lithe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Mild; calm.

   “lithe weather”

2. sıfat Slim but not skinny.

   “lithe body”

3. sıfat Capable of being easily bent; flexible.

   “the elephant’s lithe trunk.”

4. sıfat Adaptable.

   “Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let^([sic – meaning yet]) light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.”

5. fiil To become calm.
6. fiil To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

   “England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.”

7. fiil To attend; listen, hearken.
8. fiil To listen to, hearken to.
9. isim Shelter.

   “So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.”

10. fiil to thicken (gravy, etc.)

    “lithe widely used as a verb in nEng Sc and Ir, as a noun only in Cu”