lisne

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪn/

Noun

lisne (plural lisnes)

  1. (obsolete, dialect) Alternative form of lissen.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
      And I remember in my youth, in the Lisne of a Rock at Kingſcote in Gloceſtershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles actually distinct one from another, each near as big as my Fist.

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