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lithe

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1. lithe - Noun

2. lithe - Adjective

3. lithe - Verb

5. lithe - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

To listen or listen to; to hearken to.

Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.

Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.

To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I asked a thief to steal me a peach He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady. William Blake

Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that. Patricia A. McKillip

Between the radical and the conformist lies all the difference between a lithe tendon and a length of gas-pipe. Frank Lloyd Wright

As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her. David Nicholls

A new duality is emerging in which one can be both a skeptic and a believer—spiritually lithe in the journey toward resilience. Source: Internet

And nothing will stop him from achieving his mission—not even a lithe, brown-eyed town veterinarian who seems hell-bent on driving him wild. Source: Internet

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