[f. LIST sb.3; cf. OF. lister (one example in Godef.) to put a list on (cloth); also It. listare, G. leisten, Du. lijsten.]
† 1. trans. To put a list, border or edge round (an object); to border, edge. Also, to put as a list or border upon. Obs.
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), xciii. (1887), 454. A targe listed wiþ gold.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. xciv. (1869), 51. The scrippe was of greene selk, Lysted it was wel queyntliche with xii belles of siluer.
1530. Palsgr., 612/2. I lyste a garment, or border it rounde about with a lyst I have lysted my cote within to make it laste better.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Lisier, to list or border any thing.
1624. Wotton, Archit., in Reliq. (1651), 297. A long straight mossie walk listed on both sides with an Aquæduct of white stone. Ibid. (a. 1639), Dk. Buckhm., ibid. 80. Such an Accumulation of benefits, like a kind of Embroidering or listing of one favour upon another.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. i. 2. Trite and trivial phrases listed with pedantic shreds of School-boy verses.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., VI. Wks. (1847), 553/1. A Danish curtaxe, listed with gold or silver.
1703. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XXIII. 1451. The edges [of a fern leaf] are listed with Seed.
b. To fix list upon the edge of (a door).
1860. Worcester, List 5. To fix list, or a strip of cloth, to; as, To list a door.
1881. R. T. Cooke, Somebodys Neighbors, 64. Monsieur Leclerc listed the doors against approaching winter breezes.
† 2. To enclose; to shut in with rails or the like.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 463. [He] kepte his daye appoynted for that batayll, in a felde called in Frenshe Lapre Aux Clers, where for theim was ordeyned a place lyestyd and closed in goodly wyse.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. i. 109. Upon the other thre quarters, it [Asie] is lysted in with the Occean.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Cauea, euery place listed or rayled in.
† b. To bound, limit. Obs.
a. 1600. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., VII. viii. § 4. The local compass of a bishops authority and power was never so straitly listed, as some men would have the world imagine.
3. Carpentry. To cut away the sappy edge of a board; to shape a block or stave by chopping.
1635. Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855), I. 34. Sawne bords cut sharp at ye tope, and either listed or shote with a plaine.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., Gloss., Listing, the act of cutting away the sap-wood from one or both edges of a board.
1874. Skyrings Builders Prices, 22. Floors For each edge listed, add 0s. 2d.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech.
4. Agric. To prepare (the land) for the crop (of cotton or Indian corn) by making ridges and furrows with the plow or beds and alleys with the hoe. local U.S.
1785. Washington, Writ. (1891), XII. 224. Some of it has been twice ploughed, then listed, then twice harrowed before sowing.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, 432. Boys and girls, listing an old corn-field with hoes.