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lithe🔊

(obsolete) Mild; calm.

📑 Synonyms: clement gentle mellow

Slim but not skinny.

📑 Synonyms: lithesome lissome swack
💬 Quotations
The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn an excited horde of savages from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion’s death the two men were surrounded by lithe, ebon warriors, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply.

Capable of being easily bent; flexible.

📑 Synonyms: pliant flexible limber

Adaptable.

(obsolete) To become calm.

(obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

(obsolete) To attend; listen, hearken.

To listen to, hearken to.

(Scotland) Shelter.

(archaic, dialect, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire) To thicken (gravy, etc.)