Li"ther (lī"thẽr), a. [AS. lȳðer bad, wicked.] Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Not lither in business, fervent in spirit.
☞ 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.]