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L Dictionary L - As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.
La Dictionary L - noun A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
Laas Dictionary L - noun A lace. See Lace.
Lab Dictionary L - intransitive verb To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.
Labadist Dictionary L - noun A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.
Labarraque's solution Dictionary L - An aqueous solution of hypochlorite of sodium, extensively used as a disinfectant.
Labara Dictionary L - pleural of Labarum.
Labarum Dictionary L - noun 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.
Labdanum Dictionary L - noun See Ladanum.
Labefaction Dictionary L - noun The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.
Labefy Dictionary L - verb transitive To weaken or impair.
Label Dictionary L - noun A tassel.
Labeled Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Label.
Labelled Dictionary L - of Label.
Labeling Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Label.
Labelling Dictionary L - of Label.
Labeler Dictionary L - noun One who labels.
Labella Dictionary L - pleural of Labellum.
Labellums Dictionary L - pleural of Labellum.
Labellum Dictionary L - noun The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
Labent Dictionary L - adjective Slipping; sliding; gliding.
Labia Dictionary L - noun plural See Labium.
Labial Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.
Labialism Dictionary L - noun The quality of being labial; as, the labialism of an articulation; conversion into a labial, as of a sound which is different in another language.
Labialization Dictionary L - noun The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.
Labialize Dictionary L - verb transitive To modify by contraction of the lip opening.
Labially Dictionary L - adverb In a labial manner; with, or by means of, the lips.
Labiate Dictionary L - verb transitive To labialize.
Labiated Dictionary L - adjective Same as Labiate, a. (a).
Labiatifloral Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Labiatifloral.
Labidometer Dictionary L - noun A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head.
Labile Dictionary L - adjective Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Lability Dictionary L - noun Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize.
Labimeter Dictionary L - noun See Labidometer.
Labiodental Dictionary L - adjective Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v.
Labionasal Dictionary L - adjective Formed by the lips and the nose.
Labiose Dictionary L - adjective Having the appearance of being labiate; - said of certain polypetalous corollas.
Labipalpi Dictionary L - pleural of Labipalpus.
Labipalpus Dictionary L - noun One of the labial palpi of an insect. See Illust. under Labium.
Labiums Dictionary L - pleural of Labium.
Labium Dictionary L - noun A lip, or liplike organ.
Lablab Dictionary L - noun an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab).
Labor Dictionary L - noun Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
Labored Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Labor.
Laboring Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Labor.
Laborant Dictionary L - noun A chemist.
Laboratories Dictionary L - pleural of Laboratory.
Laboratory Dictionary L - noun The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
Laboredly Dictionary L - adverb In a labored manner; with labor.
Laborer Dictionary L - noun 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.
Laborious Dictionary L - adjective Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.
Laborless Dictionary L - adjective Not involving labor; not laborious; easy.
Laborous Dictionary L - adjective Laborious.
Labor-saving Dictionary L - adjective Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery.
Laborsome Dictionary L - adjective Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence.
Labrador Dictionary L - noun A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland.
Labradorite Dictionary L - noun A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.
Labras Dictionary L - noun plural Lips.
Labroid Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Labrose Dictionary L - adjective Having thick lips.
Labra Dictionary L - pleural of Labrum.
Labrums Dictionary L - pleural of Labrum.
Labrum Dictionary L - noun A lip or edge, as of a basin.
Labri Dictionary L - pleural of Labrus.
Labrus Dictionary L - noun A genus of marine fishes, including the wrasses of Europe. See Wrasse.
Laburnic Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the laburnum.
Laburnine Dictionary L - noun A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.
Laburnum Dictionary L - noun A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.
Labyrinth Dictionary L - noun An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
Labyrinthal Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
Labyrinthian Dictionary L - adjective Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
Labyrinthibranch Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici.
Labyrinthic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Labyrinthical.
Labyrinthical Dictionary L - adjective Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
Labyrinthici Dictionary L - noun plural An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.
Labyrinthiform Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
Labyrinthine Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
Labyrinthodon Dictionary L - noun A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.
Labyrinthodont Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta.
Labyrinthodonta Dictionary L - noun plural An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.
Lac Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lakh.
Lakh Dictionary L - noun One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.
Laccic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.
Laccin Dictionary L - noun A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.
Laccolite Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Laccolith.
Laccolith Dictionary L - noun A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.
Lace Dictionary L - noun 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.
Laced Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lace.
Lacing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lace.
Lace-bark Dictionary L - noun A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); - so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.
Lacedaemonian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lacedaemon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus.
Lacemen Dictionary L - pleural of Laceman.
Laceman Dictionary L - noun A man who deals in lace.
Lacerable Dictionary L - adjective That can be lacerated or torn.
Lacerated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lacerate.
Lacerating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lacerate.
Lacerate Dictionary L - verb transitive To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
Laceration Dictionary L - noun The act of lacerating.
Lacerative Dictionary L - adjective Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors.
Lacert Dictionary L - noun A muscle of the human body.
Lacerta Dictionary L - noun A fathom.
Lacertian Dictionary L - adjective Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia.
Lacertilia Dictionary L - noun plural An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards.
Lacertilian Dictionary L - adjective & noun Same as Lacertian.
Lacertiloid Dictionary L - adjective Like or belonging to the Lacertilia.
Lacertine Dictionary L - adjective Lacertian.
Lacerti Dictionary L - pleural of Lacertus.
Lacertus Dictionary L - noun A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers.
Lacewing Dictionary L - noun Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Chrysopa and allied genera. They have delicate, lacelike wings and brilliant eyes. Their larvae are useful in destroying aphids. Called also lace-winged fly, and goldeneyed fly.
Lace-winged Dictionary L - adjective Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies.
Laches Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lache.
Lache Dictionary L - noun Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim.
Lachrymable Dictionary L - adjective Lamentable.
Lachrymae Christi Dictionary L - A rich, sweet, red Neapolitan wine.
Lachrymal Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions.
Lacrymal Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lacrymal.
Lachrymary Dictionary L - adjective Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal.
Lachrymate Dictionary L - intransitive verb To weep.
Lachrymation Dictionary L - noun The act of shedding tears; weeping.
ries Dictionary L - pleural of Lachrymatory.
Lachrymatory Dictionary L - noun A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; - so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.
Lachrymiform Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.
Lachrymose Dictionary L - adjective Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
Laciniae Dictionary L - pleural of Lacinia.
Lacinia Dictionary L - noun One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.
Laciniate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Laciniated.
Laciniated Dictionary L - adjective Fringed; having a fringed border.
Laciniolate Dictionary L - adjective Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniae.
Lacinulae Dictionary L - pleural of Lacinula.
Lacinulas Dictionary L - pleural of Lacinula.
Lacinula Dictionary L - noun A diminutive lacinia.
Lack Dictionary L - noun Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
Lacked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lack.
Lacking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lack.
Lackadaisical Dictionary L - adjective Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental.
Lackadaisy Dictionary L - interjection An expression of languor.
Lackaday Dictionary L - interjection Alack the day; alas; - an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.
Lackbrain Dictionary L - noun One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person.
Lacker Dictionary L - noun One who lacks or is in want.
Lackeys Dictionary L - pleural of Lackey.
Lackey Dictionary L - verb An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
Lackeyed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lackey.
Lackeying Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lackey.
Lackluster Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lacklustre.
Lacklustre Dictionary L - noun A want of luster.
Lacmus Dictionary L - noun See Litmus.
Laconian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan.
Laconic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Laconical.
Laconical Dictionary L - adjective Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form.
Laconically Dictionary L - adverb In a laconic manner.
LaconIcism Dictionary L - noun Same as Laconism.
Laconism Dictionary L - noun A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style.
Laconized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Laconize.
Laconizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Laconize.
Laconize Dictionary L - intransitive verb To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity.
Lacquer Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lacquered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lacquer.
Lacquering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lacquer.
Lacquerer Dictionary L - noun One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering.
Lacrimoso Dictionary L - adjective Plaintive; - a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style.
Lacrosse Dictionary L - noun A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.
Lacrymary Dictionary L - Alt. of Lacrymose.
Lacrytory Dictionary L - Alt. of Lacrymose.
Lacrymose Dictionary L - See Lachrymary, Lachrymatory, Lachrymose.
Lactage Dictionary L - noun The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.
Lactam Dictionary L - noun One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.
Lactamic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an amido acid related to lactic acid, and called also amido-propionic acid.
Lactamide Dictionary L - noun An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine.
Lactant Dictionary L - adjective Suckling; giving suck.
Lactarene Dictionary L - noun A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.
Lactary Dictionary L - adjective Milky; full of white juice like milk.
Lactate Dictionary L - noun A salt of lactic acid.
Lactation Dictionary L - noun A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.
Lacteal Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
Lacteally Dictionary L - adverb Milkily; in the manner of milk.
Lactean Dictionary L - adjective Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk.
Lacteous Dictionary L - adjective Milky; resembling milk.
Lacteously Dictionary L - adverb In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.
Lactescence Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color.
Lactescent Dictionary L - adjective Having a milky look; becoming milky.
Lactic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc.
Lactide Dictionary L - noun A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance.
Lactiferous Dictionary L - adjective Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.
Lactific Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lactifical.
Lactifical Dictionary L - adjective Producing or yielding milk.
Lactifuge Dictionary L - noun A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
Lactim Dictionary L - noun One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam.
Lactimide Dictionary L - noun A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.
Lactin Dictionary L - noun See Lactose.
Lactoabumin Dictionary L - noun The albumin present on milk, apparently identical with ordinary serum albumin. It is distinct from the casein of milk.
Lactobutyrometer Dictionary L - noun An instrument for determining the amount of butter fat contained in a given sample of milk.
Lactodensimeter Dictionary L - noun A form of hydrometer, specially graduated, for finding the density of milk, and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed.
Lactometer Dictionary L - noun An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus.
Lactone Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lactonic Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, lactone.
Lactoprotein Dictionary L - noun A peculiar albuminous body considered a normal constituent of milk.
Lactory Dictionary L - adjective Lactiferous.
Lactoscope Dictionary L - noun An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
Lactose Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lactuca Dictionary L - noun A genus of composite herbs, several of which are cultivated foe salad; lettuce.
Lactucarium Dictionary L - noun The inspissated juice of the common lettuce, sometimes used as a substitute for opium.
Lactucic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the juice of the Lactuca virosa; - said of certain acids.
Lactucin Dictionary L - noun A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium.
Lactucone Dictionary L - noun A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium.
Lacturamic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.
Lactyl Dictionary L - noun An organic residue or radical derived from lactic acid.
Lacunae Dictionary L - pleural of Lacuna.
Lacunas Dictionary L - pleural of Lacuna.
Lacuna Dictionary L - noun A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
Lacunal Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lacunar.
Lacunar Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or having, lacunae; as, a lacunar circulation.
Lacunars Dictionary L - pleural of Lacunar.
Lacunaria Dictionary L - pleural of Lacunar.
Lacune Dictionary L - noun A lacuna.
Lacunose Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lacunous.
Lacunous Dictionary L - adjective Furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunae; as, a lacunose leaf.
Lacustral Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lacustrine.
Lacustrine Dictionary L - adjective Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers.
Lacwork Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lad Dictionary L - p. p. of Lead, to guide.
Ladanum Dictionary L - noun 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.
Ladde Dictionary L - [[obs. imperative of Lead, to guide.
Ladder Dictionary L - intransitive verb 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.
Laddie Dictionary L - noun A lad; a male sweetheart.
Laded Dictionary L - imperative of Lade.
Lading Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lade.
Lade Dictionary L - verb transitive To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; - generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.
Lademan Dictionary L - noun One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant.
Laden Dictionary L - particle & adjective Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.
Ladied Dictionary L - adjective Ladylike; not rough; gentle.
Ladies' eardrops Dictionary L - The small-flowered Fuchsia (F. coccinea), and other closely related species.
Ladify Dictionary L - verb transitive To make a lady of; to make ladylike.
Ladin Dictionary L - noun A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol.
Ladinos Dictionary L - pleural of Ladino.
Ladino Dictionary L - noun One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; - so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.
Ladkin Dictionary L - noun A little lad.
Ladle Dictionary L - verb transitive A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
Ladled Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Ladle.
Ladling Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Ladle.
Ladlefuls Dictionary L - pleural of Ladleful.
Ladleful Dictionary L - noun A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.
Ladrone Dictionary L - noun A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.
Ladies Dictionary L - pleural of Lady.
Lady Dictionary L - noun A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
Ladybird Dictionary L - noun Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidae); - called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella.
Ladybug Dictionary L - noun Same as Ladybird.
Ladyclock Dictionary L - noun See Ladyrird.
Ladyfish Dictionary L - noun A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; - called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabe.
Ladyhood Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of a lady.
Lady-killer Dictionary L - noun A gallant who captivates the hearts of women.
Lady-killing Dictionary L - noun The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women.
Ladykin Dictionary L - noun A little lady; - applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.
Ladylike Dictionary L - adjective Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
Ladylikeness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being ladylike.
Ladylove Dictionary L - noun A sweetheart or mistress.
Lady's bedstraw Dictionary L - The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.
Lady's bower Dictionary L - A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).
Lady's comb Dictionary L - An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.
Lady's cushion Dictionary L - An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
Lady's finger Dictionary L - The kidney vetch.
Lady's garters Dictionary L - Ribbon grass.
Lady's hair Dictionary L - A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.
Ladyship Dictionary L - noun The rank or position of a lady; - given as a title (preceded by her or your).
Lady's laces Dictionary L - A slender climbing plant; dodder.
Lady's looking-glass Dictionary L - See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.
Lady's mantle Dictionary L - A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
Lady's seal Dictionary L - The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum).
Lady's slipper Dictionary L - Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).
Lady's smock Dictionary L - A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.
Lady's thimble Dictionary L - The harebell.
Lady's thumb Dictionary L - An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
Lady's traces Dictionary L - Alt. of Ladies' tresses.
Ladies' tresses Dictionary L - A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
Laelaps Dictionary L - noun A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
Laemmergeyer Dictionary L - noun See Lammergeir.
Laemodipod Dictionary L - noun One of the Laemodipoda.
Laemodipoda Dictionary L - noun plural A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.
Laemodipodous Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Laemodipoda.
Laetere Sunday Dictionary L - The fourth Sunday of Lent; - so named from the Latin word Laetare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.
Laevigate Dictionary L - adjective Having a smooth surface, as if polished.
Laevo- Dictionary L - A prefix. See Levo.
Laevorotatory Dictionary L - adjective Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.
Laevulose Dictionary L - noun See Levulose.
Lafayette Dictionary L - noun The dollar fish.
Laft Dictionary L - p. p. of Leave.
Lafte Dictionary L - imp. of Leave.
Lag Dictionary L - adjective Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
Lagged Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lag.
Lagging Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lag.
Lagan Dictionary L - noun & verb See Ligan.
Lagarto Dictionary L - noun An alligator.
Lagenae Dictionary L - pleural of Lagena.
Lagenas Dictionary L - pleural of Lagena.
Lagena Dictionary L - noun The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.
Lagenian Dictionary L - adjective Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.
Lageniform Dictionary L - adjective Shaped like a bottle or flask; flag-shaped.
Lager Dictionary L - noun Lager beer.
Lager beer Dictionary L - Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; - so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.
Lager wine Dictionary L - Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar.
Laggard Dictionary L - adjective Slow; sluggish; backward.
Lagger Dictionary L - noun A laggard.
Laggingly Dictionary L - adverb In a lagging manner; loiteringly.
Lagly Dictionary L - adverb Laggingly.
Lagomorph Dictionary L - noun One of the Lagomorpha.
Lagemorpha Dictionary L - noun plural A group of rodents, including the hares. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata.
Lagoon Dictionary L - noun A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.
Lagophthalmia Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lagophthalmos.
Lagophthalmos Dictionary L - noun A morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open, giving a peculiar staring appearance.
Lagopous Dictionary L - adjective Having a dense covering of long hair, like the foot of a hare.
Lagune Dictionary L - noun See Lagoon.
Laic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Laical.
Laical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity.
Laicality Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.
Laically Dictionary L - adverb As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.
Laid Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lay.
Laidly Dictionary L - adjective Ugly; loathsome.
Lain Dictionary L - past participle of Lie, v. i.
Lainere Dictionary L - noun See Lanier.
Lair Dictionary L - noun A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
Laird Dictionary L - noun A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown.
Lairdship Dictionary L - noun The state of being a laird; an estate; landed property.
Laism Dictionary L - noun See Lamaism.
Laissez faire Dictionary L - Noninterference; - an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.
Laity Dictionary L - adjective The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
Lakao Dictionary L - noun Sap green.
Lake Dictionary L - noun A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
Lake-dweller Dictionary L - noun See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
Lakelet Dictionary L - noun A little lake.
Lakeweed Dictionary L - noun The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.
Lakin Dictionary L - noun See Ladykin.
Lakke Dictionary L - noun & verb See Lack.
Laky Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to a lake.
Lallation Dictionary L - noun An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l.
Lalo Dictionary L - noun The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous.
Lammed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lam.
Lamming Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lam.
Lam Dictionary L - verb transitive To beat soundly; to thrash.
Lama Dictionary L - noun See Llama.
Lamaic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lamaism.
Lamaism Dictionary L - noun A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; - so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama.
Lamaist Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lamaite.
Lamaite Dictionary L - noun One who believes in Lamaism.
Lamaistic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lamaism.
Lamantin Dictionary L - noun The manatee.
Lamarckian Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.
Lamarckianism Dictionary L - noun Lamarckism.
Lamarckism Dictionary L - noun The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.
Lamasery Dictionary L - noun A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc.
Lamb Dictionary L - noun The young of the sheep.
Lambed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lamb.
Lambing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lamb.
Lambale Dictionary L - noun A feast at the time of shearing lambs.
Lambaste Dictionary L - verb transitive To beat severely.
Lambative Dictionary L - adjective Taken by licking with the tongue.
Lambda Dictionary L - noun The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.
Lambdacism Dictionary L - noun A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.
Lambdoid Dictionary L - adjective Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.
Lambdoidal Dictionary L - adjective Same as Lambdoid.
Lambent Dictionary L - adjective Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
Lambert pine Dictionary L - The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
Lambkin Dictionary L - noun A small lamb.
Lamblike Dictionary L - adjective Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.
Lamboys Dictionary L - noun plural Same as Base, n., 19.
Lambrequin Dictionary L - noun A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.
Lambskin Dictionary L - noun The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.
Lambskinnet Dictionary L - noun See Lansquenet.
Lamb's-quarters Dictionary L - noun A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.
Lamdoidal Dictionary L - adjective Lambdoid.
Lame Dictionary L - superlative Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
Lamed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lame.
Laming Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lame.
Lamel Dictionary L - noun See Lamella.
Lamellae Dictionary L - pleural of Lamella.
Lamellas Dictionary L - pleural of Lamella.
Lamella Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lamellar Dictionary L - adjective Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellae.
Lamellarly Dictionary L - adverb In thin plates or scales.
Lamellary Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar.
Lamellate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lamellated.
Lamellated Dictionary L - adjective Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae.
Lamellibranch Dictionary L - noun One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.
Lamellibranchia Dictionary L - noun plural Alt. of Lamellibranchiata.
Lamellibranchiata Dictionary L - noun plural A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.
Lamellibranchiate Dictionary L - adjective Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia.
Lamellicorn Dictionary L - adjective Having antennae terminating in a group of flat lamellae; - said of certain coleopterous insects.
Lamellicornia Dictionary L - noun plural A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; - called also Lamellicornes.
Lamelliferous Dictionary L - adjective Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.
Lamelliform Dictionary L - adjective Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.
Lamellirostral Dictionary L - adjective Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese.
Lamellirostres Dictionary L - noun plural A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate.
Lamellose Dictionary L - adjective Composed of, or having, lamellae; lamelliform.
Lamely Dictionary L - adverb An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.
Lameness Dictionary L - noun The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.
Lament Dictionary L - intransitive verb To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Lamented Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lament.
Lamenting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lament.
Lamentable Dictionary L - adjective Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.
Lamentation Dictionary L - noun The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.
Lamenter Dictionary L - noun One who laments.
Lamentin Dictionary L - noun See Lamantin.
Lamentingly Dictionary L - adverb In a lamenting manner.
Lames Dictionary L - noun plural Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.
Lametta Dictionary L - noun Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.
Lamia Dictionary L - noun A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.
Laminae Dictionary L - pleural of Lamina.
Laminas Dictionary L - pleural of Lamina.
Lamina Dictionary L - noun A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; - said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
Laminability Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being laminable.
Laminable Dictionary L - adjective Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.
Laminar Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Laminal.
Laminal Dictionary L - adjective In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.
Laminaria Dictionary L - noun A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.
