† listn.1
Obsolete.
1. Hearing; the sense of hearing. to have or give a list: to give ear, be attentive, keep silence.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > faculty or sense of hearing
earOE
listc1000
heartha1325
listenc1400
audition1599
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (intransitive)] > listen
listenc950
hearkena1000
listc1000
lithea1225
yliþea1300
intendc1380
hear1382
to have or give a lista1400
to give audience (to)c1405
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 550 Ða fif andgitu ure lichaman, ðæt is gesihþ and hylst, swæcc and stenc and hrepung.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 40 Gif [mon] yfelne hlyst hæbbe.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 75 Hore lust hore loking hore blawing hore smelling heore feling wes al iattret.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 61 Gif he binimeð us ure sihte oðer ure liste.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5775 Mi fader Caredoc makede lust & þus spæc.
c1330 Assump. Virg. (B.M. MS.) 2 Sitteþ stille & haueþ lyst.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. xxi. 238 Thyckenes of luste and of herynge.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13708 All þai gaf him list ilkan.
a1400 Octouian 60 Fele of hem casted a cry..That noon of hem that sytte hym by May haue no lest.
2. The ear. (But cf. list n.3 1b.)
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun]
earOE
listc1380
sousea1658
concha1683
auricula1691
wattle1699
listener1821
conch1831
earhole1843
tab1866
auricle1874
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1900 With ys hond a wolde þe ȝyue a such on on þe luste þat al þy breyn scholde clyue al aboute ys fuste.
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 634 He smoot me ones on the list.
?1516 T. More Mery Gest And with his fyste, Upon the lyste, he gaue hym suche a blowe That [etc.].
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† listn.2
Obsolete.
Art, craft, cunning. Also phr. by or with list.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill or art
listOE
craftOE
artc1300
castc1320
misterc1390
mystery1610
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun]
listOE
wiþercraftc1175
wilta1230
craftc1275
sleightc1275
engine?a1300
quaintisec1300
vaidiec1325
wilec1374
cautelc1375
sophistryc1385
quaintnessc1390
voisdie1390
havilon?a1400
foxeryc1400
subtletyc1400
undercraftc1400
practic?a1439
callidityc1450
policec1450
wilinessc1450
craftiness1484
gin1543
cautility1554
cunning1582
cautelousness1584
panurgy1586
policy1587
foxshipa1616
cunningnessa1625
subdolousness1635
dexterity1656
insidiousnessa1677
versuteness1685
pawkiness1687
sleight-hand1792
pawkery1820
vulpinism1851
downiness1865
foxiness1875
slimness1899
slypussness1908
OE Crist III 1318 Ne þæt ænig mæg oþrum gesecgan mid hu micle elne æghwylc wille þurh ealle list lifes tiligan.
OE Genesis 588 Lædde hie swa mid ligenum and mid listum speon idese on þæt unriht.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1527 Swa þe cnotte is icnut..þæt ne mei hit liste ne luðer strengðe nowðer..leowsin.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 172 Ich wolde biȝte bet mid liste, Than thu mid al thine strengthe.
a1275 Prov. Ælfred 638 in Old Eng. Misc. 136 Of him þu miȝt leren listes and fele þeues.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8590 Betere is liste [c1300 Otho sleahþe] þene ufel strenðe.
a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 2046 This was a dede of queint list.
c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 42 We ben bigilid alle wiþ oure lyst.
c1480 (a1400) St. Bartholomew 322 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 189 He crucifyt wes fyrste, & [syne] his skyne of flayne with lyste.
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listn.3
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ I. Border, edging, strip.† 1. † b. Applied to the lobe of the ear. Obsolete. [Compare German ohrleiste , which, however, means the ‘helix’ of the ear; also list n.1 2]
a. gen. A border, hem, bordering strip. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border
lista700
edge1502
borderc1540
verge1573
skirt1576
brim?1610
limb1644
edging1684
bordure1691
bordage1860
bordering1862
rimming1868
skirting1872
a700 Epinal Gloss. 583 Lembum, listan vel thres.
c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 464 His targe wiþ gold list He carf atvo.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1761 Þe myst dryues Þorȝ þe lyst of þe lyfte, bi þe loȝ medoes.
1433 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 49 Unam tuellam de twill, cum nigris lystez.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 48 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 151 Þai stryfe wald, quha mycht fyrst of his kirtil myght nycht þe liste.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. Prol. 38 The nycht furthspred hyr cloke with sabill lyst.
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iv. f. 12v In the very farthest part and list of Europe, bordering vpon Asia.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xx. 35 [They] haue thought it better to let them [sc. the books of the Apocrypha] stand as a list or marginall border vnto the olde Testament.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. vi. 15 Trachonitis, the coursest list, and most craggy ground about the countrey of Judea.
1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 96 The water begins first to congeal at the top round the edges, and from that List of Ice shoots several small Threads to the middle.
1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxv. 11) 485 A Border or List of Gold went round at the top of it.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun] > flap or lobe
lapc1000
ear-lapOE
list1530
lippet1598
lug1602
lappet1609
handle1615
libbet1627
auricle1650
flip-flop1661
pinna1682
helix1684
lobe1719
earlobea1785
ear flap1810
leaf1819
shell1831
pavilion1842
ear bud1953
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 239/2 Lyste of the eare, mol de loraylle.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Mol Le mol de l'oreille, the lug, or list of th'eare.
1631 T. Dekker Match mee in London ii. iv. 94 They haue giuen it me soundly, I feele it vnder the lists of both eares.
2.
a. spec. The selvage, border, or edge of a cloth, usually of different material from the body of the cloth. †Phrase, within the lists (usual in statements of measurement). [So French liste in Cotgrave]
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > border, edge, or selvage of
liser1377
listing14..
list1433
stoothc1440
selvagea1475
selvaging1611
forel1691
1297 Magna Carta Edw. I c. xxv Una latitudo pannorum tinctorum, russetorum, & haubergettorum scilicet due ulne infra listas.]
1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 452/1 The lyste at the one ende of all soche Streite Clothes.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 307/1 Lyyst of clothe, forago.
1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 1 All maner of white brode wollen clothes with crumpil listes, otherwise called bastardes.
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 12 §2 Euery brode cloth shall conteine in breadth seuen quarters of a yarde within the listes at the least.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C v For his breeches they were made of the lysts of broad Cloaths.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 30 As there may betweene the Lists, and the Veluet. Thou art the List. View more context for this quotation
1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 1 The List or Border here being known to be more worth then the whole Cloth.
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 716 Woollen-Cloaths that were not two Ells within the Lists, according to King Richard's [1st] late Assize, or Statute.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 186 A few threads of strong coarse yarn are placed to form the lists or selvages of the cloth.
1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 396 The list is made in the West of England frequently of goats' hair.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iii. 104 The tenter-hooks were driven into poles and rails, and the cloth hung on them by the ‘list’ at the edges.
b. figurative and proverbial.
ΚΠ
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet A 2 b Yet find fault with broad termes, for I haue mesured yours with mine, & I find yours broader iust by the list.
1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. D2v Arsadachus knowing the cloth by the list, the bill by the Item, the steele by the marke [etc.].
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman i. 15 Which miserable ambition hath so furnished both Towne & Country with Coates of a new list.
1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii False joyes,..Peeces of sackcloth with silk lists.
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra ii. ix. 385 Who will reject a fine Web of Cloth (as one speaks) for a little course List at the end.
c. In generalized use: Such selvages collectively; the material of which the selvage of cloth consists.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > border, edge, or selvage of > collectively
list1567
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Biiiv Theire armes bounde vp with kercher or lyste.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. xxvi. 62 We must..constrain the Branches of those Fig-Trees, as near as we can to the Walls,..with Nails and List.
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 263 Sissly..Pulls off her Garter of woolen List.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. lxi. 269 A dirty rug..tied..with two pieces of list.
1772 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 401 I have had list nailed round my doors, and stopping every crack and crevice that let in cold air [etc.].
1901 Q. Rev. Apr. 483 By 1850 india-rubber had superseded list for cushions [of billiard-tables].
d. attributive quasi-adj. = made of list. Frequently in list shoe, list slipper.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [adjective]
list1661
stroud1683
throw-over1754
knockabout1880
throwabout1916
pillowing1924
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [adjective] > border, edge, or selvage of > made of
list1661
1661 Inuentarye in MS. Rawl. A. 182 lf. 311 On rugg, 2 Liste couerlids [etc.].
1809 J. Austen Let. 24 Jan. (1995) 170 We..could have staid longer but for the arrival of my List shoes to convey me home.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 24 Her quiet tread muffled in a list slipper.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1121 List carpet.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xiii. 106 Mr. Casby rose up in his list shoes.
1866 Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve II. ii. 42 I have got on list shoes, ma'am.
1901 Q. Rev. Apr. 485 List cushions were abandoned in favour of rubber.
1908 A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iv. iii. 480 Sophia wore list slippers in the morning. It was a habit which she had formed in the Rue Lord Byron—by accident rather than with an intention to utilize list slippers for the effective supervision of servants.
