[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

literal \lit"eral\ li^t"~eral, a. f. lit'eral,
   litt'eral, l. litteralis, literalis, fr. littera, litera, a
   letter. see letter.
   1. according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not
      figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a
      phrase.
      1913 webster

            it hath but one simple literal sense whose light the
            owls can not abide.                   --tyndale.
      1913 webster

   2. following the letter or exact words; not free.
      1913 webster

            a middle course between the rigor of literal
            translations and the liberty of paraphrasts.
                                                  --hooker.
      1913 webster

   3. consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
      1913 webster

            the literal notation of numbers was known to
            europeans before the ciphers.         --johnson.
      1913 webster

   4. giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative;
      matter-of-fact; -- applied to persons.
      1913 webster

   literal contract law, a contract of which the whole
      evidence is given in writing. --bouvier.

   literal equation math., an equation in which known
      quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means
      of letters; -- distinguished from a numerical equation.
      1913 webster
see also:
letter literal contract literal equation numerical equation 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

literal \lit"eral\, n.
   literal meaning. obs. --sir t. browne.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

literal
     adj 1: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of
            something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude
            like a desert"- g.k.chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"
            syn: actual, genuine, real
     2: without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal
        translation of the scene before him"
     3: limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a
        literal translation" ant: figurative
     4: lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description";
        "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account
        of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
        syn: plain, unembellished
     5: of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; "it's the
        literal truth"; "a matter of investment, pure and simple"
        syn: pure and simple
     6: of a translation corresponding word for word with the
        original; "literal translation of the article"; "an
        awkward word-for-word translation" syn: word-for-word
     n : a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical
         failures of some kind syn: misprint, erratum, typographical
         error, typo, literal error
see also:
actual genuine real figurative plain unembellished 
pure and simple word-for-word misprint erratum typographical error 
typo literal error 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

150 moby thesaurus words for "literal":
   christian, abecedarian, accepted, allographic, alphabetic,
   approved, arid, authentic, authoritative, barren, basic, bona fide,
   boring, candid, canonical, capital, card-carrying, colorless,
   conventional, correct, customary, denotative, dictionary, dinkum,
   down-to-earth, dry, dull, earthbound, essential, etymological,
   evangelical, exact, faithful, firm, following the letter, genuine,
   good, graphemic, honest, honest-to-god, humdrum, ideographic,
   inartificial, infecund, infertile, lawful, legitimate, lettered,
   lexical, lexigraphic, lifelike, literatim, logogrammatic,
   logographic, lower-case, majuscule, matter-of-fact, minuscular,
   minuscule, mundane, natural, naturalistic, objective, of the faith,
   original, orthodox, orthodoxical, pictographic, precise, proper,
   prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, real, realistic, received, right,
   rightful, scriptural, semantic, simon-pure, simple, simplistic,
   sincere, sound, staid, standard, sterling, stolid, strict, stuffy,
   sure-enough, tedious, textual, traditional, traditionalistic,
   transliterated, true, true to life, true to nature,
   true to reality, true-blue, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed,
   unassuming, unbiased, uncial, uncolored, uncomplicated,
   unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising,
   undistorted, unembellished, unexaggerated, unfabricated,
   unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering,
   unideal, unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, uninspired,
   uninvented, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unprejudiced,
   unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unromanticized,
   unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, upper-case,
   verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, word-for-word

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

literal
     
         a constant made available to a process, by
        inclusion in the executable text.  most modern systems do not
        allow texts to modify themselves during execution, so literals
        are indeed constant; their value is written at compile-time
        and is read-only at run time.
     
        in contrast, values placed in variables or files and accessed
        by the process via a symbolic name, can be changed during
        execution.  this may be an asset.  for example, messages can
        be given in a choice of languages by placing the translation
        in a file.
     
        literals are used when such modification is not desired.  the
        name of the file mentioned above not its content, or a
        physical constant such as 3.14159, might be coded as a
        literal.  literals can be accessed quickly, a potential
        advantage of their use.
     
        1996-01-23
     
     

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BibleGateway.com Version information: Young's Literal Translation
...The Bible text designated YLT is from the 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young.....This is an extremely literal translation that attempts to preserve the tense and word.....Young's Literal Translation.. Version » Young's Literal Translation.. Publisher.. Public..
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The Concordant Literal New Testament - HTML format
...The contents of the linked pages hereunto containing the text of the Concordant Literal..
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