Search the Dictionary

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.

A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.

A combining form from Gr. stone.

Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.