3. in extended use.1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 246 Mer...you slaue, you list, you shreds, you...Ana. S'foot, we must vse our taylors thus.1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. vi. 67 in Wks. II Those superstitious reliques, those lists of Latin, the very rags of Rome, and patches of Poperie.† b. Formerly often: A strip of cloth used for filtering or for causing a liquid to drip. Obsolete.
a. A strip of cloth or other fabric.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > strip of
lista1300
liser1377
bendel1483
raggle1888
a1300 Birth Jesus 587 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1875) 91 And bond him wiþ aliste.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vi. 8 He bar a bordun I-bounde wiþ a brod lyste.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. iv. 191 Chyldrens..lymmes ben bounde wyth lystes and other couenable bondes that thei ben not crokid.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19845 A mikel linnen clath four squar Laten dun, him thoght was þar, At nokes four, four listes lang, Vnto þe lift þar-wit it hang.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 122 Bynde him aboue þe brawon of þe arme wyþ a good lyste.
?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aiv Theyr gownes and theyr cotes shredde all in lystes.
1546 T. Phaer Bk. Children (1553) X v b Make a girdle of a wollen list mete for the midle of the pacient.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 66 With a linnen stock on one leg, and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartred with a red and blew list . View more context for this quotation
1708 J. Swift Elegy on Mr Patrige (single sheet) A List the Coblers Temples ties, To keep the Hair out of their Eyes.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Amble Many fold fine soft Lists about the Gambrels of the Horse.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 37 The four seams adorned with lists of a different colour from that of the cap.
1855 P. T. Barnum Life 109 Mallet had agreed..to deliver twelve yards of broadcloth ‘lists’ to Shepard.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) In flannels and in wool-dyed cloths it is usual to have a list or narrow border on each side of the cloth.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > filtering or percolating > [noun] > filter or percolator > drip
filter?a1425
list1593
1593 Hill's Profitable Arte Gardening (new ed.) 152 Putting clothes or lists..hanging halfe out of the pan..that they may so drop continually water on them in the forme of feltring, as the wise name it.
a1625 T. Lodge Poore Mans Talentt (1881) 12 Distill them by a filter, which is by a list, or passe them through a cloth or bagg.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxv. 263 We resolved, instead of a List of Cotton, or the like Filtre, to make use of a Siphon of Glass.
4.
a. A band or strip of any material; a line or band conspicuously marked on a surface. ? Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > narrow piece
sliverc1374
lista1398
labelc1425
reeve1726
stripe1785
slip1825
finger1839
striplet1839
slither1919
the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > of a surface > running across or around
barc1440
crossbar1599
list1599
fillet1612
strapa1680
road1802
band1823
bandelet1863
bandlet1883
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxii. 1056 A mete bord..is arrered and sette vpon feete and yclipped wiþ a lyste aboute.
c1575 J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew (1857) 108 His herse was set up..with list and rail garnished with scutcheons.
1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Mii A certaine white list and streake, called by the Astrologers Via lactea.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xii. 57 Their shooes..the outside whereof of the profaner sort are plated with a list of silver.
1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) i. 55 The divisions of an Inch made on a list of paper.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 413 There is a list of grass greener than ordinary, call'd St Kenelms-furrow.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. vii. i. 379 A black List of Something adhering to the Rock, which..he found was a great number of Swallows.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. July 310/1 Their ends [sc. of wire] being fastened to the under parts of the boards at XX. by means of a list of tin, half inch broad, which is nailed over them.
1776 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 37 I have glued three wooden lists on the back of the board to prevent its warping.
b. One of the divisions of a head of hair, or a beard. [? Suggested by Italian lista.]
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun]
lockeOE
forelockc1000
hair-lockc1000
earlockOE
foretopc1290
tressc1290
lachterc1375
fuke1483
sidelock1530
proudfallc1540
widow's locka1543
folding1552
fore-bush1591
flake1592
witch knot1598
tuft1603
French lock1614
head-lock1642
witch-lock1682
rat's tail1706
side-curl1749
scalp knot1805
rat-tail1823
straggler1825
scalping-tuft1826
scalp-lock1827
aggravator1835
soap-lock1840
payess1845
stringleta1852
list1859
tresslet1882
drake's tail1938
the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > lock of beard
lockeOE
list1859
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 106 A comb of pearl to part The lists of such a beard as youth gone out Had left in ashes.
1880 A. J. Butler tr. Dante Purgatorio i. 4 He wore his beard long and mingled with white hair, like to his locks, of which a twofold list [It. una doppia lista] fell to his breast.
c. U.S. In agriculture: a strip of ground. (Cf. quot. 1686 at sense 4a.)
ΚΠ
1768 G. Washington Diaries I. 267 Began to cross ground at Muddy hole..having run only a single furrow for a list.
1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 57 Began at the first to cross the lists in order to plant corn.
1814 J. Taylor Arator (ed. 2) 104 A deep and wide furrow is to be run by a large plough..so as to throw the earth..into this old deep furrow, and to form precisely in it, a neat ridge or list on which to plant the corn.
1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 20 The cotton beds are shaved down into the alleys, covering the trash, &c. and forming a wide list.
5. † b. Used for: A mark of a wound, a scar. Obsolete. rare.
a. A stripe of colour. ? Obsolete. (Cf. French liste.)
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > stripe
rayc1330
strake1398
list1496
spraing1513
vein1539
guard1579
stripe1626
striping1677
strip1789
wale1891
1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. iiijv The body of blacke wull and a yelow lyste after eyther syde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 239/2 Lyste on horsebacke, raye.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xii. sig. Pp4v His horse was of a firie sorrell, with blacke feete, and blacke list on his back.
1621 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses & Bk. Psalmes Exodus xxviii. 19 There are many colours [of Agate] and some the best, that are greene with a golden list.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xi. 334 The Asse having a peculiar marke of a crosse made by a blacke list downe his backe, and another athwart. View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. Painted with lists, here, naked arms behold.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 81 All along the back there runs a white list, which ends at the insertion of the tail.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. xii. 319 The blue cat..having a fine blue tinge, with a beautiful red list down its back.
1846 Peter Parley's Ann. 35 With some black about the face, and a list of the same down the hind part of the neck.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar
wama1000
wem1297
arra1300
nirtc1400
scara1425
cicatricec1450
fester?c1475
list1490
stool1601
cicatrix1641
cautery1651
seam1681
cicatricula1783
welt1800
sabre-cutc1820
stigmate1870
scarring1898
whelp1912
Mars bar1971
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxi. 464 He sholde never have knowen hym, yf it had not be a lityll liste [Fr. cicatrice] that he had by his right eye.
6. Architecture †(a) (See quot. 1815.) Obsolete. (b) A small square moulding or ring encircling the foot of a column, between the torus below and the shaft above. (Cf. listel n.)Cf. obsolete. French liste, ‘a small square out-iutting brow, or member of a piller’ (Cotgrave).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > base > parts of base
plinth1563
torus1563
sub-basec1619
list1663
tore1664
breast1669
supercilium1686
orle1706
orlo1715
ball of a pillar1736
baston1738
batoon1819
griffe1875
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 32 The Freese, the List, the Ovolo.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. List,..a Fillet or flat Ring that ornaments the Bottoms of Columns immediately above the Torus.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. 156 The capital consisting only of a large list or square stone, and a large quarter round under that.
1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 177 The list or spiral line of the volute runs along the face of the abacus.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 994 List, the same as fillet.
7. In various technical senses.† a. (See quot. 1688.)
ΚΠ
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 285/1 The Parts of a [Wool-] Card... The List, is that as is nailed to hold the Leaf.
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b. Carpentry. (? U.S.) ‘The upper rail of a railing’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
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c. Carpentry. A strip cut from the edge of a plank. (Cf. list v.3 3).
d. Tin-plating. The wire of tin left on the under edge of a tinned plate, which is removed by plunging the plate into the list-pot.
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1834 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal III. 37 There is always..a list or selvage of tin on the lower edge of every plate... When the list is melted..the boy takes out the plate.
II. Boundary.† 8. † b. Region, territory. Obsolete.† 10.
a. A limit, bound, boundary. Often plural. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun]
goalc1350
bounda1387
list1389
finea1400
frontier1413
enda1425
limit1439
buttal1449
headroom1462
band1470
mete?1473
buttinga1475
bounder1505
pale?a1525
butrelle1546
scantlet1547
limesa1552
divisec1575
meta1587
line1595
marginc1595
closure1597
Rubicon1613
bournea1616
boundary1626
boundure1634
verge1660
terminary1670
meta1838
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 44 Any brother or sister yat duellen wyt-outen ye lystys of thre myle from ye cite.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10669 All the ledis to the listes on the laund past.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10018.
1559 Primer in Priv. Prayers (1851) 90 The miserable captives, which as yet be hedged in within the lists of death.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 334/1 God setteth vs barres and listes.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vii. 99 The Tropicks are his [sc. the sun's] vtmost listes.
a1592 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 203 As though humility were the bond of all duties, like a list which holdeth men in compasse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 269 You and I cannot bee confin'd within the weake Lyst of a Countreyes fashion. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 76 I am bound to your Neece sir, I meane she is the list of my voyage. View more context for this quotation
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. Concl. 411 To keepe my discourse within those very lists and limits which yourself have prescrib'd.
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. vi. 31 To what strange Lists Is her conceal'd Omnipotence confin'd?
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > [noun] > a locality
list?1614
ubiquitya1637
headquarters1647
region1726
locale1761
locality1770
ubity1964
?1614 W. Drummond Song: It Autumne was in Poems Whateuer foggie Mists Doe blinde men in these sublunarie Lists.
