Definition of "liss" [liss]

• To ease; lighten; relieve; abate. (verb)
• To blin; cease; stop. (verb)
• Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release. (noun)
• Comfort; happiness. (noun)
• A respite from pain. (noun)

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• "But M'liss's popularity was overthrown by an unexpected circumstance."
• "The words were scarcely uttered before M'liss's red hand flashed in the air and descended with a sounding box on the traitor's ear."
• "From the time they had quitted the burning room to that moment, Waters had passed into his listless, abstracted condition, so helpless and feeble that he retained the grasp of M'liss's hand more through some instinctive prompting rather than the dictates of reason."