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240 words match “LITH”

LITHY a.
Easily bent; pliable. Lithy tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum Lantana); -- so named from its tough and flexible stem.
ACROLITH n.
A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.
ACROLITHAN; ACROLITHIC a.
Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith.
AEROLITH n.
Same as A.
AEROLITHOLOGY n.
The science of aërolites.
ALBOLITH n.
A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.
ANTILITHIC a. 2 definitions
An antilithic medicine.
ARCHAEOLITHIC a.
rtaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.
ASTROLITHOLOGY n.
The science of aërolites.
BLITHE a.
Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.
BLITHEFUL a.
Gay; full of gayety; joyous.
BLITHELY adv.
In a blithe manner.
BLITHENESS n.
The state of being blithe. Chaucer.
BLITHESOME a.
Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe"some*ness, n.
BRONTOLITE; BRONTOLITH n.
An aërolite. [R.]
CALLITHUMP n.
A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horus, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari. [U. S.]
CALLITHUMPIAN a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [U. S.]
CHROMOLITHOGRAPH n.
inted in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHER n.
One who is engaged in chromolithography.
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC a.
Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.
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