 11 " 011 of partnership A schedule U i a .list of 
^ f ^_i, - T "I- things, made for any purpose, and showing what they are 
makers as a guard for the hand. 8. In tinning both in a general view and in some detail as, a schedule 
iron plates, a thin coat of tin applied prepara- of studies, or of assets. 
tory to a thicker coat. E. H. Knight. 9. A list 5 (list), . [< lisffi, .] I. tram. 1. To put 
dose dense streak in heavy bread. Hatttwell. into a list or catalogue; register; enroll. 
[Prov. Eng.] 10. A ridge of earth thrown up 
by a double-moldboard plow, as in cultivating 
Indian corn. [Western U. S.] -Lateral lists, in 
diptoroun insects, the sides of the front, as distinguished 
They may be listed among the upper serving men of 
some great household. Milton, 
from the central part or frontal stripe. 
II. a. Made of lists or strips of woolen sel- 
vage; made of list: as, list carpet. 
I watched her glide along the gallery, her quiet tread 
muffled In a list slipper. 
Charlotte Brant--, Jane Eyre, xvii. 
That noble creature |the butler] came into the dining- 
room lu a flannel gown and list shoes. 
Diclcrns. Little Dorrit, II. 25. 
As we have seen who were called faithful by th< 
them in the catalogue of heretics. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835X II. 810. 
Though all th' inhabitants of sea and air 
Be listed in the glutton's bill of fare. 
Cotcley, On a Garden. 
Specifically 2. To register the name of as a 
soldier: muster into the public service as a sol- 
dier ; enlist : in this sense partly by apheresis 
from enlist. 
lister 
Libertinism hath erected Its standard, hath declared 
war against religion, and op.-nl\ li-i, ,1 nn-ii "f its hi. I. : m,l 
party. Dp. AUerbury, Sermons, I. xill. 
A sergeant made use of me to Inveigle country fellows, 
and lut them in the service of the parliament. 
Addison, Adventures of a Shilling. 
3. To enter for taxation, as property of any 
kind, upon the assessment-roll or a tax-book. 
[Local, U. 8.] 
II. in trans. To enter the public service by 
enrolling one's name ; enlist: in this use partly 
by apheresis from rnti*/. 
At the age of fifteen, I went and listed for a soldier. 
Uiildstnith, Strolling Flayer. 
list 6 (list), n. [Usually in pi. lists; < ME. li*t<; 
li/xlr, < AF. liste, with unorig. t (perhaps by con- 
fusion with OF. liste, ME. liste, E. list*, edge), 
prop, lisse, OF. lisse, lice, F. lice = Pr. lissa =8p. 
l:-ii = I'g. //<; = It. liccia, fern, < ML. licia (pi. 
liciir), barrier (licia; duclli, barriers of a tourna- 
ment, the lists), appar. (with ref. to the ropes 
used as barriers) orig. pi. of L. liciiim, thrum, 
thread, a small girdle. Cf. MHO. G. like, cord, 
lace, file, bobbin; F. lisse, lace (see lisse).'] One 
of the barriers inclosing the field of combat at 
a tournament; usually, in the plural (rarely in 
the singular), the space or field thus inclosed : 
now mostly used figuratively : as, to enter the 
lists in behalf of one's principles. 
No man therfore, np peyne of los of lyf , 
No maner shot, polax, ne shorte knyf 
Into the lyxtes sende ne thider brynge. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1687. 
To the lixtx they came, and single-sword and gauntlet 
was their fight Beau, and Fl., King and No King, it 1. 
A prince whose eye is chooser to his heart 
Is seldom steady in the lists of love. 
Ford, Love's Sacrifice, Iv. 1. 
The list must be sixty paces long and forty paces broad, 
set up in good order, ana the ground within hard, stable, 
and level, without any great stones or other Impediments. 
Duke o/ Gloucester, quoted in Strutt's Sports and 
[Pastimes, p. 212. 
list 6 (list), v. t. [< lisft, .] To inclose for a 
tournament, or for any contest : used especial- 
ly in the past participle. 
Then dare the boldest of the hostile train 
To mortal combat on the listed plain. 
Pope, Iliad, vli. 5(i. 
Ourselves beheld the lixtrd field, 
A sight both sad and fair. 
Scott, Marmion, 1 12. 
list 7 (list), . [A var. of list, lesk: see fawfc.] 
The flank. [Prov. Eng.] 
A list of pork, a bony piece cut from the gammon. 
Kennctt,MS. (UalliuxU.) 
listel (lis'tel), n. [< F. listel, listeau, dim. of 
liste, a list, fillet, roll: see list*.] In arch., a 
narrow list or fillet: a reglet. 
listen (lis'n), r. [< ME. listnen, Ivxtncn, lestc- 
nen, listen ; with formative -, < listen, Insten, 
E. list: see Us ft, r.] I. intran*. To attend 
closely with the design of hearing; give ear; 
harken; hence, to give heed; yield compliant- 
ly: as, to listen to reason. 
Parys listinet lyuely, let for no shame. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3114. 
I Kstned for the Clock to chime 
Dayes latest hower. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. i. 
My Lord, let me Intreat yon to stand behind this Skreen 
and li*ti-n. Conyreve, Double-Dealer, v. 16. 
Where street met quay a fiddle's sound beguiled 
A knot of listening folk. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 281. 
To listen after', to be eager to hear or get information 
regarding ; Inquire after. 
Here comes my servant Travers, whom I sent 
On Tuesday last to listen after news. 
Shot., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 29. 
H.t trims. To hear; attend to; give heed to. 
As it is fre to a fole foly to carpe, 
So is it wit a wiseman his wordls to listyn. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. .\ 1. 6082. 
Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. S. 103. 
At which I ceased, and listen'd them a while. 
Milton, i '. .inn.. L 561. 
To listen outt, to find out 
Jenkin, come hither : go to Bradford, 
And listen out your fellow Wily. 
Greene, George-a-Greene. 
istener (lis'ner), n. [< ME. listnere (T) ; as listen 
+ -er 1 .] One who listens ; a harkener. 
Not to die a listener, I arose. 
And with me Philip, talking still. 
Tennyson, The Brook. 
ister 1 (lis'ter), . [< list*, r., 5, + -er 1 .] In 
agri., an implement, of the nature of a plow, 
by which open furrows at proper distances from 
each other are formed, in the bottoms of which 
maize or other grain is planted by a drill. The 
