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Lith (lth), 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.

||Li*thæ"mi*a (l*th"m*), n. [NL., fr. Gr. li`qos stone + a"i^ma blood.] ||(Med.) A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the ||blood. || Lith"a*gogue (lth"*gg), n. [Gr. li`qos stone + 'agwgo`s leading.] (Med.) A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.

Lith"arge (lth"rj), n. [OE. litarge, F. litharge, L. lithargyrus, Gr. liqa`rgyros the scum or foam of silver; li`qos stone + 'a`rgyros 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.

||Li*thar"gy*rum (l*thär"j*rm), n. [NL. See Litharge.] (Old Chem.) ||Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow ||scales. || Lith"ate (lth"t), n. (Old Med. Chem.) A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate. [Obs.] [Written also lithiate.]

Lithe (l), v. t. & i. [Icel hlða. See Listen.] To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

Lithe, a. [AS. lðe, 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. Lenient.] 1. Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.]

2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. Milton.

Lithe, v. t. [AS. lðian. See Lithe, a.] To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]

Lithe"ly, adv. In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.

Lithe"ness, n. The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.

Li"ther (l"r), a. [AS. lðer bad, wicked.] Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not lither in business, fervent in spirit.

Bp. Woolton.

Professor Skeat thinks " the lither sky" as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. (Part I. IV. VII., 21) means the stagnant or pestilential sky.

-- Li"ther*ly, adv. [Obs.]. -- Li"ther*ness, n. [Obs.]

Li"ther*ly, a. Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.[Archaic]

He [the dwarf] was waspish, arch, and litherly.

Sir W. Scott.

Lithe"some (l"sm), a. [See Lithe, a., and cf. Lissom.] Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.

-- Lithe"some*ness, n.

Lith"i*a (lth"*), n. [NL., from Gr. li`qos stone.] (Chem.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium.

Lithia emerald. See Hiddenite.

||Li*thi"a*sis (l*th"*ss), n. [NL., fr. Gr. liqi`asis, fr. li`qos ||stone.] (Med.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any ||part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. ||Dunglison. || Lith"ic (lth"k), a. [Gr. liqiko`s of or belonging to stones, fr. li`qos stone: cf. F. lithique.] 1. Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.

2. (Med.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.

Lithic acid (Old Med. Chem.), uric acid. See Uric acid, under Uric.

lith"ic, n. (Med.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.

Lith"ic, a. [From Lithium.] (Chem.) Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds. Frankland.

Lith`i*oph"i*lite (lth`*f"*lt), n. [Lithium + Gr. fi`los friend.] (Min.) A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.