9.
a. spec. in plural (†sometimes construed as singular) as the equivalent of the like-sounding Old French lisse (modern French lice): The palisades or other barriers enclosing a space set apart for tilting; hence, a space so enclosed in which tilting-matches or tournaments were held. † in, within (the) lists. Sometimes, by extension, the arena in which bulls fight or wrestlers contend, etc. †Also (rarely) singular in the same sense. [The Old French lisse, which appears to have influenced the application of the English word, is of doubtful etymology; it corresponds to Spanish liza, Portuguese liça, Italian lizza, medieval Latin liciae palisades, lists. Hatzfeld & Darmesteter suggest a late Latin type *listia, < Old High German lîsta: see above.]
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > place where contest is fought out
fieldeOE
listc1386
cockpita1568
amphitheatre1710
arena1814
scrambling-place1878
scrambling-ground1884
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers
listc1386
champany?a1400
rangec1440
jousting-place1480
tilt?1507
tilt-yard1528
barracec1540
barrier1581
careera1586
steccado1600
tilting-yard1606
tilting ground1850
tilting field1859
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > place for wrestling
palaestrac1425
wrestling placec1440
fighting-school1535
list1589
wrestling ring1695
akhara1832
wrestling school1835
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > arena
list1672
plaza de toros1807
circus1812
bullring1824
c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 660 Cambalo That faught in listes with the bretheren two For Canacee.
c1400 Rom. Rose 4199 Without the diche were listes made, With walles batayled large and brade.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Douce) 497 Þe lordes by-lyue hom to list ledes With many seriant of mace.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur viii. xxii Blamor..tooke his hors at the one ende of the lystes, and sire Trystram atte other ende of the lystes.
1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 77 To doo armes in liestis to the utteraunce.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. bviijv/1 Thys fyerabras..came vnto the lyces of Kynge Charles..as he shold fyght al armed.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cliv. 183 These two dukes came into the felde, all armed, in a lystes made for ye sayd duke of Almayne, chalenger, and for the duke of Englande, defender.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Civv It fareth with them, as it dooth with the Wrastler within the Lystes.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 43 On paine of death, no person be so bold..as to touch the listes, Except the Martiall.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 497 Encountering his enemie in a List, made of purpose betweene the Campe, and Castle.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. i. i. 2 When the lists set wide, Gave room to the fierce Bulls.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxii. 44 The lists are op'd, the spacious area clear'd.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. vii. 63 A summer day in lists shall strive My knights.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Galahad i, in Poems (new ed.) II. 174 They reel, they roll in clanging lists.
b. transferred and figurative. A place or scene of combat or contest. to enter (the) lists.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > contend, dispute [phrase]
to enter (the) lists1592
to clash quills1686
1592 L. Andrewes Wonderfull Combate vi. f. 75 The lysts wher this temptation was vsed, was the Mountaine.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ev Now is she in the verie lists of loue, Her champion mounted for the hot incounter. View more context for this quotation
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 77 As when his Trytons trumps doe them to battell call Within his surging lists to combat with the Whale.
1616 W. Drummond Poems (rev. ed.) sig. P4 See Chloris, how the Cloudes Tilte in the azure Lists.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 14 I hold it both needlesse and fruitlesse to enter into the Lists concerning the originall of the Saxons.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 185 The King loth to enter the List with the Clergy about too many matters.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 463 Dagon hath presum'd, Me overthrown, to enter lists with God. View more context for this quotation
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 110 Demodocus..Majestic to the lists of Fame repairs.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. i. 35 [Let] the spirit Range in free battle lists.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. iv. 77 The Royal Society..contained few individuals..capable of..entering the lists against his..assailants.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxii Slight lists Wherein the puppet-champions wage..mimic war.
a. In singular and plural. An encircling palisade; a railed or staked enclosure. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > that which encloses > an enclosing barrier > round land or buildings
fence1512
enclosure1517
range1537
list1581
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > an enclosed piece of ground > by a fence or paling
palis?a1425
palec1440
list1581
1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline i. 59 The citie, pales or lyst or fort where ye campe is lodged.
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 68 All these were placed without the lists [L. extra tabulatum].
b. In plural. The starting-place of a race (= Latin carceres); also in extended use. In singular: a racecourse or exercising ground for horses. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark
score1513
starting place1570
goal1589
barrier1600
lists1601
starting post1631
scratch1772
starting line1812
mark1887
start line1908
gate1928
mobile1969
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun]
careera1586
lists1601
hippodrome1750
horse-course1751
racecourse1764
racetrack1830
flat1870
raceway1910
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 222 To the Lists they [sc. horses] must not be brought to enter into any mastries there before they be full fiue yeres of age.
1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 101 A list to ride horses in, much frequented by the gallants in summer.
1662 H. More Gen. Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) Pref. Gen. 12 We both setting out from the same Lists, though taking several ways,..meet together..at the same Gaol.
1737 R. West Ad Amicos in Let. 4 July in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 62 As yet just started from the lists of time.
Compounds
list-boy n. in Tin-plating, a boy employed to place the plates in the list-pot.
ΚΠ
1818 S. Parkes in Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. (1819) 2nd Ser. 3 369 There is always a wire of tin on the lower edge of every plate, which is..removed..in the following manner. A boy called the list-boy, takes the plates when they are cool enough to handle, and puts the lower edge of each..into the list-pot.
list-pot n. a cast-iron trough containing a small quantity of melted tin, in which the tinned plates are plunged to remove the ‘list’ (see sense 7d).
ΚΠ
1818 S. Parkes in Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. (1819) 2nd Ser. 3 369 A boy called the list-boy, takes the plates when they are cool enough to handle, and puts the lower edge of each..into the list-pot.
list-wall n. [compare sense 4] a dry wall with one or more strips or bands of cemented walling.
ΚΠ
1794 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset 62 A wall-fence..is partly dry, and partly cemented with mortar, or what is commonly called a list wall.
1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 728 The fence is what is called a list wall, alternate layers of dry wall and stone with mortar.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listn.4
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [noun]
merrinesseOE
gladnessc900
mirtheOE
playeOE
dreamOE
gladshipc975
lissOE
willOE
hightOE
blithenessc1000
gladc1000
winOE
blissc1175
delices?c1225
delight?c1225
joy?c1225
comfortc1230
listc1275
gladhead1303
daintyc1325
fainnessc1340
lightnessa1350
delectationc1384
delightingc1390
comfortationa1400
fainheada1400
blithec1400
fainc1400
delicacyc1405
gladsomeness1413
reveriea1425
joyousitiea1450
joyfulnessc1485
jucundity1536
joyousness1549
joc1560
delightfulness1565
jouissance1579
joyance1590
levitya1631
revelling1826
chuckle1837
joyancy1849
a song in one's heart1862
delightsomeness1866
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6527 Þa and-swarede þe munec mid muchelere liste [c1300 Otho mid swiþe gode wille].
c1386 G. Chaucer Prol. 132 In curteisye was set ful muche hir lest [v.r. list].
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 467 So fare we alle wyth luf and lyste, To kyng & quene by cortaysye.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 306/2 Lyst, or lykynge,..delectacio.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 755 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 118 All yus our lady yai lovit with lyking & lyst.
1573 J. Davidson Breif Commendatioun Vprichtnes xl. 197 How he suld..leaue this lyfe with list for all thair plaid.
2. Appetite, craving; desire, longing; inclination. Const. to (with noun or infinitive), rarely for, of; †frequently in collocation with leisure. Now only archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun]
i-willc888
wilningc888
willingeOE
lustc950
listc1220
desire1303
affection1340
desiring1377
appetite1382
envya1400
wishc1430
desideryc1450
stomach1513
affect1531
wilnec1540
desirefulness1548
woulding1549
desirousness1571
ambition1579
lusting1580
listing1587
maw1601
appetition1603
appetence1610
bosoma1616
orexis1619
desirableness1649
appetency1656
would1753
wanting1801
want-to1903
c1220 Bestiary 544 He doð men hungren and hauen ðrist, and mani oðer sinful list.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1230 Hem wex on ðrist, Ðe water sleckede ðe childes list.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 738 (787) Right a-noon as sesed is here lest, So cesseth loue and forth to loue an newe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 24751 Þat gifs me list [Fairf. 14 luste, Vesp. lust] of hir to rede.
1423 Kingis Quair lvii Hastow no lest to sing?
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. ii. 69 The wyld wolf..Rasys in ire, for the wod hungris list.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvi. 226 The traytoure Gerard had no lyst to slepe.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 545/2 He had no leasure, and lesse lyst, to attend vnto Wickleffes matters.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 270 It is a very good way, to..kill the list and lyking of a Sparhawke, to feede hir..with liquid meates washt in water.
1596 W. Smith Chloris (1877) 29 Since my disgrace I had of them no list.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xv. 195 If he have list to the stoole.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 12 I have done it, neither out of malice, nor list to speak evill.
1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 25 I had little list or leasure to write.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 242 I thank you for all things courteous and civil, but for your cordial I have no list thereto. View more context for this quotation
1825 W. Scott Talisman xiii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 267 I..have more list to my bed than to have my ears tickled.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 120 To give a loose to all the lists of youth.
