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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: lit - lithia water</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="lit"> lit (1), verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>verb lighted; a past tense and a past participle of light (1) and light (3). Ex. Have you lit the candles? She lit the lamp. Two birds lit on my window sill. His eye lit upon a sentence. <DD>adj. (Slang.) Often, lit up. intoxicated; drunk. </DL> <A NAME="lit"> lit (2), noun. =litas.</DL> <A NAME="lit"> lit.,<DL COMPACT><DD> an abbreviation for the following: <DD> 1. liter or liters. <DD> 2a. literal. <DD> b. literally. <DD> 3. literary. <DD> 4. literature. </DL> <A NAME="litany"> litany, noun, pl. -nies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. a prayer consisting of a series of supplications said by the minister or priest, and responses said by the people. <DD> b. Often, Litany. a prayer in similar form, the "general supplication" appointed for use in the Book of Common Prayer. <DD> 2. a repeated series. Ex. a litany of curses. </DL> <A NAME="litas"> litas, noun, pl. -tai, -tu.<DL COMPACT><DD> the former unit of money or gold coin of Lithuania. Also, lit. </DL> <A NAME="litb"> Lit. B.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Bachelor of Letters (Latin, Litterarum Baccalaureus). </DL> <A NAME="litchi"> litchi, noun, pl. -tchis.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a small, nut-shaped fruit with a thin, brittle, rough, red shell. Inside the shell is a sweet, white, edible, jellylike pulp with a single brown seed. <DD> 2. the Chinese tree of the soapberry family that it grows on, now cultivated in warm regions throughout the world. Also, leechee, lichi. </DL> <A NAME="litchinut"> litchi nut,<DL COMPACT><DD> the litchi fruit when dried. It is of a brownish or black color and is edible. </DL> <A NAME="litd"> Lit. D.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Doctor of Letters (Latin, Litterarum Doctor). </DL> <A NAME="lite"> -lite,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) stone; rock; mineral, as in chrysolite. Ex. Aerolite = a meteorite made of stone. </DL> <A NAME="liter"> liter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the basic measure of capacity in France, Germany, and other countries that use the metric system. A liter equals 1 cubic decimeter or 1,000 cubic centimeters, and is usually defined as the volume of a kilogram of water at its maximum density. One liter equals 1.0567 quarts U.S. liquid measure, or .908 quart U.S. dry measure. (Abbr:) l. Also, (especially British,) litre. </DL> <A NAME="literacy"> literacy, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the ability to read and write; quality or state of being literate. </DL> <A NAME="literacytest"> literacy test,<DL COMPACT><DD> a test to determine whether a person's ability to read and write meets voting or other requirements. Ex. By 1917, a literacy test had been required for adult immigrants and virtually all Asians were excluded (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="literal"> literal, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. following the exact words of the original. Ex. a literal translation. (SYN) verbatim. <DD> 2. taking words in their usual meaning, without exaggeration or imagination; matter-of-fact. Ex. the literal meaning of a phrase, a literal type of mind, a literal interpretation of the Bible stories. (SYN) prosaic. <DD> 3. true to fact; not exaggerated. Ex. a literal account. <DD> 4. of letters of the alphabet; expressed by letters. <DD>noun (Printing.) a typographical error or misprint in a letter or letters of the alphabet. noun literalness. </DL> <A NAME="literalism"> literalism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a keeping to the literal meaning in translation or interpretation. <DD> 2. (Fine Arts.) the faithfully unaltered representation or interpretation of objects without any idealization. noun literalist. </DL> <A NAME="literalistic"> literalistic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having to do with or characteristic of literalism. </DL> <A NAME="literality"> literality, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the quality or fact of being literal. <DD> 2. an instance of this. </DL> <A NAME="literalize"> literalize, transitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make literal; represent or accept as literal. noun literalization. noun literalizer. </DL> <A NAME="literally"> literally, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. word for word. Ex. to translate literally. <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) lit. <DD> 2a. in a literal sense; without exaggeration; without imagination. Ex. Is this literally true? Write the story literally as it happened. I am literally penniless. <DD> b. actually. Ex. He is literally without fear. <DD> 3. (Informal.) in effect, though not actually; virtually. Ex. The champion runner literally flew around the track. He is literally coining money with his new business. