Obs. exc. dial. [app. connected with LIST sb.1] Ready, quick (esp. of hearing). Also applied to rooms, etc., in which one hears well.
1813. Cullum, Suffolk Words, s.v., ‘List of hearing,’ quick of hearing.
1823. Galt, Gilhaize, II. 130. When any of his disciples were not just so list and brisk as they might have been.
1847. Halliwell, s.v., A list house or room, where sounds are heard easily from one room to another. Kent.
1861. N. Brit. Rev., Nov., 325. His ear was not list to catch the distant sounds.
1863. Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc., II. 185. List, quick; as list of speech.
1887. Kent. Gloss., List, the condition of the atmosphere when sounds are heard easily. ‘It’s a wonderful list morning.’
