List \List\, v. t. To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.

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List \List\, v. i. [See Listen.]

To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.]

Stand close, and list to him. --Shak.

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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.

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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.

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List \List\, n.

1. Inclination; desire. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

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

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List \List\, n. [AS. l[=i]st a list of cloth; akin to D. lijst, G. leiste, OHG. l[=i]sta, 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.

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List \List\ (l[i^]st), n. [F. lice, LL. liciae, pl., from L. licium thread, girdle.]

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.

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List \List\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Listed; p. pr. & vb. n. Listing.]

[From list a roll.]

1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border. --Sir H. Wotton.

2. 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.

3. To enroll; to place or register in a list.

Listed among the upper serving men. --Milton.

4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.

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

5. (Carp.) 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.

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List \List\, v. i. To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

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List \List\, v. t.

1. To plow and plant with a lister.

2. In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. [Southern U. S.]

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