Crossword clues for lither
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lither \Li"ther\ (l[imac]"[th][~e]r), a. [AS. l[=y][eth]er bad,
wicked.]
Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Not lither in business, fervent in spirit.
--Bp.
Woolton.
Note: Professor Skeat thinks `` the lither sky'' as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. ((Part I. IV. VII., 21) means the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- Li"ther*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. (en-comparative of: lithe) Etymology 2
a. bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy. alt. bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy.
Usage examples of "lither".
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.