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or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. Chaucer. In measured lists to toss the weighty lance. Pope. To enter the lists, to accept a challenge, or engage in contest.

Same as List, n., 6.

with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend. When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to same sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary tension. Holder.

One who listens; a hearkener.

One who makes a list or roll.

Of or pertaining to listerism.

cs in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.

To make antiseptic.

Attentive [Obs.] Spenser.

The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.

Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. " A listless unconcern." Thomson. Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. Dryden. I was listless, and desponding. Swift.

One who acknowledges no head or superior. Dr. Gauden.

ctually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote.

A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist. Dodsley.

An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)

One who holds allodial land.

One who lives near a river. [Obs.] Bailey.

One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith.

A writer of annals. The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume.

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.