(a.) Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

(a.) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

(a.) Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet.

(n.) A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.

(n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.

(n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.

(n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.

(n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.

(n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).

(n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.

(n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.

(n.) See Aristotle's lantern.

(v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.

(n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.

(n.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube.

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

(pl. ) of Lapful

(n. pl.) Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles.

(n.) One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.

(n.) A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

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

(n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.

(n.) Work in which one part laps over another.

(n.) A lacunar.

(n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the larch.

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

(n.) A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.

(adv.) In a large manner.

(a.) Alt. of Largesse

(a.) Somewhat large.

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

(n.) See Tearpit.

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.

(n.) See 2d Lasher.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lasso

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

(n.) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.

(n.) A tax on wares sold by the last.

(n.) The lading of a ship; also, ballast.

(n.) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.

(a.) Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

(n.) Continuance; endurance.

(n.) A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women's shoes; everlasting.

(n.) The act or process of shaping on a last.

(adv.) In a lasting manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Latch

(n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.

(n.) Latency.

(n.) The state or quality of being latent.

(adv.) Toward the side; away from the mesial plane; -- opposed to mesiad.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

(a.) Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.

(a.) Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.

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

(n.) The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.

(n.) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.

(a.) Barking.

(v. i.) To bark as a dog.

(n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.

(n.) Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.

(n.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.

(v. i.) To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers.

(v. i.) To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Laugh

(n.) One who laughs.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.

(n.) A washerwoman.

(n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.

(v. i.) To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

(v. i.) To lave; to wet.

(n.) A laundering; a washing.

(n.) A place or room where laundering is done.

(n.) A salt of lauric acid.

(n.) A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

(n.) The ketone of lauric acid.

(n.) A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

(a.) Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.

(n.) An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound.

(n.) Same as Laverock.

() Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.

(a.) Like a lance.

(pl. ) of Landman

(n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.

(n.) An occupier of land.

(n.) A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade.

(n.) A linen roller used in dressing wounds.

(n.) A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.

(n.) A kind of loaded die.

(a.) Tongued; having the tongue visible.

(n.) Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.

(n.) That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

(a.) Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.

(a.) Slow in progress; tardy.

(a.) Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.

(n.) A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

(n.) Any enfeebling disease.

(n.) Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope.

(n.) See Lanyard.

(a.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.

(a.) The shambles; a place of slaughter.

(a.) A laniary, or canine, tooth.

(v. t.) To tear in pieces.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidae).

(a.) Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.

(a.) Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior.

(a.) Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.

(n.) An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

(n.) That which loosens; -- esp., a muscle which by its contraction loosens some part.

(n.) The condition of being a layman.

(n.) Alt. of Lazaretto

(a.) Full of sores; leprous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leach

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

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

(a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.

(n.) The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance.

(n.) Suggestion; hint; example.

(pl. ) of Leadman

(n.) One who leads a dance.

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

(n.) Leaves, collectively; foliage.

(n.) A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).

(n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.

(n.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.

(n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.

(imp. & p. p.) of League

(n.) The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.

(n.) A siege or beleaguering.

(v. t.) To besiege; to beleaguer.

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

(n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

(n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.

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

(n.) The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

(a.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof.

(n.) A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall.

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

(n.) A basketful.

(a. & n.) from Leap, to jump.

(n.) One who learns; a scholar.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Leash

(a.) The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies.

(n.) The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.

(n.) The skin.

(v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather.

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

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

(n.) Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.

(n.) Selfish pleasure; delight.

(n.) See Lecturn.

(n.) A kind of litter or portable couch.

(n.) A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service.

(n.) A reading; a variation in the text.

(a.) Confining to the bed; as, a lectual disease.

(n.) The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

(n.) A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.

(n.) A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.

(n.) A rehearsal of a lesson.

(v. t.) To read or deliver a lecture to.

(v. t.) To reprove formally and with authority.

