Chapter Liquate to List of L by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

List
(List), v. t. To listen or hearken to.

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

Shak.

List
(List), v. i. [OE. listen, lusten, AS. lystan, from lust pleasure. See Lust.]

1. To desire or choose; to please.

The wind bloweth where it listeth.

John iii. 8.

Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth.

Hooker.

Let other men think of your devices as they list.

Whitgift.

2. (Naut.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.

List
(List), n.

1. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. (Naut.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.

List
(List), n. [AS. list a list of cloth; akin to D. lijst, G. leiste, OHG. lista, Icel. lista, listi, Sw. list, Dan. liste. In sense 5 from F. liste, of German origin, and thus ultimately the same word.]

1. A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet. "Gartered with a red and blue list. " Shak.

2. A limit or boundary; a border.

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

Shak.

3. The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] Chaucer.

4. A stripe. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

5. A roll or catalogue, that is, a row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.

He was the ablest emperor of all the list.

Bacon.

6. (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; — called also listel.

7. (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

8. (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.

9. (Tin-plate Manuf.) (a) The first thin coat of tin. (b) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

Civil list the civil officers of government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc. Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers. More recently, the civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the reigning monarch's household. — Free list. (a) A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty. (b) A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.