Laminarian Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.
Laminarite Dictionary L - noun A broad-leafed fossil alga.
Laminary Dictionary L - adjective Laminar.
Laminate Dictionary L - adjective Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.
Laminated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Laminate.
Laminating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Laminate.
Lamination Dictionary L - noun The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.
Laminiferous Dictionary L - adjective Having a structure consisting of laminae, or thin layers.
Laminiplantar Dictionary L - adjective Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
Laminitis Dictionary L - noun Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.
Lamish Dictionary L - adjective Somewhat lame.
Lamm Dictionary L - verb transitive See Lam.
Lammas Dictionary L - noun The first day of August; - called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.
Lammergeir Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lammergeier.
Lammergeier Dictionary L - noun A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.
Lamnunguia Dictionary L - noun plural Same as Hyracoidea.
Lamp Dictionary L - noun A thin plate or lamina.
Lampad Dictionary L - noun A lamp or candlestick.
Lampadist Dictionary L - noun One who gained the prize in the lampadrome.
Lampadrome Dictionary L - noun A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize.
Lampas Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lampate Dictionary L - noun A supposed salt of lampic acid.
Lampblack Dictionary L - noun The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.
Lamper eel Dictionary L - See Lamprey.
Lampern Dictionary L - noun The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis).
Lampers Dictionary L - noun See Lampas.
Lampic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; - formerly said of a supposed acid.
Lamping Dictionary L - adjective Shining; brilliant.
Lampless Dictionary L - adjective Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull.
Lamplight Dictionary L - noun Light from a lamp.
Lamplighter Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.
Lampoon Dictionary L - noun A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.
Lampooned Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lampoon.
Lampooning Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lampoon.
Lampooner Dictionary L - noun The writer of a lampoon.
Lampoonry Dictionary L - noun The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons.
Lamp-post Dictionary L - noun A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc.
Lamprel Dictionary L - noun See Lamprey.
Lampreys Dictionary L - pleural of Lamprey.
Lamprey Dictionary L - noun An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side.
Lampron Dictionary L - noun See Lamprey.
Lampyrine Dictionary L - noun An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridae. See Lampyris.
Lampyris Dictionary L - noun A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.
Lanarkite Dictionary L - noun A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.
Lanary Dictionary L - noun A place for storing wool.
Lanate Dictionary L - Alt. of Lanated.
Lanated Dictionary L - Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.
Lacashire boiler Dictionary L - A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
Lacasterian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.
Lance Dictionary L - noun A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
Lanced Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lance.
Lancing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lance.
Lance fish Dictionary L - A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; - called also sand lance.
Lancegay Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lancegaye.
Lancegaye Dictionary L - noun A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
Lancelet Dictionary L - noun A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.
Lancely Dictionary L - adjective Like a lance.
Lanceolar Dictionary L - adjective Lanceolate.
Lanceolate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lanceolated.
Lanceolated Dictionary L - adjective Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
Lancepesade Dictionary L - noun An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; - called also lance corporal.
Lancer Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lancet Dictionary L - noun A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
Lancewood Dictionary L - noun A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae).
Lanched Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lanch.
Lanching Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lanch.
Lanch Dictionary L - verb transitive To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
Lanciferous Dictionary L - adjective Bearing a lance.
Lanciform Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a lance.
Lancinated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lanciname.
Lancinating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lanciname.
Lanciname Dictionary L - verb transitive To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.
Lancination Dictionary L - noun A tearing; laceration.
Land Dictionary L - noun Urine. See Lant.
Landed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Land.
Landing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Land.
Landamman Dictionary L - noun A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
Landau Dictionary L - noun A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage.
Landaulet Dictionary L - noun A small landau.
Lander Dictionary L - noun One who lands, or makes a landing.
Landfall Dictionary L - noun A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
Landflood Dictionary L - noun An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.
Landgrave Dictionary L - noun A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
Landgraviate Dictionary L - noun The territory held by a landgrave.
Landgravine Dictionary L - noun The wife of a landgrave.
Landholder Dictionary L - noun A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.
Landladies Dictionary L - pleural of Landlady.
Landlady Dictionary L - noun A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
Landleaper Dictionary L - noun See Landlouper.
Landless Dictionary L - adjective Having no property in land.
Landlock Dictionary L - verb transitive To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
Landlocked Dictionary L - adjective Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.
Landloper Dictionary L - noun Same as Landlouper.
Landlord Dictionary L - noun The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
Landlordism Dictionary L - noun The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands.
Landlordry Dictionary L - noun The state of a landlord.
Landlouper Dictionary L - noun A vagabond; a vagrant.
Landlouping Dictionary L - adjective Vagrant; wandering about.
Landlubber Dictionary L - noun One who passes his life on land; - so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.
Landmen Dictionary L - pleural of Landman.
Landman Dictionary L - noun A man who lives or serves on land; - opposed to seaman.
Landmark Dictionary L - noun A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.
Landowner Dictionary L - noun An owner of land.
Landowning Dictionary L - noun The owning of land.
Land-poor Dictionary L - adjective Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
Landreeve Dictionary L - noun A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
Landscape Dictionary L - noun A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
Landscapist Dictionary L - noun A painter of landscapes.
Landskip Dictionary L - noun A landscape.
Landslip Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Landslide.
Landslide Dictionary L - noun The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
Landsmen Dictionary L - pleural of Landsman.
Landsman Dictionary L - noun One who lives on the land; - opposed to seaman.
Landstreight Dictionary L - noun A narrow strip of land.
Landsturm Dictionary L - noun That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
Landtag Dictionary L - noun The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia.
Landwaiter Dictionary L - noun See Landing waiter, under Landing, a.
Landward Dictionary L - adverb & adjective Toward the land.
Landwehr Dictionary L - noun That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.
Lane Dictionary L - adjective Alone.
Lang Dictionary L - adjective & adverb Long.
Langaha Dictionary L - noun 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.
Langarey Dictionary L - noun One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds of Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow.
Langate Dictionary L - noun A linen roller used in dressing wounds.
Langdak Dictionary L - noun A wolf (Canis pallipes), found in India, allied to the jackal.
Langrage Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Langrel.
Langrel Dictionary L - noun 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.
Langret Dictionary L - noun A kind of loaded die.
Langridge Dictionary L - noun See Langrage.
Langsyne Dictionary L - adverb & noun Long since; long ago.
Langteraloo Dictionary L - noun An old game at cards. See Loo (a).
Language Dictionary L - noun Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
Languaged Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Language.
Languaging Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Language.
Languageless Dictionary L - adjective Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent.
Langued Dictionary L - adjective Tongued; having the tongue visible.
Langue d'oc Dictionary L - The dialect, closely akin to French, formerly spoken south of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oc); Provencal.
Langue d'oil Dictionary L - The dialect formerly spoken north of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oil, F. oui).
Languente Dictionary L - adverb In a languishing manner; pathetically.
Languet Dictionary L - noun 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.
Languid Dictionary L - adjective Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
Languished Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Languish.
Languishing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Languish.
Languish Dictionary L - intransitive verb To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.
Languisher Dictionary L - noun One who languishes.
Languishingly Dictionary L - adverb In a languishing manner.
Languishment Dictionary L - noun The state of languishing.
Languishness Dictionary L - noun Languishment.
Languor Dictionary L - noun A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
Languorous Dictionary L - adjective Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.
Langure Dictionary L - intransitive verb To languish.
Langya Dictionary L - noun One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; - called also walking fishes.
Laniard Dictionary L - noun See Lanyard.
Laniariform Dictionary L - adjective Shaped like a laniary, or canine, tooth.
Laniary Dictionary L - adjective Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.
Laniate Dictionary L - verb transitive To tear in pieces.
Laniation Dictionary L - noun A tearing in pieces.
Lanier Dictionary L - noun A thong of leather; a whip lash.
Laniferous Dictionary L - noun Bearing or producing wool.
Lanifical Dictionary L - adjective Working in wool.
Lanifice Dictionary L - noun Anything made of wool.
Lanigerous Dictionary L - adjective Bearing or producing wool.
Lanioid Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidae).
Lank Dictionary L - superlative Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
Lankiness Dictionary L - noun The condition or quality or being lanky.
Lankly Dictionary L - adverb In a lank manner.
Lankness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lank.
Lanky Dictionary L - adjective Somewhat lank.
Lanner Dictionary L - noun m.]] Alt. of Lanneret.
Lanneret Dictionary L - noun m.]] A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.
Lanolin Dictionary L - noun A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.
Lanseh Dictionary L - noun The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste.
Lansquenet Dictionary L - noun A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; - a term used in France and Western Europe.
Lant Dictionary L - noun Urine.
Lantanium Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lantanum.
Lantanum Dictionary L - noun See Lanthanum.
Lantanuric Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.
Lanterloo Dictionary L - noun An old name of loo (a).
Lantern Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lanterned Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lantern.
Lanterning Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lantern.
Lantern-jawed Dictionary L - adjective Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.
Lanthanite Dictionary L - noun Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals.
Lanthanum Dictionary L - noun A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La.
Lanthopine Dictionary L - noun An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Lanthorn Dictionary L - noun See Lantern.
Lanuginose Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lanuginous.
Lanuginous Dictionary L - adjective Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.
Lanugo Dictionary L - noun The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.
Lanyard Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lanyer Dictionary L - noun See Lanier.
Laocoon Dictionary L - noun A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.).
Laodicean Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion.
Lap Dictionary L - noun The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Lapped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lap.
Lapping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lap.
Laparocele Dictionary L - noun A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
Laparotomy Dictionary L - noun A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section.
Lapboard Dictionary L - noun A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.
Lapdog Dictionary L - noun A small dog fondled in the lap.
Lapel Dictionary L - noun That part of a garment which is turned back; specifically, the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar.
Lapelled Dictionary L - adjective Furnished with lapels.
Lapfuls Dictionary L - pleural of Lapful.
Lapful Dictionary L - noun As much as the lap can contain.
Lapicide Dictionary L - noun A stonecutter.
Lapidarian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record.
Lapidarious Dictionary L - adjective Consisting of stones.
Lapidaries Dictionary L - pleural of Lapidary.
Lapidary Dictionary L - noun An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.
Lapidate Dictionary L - verb transitive To stone.
Lapidation Dictionary L - noun The act of stoning.
Lapideous Dictionary L - adjective Of the nature of stone.
Lapidescence Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lapidescent.
Lapidescent Dictionary L - adjective Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
Lapidific Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lapidifical.
Lapidifical Dictionary L - adjective Forming or converting into stone.
Lapidification Dictionary L - noun The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.
Lapidified Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lapidify.
Lapidifying Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lapidify.
Lapidify Dictionary L - verb transitive To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
Lapidist Dictionary L - noun A lapidary.
Lapillation Dictionary L - noun The state of being, or the act of making, stony.
Lapilli Dictionary L - noun plural Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles.
Lapides Dictionary L - pleural of Lapis.
Lapis Dictionary L - noun A stone.
Lapis lazuli Dictionary L - An albuminous mineral of a rich blue color. Same as Lazuli, which see.
Lap-jointed Dictionary L - adjective Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.
Laplander Dictionary L - noun A native or inhabitant of Lapland; - called also Lapp.
Laplandish Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lapland.
Lapling Dictionary L - noun One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; - a term of contempt.
Lapp Dictionary L - noun Same as Laplander. Cf. Lapps.
Lappaceous Dictionary L - adjective Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.
Lapper Dictionary L - noun One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.
Lappet Dictionary L - noun A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
Lappeted Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lappet.
Lappeting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lappet.
Lappic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lapland, or the Lapps.
Lappish Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.
Lapponian Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lapponic.
Lapponic Dictionary L - adjective Laplandish; Lappish.
Lapps Dictionary L - noun plural A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
Lapsable Dictionary L - adjective Lapsible.
Lapse Dictionary L - noun A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; - restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
Lapsed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lapse.
Lapsing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lapse.
Lapsible Dictionary L - adjective Liable to lapse.
Lapsided Dictionary L - adjective See Lopsided.
Lapstone Dictionary L - noun A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.
Lapstreak Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lapstrake.
Lapstrake Dictionary L - adjective Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; - said of boats.
Laputan Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy.
Lap-welded Dictionary L - adjective Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.
Lapwing Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lapwork Dictionary L - noun Work in which one part laps over another.
Laguay Dictionary L - noun A lackey.
Laquearia Dictionary L - pleural of Laquear.
Laquear Dictionary L - noun A lacunar.
Laqueary Dictionary L - adjective Using a noose, as a gladiator.
Lares Dictionary L - pleural of Lar.
Lars Dictionary L - pleural of Lar.
Lar Dictionary L - noun A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
Laramie group Dictionary L - An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology.
Larboard Dictionary L - noun The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; - opposed to starboard.
Larcener Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Larcenist.
Larcenist Dictionary L - noun One who commits larceny.
Larcenous Dictionary L - adjective Having the character of larceny; as, a larcenous act; committing larceny.
Larcenies Dictionary L - pleural of Larceny.
Larceny Dictionary L - noun The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
Larch Dictionary L - noun A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).
Larchen Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the larch.
Lard Dictionary L - noun Bacon; the flesh of swine.
Larded Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lard.
Larding Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lard.
Lardacein Dictionary L - noun A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.
Lardaceous Dictionary L - adjective Consisting of, or resembling, lard.
Larder Dictionary L - noun A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.
Larderer Dictionary L - noun One in charge of the larder.
Lardery Dictionary L - noun A larder.
Lardon Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lardoon.
Lardoon Dictionary L - noun A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.
Lardry Dictionary L - noun A larder.
Lardy Dictionary L - adjective Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.
Lare Dictionary L - noun Lore; learning.
Large Dictionary L - superlative Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; - opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city.
Large-acred Dictionary L - adjective Possessing much land.
Large-handed Dictionary L - adjective Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
Large-hearted Dictionary L - adjective Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
Largely Dictionary L - adverb In a large manner.
Largeness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being large.
Largess Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Largesse.
Largesse Dictionary L - adjective Liberality; generosity; bounty.
Larget Dictionary L - noun A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
Larghetto Dictionary L - adjective & adverb Somewhat slow or slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and rather more so than andante.
Largifical Dictionary L - adjective Generous; ample; liberal.
Largifluous Dictionary L - adjective Flowing copiously.
Largiloquent Dictionary L - adjective Grandiloquent.
Largish Dictionary L - adjective Somewhat large.
Largition Dictionary L - The bestowment of a largess or gift.
Largo Dictionary L - adjective & adverb Slow or slowly; - more so than adagio; next in slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn.
Lariat Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lariated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lariat.
Lariating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lariat.
Larine Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Gull family (Laridae).
Larixinic Dictionary L - adjective Of, or derived from, the larch (Larix); as, larixinic acid.
Lark Dictionary L - intransitive verb A frolic; a jolly time.
Larked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lark.
Larking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lark.
Lark-colored Dictionary L - adjective Having the sandy brown color of the European larks.
Larker Dictionary L - noun A catcher of larks.
Lark's-heel Dictionary L - noun Indian cress.
Larkspur Dictionary L - noun A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Delphinium), having showy flowers, and a spurred calyx. They are natives of the North Temperate zone. The commonest larkspur of the gardens is D. Consolida. The flower of the bee larkspur (D. elatum) has two petals bearded with yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee.
Larmier Dictionary L - noun See Tearpit.
Laroid Dictionary L - adjective Like or belonging to the Gull family (Laridae).
Larruped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Larrup.
Larruping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Larrup.
Larrup Dictionary L - verb transitive To beat or flog soundly.
Larry Dictionary L - noun Same as Lorry, or Lorrie.
Larum Dictionary L - noun See Alarum, and Alarm.
Larvae Dictionary L - pleural of Larva.
Larvas Dictionary L - pleural of Larva.
Larva Dictionary L - noun Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.
Larval Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a larva.
Larvalia Dictionary L - noun plural An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; - so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia.
Larvated Dictionary L - adjective Masked; clothed as with a mask.
Larves Dictionary L - pleural of Larve.
Larve Dictionary L - noun A larva.
Larviform Dictionary L - adjective Having the form or structure of a larva.
Larviparous Dictionary L - adjective Depositing living larvae, instead of eggs; - said of certain insects.
Lary Dictionary L - noun A guillemot; - called also lavy.
Laryngeal Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the larynx; adapted to operations on the larynx; as, laryngeal forceps.
Laryngean Dictionary L - adjective See Laryngeal.
Larypgismus Dictionary L - noun A spasmodic state of the glottis, giving rise to contraction or closure of the opening.
Laryngitis Dictionary L - noun Inflammation of the larynx.
Laryngological Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to laryngology.
Laryngologist Dictionary L - noun One who applies himself to laryngology.
Laryngology Dictionary L - noun Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of the larynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases of the larynx.
Laryngophony Dictionary L - noun The sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope when the latter is placed upon the larynx.
Larungoscope Dictionary L - noun An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.
Laryngoscopic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the inspection of the larynx.
Laryngoscopist Dictionary L - noun One skilled in laryngoscopy.
Laryngoscopy Dictionary L - noun The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope.
Laryngotome Dictionary L - noun An instrument for performing laryngotomy.
Laryngotomy Dictionary L - noun The operation of cutting into the larynx, from the outside of the neck, for assisting respiration when obstructed, or for removing foreign bodies.
Laryngotracheal Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.
Laryngotracheotomy Dictionary L - noun The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, - a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing.
Larynx Dictionary L - noun 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.
Las Dictionary L - noun A lace. See Lace.
Lascar Dictionary L - noun A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.
Lascious Dictionary L - adjective Loose; lascivious.
Lasciviency Dictionary L - noun Lasciviousness; wantonness.
Lascivient Dictionary L - adjective Lascivious.
Lascivious Dictionary L - adjective Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.
Laserwort Dictionary L - noun Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, of several species (as L. glabrum, and L. siler), the root of which yields a resinous substance of a bitter taste. The genus is mostly European.
Lash Dictionary L - noun The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
Lashed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lash.
Lashng Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lash.
Lasher Dictionary L - noun One who whips or lashes.
Lashing Dictionary L - noun The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
Lask Dictionary L - noun A diarrhea or flux.
Lasket Dictionary L - noun latching.
Lass Dictionary L - noun A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.
Lasse Dictionary L - adjective & adverb Less.
Lassie Dictionary L - noun A young girl; a lass.
Lassitude Dictionary L - noun A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness.
Lasslorn Dictionary L - Forsaken by a lass.
Lassos Dictionary L - pleural of Lasso.
Lasso Dictionary L - noun A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc.
Lassoed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lasso.
Lassoing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lasso.
Last Dictionary L - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.
Lasted Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Last.
Lasting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Last.
Lastage Dictionary L - noun A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
Laste Dictionary L - [[obs. imperative of Last, to endure.
Laster Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lastery Dictionary L - noun A red color.
Lastly Dictionary L - adverb In the last place; in conclusion.
Lat Dictionary L - verb transitive To let; to allow.
Latakia Dictionary L - noun A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.
Latch Dictionary L - verb transitive To smear; to anoint.
Latched Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Latch.
Latching Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Latch.
Latchet Dictionary L - noun The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.
Latchkey Dictionary L - noun A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.
Latchstring Dictionary L - noun A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door.
Late Dictionary L - verb Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.
Lated Dictionary L - adjective Belated; too late.
Lateen Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below.
Lately Dictionary L - adverb Not long ago; recently; as, he has lately arrived from Italy.
Latence Dictionary L - noun Latency.
Latency Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being latent.
Lateness Dictionary L - noun The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.
Latent Dictionary L - adjective Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.
Latently Dictionary L - adverb In a secret or concealed manner; invisibly.
Lateres Dictionary L - pleural of Later.
Later Dictionary L - noun A brick or tile.
Laterad Dictionary L - adverb Toward the side; away from the mesial plane; - opposed to mesiad.
Lateral Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.
Laterality Dictionary L - noun The state or condition of being lateral.
Laterally Dictionary L - adverb By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
Lateran Dictionary L - noun The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.
Latered Dictionary L - adjective Inclined to delay; dilatory.
Laterifolious Dictionary L - adjective Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
Laterite Dictionary L - noun An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; - found in India.
Lateritic Dictionary L - adjective Consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite; as, lateritic formations.
Lateritious Dictionary L - adjective Like bricks; of the color of red bricks.
Lates Dictionary L - noun A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer) is found in the Ganges and other Indian rivers. They are valued as food fishes.
Latescence Dictionary L - noun A slight withdrawal from view or knowledge.
Latescent Dictionary L - adjective Slightly withdrawn from view or knowledge; as, a latescent meaning.
Latewake Dictionary L - noun See Lich wake, under Lich.
Lateward Dictionary L - adjective & adverb Somewhat late; backward.
Latex Dictionary L - noun A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.