(v. i.) To deliver a lecture or lectures.

(n.) A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.]

(imp. & p. p.) of Leech

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

(pl. ) of Leetman

(n.) One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.

(a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship.

(n.) The lee side; the lee.

(adv.) Toward the lee.

(adv.) In a legal manner.

(n.) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

(n.) The lugworm.

(n.) The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

(n.) The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one.

(a.) Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.

(n.) A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm.

(v. i. & t.) To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.

(n.) A plant of the genus Lycopodium.

(adv.) In a lying manner; falsely.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lynx.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lynch

(n.) One who assists in lynching.

(pl. ) of Lyceum

(a.) Yellowish; more or less like buff.

(n.) A dormer window. See Dormer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Luxate

(n.) A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lurch

(n.) One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.

(n.) One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.

(n.) A glutton; a gormandizer.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Lustre

(a.) Full of lust; excited by lust.

(a.) Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality.

(a.) Strong; lusty.

(adv.) In a lusty or vigorous manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lustrum.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Lunch

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

(n.) A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India.

(pl. ) of Lunula

(a.) Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.

(n.) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.

(n.) A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.

(n.) A bitter principle extracted from hops.

(n.) The fine yellow resinous powder found upon the strobiles or fruit of hops, and containing this bitter principle.

(a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross.

(a.) Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.

(n.) A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.

(n.) A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

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

(a.) Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless.

(n.) The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.

(n.) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

(n.) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.

(n.) A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.

(n.) Anything in the form of lozenge.

(n.) A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.

(a.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.

(n.) A lubber.

(a.) Producing light.

(adv.) In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.

(a.) Producing grief; saddening.

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

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

(n.) That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.

(n.) A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.

(n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.

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

(a.) Bulky; heavy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lower

(adv.) In a lowly place or manner; humbly.

(n.) The state or quality of being low.

(adv.) In a loyal manner; faithfully.

(a.) Lubberly.

(n.) A dormer window.

(n.) The quality of being lucent.

(adv.) In a lucid manner.

(n.) A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.

(n.) A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep.

(v. t.) To frighten, as with a lowbell.

(a.) Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lower

(a.) Full of love.

(n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.

(n.) Allotment; thing allotted.

(n.) One who lounges; ar idler.

(adv.) In a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily.

(a.) Clownish; rude; awkward.

(a.) Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lounge

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

(a.) Detrimental.

(pl. ) of Lorry

(a.) Such as can be lost.

(n.) Leaper; ropedancer.

(n.) A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.

(n.) A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.

(n.) A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.

(n.) A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.

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

(n.) The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.

(n.) A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule.

(n.) A little lord.

(pl. ) of Lorica

(a.) Somewhat loose.

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

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

(n.) The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

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

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

(adv.) In a loose manner.

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

(a.) Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.

(n.) The act of one who looks; a glance.

(n.) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face.

(n.) A careful looking or watching for any object or event.

(n.) The place from which such observation is made.

(n.) A person engaged in watching.

(n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.

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

(n.) The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.

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

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

(n.) An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

(a.) Loobylike; awkward.

(adv.) Awkwardly.

(pl. ) of Looby

(n.) Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (A. giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (A. scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.

(n.) Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

(a.) Somewhat long; moderately long.

(a.) Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.

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

(n.) A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district.

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

(n.) See Limoniad.

(n.) The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced.

(n.) A bitter, white, crystalline substance found in orange and lemon seeds.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Liken

(a.) Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

(a.) With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Limit

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

(a.) Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person.

(n.) See Syringin.

(n.) The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.

(adv.) With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.

(adv.) Swiftly; nimbly; with agility.

(adv.) Without deep impression.

(adv.) In a small degree; slightly; not severely.

(adv.) With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.

(adv.) Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.

(adv.) Commonly; usually.

(adv.) Without dejection; cheerfully.

(adv.) Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.

(adv.) Not chastely; wantonly.

(n.) The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

(a.) Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.

