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lithe

  [lahyth]
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–adjective, lith⋅er, lith⋅est.
bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
Also, lithesome.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME lith(e), OE līthe; c. OS līthi, G lind mild, L lentus slow

Related forms:
lithely, adverb
litheness, noun
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lithe   (līth)   
adj.   lith·er, lith·est

  1. Readily bent; supple: lithe birch branches.

  2. Marked by effortless grace: a lithe ballet dancer.


[Middle English, from Old English līthe, flexible, mild.]
lithe'ly adv., lithe'ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

lithe 
O.E. liðe "soft, mild, gentle, meek," from P.Gmc. *linthijaz (cf. O.S. lithi, O.H.G. lindi, Ger. lind, O.N. linr, with characteristic loss of "n" before "th" in Eng.), from PIE base *lent- "flexible" (cf. L. lentus "flexible, pliant, slow"). In M.E., used of the weather. Current sense of "easily flexible" is from c.1400.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

LITHE
Object-oriented with extensible syntax.
"LITHE: A Language Combining a Flexible Syntax and Classes", D. Sandberg, Conf Rec 9th Ann ACM Sym POPL, ACM 1982, pp.142-145.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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