To attend; give heed; harken; listen.To listen or harken to.n. The sense of hearing.n. An attitude of attention.To please; be agreeable to; gratify; suit: originally impersonal, with indirect object of the person.Nautical, to cause to incline or lean to one side; cause to careen or heel over, as a ship by force of a side wind or by unequal stowage of cargo, etc.To be disposed or inclined; wish; choose; like; please: with a personal subject: absolute, or followed by an infinitive with to.Nautical, to incline to one side or careen: as, the ship listed to starboard.n. Desire; wish; choice; inclination.n. Pleasure; lust.n. Nautical, a careening or leaning to one side: as, the ship has a list to port.n. Cunning; craft; skill.n. The outer edge of anything; a border, limit, or boundary.n. The border or edge of cloth, forming the selvage, and usually different from the rest of the fabric; also, such borders collectively. This, which is torn or cut off when the cloth is made up, is used for many purposes requiring a cheap material.n. Hence Any strip of cloth; a fillet; a stripe of any kind.n. The lobe of the ear; also, the ear itself.n. In architecture, a square molding; a fillet. Also called listel.n. In carpentry:n. A narrow strip from the edge of a plank.n. The upper rail of a railing.n. A woolen flap used by ropemakers as a guard for the hand.n. In tinning iron plates, a thin coat of tin applied preparatory to a thicker coat.n. A close dense streak in heavy bread.n. A ridge of earth thrown up by a double-moldboard plow, as in cultivating Indian corn.Made of lists or strips of woolen selvage; made of list: as, list carpet.To border; edge. See list, n., 1.To sew or put together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a variegated display of color, or to form a border.To cover with list, or with lists or strips of cloth: as, to list a door; hence, to mark as if with list; streak.In carpentry, to take off the edge of, as a board; shape by chopping preparatory to finishing, as a block or stave.To ridge with raised borders of earth, as rows of Indian corn, by throwing up a furrow on each side with a double-moldboard plow.In cotton-culture, to prepare for the crop (as land) by making a bed with the hoe, and alternating beds with alleys.n. A roll or catalogue; an enumeration of persons or things by their names: as, a list of officers or members of a society; a list of books or of clothing.n. A book, card, or slip of paper containing a series of names of persons or things, or prepared for the noting of such names: as, a visiting-list; a washing-list.n. Specifically— A list of the articles exempt from duty under existing revenue laws.n. A list of persons allowed free admittance to any public entertainment.n. Synonyms List, Roll, Register, Catalogue, Inventory, Schedule. Roll applies only to persons, inventory and schedule only to things; the rest apply to both. List is much the most general. A list may be merely of names, without description or order, as a list of shops, a list of persons proscribed. Roll differs from list only in limitation to persons and in faint suggestion of its original meaning of a rolled-up paper or parchment. Register suggests an official act of some formality and fullness of detail, perhaps according to a legal or customary form: as, a register of voters, of marriages, or of deaths. Catalogue supposes orderly arrangement and some fullness of description: as, a catalogue of the paintings in a gallery, of the specimens in a museum, of the books in a library, or of the students in a college. An inventory is a list of property, generally with prices or values, made for legal or business purposes, as on a dissolution of partnership. A schedule is a list of things, made for any purpose, and showing what they are both in a general view and in some detail: as, a schedule of studies, or of assets.To put into a list or catalogue; register; enroll.Specifically To register the name of as a soldier; muster into the public service as a soldier; enlist: in this sense partly by apheresis from enlist.To enter for taxation, as property of any kind, upon the assessment-roll or a tax-book.To enter the public service by enrolling one's name; enlist: in this use partly by apheresis from enlist.n. One of the barriers inclosing the field of combat at a tournament; usually, in the plural (rarely in the singular), the space or field thus inclosed: now mostly used figuratively: as, to enter the lists in behalf of one's principles.To inclose for a tournament, or for any contest: used especially in the past participle.n. The flank.n. A division or lock of the hair or beard.