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te or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.

The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.

One who litigates.

Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, who guarrels move. Donne.

In a litigious manner.

The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.

A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.

A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city.

An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.

Same as Liter.

a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. There is a litter ready; lay him in 't. Shak.

One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.

Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.

Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child. He sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. Luke xix. 3.

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.

Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.

A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.

A smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards. Knight.

Forked, with the points slightly curved outward.