Word Study
lither
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lither, a. [AS. l bad, wicked.].
Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
" Professor Skeat thinks “ the lither sky” as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. ((Part I. IV. VII., 21) means the stagnant or pestilential sky."
"Not lither in business, fervent in spirit." [1913 Webster]
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