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English
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Noun
lissen (plural lissens).
- (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.
Etymology 2
A respelling of listen.
Verb
lissen (third-person singular simple present lissens, present participle lissening, simple past and past participle lissened)
- Eye dialect spelling of listen.
Anagrams
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic لَسَّنَ (lassana).
Pronunciation
Verb
lissen (imperfect jlissen, past participle mlissen, verbal noun tilsin)
- to utter
Conjugation