Chapter 89

Li"on-heart`ed (-härt`d), a. Very brave; brave and magnanimous. Sir W. Scott.

Li"on*hood (-hd), n. State of being a lion. Carlyle.

Li"on*ism (-z'm), n. An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.

Li"on*ize (-z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lionized (-zd), p. pr. & vb. n. Lionizing (- `zng).] 1. To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest. J. D. Forbes.

2. To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest. Macaulay.

Li"on*like` (-lk`), a. Like a lion; brave as a lion.

Li"on*ly, a. Like a lion; fierce. [Obs.] Milton.

Li"on's ear` (l"nz r`). (Bot.) A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

Li"on's foot` (ft`). (Bot.) (a) A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States. (b) The edelweiss.

Li"on*ship (l"n*shp), n. The state of being a lion.

Li"on's leaf` (l"nz lf`). (Bot.) A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.

Li"on's tail` (tl`). (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Li"on's tooth` (tth`); pl. Lions' teeth (tth`). (Bot.) See Leontodon.

Lip (lp), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. læbe, Sw. läpp, L. labium, labrum. Cf. Labial.] 1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

Thine own lips testify against thee.

Job xv. 6.

2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

4. (Bot.) (a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

5. (Zoöl.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger. -- Lip comfort, comfort that is given with words only. -- Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. -- Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. Bale. -- Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one speaking by watching the motion of his lips without hearing his voice. Carpenter. -- Lip salve, a salve for sore lips. -- Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such sentiments. -- Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by experience. -- Lip work. (a) Talk. (b) Kissing. [Humorous] B. Jonson. -- To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Shak. -- To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by protruding the lip.

Lip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lipped (lpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lipping (-png).] 1. To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

The bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass.

Praed.

A hand that kings Have lipped and trembled kissing.

Shak.

2. To utter; to speak. [R.] Keats.

Lip, v. t. To clip; to trim. [Obs.] Holland.

||Li*pæ"mi*a (l*p"m*), n. [NL., fr. Gr. li`pos fat + a"i^ma blood.] ||(Med.) A condition in which fat occurs in the blood. || Li*pans" (l*pänz"), n. pl.; sing. Lipan (-pän"). (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting the northern part of Mexico. They belong to the Tinneh stock, and are closely related to the Apaches.

Li*pa"ri*an (l*p"r*an), n. (Zoöl.) Any species of a family (Liparidæ) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.

Lip"a*rite (lp"*rt), n. [So called from Lipari, the island.] (Min.) A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.

Lip"ic (lp"k), a. [Gr. li`pos fat.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc.

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Li*pin"ic (l*pn"k), a. (Chem.) Lipic.

Lip"less (lp"ls), a. Having no lips.

Lip"let (-lt), n. A little lip.

||Lip`o*ceph"a*la (lp`*sf"*l), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. lei`pesqai to be ||lacking + kefalh` head.] (Zoöl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. || Lip"o*chrin (lp"*krn), n. [Gr. li`pos fat + chro`a color.] (Physiol. Chem.) A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best obtained from the eyes of frogs.

Lip"o*gram (lp"*grm; 277), n. [Gr. lei`pein, lipei^n, to leave, omit + -gram.] A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.

Lip`o*gram*mat"ic (-mt"k), a. [Gr. lipogra`mmatos: cf. F. lipogrammatique.] Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.

Lip`o*gram"ma*tist (-grm"m*tst), n. [Cf. F. lipogrammatiste.] One who makes a lipogram.

||Li*po"ma (l*p"m), n. [NL., from Gr. li`pos fat + - oma.] (Med.) A ||tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue. -- Li*pom"a*tous (- ||pm"*ts), a. || Li`po*thym"ic (l`p*thm"k), a. [Gr. leipoqymiko`s, lipoqymiko`s.] Tending to swoon; fainting. [Written also leipothymic.]

Li*poth"y*mous (l*pth"*ms), a. [Gr. lei`pein to leave, to lack + qymo`s soul, life.] Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting.

Li*poth"y*my (-m), n. [Gr. lipoqymi`a: cf. F. lipothymie.] A fainting; a swoon. Jer. Taylor.

