lissen
lissen noun: a cleft or hollow in rock. Also the eye dialect spelling of listen.
Noun
lissen (plural lissens)
- A cleft or hollow in rock.
- And I remember in my youth, in the Lisne of a Rock at Kingſcote in Gloceſtershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles actually distinct one from another, each near as big as my Fist.a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...
- Beside these, we have another fine Earth, of a white colour, porous and friable, insipid and without scent, dissoluble in water; and tinging it, of a milky colour, and somtimes raising a kind of ebullition in it; found frequently in the lissoms or seams of the Rocks, or sticking to the hollow...1677, Robert Plot, The natural history of Oxford-shire
Also used as
lissen is also the eye dialect spelling of listen.
Forms of lissen
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lissens |
| alternative form | lissom |
| alternative form | lisne |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lissens |
| present participle | lissening |
| past participle | lissened |
| past | lissened |
Origin of lissen
Unknown.
A respelling of listen.
Questions about lissen
- What does lissen mean?
- Lissen means a cleft or hollow in rock.
- What part of speech is lissen?
- Lissen is a noun.
- What is the plural of lissen?
- The plural of lissen is lissens.
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