Definition of lister

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Lister (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish..

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Blistery :: Blistery (a.) Full of blisters.
Vesicatory :: Vesicatory (a.) Tending, or having power, to raise a blister..
Heteromerous :: Heteromerous (a.) Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles..
Vesicate :: Vesicate (v. t.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
Blister :: Blister (n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle..
Blister :: Blister (v. t.) To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister..
Cantharis :: Cantharis (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine..
Twayblade :: Twayblade (n.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis..
Glister :: Glister (n.) Glitter; luster.
Lister :: Lister (n.) Same as Leister.
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass..
Listerian :: Listerian (a.) Of or pertaining to listerism.
Pustulate :: Pustulate (v. t.) To form into pustules, or blisters..
Topic :: Topic (n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc..
Meloe :: Meloe () A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil..
Familistery :: Familistery (n.) A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs..
Familisteries :: Familisteries (pl. ) of Familister.
Glister :: Glister (v. i.) To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.
Arcubalister :: Arcubalister (n.) A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist.
Lister :: Lister (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish..
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