Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A limb; any member of the body; also, a joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division: as, sound in lith and limb; a lith of an orange.
- noun Property.
- A Middle English variant of
light. Chaucer . - noun An abbreviation of Lithuanian;
- noun of lithograph and lithography.
- An element in some compounds of Greek formation, meaning ‘stone,’ as in acrolith, monolith, etc. In many names of minerals it occurs in the form -lite (which see).
- An obsolete variant of
lieth , third person singular indicative present of lie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 3d pers. sing. pres. of
lie , to recline, forlieth . - noun A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
gate ; agap in afence . - noun
Owndom ;property . - noun A
limb ; anymember of thebody . - noun A
joint ; asegment orsymmetrical part ordivision . - noun Scotland A
segment of anorange , or similar fruit.
Etymologies
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And the lithprints [a photographic print developed in lith developer that was baptised by Anton a lithprint.
Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn Liliana Rodrigues 2010
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And the lithprints [a photographic print developed in lith developer that was baptised by Anton a lithprint.
Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn Liliana Rodrigues 2010
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And the lithprints [a photographic print developed in lith developer that was baptised by Anton a lithprint.
Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn Liliana Rodrigues 2010
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Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology."
Geological Definition of the Day (#3) ReBecca Foster 2008
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Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology."
Archive 2008-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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Foundries have for the past four and a half centuries thrived through further advances, such as lithography in the 19th century, the invention of the typewriter and again adapted with the rising popularity of the personal computer in the 1980s.
KLEPAS.ORG 2008
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Foundries have for the past four and a half centuries thrived through further advances, such as lithography in the 19th century, the invention of the typewriter and again adapted with the rising popularity of the personal computer in the 1980s.
KLEPAS.ORG 2008
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The poor quality of the images (especially when compared to the much more refined images of well-known Great Leaders such as the monumental Xotz-lith of Xeon), might just indicate chance erosion.
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Blaste rays of lith same to sun shine reflecting to every starfield spaces, empire fleets were falling down.
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Heart and courage is nothing to them, lith and limb everything: give them animal strength, what are they better than furious bulls; take that away, and your hero of chivalry lies grovelling like the brute when he is hamstrung.
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