\Li"ther\, a. [AS. ? bad, wicked.]
Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

      Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. --Bp.
                                               Woolton.

Note: Professor Skeat thinks `` the lither sky'' as found in
      Shakespeare's Henry VI. ((Part I. IY. YII., 21) means
      the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- {Li"ther*ly}, adv.
      [Obs.]. -- {Li"ther*ness}, n. [Obs.]