lithe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lithe	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for lithe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lithe adj moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lithe \Lithe\, v. i. & i. [Icel [?]. See {Listen}.] To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lithe \Lithe\, a. [AS. [?], for [?] tender, mild, gentle; akin to G. lind, gelind, OHG. lindi, Icel. linr, L. lenis soft, mild, lentus flexible, and AS. linnan to yield. Cf. {Lenient}.] 1. Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.] 2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. [?]. See {Lithe}, a.] To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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.