Crossword clues for lithe
lithe
- Ignited high explosive, showing flexibility
- Like a gymnast
- Easily bent
- Gracefully thin
- Bending readily
- Like contortionists
- Like ballerinas or gymnasts
- Slender and graceful
- Showing effortless grace
- Lean and limber
- Very flexible
- Able to do the splits, e.g
- Able to do a split
- Like many Cirque du Soleil performers
- Gracefully slim
- Flexible, like a yoga instructor
- Flexible, like a ballerina's body
- Flexible, as a gymnast
- Adjective for a gymnast
- Able to split without repercussions?
- What Santa is not
- Thin and nimble, as a ballerina
- Thin and flexible
- Moving gracefully
- Marked by effortless grace
- Like yoga teachers
- Like many a Cirque du Soleil performer
- Like a ballerina or gymnast
- Having a flexible physique
- Gracefully supple
- Gracefully flexible
- Fluid and coordinated
- Capable of doing the splits, say
- Able to move and bend gracefully
- Lissome
- Loose-limbed
- Flexible, supple
- Gracefully slender
- Like a ballerina's body
- Flexible, as a body
- Willowy and graceful
- Supple of body
- Ballerina-like
- Gymnast-like
- Bending easily
- Like yoga instructors
- Thin and graceful
- Moving supply
- Gracefully limber
- Limber
- Nimble
- Like gymnasts
- Pliant; supple
- Flexible; supple
- Like Mary Lou Retton
- Athletically slender
- Like a contortionist
- Adjective for a slender bender
- Double-jointed
- Agile
- Eschewing calories, Henry tucked in, becoming agile ...
- Supple, graceful
- Supple and graceful
- Slim, supple and graceful
- Flexible and carefree? Not at first
- Large Italian male, agile
- In general, it helps to be supple
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. l[imac][eth]ian. See Lithe, a.] To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.]
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.]
Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.]
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Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.
--Milton.Syn: lithesome.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English liðe "soft, mild, gentle, meek," from Proto-Germanic *linthja- (cognates: Old Saxon lithi "soft, mild, gentle," Old High German lindi, German lind, Old Norse linr, with characteristic loss of "n" before "th" in English), from PIE root *lent- "flexible" (cognates: Latin lentus "flexible, pliant, slow," Sanskrit lithi). In Middle English, used of the weather. Current sense of "easily flexible" is from c.1300. Related: Litheness.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context intransitive obsolete English) To go. Etymology 2
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1 (context obsolete English) mild; calm. 2 slim but not skinny 3 Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber Etymology 3
v
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1 (context intransitive obsolete English) To become calm. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate. Etymology 4
vb. 1 (context intransitive obsolete English) To give ear; attend; listen. 2 (context transitive English) To listen to. Etymology 5
n. (context Scotland English) shelter.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Lithe is an experimental programming language created in 1982 by David Sandberg at the University of Washington which allows the programmer to freely choose his own syntax. Lithe combines the ideas of syntax-directed translation and classes in a novel manner that results in a remarkably simple yet powerful language.
Lithe may refer to:
- Lithe (programming language), an experimental programming language
- Lithe (Middle-earth), a fictional holiday in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings
Usage examples of "lithe".
All in one lithe operation, the murderer was off into the night, carrying the alumite bust as a bonus.
One, slender and lithe with dark hair, was clearly female despite her anachronistic and less than flattering khaki uniform.
We ordered beer, a mixed antipasto, spaghetti with capers and olives and garlic, and osso bucco from a lithe, young woman who seemed genuinely happy to serve us.
She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true, and his lithe Parisian daughter of joy, beneath the eternal mirror, forswearing perfumes, capeskin to the armpits, all that is too easy, for his impoverishment and more worthy love.
He awoke to heavy stamping and jumped off the shelf with sword in hand, quick and lithe as a panther, but groggy in mind.
Slaecca spoke to one of the serving lasses, who trotted off only to return in a few minutes with another servant, a blonde woman, heavy-breasted yet lithe.
Ediacaran organisms were devoured or outcompeted by the lither and more sophisticated animals of the Cambrian period.
Then were these young lumps transformed to limber, lither, merry fellows.
An embarrassed Captain Jounine spent half an hour apologizing to disgruntled matrons, some of whom seemed all the more irascible for being squeezed into armor meant for younger, lither versions of themselves.
Norman blood ran also in his veins, for his figure was lither and lighter, his features more straightly and shapely cut, than was common among Saxons.
The jaygee, a couple of years younger and lither than he, slid out first from his own side.
The other was a taller, lither man, with flashing red face and flaming hair of gold.
The queen stopped laying and grew thinner, lither, in preparation for a long flight.
He was nine now but, like all of them here, much smaller, lither, than normal boys his age.
Demanius, lither than me, hauls himself out of the window and drops into the alley below.