? Obs. Forms: 4 litestere, 4–5 littester, 5 littstar, lystare, -er, lyt(a)ster, lyttester, 5–6 lytster, 6 litstair, 5– litster, (9 dial. lister). [f. LIT v. + -STER.] A dyer.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Former Age, 17. No mader, welde, or wod no litestere Ne knew.

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1428.  in Surtees Misc. (1888), 6. [He] seld yt furth deceyvabilly to lytsters, and, in especial, to John Kyrkby and Robert Dowfe, lytsters of York.

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1432.  Test. Ebor. (Surtees), II. 21. I wyll … to Kendall wyfe, lyttester, xxvjs viijd.

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1488.  Nottingham Rec., III. 12. Et de lijs. pro firma unius gardini nuper in tenura Thomae Parker, litster.

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1587.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI., c. 119. As alsua ane litstair or ma for litting and perfitting of þair saide warkis.

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1609.  N. Riding Rec., I. 165. Tho. Newton, litster, presented for brewing [etc.].

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1649.  G. Daniel, Trinarch., Rich. II., xcv. As though the state Might weare noe Cloath by Dyed in Litstar’s fatt.

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1714–26.  G. Guthrie, Mem. (1900), 18. He had also two other Sons … both Litsters in Aberdeen.

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1819.  Hunter, Hallamsh. Gloss., Lister.

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1887.  J. Bulloch, Pynours, 85. The burn still runs, but now of small use to any Litster.

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