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List \List\ (l[i^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Listed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Listing}.] [From list a roll.]
1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show
of colors, or form a border. --Sir H. Wotton.
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2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list
on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
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The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.
--Tennyson.
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3. To enroll; to place or register in a list.
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Listed among the upper serving men. --Milton.
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4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
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I will list you for my soldier. --Sir W.
Scott.
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5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from
the edge of; as, to list a board.
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{To list a stock} (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of
stocks called at the meeting of the board.
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Listing \List"ing\, n.
1. 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.
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2. The selvedge of cloth; list.
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3. (Carp.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board.
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4. (Agric.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a
method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden
crops. [Local, U. S.]
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