Lissen

Quick meaning: Lissen is a noun meaning (dialect) A cleft or hollow in rock.

Meaning

(dialect) A cleft or hollow in rock.

More Meanings

1. Eye dialect spelling of listen.

Example Sentences

Lissen, mate... You'll run into all sorts o' trouble if you don't keep your eyes peeled.

And I remember in my youth, in the Lisne of a Rock at Kingſcote in Gloceſtershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles actually distinct one from another, each near as big as my Fist.

Beside these, we have another fine Earth, of a white co­lour, porous and friable, insipid and without scent, dissoluble in water; and tinging it, of a milky colour, and somtimes raising a kind of ebullition in it; found frequently in the lissoms or seams of the Rocks, or sticking to the hollow roofs of them: in short, so altogether agreeable to what Conradus Gesner calls Lac Lunae, that I could not but think it the very same.

Word Forms

• lissens
• lissom
• lisne
• lissening
• lissened

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lisne, lith, shake, crevice, slive, rift.

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