lisse

From Old English līssian.

lisse (third-person singular simple present lisses, present participle lissing, simple past and past participle lissed)

1. (obsolete) To relieve, mitigate, assuage (pain etc.).
   • Late 14th century: And on his wey forthward thanne is he fare / In hope for to been lissed of his care. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

French lisse, from Latin licium.

lisse (countable and uncountable, plural lisses)

1. A fine sheer fabric of silk or cotton used in women's neckwear and in ruching.
2. In tapestry, the threads of the warp taken together.

• isles, siles, sisel

• IPA^(key): /lis/

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• Homophones: lice, lices, lis/lys, lissent, lisses

Probably from lisser.

lisse (plural lisses)

1. smooth

• muscle lisse

lisse f (plural lisses)

1. stringer (horizontal timber that supports upright posts or the hull of a vessel)

lisse

1. inflection of lisser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “lisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• isles, lises, siles

• lissa

Through German from Latin licium. The verb is derived from the noun.

lisse f (definite singular lissa, indefinite plural lisser, definite plural lissene)

1. a lace

lisse (present tense lissar, past tense lissa, past participle lissa, passive infinitive lissast, present participle lissande, imperative lisse/liss)

1. (transitive) to lace

• “lisse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• lisse, sisel, sisle, sleis

lisse

1. smooth

lisse (masculine and feminine, plural lisses)

1. smooth

   Synonym: doûs

lisse f (plural lisses)

1. list

   Synonym: djivêye