(a.) According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical.

(a.) Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker.

(v. t.) To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.

(v. i.) To become wood.

(n.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.

(n.) See Lignin.

(a.) Alt. of Lignous

(a.) Ligneous.

(n.) See Lignin.

(n.) An explosive compound of wood fiber and nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

(n.) A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170¡ Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps.

(pl. ) of Ligula

(pl. ) of Ligula

(n.) One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.

(n.) A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery.

(v. t.) To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.

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

(n.) The pileated woodpecker.

(n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.

(n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.

(n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.

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

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

(n.) A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.

(n.) Abiding place; harbor; cover.

(adv.) In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

(imp. & p. p.) of Light

(v. i.) To descend; to light.

(v. i.) To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.

(v. i.) To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.

(v. t.) To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.

(v. t.) To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.

(v. t.) To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.

(v. t.) To free from trouble and fill with joy.

(v. t.) To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.

(v. t.) To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.

(v. t.) To cheer; to exhilarate.

(n.) A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy.

(n.) Alt. of Leggin

() a. & vb. n., from Leg, v. t.

(a.) Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; -- used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript.

(a.) Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances.

(adv.) In a legible manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to making laws.

(a.) The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.

(a.) Not having a leg.

(n.) Same as Legume.

(n.) An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.

(n.) Alt. of Lister

(n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

(n.) Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.

(a.) Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

(pl. ) of Lemma

(n.) Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.

(n. pl.) Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.

(a. & n.) Same as Lemuroid.

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

(n.) The act of one who lends.

(n.) That which is lent or furnished.

(a.) Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long.

(superl.) Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.

(a.) Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.

(a.) Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.

(n.) A lenitive; an emollient.

(n.) A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

(n.) A tree; the mastic. See Mastic.

(a.) Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.

(a.) Viscid; viscous; tenacious.

(n.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard.

(a.) Affected or tainted with leprosy.

(a.) Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

(n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.

(a.) Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.

(a.) Leprose.

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

(n.) See Lecturn.

(n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

(a.) Linear.

(n.) A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis.

(n.) A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and potash. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at Vesuvius.

(n.) A leucoplast.

(a.) Alt. of Lineated

(pl. ) of Lineman

(n.) One who carries the line in surveying, etc.

(n.) A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.

(n.) A dealer in linen; a linen draper.

(n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo.

(a.) White; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.

(n.) A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.

(n.) A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.

(n.) A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.

(pl. ) of Lingua

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.

(n.) A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.

(n.) A tonguelike process or part.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) Allowable; permissible; lawful.

(imp. & p. p.) of Level

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

(n.) One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.

(adv.) In an even or level manner.

(n.) A hare in the first year of its age.

(n.) A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage.

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

(n.) The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.

(n.) Manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union of atoms or radicals in the molecule.

(n.) A system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used to describe straight lines and curves in the plane.

(n.) Alt. of Linkman

(n.) A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.

(n.) A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid.

(n.) A swift hound.

(n.) A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose.

(n.) The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.

(a.) Adorned with lions' heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross.

(n.) A small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.

(n.) A female lion.

(n.) An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.

(v. t.) To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest.

(v. t.) To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon.

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

(a.) Having no lips.

(v. i.) To melt; to become liquid.

(v. t.) To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.

(v. t.) To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

(n.) A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

(n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

(v. i.) To become liquid.

(n.) An aromatic alcoholic cordial.

(n.) A leopard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Libel

(n.) One who libels.

(n.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

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

(a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.

(a.) Light; nimble; active.

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

(a.) Attentive.

(n.) The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.

(n.) The selvedge of cloth; list.

(n.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board.

(n.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops.

(n.) A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

(n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.

(v. i.) To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised.

(v. t.) To poise; to balance.

(n.) Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.

(n.) Litharge.

(a.) According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.

(a.) Following the letter or exact words; not free.

(a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.

(a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.

