From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lithe \Lithe\ (l[imac][th]), verb (used with an object) & i. [Icel hl[=y][eth]a. See {Listen}.] To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lithe \Lithe\, adjective [AS. l[imac][eth]e, for lin[eth]e tender, mild, gentle; akin to G. lind, gelind, OHG. lindi, Icel. linr, L. lenis soft, mild, lentus flexible, and AS. linnan to yield. Cf. {Lenient}.]
1. Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.]
2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lithe \Lithe\, verb (used with an object) [AS. l[imac][eth]ian. See {Lithe}, adjective] To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: {lissome}, {lissom}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {svelte}, {sylphlike}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "lithe": adaptable, bendable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressionable, lean, like putty, limber, lissome, lithesome, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, slender, slight, slim, spare, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, thin, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
LITHE Object-oriented with extensible syntax. "LITHE: A Language Combining a Flexible Syntax and Classes", D. Sandberg, Conf Rec 9th Ann ACM Sym POPL, ACM 1982, pp.142-145.
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