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▪ I. ‖ lisse, n.1|liːs|
[F. lisse smooth (in crêpe lisse smooth crape).]
A kind of silk gauze.
1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xiii. 113 The snowy lisse crape cap. 1864Daily Tel. 11 Mar., A long white crape lisse veil. 1879Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Ind. Househ. Managem. 18 Lisse, if you go to a hot station [in India], would be almost useless. 1884Cassell's Fam. Mag. Feb. 184/2 Edge it with lace plaiting or lisse frilling.
▪ II. ‖ lisse, n.2 Weaving.|liːs|
[a. F. lisse, lice (cf. with quot. F. haute lice).]
= lease n.4 2, 3. Also see quots. 1878, 1885.
1782Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) IX. 6711/1 [Parts of a ribbon-loom] 6 The high-lisses, or lists, are a number of long threads, with platines, or plate-leads, at the bottom [etc.]. 1878De Champeaux Tapestry Introd., [Explains the ‘lisses’ to be the two cylinders of which the loom consists]. 1885E. Müntz Tapestry xvi. 358 Rings of small cord called ‘lices’ or ‘lisses’, are fastened to each thread of the front cloth.
▪ III. † lisse, v. Obs. (? exc. Sc.)
Also 4 les, 4–5 lis, lys, 4–6 lysse.
[OE. líssian:—pre-Eng. *linþisôjan, f. *linþjo- soft, mild: see lithe a.]
1. trans. To subdue (only OE.); to mitigate, assuage, relieve (pain, etc.).
a1000Sal. & Sat. 294 (Gr.) Yldo beoþ on eorþan æᵹhwæs cræftiᵹ..lisseþ [? for lissað] eal ðæt heo wile. c1320R. Brunne Medit. 702, Y prey þe sumdele hys peyne þou lys. c1350Will. Palerne 848 Forto lissen his langour. c1470Golagros & Gaw. 173 Hym likis in land your langour to lis. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 113 Such compositiones as stanche or lysse ake.
2. To relieve (of pain, etc.); to comfort.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 702 Lat vs lyssen wo with oþer speche. Ibid. i. 1082 Troylus..is somdel of akynge of his wounde Ilyssed. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxviii. (Adrian) 117 As for to les þame of þar payne. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 442 In hope for to been lissed of his care. c1440Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 245/45 This leche lyssyd me, lazars. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 31 Son, open thyn hert for peraventure y cowd the lis. c1470Harding Chron. xciv. ii, In water [he] was cast, his fleshe to keele and lisse. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 352 b/1 That..they may be eased and lyssed of theyr paynes.
3. intr. To abate, cease, stop; to be relieved of.
c1400Rom. Rose 3758 Than of my peyne I gan to lisse. Ibid. 4128, I trowe my peyne shall never lisse. 1825–80Jamieson, To Liss, to cease, to stop. It never lisses, it never ceases, Roxb.
Hence † ˈlissing vbl. n.
a1412Lydg. Two Merchants 641 Which in to lissyng his langour did leede. |