church-litten local.
[f. church + litten, OE. l{iacu}ct{uacu}n, a burying enclosure.]
A churchyard.
| c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 114 (Halliw.) He come into that chirche-lyttoun. 1674 Ray S. & E. Country Wds. 61 The Church-litten; the Church yard. Suss. 1852 W. Cooper Gloss. Sussex. 1875 Parish Sussex Gloss., Church-litten, a church-yard. 1881 Isle Wight Gloss. (E.D.S.) |