list

1. 1

   A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

   • “Listen! I see it all — down, down even to the stays! Such stays! Six-eight a pair, Polly, with red flannel — or list is it? — that they put into the tops of those fearful things. I can draw you a picture of them.”
   • Why should we not send a message out over London which would attract to us anyone who might still be alive? I ran across, and pulling at the list-covered rope, I was surprised to find how difficult it was to swing the bell.
2. 2

   Material used for cloth selvage.

   • Previous to the offering up of prayer, however, the persons chosen for this office [of praying for the people] had divested themselves of their boots and put on list slippers, their hands being washed by "the descendants of Levi" at a basin
   • "How is it, then, that the woman who came into the room about nine left to traces with her muddy boots?" / "I am glad you raise the point. It occurred to me at the time. The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commis
3. 3

   A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

   • "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list. "Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?"
   • Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. […] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.
4. 4

   The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.historicalin-plural

   • On pain of death, no person be so bold Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists, Except the marshal and such officers Appointed to direct these fair designs.
   • With Truncheon tip'd with Iron head, / The Warrior to the Lists [he] led; […]
5. 5

   The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.historicalin-plural

   • The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off
6. 6

   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.

   • Lisp is an applicative language. This means that it is structured around applying functions (operations) to a linked list of arguments that accompany those functions. […] A function call or function definition is only coded in the syntax of
7. 7

   A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

   • STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, the liſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns.
8. 8

   A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.

9. 9

   A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

10. 10

    The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

syn. list

1. 1

   To create or recite a list.transitive

2. 2

   To place in listings.transitive

   • As the export market for tropical hardwoods expanded, timber from tropical rain forests very rapidly became the dominant or major forest product, dominant to such an extent that trade figures often do not even list the minor forest products
3. 3

   To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.transitive

4. 4

   To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.transitive

   • to list a door
5. 5

   To plough and plant with a lister.transitive

6. 6

   To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.Southern-UStransitive

7. 7

   To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.transitive

   • to list a board
8. 8

   To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.transitive

9. 9

   To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.obsoletetransitive

   • "I have a gun, madam," said little Julian, "and the park-keeper is to teach me how to fire it next year." / "I will list you for my soldier, then," said the Countess.
10. 10

    To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.intransitiveobsolete

1. 1

   Art; craft; cunning; skill.archaicuncountable

   • In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.
   • Sophos, fab[le] 40. "The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within."

syn. list

1. 1

   To listen.intransitivepoetic

   • 2 [Soldier] Peace, what noiſe? / 1 [Soldier] Liſt liſt. / 2 Hearke. / 1 Music i' th' Ayre.
   • We list to the trumpings that herald the storm, / To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
2. 2

   To listen to.poetictransitive

   • Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.

1. 1

   To desire, like, or wish (to do something).archaictransitive

   • who liſt to lyue yn quyetnes by me lett hym beware For I by highe dyſdayne ame made withoute redreſſe and vnkyndenes Alas hathe ſlayne my poore trew hart all comfortles
   • If thou beeſt a man, ſhew thy ſelfe in thy likeneſs. If thou beeſt a diuell, take't as thou liſt.
2. 2

   To be pleasing to.archaictransitive

   • Might then I depart, and dwell as listeth me, out of all the world?

1. 1

   Desire, inclination.obsolete

   • I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.

syn. list

1. 1

   A tilt to a building.

2. 2

   A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.

syn. list

1. 1

   To cause (something) to tilt to one side.transitive

   • The steady wind listed the ship.
2. 2

   To tilt to one side.intransitive

   • The ship listed to port.