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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Li·ther a.  Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.]
    Not lither in business, fervent in spirit.   --Bp. Woolton.
 Note: ☞ 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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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Li·ther·ly, a. Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. [Archaic]
    He [the dwarf] was waspish, arch, and litherly.   --Sir W. Scott.
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