Laths Dictionary L - pleural of Lath.
Lath Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lathed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lath.
Lathing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lath.
Lathe Dictionary L - noun Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent.
Lather Dictionary L - noun Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
Lathered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lather.
Lathering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lather.
Lathereeve Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lathreeve.
Lathreeve Dictionary L - noun Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.
Lath-shaped Dictionary L - adjective Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; - said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.
Lathwork Dictionary L - noun Same as Lathing.
Lathy Dictionary L - adjective Like a lath; long and slender.
Latian Dictionary L - adjective Belonging, or relating, to Latium, a country of ancient Italy. See Latin.
Latibulized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Latibulize.
Latibulizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Latibulize.
Latibulize Dictionary L - intransitive verb To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid.
Latibula Dictionary L - pleural of Latibulum.
Latibulum Dictionary L - noun A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.
Laticiferous Dictionary L - adjective Containing the latex; - applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
Laticlave Dictionary L - noun A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office.
Laticostate Dictionary L - adjective Broad-ribbed.
Latidentate Dictionary L - adjective Broad-toothed.
Latifoliate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Latifolious.
Latifolious Dictionary L - adjective Having broad leaves.
Latimer Dictionary L - noun An interpreter. Obs. Coke.
Latin Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
Latinism Dictionary L - noun A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.
Latinist Dictionary L - noun One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar.
Latinistic Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom.
Latinitaster Dictionary L - noun One who has but a smattering of Latin.
Latinity Dictionary L - noun The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.
Latinization Dictionary L - noun The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country.
Latinized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Latinize.
Latinizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Latinize.
Latinize Dictionary L - verb transitive To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.
Latinly Dictionary L - adverb In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.
Lation Dictionary L - noun Transportation; conveyance.
Latirostral Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Latirostrous.
Latirostrous Dictionary L - adjective Having a broad beak.
Latirostres Dictionary L - noun plural The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.
Latish Dictionary L - adjective Somewhat late.
Latisternal Dictionary L - adjective Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; - said of anthropoid apes.
Latitancy Dictionary L - noun Act or state of lying hid, or lurking.
Latitant Dictionary L - adjective Lying hid; concealed; latent.
Latitat Dictionary L - noun A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
Latitation Dictionary L - noun A lying in concealment; hiding.
Latitude Dictionary L - noun Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.
Latitudinal Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.
Latitudinarian Dictionary L - adjective Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
Latitudinarianism Dictionary L - noun A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief.
Latitudinous Dictionary L - adjective Having latitude, or wide extent.
Laton Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Latoun.
Latoun Dictionary L - noun Latten, 1.
Latrant Dictionary L - adjective Barking.
Latrate Dictionary L - intransitive verb To bark as a dog.
Latration Dictionary L - noun A barking.
Latreutical Dictionary L - adjective Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting.
Latria Dictionary L - noun The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; - distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.
Latrine Dictionary L - noun A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.
Latrociny Dictionary L - noun Theft; larceny.
Latten Dictionary L - noun A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; - called also latten brass.
Latter Dictionary L - adjective Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; - opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
Latter-day saint Dictionary L - A Mormon; - the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
Latterkin Dictionary L - noun A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
Latterly Dictionary L - adverb Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period.
Lattermath Dictionary L - noun The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.
Lattice Dictionary L - noun 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.
Latticed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lattice.
Latticing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lattice.
Latticework Dictionary L - noun Same as Lattice, n., 1.
Latus rectum Dictionary L - The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.
Laud Dictionary L - intransitive verb High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory.
Lauded Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Laud.
Lauding Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Laud.
Laudability Dictionary L - noun Laudableness; praiseworthiness.
Laudable Dictionary L - intransitive verb Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.
Laudableness Dictionary L - noun The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
Laudably Dictionary L - adverb In a laudable manner.
Laudanine Dictionary L - noun A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.
Laudanum Dictionary L - noun Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.
Laudation Dictionary L - verb transitive The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.
Laudative Dictionary L - adjective Laudatory.
Laudator Dictionary L - noun One who lauds.
Laudatory Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden.
Lauder Dictionary L - noun One who lauds.
Laughed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Laugh.
Laughing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Laugh.
Laugh Dictionary L - intransitive verb To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
Laughable Dictionary L - adjective Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.
Laugher Dictionary L - noun One who laughs.
Laughingly Dictionary L - adverb With laughter or merriment.
Laughingstock Dictionary L - noun An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.
Laughsome Dictionary L - adjective Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
Laughter Dictionary L - intransitive verb A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.
Laughterless Dictionary L - adjective Not laughing; without laughter.
Laughworthy Dictionary L - adjective Deserving to be laughed at.
Laumontite Dictionary L - noun A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles.
Launce Dictionary L - noun A lance.
Launcegaye Dictionary L - noun See Langegaye.
Launched Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Launch.
Launching Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Launch.
Launch Dictionary L - intransitive verb To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
Laund Dictionary L - noun A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade.
Launder Dictionary L - noun A washerwoman.
Laundered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Launder.
Laundering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Launder.
Launderer Dictionary L - noun One who follows the business of laundering.
Laundress Dictionary L - noun A woman whose employment is laundering.
Laundries Dictionary L - pleural of Laundry.
Laundry Dictionary L - noun A laundering; a washing.
Laundrymen Dictionary L - pleural of Laundryman.
Laundryman Dictionary L - noun A man who follows the business of laundering.
Laura Dictionary L - noun A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.
Lauraceous Dictionary L - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.
Laurate Dictionary L - noun A salt of lauric acid.
Laureate Dictionary L - adjective Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
Laureated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Laureate.
Laureating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Laureate.
Laureateship Dictionary L - noun State, or office, of a laureate.
Laureation Dictionary L - noun The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
Laurel Dictionary L - noun An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; - called also sweet bay.
Laureled Dictionary L - adjective Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
Laurentian Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills.
Laurer Dictionary L - noun Laurel.
Laurestine Dictionary L - noun The Viburnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths.
Lauric Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel (Laurus nobilis).
Lauriferous Dictionary L - adjective Producing, or bringing, laurel.
Laurin Dictionary L - noun A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.
Laurinol Dictionary L - noun Ordinary camphor; - so called in allusion to the family name (Lauraceae) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.
Lauriol Dictionary L - noun Spurge laurel.
Laurite Dictionary L - noun A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.
Laurone Dictionary L - noun The ketone of lauric acid.
Laurus Dictionary L - noun A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger L. Canariensis of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs, were also referred to the genus Laurus.
Laus Dictionary L - adjective Loose.
Lava Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lavaret Dictionary L - noun A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.
Lavatic Dictionary L - adjective Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.
Lavation Dictionary L - noun A washing or cleansing.
Lavatory Dictionary L - adjective Washing, or cleansing by washing.
Lavatories Dictionary L - pleural of Lavatory.
Lavature Dictionary L - noun A wash or lotion.
Laved Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lave.
Laving Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lave.
Lave Dictionary L - verb transitive To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.
Lave-eared Dictionary L - adjective Having large, pendent ears.
Laveer Dictionary L - intransitive verb To beat against the wind; to tack.
Lavement Dictionary L - noun A washing or bathing; also, a clyster.
Lavender Dictionary L - noun An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.
Laver Dictionary L - noun A vessel for washing; a large basin.
Laverock Dictionary L - noun The lark.
Lavic Dictionary L - adjective See Lavatic.
Lavish Dictionary L - adjective Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
Lavished Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lavish.
Lavishing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lavish.
Lavisher Dictionary L - noun One who lavishes.
Lavishly Dictionary L - adverb In a lavish manner.
Lavishment Dictionary L - noun The act of lavishing.
Lavishness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being lavish.
Lav/sium Dictionary L - noun A supposed new metallic element. It is said to have been discovered in pyrites, and some other minerals, and to be of a silver-white color, and malleable.
Lavolt Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lavolta.
Lavolta Dictionary L - noun An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound.
Lavoltateer Dictionary L - noun A dancer of the lavolta.
Lavour Dictionary L - noun A laver.
Lavrock Dictionary L - noun Same as Laverock.
Law Dictionary L - noun In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
Law-abiding Dictionary L - adjective Abiding the law; waiting for the operation of law for the enforcement of rights; also, abiding by the law; obedient to the law; as, law-abiding people.
Lawbreaker Dictionary L - noun One who disobeys the law; a criminal.
Lawe Dictionary L - verb transitive To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet.
Lawer Dictionary L - noun A lawyer.
Lawful Dictionary L - adjective Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.
Lawgiver Dictionary L - noun One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.
Lawgiving Dictionary L - adjective Enacting laws; legislative.
Lawing Dictionary L - noun Going to law; litigation.
Lawless Dictionary L - adjective Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.
Lawmaker Dictionary L - noun A legislator; a lawgiver.
Lammaking Dictionary L - adjective Enacting laws; legislative.
Lawmonger Dictionary L - noun A trader in law; one who practices law as if it were a trade.
Lawn Dictionary L - noun An open space between woods.
Lawm Dictionary L - noun A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself.
Lawnd Dictionary L - noun See Laund.
Lawny Dictionary L - adjective Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn.
Lawsonia Dictionary L - noun An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.
Lawsuit Dictionary L - noun An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.
Lawyer Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lawyerlike Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lawyerly.
Lawyerly Dictionary L - adjective Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity.
Lax Dictionary L - verb transitive Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
Laxation Dictionary L - noun The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.
Laxative Dictionary L - adjective Having a tendency to loosen or relax.
Laxativeness Dictionary L - noun The quality of being laxative.
Laxator Dictionary L - noun That which loosens; - esp., a muscle which by its contraction loosens some part.
Laxity Dictionary L - adjective The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.
Laxly Dictionary L - adverb In a lax manner.
Laxness Dictionary L - noun The state of being lax; laxity.
Lay Dictionary L - imperative of Lie, to recline.
Laying Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lay.
Layer Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lays.
Layering Dictionary L - noun A propagating by layers.
Layland Dictionary L - noun Land lying untilled; fallow ground.
Laymen Dictionary L - pleural of Layman.
Layman Dictionary L - noun One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
Layner Dictionary L - noun A whiplash.
Layship Dictionary L - noun The condition of being a layman.
Laystall Dictionary L - noun A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.
Lazar Dictionary L - noun A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Lazaret Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lazaretto.
Lazaretto Dictionary L - noun A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.
Lazarist Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lazarite.
Lazarite Dictionary L - noun One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.
Lazarlike Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lazarly.
Lazarly Dictionary L - adjective Full of sores; leprous.
Lazaroni Dictionary L - noun plural See Lazzaroni.
Lazarwort Dictionary L - noun Laserwort.
Lazed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Laze.
Lazing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Laze.
Laze Dictionary L - intransitive verb To be lazy or idle.
Lazily Dictionary L - adverb In a lazy manner.
Laziness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lazy.
Lazuli Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lazulite Dictionary L - noun A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina and magnesia.
Lazy Dictionary L - superlative Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
Lazyback Dictionary L - noun A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage.
Lazybones Dictionary L - noun A lazy person.
Lazzaroni Dictionary L - noun plural The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; - so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge.
Lea Dictionary L - noun A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
Leach Dictionary L - noun See 3d Leech.
Leached Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leach.
Leaching Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leach.
Leachy Dictionary L - adjective Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; - said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
Lead Dictionary L - noun One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
Leaded Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lead.
Leading Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lead.
Led Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lead.
Leaden Dictionary L - adjective Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.
Leader Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
Leadership Dictionary L - noun The office of a leader.
Leadhillite Dictionary L - noun A mineral of a yellowish or greenish white color, consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; - so called from having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland.
Leadmen Dictionary L - pleural of Leadman.
Leadman Dictionary L - noun One who leads a dance.
Leadsmen Dictionary L - pleural of Leadsman.
Leadsman Dictionary L - noun The man who heaves the lead.
Leadwort Dictionary L - noun A genus of maritime herbs (Plumbago). P. Europaea has lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers.
Leady Dictionary L - adjective Resembling lead.
Leaves Dictionary L - pleural of Leaf.
Leaf Dictionary L - noun A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
Leafed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leaf.
Leafing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leaf.
Leafage Dictionary L - noun Leaves, collectively; foliage.
Leafcup Dictionary L - noun A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).
Leafet Dictionary L - noun A leaflet.
Leaf-footed Dictionary L - adjective Having leaflike expansions on the legs; - said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus).
Leafiness Dictionary L - noun The state of being leafy.
Leafless Dictionary L - adjective Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.
Leaflet Dictionary L - noun A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
Leaf-nosed Dictionary L - noun Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; - said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.
Leafstalk Dictionary L - noun The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.
Leafy Dictionary L - superl Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.
League Dictionary L - noun 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.
Leagued Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of League.
Leaguing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of League.
Leaguer Dictionary L - noun The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
Leaguerer Dictionary L - noun A besieger.
Leak Dictionary L - verb 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.
Leaked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leak.
Leaking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leak.
Leakage Dictionary L - noun A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
Leakiness Dictionary L - noun The quality of being leaky.
Leaky Dictionary L - superlative Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.
Leal Dictionary L - adjective Faithful; loyal; true.
Leam Dictionary L - noun & verb intransitive See Leme.
Leamer Dictionary L - noun A dog held by a leam.
Lean Dictionary L - verb transitive To conceal.
Leaned Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lean.
Leant Dictionary L - of Lean.
Leaning Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lean.
Lean-faced Dictionary L - adjective Having a thin face.
Leanly Dictionary L - adverb Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
Leanness Dictionary L - noun The condition or quality of being lean.
Lean-to Dictionary L - adjective Having only one slope or pitch; - said of a roof.
Lean-witted Dictionary L - adjective Having but little sense or shrewdness.
Leany Dictionary L - adjective Lean.
Leap Dictionary L - noun A basket.
Leaped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leap.
Leapt Dictionary L - of Leap.
Leaping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leap.
Leaper Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, leaps.
Leapfrog Dictionary L - noun A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.
Leapful Dictionary L - noun A basketful.
Leapingly Dictionary L - adverb By leaps.
Leap year Dictionary L - Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.
Lear Dictionary L - verb transitive To learn. See Lere, to learn.
Learned Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Learn.
Learnt Dictionary L - of Learn.
Learning Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Learn.
Learn Dictionary L - verb transitive To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something.
Learnable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be learned.
Learner Dictionary L - noun One who learns; a scholar.
Leasable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be leased.
Lease Dictionary L - intransitive verb To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
Leased Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lease.
Leasing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lease.
Leasehold Dictionary L - adjective Held by lease.
Leaseholder Dictionary L - noun A tenant under a lease.
Leaser Dictionary L - noun One who leases or gleans.
Leash Dictionary L - noun A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
Leashed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leash.
Leashing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leash.
Leasow Dictionary L - noun A pasture.
Least Dictionary L - adjective Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space.
Leastways Dictionary L - adverb Alt. of Leastwise.
Leastwise Dictionary L - adverb At least; at all events.
Leasy Dictionary L - adjective Flimsy; vague; deceptive.
Leat Dictionary L - noun An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.
Leather Dictionary L - noun The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
Leathered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leather.
Leathering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leather.
Leatherback Dictionary L - noun A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; - called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
Leatheret Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Leatherette.
Leatherette Dictionary L - noun An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.
Leatherhead Dictionary L - noun The friar bird.
Leathern Dictionary L - adjective Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse.
Leatherneck Dictionary L - noun The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).
Leatherwood Dictionary L - noun A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; - called also moosewood, and wicopy.
Leathery Dictionary L - adjective Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough.
Leaved Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leave.
Leaving Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leave.
Leave Dictionary L - intransitive verb To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.
Left Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leave.
Leaveless Dictionary L - adjective Leafless.
Leaven Dictionary L - noun 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.
Leavened Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leaven.
Leavening Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leaven.
Leavenous Dictionary L - adjective Containing leaven.
Leaver Dictionary L - noun One who leaves, or withdraws.
Leave-taking Dictionary L - noun Taking of leave; parting compliments.
Leaviness Dictionary L - noun Leafiness.
Leavings Dictionary L - noun plural Things left; remnants; relics.
Leavy Dictionary L - adjective Leafy.
Leban Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lebban.
Lebban Dictionary L - noun Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; - a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.
Lecama Dictionary L - noun The hartbeest.
Lecanomancy Dictionary L - noun divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought.
Lecanoric Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained from several varieties of lichen (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.), as a white, crystalline substance, and is called also orsellic, / diorsellinic acid, lecanorin, etc.
Lecanorin Dictionary L - noun See Lecanoric.
Lech Dictionary L - verb transitive To lick.
Leche Dictionary L - noun See water buck, under 3d Buck.
Lecher Dictionary L - noun A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.
Lechered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lecher.
Lechering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lecher.
Lecherer Dictionary L - noun See Lecher, n.
Lecherous Dictionary L - adjective Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust-provoking.
Lechery Dictionary L - noun Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.
Lecithin Dictionary L - noun A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles.
lectern Dictionary L - noun See Lecturn.
Lecticae Dictionary L - pleural of Lectica.
Lectica Dictionary L - noun A kind of litter or portable couch.
Lection Dictionary L - noun A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service.
Lectionary Dictionary L - noun A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.
Lector Dictionary L - noun A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.
Lectual Dictionary L - adjective Confining to the bed; as, a lectual disease.
Lecture Dictionary L - noun The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
Lectured Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lecture.
Lecturing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lecture.
Lecturer Dictionary L - noun One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
Lectureship Dictionary L - noun The office of a lecturer.
Lecturn Dictionary L - noun 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..
Lecythis Dictionary L - noun A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.
Leden Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Ledden.
Ledden Dictionary L - noun Language; speech; voice; cry.
Ledge Dictionary L - noun A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
Ledgement Dictionary L - noun See Ledgment.
Ledger Dictionary L - noun A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.
Ledgment Dictionary L - noun A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building.
Ledgy Dictionary L - adjective Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island.
Lee Dictionary L - intransitive verb To lie; to speak falsely.
Lees Dictionary L - pleural of Lee.
Leeboard Dictionary L - noun A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.
Leech Dictionary L - noun See 2d Leach.
Leeched Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leech.
Leeching Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leech.
Leechcraft Dictionary L - noun The art of healing; skill of a physician.
Leed Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Leede.
Leede Dictionary L - noun A caldron; a copper kettle.
Leef Dictionary L - adjective & adverb See Lief.
Leek Dictionary L - noun 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.
Leeme Dictionary L - Verb & noun See Leme.
Leep Dictionary L - [[strong imperative Leaped.
Leer Dictionary L - verb transitive To learn.
Leered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Leer.
Leering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Leer.
Leere Dictionary L - noun Tape or braid; an ornament.
Leeringly Dictionary L - adverb In a leering manner.
Leese Dictionary L - verb transitive To lose.
Leet Dictionary L - [[obs. imperative of Let, to allow.
Leetmen Dictionary L - pleural of Leetman.
Leetman Dictionary L - noun One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
Leeward Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Leeway Dictionary L - noun The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Left-hand Dictionary L - adjective Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the right; as, the left-hand side; the left-hand road.
Left-handed Dictionary L - adjective Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right.
Left-handedness Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Left-handiness.
Left-handiness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being left-handed; awkwardness.
Left-off Dictionary L - adjective Laid aside; cast-off.
Leftward Dictionary L - adverb Toward or on the left side.
Leful Dictionary L - adjective See Leveful.
Leg Dictionary L - noun A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
Legacies Dictionary L - pleural of Legacy.
Legacy Dictionary L - noun A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
Legal Dictionary L - adjective Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.
Legalism Dictionary L - noun Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.
Legalist Dictionary L - noun One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).
Legality Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.
Legalization Dictionary L - noun The act of making legal.
Legalized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Legalize.
Legalizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Legalize.
Legalize Dictionary L - verb transitive To make legal.
Legally Dictionary L - adverb In a legal manner.
Legantine Dictionary L - adjective See Legatine.
Legatary Dictionary L - noun A legatee.
Legate Dictionary L - noun An ambassador or envoy.
Legatee Dictionary L - noun One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
Legateship Dictionary L - noun The office of a legate.
Legatine Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power.
Legation Dictionary L - noun The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another.
Legato Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Legator Dictionary L - noun A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy.
Legatura Dictionary L - noun A tie or brace; a syncopation.
Legature Dictionary L - noun Legateship.
Lege Dictionary L - verb transitive To allege; to assert.
Legement Dictionary L - noun See Ledgment.
Legend Dictionary L - noun 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.
Legendary Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.
Leger Dictionary L - noun Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
Legerdemain Dictionary L - noun Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick.
Legerdemainist Dictionary L - noun One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.
Legerity Dictionary L - noun Lightness; nimbleness.
Legge Dictionary L - verb transitive To lay.
Legged Dictionary L - adjective Having (such or so many) legs; - used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged animal.
