lithing

Verb (1)

lithe (third-person singular simple present lithes, present participle lithing, simple past and past participle lithed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become calm.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
   • England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven

Verb (2)

lithe (third-person singular simple present lithes, present participle lithing, simple past and past participle lithed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To attend; listen, hearken.
2. (transitive) To listen to, hearken to.

Verb (3)

lithe (third-person singular simple present lithes, present participle lithing, simple past and past participle lithed)

1. (Yorkshire, archaic, dialectal, Lancashire) to thicken (gravy, etc.)
   • lithe widely used as a verb in nEng Sc and Ir, as a noun only in Cu1902, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary, Oxford University Press, page 624

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