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Flowers numerous, axillary, folitary, on (hort hairy ftalks. 
Corolla much like that of L. Itrigofa, but with rather 
longer and narrower fegments, whofe upper fide appears, 
from the dried plant, to he finely downy from their bafe 
to the middle. Mr. Brown however, who faw it alive, 
defcribes this part as entirely fmooth. The afpeft of this 
pretty fpecies is much like that of fome of the ftnaller 
kinds of Daphne. 
6. Liflanthe ciliata: leaves elliptic-lanceolate, flat, with 
a pellucid point; their edges finely, ferrated and fringed. 
Limb of the corolla roughifli. Gathered by Mr. Brown 
in Van Diemen’s Land. 
LIS'SAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ghilan : 
fixty miles north-weft of Relhd. 
LIS'SER, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Bigge. 
LIS'SER, a river of France. See Leser, p. 528. 
LISS'ERSTORFF, a town of Auftria: three miles north 
of Stokerau. 
LIS'SON, in ancient geography, a river of Sicily. 
LISSOU'EN, a town of Pruflia, in Natangen: fifteen 
miles fouth of Marggrabowa. 
LIS'SUS, in ancient geography, the laft town of Illyri- 
cum, towards Macedonia, fituated on the Dfilo. It had 
a capacious port, the work of Dionyfius the Tyrant, who 
led the colony thither, enlarged and walled it round. Diodo¬ 
rus Siculus. Now called Alessio, which fee, vol. i. 
LIS'SUS, a river of Thrace, falling into the Aigean fea 
between Thafos and Samothracia. It was dried up by 
the army of Xerxes, when he invaded Greece. Strabo. 
LIST, f. [life , Fr.] A roll; a catalogue.—Some fay 
the loadftone is poifon, and therefore in the IJls of poi- 
fons we find it in many authors. Brown. 
Bring next the royal lift of Stuarts forth, 
Undaunted minds, that rul’d the rugged north. Prior. 
Civil List. The money allotted for the fupport of the 
king’s houfehold, and for defraying certain neceflary 
charges of the government. See the article England, 
vol. vi. p. 805. 
LIST, yi i/ice, Fr.] Inclofed ground in which tilts are 
run, and combats fought: 
Paris thy fon, and Sparta’s king, advance, 
In meafur’d lifts to tofs the weighty lance; 
And who his rival (hall in arms fubdue, 
His be the dame, and his the treafure too. Pope. 
Bound; limit: 
The ocean, overpeering of his lift. 
Eats not the flats with more impetuous hafte. 
Than young Laertes in a riotous head 
O’er-bears your officers. Shakefpeare's Hamlet. 
She within lifts my ranging mind hath brought, 
That now beyond myfelf I will not go. Davies. 
A ftrip of cloth.—A linen ftock on one leg; and a kerfey 
boot-hofe on the other, gartered with a red and blue lift. 
Shakefpeare. 
A lift the cobler’s temples ties, 
To keep the hair out of his eyes. Swift. 
A border.—They thought it better to let them Hand as a 
lift, or marginal border, unto the Old Teftament. Hooker. 
[From lyfcan, Sax.] Defire; willingnefs; choice.—No¬ 
thing of paflion or peeviflinefs, or lift to contradict, lhall 
have any bias on my judgment. King Charles. 
Alas, (he has no fpeech ! 
-—Too much ; 
I find it ltill when I have lift to deep. Shakefpeare. 
He faw falfe Reynard where he lay full low; 
I need not fwear he had no lift to crow. Dryden. 
To LIST, v.n. [lyyran, Sax.] To choofe; to defire; 
to be difpofed; to incline.—They imagine, that laws 
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which permit them not to do as they would will endure 
them to (peak as they lift. Hooker. 
Kings, lords of times and of occafions, may 
Take their advantage when and how they lift. Daniel . 
LIST, prct. imperfonal [from the v. n.~\ Pleafed.— Her 
lift in (tryfull termes with him to balke. Spenfer. 
And when him lift the rafkall routes appall, 
Men into ftones therewith he could tranfmew. 
And ftones to dull, and duft to nought at all; 
And when him lift the prouder lookes fubdew, 
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew. Spr. 
To LIST, v. a. [from lift, a roll.] To enlift; to enrol 
or regilter.—For a man to give his name to Chriftianity 
in thofe days, was to lift himfelf a martyr, and to bid 
farewel not only to the pleafures, but alfo to the hopes, of 
this life. South. 
They lift with women each degen’rate name 
Who dares not hazard life for future fame. Dryden. 
To retain and enrol foldiers; to enlift.—The king who 
raifed this wall appointed a million of foldiers, who were 
lifted and paid for the defence of it againft the Tartars* 
Temple. 
Two hundred horfe he (hall command ; 
Though few, a warlike and well-chofen band; 
Thefe in my name are lifted. Dryden. 
[From lift enclofed ground.] To enclofe for combats s 
How dares your pride prefume againft my aws. 
As in a lifted field to fight your caufe ? 
Unalk’d the royal grant. Dryden's Knight's Tale. 
[From lift, a (hred or border.] To few together, in fuch 
fort as to make a particoloured (how.—Some may w'on- 
der at fuch an accumulation of benefits, like a kind of 
embroidering or lifting of one favour upon another. Wot- 
ton's Life of Bucking. —[Contracted from liften.] To hearken 
to; to lilten; to attend : 
Then weigh, what lofs your honour may fuftain. 
If with too credent ear you lift his fongs; 
Or lofe your heart, or your chafte treafure open 
To his unmafter’d importunity. Shakefp. Hamlet . 
LIS'TED, adj. Striped; particoloured in long ftreaks 
A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow 
Confpicuous, with three lifted colours gay, 
Betok’ning peace from God, and cov’nant new. Milton. 
LIS'TEL,/ [from lift.-] In architecture, a lift, a fillet* 
a narrow flat moulding. 
To LIS'TEN, v. n. To hearken ; to give attention._■ 
When we haveoccafion t:o liften, and give a more particu¬ 
lar attention to fome found, the tympanum is drawn to a. 
more than ordinary tendon. Holder. 
On the green bank I fat, and liften’d long; 
Nor till her lay was ended could I move. 
But wifli’d to dwell for ever in the grove. Dryden. 
To LIS'TEN, v.a. To hear; to attend. Obfolete. —Lady* 
vouchfafe to liften what I fay. Shakefpeare. 
The wonted roar was up amidft the woods. 
And fill’d the air with barbarous diflonance ; 
At which I ceas’d, and liften'd them awhile. Milton. 
LIS'TENING, adj. in the manage, fteady in motion* 
attending to the lpur. Scott. 
LIS'TENING, J. The aft of hearkening; of attending*. 
LIS'TENER, or List'ner,/. One that hearkens ; a 
liearkener.—The hufh-word, when (poke by any brother 
in a lodge, was a warning to the reft to have a care of 
lifieners. Swift.—Liftners never hear well of themfelves. 
L'Eftrange. 
LIS'TER (Martin), a phyfician and naturalift, was 
born about 1638, of a Yorklhire family fettled in the 
county of Buckingham, He was educated at St. John’s 
college 