1888 ‘P. Cushing’ Blacksmith of Voe III. x. 216 The divine list of sex, and the sweet ache of soul.
3. (One's) desire or wish; (one's) good pleasure. Phrase at (one's) list. Now only archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > [noun]
willeOE
hearteOE
i-willc888
self-willeOE
intent?c1225
device1303
couragec1320
talentc1325
greec1330
voluntyc1330
fantasyc1374
likinga1375
disposingc1380
pleasancea1382
affectionc1390
wish1390
disposition1393
affecta1398
likea1400
lista1400
pleasingc1400
emplesance1424
pleasurec1425
well-willingc1443
notiona1450
mindc1450
fancy1465
empleseur1473
hest?a1513
plighta1535
inclination1541
cue1567
month's mind1580
disposedness1583
leaning1587
humour1595
wouldings1613
beneplacit1643
wouldingness1645
vergency1649
bene-placiture1662
good liking1690
draught1758
tida1774
inkling1787
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22130 Turn þai sal til him titest, And siþen þaas other at his list.
c1400 Rom. Rose 1957 Pleyn at your list I yelde me.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 20 Honestie my olde Graundfather called yt, when men liued by Law, not list.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 56 Fraile Multitude, whose giddy lawe is list.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 129 He that can of list and will propound what he pleases. View more context for this quotation
1695 E. Hickeringill Lay-clergy in Wks. (1716) I. 326 By the Law of the Land, and not the Arbitrary list or will of any Man living.
1867 J. B. Rose tr. Virgil Æneis 26 It was a god there working his own list.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listn.5
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ 1. Nautical. The careening or inclination of a ship to one side.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > heeling or listing
careen1591
heel1622
heeling1625
list1633
seel1644
seeling1644
hield1867
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 82 The Ship at low water had a great lust to the offing.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Lust of a ship.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge ii. 26 What a list to port she is getting!
1881 Daily News 11 Nov. 2/6 The cargo shifted giving the ship a list to port.
1883 Times 4 Jan. 8 The vessel gave a sudden list to starboard.
2. transferred. A leaning over (of a building, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > leaning over
leaningc1440
lean1776
list1793
careen1880
lean-over1969
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §85 The whole building had got a considerable List or leaning to the S.W.
1901 Longman's Mag. Sept. 396 Two lines of straggling fence running with all sorts of lists and bends.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listn.6
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ 1.
a. A catalogue or roll consisting of a row or series of names, figures, words, or the like. In early use, esp. a catalogue of the names of persons engaged in the same duties or connected with the same object; spec. a catalogue of the soldiers of an army or of a particular arm; also in †in or within the list(s, in list (occasionally figurative). active list, a list of those officers in the army or navy who are liable to be called upon for active service. Also army list, Civil List n., retired list, sick list, etc. (see the first words).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > muster-roll or -list
muster1565
muster-book1565
list1604
muster roll1608
muster filea1616
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)]
wagec1330
musterc1425
to take upc1425
prest1481
to call up1523
conscribe1548
enrol1576
matriculate1577
press1600
in list1604
list1643
recruita1661
enlist1699
crimp1789
to muster into service1834
book1843
induct1934
to read in1938
society > communication > record > list > [noun]
tableOE
scorec1325
billa1340
calendar?a1400
legendc1400
librarya1450
Ragmanc1450
Ragman rollc1450
cataloguea1464
repertory1542
scrowa1545
bedroll?1552
roll1565
file1566
state1582
inventory1589
brief1600
series1601
counter-roll1603
list1604
muster roll1605
cense1615
pinax1625
repertoirec1626
diagram1631
recensiona1638
repertorium1667
vocabulary1694
albe1697
enumeration1725
screed1748
album1753
tableau1792
roll-call1833
shopping list1923
laundry list1958
remainder list1977
society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people
bead-roll1529
scroll1546
checker-roll1571
bead-row1576
panel?1578
list1604
nomenclature1635
lexicon1647
head-roll1819
name-scroll1861
visitors' lista1865
roll-call1867
test-roll1879
line-up1890
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 97 Young Fortinbrasse..Hath..Sharkt vp a list of lawelesse resolutes. View more context for this quotation
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 32 The leuies, The lists, and full proportions are all made Out of his subiect. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. vi. 76 The Thracian King Adullas..The Kings of Mede, and Licoania, With a more larger List of Scepters. View more context for this quotation
1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre iv. iii. 130 Pioners..are not reckoned Souldiers, neither come neere by many degrees either to that list or reputation.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. i. 14 'Tis the List Of those that claime their Offices this day.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 248 He was the Ablest Emperour, almost, of all the List.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. i. 2 To bee in list 3000 Foot, and 250 Horse.
1646 D. Evance Noble Order 20 You will not be out of the List long.
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iv. 151 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The Battalion was of eight thousand foot, and the Archers of the List.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 30 Their Fear brought in a false List of their Enemies Number.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) List, a Scrowl of the Names of several Persons of the same Quality with whom we have Business, or with whom we have some Relation. A List of the Slain and Wounded in such a Battel. A List of such a ones Creditors. A List of the Prisoners in such a Prison.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 14 Endless is the list of human Ills.
1797 Encycl. Brit. VII. 383/2 The letter-founders have a kind of list, or tariff, whereby they regulate their founts.
1809 Ld. Mulgrave in G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 358 His name being removed from the List of the Navy.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. vi. 144 Edward took a list of the contents.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 9 She keeps a little list of her lovers.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §4. 128 The earliest classical revival restored Cæsar and Virgil to the list of monastic studies.
b. The titles of the books (to be) published by a particular publisher. So autumn list, backlist v., spring list.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > publishing > a publication > [noun] > titles (to be ) published
list1860
1860 G. H. Lewes Let. 4 Jan. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 243 It will be well now to begin announcing it in lists—if not the title at any rate the fact of a new novel being in the press.
1919 Publisher's Let. Aug. in T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) p. xvi Mr. Eliot's work is no doubt brilliant, but it is not exactly the kind of material we care to add to our list.
1922 T. S. Eliot Let. 25 June in Waste Land Drafts (1971) p. xxii Knopf said that it was too late for his autumn list this year.
1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies ii. 28 I suppose you could get the book rewritten in time for the Spring List?
1938 H. R. Dent in J. M. & H. R. Dent House of Dent xxiii. 300 It used to be said..that a publisher kept poetry on his lists more for the look of the thing than anything else.
1951 M. Sharp Lise Lillywhite xix. 161 Mr Villiers..published chiefly poetry... He had no list, in the trade sense, nor had he travellers.
1964 R. Church Voy. Home viii. 166 I should send the book to the house of Dent, whose list it would suit admirably.
1967 E. Grierson Crime of one's Own viii. 60 Christmas operated like a guillotine on the Autumn lists, leaving only a bare four weeks of selling time.
c. An official register of buildings of architectural or historical importance that are statutorily protected from demolition or major alteration. Cf. list v.4 1e
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > [noun] > list of buildings of interest
list1947
1947 Act 10 & 11 Geo. VI c. 51 §30 With a view to the guidance of local planning authorities..in relation to buildings of special architectural or historic interest, the Minister shall compile lists of such buildings, or approve..such lists compiled by other persons or bodies of persons.
1947 Act 10 & 11 Geo. VI c. 51 §30 So long as any building..is included in any list compiled or approved under this section, no person shall execute..any works for the demolition of the building or for its alteration or extension in any manner which would seriously affect its character.
1968 P. Ward Conservation & Devel. Hist. Towns & Cities iii. 98 Lansdown Parade..is also a Grade II listed building on the Ministry of Housing and Local Government's list of architecturally or historically important buildings.
d. In the National Health Service, a general practitioner's register of patients.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > general practitioner's register of patients
list1949
1949 Britannica Bk. of Year 412/2 Doctors starting their careers..had few patients on their lists.
1949 Britannica Bk. of Year 413/1 The doctor was free to accept or reject anyone applying to go on his list.
1971 Reader's Digest Family Guide Law 242 A doctor..does not have to give reasons for his refusal to accept a patient on his list.
1974 M. Birmingham You can help Me iii. 56 I asked him if he did not sometimes hanker after..a few wealthy private patients so that he could afford to keep his list shorter.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > return of particulars of taxable property
list1646
1646 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1823) I. 329 To the prejudice of many who have duely and according to law presented their lists.
1655 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1850) I. 279 Sea-Brooke is fyned forty shillings for not sending ye Lists of theire estates to the Courte.
3. Horse Racing slang. Short for: The list of geldings in training. Hence to put on the list = to castrate.
ΚΠ
1890 J. S. Farmer Slang Added to the List, an abbreviation of ‘added to the list of geldings in training’.
Compounds
list-betting n. betting on the list of horses displayed in a list shop.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > types of betting
levanting1788
fielding1854
place betting1864
list-betting1874
sweepstaking1882
by-betting1886
spread betting1972
1874 Porcupine 18 July 248/2 Mr. Chaplin, M.P., with other horse-owners, have..chuckled greatly at the prospect of list-betting no longer interfering with their speculations.
1928 Daily Express 24 Mar. 1/1 The..gaming laws..were primarily intended only to abolish notorious gaming houses and list-betting in shops and houses.
list broker n. a trader in mailing lists.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > business of advertising > [noun] > trading in mailing lists > one who
list broker1959
1959 Economist 7 Feb. 498/1 Publishers now send out circulars to people on mailing lists, bought from a growing class of ‘list brokers’.
