Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lithe"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lithe \Lithe\, v. i. & i. [Icel ?. See {Listen}.]
To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lithe \Lithe\, a. [AS. ?, for ? 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. ?. See {Lithe}, a.]
To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lithe
adj : gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: {lissome},
{lissom}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {svelte},
{sylphlike}]
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