Leggiadro Dictionary L - adjective & adverb Alt. of Leggiero.
Leggiero Dictionary L - adjective & adverb Light or graceful; in a light, delicate, and brisk style.
Legging Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Leggin.
Leggin Dictionary L - noun A cover for the leg, like a long gaiter.
Leggy Dictionary L - adjective Having long legs.
Leghorn Dictionary L - noun A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; - so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.
Legibility Dictionary L - noun The quality of being legible; legibleness.
Legible Dictionary L - adjective Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; - used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript.
Legibleness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being legible.
Legibly Dictionary L - adverb In a legible manner.
Legific Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to making laws.
Legion Dictionary L - noun 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.
Legionary Dictionary L - adjective Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force.
Legionaries Dictionary L - pleural of Legionary.
Legioned Dictionary L - adjective Formed into a legion or legions; legionary.
Legionry Dictionary L - noun A body of legions; legions, collectively.
Legislated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Legislate.
Legislating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Legislate.
Legislate Dictionary L - intransitive verb To make or enact a law or laws.
Legislation Dictionary L - noun The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
Legislative Dictionary L - adjective Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; - distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body.
Legislatively Dictionary L - adverb In a legislative manner.
Legislator Dictionary L - noun A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.
Legislatorial Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.
Legislatorship Dictionary L - noun The office of a legislator.
Legislatress Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Legislatrix.
Legislatrix Dictionary L - noun A woman who makes laws.
Legislature Dictionary L - noun The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Legist Dictionary L - noun One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.
Legitim Dictionary L - adjective The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.
Legitimacy Dictionary L - adjective The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
Legitimate Dictionary L - adjective Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
Legitimated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Legitimate.
Legitimating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Legitimate.
Legitimately Dictionary L - adverb In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.
Legitimateness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
Legitimation Dictionary L - noun The act of making legitimate.
Legitimatist Dictionary L - noun See Legitimist.
Legitimatize Dictionary L - verb transitive To legitimate.
Legitimism Dictionary L - noun The principles or plans of legitimists.
Legitimist Dictionary L - noun One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.
Legitimized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Legitimize.
Legitimizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Legitimize.
Legitimize Dictionary L - verb transitive To legitimate.
Legless Dictionary L - adjective Not having a leg.
Lego-literary Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to the literature of law.
Leguleian Dictionary L - adjective Lawyerlike; legal.
Legume Dictionary L - noun A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
Legumina Dictionary L - pleural of Legumen.
Legumens Dictionary L - pleural of Legumen.
Legumen Dictionary L - noun Same as Legume.
Legumin Dictionary L - noun An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.
Leguminous Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
Leiger Dictionary L - noun See Leger, n., 2.
Leiotrichan Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi.
Leiotrichi Dictionary L - noun plural The division of mankind which embraces the smooth-haired races.
Leiotrichous Dictionary L - adjective Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.
Leipoa Dictionary L - noun A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.
Leipothymic Dictionary L - adjective See Lipothymic.
Leister Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lister.
Lister Dictionary L - noun A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
Leisurable Dictionary L - adjective Leisurely.
Leisurably Dictionary L - adverb At leisure.
Leisure Dictionary L - noun Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
Leisured Dictionary L - adjective Having leisure.
Leisurely Dictionary L - adjective Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
Leitmotif Dictionary L - noun See Leading motive, under Leading, a.
Leman Dictionary L - noun A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; - usually in a bad sense.
Leme Dictionary L - noun A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
Lemmata Dictionary L - pleural of Lemma.
Lemmas Dictionary L - pleural of Lemma.
Lemma Dictionary L - noun A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.
Lemman Dictionary L - noun A leman.
Lemming Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lemnian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.
Lemniscata Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lemniscate.
Lemniscate Dictionary L - noun A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.
Lemnisci Dictionary L - pleural of Lemniscus.
Lemniscus Dictionary L - noun One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
Lemon Dictionary L - noun An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.
Lemonade Dictionary L - noun A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.
Lemur Dictionary L - noun One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.
Lemures Dictionary L - noun plural Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
Lemuria Dictionary L - noun A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant.
Lemurid Dictionary L - adjective & noun Same as Lemuroid.
Lemuridous Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lemurine.
Lemurine Dictionary L - adjective Lemuroid.
Lemuroid Dictionary L - adjective Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea.
Lemuroidea Dictionary L - noun plural A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species.
Lena Dictionary L - noun A procuress.
Lent Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lend.
Lending Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lend.
Lend Dictionary L - verb transitive 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.
Lendable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be lent.
Lender Dictionary L - noun One who lends.
Lendes Dictionary L - noun plural See Lends.
Lends Dictionary L - noun plural Loins.
Lene Dictionary L - verb transitive To lend; to grant; to permit.
Lenger Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lengest.
Lengest Dictionary L - adjective Longer; longest; - obsolete compar. and superl. of long.
Length Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Lengthened Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lengthen.
Lengthening Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lengthen.
Lengthen Dictionary L - verb transitive To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; - sometimes followed by out.
Lengthful Dictionary L - adjective Long.
Lengthily Dictionary L - adverb In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
Lengthiness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
Lengthways Dictionary L - adverb Alt. of Lengthwise.
Lengthwise Dictionary L - adverb In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
Lengthy Dictionary L - superlative Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; - said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.
Lenience Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Leniency.
Leniency Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.
Lenient Dictionary L - adjective Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; - sometimes followed by of.
Leniently Dictionary L - adverb In a lenient manner.
Lenify Dictionary L - verb transitive To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Leniment Dictionary L - noun An assuasive.
Lenitive Dictionary L - adjective Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
Lenitiveness Dictionary L - noun The quality of being lenitive.
Lenitude Dictionary L - noun The quality or habit of being lenient; lenity.
Lenity Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; - opposed to severity and rigor.
Lenni-Lenape Dictionary L - noun plural A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.
Leno Dictionary L - noun A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.
Lenocinant Dictionary L - adjective Given to lewdness.
Lenses Dictionary L - pleural of Lens.
Lens Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lentamente Dictionary L - adverb Slowly; in slow time.
Lentando Dictionary L - adjective Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.
Lenten Dictionary L - noun Lent.
Lententide Dictionary L - noun The season of Lenten or Lent.
Lenticel Dictionary L - noun One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
Lenticellate Dictionary L - adjective Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.
Lenticelle Dictionary L - noun Lenticel.
Lenticulas Dictionary L - pleural of Lenticula.
Lenticulae Dictionary L - pleural of Lenticula.
Lenticula Dictionary L - noun A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.
Lenticular Dictionary L - adjective Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.
Lenticularly Dictionary L - adverb In the manner of a lens; with a curve.
Lentiform Dictionary L - adjective Lenticular.
Lentiginose Dictionary L - adjective Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.
Lentiginous Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.
Lentigo Dictionary L - noun A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.
Lentil Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lentiscus Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lentisk.
Lentisk Dictionary L - noun A tree; the mastic. See Mastic.
Lentitude Dictionary L - adjective Slowness; sluggishness.
Lento Dictionary L - adjective & adverb Slow; in slow time; slowly; - rarely written lente.
Lentoid Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.
Lentor Dictionary L - adjective Tenacity; viscidity, as of fluids.
Lentous Dictionary L - adjective Viscid; viscous; tenacious.
L'envoi Dictionary L - noun Alt. of L'envoy.
L'envoy Dictionary L - noun 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.
Leo Dictionary L - noun The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus / in almanacs.
Leod Dictionary L - noun People; a nation; a man.
Leon Dictionary L - noun A lion.
Leonced Dictionary L - adjective See Lionced.
Leonese Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Leon, in Spain.
Leonid Dictionary L - noun One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; - so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.
Leonine Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.
Leontodon Dictionary L - noun A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; - called also lion's tooth.
Leopard Dictionary L - noun 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.
Leopard's bane Dictionary L - A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.
Leopardwood Dictionary L - noun See Letterwood.
Lep Dictionary L - [[obs. strong imperative of Leap. Leaped.
Lepadite Dictionary L - noun Same as Lepadoid.
Lepadoid Dictionary L - noun A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidae; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively.
Lepal Dictionary L - noun A sterile transformed stamen.
Lepas Dictionary L - noun Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; - called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.
Leper Dictionary L - noun A person affected with leprosy.
Lepered Dictionary L - adjective Affected or tainted with leprosy.
Leperize Dictionary L - verb transitive To affect with leprosy.
Leperous Dictionary L - adjective Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous.
Lepid Dictionary L - adjective Pleasant; jocose.
Lepidine Dictionary L - noun An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine, and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.
Lepidodendrid Dictionary L - noun One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies.
Lepidodendroid Dictionary L - adjective Allied to, or resembling, Lepidodendron.
Lepidodendron Dictionary L - noun A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.
Lepidoganoid Dictionary L - noun Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.
Lepidolite Dictionary L - noun A species of mica, of a lilac or rose-violet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica.
Lepidomelane Dictionary L - noun An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica.
Lepidopter Dictionary L - noun One of the Lepidoptera.
Lepidoptera Dictionary L - noun plural An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.
Lepidopteral Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lepidopterous.
Lepidopterous Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.
Lepidopterist Dictionary L - noun One who studies the Lepidoptera.
Lepidosauria Dictionary L - noun plural A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata.
Lepidosiren Dictionary L - noun An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko.
Lepidote Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lepidoted.
Lepidoted Dictionary L - adjective Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.
Lepisma Dictionary L - noun A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.
Lepismoid Dictionary L - adjective Like or pertaining to the Lepisma.
Leporine Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a hare; like or characteristic of, a hare.
Lepra Dictionary L - noun Leprosy.
Lepre Dictionary L - noun Leprosy.
Leprose Dictionary L - adjective Covered with thin, scurfy scales.
Leprosity Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale.
Leprosy Dictionary L - noun 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.
Leprous Dictionary L - adjective Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.
Lepry Dictionary L - noun Leprosy.
Leptiform Dictionary L - adjective Having a form somewhat like leptus; - said of active insect larvae having three pairs of legs. See Larva.
Leptocardia Dictionary L - noun plural The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus.
Leptocardian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia.
Leptodactyl Dictionary L - noun A bird or other animal having slender toes.
Leptodactylous Dictionary L - adjective Having slender toes.
Leptology Dictionary L - noun A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.
Leptomeningitis Dictionary L - noun Inflammation of the pia mater or of the arachnoid membrane.
Leptorhine Dictionary L - adjective Having the nose narrow; - said esp. of the skull. Opposed to platyrhine.
Leptostraca Dictionary L - noun plural An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms.
Leptothrix Dictionary L - noun A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.
Leptus Dictionary L - noun The six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; - sometimes used as a generic name. See Harvest mite, under Harvest.
Leptynite Dictionary L - noun See Granulite.
Lere Dictionary L - noun Learning; lesson; lore.
Lered Dictionary L - verb transitive Learned.
Lernaea Dictionary L - noun A Linnaean genus of parasitic Entomostraca, - the same as the family Lernaeidae.
Lernaeacea Dictionary L - noun plural A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix.
Lernean Dictionary L - noun One of a family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.
Lerot Dictionary L - noun A small European rodent (Eliomys nitela), allied to the dormouse.
Les Dictionary L - noun A leash.
Lesbian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.
Lese Dictionary L - verb transitive To lose.
Lese-majesty Dictionary L - noun See Leze majesty.
Lesion Dictionary L - noun A hurt; an injury.
-less Dictionary L - A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.
Less Dictionary L - conjecture Unless.
Lessee Dictionary L - verb transitive The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
Lessened Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lessen.
Lessening Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lessen.
Lessen Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Lessener Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lessens.
Lesser Dictionary L - adjective Less; smaller; inferior.
Lesses Dictionary L - verb transitive The leavings or dung of beasts.
Lesson Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lessoned Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lesson.
Lessoning Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lesson.
Lessor Dictionary L - verb transitive One who leases; the person who lets to farm, or gives a lease.
Lest Dictionary L - intransitive verb To listen.
-let Dictionary L - A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet.
Let Dictionary L - verb transitive To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
Letted Dictionary L - of Let.
Letting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Let.
Let-alone Dictionary L - adjective Letting alone.
Letch Dictionary L - Verb & noun See Leach.
Letchy Dictionary L - adjective See Leachy.
Lete Dictionary L - verb transitive To let; to leave.
Leten Dictionary L - p. p. of Lete.
Lethal Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lethality Dictionary L - noun The quality of being lethal; mortality.
Lethargic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lethargical.
Lethargical Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy.
Lethargized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lethargize.
Lethargizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lethargize.
Lethargize Dictionary L - verb transitive To make lethargic.
-gies Dictionary L - pleural of Lethargy.
Lethargy Dictionary L - noun Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.
Lethe Dictionary L - noun Death.
Lethean Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe.
Letheed Dictionary L - adjective Caused by Lethe.
Letheon Dictionary L - noun Sulphuric ether used as an anaesthetic agent.
Letheonize Dictionary L - verb transitive To subject to the influence of letheon.
Lethiferous Dictionary L - adjective Deadly; bringing death or destruction.
Lethy Dictionary L - adjective Lethean.
Let-off Dictionary L - noun A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom.
Lette Dictionary L - verb transitive To let; to hinder. See Let, to hinder.
Letter Dictionary L - noun One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
Lettered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Letter.
Lettering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Letter.
Letterer Dictionary L - noun One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
Letterless Dictionary L - adjective Not having a letter.
Lettern Dictionary L - noun See Lecturn.
Letterpress Dictionary L - noun Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; - often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
Letterure Dictionary L - noun Letters; literature.
Letterwood Dictionary L - noun The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; - so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.
Lettic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish.
Lettish Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Letts.
Lettrure Dictionary L - noun See Letterure.
Letts Dictionary L - noun plural An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.
Lettuce Dictionary L - noun 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.
Letuary Dictionary L - noun Electuary.
Let-up Dictionary L - noun Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.
Leuc- Dictionary L - Same as Leuco-.
Leucadendron Dictionary L - noun A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.
Leucaniline Dictionary L - noun A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.
Leuchaemia Dictionary L - noun See Leucocythaemia.
Leucic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Leucinic.
Leucinic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from leucin, and called also oxycaproic acid.
Leucin Dictionary L - noun 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.
Leucite Dictionary L - noun 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.
Leucitic Dictionary L - adjective Containing leucite; as, leucitic rocks.
Leucitoid Dictionary L - noun The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; - so called as being the form of the mineral leucite.
Leuco- Dictionary L - Alt. of Leuc-.
Leucocyte Dictionary L - noun A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc.
Leucocythaemia Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Leucocythemia.
Leucocythemia Dictionary L - noun A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia.
Leucocytogenesis Dictionary L - noun The formation of leucocytes.
Leucoethiopic Dictionary L - adjective White and black; - said of a white animal of a black species, or the albino of the negro race.
Leucoethiops Dictionary L - noun An albino.
Leucoline Dictionary L - noun A nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. Cf. Quinoline.
Leucoma Dictionary L - noun A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; - called also albugo.
Leucomaine Dictionary L - noun An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.
Leuconic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.
Leucopathy Dictionary L - noun The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents.
Leucophane Dictionary L - noun A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also leucophanite.
Leucophlegmacy Dictionary L - noun A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.
Leucophlegmatic Dictionary L - adjective Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.
Leucophyll Dictionary L - noun A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green.
Leucophyllous Dictionary L - adjective Having white or silvery foliage.
Leucoplast Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Leucoplastid.
Leucoplastid Dictionary L - noun One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.
Leucopyrite Dictionary L - noun A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.
Leucorrhoea Dictionary L - noun A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites.
Leucoryx Dictionary L - noun A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok.
Leucoscope Dictionary L - noun An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent colors or their relative whiteness.
Leucosoid Dictionary L - adjective Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa.
Leucosphere Dictionary L - noun The inner corona.
Leucoturic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin. See Oxalantin.
Leucous Dictionary L - adjective White; - applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.
Leucoxene Dictionary L - noun A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.
Leukaemia Dictionary L - noun Leucocythaemia.
Leuke Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Leukeness.
Leukeness Dictionary L - noun See Luke, etc.
Leukoplast Dictionary L - noun See Leucoplast.
Levana Dictionary L - noun A goddess who protected newborn infants.
Levant Dictionary L - adjective Rising or having risen from rest; - said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
Levanter Dictionary L - verb One who levants, or decamps.
Levantine Dictionary L - noun Of or pertaining to the Levant.
Levari facias Dictionary L - A writ of execution at common law.
Levation Dictionary L - noun The act of raising; elevation; upward motion, as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
Levator Dictionary L - noun A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.
Leve Dictionary L - adjective Dear. See Lief.
Levee Dictionary L - noun The act of rising.
Levee en masse Dictionary L - See Levy in mass, under Levy, n.
Leveful Dictionary L - noun Allowable; permissible; lawful.
Level Dictionary L - noun A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; - this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.
Leveled Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Level.
Levelled Dictionary L - of Level.
Leveling Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Level.
Levelling Dictionary L - of Level.
Leveler Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, levels.
Levelism Dictionary L - noun The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.
Levelly Dictionary L - adverb In an even or level manner.
Levelness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being level.
Leven Dictionary L - noun Lightning.
Lever Dictionary L - adjective More agreeable; more pleasing.
Leverage Dictionary L - noun The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.
Leveret Dictionary L - noun A hare in the first year of its age.
Leverock Dictionary L - noun A lark.
Leverwood Dictionary L - noun The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood.
Levesel Dictionary L - noun A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage.
Levet Dictionary L - noun A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
Leviable Dictionary L - adjective Fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law.
Leviathan Dictionary L - noun An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
Levier Dictionary L - noun One who levies.
Levigable Dictionary L - verb transitive Capable of being levigated.
Levigate Dictionary L - adjective Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated.
Levigated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Levigate.
Levigating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Levigate.
Levigation Dictionary L - noun The act or operation of levigating.
Levin Dictionary L - noun Lightning.
Leviner Dictionary L - noun A swift hound.
Levir Dictionary L - noun A husband's brother; - used in reference to levirate marriages.
Levirate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Leviratical.
Leviratical Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother.
Leviration Dictionary L - noun Levirate marriage or marriages.
Levirostres Dictionary L - noun plural A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms.
Levitate Dictionary L - intransitive verb To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; - opposed to gravitate.
Levitation Dictionary L - noun Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.
Levite Dictionary L - noun One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc.
Levitical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a Levite or the Levites.
Levitically Dictionary L - adverb After the manner of the Levites; in accordance with the levitical law.
Leviticus Dictionary L - noun The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.
Levity Dictionary L - noun 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.
Levo- Dictionary L - A prefix from L. laevus.
Levogyrate Dictionary L - adjective Turning or twisting the plane of polarization towards the left, as levulose, levotartaric acid, etc.
Levorotatory Dictionary L - adjective Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc.
Levulin Dictionary L - noun 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.
Levulinic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid (called also acetyl-propionic acid), C5H8O3, obtained by the action of dilute acids on various sugars (as levulose).
Levulosan Dictionary L - noun An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose.
Levulose Dictionary L - noun A sirupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized, occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also fruit sugar. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization to the left.
Levies Dictionary L - pleural of Levy.
Levy Dictionary L - noun A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
Levied Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Levy.
Levying Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Levy.
Levyne Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Levynite.
Levynite Dictionary L - noun A whitish, reddish, or yellowish, transparent or translucent mineral, allied to chabazite.
Lew Dictionary L - adjective Lukewarm; tepid.
Lewd Dictionary L - superlative Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
Lewdster Dictionary L - noun A lewd person.
Lewis Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lewisson.
Lewisson Dictionary L - noun An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; - used in hoisting large stones, etc.
Leges Dictionary L - pleural of Lex.
Lex Dictionary L - noun Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.
Lexical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon.
Lexicographer Dictionary L - noun The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary.
Lexicographic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lexicographical.
Lexicographical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to, or according to, lexicography.
Lexicographist Dictionary L - noun A lexicographer.
Lexicography Dictionary L - noun The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
Lexicologist Dictionary L - noun One versed in lexicology.
Lexicology Dictionary L - noun The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.
Lexicon Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lexiconist Dictionary L - noun A writer of a lexicon.
Lexigraphic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.
Lexigraphy Dictionary L - noun The art or practice of defining words; definition of words.
Lexiphanic Dictionary L - adjective Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.
Lexiphanicism Dictionary L - noun The use of pretentious words, language, or style.
Lexipharmic Dictionary L - adjective See Alexipharmic.
Ley Dictionary L - verb transitive & intransitive To lay; to wager.
Leyden jar Dictionary L - Alt. of Leyden phial.
Leyden phial Dictionary L - A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.
Leyser Dictionary L - noun Leisure.
Leze majesty Dictionary L - Any crime committed against the sovereign power.
