(a.) Alt. of Lyrated

(n.) The act of playing on a lyre or harp.

(n.) A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.

(pl. ) of Lytta

(adv.) In a lank manner.

(n. m.) Alt. of Lanneret

(n.) The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste.

(n.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lap

(n.) As much as the lap can contain.

(n.) One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.

(n.) A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.

(v. t.) To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lapse

(a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses.

(a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lard

(n.) A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.

(n.) Alt. of Lardoon

(n.) A larder.

(n.) A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.

(n.) A long, slender rope made of hemp or strips of hide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering.

(v. t.) To secure with a lariat fastened to a stake, as a horse or mule for grazing; also, to lasso or catch with a lariat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lark

(n.) A catcher of larks.

(n.) One who indulges in a lark or frolic.

(a.) Like or belonging to the Gull family (Laridae).

(v. t.) To beat or flog soundly.

(pl. ) of Larva

(pl. ) of Larva

(a.) Of or pertaining to a larva.

(n.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis.

(n.) A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lash

(n.) One who whips or lashes.

(n.) A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing.

(n.) A weir in a river.

(n.) latching.

(pl. ) of Lasso

(imp. & p. p.) of Last

(n.) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.

(adv.) In the last place; in conclusion.

(adv.) at last; finally.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below.

(adv.) Not long ago; recently; as, he has lately arrived from Italy.

(a.) Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lath

(n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

(n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.

(n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.

(v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.

(v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.

(n.) Transportation; conveyance.

(a.) Somewhat late.

(n.) Latten, 1.

(n.) The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.

(n.) A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass.

(n.) Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten.

(a.) Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.

(a.) Of two things, the one mentioned second.

(a.) Recent; modern.

(a.) Last; latest; final.

(imp. & p. p.) of Laud

(v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

(v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.

(v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

(v. i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.

(v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.

(n.) The act of launching.

(n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.

(n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel (Laurus nobilis).

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lave

(v. i.) To beat against the wind; to tack.

(a.) Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.

(a.) Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.

(v. t.) To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

() Alt. of Lanated

(imp. & p. p.) of Lance

(n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.

(n.) A lancet.

(n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.

(n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

(n.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.

(imp. & p. p.) of Land

(a.) Having an estate in land.

(a.) Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.

(a.) Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

(a.) Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands.

(n.) Going to law; litigation.

(n.) Expeditation.

(n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.

(n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt.

(n.) The bowfin (Amia calva).

(n.) The burbot (Lota maculosa).

(a.) The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lay

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, lays.

(n.) The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

(n.) The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.

(pl. ) of Layman

(n.) A whiplash.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laze

(adv.) In a lazy manner.

(n.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.

(a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lead

(a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.

(a.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.

(a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.

(a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky.

(a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.

(n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

(n.) One who goes first.

(n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.

(n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.

(n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

(n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.

(n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.

(n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.

(n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.

(n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

(n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.

(n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

(n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

(pl. ) of Leaf

(imp. & p. p.) of Leaf

(a.) Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.

(n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.

(n.) A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

(n.) An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.

(v. i.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate.

(v. t.) To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leak

(n.) A dog held by a leam.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lean

(adv.) Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leap

() of Learn

(imp. & p. p.) of Lease

(n.) One who leases or gleans.

(n.) A liar.

(n.) A pasture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leave

(a.) Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved.

(n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.

(n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.

(v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

(v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

(n.) One who leaves, or withdraws.

(n.) pl. of Leaf.

(n.) Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.

(n.) The hartbeest.

(n.) A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.

(v. i.) To practice lewdness.

(n.) A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leer

(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

(n.) An ambassador or envoy.

(n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.

(n.) An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province.

(n.) Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province.

(a.) Connected; tied; -- a term used when successive tones are to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. It is often indicated by a tie, thus /, /, or /, /, written over or under the notes to be so performed; -- opposed to staccato.

(n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.

(a.) Containing, or like, lymph.

(n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.

(n.) Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.

(n.) Lechery; lust.

(n.) Luxuriance; exuberance.

(n.) See Litchi.

(n.) A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lute

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola).

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of Euphorbia cyparissias.

(n.) A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

() A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.

