list

1. list (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

Example: 1. Gent[leman]. Well: there went but a paire of ſheeres betweene vs. / Luc[io]. I grant: as there may betweene the Liſts, and the Veluet. Thou art the Liſt. / 1. Gent. And thou the Veluet. Thou art good Veluet; thou'rt a three pild-piece I warrant thee: I had as liefe be a Lyſt of an Engliſh Kerſey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French Veluet. Do I ſpeake feelingly now?

2. list (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Material used for cloth selvage.

Example: Previous to the offering up of prayer, however, the persons chosen for this office [of praying for the people] had divested themselves of their boots and put on list slippers, their hands being washed by "the descendants of Levi" at a basin near the Holy of Holies.

3. list (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

Example: Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was with Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus. […] And yet he [Septimus Severus] was the Ableſt Emperour, almoſt, of all the Liſt.

4. list (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To create or recite a list.

5. list (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To place in listings.

Example: As the export market for tropical hardwoods expanded, timber from tropical rain forests very rapidly became the dominant or major forest product, dominant to such an extent that trade figures often do not even list the minor forest products exported, or their value.

6. list (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.