a. [ AS. l&ymacr_;ðer bad, wicked. ] Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Professor Skeat thinks “ the lither sky” as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. ((Part I. IV. VII., 21) means the stagnant or pestilential sky.
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a. Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
He [ the dwarf ] was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]