Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

List \List\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Listed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Listing}.] [From list a roll.]
   1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show
      of colors, or form a border. --Sir H. Wotton.

   2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list
      on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.

            The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.
                                                  --Tennyson.

   3. To enroll; to place or register in a list.

            Listed among the upper serving men.   --Milton.

   4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.

            I will list you for my soldier.       --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from
      the edge of; as, to list a board.

   {To list a stock} (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of
      stocks called at the meeting of the board.