Hypertext Webster Gateway: "list"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

List \List\, v. t.
To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

List \List\, v. i. [See {Listen}.]
To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.]

Stand close, and list to him. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

List \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

List \List\, n.
1. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

2. (Naut.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a
list to starboard.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

List \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

List \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

List \List\, v. i.
To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to
enlist.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

list
n 1: a database containing an ordered array of items (names or
topics) [syn: {listing}]
2: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs
from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the
ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a
heavy inclination to the right" [syn: {tilt}, {inclination},
{lean}, {leaning}]
v 1: give or make a list of; name individually; give the names
of; "List the states west of the Mississippi" [syn: {name}]
2: include in a list; "Am I listed in your register?"
3: enumerate; "We must number the names of the great
mathematicians" [syn: {number}]
4: lean over to one side; used frequently of ships


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