Word Meanings - LITHESOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. -- Lithe"some*ness, n.

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• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• LITHERLY
  Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.
• LISSOM; LISSOME
  1. Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson. 2. Light; nimble; active. Halliwell. -- Lis"some*ness, n.
• SUPPLELY
  In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
• LITHENESS
  The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
• LITHER
  Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton. Note: Professor Skeat thinks " the lither sky" as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. means the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- Li"ther*ly,
• SUPPLENESS
  The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
• FLEXIBLE
  1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. 2. Willing or ready
• LITHELY
  In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.
• LITHESOME
  Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. -- Lithe"some*ness, n.
• LIMBERNESS
  The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.
• SUPPLETORY
  That which is to supply what is wanted. Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. Jer. Taylor.
• LIMBER
  The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. (more info) 1. pl.
• NIMBLE
  Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope. Note: Nimble is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, nimble-footed, nimble-pinioned,
• SUPPLE
  1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers. 2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. Locke. 3. Bending to
• LITHE
  To listen or listen to; to hearken to. P. Plowman.
• SUPPLEMENTAL; SUPPLEMENTARY
  Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air , the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary
• SUPPLEMENTATION
  The act of supplementing. C. Kingsley.
• SUPPLETIVE; SUPPLETORY
  Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
• NIMBLENESS
  The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• INFLEXIBLE
  1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
• BLITHELY
  In a blithe manner.
• COMPLIANT
  Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
• BLITHENESS
  The state of being blithe. Chaucer.
• UNLIMBER
  To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun.
• COMPLIANTLY
  In a compliant manner.