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  • English Word Litigable Definition Such as can be litigated.
  • English Word Litigant Definition Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.
  • English Word Litigant Definition A person engaged in a lawsuit.
  • English Word Litigate Definition To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.
  • English Word Litigate Definition To carry on a suit by judicial process.
  • English Word Litigated Definition of Litigate
  • English Word Litigating Definition of Litigate
  • English Word Litigation Definition The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
  • English Word Litigator Definition One who litigates.
  • English Word Litigious Definition Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.
  • English Word Litigious Definition Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
  • English Word Litigious Definition Of or pertaining to legal disputes.
  • English Word Litigiously Definition In a litigious manner.
  • English Word Litigiousness Definition The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.
  • English Word Litmus Definition A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.
  • English Word Litotes Definition A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city.
  • English Word Litraneter Definition An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.
  • English Word Litre Definition Same as Liter.
  • English Word Litre Definition A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.
  • English Word Litter Definition A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
  • English Word Litter Definition Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
  • English Word Litter Definition Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
  • English Word Litter Definition Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
  • English Word Litter Definition The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
  • English Word Litter Definition To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
  • English Word Litter Definition To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
  • English Word Litter Definition To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
  • English Word Litter Definition To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
  • English Word Litter Definition To produce a litter.
  • English Word Litterateur Definition One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.