lithe

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lithe
    adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: {lissome}, {lissom},
           {lithe}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {svelte},
           {sylphlike}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lithe \Lithe\ (l[imac][th]), v. t. & i. [Icel hl[=y][eth]a. See
   {Listen}.]
   To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lithe \Lithe\, a. [AS. l[imac][eth]e, for lin[eth]e tender,
   mild, gentle; akin to G. lind, gelind, OHG. lindi, Icel.
   linr, L. lenis soft, mild, lentus flexible, and AS. linnan to
   yield. Cf. {Lenient}.]
   1. Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber;
      as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. --Milton.

   Syn: lithesome.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. l[imac][eth]ian. See {Lithe}, a.]
   To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
LITHE

   Object-oriented with extensible syntax.

   "LITHE: A Language Combining a Flexible Syntax and Classes",
   D. Sandberg, Conf Rec 9th Ann ACM Sym POPL, ACM 1982,
   pp.142-145.
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "lithe":
      adaptable, bendable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic,
      extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible,
      flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible,
      impressionable, lean, like putty, limber, lissome, lithesome,
      malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive,
      responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, slender, slight, slim,
      spare, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, thin, tractable,
      tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding
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