1967 Guardian 27 Dec. 4/2 She is a list broker, which means that she trades in names and addresses.
list-broking n.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > business of advertising > [noun] > trading in mailing lists
list-broking1967
1967 Guardian 27 Dec. 4/4 The magnitude of list-broking in the United States.
1970 Daily Tel. 12 Oct. 17/3 ‘List broking’ in this country could well develop into the sophisticated service industry it is in America.
list house n. = list shop n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > betting place
wager-hall1691
wagering-post1696
wager-office1723
betting-post1771
ring1775
betting room1793
betting ring1822
Tattersall1836
betting office1852
betting shop1852
betting-house1853
pool room1861
list shop1875
list house1902
tote-shop1906
silver ring1921
bookmaker1923
bookie1936
1902 ‘N. Gubbins’ Dead Certainties 71 Most of the ‘list-houses’ (in Long Acre and elsewhere), whose name was legion, had their shutters up on the morning after Lord Zetland's horse had defeated Pitsford.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [noun] > fixing amount of tax > one who assesses
taxer1377
taxator1424
gauger1483
sessor1496
cessor1565
modifier1570
stentor1574
layer1602
mise-layer1604
assessor1611
stentmaster1624
list-maker1666
lay-layer1669
lister1682
1666 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1852) II. 48 This Court doth order that ye land..be valued by the list makers of Stonington.
listman n. one who works in a list shop; a bookmaker.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker
commission agent1798
flash-man1812
bookmaker1833
commissioner1851
ring man1857
metallician1861
street bookmaker1867
bookie1877
book1881
knight of the pencil1885
handbook man1894
street bookie1911
turf accountant1915
listman1922
1922 Daily Mail 6 Nov. 11 Most of the listmen got scared to death over particular animals in these final handicaps.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 486/1 Listman, a ready-money bookmaker.
list price n. the price fixed for an article in the printed list issued by the maker, or by the general body of makers of the particular class of goods.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > price fixed by maker or seller
list price1871
1871 English Mechanic 10 Nov. 206/2 The list price for a ½ horse-power engine is £60.
c1883 J. Montagu Let. in Troubridge & Marshall John Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (1930) 30 Now my old machine [sc. tandem bicycle] cost £ 26 list price, and we finally got it for £23:10s. owing to discount for ready money.
1928 Publishers' Weekly 30 June 2603 The reprint is usually about one-third of the list price of the earlier edition.
1955 Radio Times 22 Apr. 51/1 Hand in an old electric shaver..and claim £2 allowance off the list price of a Remington 60.
1967 Autocar 28 Dec. 38/3 All ‘list’ prices are taken from Autocar's ‘Recommended New Car prices’.
list processing n. Computing the manipulation and use of chained lists and of data in them; frequently attributive.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > [noun] > high-level language > type of
list processing1959
list processor1959
society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > [adjective] > types of processing
interleaved1956
in-line1959
list processing1959
batch1967
multibit1969
1959 Q. Progr. Rep. (Mass. Inst. Technol. Res. Lab. Electronics) No. 53. 122 A series of programs in List Processing Language is being written.
1960 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 7 87 Statements in the language are written in usual Fortran notation, but with a large set of special list-processing functions appended to the standard Fortran library.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xix. 313 List processing, a type of non-numerical application, can be programmed in Lisp and IPL-V.
1983 Listener 10 Feb. 33/2 There is Fortran, Algol, Cobol and Jovial, along with ‘string and list processing’ languages such as Comit, Lisp and Slip.
list processor n. a processing system, language, etc., for use in list processing; cf. Lisp n.2
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > [noun] > high-level language > type of
list processing1959
list processor1959
1959 Q. Progr. Rep. (Mass. Inst. Technol. Res. Lab. Electronics) No. 53. xiii. 122 The purpose of this programming system, called LISP (for LISt Processor), is to facilitate programming manipulations of symbolic expressions.
1963 Communications ACM 6 524/1 Slip is a list processing system in which each list cell carries both a forward and a backward link as well as a datum. .. Slip is a descendant of at least four earlier list processors.
list shop n. an illegal betting shop where prices on future important races were displayed.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > betting place
wager-hall1691
wagering-post1696
wager-office1723
betting-post1771
ring1775
betting room1793
betting ring1822
Tattersall1836
betting office1852
betting shop1852
betting-house1853
pool room1861
list shop1875
list house1902
tote-shop1906
silver ring1921
bookmaker1923
bookie1936
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 619/1 ‘List shops’, where the proprietors kept a bank against all comers, and backers could stake their money in advance on a horse..sprung up..leading to..flagrant dishonesty.
list system n. (also party list system) a system of voting, common in continental Western Europe, in which voters cast their vote for a list of candidates rather than for an individual candidate.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > systems of voting
scrutin de liste1851
cumulative vote1853
Australian ballot1888
preference1900
alternative vote1908
list system1908
preference voting1908
scrutin d'arrondissement1921
list voting1954
AV1965
1901 T. R. Ashworth & H. P. C. Ashworth Proportional Representation vii. 162 The Liste Libre, or Free List system,..applies the proportional principle not to individual candidates but to parties.]
1908 J. King Electoral Reform vii. 87 In the Party List System the elector gives his vote for the party list, on which the candidate is enrolled, when he gives a vote to any candidate.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 115/2 In the ‘list systems’..candidates are grouped in lists.
1926 C. G. Hoag & G. H. Hallett Proportional Representation v. 60 Most of the countries which use list systems..have been successful in securing reasonable accuracy in the assignment of seats to parties.
1971 G. K. Roberts Dict. Polit. Anal. 115 List system, a system of election, based on proportional representation of parties or similar groups, each of which presents a list of candidates. The voter then casts his vote for one of these lists.
list vote n.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > systems of voting > types of vote
electoral vote1673
transferable vote1885
list vote1911
1911 J. H. Humphreys Proportional Representation viii. 180 List votes form a pool from which the candidates of the list draw in succession as many votes as are necessary.
1954 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties i. i. 44 The list vote (scrutin de liste), operating within the framework of a large constituency, obliges the..local branches of the party to establish amongst themselves a strong system of articulation within the constituency, so that they can agree upon the composition of the lists.
list voting n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > systems of voting
scrutin de liste1851
cumulative vote1853
Australian ballot1888
preference1900
alternative vote1908
list system1908
preference voting1908
scrutin d'arrondissement1921
list voting1954
AV1965
1954 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties i. i. 45 Belgium, where at the end of the nineteenth century party structure was amongst the strongest in Europe: it coincided with list-voting.
1958 W. J. M. Mackenzie Free Elections ix. 75 List voting is almost always associated with formulae for distributing seats.
Draft additions 1997
Computing. A formalized representation of a list, used as a data structure (see also linked list n. at linked adj. Additions) or in list processing (see sense LISTSERV n. at Additions).
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society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > structure > list
list1956
string1956
chain1959
queue1963
linked list1971
1956 Newell & Simon in IRE Trans. Information Theory 2 64/1 The storage memories consist of lists. A list holds either a whole logic expression or some set of elements generated during a process, such as a set of elements having certain properties.
1973 C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. vii. 272 Even if the list is ordered, however, we cannot use a binary search since it is scattered through memory and we cannot access its midpoint directly.
1980 C. S. French Computer Sci. x. 53 Lists provide a flexible way of handling data items in order.
1986 Pract. Computing Oct. 106/1 The Card Index File module can contain up to 36 different databases, which are known as lists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listn.7
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
The flank (of pork); a long piece cut from the gammon.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > cuts or parts
pig's footc1475
hog's foot1561
hog's cheek1573
bald-rib1598
spring1598
list1623
griskin1699
chine1712
pork griskin1725
rearing1736
pork chop?1752
hand1794
faggot1815
hog round1819
sweet-bone1826
butt1845
pig trotter1851
pork belly1863
Hodge1879
fore-end1906
fore-hock1923
1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. i. 71 Take the largest of your Chines of Porke, and that which is called a Liste.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Lists, the flanks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listn.8
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ = lisse n.2, lease n.4 list-stick n. (see quot. 1782).
ΚΠ
1782 Encycl. Brit. IX. 6711/1 The list-sticks, to which the high-lisses are tied. The high-lisses, or lists, are a number of long threads, with platines, or plate-leads, at the bottom.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listadj.
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
Ready, quick (esp. of hearing). Also applied to rooms, etc. in which one hears well.
ΚΠ
1813 Cullum's Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘List of hearing’, quick of hearing.
1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize II. xiii. 130 When any of his disciples were not just so list and brisk as they might have been.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. (at cited word) A list house or room, where sounds are heard easily from one room to another. Kent.
1861 N. Brit. Rev. Nov. 325 His ear was not list to catch the distant sounds.
1863 Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. 2 185 List, quick; as list of speech.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. List, the condition of the atmosphere when sounds are heard easily. ‘It's a wonderful list morning.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listv.1
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ archaic.† 3. transitive. To desire or wish for (something).
1. impersonal transitive (in Old English with accusative or dative). To be pleasing to. me list (occasionally listeth): I please, choose, like, care, or desire.† c. Const. of (= Old English gen.), after.
a. Const. infinitive.
