[f. LIST sb.3 + -ED2.]
1. Provided with a list or selvage.
1552. Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI., c. 6 § 1. Everie White Clothe … shalbe … lysted accordinge to the auncyent custome.
1691. Lond. Gaz., No. 2725/4. 24 yards of white Salisbury Cloth, which was Listed, and some part of it stained Reddish.
2. Bordered, edged; striped. Also (of colors), arranged in bands or stripes.
c. 1450. Merlin, 163. Crownes of goold and asure bendes entrauerse lysted as grene as a mede.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 150. His haire drawing toward the colour of blacke, sleeke, and listed. Ibid., 386. The wood of the walnut tree is … listed and smooth of his owne nature.
1659. Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855), III. 159. A blew paire of stockings and a gray listed garter.
1667. Milton, P. L., XI. 862. A dewie Cloud, and in the Cloud a Bow Conspicuous with three listed colours gay.
1814. Cary, Dante, Par., xiv. 87. In two listed mays The splendours shot before me.
1876. Longf., Dutch Picture, iv. The listed tulips look like Turks.
3. Covered or edged with list.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., ii. 43. The listed rings … are easily made out of a slip of thin pliant wood,… the rough ring being covered by rolling list round it.
1866. Thoreau, Yankee in Canada, i. 12. We pushed aside the listed door of this church.
1889. Anthony’s Photogr. Bull., II. 415. A listed strip fitting the opening.
4. (See quot. and LIST v.3 3.)
1842–59. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Boards, listed, such as are reduced in their width by taking off the sap from their sides.