Lipped (lpt), a. 1. Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.

2. (Bot.) Labiate.

Lip"pi*tude (lp"p*td), n. [L. lippitudo, fr. lippus blear- eyed: cf. F. lippitude.] Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyed; blearedness.

Lipse (lps), v. i. To lisp. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lip"yl (lp"l), n. [Gr. li`pos fat + -yl.] (Chem.) A hypothetical radical of glycerin. [Obs.] Berzelius.

Liq"ua*ble (lk"w*b'l), a. [L. liquabilis. See Liquate, v. i.] Capable of being melted.

Li"quate (l"kwt), v. i. [L. liquatus, p. p. of liquare to melt.] To melt; to become liquid. [Obs.] Woodward.

Li"quate, v. t. (Metal.) To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.

Li*qua"tion (l*kw"shn), n. [L. liquatio: cf. F. liquation.] 1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.

2. (Metal.) The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.

Liq`ue*fa"cient (lk`w*f"shent), n. [L. liquefaciens, p. pr. of liquefacere. See Liquefy.] 1. That which serves to liquefy.

2. (Med.) An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.

Liq`ue*fac"tion (-fk"shn), n. [L. liquefactio: cf. F. liquéfaction. See Liquefy.] 1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

2. The state of being liquid.

3. (Chem. Physics) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.

Liq"ue*fi`a*ble (lk"w*f`*b'l), a. [Cf. F. liquéfiable. See Liquefy.] Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.

Liq"ue*fi`er (-r), n. That which liquefies.

Liq"ue*fy (-f), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquefied (-fd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquefying (- f`ng).] [F. liquéfier, L. liquere to be liquid + facere, -ficare (in comp.), to make. See Liquid, and -fy.] To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

Liq"ue*fy, v. i. To become liquid.

Li*ques"cen*cy (l*kws"sen*s), n. [See Liquescent.] The quality or state of being liquescent. Johnson.

Li*ques"cent (-sent), a. [L. liquescens, p. pr. of liquescere to become liquid, incho. fr. liquere to be liquid.] Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.

||Li`queur" (l`kr"), n. [F. See Liquor.] An aromatic alcoholic cordial. || Some liqueurs are prepared by infusing certain woods, fruits, or flowers, in either water or alcohol, and adding sugar, etc. Others are distilled from aromatic or flavoring agents.

Liq"uid (lk"wd), a. [L. liquidus, fr. liquere to be fluid or liquid; cf. Skr. r to ooze, drop, l to melt.]

1. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

Yea, though he go upon the plane and liquid water which will receive no step.

Tyndale.

2. (Physics) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aëriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.

3. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. "Liquid melody." Crashaw.

4. Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.

5. Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.

6. Clear; definite in terms or amount.[Obs.] "Though the debt should be entirely liquid." Ayliffe.

Liquid glass. See Soluble glass, under Glass.

Liq"uid, n. 1. A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aëriform.

Liquid and fluid are terms often used synonymously, but fluid has the broader signification. All liquids are fluids, but many fluids, as air and the gases, are not liquids.

2. (Phon.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.

Liquid measure, a measure, or system of measuring, for liquids, by the gallon, quart, pint, gill, etc.

Liq"uid*am`bar (lk"wd*m`br), n. [Liquid + amber.] 1. (Bot.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star- shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.

2. The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.

Liq"uid*am`ber, n. See Liquidambar.

Liq"ui*date (lk"w*dt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquidated (- d`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquidating.] [LL. liquidatus, p. p. of liquidare to liquidate, fr. L. liquidus liquid, clear. See Liquid.] 1. (Law) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.

A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.

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If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor.

Chesterfield.

2. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness). Abbott.

3. To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.

Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.

W. Coxe.

4. To make clear and intelligible.

Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.

A. Hamilton.

5. To make liquid. [Obs.]

Liquidated damages (Law), damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained. Abbott.

Liq`ui*da"tion (lk`w*d"shn), n. [Cf. F. liquidation.] The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.

