English
Pronunciation 1
IPA|/�laɪð�(r)/
Adjective
lither
- comparative of|lithe
Quotations
1900 � w:Grant Allen|Grant Allen and w:Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur Conan Doyle, s:Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose|Hilda Wade, ch VIII
:Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither.
Pronunciation 2
IPA|/�li�ð�(r)/
Adjective
lither
- obsolete Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.
Quotations
1592: w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s:The First Part of King Henry the Sixth|Henry VI, Part 1
1653, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translators), w:François Rabelais|François Rabelais (author), s:Gargantua|Gargantua (1534), chapter XL
1850, H. I. (translator), Reverand Thomas Harding, A.M. (editor), The Decades of Henry Bullinger, Minister of the Church of Zurich.<!--sic.-->, Third Decade, The Parker Society, Great Britain, page 32
1920, Charles Whibley, Literary Portraits, Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0836909887, page 63
References
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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