Lithe \Lithe\ (l[imac][th]), v. t. & i. [Icel hl[=y][eth]a. See
Listen.]
To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lithe \Lithe\, a. [AS. l[imac][eth]e, for lin[eth]e tender,
mild, gentle; akin to G. lind, gelind, OHG. lindi, Icel.
linr, L. lenis soft, mild, lentus flexible, and AS. linnan to
yield. Cf. Lenient.]
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 \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. l[imac][eth]ian. See Lithe, a.]
To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
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lithe
adj : gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome,
lissom, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte,
sylphlike]
WordNet (r) 2.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "lithe":
adaptable, bendable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic,
extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible,
flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible,
impressionable, lean, like putty, limber, lissome, lithesome,
malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive,
responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, slender, slight, slim,
spare, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, thin, tractable,
tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
LITHE
Object-oriented with extensible syntax.
"LITHE: A Language Combining a Flexible Syntax and Classes",
D. Sandberg, Conf Rec 9th Ann ACM Sym POPL, ACM 1982,
pp.142-145.
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