lithe

6 definitions found

lithe - 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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  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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  Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. l[imac][eth]ian. See Lithe, a.]
     To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
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lithe - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lithe
      adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom,
             lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte,
             sylphlike]

lithe - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  

lithe - 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