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▪ I. ˈlitten, n. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 líc-tún, 5 lytton(e, letton, 6 lyttyn, 7 litton, 6– litten.
[OE. líc-tún, f. líc corpse, lich + tún enclosure, town.]
A churchyard. (Cf. church-litten.)
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xvii. (Schipper) 268 His lichama..wæs..on þæra broþra lictune bebyriᵹed. c1420Chron. Vilod. 4087 Bot when he come in to þat chirche-lyttone þo, Twey wemen he founde þere. 1474–5in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 18 It. of the gift of the Bochers for grounds to her Stallys with oute the letton ijs. Ibid. 20 It' in cleansyng of the Lytton xjd. 1506Will of Leer (Somerset Ho.), To be buried in the cloister or in the lyttyn of the Trynite. 1595in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 145 The wale against the litten. 1614–15Ibid. 165 Masonn mendinge the Church litton wale, 5s. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Litten, as Church-litten; a word us'd in Wiltshire for a Church-yard. 1798J. Jefferson Hampsh. Gloss. (MS.) s.v., The buryg. ground at Holy Ghost Chapel at B'stoke is called the Litten. It is used also at Newbury in Berks. 1818in Todd; and in mod. Dicts.
▪ II. litten, ppl. a.|lɪt(ə)n|
[pseudo-archaic pple. of light v.2]
= lighted. Usually in comb., e.g. dim-, gray-, red-litten.
a1849Poe Haunted Palace vi, And travellers now within that valley, Through red-litten windows, see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody. 1861Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 72 And ‘salvum me fac Domine’ they sung Sonorous, in the ghostly going out Of the red-litten eve along the land. 1870Morris Earthly Par. iii. 9 After the weary tossing of the night And close dim-litten chamber. 1896Crockett Cleg Kelly 407 Sal Kavannah moved into the gray-litten space. 1899Blackw. Mag. Feb. 319/1 It [yellow hair] sprayed out like a cloud of litten gold.
▪ III. † ˈlitten, v.1 Obs.
Also 2 litnien, 3 Orm. littnenn.
[? Extended form (with suffix -en5) of ON. lita = OE. wlitan to look.]
intr. To look to, unto. Also const. for to with inf.: to rely on.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 7 Forþi ne litmie [? read litnie] namon to swiðe to þisse liue. c1200Ormin 6115 Þet birrþ wislike nittenn Uppo þe sellfenn, and o þa þatt I ttnenn to þin fode. a1300Cursor M. 10209 Child for to gett þai littend lang. 1535Coverdale Jer. xlvi. 25 Pharao, and all them yt litten vnto him.
▪ IV. † ˈlitten, v.2 Obs.
[? f. lit lite: see -en5.]
trans. To diminish.
c1300Havelok 2701 Hwan Hauelok saw his folk so brittene, And his ferd so swithe littene, He cam driuende upon a stede. |