(n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

(n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.

(v. i. & t.) To become lank; to make lank.

(n.) Urine.

(n.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.

(n.) See Lanterloo.

(n.) Bacon; the flesh of swine.

(n.) The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.

(n.) To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry.

(n.) To fatten; to enrich.

(n.) To smear with lard or fat.

(n.) To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

(v. i.) To grow fat.

(n.) Lore; learning.

(n.) Pasture; feed. See Lair.

(v. t.) To feed; to fatten.

(n.) A diarrhea or flux.

(3d pers. sing. pres.) of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

(a.) Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance.

(a.) Next before the present; as, I saw him last week.

(a.) Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.

(a.) Lowest in rank or degree; as, the last prize.

(a.) Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.

(a.) At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York.

(a.) In conclusion; finally.

(a.) At a time next preceding the present time.

(v. i.) To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.

(v. i.) To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.

(v. i.) A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.

(v. t.) To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.

(n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.

(n.) The burden of a ship; a cargo.

(v.) Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.

(v.) Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life.

(v.) Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.

(v.) Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence.

(v.) Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher.

(a.) After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to early.

(a.) Not long ago; lately.

(a.) Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.

(n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used.

(v. t.) To cover or line with laths.

(a.) Loose.

(n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

(v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.

(v. i.) To bathe; to wash one's self.

(v. t.) To lade, dip, or pour out.

(n.) The remainder; others.

(superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

(superl.) Languid; drooping.

(n.) An open space between woods.

(n.) Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lay

(v. i.) To be lazy or idle.

(v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.

(superl.) Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.

(superl.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.

(superl.) Wicked; vicious.

(v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.

(v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.

(a.) Leaky.

(n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.

(n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.

(n. & v. i.) See Leme.

(n.) A cord or strap for leading a dog.

(n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leave

(pl. ) of Lee

(n.) Alt. of Leede

(a. & adv.) See Lief.

(n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.

(strong imp.) Leaped.

(v. t.) To learn.

(a.) Empty; destitute; wanting

(a.) Empty of contents.

(a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.

(a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.

(n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.

(n.) The cheek.

(n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.

(n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.

(v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.

(v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.

(n. pl.) Dregs. See 2d Lee.

(n.) A leash.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leave.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side; -- opposed to right, when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the left hand, or arm; the left ear. Also said of the corresponding side of the lower animals.

(n.) That part of surrounding space toward which the left side of one's body is turned; as, the house is on the left when you face North.

(n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer. See Center, and Right.

(n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

(v. i.) To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

(v. t.) To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.

(n.) A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.

(superl.) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.

(superl.) Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.

(superl.) Far-reaching; extensive.

(superl.) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 22, 30.

(n.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

(n.) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.

(n.) The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.

(adv.) To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.

(adv.) To a great extent in time; during a long time.

(adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.

(adv.) Through the whole extent or duration.

(adv.) Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?

(prep.) By means of; by the fault of; because of.

(a.) To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for.

(a.) To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for.

(n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

(n.) A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

(n.) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

(v. t.) To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

(superl.) Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

(superl.) Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.

(superl.) Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.

(n.) A leash.

(n.) Luxury.

(n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.

(n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.

(n.) A velvet smoothing brush.

(n.) To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.

(v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal.

(n.) A large marine annelid (Nephthys caeca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.

(v. i.) To lie hid; to lie in wait.

(v. i.) To keep out of sight.

(a.) Full of juice or succulence.

(n.) An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.

(a.) Crazy; mentally unsound.

(n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.

(n.) A mass or aggregation of things.

(n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

(v. i.) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

(v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.

(v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.

(n.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

(n.) The side of a ship toward the wind.

(n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.

(n.) The roundest part of a ship's bow.

(n.) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.

(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.

(n.) A low fellow.

(superl.) Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.

(n.) An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.

(pl. ) of Louse

(v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.

(n.) A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.

(v. t.) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

(a.) Alt. of Lothsome

(n.) See Lotto.

(superl.) Clamorous; boisterous.

(superl.) Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.

(superl.) Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.

(adv.) With loudness; loudly.

(n.) An accomplice; a "pal."

(n.) A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree.

(n.) The European burbot.

(v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.

(v. t.) Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

(v. t.) Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.

(v. t.) Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.

(v. t.) Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.

(v. t.) Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.

(v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

(v. t.) Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.

(v. t.) Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.

(n.) The act of plundering.

(n.) Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.

(v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

(v. t.) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.

(v. t.) To express or manifest by a look.

(n.) The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.

(n.) Expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a proud or defiant look.

(n.) Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look.

(n.) Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.

(n.) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.

(v. i.) See Luff.

(v. i.) To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.

(v. i.) To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.

(v. i.) To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.

(v. i.) To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.

(v. i.) In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.

(v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively.

(v. i.) To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.

(v. t.) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.

(v. t.) To seek; to search for.

(v. t.) To expect.

(n.) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

(n.) A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.

(n.) A small, narrow opening; a loophole.

(n.) A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.

(n.) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.

(n.) The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.

(v. t.) To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.

(a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

(a.) Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.

(a.) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.

(n.) The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.

(n.) The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa Aegyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.

(n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.

(a.) Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.

(a.) Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.

(n.) The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc.

(a.) Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous.

(a.) Containing lime; as, a limy soil.

(a.) Resembling lime; having the qualities of lime.

(n.) Land.

(n.) A lane. See Loanin.

(a.) Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.

(v. t.) To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.

(v. t.) To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

(v. i.) To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.

(n.) A halt; the act of limping.