(n.) See Lute, a cement.

(n.) One who plays on a lute.

(a.) Covered with clay; miry.

(a.) Luxated.

(v. t.) To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.

(a.) Given to luxury; voluptuous.

(n.) Same as Luster.

(pl. ) of Lustrum

(a.) Stupid; blockish.

(n.) A blockhead.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lure

(imp. & p. p.) of Lust

(n.) One who lusts.

(n.) Alt. of Lustre

(n.) Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.

(n.) Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.

(n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.

(n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.

(n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

(n.) A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.

(v. t.) Alt. of Lustre

(v. t.) To make lustrous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lurk

(n.) One who lurks.

(n.) A small fishing boat.

(a.) Used in play; sportive; playful.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lunge

(a.) Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.

(n.) A guillemot.

(n.) A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow.

(n.) Same as Lunule.

(n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.

(n.) A lune. See Lune.

(n.) A small or narrow crescent.

(n.) A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve.

(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California.

(n.) Wolfish; ravenous.

(a.) Alt. of Lumbal

(n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

(n.) Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

(n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

(b. t.) To heap together in disorder.

(b. t.) To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

(v. i.) To move heavily, as if burdened.

(v. i.) To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

(v. i.) To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

(v. i.) To illumine.

(n.) A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lump

(n.) The European eelpout; -- called also lumpen.

(n.) One who lumps.

(n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.

(n.) Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation.

(n.) A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism.

(a.) Lunar.

(n.) The herb moonwort or "honesty".

(n.) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.

(a.) Alt. of Lunated

(n.) A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.

(imp. & p. p.) of Luff

(n.) See Louver.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lug

(n.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lull

(n.) One who, or that which, lulls.

(n.) The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

(a.) Somewhat low.

(n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.

(a.) Alt. of Lubrical

(a.) Shining; bright; resplendent.

(n.) A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland.

(n.) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx).

(n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa.

(n.) A lamp.

(n.) See Louver.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Low

(n.) Alt. of Louvre

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.

(a.) Alt. of Lothsome

(n.) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.

(n.) A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.

(n.) An East Indian monkey (Semnopithecus femoralis).

(adv.) In a loud manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lot

(a.) Alt. of Loral

(n.) The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole.

(pl. ) of Lory

(imp. & p. p.) of Lose

(a.) Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening.

(v. t.) Causing or incurring loss; as, a losing game or business.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lope

(n.) One who lops or cuts off.

(v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lord

(superl.) Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.

(superl.) Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

(adv.) In a lordly manner.

(n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.

(n.) Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.

(n.) The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Loot

(n.) A plunderer.

(n.) See Louver.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lop

(n.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.

(a.) Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

(n.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.

(n.) One who looks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Loose

(v. t.) To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.

(v. t.) To free from restraint; to set at liberty..

(v. t.) To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.

(v. i.) To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact.

(imp. & p. p.) of Look

(imp. & p. p.) of Loom

(imp. & p. p.) of Loop

(a.) Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.

(a.) Full of holes.

(n.) An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.

(n.) The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.

(superl.) Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

(superl.) Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.

(superl.) Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.

(superl.) Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.

(imp. & p. p.) of Long

(n.) One who longs for anything.

(adv.) With longing desire.

(adv.) For a long time; hence, wearisomely.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loo

(n.) One who limps.

(n.) In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.

(n.) Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.

(n.) Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.

(n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.

(a.) Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream.

(n.) A limpet.

(a.) Alt. of Limsy

(pl. ) of Limulus

(n.) See Lineage.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Line

(a.) Limber.

(n.) A limehound; a leamer.

(n.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.

(n.) A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute.

(n.) A man rope at the side of a ladder.

(imp. & p. p.) of Limn

(n.) A painter; an artist

(n.) One who paints portraits.

(n.) One who illuminates books.

(a.) Muddy; slimy; thick.

(imp. & p. p.) of Limp

(n.) A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.

(n.) An alembic; a still.

(v. t.) To distill.

(a.) Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.

(n.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.

(n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.

(n.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lime

(v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.

(v. i.) To wander as an idle vagrant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Loll

(n.) One who lolls.

(n.) An idle vagabond.

(n.) The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.

