Lithe: Definition and part of speech

Lithe

  1. a. To smooth; to soften; to palliate.
  2. v. i. & i. To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
  3. a. Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.
  4. a. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant’s lithe proboscis.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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