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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A narrow strip, especially of wood.
• noun A border or selvage of cloth.
• noun A stripe or band of color.
• noun An arena for jousting tournaments or other contests.
• noun A place of combat.
• noun An area of controversy.
• noun A ridge thrown up between two furrows by a lister in plowing.
• noun Obsolete A boundary; a border.
• transitive verb To cover, line, or edge with list.
• transitive verb To cut a thin strip from the edge of.
• transitive verb To furrow or plant (land) with a lister.
• noun An inclination to one side, as of a ship; a tilt.
• intransitive & transitive verb To lean or cause to lean to the side.
• intransitive verb To be pleasing to; suit.
• intransitive verb To be disposed; choose.
• noun A desire or inclination.
• noun A series of names, words, or other items written, printed, or imagined one after the other.
• noun A considerable number; a long series.
• intransitive verb To make a list of; itemize.
• intransitive verb To enter in a list; register.
• intransitive verb To put (oneself) in a specific category.
• intransitive verb Archaic To recruit.
• intransitive verb To have a stated list price.
• intransitive verb Archaic To enlist in the armed forces.
• intransitive & transitive verb To listen or listen to.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To attend; give heed; harken; listen.
• To listen or harken to.
• noun The sense of hearing.
• noun An attitude of attention.
• noun Cunning; craft; skill.
• noun Desire; wish; choice; inclination.
• noun Pleasure; lust.
• noun Nautical, a careening or leaning to one side: as, the ship has a list to port.
• To please; be agreeable to; gratify; suit: originally impersonal, with indirect object of the person.
• Nautical, to cause to incline or lean to one side; cause to careen or heel over, as a ship by force of a side wind or by unequal stowage of cargo, etc.
• To be disposed or inclined; wish; choose; like; please: with a personal subject: absolute, or followed by an infinitive with to.
• Nautical, to incline to one side or careen: as, the ship listed to starboard.
• To border; edge. See list, n., 1.
• To sew or put together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a variegated display of color, or to form a border.
• To cover with list, or with lists or strips of cloth: as, to list a door; hence, to mark as if with list; streak.
• In carpentry, to take off the edge of, as a board; shape by chopping preparatory to finishing, as a block or stave.
• To ridge with raised borders of earth, as rows of Indian corn, by throwing up a furrow on each side with a double-moldboard plow.
• In cotton-culture, to prepare for the crop (as land) by making a bed with the hoe, and alternating beds with alleys.
• noun One of the barriers inclosing the field of combat at a tournament; usually, in the plural (rarely in the singular), the space or field thus inclosed: now mostly used figuratively: as, to enter the lists in behalf of one's principles.
• noun The outer edge of anything; a border, limit, or boundary.
• noun The border or edge of cloth, forming the selvage, and usually different from the rest of the fabric; also, such borders collectively. This, which is torn or cut off when the cloth is made up, is used for many purposes requiring a cheap material.
• noun Hence Any strip of cloth; a fillet; a stripe of any kind.