(n.) A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositae.

(n.) A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.

(n.) A kind of precious stone.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Like

(p. a.) Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.

(n.) The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.

(n.) The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.

(n.) Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.

(a.) Having a general resemblance to lilies or to liliaceous plants.

(a.) Covered with, or having many, lilies.

(pl. ) of Lily

(n. pl.) The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.

(a.) Illuminated.

(n.) The central process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees.

(n.) A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium.

(n.) See Loch, a medicine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.

(n.) A Lollard.

(v. i.) To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.

(pl. ) of Loma

(n.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.

(n.) See Logic.

(n.) A man who carries logs.

(n.) A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.

(n.) See Ligule.

(imp. & p. p.) of Log

(n.) A small log or piece of wood.

(n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.

(a.) Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged.

(n.) One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.

(n.) The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).

(imp. & p. p.) of Lodge

(a.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

(n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

(n.) That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.

(n.) A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature.

(n.) Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.

(n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.

(v. t.) To tell or narrate, as a legend.

(a.) Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged animal.

(n.) A cover for the leg, like a long gaiter.

(n.) A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.

(n.) A military force; an army; military bands.

(n.) A great number; a multitude.

(n.) A group of orders inferior to a class.

(n.) One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.

(n.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

(n.) The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

(n.) See Leger, n., 2.

(n.) One who lends.

(a.) Alt. of Lengest

(a.) The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.

(a.) A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural.

(a.) The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk.

(a.) A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.

(a.) Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.

(a.) Distance.

(v. t.) To lengthen.

(v. t.) To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.

(n.) The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.

(pl. ) of Lens

(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Ervum (Ervum Lens), of small size, common in the fields in Europe. Also, its seed, which is used for food on the continent.

(a.) Tenacity; viscidity, as of fluids.

(a.) Slowness; delay; sluggishness.

(n.) The six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; -- sometimes used as a generic name. See Harvest mite, under Harvest.

(n.) A hurt; an injury.

(n.) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.

(n.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.

(v. t.) The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.

(a.) To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune.

(v. i.) To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened.

(v. t.) The leavings or dung of beasts.

(n.) Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

(n.) That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.

(n.) A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.

(n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

(n.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

(v. t.) To teach; to instruct.

(v. t.) One who leases; the person who lets to farm, or gives a lease.

() of Let

(a.) See Leachy.

(n.) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.

(a.) Deadly; mortal; fatal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lette

(n.) One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.

(n.) One who retards or hinders.

(n.) A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.

(n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.

(n.) A writing; an inscription.

(n.) Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.

(n.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.

(n.) Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.

(n.) A letter; an epistle.

(v. t.) To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

(a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.

(a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

(a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.

(a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.

(a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.

(n.) Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.

(a.) Alt. of Leucinic

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid.

() Alt. of Leuc-

(n.) The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.

(n.) A shoemaker's thread.

(n.) A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.

(a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.

(v. t.) To protract; to draw out.

(v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.

(n.) An ingot.

(n.) A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

(n.) A tongue.

(n.) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

(n.) The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.

(n.) That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything.

(n.) One who levies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Link

(n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity.

(n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.

(n.) Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.

(n.) Linsey-woolsey.

(n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

(n.) Alt. of Lintwhite

(n.) A young or small lion.

(a.) Like a lion; fierce.

(pl. ) of Levy

(imp. & p. p.) of Levy

(n.) Alt. of Levynite

(imp. & p. p.) of Lip

(n.) A little lip.

(n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.

(a.) Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.

(a.) Labiate.

(v. t.) Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.

(v. t.) Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident.

(a.) Sipping; touching lightly.

(a.) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

(a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.

(a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.

(a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.

(a.) Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.

(a.) Clear; definite in terms or amount.

(n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.

(n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.

(n.) Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.

(n.) Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

(n.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.

(v. t.) To supply with liquor.

(v. t.) To grease.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lisp

(n.) One who lisps.

(a.) Alt. of Lissome

(imp. & p. p.) of List

(n.) Same as List, n., 6.

(v. i.) To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.

(v. i.) To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.

(v. t.) To attend to.

(n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character.

(n.) Alt. of Libkin

(n.) A house or lodging.