(n.) Literal meaning.

(n.) The document granting such permission.

(n.) Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.

(n.) That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.

(v. t.) To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.

(n.) A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.

(adv.) In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.

(n.) A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.

(a.) Alt. of Lithoidal

(n.) A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city.

(a.) Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.

(n.) Any species of ammonites of the genus Lituites. They are found in the Cretaceous formation.

(a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.

(a.) Such as can be lived.

(a.) Such as in pleasant to live in; fit or suitable to live in.

(a.) Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.

(a.) Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful.

(n.) One of the inhabitants of the llanos of South America.

(n.) An association of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

(n.) A part of the Royal Exchange, in London, appropriated to the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also Lloyd's Rooms.

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

(n.) The act of putting a load on or into.

(n.) A load; cargo; burden.

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

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

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

(n.) An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane.

(imp. & p. p.) of Loathe

(n.) One who loathes.

(a.) Loathsome.

(adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly.

(adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing.

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

(a.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

(a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.

(a.) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.

(a.) Like a lob; consisting of lobs.

(pl. ) of Lobby

(imp. & p. p.) of Lobby

(a.) Full of vitality.

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

(n.) A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob.

(n.) A small lobe; a lobule.

(n.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

(a.) Having lobate toes, as a coot.

(n.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.

(a.) Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.

(adv.) With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Locate

(n.) One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.

(n.) An officer who commanded a company; a captain.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lochia.

(a.) Used in, or for, or by, lifting.

(n.) An instrument for ligating, or for placing and fastening a ligature.

(imp. & p. p.) of Light

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

(n.) Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.

(n.) Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.

(n.) Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.

(n.) A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.

(n.) A public executioner.

(n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany.

(a.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.

(a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.

(a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.

(n.) A small lamb.

(n. pl.) Same as Base, n., 19.

(n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.

(pl. ) of Lamina

(pl. ) of Lamina

(a.) Alt. of Laminal

(a.) In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

(n.) A supposed salt of lampic acid.

(n.) The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis).

(n.) See Lampas.

(a.) Shining; brilliant.

(n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.

(v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.

(n.) See Lamprey.

(n.) See Lamprey.

(n.) A little lake.

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

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

(n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

(n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.

(n.) One of a series of organic compounds, regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid.

(n.) Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin.

(n.) See Galactose.

(pl. ) of Lacuna

(pl. ) of Lacuna

(n.) One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant.

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

(n.) A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.

(n.) Same as Ladybird.

(n.) A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.

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

(n.) An alligator.

(pl. ) of Lagena

(a.) Slow; sluggish; backward.

(n.) One who lags; a loiterer.

(n.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.

(n.) Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.

(n.) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.

(n.) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.

(n.) The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects.

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

(pl. ) of Lackey

(n.) A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.

(v. t.) To cover with lacquer.

(a.) Suckling; giving suck.

(a.) Milky; full of white juice like milk.

(n.) a dairyhouse.

(n.) A salt of lactic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.

(n.) One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.

(a.) Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk.

(a.) Lacteal; conveying chyle.

(n.) A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance.

(a.) Alt. of Lacunar

(a.) Pertaining to, or having, lacunae; as, a lacunar circulation.

(n.) The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels.

(n.) One of the sunken panels in such a ceiling.

(n.) Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

(n.) A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.

(a.) Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples.

(a.) Having thick lips.

(pl. ) of Labrum

(pl. ) of Laceman

(n.) A man who deals in lace.

(n.) The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Label

(n.) One who labels.

(pl. ) of Labellum

(v. t.) To labialize.

(a.) Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip.

(a.) Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatae), of which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic herbs.

(n.) A plant of the order Labiatae.

(a.) Having the appearance of being labiate; -- said of certain polypetalous corollas.

(imp. & p. p.) of Labor

(a.) Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

(n.) One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

(n.) A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom.

(n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry.

(n.) A conclusion; a result.