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="literarism"> literarism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> emphasis on literary or humanistic values. </DL> <A NAME="literary"> literary, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having to do with literature. Ex. literary annals. <DD> 2. knowing much about literature. Ex. a literary authority. <DD> 3. engaged in literature as a profession. Ex. some gentlemen of the literary fraternity (Thackeray). adv. literarily. noun literariness. </DL> <A NAME="literate"> literate, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. able to read and write. Ex. The literate person can find out from books what the person who cannot read must find out for himself or be told. <DD> 2. acquainted with literature; educated; literary. (SYN) lettered. <DD>noun 1. a person who can read and write. Ex. The number of literates in the United States has been increasing until most can now read and write. <DD> 2. an educated person. adv. literately. noun literateness. </DL> <A NAME="literati"> literati, noun,<DL COMPACT><DD> (pl. of) literatus. men and women of letters; scholarly or literary people. Ex. the enlightened literati, who turn over the pages of history (Washington Irving). </DL> <A NAME="literatim"> literatim, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> letter for letter; exactly as written. Ex. to reproduce a text literatim. <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, litteratim. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="literator"> literator, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a literary man; litterateur. </DL> <A NAME="literature"> literature, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the writings of a period, language, or country, especially those kept alive by their beauty of style or thought. Ex. the literature of Greece. Shakespeare is a great name in English literature. The particular concern of the literature of the last two centuries has been with the self in its standing quarrel with culture (Newsweek). (SYN) belles-lettres. <DD> 2. all the books and articles on a subject. Ex. the literature of stamp collecting. <DD> 3. writing books as a profession; literary production. Ex. Never pursue literature as a trade (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). <DD> 4. the study of literature. Ex. I shall take literature and mathematics this spring. Hoagland spent some time as a cagehand with the circus, when he was not studying literature at Harvard (Newsweek). <DD> 5. (Informal.) printed matter of any kind. Ex. election campaign literature. <DD> 6. (Rare.) acquaintance with the world of letters or books; literary culture. Ex. another person of infinite literature (John Selden). </DL> <A NAME="literatus"> literatus, noun, pl. -ti.<DL COMPACT><DD> a man of learning or scholarship. </DL> <A NAME="lites"> lites, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of lis. </DL> <A NAME="lith"> lith, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD> 1. a limb. <DD> 2. a joint. </DL> <A NAME="lith"> lith-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) the form of litho- before vowels, as in lithiasis. </DL> <A NAME="lith"> -lith,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) stone; rock, as in megalith, laccolith. </DL> <A NAME="lith"> lith.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. lithograph. <DD> 2. lithography. </DL> <A NAME="lith"> Lith.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. Lithuania. <DD> 2. Lithuanian. </DL> <A NAME="lithaemia"> lithaemia, noun. =lithemia.</DL> <A NAME="lithaemic"> lithaemic, adjective. =lithemic.</DL> <A NAME="litharge"> litharge, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a yellow or reddish oxide of lead, used in making glass, glazes for pottery, and driers for paints and varnishes; lead monoxide. <DD> 2. (sometimes) any form of lead monoxide, such as massicot, which is produced with less heat than litharge. </DL> <A NAME="lithe"> lithe, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> bending easily; supple. Ex. lithe limbs, a lithe willow. An athlete should be lithe of body. (SYN) flexible, limber, pliant, lithesome, lissome, willowy. adv. lithely. noun litheness. </DL> <A NAME="lithemia"> lithemia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood. </DL> <A NAME="lithemic"> lithemic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or affected with lithemia. </DL> <A NAME="lither"> lither, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (British Dialect and Scottish.) lazy; sluggish; spiritless. <DD> 2. (British Dialect.) active or nimble. <DD> 3. (Archaic.) pliant; supple. Ex. the lither sky (Shakespeare). <DD> 4. (Obsolete.) <DD> a. bad or wicked. <DD> b. poor, sorry, or worthless. <DD> c. withered. </DL> <A NAME="lithesome"> lithesome, adjective. =lithe.</DL> <A NAME="lithia"> lithia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white oxide of lithium, soluble in water, and forming an acrid and caustic solution. </DL> <A NAME="lithiasis"> lithiasis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) the formation of calculi or stony concretions in the body, especially in the gall bladder and urinary tract. </DL> <A NAME="lithiawater"> lithia water,<DL COMPACT><DD> a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts. </DL> <A HREF="lithic.dic">NEXT</A>