Crossword clues for liss
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liss \Liss\, v. t. [AS. lissan.]
To free, as from care or pain; to relieve. [Obs.] ``Lissed of
his care.''
--Chaucer.
Liss \Liss\ (l[i^]s), n. [AS. liss.]
Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] ``Of penance had a
lisse.''
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release. 2 comfort; happiness. 3 (context UK dialectal English) A respite from pain. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To ease; lighten; relieve; abate. 2 (context UK dialectal English) To blin; cease; stop.
Wikipedia
Liss (previously spelt Lys or Lyss) is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 3.3 miles (5.3 km) northeast of Petersfield, on the A3 road, on the Hampshire/West Sussex border.
Liss has its own railway station, on the Portsmouth Direct Line.
The village lies in the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish consists of 3,567 acres (14 km²) of semi-rural countryside, and is one of the largest in the region.
The earliest written mention of Liss (or Lyss as it was known then) may be that found in the Domesday book.
The village comprises an old village at West Liss and the modern village, which congregated around the 19th-century Southern Railway station, which is largely Victorian and later. The River Rother formed the boundary between West and East Liss. West Liss contains most of the historical and architectural interest. Suburbs later spread out toward Liss Forest.
Liss are a Danish band from Aarhus, Denmark. The group released its debut EP, 'Try' in November 2015. The EP received critical acclaim from music publications such as Clash, Noisey and The Fader.
Usage examples of "liss".
Lissner says that in 1872 he assisted in the delivery of a young girl who had a tail consisting of a coccyx prolonged and covered with skin, and in 1884 he saw the same girl, at this time the tail measuring nearly 13 cm.
When he got back to Liss, he would explain to Richius how the dreadnought had tried to break away, how the crew had resisted being taken prisoner.
Liss reminded Saluus that he was supposed to meet with Peregal Emoerte for a private talk before dinner that evening.
All the same, Lina Trass had better have married Dan Liss, who never in his life bounced man, woman, or child, than an ill-conditioned braggart like Sabine.
Liss went off the board, swinging neatly, taking the trapeze on the backswing beneath her bent knees, stretching her wrists to Barbara.
Uwen, trading Liss for Gia again, looked well content, a man with an old friend and a new and trying to assure one of his affection without slighting the other: all at once it Unfolded what Uwen was doing, and how he loved both, but Gia more, the other being all to discover.
Lissen, I got me up to York some ten and twelve-pounder rifles, breechloaders all of 'em and fitted with the friction-spring primers that Carey and Dan Smith dreamed up, too.
These green mounds were known by many names, such as raths, knowes, brughs, lisses, and sitheans or shians, but passage existed also under lakes, in coppices, in wells, in high places and low.
The horse gear made a considerable bulk in itself, not only that belonging to Dys and Cassam, but also the spare saddles for Gery and Petelly, Uwen’s Gia and now Liss: the brushes, the ointments, the warming blankets, all of that, and the personal gear belonging to the horse grooms.
John Liss, a Sioux Indian from Minneapolis, was in guarded condition in a Brookings hospital.
The Brookings cops told me that Louise Liss is staying in a place downtown.
Certainly Nicabar and the rest of the dreadnoughts were occupied around Casarhoon and the other flash points in their war against Liss.
They kissed for a long time, then - looking round, shrugging at the front-seat antics (the flier at this point not really going anywhere, circling in a holding pattern - a clinching pattern, Aun Liss suggested) - she rose up and straddled him, his hands up underneath the light dress she wore, fingers still kneading her back .
Even from this distance Biagio could see Lissen lookout towers in his gardens and a great, cloaking wall of brick looming over its northern face.
No arguments, no Twenny Questions, just shaddap an' lissen till I'm done.