To go into liquidation (Law), to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness may be authoritatively ascertained, and that the assets may be applied toward their discharge.

Liq"ui*da`tor (lk"w*d`tr), n. [Cf. F. liquidateur.]

1. One who, or that which, liquidates.

2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

Li*quid"i*ty (l*kwd"*t), n. [L. liquiditas, fr. liquidus liquid: cf. F. liquidité.] The state or quality of being liquid.

Liq"uid*ize (lk"wd*z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquidized (- zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquidizing (- `zng).] To render liquid.

Liq"uid*ly, adv. In a liquid manner; flowingly.

Liq"uid*ness, n. The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

Liq"uor (lk"r), n. [OE. licour, licur, OF. licur, F. liqueur, fr. L. liquor, fr. liquere to be liquid. See Liquid, and cf. Liqueur.] 1. Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.

2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

3. (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.

The U. S. Pharmacopœia includes, in this class of preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aquæ or waters. U. S. Disp.

Labarraque's liquor (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant. -- Liquor of flints, or Liquor silicum (Old Chem.), soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass. -- Liquor of Libavius. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming. -- Liquor sanguinis (sn"gwn*s) (Physiol.), the blood plasma. -- Liquor thief, a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole. -- To be in liquor, to be intoxicated.

Liq"uor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored (-rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring.] 1. To supply with liquor. [R.]

2. To grease. [Obs.] Bacon.

Liquor fishermen's boots.

Shak.

Liq"uor*ice (lk"r*s), n. See Licorice.

Liq"uor*ish, a. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Shak.

Liq"uor*ous (-s), a. Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Marston.

||Li"ra (l"r), n.; pl. Lire (-r). [It., fr. L. libra the Roman pound. ||Cf. Livre.] An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc. || ||Li*rel"la (l*rl"l), n. [NL., dim. of L. lira a furrow.] (Bot.) A ||linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain ||lichens. || Li*rel"li*form (-l*fôrm), a. [Lirella + -form.] (Bot.) Like a lirella. [Written also lirellæform.]

||Lir`i*o*den"dron (lr`**dn"drn), n.; pl. Liriodendra (- dr). [NL., fr. ||Gr. lei`rion lily + de`ndron tree.] (Bot.) A genus of large and very ||beautiful trees of North America, having smooth, shining leaves, and ||handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also ||canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but ||there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch. || Lir"i*pipe (lr"*pp), n. [Obs.] See Liripoop.

Lir"i*poop (lr"*pp), n. [OF. liripipion, liripion, LL. liripipium. Said to be corrupted from L. cleri ephippium, lit., the clergy's caparison.]

1. A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc. [Obs.]

2. Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem. [Obs.] Stanihurst.

3. A silly person. [Obs.]

A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard.

Milles. MS. Devon Gloss.

Li*roc"o*nite (l*rk"*nt), n. [Gr. leiro`s pale + koni`a powder.] (Min.) A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.

Lis"bon (lz"bn), n. A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.

Lisle (ll), n. A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.

Lisle glove, a fine summer glove, made of Lisle thread. -- Lisle lace, a fine handmade lace, made at Lisle. -- Lisle thread, a hard twisted cotton thread, originally produced at Lisle.

Lisne (ln), n. [Prov. E. lissen, lisne, a cleft in a rock.] A cavity or hollow.[Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Lisp (lsp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lisped (lspt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lisping.] [OE. lispen, lipsen, AS. wlisp stammering, lisping; akin to D. & OHG. lispen to lisp, G. lispeln, Sw. läspa, Dan. lespe.] 1. To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.

2. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.

Pope.

3. To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.

Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.

Drayton.

Lisp, v. t. 1. To pronounce with a lisp.

2. To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.

To speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp the words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again.

Tyndale.

3. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.

Lisp, n. The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.

I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, "O! Strephon, you are a dangerous creature."

Tatler.

Lisp"er (-r), n. One who lisps.

Lisp"ing*ly, adv. With a lisp; in a lisping manner.

Liss (ls), n. [AS. liss.] Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] "Of penance had a lisse." Chaucer.

