lith

/lith/US // lɪθ //

石材,石头,岩石,石灰

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
British Dialect.
- : an arm or leg; limb.
- : a joint, as of the finger.
- : a segment, as of an orange.

Acrolith, ak′ro-lith, n. a statue of the earlier Greek artists having the trunk made of wood and the extremities of stone.
Lathyrus sylvestris, narrow-leaved, or wild lathyrus—in the bushes at the foot of the Short Lith, near the path.
Peristalith, pe-ris′ta-lith, n. a series of standing stones surrounding a barrow or burial-mound.
According to a northern version of the ballad, he makes a plectrum from 'a lith of her finger bane.'
Lithuanian, for example, retains the archaic diphthongs which disappear in Slavonic—Lith.