Lherzolite Dictionary L - noun An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).
Li Dictionary L - noun A Chinese measure of distance, being a little more than one third of a mile.
Liabilities Dictionary L - pleural of Liability.
Liability Dictionary L - noun The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.
Liable Dictionary L - verb transitive Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
Liableness Dictionary L - noun Quality of being liable; liability.
Liage Dictionary L - noun Union by league; alliance.
Liaison Dictionary L - noun A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
Liane Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Liana.
Liana Dictionary L - noun A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.
Liar Dictionary L - noun A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.
Liard Dictionary L - adjective Gray.
Lias Dictionary L - noun The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
Liassic Dictionary L - adjective Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation.
Lib Dictionary L - verb transitive To castrate.
Libament Dictionary L - noun Libation.
Libant Dictionary L - adjective Sipping; touching lightly.
Libation Dictionary L - noun The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out.
Libatory Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to libation.
Libbard Dictionary L - noun A leopard.
Libbard's bane Dictionary L - Leopard's bane.
Libel Dictionary L - noun A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
Libeled Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Libel.
Libelled Dictionary L - of Libel.
Libeling Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Libel.
Libelling Dictionary L - of Libel.
Libelant Dictionary L - noun One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.
Libeler Dictionary L - noun One who libels.
Libelist Dictionary L - noun A libeler.
Li bella Dictionary L - noun A small balance.
Libellulid Dictionary L - noun A dragon fly.
Libelluloid Dictionary L - adjective Like or pertaining to the dragon flies.
Libelous Dictionary L - adjective Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet.
Liber Dictionary L - noun The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.
Liberal Dictionary L - adjective Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.
Liberalism Dictionary L - noun Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.
Liberalist Dictionary L - noun A liberal.
Liberalistic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
Liberalities Dictionary L - pleural of Liberality.
Liberality Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity.
Liberalization Dictionary L - noun The act of liberalizing.
Liberalized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Liberalize.
Liberalizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Liberalize.
Liberalize Dictionary L - verb transitive To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.
Liberalizer Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, liberalizes.
Liberally Dictionary L - adverb In a liberal manner.
Liberated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Liberate.
Liberating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Liberate.
Liberate Dictionary L - adjective To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.
Liberation Dictionary L - noun The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
Liberator Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.
Liberatory Dictionary L - adjective Tending, or serving, to liberate.
Libertarian Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
Libertarianism Dictionary L - noun Libertarian principles or doctrines.
Liberticide Dictionary L - noun The destruction of civil liberty.
Libertinage Dictionary L - noun Libertinism; license.
Libertine Dictionary L - noun A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
Libertinism Dictionary L - noun The state of a libertine or freedman.
Liberties Dictionary L - pleural of Liberty.
Liberty Dictionary L - noun The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; - opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.
Libethenite Dictionary L - noun A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.
Libidinist Dictionary L - noun One given to lewdness.
Libidinosity Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being libidinous; libidinousness.
Libidinous Dictionary L - adjective Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.
Libken Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Libkin.
Libkin Dictionary L - noun A house or lodging.
Librae Dictionary L - pleural of Libra.
Libra Dictionary L - noun The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc.
Libral Dictionary L - adjective Of a pound weight.
Librarian Dictionary L - noun One who has the care or charge of a library.
Librarianship Dictionary L - noun The office of a librarian.
Libraries Dictionary L - pleural of Library.
Library Dictionary L - noun A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.
Librated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Librate.
Librating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Librate.
Librate Dictionary L - intransitive verb To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised.
Libration Dictionary L - noun The act or state of librating.
Libration point Dictionary L - noun any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body.
Libratory Dictionary L - adjective Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.
Librettist Dictionary L - noun One who makes a libretto.
Librettos Dictionary L - pleural of Libretto.
Libretti Dictionary L - pleural of Libretto.
Libretto Dictionary L - noun A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music.
Libriform Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of liber, or resembling liber.
Libyan Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole.
Lice Dictionary L - noun plural of Louse.
Licensable Dictionary L - adjective That can be licensed.
License Dictionary L - noun 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.
Licensed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of License.
Licensing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of License.
Licensee Dictionary L - noun The person to whom a license is given.
Licenser Dictionary L - noun One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.
Licensure Dictionary L - noun A licensing.
Licentiate Dictionary L - noun One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology.
Licentious Dictionary L - adjective Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.
Lich Dictionary L - adjective Like.
Lichen Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lichened Dictionary L - adjective Belonging to, or covered with, lichens.
Lichenic Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens.
Licheniform Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a lichen.
Lichenin Dictionary L - noun A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.
Lichenographic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lichenographical.
Lichenographical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to lichenography.
Lichenographist Dictionary L - noun One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.
Lichenography Dictionary L - noun A description of lichens; the science which illustrates the natural history of lichens.
Lichenologist Dictionary L - noun One versed in lichenology.
Lichenology Dictionary L - noun The science which treats of lichens.
Lichenous Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.
Lichi Dictionary L - noun See Litchi.
Lichwale Dictionary L - noun The gromwell.
Lichwort Dictionary L - noun An herb, the wall pellitory. See Pellitory.
Licit Dictionary L - adjective Lawful.
Licitation Dictionary L - noun The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder.
Licked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lick.
Licking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lick.
Lick Dictionary L - verb transitive To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
Licker Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, licks.
Lickerish Dictionary L - adjective Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
Lickerous Dictionary L - adjective Lickerish; eager; lustful.
Lickpenny Dictionary L - noun A devourer or absorber of money.
Lick-spigot Dictionary L - noun A tapster.
Lick-spittle Dictionary L - noun An abject flatterer or parasite.
Licorice Dictionary L - noun A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.
Licorous Dictionary L - adjective See Lickerish.
Licour Dictionary L - noun Liquor.
Lictor Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lid Dictionary L - noun That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
Lidded Dictionary L - adjective Covered with a lid.
Lidge Dictionary L - noun Same as Ledge.
Lidless Dictionary L - adjective Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful.
Lie Dictionary L - noun See Lye.
Lied Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lie.
Lying Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lie.
Lien Dictionary L - of Lie.
Lieberkuhn Dictionary L - noun A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector.
Lieberkuhn's glands Dictionary L - The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; - called also crypts of Lieberkuhn.
Lieder Dictionary L - pleural of Lied.
Liedertafel Dictionary L - noun A popular name for any society or club which meets for the practice of male part songs.
Lief Dictionary L - noun Same as Lif.
Liefsome Dictionary L - adjective Pleasing; delightful.
Liegance Dictionary L - noun Same as Ligeance.
Liege Dictionary L - adjective Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
Liegemen Dictionary L - pleural of Liegeman.
Liegeman Dictionary L - noun Same as Liege, n., 2.
Lieger Dictionary L - noun A resident ambassador.
Liegiancy Dictionary L - noun See Ligeance.
Lienal Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.
Lienculi Dictionary L - pleural of Lienculus.
Lienculus Dictionary L - noun One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.
Lieno-intestinal Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog.
Lienteric Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery.
Lientery Dictionary L - noun A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change.
Lier Dictionary L - noun One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.
Lierne rib Dictionary L - In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.
Lieu Dictionary L - noun Place; room; stead; - used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of.
Lieutenancy Dictionary L - noun The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant.
Lieutenant Dictionary L - noun An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.
Lieutenant general Dictionary L - An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.
Lieutenantry Dictionary L - noun See Lieutenancy.
Lieutenantship Dictionary L - noun Same as Lieutenancy, 1.
Lieve Dictionary L - adjective Same as Lief.
Lif Dictionary L - noun The fiber by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.
Lives Dictionary L - pleural of Life.
Life Dictionary L - noun The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; - used of all animal and vegetable organisms.
Lifeblood Dictionary L - noun The blood necessary to life; vital blood.
Lifeboat Dictionary L - noun A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
Lifeful Dictionary L - adjective Full of vitality.
Life-giving Dictionary L - adjective Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.
Lifehold Dictionary L - noun Land held by a life estate.
Lifeless Dictionary L - adjective Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.
Lifelike Dictionary L - adjective Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait.
Lifelong Dictionary L - adjective Lasting or continuing through life.
Lifely Dictionary L - adjective In a lifelike manner.
Lifemate Dictionary L - noun Companion for life.
Lifen Dictionary L - verb transitive To enliven.
Life-preserver Dictionary L - noun An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water.
Life-saving Dictionary L - adjective That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station.
Life-size Dictionary L - adjective Of full size; of the natural size.
Lifesome Dictionary L - adjective Animated; sprightly.
Lifespring Dictionary L - noun Spring or source of life.
Lifestring Dictionary L - noun A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life.
Lifetime Dictionary L - noun The time that life continues.
Life-weary Dictionary L - adjective Weary of living.
Liflode Dictionary L - noun Livelihood.
Lift Dictionary L - noun The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
Lifted Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lift.
Lifting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lift.
Liftable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be lifted.
Lifter Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lifts.
Lig Dictionary L - intransitive verb To recline; to lie still.
Ligament Dictionary L - noun Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.
Ligamental Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Ligamentous.
Ligamentous Dictionary L - adjective Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.
Ligan Dictionary L - noun Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam.
Ligate Dictionary L - verb transitive To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.
Ligation Dictionary L - noun The act of binding, or the state of being bound.
Ligator Dictionary L - noun An instrument for ligating, or for placing and fastening a ligature.
Ligature Dictionary L - noun The act of binding.
Lige Dictionary L - verb transitive & intransitive To lie; to tell lies.
Ligeance Dictionary L - noun The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance.
Ligement Dictionary L - noun See Ledgment.
Ligge Dictionary L - intransitive verb To lie or recline.
Ligger Dictionary L - noun A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a.
Light Dictionary L - noun That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
Lighted Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Light.
Lit Dictionary L - of Light.
Lighting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Light.
Lightable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be lighted.
Light-armed Dictionary L - adjective Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
Light-boat Dictionary L - noun Light-ship.
Lighte Dictionary L - imp. of Light, to alight.
Lighten Dictionary L - intransitive verb To descend; to light.
Lightened Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lighten.
Lightening Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lighten.
Lighter Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
Lighterage Dictionary L - noun The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
Lightermen Dictionary L - pleural of Lighterman.
Lighterman Dictionary L - noun A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
Light-fingered Dictionary L - adjective Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts.
Light-foot Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Light-footed.
Light-footed Dictionary L - adjective Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris.
Lightful Dictionary L - adjective Full of light; bright.
Light-handed Dictionary L - adjective Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
Light-headed Dictionary L - adjective Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
Light-hearted Dictionary L - adjective Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry.
Light-heeled Dictionary L - adjective Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.
Light-horseman Dictionary L - noun A soldier who serves in the light horse. See under 5th Light.
Lighthouses Dictionary L - pleural of Lighthouse.
Lighthouse Dictionary L - noun A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
Light-legged Dictionary L - adjective Nimble; swift of foot.
Lightless Dictionary L - adjective Destitute of light; dark.
Lightly Dictionary L - adverb With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.
Lightman Dictionary L - noun A man who carries or takes care of a light.
Light-minded Dictionary L - adjective Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
Lightness Dictionary L - noun The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
Lightning Dictionary L - noun A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.
Light-o'-love Dictionary L - noun An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.
Lightroom Dictionary L - noun A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
Lights Dictionary L - noun plural The lungs of an animal or bird; - sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
Light-ship Dictionary L - noun A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.
Lightsome Dictionary L - adjective Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.
Light-winged Dictionary L - adjective Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.
Lightwood Dictionary L - noun Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.
Lighty Dictionary L - adjective Illuminated.
Lign-aloes Dictionary L - noun Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum.
Ligneous Dictionary L - adjective Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.
Ligniferous Dictionary L - adjective Yielding or producing wood.
Lignification Dictionary L - noun A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.
Ligniform Dictionary L - adjective Like wood.
Lignified Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lignify.
Lignifying Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lignify.
Lignify Dictionary L - verb transitive To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
Lignin Dictionary L - noun A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.
Ligniperdous Dictionary L - adjective Wood-destroying; - said of certain insects.
Lignireose Dictionary L - noun See Lignin.
Lignite Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lignitic Dictionary L - adjective Containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay.
Lignitiferous Dictionary L - adjective Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.
Lignoceric Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech.
Lignone Dictionary L - noun See Lignin.
Lignose Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lignous.
Lignous Dictionary L - adjective Ligneous.
Lignum rhodium Dictionary L - The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera.
Lignum-vitae Dictionary L - noun A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.
Ligroin Dictionary L - noun 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.
Ligsam Dictionary L - noun Same as Ligan.
Ligulae Dictionary L - pleural of Ligula.
Ligulas Dictionary L - pleural of Ligula.
Ligula Dictionary L - noun See Ligule.
Ligulate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Ligulated.
Ligulated Dictionary L - adjective Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.
Ligule Dictionary L - noun The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
Liguliflorous Dictionary L - adjective Bearing only ligulate flowers; - said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, lettuce, hawkweed, etc.
Ligure Dictionary L - noun A kind of precious stone.
Ligustrin Dictionary L - noun A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bitter taste; - called also ligustron.
Likable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person.
Like Dictionary L - superlative 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.
Liked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Like.
Liking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Like.
Likeable Dictionary L - adjective See Likable.
Likehood Dictionary L - noun Likelihood.
Likelihood Dictionary L - noun Appearance; show; sign; expression.
Likeliness Dictionary L - noun Likelihood; probability.
Likely Dictionary L - adjective Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.
Like-minded Dictionary L - adjective Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind.
Likened Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Liken.
Likening Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Liken.
Liken Dictionary L - adjective To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
Likeness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.
Likerous Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Likerousness.
Likerousness Dictionary L - noun See Lickerish, Lickerishness.
Likewise Dictionary L - noun In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also.
Lilac Dictionary L - noun A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.
Lilacin Dictionary L - noun See Syringin.
Liliaceous Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.
Lilial Dictionary L - adjective Having a general resemblance to lilies or to liliaceous plants.
Lilied Dictionary L - adjective Covered with, or having many, lilies.
Lill Dictionary L - intransitive verb To loll.
Lilliputian Dictionary L - noun One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput.".
Lilly-pilly Dictionary L - noun An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained.
Lilt Dictionary L - intransitive verb To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
Lilies Dictionary L - pleural of Lily.
Lily Dictionary L - noun A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.
Lily-handed Dictionary L - adjective Having white, delicate hands.
Lily-livered Dictionary L - adjective White-livered; cowardly.
Lilywort Dictionary L - noun Any plant of the Lily family or order.
Lim Dictionary L - noun A limb.
Lima Dictionary L - noun The capital city of Peru, in South America.
Limaceous Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.
Limacina Dictionary L - noun A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.
Lima/on Dictionary L - noun A curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is r = a cos / + b.
Limaille Dictionary L - noun Filings of metal.
Liman Dictionary L - noun The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.
Limation Dictionary L - noun The act of filing or polishing.
Limature Dictionary L - noun The act of filing.
Limax Dictionary L - noun A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.
Limb Dictionary L - noun A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
Limbat Dictionary L - noun 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.
Limbate Dictionary L - adjective Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
Limbec Dictionary L - noun An alembic; a still.
Limbed Dictionary L - adjective Having limbs; - much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.
Limber Dictionary L - noun The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
Limbered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Limber.
Limbering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Limber.
Limberness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness.
Limbless Dictionary L - adjective Destitute of limbs.
Limbmeal Dictionary L - adverb Piecemeal.
Limbo Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Limbus.
Limbus Dictionary L - noun An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.
Limbous Dictionary L - adjective With slightly overlapping borders; - said of a suture.
Lime Dictionary L - noun A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
Limed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lime.
Liming Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lime.
Limehound Dictionary L - noun A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer.
Limekiln Dictionary L - noun A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.
Limenean Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lima, or to the inhabitants of Lima, in Peru.
Limer Dictionary L - noun A limehound; a limmer.
Limestone Dictionary L - noun A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
Lime twig Dictionary L - See under 4th Lime.
Lime-twigged Dictionary L - adjective Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime.
Limewater Dictionary L - noun Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.
Limicolae Dictionary L - noun plural A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae.
Limicoline Dictionary L - adjective Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolae.
Liminess Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being limy.
Limit Dictionary L - verb transitive That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
Limited Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Limit.
Limiting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Limit.
Limitable Dictionary L - adjective Capable of being limited.
Limitaneous Dictionary L - verb transitive Of or pertaining to a limit.
Limitarian Dictionary L - adjective Tending to limit.
Limitary Dictionary L - verb transitive Placed at the limit, as a guard.
Limitate Dictionary L - verb transitive Bounded by a distinct line.
Limitation Dictionary L - verb transitive The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
Limitedly Dictionary L - adverb With limitation.
Limitedness Dictionary L - noun The quality of being limited.
Limiter Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, limits.
Limitive Dictionary L - adjective Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
Limitless Dictionary L - adjective Having no limits; unbounded; boundless.
Limitour Dictionary L - noun See Limiter, 2.
Limmer Dictionary L - adjective Limber.
Limned Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Limn.
Limning Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Limn.
Limn Dictionary L - verb transitive To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.
Lim naea Dictionary L - noun A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; - called also pond snail.
Limner Dictionary L - noun A painter; an artist.
Limniad Dictionary L - noun See Limoniad.
Limoges Dictionary L - noun A city of Southern France.
Limoniad Dictionary L - noun A nymph of the meadows; - called also Limniad.
Limonin Dictionary L - noun A bitter, white, crystalline substance found in orange and lemon seeds.
Limonite Dictionary L - noun Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, and yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called brown hematite.
Limosis Dictionary L - noun A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.
Limous Dictionary L - adjective Muddy; slimy; thick.
Limped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Limp.
Limping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Limp.
Limp Dictionary L - intransitive verb To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.
Limper Dictionary L - noun One who limps.
Limpet Dictionary L - noun In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.
Limpid Dictionary L - adjective Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream.
Limpidity Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being limpid.
Limpidness Dictionary L - noun Quality of being limpid; limpidity.
Limpin Dictionary L - noun A limpet.
Limpingly Dictionary L - adverb In a limping manner.
Limpitude Dictionary L - noun Limpidity.
Limpkin Dictionary L - noun 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.
Limpness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being limp.
Limpsy Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Limsy.
Limsy Dictionary L - adjective Limp; flexible; flimsy.
Limu Dictionary L - noun The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc.
Limule Dictionary L - noun A limulus.
Limuloidea Dictionary L - noun plural An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura.
Limuli Dictionary L - pleural of Limulus.
Limulus Dictionary L - noun The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.
Limy Dictionary L - adjective Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous.
Lin Dictionary L - intransitive verb To yield; to stop; to cease.
Linage Dictionary L - noun See Lineage.
Linament Dictionary L - noun Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
Linarite Dictionary L - noun A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.
Linch Dictionary L - noun A ledge; a right-angled projection.
Linchi Dictionary L - noun An esculent swallow.
Linchpin Dictionary L - noun A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.
Lincoln green Dictionary L - A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.
Lincture Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Linctus.
Linctus Dictionary L - noun Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
Lind Dictionary L - noun The linden. See Linden.
Linden Dictionary L - noun A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
Lindia Dictionary L - noun A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
Lindiform Dictionary L - adjective Resembling the genus Lindia; - said of certain apodous insect larvae.
Line Dictionary L - noun Flax; linen.
Lined Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Line.
Lining Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Line.
Lineage Dictionary L - noun Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
Lineal Dictionary L - adjective Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; - opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
Lineality Dictionary L - noun The quality of being lineal.
Lineally Dictionary L - adverb In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror.
Lineament Dictionary L - noun One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; - usually in the plural.
Linear Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.
Linearensate Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow.
Linearly Dictionary L - adverb In a linear manner; with lines.
Linear-shaped Dictionary L - adjective Of a linear shape.
Lineary Dictionary L - adjective Linear.
Lineate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lineated.
Lineated Dictionary L - adjective Marked with lines.
Lineation Dictionary L - noun Delineation; a line or lines.
Lineature Dictionary L - noun Anything having outline.
Linemen Dictionary L - pleural of Lineman.
Lineman Dictionary L - noun One who carries the line in surveying, etc.
Linen Dictionary L - noun Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
Linener Dictionary L - noun A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
Lineolate Dictionary L - adjective Marked with little lines.
Liner Dictionary L - noun One who lines, as, a liner of shoes.
-ling Dictionary L - A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.
Ling Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Linga Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lingam.
Lingam Dictionary L - noun The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.
Ling-bird Dictionary L - noun The European meadow pipit; - called also titling.
Lingel Dictionary L - noun A shoemaker's thread.
Lingence Dictionary L - noun A linctus.
Lingered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Linger.
Lingering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Linger.
Linger Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Lingerer Dictionary L - noun One who lingers.
Lingeringly Dictionary L - adverb With delay; slowly; tediously.
