lissen

Unknown

• lissom
• lisne

lissen (plural lissens).

1. (dialect) A cleft or hollow in rock.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1677, Robert Plot, The natural history of Oxford-shire:

     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.

A respelling of listen.

lissen (third-person singular simple present lissens, present participle lissening, simple past and past participle lissened)

1. Eye dialect spelling of listen.

From Arabic لَسَّنَ (lassana).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs.sɛn/

lissen (imperfect jlissen, past participle mlissen, verbal noun tilsin)

1. to utter