Noun

(en noun)

A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

* Shakespeare:

gartered with a red and blue list

Material used for cloth selvage.

* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=(Arthur Conan Doyle), title=The Naval Treaty, page=681, publisher=Norton 2005,

passage=The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers.}}

(in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.

* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by (Samuel Butler), part 1, :

With truncheon tipp'd with iron head, / The warrior to the lists he led.

* (Alexander Pope)

In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.

* {{quote-book, year=1819, author=(Walter Scott), title=(Ivanhoe),

passage=William de Wyvil, and Stephen de Martival, [...] armed at all points, rode up and down the lists to enforce and preserve good order among the spectators.}}

A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the enumeration or compilation itself.

* Francis Bacon:

He was the ablest emperor of all the list .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.

(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.

(obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.

* Shakespeare

The very list , the very utmost bound, / Of all our fortunes.

(obsolete) A stripe.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

(architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

(carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

(ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

(tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.

(tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.

* 1877 , James Clarke & Co, The literary world :

In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.

* 1893 , Solomon Caesar, Original notes on the Book of Proverbs :

"[...] The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within."

* 1897 , Lilian Winser, Lays and legends of the Weald of Kent :

For when the guileful monster smiled Snakes left their holes and hissed, — And stroking soft his silken beard Raised creatures full of list .

* 1991 , Alexander L. Ringer, The Early romantic era :

The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed by List ... (List = cunning); [...].

* 1992 , University of Reading. Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, Reading medieval studies :

The latter wins his fight not by list but through straightforward knightly prowess, [...]

* 2000 , Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, Peter Schreiner, Polypleuros nous :

It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal, Manuel, as depicted by Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than by list ."

* 2008 , Jon B. Sherman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The magician in medieval German literature :

One man can accomplish with list (magic), that which a thousand could not accomplish, regardless of how strong they were.

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.

(architecture) A tilt to a building.

Noun

(obsolete) Inclination; desire.