Linget Dictionary L - noun An ingot.
Lingism Dictionary L - noun A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; - proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.
Lingle Dictionary L - noun See Lingel.
Lingo Dictionary L - noun Language; speech; dialect.
Lingoa wood Dictionary L - Amboyna wood.
Lingot Dictionary L - noun A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.
Linguae Dictionary L - pleural of Lingua.
Lingua Dictionary L - noun A tongue.
Linguacious Dictionary L - adjective Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious.
Linguadental Dictionary L - adjective Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.
Lingua Franca Dictionary L - The commercial language of the Levant, - a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.
Lingual Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.
Linguality Dictionary L - noun The quality of being lingual.
Linguatulida Dictionary L - noun plural Same as Linguatulina.
Linguatulina Dictionary L - noun plural An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida.
Linguidental Dictionary L - adjective & noun Linguadental.
Linguiform Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of the tongue; tongue-shaped.
Linguist Dictionary L - noun A master of the use of language; a talker.
Linguistic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Linguistical.
Linguistical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
Linguistically Dictionary L - adverb In a linguistic manner; from the point of view of a linguist.
Linguistics Dictionary L - noun The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
-lae Dictionary L - pleural of Lingula.
Lingula Dictionary L - noun A tonguelike process or part.
Lingulate Dictionary L - adjective Shaped like the tongue or a strap; ligulate.
Linigerous Dictionary L - adjective Bearing flax; producing linen.
Liniment Dictionary L - noun A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant.
Link Dictionary L - noun A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
Linked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Link.
Linking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Link.
Linkage Dictionary L - noun The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.
Linkboy Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Linkman.
Linkman Dictionary L - noun A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.
Link motion Dictionary L - A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; - used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.
Linkwork Dictionary L - noun A fabric consisting of links made of metal or other material fastened together; also, a chain.
Linnaea borealis Dictionary L - The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.
Linnaean Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Linnean.
Linnean Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Linnaeus, the celebrated Swedish botanist.
Linnaeite Dictionary L - noun A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper.
Linne Dictionary L - noun Flax. See Linen.
Linnet Dictionary L - noun Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
Linoleate Dictionary L - noun A salt of linoleic acid.
Linoleic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.
Linoleum Dictionary L - noun Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.
Linoxin Dictionary L - noun A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid.
Linsang Dictionary L - noun Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.
Linseed Dictionary L - noun The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.
Linsey Dictionary L - noun Linsey-woolsey.
Linsey-woolsey Dictionary L - noun Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.
Linstock Dictionary L - noun A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
Lint Dictionary L - noun Flax.
Lintel Dictionary L - noun A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.
Lintie Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lintwhite.
Lintwhite Dictionary L - noun See Linnet.
Lintseed Dictionary L - noun See Linseed.
Linum Dictionary L - noun A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).
Lion Dictionary L - noun A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.
Lionced Dictionary L - adjective Adorned with lions' heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; - said of a cross.
Lioncel Dictionary L - noun A small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.
Lionel Dictionary L - noun The whelp of a lioness; a young lion.
Lioness Dictionary L - noun A female lion.
Lionet Dictionary L - noun A young or small lion.
Lion-heart Dictionary L - noun A very brave person.
Lion-hearted Dictionary L - adjective Very brave; brave and magnanimous.
Lionhood Dictionary L - noun State of being a lion.
Lionism Dictionary L - noun An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.
Lionized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lionize.
Lionizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lionize.
Lionize Dictionary L - verb transitive To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest.
Lionlike Dictionary L - adjective Like a lion; brave as a lion.
Lionly Dictionary L - adjective Like a lion; fierce.
Lion's ear Dictionary L - A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.
Lion's foot Dictionary L - A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States.
Lionship Dictionary L - noun The state of being a lion.
Lion's leaf Dictionary L - A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.
Lion's tail Dictionary L - A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); - so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
Lions' teeth Dictionary L - pleural of Lion's tooth.
Lion's tooth Dictionary L - See Leontodon.
Lip Dictionary L - noun One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
Lipped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lip.
Lipping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lip.
Lipaemia Dictionary L - noun A condition in which fat occurs in the blood.
Lipans Dictionary L - noun plural A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting the northern part of Mexico. They belong to the Tinneh stock, and are closely related to the Apaches.
Liparian Dictionary L - noun Any species of a family (Liparidae) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.
Liparite Dictionary L - noun A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.
Lipic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc.
Lipinic Dictionary L - adjective Lipic.
Lipless Dictionary L - adjective Having no lips.
Liplet Dictionary L - noun A little lip.
Lipocephala Dictionary L - noun plural Same as Lamellibranchia.
Lipochrin Dictionary L - noun A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best obtained from the eyes of frogs.
Lipogram Dictionary L - noun A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; - as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.
Lipogrammatic Dictionary L - adjective Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.
Lipogrammatist Dictionary L - noun One who makes a lipogram.
Lipoma Dictionary L - noun A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.
Lipothymic Dictionary L - adjective Tending to swoon; fainting.
Lipothymous Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting.
Lipothymy Dictionary L - noun A fainting; a swoon.
Lippitude Dictionary L - noun Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyed; blearedness.
Lipse Dictionary L - intransitive verb To lisp.
Lipyl Dictionary L - noun A hypothetical radical of glycerin.
Liquable Dictionary L - intransitive verb Capable of being melted.
Liquate Dictionary L - intransitive verb To melt; to become liquid.
Liquation Dictionary L - noun The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.
Liquefacient Dictionary L - noun That which serves to liquefy.
Liquefaction Dictionary L - noun The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.
Liquefiable Dictionary L - adjective Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.
Liquefier Dictionary L - noun That which liquefies.
Liquefied Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Liquefy.
Liquefying Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Liquefy.
Liquefy Dictionary L - verb transitive 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.
Liquescency Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being liquescent.
Liquescent Dictionary L - adjective Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.
Liqueur Dictionary L - noun An aromatic alcoholic cordial.
Liquid Dictionary L - adjective Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
Liquidambar Dictionary L - noun A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.
Liquidamber Dictionary L - noun See Liquidambar.
Liquidated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Liquidate.
Liquidating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Liquidate.
Liquidate Dictionary L - verb transitive To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.
Liquidation Dictionary L - noun The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.
Liquidator Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, liquidates.
Liquidity Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being liquid.
Liquidized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Liquidize.
Liquidizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Liquidize.
Liquidize Dictionary L - verb transitive To render liquid.
Liquidly Dictionary L - adverb In a liquid manner; flowingly.
Liquidness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.
Liquor Dictionary L - noun Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
Liquored Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Liquor.
Liquoring Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Liquor.
Liquorice Dictionary L - noun See Licorice.
Liquorish Dictionary L - adjective See Lickerish.
Liquorous Dictionary L - adjective Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish.
Lire Dictionary L - pleural of Lira.
Lira Dictionary L - noun An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.
Lirella Dictionary L - noun A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.
Lirelliform Dictionary L - adjective Like a lirella.
Liriodendra Dictionary L - pleural of Liriodendron.
Liriodendron Dictionary L - noun A genus of large and very beautiful trees of North America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; - called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.
Liripipe Dictionary L - noun See Liripoop.
Liripoop Dictionary L - noun A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; - worn also by doctors, learned men, etc.
Liroconite Dictionary L - noun A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.
Lisbon Dictionary L - noun A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.
Lisle Dictionary L - noun A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.
Lisne Dictionary L - noun A cavity or hollow.
Lisped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lisp.
Lisping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lisp.
Lisp Dictionary L - intransitive verb To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; - a defect common among children.
Lisper Dictionary L - noun One who lisps.
Lispingly Dictionary L - adverb With a lisp; in a lisping manner.
Liss Dictionary L - noun Release; remission; ease; relief.
Lissencephala Dictionary L - noun plural A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.
Lissom Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lissome.
Lissome Dictionary L - adjective Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
List Dictionary L - noun A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
Listed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of List.
Listing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of List.
Listel Dictionary L - noun Same as List, n., 6.
Listened Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Listen.
Listening Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Listen.
Listen Dictionary L - intransitive verb To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
Listener Dictionary L - noun One who listens; a hearkener.
Listerian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to listerism.
Listerism Dictionary L - noun The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; - so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.
Listful Dictionary L - adjective Attentive.
Listless Dictionary L - adjective Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.
Litanies Dictionary L - pleural of Litany.
Litany Dictionary L - noun 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.
Litarge Dictionary L - noun Litharge.
Litchi Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lite Dictionary L - [[adv., & noun Little.
Liter Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Litre.
Litre Dictionary L - noun A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.
Literacy Dictionary L - noun State of being literate.
Literal Dictionary L - adjective According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
Literalism Dictionary L - noun That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
Literalist Dictionary L - noun One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
Literalty Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being literal.
Literalization Dictionary L - noun The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.
Literalized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Literalize.
Literalizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Literalize.
Literalize Dictionary L - verb transitive To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; - opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.
Literalizer Dictionary L - noun A literalist.
Literally Dictionary L - adverb According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.
Literalness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
Literary Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
Literate Dictionary L - adjective Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.
Literati Dictionary L - noun plural Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
Literatim Dictionary L - adverb Letter for letter.
Literation Dictionary L - noun The act or process of representing by letters.
Literator Dictionary L - noun One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
Literature Dictionary L - noun Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
Literatus Dictionary L - noun A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; - chiefly used in the plural.
-lith Dictionary L - Alt. of -lite.
-lite Dictionary L - Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; - used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.
Lith Dictionary L - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.
Lithaemia Dictionary L - noun A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.
Lithagogue Dictionary L - noun A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
Litharge Dictionary L - noun Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.
Lithargyrum Dictionary L - noun Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.
Lithate Dictionary L - noun A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.
Lithe Dictionary L - [[v. i. & intransitive To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
Lithely Dictionary L - adverb In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.
Litheness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
Lither Dictionary L - adjective Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.
Litherly Dictionary L - adjective Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.
Lithesome Dictionary L - adjective Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
Lithia Dictionary L - noun The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium.
Lithiasis Dictionary L - noun The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.
Lithic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.
Lithiophilite Dictionary L - noun A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.
Lithium Dictionary L - noun 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.
Litho Dictionary L - A combining form from Gr. li`qos, stone.
Lithobilic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.
Lithocarp Dictionary L - noun Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.
Lithochromatics Dictionary L - noun See Lithochromics.
Lithochromics Dictionary L - noun The art of printing colored pictures on canvas from oil paintings on stone.
Lithoclast Dictionary L - noun An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.
Lithocyst Dictionary L - noun A sac containing small, calcareous concretions (otoliths). They are found in many Medusae, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs.
Lithodome Dictionary L - noun Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus.
Lithodomous Dictionary L - adjective Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous.
Lithodomus Dictionary L - noun A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.
Lithofellic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.
Lithofracteur Dictionary L - noun An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.
Lithogenesy Dictionary L - noun The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe.
Lithogenous Dictionary L - adjective Stone-producing; - said of polyps which form coral.
Lithoglyph Dictionary L - noun An engraving on a gem.
Lithoglypher Dictionary L - noun One who curs or engraves precious stones.
Lithoglyphic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.
Lithoglyptics Dictionary L - noun The art of cutting and engraving gems.
Lithographed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lithograph.
Lithographing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lithograph.
Lithograph Dictionary L - verb transitive To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. See Lithography.
Lithographer Dictionary L - noun One who lithographs; one who practices lithography.
Lithographic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lithographical.
Lithographical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to lithography; made by lithography; as, the lithographic art; a lithographic picture.
Lithography Dictionary L - noun The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.
Lithoid Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lithoidal.
Lithoidal Dictionary L - adjective Like a stone; having a stony structure.
Litholatry Dictionary L - noun The worship of a stone or stones.
Lithologic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lithological.
Lithological Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.
Lithologically Dictionary L - adverb From a lithological point of view; as, to consider a stratum lithologically.
Lithologist Dictionary L - noun One who is skilled in lithology.
Lithology Dictionary L - noun The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.
Lithomancy Dictionary L - noun Divination by means of stones.
Lithomarge Dictionary L - noun A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile.
Lithonthriptic Dictionary L - adjective & noun Alt. of Lithonthryptic.
Lithonthryptic Dictionary L - adjective & noun Same as Lithontriptic.
Lithontriptic Dictionary L - adjective Having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forceps.
Lithontriptist Dictionary L - noun Same as Lithotriptist.
Lithontriptor Dictionary L - noun See Lithotriptor.
Lithophagous Dictionary L - adjective Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
Lithophane Dictionary L - noun Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, - as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.
Lithophosphor Dictionary L - noun A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat.
Lithophosphoric Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.
Lithophotography Dictionary L - noun Same as Photolithography.
Lithophyll Dictionary L - noun A fossil leaf or impression of a leaf.
Lithophyse Dictionary L - noun A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name.
Lithophyte Dictionary L - noun A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.
Lithophytic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to lithophytes.
Lithophytous Dictionary L - adjective Lithophytic.
Lithosian Dictionary L - noun Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosidae. Many of them are beautifully colored.
Lithotint Dictionary L - noun A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.
Lithotome Dictionary L - noun A stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art.
Lithotomic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lithotomical.
Lithotomical Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or performed by, lithotomy.
Lithotomist Dictionary L - noun One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.
Lithotomy Dictionary L - noun The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.
Lithotripsy Dictionary L - noun The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.
Lithotriptic Dictionary L - adjective & noun Same as Lithontriptic.
Lithotriptist Dictionary L - noun One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.
Lithotriptor Dictionary L - noun An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.
Lithotrite Dictionary L - Alt. of Lithotritor.
Lithotritor Dictionary L - A lithotriptor.
Lithotritist Dictionary L - noun A lithotriptist.
Lithotrity Dictionary L - noun The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.
Lithotype Dictionary L - noun A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy.
Lithotyped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lithotype.
Lithotyping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lithotype.
Lithotypic Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy.
Lithotypy Dictionary L - noun The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.
Lithoxyl Dictionary L - noun Petrified wood.
Lithuanian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).
Lithy Dictionary L - adjective Easily bent; pliable.
Litigable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be litigated.
Litigant Dictionary L - adjective Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.
Litigated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Litigate.
Litigating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Litigate.
Litigate Dictionary L - verb transitive To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.
Litigation Dictionary L - noun The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
Litigator Dictionary L - noun One who litigates.
Litigious Dictionary L - adjective Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.
Litigiously Dictionary L - adverb In a litigious manner.
Litigiousness Dictionary L - noun The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.
Litmus Dictionary L - noun 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.
Litotes Dictionary L - noun 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.
Litraneter Dictionary L - noun An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.
Litter Dictionary L - noun A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
Littered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Litter.
Littering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Litter.
Litterateur Dictionary L - noun One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.
Littery Dictionary L - adjective Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.
Little Dictionary L - adjective Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; - opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
Little-ease Dictionary L - noun An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.
Littleness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.
Littoral Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.
Littorina Dictionary L - noun A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.
Littress Dictionary L - noun A smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards.
Litate Dictionary L - adjective Forked, with the points slightly curved outward.
Lituiform Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a lituus; like a lituite.
Lituite Dictionary L - noun Any species of ammonites of the genus Lituites. They are found in the Cretaceous formation.
Liturate Dictionary L - adjective Having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.
Liturgic Dictionary L - Alt. of Liturgical.
Liturgical Dictionary L - Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship.
Liturgically Dictionary L - adverb In the manner of a liturgy.
Liturgics Dictionary L - noun The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies.
Liturgiologist Dictionary L - noun One versed in liturgiology.
Liturgiology Dictionary L - noun The science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies.
Liturgist Dictionary L - noun One who favors or adheres strictly to a liturgy.
Liturgies Dictionary L - pleural of Liturgy.
Liturgy Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Litui Dictionary L - pleural of Lituus.
Lituus Dictionary L - noun A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
Livable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be lived.
Lived Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Live.
Living Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Live.
Live Dictionary L - intransitive verb 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.
Live-forever Dictionary L - noun A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
Livelihed Dictionary L - noun See Livelihood.
Livelihood Dictionary L - noun Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.
Livelily Dictionary L - adverb In a lively manner.
Liveliness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
Livelode Dictionary L - noun Course of life; means of support; livelihood.
Livelong Dictionary L - adjective Whole; entire; long in passing; - used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
Lively Dictionary L - superlative Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
Liver Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lives.
Liver-colored Dictionary L - adjective Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.
Livered Dictionary L - adjective Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.
Liver-grown Dictionary L - adjective Having an enlarged liver.
Liveried Dictionary L - adjective Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3.
Livering Dictionary L - noun A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork.
Liverleaf Dictionary L - noun Same as Liverwort.
Liverwort Dictionary L - noun A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; - called also squirrel cups.
Liveries Dictionary L - pleural of Livery.
Livery Dictionary L - noun The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.
Liverymen Dictionary L - pleural of Liveryman.
Liveryman Dictionary L - noun One who wears a livery, as a servant.
Livery stable Dictionary L - A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).
Livid Dictionary L - adjective Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.
Lividity Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being livid.
Lividness Dictionary L - noun Lividity.
Livingly Dictionary L - adverb In a living state.
Livingness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
Livonian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.
Livinian Dictionary L - noun A native or an inhabitant of Livonia; the language (allied to the Finnish) of the Livonians.
Livor Dictionary L - noun Malignity.
Livraison Dictionary L - noun A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
Livre Dictionary L - noun A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.
Lixivial Dictionary L - adjective Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium.
Lixiviate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lixivited.
Lixivited Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
Lixiviated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lixiviate.
Lixiviating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lixiviate.
Lixiviation Dictionary L - noun Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.
Lixivious Dictionary L - adjective See Lixivial.
Lixivium Dictionary L - noun A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.
Lixt Dictionary L - 2d pers. sing. pres. of Lige, to lie, to tell lies, - contracted for ligest.
Liza Dictionary L - noun The American white mullet (Mugil curema).
Lizard Dictionary L - noun Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
Lizard's tail Dictionary L - A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name.
Llama Dictionary L - noun A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.
Llandeilo group Dictionary L - A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; - so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology.
Llanero Dictionary L - noun One of the inhabitants of the llanos of South America.
Llanos Dictionary L - pleural of Llano.
Llano Dictionary L - noun An extensive plain with or without vegetation.
Lloyd's Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lo Dictionary L - interjection Look; see; behold; observe.
Loach Dictionary L - noun Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.
Load Dictionary L - verb 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.
Loaded Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Load.
Loading Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Load.
Loader Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.
Loadmanage Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lodemanage.
Lodemanage Dictionary L - noun Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman.
Loadsman Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lodesman.
Lodesman Dictionary L - noun A pilot.
Loadstar Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lodestar.
Lodestar Dictionary L - noun A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.
Loadstone Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lodestone.
Lodestone Dictionary L - noun A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
Loaves Dictionary L - pleural of Loaf.
Loaf Dictionary L - noun Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
Loafed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loaf.
Loafing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loaf.
Loafer Dictionary L - noun One who loafs; a lazy lounger.
Loam Dictionary L - noun A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
Loamed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loam.
Loaming Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loam.
Loamy Dictionary L - adjective Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
Loan Dictionary L - noun A loanin.
Loaned Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loan.
Loaning Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loan.
Loanable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; - used mostly in financial business and writings.
Loanin Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Loaning.
Loanmonger Dictionary L - noun A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
Loath Dictionary L - adjective Hateful; odious; disliked.
Loathed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loathe.
Loathing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loathe.
Loathe Dictionary L - verb transitive To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
Loather Dictionary L - noun One who loathes.
Loathful Dictionary L - adjective Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
Loathingly Dictionary L - adverb With loathing.
Loathliness Dictionary L - noun Loathsomeness.
Loathly Dictionary L - adjective Loathsome.
Loathness Dictionary L - noun Unwillingness; reluctance.
Loathsome Dictionary L - adjective Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
Loathy Dictionary L - adjective Loathsome.
Lob Dictionary L - noun A dull, heavy person.
Lobbed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lob.
Lobbing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lob.
Lobar Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.
Lobate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lobated.
Lobated Dictionary L - adjective Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.
Lobately Dictionary L - adverb As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.
Lobbish Dictionary L - adjective Like a lob; consisting of lobs.
Lobbies Dictionary L - pleural of Lobby.
Lobby Dictionary L - noun A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
Lobbied Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lobby.
Lobbying Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lobby.
Lobbyist Dictionary L - noun A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.
Lobcock Dictionary L - noun A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob.
Lobe Dictionary L - noun Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
Lobed Dictionary L - adjective Having lobes; lobate.
Lobefoot Dictionary L - noun A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.
Lobe-footed Dictionary L - adjective Lobiped.
Lobelet Dictionary L - noun A small lobe; a lobule.
Lobelia Dictionary L - noun A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.
Lobeliaceous Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.
