Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dyer.

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  • noun archaic, UK, Scotland A dyer.

Etymologies

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From Middle English litestere, from liten ("to dye") + -stere (see -ster).

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Examples

  • Eng. litster, a dyer, a word of Scandinavian origin, comes Lister, as in

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • Spinster is the only one of all her various womanly titles that survives; webster, shepster, litster, brewster, and baxter are obsolete.

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • The limp-wristed litster is kind of trying here to identify with America's 240 year history of owning guns for self defense, protecting the nation, and hunting, but his 40 years of socialist indoctrination, or his check writng benefactors don't see it.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local citizen76 2010

  • The limp-wristed litster is kind of trying here to identify with America's 240 year history of owning guns for self defense, protecting the nation, and hunting, but his 40 years of socialist indoctrination, or his check writng benefactors don't see it.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local poindexter 2010

  • The limp-wristed litster is kind of trying here to identify with America's 240 year history of owning guns for self defense, protecting the nation, and hunting, but his 40 years of socialist indoctrination, or his check writng benefactors don't see it.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local citizen76 2010

  • The limp-wristed litster is kind of trying here to identify with America's 240 year history of owning guns for self defense, protecting the nation, and hunting, but his 40 years of socialist indoctrination, or his check writng benefactors don't see it.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local citizen76 2010

  • The limp-wristed litster is kind of trying here to identify with America's 240 year history of owning guns for self defense, protecting the nation, and hunting, but his 40 years of socialist indoctrination, or his check writng benefactors don't see it.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local USAliberty4evr 2010

  • Ranking the ranting = Style points = 20% -- litster has never had too much on the ball, so this is like kicking a guy who starts a fight and then lays on the ground curled up in a defensive ball -- information = 20% -- nothing new here, mostly dem party dogma -

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local bellle 2010

  • The limp-wristed litster is kind of trying here to identify with America's 240 year history of owning guns for self defense, protecting the nation, and hunting, but his 40 years of socialist indoctrination, or his check writng benefactors don't see it.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local XipeTotec 2010

  • Interpretation = 20%/30% -- litster is welcome to his spin on a manufactured article, he is supposedly an American citizen, but I always wonder if this is worth the Post paying him a salary for -- just not enough impact to create any positive energy in support of his party position.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local bellle 2010

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