ΚΠ
971 Blickl. Hom. 51 Hine ne lyst his willan wyrcean.
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 211 Lecturio, me lyst rædan.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 103 Þenne þan mon ne lust on his liue nan god don.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8119 Himm lisste þa Wel etenn off an appell.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15099 Þan kinge luste slepe.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 22601 Na creatur sal þan list [Trin. luste, Edin. lesten] plai.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 490 The lestyth nat a louere be.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 941 Þenne lyst þe lady to loke on þe knyȝt.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxiii. 108 Na man es forboden..to trowe in what lawe þat him list leue on.
c1440 Sir Gowther 499 Him lystyd nothyng for to play, For he was full weri.
c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 206 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 464 My gud brethyre, quhy lest ȝou le?
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) iv. sig. Aivv/1 Some whan they sholde slepe. thenne hem list wake & pray Some whan they sholde wake & pray. thenne hem lust to slepe.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iii. 48 I knowe alle thinges, that me leste to wite.
1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris i. v. sig. Bv Me list..This idle taske on me to vndertake.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G3 When him list the prouder lookes subdew.
a1618 W. Raleigh Maxims of State (1651) 49 When it listeth him to call them to an account.
1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 64 in Purple Island When me list to sadder tunes apply me.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. viii. 29 When at need Him listed ease his battle-steed.
b. Without dependent inf. (Chiefly in subordinate clauses introduced by as, if, what, when, etc.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb] > I wish or am disposed
listc888
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiii. §2 Ne him eac næfre genog ne þincð ær he hæbbe eal þæt hine lyst.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15344 Æiþer gon liðe þider him to luste.
a1300 K. Horn 918 Nu ȝe reste One while, ef ȝou leste.
c1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.) 243 Offer or leeue, wheþer þe lyst.
14.. Nun 298 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 146 There we talkeden as vs lest.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 519 Wemen..can wet Yair chekys quhen-euer yaim list with teris.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xx. f. xxviij Ys yt not lawfull ffor me to do as me listeth with myne awne?
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.iijv Let hym come when hym lust.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 247 Licence to doe what them listed.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 518 This proud Antiochus shall doe what him listeth.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche vi. xvii. 72 Thy mortal life is but a brittle vase, But as thee list with wine or tears 'tis filled.
ΚΠ
a1000 Boeth. Metr. xxvi. 71 Hi for ðæm yrmðum eardes lyste.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11334 Whanne hiss fasste forþedd wass Þa lisste himm affterr fode.
a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) i. 71 No thing list þam þan of play.
c1400 Destr. Troy Prol. 20 He..has lykyng to lerne þat hym list after.
d. With ellipsis of go.
ΚΠ
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 87 To þe holy land him list, & þider gan him spede.
2. With personal construction.† c. to list of: to care for. Obsolete.
a. Const. infinitive: To desire, like, wish to do something.
ΚΠ
1340–70 Alisaunder 776 Þe Ladie lay on hur bed & lysted too slepe.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xix. 209 Thei bryngen up als many as men list to have.
a1510 G. Douglas King Hart 124 Quhen [that] hir court leist semble fair and clein.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 18/2 He eyther wist not, or lyste not to shew his cunning therin.
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Bv I list not boast in acts of chiualrie.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 178 If we list to speake. View more context for this quotation
1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. xx. §5 Points he listed not meddle withall.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 75 If they list to try Conjecture. View more context for this quotation
1687 G. Towerson Baptism 149 I list not to contend about anything, of which I myself am not more strongly perswaded.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxiii. 110 We little listed think of him.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xx. 106 If you list to taste our cheer.
b. Without dependent infinitive: To wish, desire, like, choose. (Chiefly in subordinate clauses, as in 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb]
willeOE
listc1200
to be of (also in) (a) minda1325
to will well that1340
likea1375
to find in one's hearta1393
to have a minda1400
pleasec1450
set1470
to have a mind1530
care1560
fadge1592
please1611
choose1622
offer1639
to feel like1808
c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 13 After ðan ðe here herte leste, ic hem folȝede.
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 352 Þy wyl be ydo, ryȝt as þou lest.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) viii. v. 4 All worldly thynges chaungyng as she lust.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 3 To that entent that who so luste may kepe hem from harme.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 123 Deyme as ȝhe lest, ȝe that best can and may.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxii. 7 They do euen what they lyst.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Agst. Idolatry ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 209 The Bishop of Rome..did in all the West Church..what he lust.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvi. sig. Ff3v Your grieues, and desires whatsoeuer, & whensoeuer you list, he wil consider of.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ix. sig. Nn5 He might returne, if he listed.
1611 Bible (King James) John iii. 8 The winde bloweth where it listeth . View more context for this quotation
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1441 Thou mayst make sale of it to whom thou list.
1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 19 By his Musick he could drive men into what affections he listed.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxvi*. 82 Let them think what they list.
1823 W. Scott Peveril I. iv. 123 We will, if your ladyship lists, leave him.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xiv. 348 The invaders landed and harried where they listed.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > be disposed or inclined to [verb (transitive)] > be favourably inclined to
reckOE
keep1297
to list ofa1300
to have, take a fancy for, to1465
lean1530
fantasy1548
to run upon ——1550
mind1648
to run to ——1809
whim1842
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1791 Þe leuedis listed [Fairf. list] noght o pride.
c1400 Melayne 1254 One þe lawnde righte þer þay lay..And liste no thynge of playe.
14.. Women's Horns in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 80 They have despit, and ageyn concyence, Lyst nat of pryde, then hornes cast away.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1744 Þe shipmen of na lykyng lyste.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (transitive)]
willeOE
wilnec897
desirec1230
catcha1350
appetec1385
appetitec1385
to wait after ——1393
to set (also have, keep, turn) one's mind onc1450
list1545
exopt1548
to have a mind1553
desiderate1646
lust1653
to have eyes for1657
like1685
want1698
choose1766
to be stuck on1878
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 22 And seinge also they haue libertie to lyste what they will, I pray God they haue will to list that which is good.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. v. 62 By our listing of a thing, we may perceiue some alteration in our selues; but ye thing it self that is listed or willed feeleth nothing thereof.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listv.2
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ archaic.
1.
a. intransitive. = listen v. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (intransitive)] > listen
listenc950
hearkena1000
listc1000
lithea1225
yliþea1300
intendc1380
hear1382
to have or give a lista1400
to give audience (to)c1405
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > take note, observe [verb (intransitive)] > give ear, hearken
hearkenc1000
listc1000
understanda1200
listenc1225
hear1382
harka1400
to listen up1933
c1000 Inst. Polity §5 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 310 Hlystaþ hwæt ic secge.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 141 Lusteð nu þanne, and undernimeð þreo þing.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 185 Eie ne maig swo muchel biholden, ne ere lhisten ne herte þenchen.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 263 Bo nu stille, and lat me speke,..And lust hu ich con me bi-telle.
a1300 K. Horn 355 Lust whi [Harl. MS. list were fore] ihc wonde Bringe þe horn to honde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 20399 Listes all i bi-seke i wise.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. C.iii But nowe I thynke I se you listyng and harkening, that I shoulde name hym.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. G2v List how they rumble.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. iii. 10 Peace, what noise? 1 [Sol.] List, list. 2 [Sol.] Hearke.
1637 J. Milton Comus 17 List, list I heare Some farre off hallow breake the silent aire.
1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto (1798) v. 89 List, sirs, and may this bloody record be a warning to future tyrants.
1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xxxiii. 113 The stag..Spread his broad nostril to the wind, Listed before, aside, behind.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems (1857) 12 Great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lv. 1 List, I beg, provided you're in humour.
b. Const. to, unto, till; in Old English dative and gen.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (intransitive)] > listen > listen to
listc897
harkc1175
to open one's earsa1200
listenc1290
to listen onc1330
tend1340
to lay to one's eara1382
attend1447
hearken to1526
to listen one's ears (or an ear) toa1533
to hear to1833
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)] > listen attentively, heed
listc897
listenc950
hearOE
hearkenc1000
harkc1175
listc1175
to-heara1250
listenc1290
to listen onc1330
to wait to ——c1440
regard1533
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlix. 385 Ða fundon hie hiene..hlystende hiora worda.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 29 Hig hlyston him.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7846 Þatt he. Ne lisste nohht wiþþ ære. Till naness kinness idellleȝȝc.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4002 Now lysteþ to þis spelle.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13833 Ne till vr laghes will he noght list.
c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) i. ii. C 2 Graue Gouernors, list not to his exclames.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. vii. 54 Wilt then list to me?
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. i. 4 The warder..Lists to the breeze's boding sound.
