Meaning of LITHE
| Pronunciation: | | lIdh
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| | Definition: | | [adj] gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease |
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| | Synonyms: | | graceful, lissom, lissome, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Lithe\, v. i. & i. [Icel ?. See {Listen}.]
To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
\Lithe\, a. [AS. ?, for ? 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.]
2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber;
as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. --Milton.
\Lithe\, v. t. [AS. ?. See {Lithe}, a.]
To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
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| | Definition: | | 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. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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