Part 6576

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Listing</h1> <Xpage=859>

<hw>List"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); <as>as, the <ex>listing</ex> of a door; the <ex>listing</ex> of a stock at the Stock Exchange.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The selvedge of cloth; list.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Carp.)</fld> <def>The sapwood cut from the edge of a board.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Agric.)</fld> <def>The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops.</def> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Listless</h1> <Xpage=859>

<hw>List"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>listles</ets>, <ets>lustles</ets>. See <er>Lust</er>.]</ety> <def>Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.</def> " A <i>listless</i> unconcern."

<i>Thomson.</i>

<blockquote>Benumbed with cold, and <b>listless</b> of their gain. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I was <b>listless</b>, and desponding. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested; languid; spiritless; supine; indolent.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>List"less*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>List"less*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Lit</h1> <Xpage=859>

<hw>Lit</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>, a form of the <i>imp. & p. p.</i> of <er>Light</er>.</def>

<h1>Litany</h1> <Xpage=859>

<hw>Lit"a*ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Litanies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[OE. <ets>letanie</ets>, OF. <ets>letanie</ets>, F. <ets>litanie</ets>, L. <ets>litania</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to pray, akin to <?/, <?/, to pray, <?/ prayer.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed <b>litanies</b>, and rogations of the Latin. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Litarge</h1> <Xpage=859>

<hw>Lit"arge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Litharge.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Litchi</h1> <Xpage=859>

<hw>Li"tchi`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The fruit of a tree native to China (<spn>Nephelium Litchi</spn>). 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.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>lichi</asp>, and <asp>lychee</asp>.]</altsp>

-- <wordforms><wf>lite</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>. See -<er>lith</er>.</wordforms>

<h1>Lite</h1> <Xpage=859>

<hw>Lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt>, <tt>adv., & n.</tt> <def>Little.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Liter, Litre</h1> <Xpage=859>