lithe

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Mild

   Mild; calm.

   • lithe weather
2. 2

   Slim but not skinny.

   • lithe body
3. 3

   Capable of being easily bent

   Capable of being easily bent; flexible.

   • the elephant’s lithe trunk.
   • … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
   • Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither.
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   1. 4

      Adaptable.

   2. 5

      To become calm.

   3. 6

      To make soft or mild

      To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

      • England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.
      • Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.
   4. 7

      To attend

      To attend; listen, hearken.

   5. 8

      To listen to, hearken to.

   6. 9

      Shelter.

   7. 10

      to thicken (gravy, etc.)

      • lithe widely used as a verb in nEng Sc and Ir, as a noun only in Cu
      • to render lithe or thick, to thicken (broth, etc.)
      • lithe 'to thicken soups, sauces, etc.'

The neighborhood

• neighbor-inda
• neighborlind
• neighborlinden
• neighborLinda