Lith

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  • n. Owndom; property.
  • n. A gate; a gap in a fence.
  • n. A limb; any member of the body.
  • n. A joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division.
  • n. A segment of an orange, or similar fruit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 3d pers. sing. pres. of lie, to recline, for lieth.
  • n. A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A limb; any member of the body; also, a joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division: as, sound in lith and limb; a lith of an orange.
  • n. Property.
  • A Middle English variant of light. Chaucer.
  • An obsolete variant of lieth, third person singular indicative present of lie.
  • An element in some compounds of Greek formation, meaning ‘stone,’ as in acrolith, monolith, etc. In many names of minerals it occurs in the form -lite (which see).
  • n. An abbreviation of Lithuanian;
  • n. of lithograph and lithography.
  • Word Usage
    "Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology.""
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    lie   
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    Words with the same meaning
    division    member   
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