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Lissen. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lissen dial. Also 7 lisne, 7–9 lissom. [Of obscure origin: cf. LIST sb.3, which has some affinity in meaning (cf. sense 4 of that word).]

1   1.  A cleft or seam dividing the strata of a rock.

2 c. 1640.  J. Smyth, Hundred of Berkeley (1885), III. 175. A strange stone … wherein is noe chinke, cracke, chopp, or Lisne at all.

3 a. 1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. vii. 192. In the Lisne of a Rock at Kingscote in Glocestershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles.

4 1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 58. We have another fine Earth … round frequently in the lissoms or seams of the Rocks.

5 1847.  Halliwell, Lissen, a cleft in a rock. Glouc.

6 1890.  Gloucester Gloss., Lissen, a cleft in a rock; the parting of stone in a quarry.

7   2.  A layer or stratum; † a support for a beehive.

8 1790.  Trans. Soc. Arts, VIII. 126 (Let. fr. Faringdon, Berks). Two [hives] … that I was obliged to raise on lissoms nine inches high.

9 1879.  in Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., s.v., ‘In burnin’ lime we putten first a lissom o’ coal, an’ then a lissom o’ lime-stwun.’

10   3.  A strand of rope; ‘one of the rows of straw plait in a bonnet’ (Devon 1837 in E. D. D.).

11 1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Lissens, the ultimate strands of a rope.

12 1886.  Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., Lissom, the strand of a rope; each lissom may be composed of several yarns.

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