1884 R. Browning Family in Ferishtah's Fancies 22 List to a tale.
2. transitive. To listen to, hear; = listen v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (transitive)] > listen to
listenc950
hearOE
hearkenc1000
listc1175
to-heara1250
tend1340
attenda1400
to lay ear toa1400
receivea1425
intenda1500
ear1582
exhause1599
auscultate1892
catch1906
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)] > listen attentively, heed
listc897
listenc950
hearOE
hearkenc1000
harkc1175
listc1175
to-heara1250
listenc1290
to listen onc1330
to wait to ——c1440
regard1533
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 63 [He] þe luste nulleð þesne red.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9017 To lisstenn whatt te preost ȝuw seȝȝþ Off ȝure sawle nede.
c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 67 Hlest hwat se heiȝeste ðe seið.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 35 Hie openeden his earen to luste þe defles lore.
a1300 K. Horn 505 ‘Kyng’, he sede, ‘þu leste [Laud MS. wiltu luste] A tale mid þe beste’.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20590 Listes þe bon þat scho him badd.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5083 So is it wit, a wiseman his wordis to listyn.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 41 Elues, list your names. View more context for this quotation
1642 T. Hill Trade of Truth Ep. Ded. I put it into your Honourable Protection, who have listed it [a sermon].
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals Epil. But ere the battle should he list her cries, The lover trembles—and the hero dies!
1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. xvii. 128 I list no more the tuck of drum.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 178 I..list the drone of heavy humble-bees.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad iii. 5 And you will list the bugle That blows in lands of morn.
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listv.3
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ a. transitive. To put a list, border, or edge round (an object); to border, edge. Also, to put as a list or border upon. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > provide with an edge
listc1330
urlec1330
borderc1400
embordera1533
edge1555
lip1607
inverge1611
marginate1611
brim1623
rim1709
margin1715
skirt1717
skirt1787
marge1852
c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 454 A targe listed wiþ gold.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. xciv. 51 The scrippe was of greene selk,..Lysted it was wel queyntliche with xii belles of siluer.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 612/2 I lyste a garment, or border it rounde about with a lyst..I have lysted my cote within to make it laste better.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Lisier, to list or border any thing.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 297 A long straight mossie walk..listed on both sides with an Aquæduct of white stone.
a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 80 Such an Accumulation of benefits, like a kind of Embroidering or listing of one favour upon another.
1650 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) i. i. 2 Trite and trivial phrases..listed with pedantic shreds of Shool-boy verses.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. vi. 277 A Danish Curtax listed with gold or silver.
1703 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1702–03 (Royal Soc.) 23 1451 The edges [of a fern leaf] are listed with Seed.
b. To fix list upon the edge of (a door).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > screen > [verb (transitive)] > fix cloth on edge of door to exclude draughts
list1860
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. List..5. To fix list, or a strip of cloth, to; as, ‘To list a door’.
1881 R. T. Cooke Somebody's Neighbors 64 Monsieur Leclerc..listed the doors against approaching winter breezes.
a. To enclose; to shut in with rails or the like.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)]
beloukOE
pind?c1225
closec1275
beshuta1300
to shut about13..
umbclosec1330
to close about1340
aclosec1350
in close1393
enclose?a1400
tinec1400
concludea1425
includec1425
wallc1430
underclosec1440
inclusea1450
hedgec1500
lista1513
inrail1523
interclude1524
fence1535
parclose1535
riba1547
pale1570
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immure1583
upclosec1590
enchase1591
interclose1592
recinct1598
underfong1599
intermure1606
bound1609
engirt1627
bosom1637
infence1652
cancellate1664
circumclude1677
embosomc1750
comprehend1807
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cix [He] kepte his daye appoynted for that Batayll in a Felde called in Frenshe Lapre aux clers, where for theim was ordeyned a place Lyestyd and closed in goodly wyse.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. i. 109 Upon the other thre quarters, it [Asie] is lysted in with the Occean.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Cauea,..euery place listed or rayled in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)]
terminate?a1425
border1570
limit1578
frontier1599
lista1600
bound1601
confine1601
bounder1636
verge1817
delimit1879
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. viii, in Wks. (1662) 20 The Local compass of a Bishops authority and power was never so straightly listed, as some men would have the World..imagine.
3. Carpentry. To cut away the sappy edge of a board; to shape a block or stave by chopping.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > other processes
makec1450
rough-hew1530
rip1532
stick1573
list1635
frame1663
fur1679
beard1711
cord1762
butt1771
drill1785
joint1815
rend1825
broach1846
ross1853
flitch1875
bore1887
stress-grade1955
1635 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 34 Sawne bords..cut sharp at ye tope, and either listed or shote with a plaine.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder Gloss. Listing, the act of cutting away the sap-wood from one or both edges of a board.
1874 Skyring's Builders' Prices 22 Floors..For each edge listed, add os. 2d.
1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.
4. Agriculture. To prepare (the land) for the crop (of cotton or Indian corn) by making ridges and furrows with the plough or beds and alleys with the hoe. U.S. regional.
ΚΠ
1770 G. Washington Diaries I. 374 Finished listing Ground for Corn at Muddy Hole.
1785 G. Washington Writings (1891) XII. 224 Some of it..had been twice ploughed, then listed, then twice harrowed before sowing.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 432 Boys and girls, ‘listing’ an old corn-field with hoes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
listv.4
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ 1.
a. transitive. To set down together in a list; to make a list of; to catalogue, register.
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society > communication > record > list > [verb (transitive)]
telleOE
reckonc1175
titlea1325
reckonc1400
entitlec1430
recitea1475
recount1481
perusea1535
capitulate1566
recense1583
catalogue1598
item1601
renumerate1605
list1614
enumeratea1649
recenseate1657
cataloguize1820
to run down ——1833
reel1835
to call off1846
itemize1864
enumer1936
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. i. §1. 158 Their Kings were of the..nation Argiues; who are listed as followeth.
1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 57 When night comes, list thy deeds.
1712 Official Notice in London Gaz. No. 4994/3 The Persons bringing the said Tickets, are desired to List the same in a Numerical Order, and to write in their List the Name.
1861 E. O'Curry Lect. Manuscript Materials Anc. Irish Hist. 271 Of the Forbasa listed in the Book of Leinster there is one more so remarkable, that [etc.].
1887 Athenæum 6 Aug. 171/2 About one hundred species of butterflies have been listed.
b. To set down or enter in a special, formal, or official list (e.g. of persons or property for assessment, of stocks, etc.); U.S. to enter or register for taxation.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > list > [verb (transitive)] > enter in list
billc1305
enrolc1350
putc1436
rollc1440
inbill1461
book1548
cataloguize1609
billet1610
enschedulea1616
catalogize1632
catalogue1635
list1658
schedule1862
handlist1888
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > levy (a tax) [verb (transitive)] > enter on tax-list
tax1526
list1658
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [verb (transitive)] > list rateable property
list1877
1658 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1823) I. 454 All negroes imported..and Indian servants..being sixteen years of age, to be listed and pay leavies as aforesaid.
1666 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) IV. 136 Incase they be not accomodated with land amongst them with whom they are listed neare the Bay line.
1687 P. Rycaut Contin. Knolles' Hist. Turks II. 223 There were listed fifty-five thousand, who paid duties of Harach.
1702 Hawick Kirk Session Rec. 4 Oct. The Minister..desired such as intended to communicate to list themselves this week.
1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 16 Oct. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 324 Spent the day in listing my money for Congress.
1877 W. H. Burroughs On Taxation 214 Assessors are to list such lands only as are situate [etc.].
1881 Daily News 1 Nov. 5/7 Only seven cases were listed for to-day.
1893 Times 14 July 4/1 The shrinkage in the value of American securities ‘listed’ in this market.
c. U.S. To place (a property) in the hands of a real-estate agent for sale or rent; to add to the list of properties advertised by a real-estate agent. Cf. listing n.3 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > sell specific things [verb (transitive)] > place property on sale list
list1906
1906 W. A. Carney Real Estate Business v. 20 A real estate broker..should have listed considerable property.
1906 W. A. Carney Real Estate Business v. 21 He can sometimes list a real bargain.
1908 Amer. Real Estate Seller July 2 Every real estate dealer should have a form contract and use it. He should not list a property that he has not a contract on.
1909 Amer. Real Estate Seller Aug. 6 The real estate dealers should combine and pass a resolution to list property exclusively.
1911 National Realty Jrnl. Mar. 14/2 The land owner, the investor, will also find it to his interest to recognize an active agent and list property with him.
1921 J. B. Spilker Real Estate Business v. 25 Only those properties which in the mind of the sales manager are saleable, and only those properties which are secured at a fair price and reasonable to both the buyer and seller, should be listed for sale.
1945 G. H. Beurhaus Who handles your Real Estate? (rev. ed.) vi. 19 The broker..proceeds to list property.
1972 J. L. Gale Listing Real Estate p. xix Once we learn the ground rules for listing residences, we can then go on and successfully list property of any kind.
d. To enter (a name and address) in a telephone directory.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate with by telephone [verb (transitive)] > enter in directory
list1959
1959 R. Stout Crime & Again 91 ‘I'll see if she's listed.’ I went to my desk for the Manhattan phone book.
1971 Post Office Telephone Directory Section 101: London Postal Area 12/1 A special Greater London Business directory has been introduced, listing certain businesses within about thirty miles of Charing Cross.
e. To protect (a building, etc.) by placing it on a statutory preservation register. Cf. list n.6 1a (b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > preserve from injury or destruction [verb (transitive)] > preserve in proper condition > relics or antiquities > place on register
schedule1921
list1968
1968 Act Eliz. II c. 72 §52 A building which, immediately before the date of the compulsory purchase order, was listed.
1968 Act Eliz. II c. 72 §54 Matters which may be taken into account by the Minister in listing buildings.
1972 E. Lemarchand Cyanide with Compliments vi. 74 The lovely little seventeenth-century timber-framed house... It's recently been listed.
