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list 1  (lst)
n.
1. A series of names, words, or other items written, printed, or imagined one after the other: a shopping list; a guest list; a list of things to do.
2. A considerable number; a long series: recited a list of dates memorized.
v. list·ed, list·ing, lists
v.tr.
1. To make a list of; itemize: listed his previous jobs.
2. To enter in a list; register: listed each item received.
3. To put (oneself) in a specific category: lists herself as an artist.
4. Archaic To recruit.
v.intr.
1. To have a stated list price: a radio that lists for ten dollars over the sale price.
2. Archaic To enlist in the armed forces.

[French liste, from Old French, from Old Italian lista, of Germanic origin.]

lister n.

list 2  (lst)
n.
1.
a. A narrow strip, especially of wood.
b. Architecture See listel.
c. A border or selvage of cloth.
2. A stripe or band of color.
3.
a. An arena for jousting tournaments or other contests. Often used in the plural.
b. A place of combat.
c. An area of controversy.
4. A ridge thrown up between two furrows by a lister in plowing.
5. Obsolete A boundary; a border.
tr.v. list·ed, list·ing, lists
1. To cover, line, or edge with list.
2. To cut a thin strip from the edge of.
3. To furrow or plant (land) with a lister.

[Middle English, from Old English lste.]

list 3  (lst)
n.
An inclination to one side, as of a ship; a tilt.
intr. & tr.v. list·ed, list·ing, lists
To lean or cause to lean to the side: The damaged ship listed badly to starboard. Erosion first listed, then toppled the spruce tree.

[Origin unknown.]

list 4  (lst)
intr. & tr.v. list·ed, list·ing, lists Archaic
To listen or listen to.

[Middle English listen, from Old English hlystan; see kleu- in Indo-European roots.]

list 5  (lst) Archaic
v. list·ed, list·ing, lists
v.tr.
To be pleasing to; suit.
v.intr.
To be disposed; choose.
n.
A desire or an inclination.

[Middle English listen, to desire, please, from Old English lystan; see las- in Indo-European roots.]

lists [lɪsts]
pl n
1. (Historical Terms) History
a.  the enclosed field of combat at a tournament
b.  the barriers enclosing the field at a tournament
2. any arena or scene of conflict, controversy, etc.
enter the lists to engage in a conflict, controversy, etc.
[plural of list2 (border, boundary)]
Translations
lists [lɪsts] NPL (Hist) → liza f
to enter the lists (against sth/sb) (fig) → salir or saltar a la palestra(contra algo/algn)
lists
pl (Hist) → Schranken pl; to enter the lists (fig)in die Schranken treten (liter), → zum Kampf antreten; he entered the lists after the first balloter trat nach dem ersten Wahlgang in den Wahlkampf ein
lists [lɪsts] npl (History) → lizza
to enter the lists (against sb/sth) (fig) → entrare in lizza (contro qn/qc)
lists [lɪsts] npl (History) → lizza
to enter the lists (against sb/sth) (fig) → entrare in lizza (contro qn/qc)


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That, the evidence of these two witnesses, coupled with the documents of their discovering that would be produced, would show the prisoner to have been furnished with lists of his Majesty's forces, and of their disposition and preparation, both by sea and land, and would leave no doubt that he had habitually conveyed such information to a hostile power.
If the States are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support; if they are divided into several confederacies, there will be as many different national civil lists to be provided for -- and each of them, as to the principal departments, coextensive with that which would be necessary for a government of the whole.
These qualities, it is true, are those pre-eminently of the "Works and Days": the literary values of the "Theogony" are of a more technical character, skill in ordering and disposing long lists of names, sure judgment in seasoning a monotonous subject with marvellous incidents or episodes, and no mean imagination in depicting the awful, as is shown in the description of Tartarus (ll.
 
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