To attend; give heed; harken; listen.
To listen or harken to.
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One of the barriers inclosing the field of combat at a tournament; usually, in the plural (rarely in the singular), the space or field thus inclosed: now mostly used figuratively: as, to enter the lists in behalf of one's principles.
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The outer edge of anything; a border, limit, or boundary.
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The border or edge of cloth, forming the selvage, and usually different from the rest of the fabric; also, such borders collectively. This, which is torn or cut off when the cloth is made up, is used for many purposes requiring a cheap material.
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Hence Any strip of cloth; a fillet; a stripe of any kind.
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The lobe of the ear; also, the ear itself.
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In architecture, a square molding; a fillet. Also called listel.
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In carpentry:
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A narrow strip from the edge of a plank.
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The upper rail of a railing.
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A woolen flap used by ropemakers as a guard for the hand.
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In tinning iron plates, a thin coat of tin applied preparatory to a thicker coat.
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A close dense streak in heavy bread.
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A ridge of earth thrown up by a double-moldboard plow, as in cultivating Indian corn.
Made of lists or strips of woolen selvage; made of list: as, list carpet.
To put into a list or catalogue; register; enroll.
Specifically To register the name of as a soldier; muster into the public service as a soldier; enlist: in this sense partly by apheresis from enlist.
To enter for taxation, as property of any kind, upon the assessment-roll or a tax-book.
To enter the public service by enrolling one's name; enlist: in this use partly by apheresis from enlist.
To inclose for a tournament, or for any contest: used especially in the past participle.
To please; be agreeable to; gratify; suit: originally impersonal, with indirect object of the person.