Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
Drayton.
Lisp, v. t. 1. To pronounce with a lisp.
2. To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words
pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to
express by the use of simple, childlike language.
To speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp the words
unto them according as the babes and children of that age might
sound them again.
Tyndale.
3. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or
confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
Lisp, n. The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, "O! Strephon, you
are a dangerous creature."
Tatler.
Lisp"er (-r), n. One who lisps.
Lisp"ing*ly, adv. With a lisp; in a lisping manner.
Liss (ls), n. [AS. liss.] Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] "Of
penance had a lisse." Chaucer.
Liss, v. t. [AS. lissan.] To free, as from care or pain; to relieve.
[Obs.] "Lissed of his care." Chaucer.
||Lis`sen*ceph"a*la (ls`sn*sf"*l), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. lisso`s smooth
||+ 'egke`falos the brain.] (Zoöl.) A general name for all those
||placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral
||convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.
||
{ Lis"som, Lis"some } (ls"sm), a. [For lithesome.] 1. Limber; supple;
flexible; lithe; lithesome.
Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand.
Tennyson.