(intransitive, obsolete) To become calm. / (transitive, obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

(intransitive, obsolete) To attend; listen, hearken. / (transitive) To listen to, hearken to.

(Scotland) Shelter.

The body of all written works. / The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.

Word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.

The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.

Relating to literature. / Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. / Knowledgeable of literature or writing. / Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. / Bookish.

Mix of sawdust, grit, etc. used to provide a soiling area for pet cats. / (by extension, informal) Any similar mix, used to soak up liquid spills.

(rhetoric) An ironic figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite, particularly the negation of a negative quality to say something positive.

(intransitive, construed with on) To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit. / (transitive) To contest in law. / (transitive, transferred sense) To dispute; to fight over.