Dictionary: LITHE'NESS – LI-THOG'RA-PHY

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LITHE'NESS, n.

Flexibility; limberness.

LITH'ER, a.

  1. Soft; pliant. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. [Sax. lythr.] Bad; corrupt. [Obs.] Woolton.

LITH'ER-LY, adv.

Slowly; lazily. [Obs.] Barret.

LITH'ER-NESS, n.

Idleness; laziness. [Obs.] Barret.

LITHE'SOME, a.

Pliant; limber; nimble. Scott.

LITH'IA, n.

A new alkali, found in a mineral called petalite, of which the basis is a metal called lithium. Davy. Ure.

LITH'IC, a. [supra.]

Pertaining to the stone in the bladder. The lithic acid is. obtained from a urinary or gouty calculus.

LITH'IUM, n.

The metallic base of lithia.

LITH-O-BIB'LI-ON,

See LITHOPHYL.

LITH'O-CARP, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a stone, and {foreign}, fruit.]

Fossil fruit; fruit petrified. Dict. Nat. Hist.

LITH'O-COL-LA, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a stone, and {foreign}, glue.]

A cement that unites stones. Ash.

LITH-O-DEN'DRON, n. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, tree.]

Coral; so called from its resembling a petrified branch.

LITH'O-DOM, or LITH'O-DO-MI, n. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, house.]

The name given to moluscane which perforate stones, shells, &c. Mantell.

LI-THOD'O-MOUS, a.

Relating to a genus of molluscan animals, which perforate stones.

LITH-O-GEN'E-SY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, generation.]

The doctrine or science of the origin of minerals composing the globe, and of the causes which have produced their form and disposition. Dict. Nat. Hist.

LI-THOGE-NOUS, a.

Depositing or forming stones.

LITH'O-GLYPH, n.

The art of engraving on precious stones. Elmes.

LITH-O-GLYPH'ITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, to engrave.]

A fossil that presents the appearance of being engraved or shaped by art. Lunier.

LITH'O-GRAPH, v.t.

To engrave or trace letters or figures on stone, and transfer them to paper, &c.

LITH'O-GRAPH-ED, pp.

Formed by engravings on Stone.

LI-THOG'RA-PHER, n. [See Lithography.]

One who practices lithography.

LITH-O-GRAPH'IC, or LITH-O-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to lithography.

LITH-O-GRAPH'IC-ALLY, adv.

By the lithographic art.

LITH'O-GRAPH-ING, ppr.

Forming by letters or figures on stone.

LI-THOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, to engrave or write.]

The art of tracing letters, figures or other designs on stone, and of transferring them to paper by impression; an art recently invented by Mr. Sennefelder of Munich, in Bavaria. Journ. of Science.