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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A series of names, words, or other items written, printed, or imagined one after the other: a shopping list; a guest list; a list of things to do.
2. n. A considerable number; a long series: recited a list of dates memorized.
3. v. To make a list of; itemize: listed his previous jobs.
4. v. To enter in a list; register: listed each item received.
5. v. To put (oneself) in a specific category: lists herself as an artist.
6. v. Archaic To recruit.
7. v. To have a stated list price: a radio that lists for ten dollars over the sale price.
8. v. Archaic To enlist in the armed forces.
9. n. A narrow strip, especially of wood.
10. n. Architecture See listel.
11. n. A border or selvage of cloth.
12. n. A stripe or band of color.
13. n. An arena for jousting tournaments or other contests. Often used in the plural.
14. n. A place of combat.
15. n. An area of controversy.
16. n. A ridge thrown up between two furrows by a lister in plowing.
17. n. Obsolete A boundary; a border.
18. v. To cover, line, or edge with list.
19. v. To cut a thin strip from the edge of.
20. v. To furrow or plant (land) with a lister.
21. n. An inclination to one side, as of a ship; a tilt.
22. v. To lean or cause to lean to the side: The damaged ship listed badly to starboard. Erosion first listed, then toppled the spruce tree.
23. v. Archaic To listen or listen to.
24. v. To be pleasing to; suit.
25. v. To be disposed; choose.
26. n. A desire or an inclination.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To attend; give heed; harken; listen.
2. To listen or harken to.
3. n. The sense of hearing.
4. n. An attitude of attention.
5. To please; be agreeable to; gratify; suit: originally impersonal, with indirect object of the person.
6. Nautical, to cause to incline or lean to one side; cause to careen or heel over, as a ship by force of a side wind or by unequal stowage of cargo, etc.
7. To be disposed or inclined; wish; choose; like; please: with a personal subject: absolute, or followed by an infinitive with to.
8. Nautical, to incline to one side or careen: as, the ship listed to starboard.
9. n. Desire; wish; choice; inclination.
10. n. Pleasure; lust.
11. n. Nautical, a careening or leaning to one side: as, the ship has a list to port.
12. n. Cunning; craft; skill.
13. n. The outer edge of anything; a border, limit, or boundary.
14. n. The border or edge of cloth, forming the selvage, and usually different from the rest of the fabric; also, such borders collectively. This, which is torn or cut off when the cloth is made up, is used for many purposes requiring a cheap material.
15. n. Hence Any strip of cloth; a fillet; a stripe of any kind.
16. n. The lobe of the ear; also, the ear itself.
17. n. In architecture, a square molding; a fillet. Also called listel.
18. n. In carpentry:
19. n. A narrow strip from the edge of a plank.
20. n. The upper rail of a railing.
21. n. A woolen flap used by ropemakers as a guard for the hand.
22. n. In tinning iron plates, a thin coat of tin applied preparatory to a thicker coat.
23. n. A close dense streak in heavy bread.
24. n. A ridge of earth thrown up by a double-moldboard plow, as in cultivating Indian corn.
25. Made of lists or strips of woolen selvage; made of list: as, list carpet.
26. To border; edge. See list, n., 1.
27. To sew or put together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a variegated display of color, or to form a border.
28. To cover with list, or with lists or strips of cloth: as, to list a door; hence, to mark as if with list; streak.
29. In carpentry, to take off the edge of, as a board; shape by chopping preparatory to finishing, as a block or stave.
30. To ridge with raised borders of earth, as rows of Indian corn, by throwing up a furrow on each side with a double-moldboard plow.
31. In cotton-culture, to prepare for the crop (as land) by making a bed with the hoe, and alternating beds with alleys.
32. n. A roll or catalogue; an enumeration of persons or things by their names: as, a list of officers or members of a society; a list of books or of clothing.
33. n. A book, card, or slip of paper containing a series of names of persons or things, or prepared for the noting of such names: as, a visiting-list; a washing-list.
34. n. Specifically— A list of the articles exempt from duty under existing revenue laws.
35. n. A list of persons allowed free admittance to any public entertainment.
36. n. Synonyms List, Roll, Register, Catalogue, Inventory, Schedule. Roll applies only to persons, inventory and schedule only to things; the rest apply to both. List is much the most general. A list may be merely of names, without description or order, as a list of shops, a list of persons proscribed. Roll differs from list only in limitation to persons and in faint suggestion of its original meaning of a rolled-up paper or parchment. Register suggests an official act of some formality and fullness of detail, perhaps according to a legal or customary form: as, a register of voters, of marriages, or of deaths. Catalogue supposes orderly arrangement and some fullness of description: as, a catalogue of the paintings in a gallery, of the specimens in a museum, of the books in a library, or of the students in a college. An inventory is a list of property, generally with prices or values, made for legal or business purposes, as on a dissolution of partnership. A schedule is a list of things, made for any purpose, and showing what they are both in a general view and in some detail: as, a schedule of studies, or of assets.
37. To put into a list or catalogue; register; enroll.
38. Specifically To register the name of as a soldier; muster into the public service as a soldier; enlist: in this sense partly by apheresis from enlist.
39. To enter for taxation, as property of any kind, upon the assessment-roll or a tax-book.
40. To enter the public service by enrolling one's name; enlist: in this use partly by apheresis from enlist.
41. n. One of the barriers inclosing the field of combat at a tournament; usually, in the plural (rarely in the singular), the space or field thus inclosed: now mostly used figuratively: as, to enter the lists in behalf of one's principles.
42. To inclose for a tournament, or for any contest: used especially in the past participle.
43. n. The flank.
44. n. A division or lock of the hair or beard.

Wiktionary

1. v. poetic To listen
2. n. nautical a tilting or careening manoeuvre, which causes the ship to roll. Usually used to describe tilting not under a ship's own power.
3. n. architecture a tilt to a building.
4. v. nautical to carry out such a manoeuvre
5. v. archaic, transitive To be pleasing to.
6. v. archaic To wish, like, desire (to do something).
7. n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
8. n. Material used for cloth selvage.
9. n. in the plural The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
10. n. computing, programming A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially, in the LISP programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
11. v. To create or recite a list.
12. v. To place in listings.
13. v. obsolete To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
14. n. archaic Art; craft; cunning; skill.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
2. v. To inclose for combat.
3. v. Obs. except in poetry. To hearken; to attend; to listen.
4. v. To listen or hearken to.
5. v. To desire or choose; to please.
6. v. (Naut.) To lean; to incline.
7. n. obsolete Inclination; desire.
8. n. (Naut.) An inclination to one side.
9. n. A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet.
10. n. A limit or boundary; a border.
11. n. obsolete The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
12. n. obsolete A stripe.
13. n. A roll or catalogue, that is, row or line; a record of names
14. n. (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
15. n. (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
16. n. (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
17. n. The first thin coat of tin.
18. n. A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
19. v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.
20. v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; ; to stripe as if with list.
21. v. To enroll; to place or register in a list.
22. v. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
23. v. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
24. v. To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
25. v. To plow and plant with a lister.
26. v. Southern U. S. In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
2. n. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
3. v. tilt to one side
4. v. cause to lean to the side
5. v. include in a list
6. v. enumerate.
7. v. give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of