1972 E. Lemarchand Cyanide with Compliments xiii. 170 Some local preservation enthusiasts succeeded in getting the house listed as of architectural and historic interest.
1973 Daily Tel. 24 Mar. 14/6 Church House..was listed on Feb. 27 because of its architectural or historic merit. But workmen knocked a hole through the front wall on Tuesday.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > include [verb (transitive)] > in a class, description, or reckoning
accounta1464
lap1552
include1575
shroud1593
comprise1597
list1622
classicate1654
classa1658
distribute1664
to run over ——1724
immerse1734
group1759
compute1818
classify1854
count1857
to ring in1916
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 142 He that..desires to be listed into the rolle of those that haue gotten greatest fame.
1637 P. Massinger Addr. to Shirley on his ‘Grateful Servant’ My obscure name, Listed with theirs, who here advance thy fame.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxiv. 192 What are Chaplains? In State perhaps they may be listed among the upper Servingmen of som great houshold.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 5 Feb. (1976) IX. 51 The persons therein concerned to be listed of this or that Church.
a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) To Rdr. sig. A4v Vertues are listed in the rank of Invisible things.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub i. 43 It is under this Classis, I have presumed to list my present Treatise.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxii. 274 All Trades and Occupations being listed into Tribes; none can marry out of their own Tribe.
1777 A. Dick Let. 17 Feb. in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1791) II. 105 [Quoting Sir A. Dick, 17 Feb. (1791)] I have..listed Dr. Samuel Johnson in some of my memorandums.
3.
a. To enter on the list of a military body; to appoint formally (an officer); also in passive with complement, to be appointed or ‘gazetted’ as (captain, etc.). In later use only in narrower sense, to enrol (private soldiers), to receive as recruits; = enlist v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)]
wagec1330
musterc1425
to take upc1425
prest1481
to call up1523
conscribe1548
enrol1576
matriculate1577
press1600
in list1604
list1643
recruita1661
enlist1699
crimp1789
to muster into service1834
book1843
induct1934
to read in1938
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > appoint to rank [verb (transitive)]
commissionate1587
list1643
commission1646
1643 Declar. Commons conc. Rebellion in Ireland 28 The Parliament..had made choice of, and listed all the Commanders..for that Expedition.
1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη ix. 61 What Tumults could not do, an Army must, which is but Tumults listed.
1653 J. Shirley Court Secret iv. 47 I was listed Captain, before some The Generall knew had been seven years in service.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 101 Some Troops of those who had been listed by them under good Officers.
1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer i. i. 1 I don't beat up for common Soldiers; no, I list only Granadeers.
1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism 26 Looking on themselves like volunteers, not like men listed in the service.
1795–7 R. Southey Juvenile & Minor Poems in Poet. Wks. (1837) II. 82 I was trapp'd by the Sergeant's palavering pretences, He listed me when I was out of my senses.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [verb (transitive)] > enrol in the service of a cause
list1668
1668 W. Penn No Cross, No Crown in Wks. (1782) II. 96 Last of all, it lists thee of the company of..Jesus; to fight under his banner.
1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons v. 57 He is listed in a Party where he neither knows the Temper, nor Designs, nor perhaps the Person of his Leader.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 5 He that is born, is listed: Life is War.
1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 5 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1501 You are but just listed in the world, and must be active, diligent, indefatigable.
1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. iv. §27 156 Men whose affections are already listed against the law in question.
1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 88 Farmer-folks in politics Wi' Tory lairds are listed.
4.
a. reflexive and intransitive (for reflexive) To have one's name entered upon the list of a military body; to engage for military service; = enlist v. 4. to list (oneself) a soldier or for a soldier.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist [verb (reflexive)]
enrol1576
list1643
to take up1689
enlist1750
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist soldiers [verb (intransitive)] > enlist as a soldier
to take wages1338
shoulder1594
to take service1634
list1643
to take the shilling1707
enlist1776
to shoulder walnut1838
join1844
to join up1916
attest1917
1643 Declar. Commons conc. Rebellion in Ireland 62 Who..have lysted themselves in the Lord Dillons Troupe.
c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 87 Secure your selves in some other Parliament Garrisons, or list into the Castle.
1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince viii, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 210 In his youth [he] listed a Soldier.
a1701 C. Sedley tr. D. A. de Brueys & J. Palaprat Grumbler iii. vii, in Wks. (1722) II. 196 Catau. Brillon has listed himself a Soldier. Grichard. Listed himself a Soldier! Catau. Yes, Sir, listed to go to the War.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 89. ⁋6 A Drum passing by,..I listed myself for a Soldier.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 414 If any officer and soldier..shall desert, or list in any other regiment.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ix. 602 Whether a thoroughly upright and enlightened man would rather have listed under the royal or parliamentary standard.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv. 164 He listed at last for a sodger.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [verb (intransitive)] > be enrolled in the service of a cause
list1650
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (reflexive)] > ally oneself to a party
list1650
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > ally oneself to a party
list1841
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. vii. 19 They lost their names by listing themselves under some other people.
1660 R. Allestree Private Devotions 60 Having now anew listed my self under his banner.
1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant iv. i. 62 You..who are listing your self into the Honourable Company of Cuckolds.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 88 Passions, tho' selfish, if their Means be fair, List under Reason.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) ii. ii The Rulers list themselves his Foes.
1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 110 To list themselves, and even to take a lead with the party which they think most likely to prevail.
1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster xvii, in Whims & Oddities 127 When first the scholar lists in Learning's train.
1841 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. I. 3 Merely that they [M.P.'s]..may list under party banners.
Draft additions 1997
f. intransitive. Of goods: to be catalogued or advertised for sale at or for a price. Originally U.S.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > offer, promote, or advertise sale
show1849
list1952
launch1968
1935 Industr. Equipm. News Apr. 34/2 Polishing machine... Prices list from $91 to $191.]
1952 Automobile Topics Jan. 1 Aero Wing, Super deluxe two-door sedan, lists at $1,903.50.
a1961 Industr. Equipm. News in Webster (at cited word) The wrench alone lists at $3.
1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 19 Oct. 3- d (advt.) They list for $300 to $500 less than comparable '75's.
1987 Stamps Feb. 23/2 The item..lists in Stanley Gibbons at £8,500 in used condition and is unpriced as unused.
1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 32 Maryland waterfront real-estate values have so escalated that those homely, often cheek-by-jowl stock items may list for half a million.
g. transitive. Computing. To display or print out (a program, the contents of a file, etc.); to produce a listing of. Also, to transmit (a program or file) to a peripheral where it can be displayed or printed.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (transitive)] > display or print
list1958
society > computing and information technology > data > database > use data [verb (transitive)] > store > copy or transfer
read1940
to read out1946
copy1953
dump1956
list1958
recall1966
to roll out1969
import1977
upload1977
export1982
1958 [implied in: Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 5 57 Figure 1 is an illustration of a typical computer program listing. It is the list of the commands that the computer is to execute in solving a fractional part of a problem. It shows where the commands are stored, what they are to do, and contains some descriptive comments. (at listing n.3 Additions)].
1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 93 List,..to print every relevant item of input data on the general basis of one line of print per card.
1979 P. J. Brown Writing Interactive Compilers & Interpreters ii. 46 A further feature of interactive working that differentiates it from batch working is that a typical user will frequently want to list all or part of his program, especially if he has been doing a lot of editing.
1984 Creative Computing June 182/2 Now we have a resource of 167 article citations, dealing with various aspects of computer crime that we can list.
1986 ZX Computing Monthly Oct. 74/3 In LISTing the program to its network port, the Spectrum collects 256 bytes in a buffer first; only when the buffer is full is the data sent down the line.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
listv.5
/lɪst/, U.S. /lɪst/ Nautical.
intransitive. Of a ship: To careen, heel, or incline to one side. Also with off.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > heel or list
blencha1300
rolla1325
heelc1575
seela1618
list1626
stoop1663
careen1762
to lie along1769
to lay along1779
wrong1842
to roll down1856
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 29 Cun the ship, spoune before the winde, she lusts, she lyes vnder the Sea.
c1740 A. Allen MS. Dict. at Lust Mariners say the Ship lusteth, when she leans to one side rather than to another.
1880 Times 6 Aug. 5/3 When heavily laden she..had a tendency to list, and righted herself with difficulty.
1880 Times 17 Dec. 5/6 She was moored outside the dock but listed off, and makes a good deal of water.
1885 Cent. Mag. 29 742 She listed to port and filled rapidly.
Draft additions 1997
Also transferred and figurative (of an object or animal, or jocular of a person).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > lean over
hieldc888
leanOE
stoopc1000
clinea1400
incline?c1400
acclinea1425
overheldc1450
paunch1577
sway1577
pend1674
list1929
1929 E. Bowen Shoes in Joining Charles 40 The female shoes, uncertainly balanced because of their high heels, listed towards the strong shoes of Edward timidly and lackadaisically.
1943 Horizon 8 156 The crazy dunikins, outside w.c.s listing away from the prevailing wind.
1969 M. Bragg Hired Man i. vii. 70 The weaker horse listed over to the stronger at the slightest relaxation of the biased hold.
1985 M. Gordon Men & Angels v. 79 She listed like a heavy ship.
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