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Lithe vs Mithe - What's the difference?

lithe | mithe |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between lithe and mithe

is that lithe is (obsolete) to give ear; attend; listen while mithe is (obsolete) to remain concealed; escape notice; hide one's thoughts or feelings.

As verbs the difference between lithe and mithe

is that lithe is (obsolete) to go or lithe can be (obsolete) to become calm or lithe can be (obsolete) to give ear; attend; listen while mithe is (obsolete) to avoid; shun; evade.

As an adjective lithe

is (obsolete) mild; calm.

As a noun lithe

is (scotland) shelter.

lithe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Verb

  • (obsolete) To go.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lithe, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Mild; calm.
    • ''lithe weather
  • slim but not skinny
    • lithe body
  • *
    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe , polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
  • Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber
    • the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
  • * 1861 , , page 125
    • … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
    Synonyms
    * lithesome, lissome,

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) To become calm.
  • (obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (lith)
  • (obsolete) To give ear; attend; listen.
  • To listen to.

    • Etymology 5

    Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of (lewth).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) Shelter.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
    • So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.

    Anagrams

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    mithe

    English

    Verb

    (mith)
  • (obsolete) To avoid; shun; evade.
  • (obsolete) To escape the notice of.
  • (obsolete) To conceal; dissemble (feelings, etc.).
  • (obsolete) To remain concealed; escape notice; hide one's thoughts or feelings.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)