lythe
See also: Lythe
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
See lithe.
Adjective edit
lythe (comparative more lythe, superlative most lythe)
- (obsolete) soft; flexible
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:
- His hornes bene as broade as Rainebowe bent ,
His dewelap as lythe as laffe of Kent
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
lythe (plural lythes)
- (Scotland) A fish, the European pollock.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lythe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
lythe
- Alternative form of light
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
lythe
- Alternative form of lyth