Verb

(en verb)

To create or recite a list.

To place in listings.

(obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

(obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

* Walter Scott, The Waverly Novels :

"I will list you for my soldier, then," said the Countess.

To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.

To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.

to list a door

* Alfred Tennyson:

The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.

(carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

to list a board

Verb

(poetic) To listen.

* 1607 , iv 3 :

Peace, what noise? / List', ' list ! / Hark! / Music i' the air.

(poetic) To listen to.

* Shakespeare:

Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, / If with too credent ear you list his songs.

Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) To tilt to one side.

the ship listed to port

(nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.

the steady wind listed the ship

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To be pleasing to.

(archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2

If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy / likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list .

* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. VIII, ''Unworking Aristocracy

Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they list ; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths, — if they be pitiless infernal gods!

* 1959 , , "What is Political Philosophy?", in What is Political Philosophy? , page 51:

License consists in doing what one lists ; liberty consists in doing in the right manner the good only;

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 413:

The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.

Verb

(es)

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.

* 2011 , Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 , page 323

There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears

(obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.

* 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), The Teares of the Muses

And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.

To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.

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Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

* 1725–1726 , (Alexander Pope), Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V

With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.

To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.

* 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)

All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England .

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(often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.

* 1718 , (Matthew Prior), Solomon: On the Vanity of the World , Preface

In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths

* 1969 , (Maya Angelou), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , ch. 23:

My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.