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The act or process of representing by letters.

A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.

The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Bib…

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth. Chaucer.

A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.

A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.

Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.…

Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.

A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate. [Obs.] [Written also lithiate.]

Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.]

In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.

The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.

Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.] Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton.

g; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.[Archaic] He [the dwarf] was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.

Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. -- Lithe"some*ness, n.

The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium. Lithia emerald. See Hiddenite.

The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.

A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.