Lithe

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lithe \Lithe\ (l[imac][th]), v. t. & i. [Icel hl[=y][eth]a. See
     {Listen}.]
     To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Lithe \Lithe\, a. [AS. l[imac][eth]e, for lin[eth]e 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.]
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     2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber;
        as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. --Milton.
  
     Syn: lithesome.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. l[imac][eth]ian. See {Lithe}, a.]
     To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lithe
       adj : gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: {lissome},
              {lissom}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {svelte},
             {sylphlike}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "lithe":
     adaptable, bendable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic,
     extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible,
     flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible,
     impressionable, lean, like putty, limber, lissome, lithesome,
     malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive,
     responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, slender, slight, slim,
     spare, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, thin, tractable,
     tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  LITHE
       
          Object-oriented with extensible syntax.
       
          "LITHE: A Language Combining a Flexible Syntax and Classes",
          D. Sandberg, Conf Rec 9th Ann ACM Sym POPL, ACM 1982,
          pp.142-145.