Lobelin Dictionary L - noun A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.
Lobeline Dictionary L - noun A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.
Lobiped Dictionary L - adjective Having lobate toes, as a coot.
Loblolly Dictionary L - noun Gruel; porridge; - so called among seamen.
Lobosa Dictionary L - noun plural An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.
Lobscouse Dictionary L - noun A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.
Lobsided Dictionary L - adjective See Lopsided.
Lobspound Dictionary L - noun A prison.
Lobster Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lobular Dictionary L - adjective Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.
Lobulate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lobulated.
Lobulated Dictionary L - adjective Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.
Lobule Dictionary L - noun A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
Lobulette Dictionary L - noun A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.
Lobworm Dictionary L - noun The lugworm.
Local Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
Locale Dictionary L - noun A place, spot, or location.
Localism Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.
Localitiees Dictionary L - pleural of Locality.
Locality Dictionary L - noun The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
Localization Dictionary L - noun Act of localizing, or state of being localized.
Localized Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Localize.
Localizing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Localize.
Localize Dictionary L - verb transitive To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
Locally Dictionary L - adverb With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.
Located Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Locate.
Locating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Locate.
Locate Dictionary L - verb transitive To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
Location Dictionary L - noun The act or process of locating.
Locative Dictionary L - adjective Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun.
Locator Dictionary L - noun One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
Locellate Dictionary L - adjective Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.
Loch Dictionary L - noun A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.
Lochaber ax Dictionary L - Alt. of Lochaber axe.
Lochaber axe Dictionary L - A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.
Lochage Dictionary L - noun An officer who commanded a company; a captain.
Lochan Dictionary L - noun A small lake; a pond.
Loche Dictionary L - noun See Loach.
Lochia Dictionary L - noun plural The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.
Lochial Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the lochia.
Lock Dictionary L - noun A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
Locked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lock.
Locking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lock.
Lockage Dictionary L - noun Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.
Lock-down Dictionary L - noun A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; - used by lumbermen.
Locked-jaw Dictionary L - noun See Lockjaw.
Locken Dictionary L - [[obs. past particle of Lock.
Locker Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, locks.
Locket Dictionary L - noun A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.
Lock hospital Dictionary L - A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
Lockjaw Dictionary L - noun A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.
Lockless Dictionary L - adjective Destitute of a lock.
Lockman Dictionary L - noun A public executioner.
Lockout Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lockram Dictionary L - noun A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany.
Locksmith Dictionary L - noun An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
Lock step Dictionary L - A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.
Lock stitch Dictionary L - A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.
Lockup Dictionary L - noun A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Lock-weir Dictionary L - noun A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
Locky Dictionary L - adjective Having locks or tufts.
Loco Dictionary L - adverb A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
Locofoco Dictionary L - noun A friction match.
Locomotion Dictionary L - noun The act of moving from place to place.
Locomotive Dictionary L - adjective Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
Locomotiveness Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Locomotivity.
Locomotivity Dictionary L - noun The power of changing place.
Locomotor Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
Loculament Dictionary L - noun The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
Locular Dictionary L - adjective Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
Loculate Dictionary L - adjective Divided into compartments.
Locule Dictionary L - noun A little hollow; a loculus.
Loculicidal Dictionary L - adjective Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; - said of capsules.
Loculose Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Loculous.
Loculous Dictionary L - adjective Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.
Loculi Dictionary L - pleural of Loculus.
Loculus Dictionary L - noun One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
Locum tenens Dictionary L - A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.
Loci Dictionary L - pleural of Locus.
Loca Dictionary L - pleural of Locus.
Locus Dictionary L - noun A place; a locality.
Locust Dictionary L - noun 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.
Locusta Dictionary L - noun The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.
Locustella Dictionary L - noun The European cricket warbler.
Locustic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; - formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
Locusting Dictionary L - particle adjective Swarming and devastating like locusts.
Locust tree Dictionary L - A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.
Locution Dictionary L - noun Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
Locutory Dictionary L - noun A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Lodde Dictionary L - noun The capelin.
Lode Dictionary L - noun A water course or way; a reach of water.
Lode-ship Dictionary L - noun An old name for a pilot boat.
Lodge Dictionary L - noun A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
Lodged Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lodge.
Lodging Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lodge.
Lodgeable Dictionary L - adjective That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.
Lodgement Dictionary L - noun See Lodgment.
Lodger Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
Lodgment Dictionary L - verb The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.
Lodicule Dictionary L - noun One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.
Loellingite Dictionary L - noun A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.
Loess Dictionary L - noun A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.
Loeven's larva Dictionary L - The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.
Loffe Dictionary L - intransitive verb To laugh.
Loft Dictionary L - noun That which is lifted up; an elevation.
Loftily Dictionary L - adverb In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.
Loftiness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lofty.
Lofty Dictionary L - superlative Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
Log Dictionary L - noun A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
Logged Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Log.
Logging Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Log.
Logan Dictionary L - noun A rocking or balanced stone.
Logaoedic Dictionary L - adjective Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.
Logarithm Dictionary L - noun One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.
Logarithmetic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Logarithmetical.
Logarithmetical Dictionary L - adjective See Logarithmic.
Logarithmetically Dictionary L - adverb Logarithmically.
Logarithmic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Logarithmical.
Logarithmical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.
Logarithmically Dictionary L - adverb By the use of logarithms.
Log-chip Dictionary L - noun A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; - called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2.
Logcock Dictionary L - noun The pileated woodpecker.
Loge Dictionary L - noun A lodge; a habitation.
Loggan Dictionary L - noun See Logan.
Loggat Dictionary L - noun A small log or piece of wood.
Logge Dictionary L - noun & verb See Lodge.
Logger Dictionary L - noun One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.
Loggerhead Dictionary L - noun A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
Loggerheaded Dictionary L - adjective Dull; stupid.
Loggerheads Dictionary L - noun The knapweed.
Loggia Dictionary L - noun A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.
Logic Dictionary L - noun The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.
Logical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.
Logicality Dictionary L - noun Logicalness.
Logically Dictionary L - adverb In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.
Logicalness Dictionary L - noun The quality of being logical.
Logician Dictionary L - noun A person skilled in logic.
Logics Dictionary L - noun See Logic.
Logistic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Logistical.
Logistical Dictionary L - adjective Logical.
Logistics Dictionary L - noun That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy.
Logmen Dictionary L - pleural of Logman.
Logman Dictionary L - noun A man who carries logs.
Logodaedaly Dictionary L - noun Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
Logogram Dictionary L - noun A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.
Logographer Dictionary L - noun A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.
Logographic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Logographical.
Logographical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to logography.
Logography Dictionary L - noun A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.
Logogriph Dictionary L - noun A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; - thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.
Logomachist Dictionary L - noun One who contends about words.
Logomachy Dictionary L - noun Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.
Logometric Dictionary L - adjective Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric.
Logos Dictionary L - noun A word; reason; speech.
Logothete Dictionary L - An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
Logotype Dictionary L - noun A single type, containing two or more letters; as, ae, Ae, /, /, /, etc. ; - called also ligature.
Logroll Dictionary L - verb intransitive & transitive To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.
Logroller Dictionary L - noun One who engages in logrolling.
Logrolling Dictionary L - noun The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
Log-ship Dictionary L - noun A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2.
Logwood Dictionary L - noun 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.
-logy Dictionary L - A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
Logy Dictionary L - adjective Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse.
Lohock Dictionary L - noun See Loch, a medicine.
Loimic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
Loin Dictionary L - noun 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.
Loir Dictionary L - noun A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).
Loitered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loiter.
Loitering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loiter.
Loiter Dictionary L - intransitive verb To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Loiterer Dictionary L - noun One who loiters; an idler.
Loiteringly Dictionary L - adverb In a loitering manner.
Lok Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Loki.
Loki Dictionary L - noun The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians.
Locao Dictionary L - noun A green vegetable dye imported from China.
Loke Dictionary L - noun A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.
Lokorys Dictionary L - noun Liquorice.
Loligo Dictionary L - noun A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.
Lolled Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loll.
Lolling Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loll.
Loll Dictionary L - intransitive verb To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
Lollard Dictionary L - noun One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
Lollardism Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lollardy.
Lollardy Dictionary L - noun The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.
Loller Dictionary L - noun One who lolls.
Lollingly Dictionary L - adverb In a lolling manner.
Lollipop Dictionary L - noun A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.
Lollop Dictionary L - intransitive verb To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.
Lomata Dictionary L - pleural of Loma.
Loma Dictionary L - noun A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.
Lomatinous Dictionary L - adjective Furnished with lobes or flaps.
Lombard Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
Lombardeer Dictionary L - noun A pawnbroker.
Lombard-house Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lombar-house.
Lombar-house Dictionary L - noun A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
Lombardic Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lombardy of the Lombards.
Loment Dictionary L - noun An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.
Lomentaceous Dictionary L - adjective Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.
Lomonite Dictionary L - noun Same as Laumontite.
Lompish Dictionary L - adjective Lumpish.
Lond Dictionary L - noun Land.
London Dictionary L - noun The capital city of England.
Londoner Dictionary L - noun A native or inhabitant of London.
Londonism Dictionary L - noun A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
Londonize Dictionary L - intransitive verb To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
Lone Dictionary L - noun A lane. See Loanin.
Loneliness Dictionary L - noun The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
Lonely Dictionary L - superlative Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.
Loneness Dictionary L - noun Solitude; seclusion.
Lonesome Dictionary L - superlative Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.
Long Dictionary L - superlative 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.
Longed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Long.
Longing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Long.
Longan Dictionary L - noun A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).
Longanimity Dictionary L - noun Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.
Long-armed Dictionary L - adjective Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.
Longbeak Dictionary L - noun The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); - called also long-billed dowitcher.
Longboat Dictionary L - noun Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.
Longbow Dictionary L - noun 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.
Long-breathed Dictionary L - adjective Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.
Long-drawn Dictionary L - adjective Extended to a great length.
Longe Dictionary L - noun A thrust. See Lunge.
Longer Dictionary L - noun One who longs for anything.
Longeval Dictionary L - adjective Long-loved; longevous.
Longevity Dictionary L - noun Long duration of life; length of life.
Longevous Dictionary L - adjective Living a long time; of great age.
Longhand Dictionary L - noun The written characters used in the common method of writing; - opposed to shorthand.
Longheaded Dictionary L - adjective Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
Longhorn Dictionary L - noun A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned.
Long-horned Dictionary L - adjective Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennae, as certain beetles (Longicornia).
Longicorn Dictionary L - adjective Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia.
Longicornia Dictionary L - noun plural A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.
Longilateral Dictionary L - adjective Having long sides especially, having the form of a long parallelogram.
Longiloquence Dictionary L - noun Long-windedness.
Longimanous Dictionary L - adjective Having long hands.
Longimetry Dictionary L - noun The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths.
Longingly Dictionary L - adverb With longing.
Longinquity Dictionary L - noun Greatness of distance; remoteness.
Longipalp Dictionary L - noun One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
Longipennate Dictionary L - adjective Having long wings, or quills.
Longipennes Dictionary L - noun plural A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.
Longipennine Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.
Longirostres Dictionary L - pleural of Longiroster.
Longirosters Dictionary L - pleural of Longiroster.
Longiroster Dictionary L - noun One of the Longirostres.
Longirostral Dictionary L - adjective Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.
Longish Dictionary L - adjective Somewhat long; moderately long.
Longitude Dictionary L - noun Length; measure or distance along the longest line; - distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.
Longitudinal Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
Longitudinally Dictionary L - adverb In the direction of length.
Longlegs Dictionary L - noun A daddy longlegs.
Long-lived Dictionary L - adjective Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.
Longly Dictionary L - adverb With longing desire.
Longmynd rocks Dictionary L - The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; - so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.
Longness Dictionary L - noun Length.
Longnose Dictionary L - noun The European garfish.
Long primer Dictionary L - A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
Longshanks Dictionary L - noun The stilt.
Longshore Dictionary L - adjective Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.
Longshoremen Dictionary L - pleural of Longshoreman.
Longshoreman Dictionary L - noun One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
Long-sight Dictionary L - noun Long-sightedness.
Long-sighted Dictionary L - adjective Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.
Long-sightedness Dictionary L - noun The state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness.
Longsome Dictionary L - adjective Extended in length; tiresome.
Longspun Dictionary L - adjective Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.
Longspur Dictionary L - noun Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.
Long-stop Dictionary L - noun One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
Long-sufferance Dictionary L - noun Forbearance to punish or resent.
Long-suffering Dictionary L - noun Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.
Longtail Dictionary L - noun An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog.
Long-tongue Dictionary L - noun The wryneck.
Long-tongued Dictionary L - adjective Having a long tongue.
Longulite Dictionary L - noun A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.
Long-waisted Dictionary L - adjective Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the armpits to the bottom of the waist; - said of persons.
Longways Dictionary L - adverb Lengthwise.
Long-winded Dictionary L - adjective Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker.
Longwise Dictionary L - adverb Lengthwise.
Loo Dictionary L - noun An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; - formerly called lanterloo.
Looed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loo.
Looing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loo.
Loob Dictionary L - noun The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.
Loobily Dictionary L - adjective Loobylike; awkward.
Loobies Dictionary L - pleural of Looby.
Looby Dictionary L - noun An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.
Looch Dictionary L - noun See 2d Loch.
Loof Dictionary L - noun The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa Aegyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.
Looked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Look.
Looking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Look.
Look Dictionary L - intransitive verb 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.
Lookdown Dictionary L - noun See Moonfish (b).
Looker Dictionary L - noun One who looks.
Looking-glass Dictionary L - noun A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.
Lookout Dictionary L - noun A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
Lool Dictionary L - noun A vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.
Loom Dictionary L - noun See Loon, the bird.
Loomed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loom.
Looming Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loom.
Loom-gale Dictionary L - noun A gentle gale of wind.
Loon Dictionary L - noun A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.
Loony Dictionary L - adjective See Luny.
Loop Dictionary L - noun A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.
Looped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loop.
Looping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loop.
Looper Dictionary L - noun An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.
Loophole Dictionary L - noun A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.
Loopholed Dictionary L - adjective Provided with loopholes.
Loopie Dictionary L - adjective Deceitful; cunning; sly.
Looplight Dictionary L - noun A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
Loord Dictionary L - noun A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.
Loos Dictionary L - noun Praise; fame; reputation.
Loose Dictionary L - superlative Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
Loosed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loose.
Loosing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loose.
Loosely Dictionary L - adverb In a loose manner.
Loosened Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loosen.
Loosening Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loosen.
Loosen Dictionary L - verb transitive 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.
Loosener Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, loosens.
Looseness Dictionary L - noun The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
Loosestrife Dictionary L - noun The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.
Loosish Dictionary L - adjective Somewhat loose.
Loot Dictionary L - noun The act of plundering.
Looted Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loot.
Looting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loot.
Looter Dictionary L - noun A plunderer.
Loover Dictionary L - noun See Louver.
Lop Dictionary L - noun A flea.
Lopped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lop.
Lopping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lop.
Lope Dictionary L - imperative of Leap.
Loped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lope.
Loping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lope.
Lopeared Dictionary L - adjective Having ears which lop or hang down.
Lopeman Dictionary L - noun Leaper; ropedancer.
Loper Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.
Lophine Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lophiomys Dictionary L - noun A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidae), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.
Lophobranch Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
Lophobranchiate Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
Lophobranchii Dictionary L - noun plural An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.
Lophophore Dictionary L - noun A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.
Lophopoda Dictionary L - noun plural Same as Phylactolemata.
Lophostea Dictionary L - pleural of Lophosteon.
Lophosteons Dictionary L - pleural of Lophosteon.
Lophosteon Dictionary L - noun The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.
Loppard Dictionary L - noun A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.
Lopper Dictionary L - noun One who lops or cuts off.
Loppered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lopper.
Loppering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lopper.
Loppy Dictionary L - adjective Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.
Lopseed Dictionary L - noun A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.
Lopsided Dictionary L - adjective Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.
Loquacious Dictionary L - adjective Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
Loquaciously Dictionary L - adverb In a loquacious manner.
Loquaciousness Dictionary L - noun Loquacity.
Loquacity Dictionary L - noun The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.
Loquat Dictionary L - noun 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.
Loral Dictionary L - noun Of or pertaining to the lores.
Lorate Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.
Lorcha Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lord Dictionary L - noun A hump-backed person; - so called sportively.
Lorded Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lord.
Lording Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lord.
Lordkin Dictionary L - noun A little lord.
Lordlike Dictionary L - adjective Befitting or like a lord; lordly.
Lordliness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lordly.
Lordling Dictionary L - noun A little or insignificant lord.
Lordly Dictionary L - superlative Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.
Lordolatry Dictionary L - noun Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such.
Lordosis Dictionary L - noun A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.
Lords and Ladies Dictionary L - The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), #NAME?.
Lordship Dictionary L - noun The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.
Lore Dictionary L - noun The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
Loreal Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Loral.
Lorel Dictionary L - noun A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond.
Loren Dictionary L - [[obs. strong past particle of Lose.
Loresman Dictionary L - noun An instructor.
Lorette Dictionary L - noun In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; - so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.
Lorettine Dictionary L - noun One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.
Lorgnette Dictionary L - noun An opera glass.
Lori Dictionary L - noun Same as Lory.
Loricae Dictionary L - pleural of Lorica.
Lorica Dictionary L - noun A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.
Loricata Dictionary L - noun plural A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.
Loricated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Loricate.
Loricating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Loricate.
Loricate Dictionary L - verb transitive To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.
Lorication Dictionary L - noun The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.
Lorikeet Dictionary L - noun Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.
Lorimer Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Loriner.
Loriner Dictionary L - noun A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.
Loring Dictionary L - noun Instructive discourse.
Loriot Dictionary L - noun The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole.
Loris Dictionary L - noun Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species.
Lorn Dictionary L - adjective Lost; undone; ruined.
Lorries Dictionary L - pleural of Lorry.
Lorrie Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lorry.
Lorry Dictionary L - noun A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
Lories Dictionary L - pleural of Lory.
Lory Dictionary L - noun Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidae, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.
Los Dictionary L - noun Praise. See Loos.
Losable Dictionary L - adjective Such as can be lost.
Losange Dictionary L - noun See Lozenge.
Losing Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lose.
Lose Dictionary L - verb transitive To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
Losel Dictionary L - noun One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel.
Losenger Dictionary L - noun A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.
Losengerie Dictionary L - noun Flattery; deceit; trickery.
Loser Dictionary L - noun One who loses.
Losingly Dictionary L - adverb In a manner to incur loss.
Loss Dictionary L - verb transitive The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
Lossful Dictionary L - adjective Detrimental.
Lossless Dictionary L - adjective Free from loss.
Lost Dictionary L - verb transitive Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.
Lot Dictionary L - noun That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
Lotted Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lot.
Lotting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lot.
Lote Dictionary L - noun 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.
Loth Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lothsome.
Lothly Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lothsome.
Lothsome Dictionary L - adjective See Loath, Loathly, etc.
Lothario Dictionary L - noun A gay seducer of women; a libertine.
Lotion Dictionary L - noun A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.
Loto Dictionary L - noun See Lotto.
Lotong Dictionary L - noun An East Indian monkey (Semnopithecus femoralis).
Lotophagi Dictionary L - noun plural A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.
Lotos Dictionary L - noun See Lotus.
Lotteries Dictionary L - pleural of Lottery.
Lottery Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lotto Dictionary L - noun A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.
Loture Dictionary L - noun See Lotion.
Lotus Dictionary L - noun A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.
Lotus-eater Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lotos-eater.
Lotos-eater Dictionary L - noun One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.
Louchettes Dictionary L - noun plural Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front.
Loud Dictionary L - superlative Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.
Loudful Dictionary L - adjective Noisy.
Loudly Dictionary L - adverb In a loud manner.
Loud-mouthed Dictionary L - adjective Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
Loudness Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being loud.
Loud-voiced Dictionary L - adjective Having a loud voice; noisy; clamorous.
Lough Dictionary L - noun A loch or lake; - so spelt in Ireland.
Louis d'or Dictionary L - Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; - first struck in 1640.
Lonis quatorze Dictionary L - Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the art or style of the times of Louis XIV. of France; as, Louis quatorze architecture.
Louk Dictionary L - noun An accomplice; a "pal.".
Lounged Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lounge.
Lounging Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lounge.
Lounge Dictionary L - adjective To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
Lounger Dictionary L - noun One who lounges; ar idler.
Loup Dictionary L - noun See 1st Loop.
Loup-cervier Dictionary L - noun The Canada lynx. See Lynx.
Loup-loup Dictionary L - noun The Pomeranian or Spitz dog.
Loups Dictionary L - noun plural The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.
Lour Dictionary L - noun An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
Louri Dictionary L - noun See Lory.
