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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.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.

A crossbow. [Obs.] Blount.

A crossbow. [Obs.]

a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

Full of blisters. Hooker.

A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.

A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter. All that glisters is not gold. Shak.

In a glistering manner.

A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish. [Scotland]

A liter, or cubic decimeter.

A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.

hich, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism.

Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.