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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An inclination to one side, as of a ship; a tilt.
• intransitive & transitive verb To lean or cause to lean to the side.
• intransitive verb To be pleasing to; suit.
• intransitive verb To be disposed; choose.
• noun A desire or inclination.
• noun A narrow strip, especially of wood.
• noun A border or selvage of cloth.
• noun A stripe or band of color.
• noun An arena for jousting tournaments or other contests.
• noun A place of combat.
• noun An area of controversy.
• noun A ridge thrown up between two furrows by a lister in plowing.
• noun Obsolete A boundary; a border.
• transitive verb To cover, line, or edge with list.
• transitive verb To cut a thin strip from the edge of.
• transitive verb To furrow or plant (land) with a lister.
• noun A series of names, words, or other items written, printed, or imagined one after the other.
• noun A considerable number; a long series.
• intransitive verb To make a list of; itemize.
• intransitive verb To enter in a list; register.
• intransitive verb To put (oneself) in a specific category.
• intransitive verb Archaic To recruit.
• intransitive verb To have a stated list price.
• intransitive verb Archaic To enlist in the armed forces.
• intransitive & transitive verb To listen or listen to.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To attend; give heed; harken; listen.
• To listen or harken to.
• noun 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.
• noun The outer edge of anything; a border, limit, or boundary.
• noun 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.
• noun Hence Any strip of cloth; a fillet; a stripe of any kind.
• noun The lobe of the ear; also, the ear itself.
• noun In architecture, a square molding; a fillet. Also called listel.
• noun In carpentry:
• noun A narrow strip from the edge of a plank.
• noun The upper rail of a railing.
• noun A woolen flap used by ropemakers as a guard for the hand.
• noun In tinning iron plates, a thin coat of tin applied preparatory to a thicker coat.
• noun A close dense streak in heavy bread.
• noun A ridge of earth thrown up by a double-moldboard plow, as in cultivating Indian corn.
• Made of lists or strips of woolen selvage; made of list: as, list carpet.
• To put into a list or catalogue; register; enroll.
• 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.
• To enter for taxation, as property of any kind, upon the assessment-roll or a tax-book.
• To enter the public service by enrolling one's name; enlist: in this use partly by apheresis from enlist.
• To inclose for a tournament, or for any contest: used especially in the past participle.
• To please; be agreeable to; gratify; suit: originally impersonal, with indirect object of the person.