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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, 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. 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. The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom. --Tennyson. 3. To enroll; to place or register in a list. Listed among the upper serving men. --Milton. 4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist. I will list you for my soldier. --Sir W. Scott. 5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of as to list a board. {To list a stock} (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of stocks called at the meeting of the board. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. The selvedge of cloth; list. 3. (Carp.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board. 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.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: listing n 1: a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) [syn: {list}] 2: the act of making a list of items [syn: {itemization}, {itemisation}]
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