1.
[syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. l[imac][eth]ian. See Lithe, a.]
To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lithe
adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom,
lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte,
sylphlike]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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.