LIST, n. [L. licium.]

1. In commerce, the border, edge or selvage of cloth; a strip of cloth forming the border, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it.
2. A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat; hence, to enter the lists, is to accept a challenge or engage in contest. Hence,
3. A limit or boundary; a border.
4. In architecture, a little square molding; a fillet; called also a listel.
5. A roll or catalogue, that is, a row or line; as, a list of names; a list of books; a list of articles; a list of ratable estate.
6. A strip of cloth; a fillet. – Swift. Civil list, in Great Britain and the United States, the civil officers of government, as judges, embassadors, secretaries, &c. Hence it is used for the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers.

In the language of seamen, an inclination to one side. The ship has a list to port. – Mar. Dict.

The outer border or selvage of cloth.

To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist. [The latter is the more elegant word. See Enlist.]

The primary sense seems to be to lean, incline, advance or stretch toward. [See the noun.] Properly, to lean or incline; to be propense; hence, to desire or choose. Let other men think of your devices as they list. – Whitgift. The wind bloweth where it listeth. – John iii.

1. To enroll; to register in a list or catalogue; to enlist. The latter is the more elegant word. Hence,
2. To engage in the public service, as soldiers. They in my name are listed. – Dryden.
3. To inclose for combat; as, to list a field. – Dryden.
4. To sew together, as strips of cloth; or to form a border. – Walton
5. To cover with a list, or with strips of cloth; as, to list a door.
6. To hearken; to attend; a contraction of listen – which see.

1. A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
   
   
   Chaucer.

   In measured lists to toss the weighty lance. Pope.

   To enter the lists, to accept a challenge, or engage in contest.

2. To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
3. To hearken; to attend; to listen.
   
   
   [Obs. except in poetry.]

   Stand close, and list to him. Shak.

4. To listen or hearken to.
   
   

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

5. 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.

6. Inclination; desire.
   
   
   [Obs.] Chaucer.
7. 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.

8. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.
   
   
   Sir H. Wotton.
9. To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
10. To plow and plant with a lister.
11. To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.
12. An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.
13. A limit or boundary; a border.
    
    

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

14. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth] to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
    
    

    The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom. Tennyson.

15. In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
    
    
    [Southern U. S.]
16. The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
    
    
    [Obs.] Chaucer.
17. To enroll; to place or register in a list.
    
    

    Listed among the upper serving men. Milton.

18. A stripe.
    
    
    [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
19. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
    
    

    I will list you for my soldier. Sir W. Scott.

20. 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.

21. To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.
    
    

    To list a stock (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of stocks called at the meeting of the board.

22. A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
23. A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
24. A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
25. The first thin coat of tin.
    
    
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