DAVINA: Here, Macbeth offers to challenge fate itself in battle, “come fate into the list.” A modern audience might be wondering, “a list of what?” 
RALPH: But for Shakespeare's audience, the word ‘List’ has an entirely different meaning. It meant a border or bordering strip. 
DAVINA: For example, a knight in a jousting match was said to be "in the lists" when he was inside the strip of land marked off for the combat. This is what Macbeth is referring to here. He is challenging fate to a battle to the death. 
RALPH: List could also mean a strip of clothing, or a strip of parchment on which something could be written. 
DAVINA: And that leads us to our modern use of the word list, not to refer to a strip of parchment or paper, but to refer to the words written on that paper.