(v. i.) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a.

(n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

(n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.

(n.) A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

(n.) An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

(v. t.) To supply with limbs.

(v. t.) To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

(n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.

(n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.

(n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.

(n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.

(n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

(n.) The linden tree. See Linden.

(n.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.

(n.) Birdlime.

(n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.

(v. t.) To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.

(v. t.) To entangle; to insnare.

(v. t.) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.

(v. t.) To cement.

(n.) A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.

(v. i.) To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.

(v. i.) To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.

(v. i.) To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.

(v. t.) To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.

(superl.) Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character.

(superl.) Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent.

(superl.) Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely.

(superl.) Inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel like taking a walk.

(n.) That which is equal or similar to another; the counterpart; an exact resemblance; a copy.

(n.) A liking; a preference; inclination; -- usually in pl.; as, we all have likes and dislikes.

(a.) In a manner like that of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him.

(a.) In a like or similar manner.

(a.) Likely; probably.

(a.) To suit; to please; to be agreeable to.

(a.) To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy.

(a.) To liken; to compare.

(v. i.) To be pleased; to choose.

(v. i.) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).

(v. i.) To loll.

(v. i.) To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.

(v. i.) To sing cheerfully.

(v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.

(n.) Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.

(n.) A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.

(a.) Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse.

(n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

(n.) A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).

(n.) A lodge; a habitation.

(pl. ) of Locus

(pl. ) of Locus

(n.) A water course or way; a reach of water.

(n.) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

(v. t.) To allege; to assert.

(n.) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.

(v. i.) To shine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lend

(v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

(v. t.) To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food.

(v. t.) To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence.

(v. t.) To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig.

(v. t.) To lend; to grant; to permit.

(a.) Smooth; as, the lene breathing.

(a.) Applied to certain mute consonants, as p, k, and t (or Gr. /, /, /).

(n.) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).

(n.) Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or t (or Gr. /, /, /).

(n.) A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.

() imp. & p. p. of Lend.

(n.) A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.

(a.) Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

(a.) See Lento.

(n.) Learning; lesson; lore.

(v. t. & i.) To learn; to teach.

(a.) Empty.

(n.) Flesh; skin.

(v. t.) To lose.

(conj.) Unless.

(a.) Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before.

(adv.) Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful.

(n.) A smaller portion or quantity.

(n.) The inferior, younger, or smaller.

(v. t.) To make less; to lessen.

(v. t.) To let; to leave.

(a.) A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.

(a.) The burbot of Lake Ontario.

(a.) An American hake of the genus Phycis.

(a.) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.

(n.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).

(a.) Dear. See Lief.

(n. & v.) Same as 3d & 4th Leave.

(v. i.) To live.

(v. t.) To believe.

(v. t.) To grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause.

(n.) Flax.

(n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.

(superl.) Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.

(superl.) Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.

(superl.) Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.

(superl.) Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.

(n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

(pl. ) of Lira

(n.) pl. of Louse.

(adv., & n.) Little.

(a.) Like.

(a.) A dead body; a corpse.

(v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.

(v. i.) To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.

(v. i.) To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.

(v. i.) To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.

(v. i.) To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.

(v. i.) To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.

(v. i.) To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.

(v. i.) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.

(v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.

(v. t.) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.

(v. t.) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.

(a.) Having life; alive; living; not dead.

(a.) Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.

(a.) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.

(a.) Vivid; bright.

(a.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.

(n.) Life.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lie

(p. p.) of Lie

() of Lie

(n.) A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national.

(obs. p. p.) of Lie. See Lain.

(n.) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

(n.) One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.

(n.) Place; room; stead; -- used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of.

(v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

(v.) The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.

(v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.

(v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.

(v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.

(v.) Weight or violence of blows.

(v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.

(v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.

(v. t.) To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.

(v. t.) To magnetize.

(n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.

(v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.

(v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

(n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.

(n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.

(v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

(n.) A loanin.

(n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.

(n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.

(n. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out.

(n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

(v. t.) To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.

(v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To bear; to support.

(v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

(v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

(v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

(v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

(v. t.) To live by theft.

(n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

(n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

(n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.

(n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

(n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

(n.) A handle.

(n.) An exercising machine.

(n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

(n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.

(n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form

(n.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf.

(n.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.

(n.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain.

(n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.

(n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

(n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.

(n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

(n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

(n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.

(n.) A layer of leather in the heel.

(n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

(v. t. & i.) To lie; to tell lies.

(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.

(n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.

(n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.

(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

(n.) A grapple in wrestling.

(v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.

(v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.

(v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.

(v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.

(v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.

(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

(superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

(v. t.) See Lam.

() p. p. of Leave.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lay.

(p. p.) of Lie, v. i.

(n.) A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.

(n.) A burying place.

(n.) A pasture; sometimes, food.

(n.) Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.

(a.) Pertaining to a lake.

(a.) Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

(superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.

(superl.) Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.

(v. t.) To make lame.

(v. t.) To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

(v. t.) To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.

(v. t.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.

(v. t.) To draw water.

(v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.

(n.) The mouth of a river.

(n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

(a.) Alt. of Laical

(n.) A layman.

(n.) Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

(n.) Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.

(v. t.) To blame; to find fault with.

(v. t.) To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

(v. i.) To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.

(v. i.) To be in want.

(interj.) Exclamation of regret or surprise.

(n.) One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.

(n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.

(n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

(n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress.

(n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage.

(v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces.

(v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver.

(v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.

(v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage).

(v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.