Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English variant of light. Chaucer.
  • An element in some compounds of Greek formation, meaning ‘stone,’ as in acrolith, monolith, etc. In many names of minerals it occurs in the form -lite (which see).
  • noun An abbreviation of Lithuanian;
  • noun of lithograph and lithography.
  • An obsolete variant of lieth, third person singular indicative present of lie.
  • noun A limb; any member of the body; also, a joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division: as, sound in lith and limb; a lith of an orange.
  • noun Property.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • 3d pers. sing. pres. of lie, to recline, for lieth.
  • noun A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Owndom; property.
  • noun A gate; a gap in a fence.
  • noun A limb; any member of the body.
  • noun A joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division.
  • noun Scotland A segment of an orange, or similar fruit.

Etymologies

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From Middle English lith, lyth ("owndom"), from Old Norse lýðr ("people, lede"), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“men, people”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)lewedʰ- (“man, people”). Cognate with German Leute ("people"), Old English lēode ("people"). More at lede.

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From Middle English *lith, from Old Norse hlið ("a gap, gate, space"), from Proto-Germanic *hliþan (“door, lid, eyelid”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to conceal, hide”). Cognate with Norwegian dialectal lid, led ("an opening in a fence"), Scots lith ("a gap in a fence, gate opening"), Old English hlid ("lid, covering, door, gate, opening"). More at lid.

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From Middle English lith, lyth, from Old English liþ ("limb, member, joint, tip of finger, point"), from Proto-Germanic *liþuz (“limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)lAi- (“to bend”). Cognate with Scots lith ("part of the body, joint"), West Frisian lid ("part of the body, member"), Dutch lid ("limb, member, section"), Middle High German lit ("limb, member"), Swedish led ("joint, link, channel"), Icelandic liður ("item"), Dutch gelid ("joint, rank, file"), German Glied ("limb, member, link").

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Examples

  • And the lithprints [a photographic print developed in lith developer that was baptised by Anton a lithprint.

    Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn Liliana Rodrigues 2010

  • And the lithprints [a photographic print developed in lith developer that was baptised by Anton a lithprint.

    Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn Liliana Rodrigues 2010

  • And the lithprints [a photographic print developed in lith developer that was baptised by Anton a lithprint.

    Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn Liliana Rodrigues 2010

  • Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology."

    Geological Definition of the Day (#3) ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology."

    Archive 2008-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Foundries have for the past four and a half cen­turies thrived through further advances, such as lith­o­g­ra­phy in the 19th century, the inven­tion of the type­writer and again adapted with the rising pop­u­lar­ity of the per­sonal com­puter in the 1980s.

    KLEPAS.ORG 2008

  • Foundries have for the past four and a half cen­turies thrived through further advances, such as lith­o­g­ra­phy in the 19th century, the inven­tion of the type­writer and again adapted with the rising pop­u­lar­ity of the per­sonal com­puter in the 1980s.

    KLEPAS.ORG 2008

  • The poor quality of the images (especially when compared to the much more refined images of well-known Great Leaders such as the monumental Xotz-lith of Xeon), might just indicate chance erosion.

    Conceptualizing Design 2009

  • Blaste rays of lith same to sun shine reflecting to every starfield spaces, empire fleets were falling down.

    Heroes Man | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Heart and courage is nothing to them, lith and limb everything: give them animal strength, what are they better than furious bulls; take that away, and your hero of chivalry lies grovelling like the brute when he is hamstrung.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

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