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Noun
  • ∙ A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  • ∙ Material used for cloth selvage.
  • ∙ The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments. in the plural
  • ∙ A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the enumeration or compilation itself. [1600]
  • ∙ A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially, in the LISP programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items. computing, programming
  • ∙ A limit or boundary; a border. obsolete
  • ∙ A stripe. obsolete
  • ∙ A little square moulding; a fillet or listel. architecture
  • ∙ A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board. carpentry
  • ∙ A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker. ropemaking
  • ∙ The first thin coating of tin. tin-plate manufacture
  • ∙ A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated. tin-plate manufacture
Verb
  • ∙ To create or recite a list.
  • ∙ To place in listings.
  • ∙ To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist. intransitive, obsolete
  • ∙ To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist. transitive, obsolete
  • ∙ To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat. transitive
  • ∙ To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
  • ∙ To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
  • ∙ To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of. carpentry
  • ∙ To plough and plant with a lister.
  • ∙ To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. US, Southern US
Noun
  • ∙ Art; craft; cunning; skill. archaic
Verb
  • ∙ To listen. intransitive, poetic
  • ∙ To listen to. transitive, poetic
Noun
  • ∙ A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power. nautical
  • ∙ A tilt to a building. architecture
Verb
  • ∙ To tilt to one side. nautical
  • ∙ To cause (something) to tilt to one side. nautical
Verb
  • ∙ To be pleasing to. archaic, transitive
  • ∙ To wish, like, desire (to do something). archaic
Noun
  • ∙ Inclination; desire. obsolete