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See also: geographical boundary or frontier and of the See also: lobe of the ear
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In current usage " See also: list " is the See also: term applied to the " selvage " of a piece of See also: cloth, the edging, i.e. of a web See also: left in an unfinished See also: state or of different material from the rest of the fabric, to be torn or cut off when it is made up, or used for forming a seam
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A similar edging prevents unravelling
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The material, cut off and collected, is known as " list," and is used as a soft cheap material for making slippers, See also: padding cushions, &c
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Until the employment of See also: rubber, list was used to stuff the cushions of billiard tables
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The same word probably appears, in a plural See also: form " lists," applied to the barriers or palisades enclosing a space of ground set apart for tilting (see See also: TOURNAMENT)
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It is thus used of any place of contest, and the phrase " to enter the lists " is frequently used in the sense of " to challenge." The word in this application was taken directly from the O
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Fr. lisse, See also: modern lice, in Med
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See also: Lat. liciae
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This word is usually taken to be a Romanic adaptation of the Teutonic word
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In See also: medieval fortifications the lices were the palisades forming an outwork in front of the See also: main walls of a See also: castle or other fortified place, and the word was alsoused of the space enclosed between the palisades and the enceinte; this was used for exercising troops, &c
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From a transference of " list," meaning edge or border, to a " See also: strip" of paper, See also: parchment, &c., containing a " list " of names, numbers, &c., comes the use of the word for an enumeration of a series of names of persons or things arranged in See also: order for some specific purpose
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It is the most general word for such an enumeration, other words, such as " See also: register," " See also: schedule," " inventory," " See also: catalogue," having usually some particular See also: connotation
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The chief early use of list in this meaning was of the See also: roll containing the names of soldiers; hence to "list a soldier " meant to enter a recruit's name for service, in modern usage " to enlist him
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There are numerous particular applications of " list," as in " See also: civil list " (q.v.), " active or retired list " in the See also: navy or army
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The term " See also: free list " is used of an enumeration of such commodities as may at a particular See also: time be exempt from the revenue See also: laws imposing an import duty
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The verb " to list," most commonly found in the imperative, meaning " hark
!
" is another form of " listen," and is to be referred, as to its ultimate origin, to an Indo-See also: European See also: root klu-, seen in Gr
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KXUEW, to hear, KMos, See also: glory, renown, and in the See also: English " loud." The same root is seen in Welsh clr2st and Irish See also: alias, See also: eel-
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Another word "list," meaning pleasure, delight, or, as a verb, meaning " to please, choose," is chiefly found in such phrases as " the See also: wind .loweth where it listeth." This is from the O.E. lystan, cf
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Dut. lusten, Ger. liisten, to take pleasure in, and is also found in the English doublet " lust," now always used in the sense of an evil or more particularly sexual See also: desire
.
It is probably an application of this word, in the sense of " inclination," that has given rise to the nautical term " list," for the turning over of a See also: ship on to its See also: side
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