Liss, v. t. [AS. lissan.] To free, as from care or pain; to relieve. [Obs.] "Lissed of his care." Chaucer.

||Lis`sen*ceph"a*la (ls`sn*sf"*l), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. lisso`s smooth ||+ 'egke`falos the brain.] (Zoöl.) A general name for all those ||placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral ||convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. || { Lis"som, Lis"some } (ls"sm), a. [For lithesome.] 1. Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.

Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand.

Tennyson.

2. Light; nimble; active. Halliwell.

-- Lis"some*ness, n.

List (lst), n. [F. lice, LL. liciae, pl., from L. licium thread, girdle.] A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. Chaucer.

In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.

Pope.

To enter the lists, to accept a challenge, or engage in contest.

List, v. t. To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.

List, v. i. [See Listen.] To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.]

Stand close, and list to him.

Shak.

List, v. t. To listen or hearken to.

Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs.

Shak.

List, v. i. [OE. listen, lusten, AS. lystan, from lust pleasure. See Lust.] 1. To desire or choose; to please.

The wind bloweth where it listeth.

John iii. 8.

Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth.

Hooker.

Let other men think of your devices as they list.

Whitgift.

2. (Naut.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.

List, n. 1. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. (Naut.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.

List, n. [AS. lst a list of cloth; akin to D. lijst, G. leiste, OHG. lsta, Icel. lista, listi, Sw. list, Dan. liste. In sense 5 from F. liste, of German origin, and thus ultimately the same word.] 1. A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet. "Gartered with a red and blue list. " Shak.

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2. A limit or boundary; a border.

The very list, the very utmost bound, Of all our fortunes.

Shak.

3. The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] Chaucer.

4. A stripe. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

5. A roll or catalogue, that is, a row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.

He was the ablest emperor of all the list.

Bacon.

6. (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.

7. (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

8. (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.

9. (Tin-plate Manuf.) (a) The first thin coat of tin. (b) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

Civil list (Great Britain & U.S.), the civil officers of government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc. Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers. More recently, the civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the reigning monarch's household. -- Free list. (a) A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty. (b) A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.

Syn. -- Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule. -- List, Roll, Catalogue, Register, Inventory, Schedule. A list is properly a simple series of names, etc., in a brief form, such as might naturally be entered in a narrow strip of paper. A roll was originally a list containing the names of persons belonging to a public body (as Parliament, etc.), which was rolled up and laid aside among its archives. A catalogue is a list of persons or things arranged in order, and usually containing some description of the same, more or less extended. A register is designed for record or preservation. An inventory is a list of articles, found on hand in a store of goods, or in the estate of a deceased person, or under similar circumstances. A schedule is a formal list or inventory prepared for legal or business purposes.

List (lst), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Listed; p. pr. & vb. n. Listing.] [From list a roll.] 1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border. Sir H. Wotton.

2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.

The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.

Tennyson.

3. To enroll; to place or register in a list.

Listed among the upper serving men.

Milton.

4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.

I will list you for my soldier.

Sir W. Scott.

5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.

To list a stock (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of stocks called at the meeting of the board.

List, v. i. To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

List"el (ls"tl), n. [F. listel, dim. of liste fillet, list. See List the edge.] (Arch.) Same as List, n., 6.

Lis"ten (ls"'n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Listened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Listening.] [OE. listnen, listen, lustnen, lusten, AS. hlystan; akin to hlyst hearing, OS. hlust, Icel. hlusta to listen, hlust ear, AS. hlosnian to wait in suspense, OHG. hlosn to listen, Gr. kly`ein, and E. loud. &radic;41. See Loud, and cf. List to listen.] 1. To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.

When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to some sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary tension.

Holder.

2. To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.

Listen to me, and by me be ruled.

Tennyson.

To listen after, to take an interest in. [Obs.]

Soldiers note forts, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors.

Fuller.

Syn. -- To attend; hearken. See Attend.

Lis"ten, v. t. To attend to. [Obs.] Shak.

Lis"ten*er (-r), n. One who listens; a hearkener.