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   Lither (līˈthẽr), a. [AS. lȳðer bad, wicked.] Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton.
   
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   ☞ Professor Skeat thinks “ the lither sky” as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. ((Part I. IV. VII., 21) means the stagnant or pestilential sky.
   
   -- Li"ther*ly, adv. [Obs.]. -- Li"ther*ness, n. [Obs.]
   
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