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List
List List, v. t.
To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
ListList List, v. i. [See Listen.]
To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.]
Stand close, and list to him. --Shak. List
List List, v. t.
To listen or hearken to.
Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain, If with
too credent ear you list his songs. --Shak.
ListList List, v. i. [OE. listen, lusten, AS. lystan, from lust
pleasure. See Lust.]
1. To desire or choose; to please.
The wind bloweth where it listeth. --John iii. 8.
Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth.
--Hooker.
Let other men think of your devices as they list.
--Whitgift.
2. (Naut.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port. List
List List, n.
1. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. (Naut.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a
list to starboard.
List
List List, n. [AS. l[=i]st a list of cloth; akin to D. lijst,
G. leiste, OHG. l[=i]sta, Icel. lista, listi, Sw. list, Dan.
liste. In sense 5 from F. liste, of German origin, and thus
ultimately the same word.]
1. A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth,
particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it;
hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet. ``Gartered with a red
and blue list. ' --Shak.
ListList List (l[i^]st), n. [F. lice, LL. liciae, pl., from L.
licium thread, girdle.]
A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of
ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the
ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. --Chaucer.
In measured lists to toss the weighty lance. --Pope.
To enter the lists, to accept a challenge, or engage in
contest. ListList List, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Listed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Listing.] [From list a roll.]
1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show
of colors, or form a border. --Sir H. Wotton.
2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list
on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.
--Tennyson.
3. To enroll; to place or register in a list.
Listed among the upper serving men. --Milton.
4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
I will list you for my soldier. --Sir W.
Scott.
5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from
the edge of; as, to list a board.
To list a stock (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of
stocks called at the meeting of the board. List
List List, v. t.
1. To plow and plant with a lister.
2. In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by
making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. [Southern
U. S.]
Meaning of Lists from wikipedia
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