(a.) Of a pound weight.

(n.) The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form.

(n.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.

(n.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion.

(a.) Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.

(a.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.

(n.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.

(a.) Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.

(n.) A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.

(n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

(n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

(n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

(n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

(n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

(v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

(v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

(v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.

(v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

(v. i.) To produce a litter.

(n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

(n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

(n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Live

(imp. & p. p.) of Lick

(n.) One who, or that which, licks.

(n.) Liquor.

(n.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals.

(a.) Covered with a lid.

(pl. ) of Lied

(n.) A resident ambassador.

(n.) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

(n.) The writ by which possession is obtained.

(n.) Release from wardship; deliverance.

(n.) That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.

(n.) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.

(n.) The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.

(n.) Hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London.

(n.) Hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance.

(n.) An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.

(n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.

(n.) The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.

(n.) A low grade of wool.

(v. t.) To clothe in, or as in, livery.

(v. i.) Being alive; having life; as, a living creature.

(v. i.) Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle.

(v. i.) Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant.

(v. i.) Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening.

(v. i.) Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.

(n.) The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.

(n.) Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.

(n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.

(n.) Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.

(n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.

(pl. ) of Llano

(imp. & p. p.) of Load

(n.) One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

(pl. ) of Loaf

(imp. & p. p.) of Loaf

(n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

(imp. & p. p.) of Loam

(imp. & p. p.) of Loan

(n.) Alt. of Loaning

(v. t.) To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.

(v. t.) To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate.

(v. i.) To feel disgust or nausea.

(a.) Loathsome.

(n.) pl. of Loaf.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lob

(a.) Alt. of Lobated

(imp. & p. p.) of Lift

(n.) A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

(n.) A place, spot, or location.

(n.) A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

(v. t.) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

(v. t.) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.

(v. i.) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.

(n.) A small lake; a pond.

(n.) One who, or that which, lifts.

(n.) A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted.

(v. t.) To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

(n.) A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a.

(a.) See Ledger, 2.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lock

(n.) One who, or that which, locks.

(n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.

(n.) A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

(n.) A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.

(n.) A little hollow; a loculus.

(pl. ) of Loculus

(v. t.) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.

(v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

(v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.

(n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

(n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.

(n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.

(a.) Somewhat lame.

(n.) A lamp or candlestick.

(n.) An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid.

() A prefix. See Levo.

(a.) Ugly; loathsome.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lam

(a.) Of or pertaining to Lamaism.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lamb

(n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.

(n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lame

(adv.) An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.

(v. i.) To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.

(n.) An organic residue or radical derived from lactic acid.

(n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

(v. t.) To make a lady of; to make ladylike.

(n.) The act of loading.

(n.) That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden; as, the lading of a ship.

(n.) A little lad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ladle

(pl. ) of Lady

(imp. & p. p.) of Lag

(n.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.

(n.) A laggard.

(n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.

(n.) A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.

(n.) See Lagoon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity.

(n.) The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

(n.) A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.

(n.) A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.

(n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lack

(n.) One who lacks or is in want.

(n. & v.) See Lacquer.

(v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

(v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.

(n.) One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.

(a.) Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc.

(n.) One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam.

(n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.

(n.) A lacuna.

(v. i.) A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.

(v. i.) That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lade

(n. pl.) Lips.

(n.) A lip or edge, as of a basin.

(n.) An organ in insects and crustaceans covering the upper part of the mouth, and serving as an upper lip. See Illust. of Hymenoptera.

(n.) The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.

(a.) Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.

(n.) A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lace

(n.) A muscle of the human body.

(n.) Alt. of Lache

(v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.

(n.) See Litmus.

(v. t.) To weaken or impair.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.

(a.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.

(a.) Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.

(a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as / (f/d), / (/ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and o, u in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 11, 178.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium.

(n.) A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.

(n.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe.

(n.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.

(a.) Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.

(n.) A lip, or liplike organ.

(n.) The lip of an organ pipe.

(n.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.

(n.) The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillae, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).

(n.) Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.

(n.) an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab).

(pl. ) of Labarum

(n.) A small dog fondled in the lap.

(n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

(pl. ) of Lemma