Louse Dictionary L - noun Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
Lousewort Dictionary L - noun Any species of Pedicularis, a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy.
Lousily Dictionary L - adverb In a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily.
Lousiness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lousy.
Lousy Dictionary L - adjective Infested with lice.
Lout Dictionary L - intransitive verb To bend; to box; to stoop.
Loutish Dictionary L - adjective Clownish; rude; awkward.
Loutou Dictionary L - noun A crested black monkey (Semnopithecus maurus) of Java.
Louver Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Louvre.
Louvre Dictionary L - noun A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a).
Lovable Dictionary L - adjective Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.
Lovage Dictionary L - noun An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.
Love Dictionary L - noun A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
Loved Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Love.
Loving Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Love.
Loveable Dictionary L - adjective See Lovable.
Love-drury Dictionary L - noun Affection.
Lovee Dictionary L - noun One who is loved.
Loveful Dictionary L - adjective Full of love.
Loveless Dictionary L - adjective Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.
Lovelily Dictionary L - adverb In manner to excite love; amiably.
Loveliness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lovely.
Lovelock Dictionary L - noun A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; - worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
Lovelorn Dictionary L - adjective Forsaken by one's love.
Lovely Dictionary L - superlative Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
Love-making Dictionary L - noun Courtship.
Lovemonger Dictionary L - noun One who deals in affairs of love.
Lover Dictionary L - noun One who loves; one who is in love; - usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.
Lovery Dictionary L - noun See Louver.
Loverwise Dictionary L - adverb As lovers do.
Love-sick Dictionary L - adjective Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid.
Love-sickness Dictionary L - noun The state of being love-sick.
Lovesome Dictionary L - adjective Lovely.
Loving-kindness Dictionary L - noun Tender regard; mercy; favor.
Lovingly Dictionary L - adverb With love; affectionately.
Lovingness Dictionary L - noun Affection; kind regard.
Lovyer Dictionary L - noun A lover.
Low Dictionary L - strong imp. of Laugh.
Lowed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Low.
Lowing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Low.
Lowbell Dictionary L - noun A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
Lowborn Dictionary L - adjective Born in a low condition or rank; - opposed to highborn.
Lowbred Dictionary L - adjective 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.
Low-church Dictionary L - adjective Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; - applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.
Low-churchism Dictionary L - noun The principles of the low-church party.
Low-churchman Dictionary L - noun One who holds low-church principles.
Low-churchmanship Dictionary L - noun The state of being a low-churchman.
Lower Dictionary L - adjective Compar. of Low, a.
Lowered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lower.
Lowering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lower.
Lower-case Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; - used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
Loweringly Dictionary L - adverb In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
Lowermost Dictionary L - superlative Lowest.
Lowery Dictionary L - adjective Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
Lowgh Dictionary L - Alt. of Lowh.
Lowh Dictionary L - strong imp. of Laugh.
Lowish Dictionary L - adjective Somewhat low.
Lowk Dictionary L - noun See Louk.
Lowland Dictionary L - noun Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; - opposed to highland.
Lowlander Dictionary L - noun A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.
Lowlihood Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lowlihead.
Lowlihead Dictionary L - noun A lowly state.
Lowlily Dictionary L - adverb In a lowly place or manner; humbly.
Lowliness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind.
Low-lived Dictionary L - adjective Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.
Lowly Dictionary L - adjective Not high; not elevated in place; low.
Low-minded Dictionary L - adjective Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.
Low-mindedness Dictionary L - noun The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.
Lown Dictionary L - noun A low fellow.
Low-necked Dictionary L - adjective Cut low in the neck; decollete; - said of a woman's dress.
Lowness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being low.
Low-pressure Dictionary L - adjective Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
Lowry Dictionary L - noun An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.
Low-spirited Dictionary L - adjective Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
Low-studded Dictionary L - adjective Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
Low-thoughted Dictionary L - adjective Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.
Loxodromic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.
Loxodromics Dictionary L - noun The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line.
Loxodremism Dictionary L - noun The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.
Loxodromy Dictionary L - noun The science of loxodromics.
Loy Dictionary L - noun A long, narrow spade for stony lands.
Loyal Dictionary L - adjective Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.
Loyalist Dictionary L - noun A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.
Loyally Dictionary L - adverb In a loyal manner; faithfully.
Loyalness Dictionary L - noun Loyalty.
Loyalty Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.
Lozenge Dictionary L - noun A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.
Lozenged Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lozenge-shaped.
Lozenge-shaped Dictionary L - adjective Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb.
Lozengy Dictionary L - adjective Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.
Lu Dictionary L - noun & transitive verb See Loo.
Lubbard Dictionary L - noun A lubber.
Lubber Dictionary L - noun A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
Lubberly Dictionary L - adjective Like a lubber; clumsy.
Lubric Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lubrical.
Lubrical Dictionary L - adjective Having a smooth surface; slippery.
Lubricant Dictionary L - adjective Lubricating.
Lubricate Dictionary L - verb transitive To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.
Lubrication Dictionary L - noun The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.
Lubricator Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lubricates.
Lubricitate Dictionary L - intransitive verb See Lubricate.
Lubricity Dictionary L - noun Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.
Lubricous Dictionary L - adjective Lubric.
Lubrification Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lubrifaction.
Lubrifaction Dictionary L - noun The act of lubricating, or making smooth.
Lucarne Dictionary L - noun A dormer window.
Lucchese Dictionary L - noun singular & plural A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.
Luce Dictionary L - noun A pike when full grown.
Lucency Dictionary L - noun The quality of being lucent.
Lucent Dictionary L - adjective Shining; bright; resplendent.
Lucern Dictionary L - noun A sort of hunting dog; - perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland.
Lucernal Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a lamp.
Lucernaria Dictionary L - noun A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.
Lucernarian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida.
lucernarida Dictionary L - noun plural A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - called also Calycozoa.
Lucerne Dictionary L - noun See Lucern, the plant.
Lucid Dictionary L - noun Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
Lucidity Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being lucid.
Lucidly Dictionary L - adverb In a lucid manner.
Lucidness Dictionary L - noun The quality of being lucid; lucidity.
Lucifer Dictionary L - noun The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; - applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.
Luciferian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.
Luciferous Dictionary L - adjective Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.
Luciferously Dictionary L - adverb In a luciferous manner.
Lucific Dictionary L - adjective Producing light.
Luciform Dictionary L - adjective Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light.
Lucifrian Dictionary L - adjective Luciferian; satanic.
Lucimeter Dictionary L - noun an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.
Luck Dictionary L - noun That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.
Luckily Dictionary L - adverb In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; - used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.
Luckiness Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.
Luckless Dictionary L - adjective Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
Lucky Dictionary L - superlative Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; - said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
Lucky proach Dictionary L - See Fatherlasher.
Lucrative Dictionary L - adjective Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
Lucratively Dictionary L - adverb In a lucrative manner.
Lucre Dictionary L - noun Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; - often in an ill sense.
Lucriferous Dictionary L - adjective Gainful; profitable.
Lucrific Dictionary L - adjective Producing profit; gainful.
Luctation Dictionary L - noun Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor.
Luctual Dictionary L - adjective Producing grief; saddening.
Lucubrated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lucubrate.
Lucubrate Dictionary L - noun To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.
Lucubration Dictionary L - noun The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.
Lucubrator Dictionary L - noun One who studies by night; also, one who produces lucubrations.
Lucubratory Dictionary L - adjective Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking.
Lucule Dictionary L - noun A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.
Luculent Dictionary L - adjective Lucid; clear; transparent.
Luculently Dictionary L - adverb In a luculent manner; clearly.
Lucullite Dictionary L - noun A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.
Lucuma Dictionary L - noun An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.
Luddite Dictionary L - noun One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; - so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
Ludibrious Dictionary L - adjective Sportive; ridiculous; wanton.
Ludibund Dictionary L - adjective Sportive.
Ludicrous Dictionary L - adjective Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
Ludification Dictionary L - noun The act of deriding.
Ludificatory Dictionary L - adjective Making sport; tending to excite derision.
Ludlamite Dictionary L - noun A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
Ludlow group Dictionary L - A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; - so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
Ludwigite Dictionary L - noun A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.
Lues Dictionary L - noun Disease, especially of a contagious kind.
Luff Dictionary L - noun The side of a ship toward the wind.
Luffed Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Luff.
Luffing Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Luff.
Luffer Dictionary L - noun See Louver.
Lug Dictionary L - noun The ear, or its lobe.
Lugged Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lug.
Lugging Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lug.
Luggage Dictionary L - noun That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.
Lugger Dictionary L - noun A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix.
Lugmark Dictionary L - noun A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.
Lugsail Dictionary L - noun A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.
Lugubrious Dictionary L - adjective Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Lugworm Dictionary L - noun 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.
Luke Dictionary L - adjective Moderately warm; not hot; tepid.
Lukewarm Dictionary L - adjective Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent.
Lulled Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lull.
Lulling Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lull.
Lull Dictionary L - verb transitive To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.
lullaby Dictionary L - verb transitive A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.
Luller Dictionary L - noun One who, or that which, lulls.
Lullingly Dictionary L - adverb In a lulling manner; soothingly.
Lum Dictionary L - noun A chimney.
Lumachel Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lumachella.
Lumachella Dictionary L - noun A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.
Lumbaginous Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to lumbago.
Lumbago Dictionary L - noun A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.
Lumbar Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lumbal.
Lumbal Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries.
Lumber Dictionary L - noun A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
Lumbered Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lumber.
Lumbering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lumber.
Lumberer Dictionary L - noun One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman.
Lumbermen Dictionary L - pleural of Lumberman.
Lumberman Dictionary L - noun One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
Lumbosacral Dictionary L - noun Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.
Lumbric Dictionary L - noun An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.
Lumbrical Dictionary L - adjective Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet.
Lumbriciform Dictionary L - adjective Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.
Lumbricoid Dictionary L - adjective Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricidae.
Lumbricus Dictionary L - noun A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm.
Luminant Dictionary L - adjective Luminous.
Luminaries Dictionary L - pleural of Luminary.
Luminary Dictionary L - noun Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.
Luminate Dictionary L - verb transitive To illuminate.
Lumination Dictionary L - noun Illumination.
Lumine Dictionary L - intransitive verb To illumine.
Luminiferous Dictionary L - adjective Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.
Luminosity Dictionary L - noun The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.
Luminous Dictionary L - adjective Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.
Lummox Dictionary L - noun A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
Lump Dictionary L - noun A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
Lumped Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lump.
Lumping Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lump.
Lumper Dictionary L - noun The European eelpout; - called also lumpen.
Lumpfish Dictionary L - noun A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.
Lumpish Dictionary L - adjective Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless.
Lumpsucker Dictionary L - noun The lumprish.
Lumpy Dictionary L - superlative Full of lumps, or small compact masses.
Luna Dictionary L - noun The moon.
Lunacies Dictionary L - pleural of Lunacy.
Lunacy Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lunar Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
Lunarian Dictionary L - noun An inhabitant of the moon.
Lunary Dictionary L - adjective Lunar.
Lunate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lunated.
Lunated Dictionary L - adjective Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross.
Lunatic Dictionary L - adjective Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.
Lunation Dictionary L - noun The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29/ to 29/ days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s.
Lunch Dictionary L - noun A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.
Lunched Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lunch.
Lunching Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lunch.
Luncheon Dictionary L - noun A lump of food.
Lune Dictionary L - noun Anything in the shape of a half moon.
Lunet Dictionary L - noun A little moon or satellite.
Lunette Dictionary L - noun A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
Lung Dictionary L - noun An organ for aerial respiration; - commonly in the plural.
Lunge Dictionary L - noun A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
Lunged Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lunge.
Lunging Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lunge.
Lungfish Dictionary L - noun Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; - so called because they have both lungs and gills.
Lung-grown Dictionary L - adjective Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.
Lungie Dictionary L - noun A guillemot.
Lungis Dictionary L - noun A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow.
Lungless Dictionary L - adjective Being without lungs.
Lungoor Dictionary L - noun A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India.
Lungworm Dictionary L - noun Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (S. filaria) are the best known.
Lungwort Dictionary L - noun An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (P. officinalis), of Europe; - so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung.
Lunicurrent Dictionary L - adjective Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases.
Luniform Dictionary L - adjective Resembling the moon in shape.
Lunisolar Dictionary L - adjective Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.
Lunistice Dictionary L - noun The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution.
Lunitidal Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon.
Lunt Dictionary L - noun The match cord formerly used in firing cannon.
Lunulae Dictionary L - pleural of Lunula.
Lunula Dictionary L - noun Same as Lunule.
Lunular Dictionary L - adjective Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.
Lunulate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lunulated.
Lunulated Dictionary L - adjective Resembling a small crescent.
Lunule Dictionary L - noun Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.
Lunulet Dictionary L - noun A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.
Lunulite Dictionary L - noun Any bryozoan of the genus Lunulites, having a more or less circular form.
Luny Dictionary L - adjective Crazy; mentally unsound.
Lupercal Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the Lupercalia.
Lupercalia Dictionary L - noun plural A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.
Lupine Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lupinin Dictionary L - noun A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.
Lupinine Dictionary L - noun An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, L. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance.
Lupulin Dictionary L - noun A bitter principle extracted from hops.
Lupuline Dictionary L - noun An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid.
Lupulinic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, hops; specifically, designating an acid obtained by the decomposition of lupulin.
Lupus Dictionary L - noun A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.
Lurcation Dictionary L - noun Gluttony; gormandizing.
Lurch Dictionary L - intransitive verb To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
Lurched Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lurch.
Lurching Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lurch.
Lurcher Dictionary L - noun One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.
Lurchline Dictionary L - noun The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.
Lurdan Dictionary L - adjective Stupid; blockish.
Lure Dictionary L - noun A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; - used by falconers in recalling hawks.
Lured Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lure.
Luring Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lure.
Lurg Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lurid Dictionary L - adjective Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
Lurked Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lurk.
Lurking Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lurk.
Lurk Dictionary L - intransitive verb To lie hid; to lie in wait.
Lurker Dictionary L - noun One who lurks.
Lurry Dictionary L - noun A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.
Luscious Dictionary L - adjective Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
Lusern Dictionary L - noun A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.
Lush Dictionary L - adjective Full of juice or succulence.
Lushburg Dictionary L - noun See Lussheburgh.
Lusitanian Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal.
Lusk Dictionary L - adjective Lazy; slothful.
Luskish Dictionary L - adjective Inclined to be lazy.
Lusorious Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lusory.
Lusory Dictionary L - adjective Used in play; sportive; playful.
Lussheburgh Dictionary L - noun A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called.
Lust Dictionary L - noun Pleasure.
Lusted Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lust.
Lusting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lust.
Luster Dictionary L - noun One who lusts.
Luster Lustre Dictionary L - noun A period of five years; a lustrum.
Lustre Dictionary L - noun Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.
Lustred Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lustre.
Lustering Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lustre.
Lustring Dictionary L - of Lustre.
Lusterless Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lustreless.
Lustreless Dictionary L - adjective Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
Lustful Dictionary L - adjective Full of lust; excited by lust.
Lustic Dictionary L - adjective Lusty; vigorous.
Lustihead Dictionary L - noun See Lustihood.
Lustihood Dictionary L - noun State of being lusty; vigor of body.
Lustily Dictionary L - adverb In a lusty or vigorous manner.
Lustiness Dictionary L - noun State of being lusty; vigor; strength.
Lustless Dictionary L - adjective Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.
Lustral Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.
Lustrated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lustrate.
Lustrating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lustrate.
Lustrate Dictionary L - verb transitive To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
Lustration Dictionary L - noun The act of lustrating or purifying.
Lustrical Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
Lustrous Dictionary L - adjective Bright; shining; luminous.
Lustrums Dictionary L - pleural of Lustrum.
Lustra Dictionary L - pleural of Lustrum.
Lustrum Dictionary L - noun 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.
Lustwort Dictionary L - noun See Sundew.
Lusty Dictionary L - superlative Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.
Lusus naturae Dictionary L - Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.
Lutanist Dictionary L - noun A person that plays on the lute.
Lutarious Dictionary L - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud.
Lutation Dictionary L - noun The act or method of luting vessels.
Lute Dictionary L - noun 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.
Luted Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lute.
Luting Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lute.
Lute-backed Dictionary L - adjective Having a curved spine.
Luteic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola).
Lutein Dictionary L - noun A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.
Lutenist Dictionary L - noun Same as Lutanist.
Luteo- Dictionary L - A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.
Luteocobaltic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic.
Luteolin Dictionary L - noun A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).
Luteous Dictionary L - adjective Yellowish; more or less like buff.
Luter Dictionary L - noun One who plays on a lute.
Lutescent Dictionary L - adjective Of a yellowish color.
Lutestring Dictionary L - noun A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
Luth Dictionary L - noun The leatherback.
Lutheran Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.
Lutheranism Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lutherism.
Lutherism Dictionary L - noun The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
Luthern Dictionary L - noun A dormer window. See Dormer.
Lutidine Dictionary L - noun Any one of several metameric alkaloids, C5H3N.(CH3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.
Lutist Dictionary L - noun One who plays on a lute.
Lutose Dictionary L - adjective Covered with clay; miry.
Lutulence Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being lutulent.
Lutulent Dictionary L - adjective Muddy; turbid; thick.
Luwack Dictionary L - noun See Paradoxure.
Lux Dictionary L - verb transitive To put out of joint; to luxate.
Luxate Dictionary L - adjective Luxated.
Luxated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Luxate.
Luxating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Luxate.
Luxation Dictionary L - noun The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
Luxe Dictionary L - noun Luxury.
Luxive Dictionary L - adjective Given to luxury; voluptuous.
Luxullianite Dictionary L - noun A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.
Luxuriance Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.
Luxuriancy Dictionary L - noun The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance.
Luxuriant Dictionary L - adjective Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.
Luxuriantly Dictionary L - adverb In a luxuriant manner.
Luxuriated Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Luxuriate.
Luxuriating Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Luxuriate.
Luxuriate Dictionary L - intransitive verb To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.
Luxuriation Dictionary L - noun The act or process luxuriating.
Luxuriety Dictionary L - noun Luxuriance.
Luxurious Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease.
Luxurist Dictionary L - noun One given to luxury.
Luxuries Dictionary L - pleural of Luxury.
Luxury Dictionary L - noun A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
Luz Dictionary L - noun A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.
-ly Dictionary L - adjective A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance.
Lyam Dictionary L - noun A leash.
Lycanthrope Dictionary L - noun A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.
Lycanthropia Dictionary L - noun See Lycanthropy, 2.
Lycanthropic Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to lycanthropy.
Lycanthropist Dictionary L - noun One affected by the disease lycanthropy.
Lycanthropous Dictionary L - adjective Lycanthropic.
Lycanthropy Dictionary L - noun The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.
Lyceums Dictionary L - pleural of Lyceum.
Lycea Dictionary L - pleural of Lyceum.
Lyceum Dictionary L - noun A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.
Lyche Dictionary L - adjective Like.
Lychee Dictionary L - noun See Litchi.
Lych gate Dictionary L - See under Lich.
Lychnis Dictionary L - noun A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.
Lychnobite Dictionary L - noun One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.
Lychnoscope Dictionary L - noun Same as Low side window, under Low, a.
Lycine Dictionary L - noun A weak base identical with betaine; - so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.
Lycoperdon Dictionary L - noun A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.
Lycopod Dictionary L - noun A plant of the genus Lycopodium.
Lycopode Dictionary L - noun Same as Lycopodium powder. See under Lycopodium.
Lycopodiaceous Dictionary L - adjective Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.
Lycopodite Dictionary L - noun An old name for a fossil club moss.
Lycopodium Dictionary L - noun A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceae; club moss.
Lycotropous Dictionary L - adjective Campylotropous.
Lyden Dictionary L - noun See Leden.
Lydian Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; - said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character.
Lydine Dictionary L - noun A violet dye derived from aniline.
Lye Dictionary L - noun A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
Lyencephala Dictionary L - noun plural A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; - so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.
Lyencephalous Dictionary L - adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.
Lyerman Dictionary L - noun The cicada.
Lygodium Dictionary L - noun A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.
Lying-in Dictionary L - noun The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.
Lyingly Dictionary L - adverb In a lying manner; falsely.
Lyken Dictionary L - verb transitive To please; - chiefly used impersonally.
Lym Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lymhound.
Lymhound Dictionary L - noun A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound.
Lymail Dictionary L - noun See Limaille.
Lyme grass Dictionary L - A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E. Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius.
Lymph Dictionary L - noun A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.
Lymphadenitis Dictionary L - noun Inflammation of the lymphatic glands; - called also lymphitis.
Lymphadenoma Dictionary L - noun See Lymphoma.
Lymphangeitis Dictionary L - noun Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
Lymphangial Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the lymphatics, or lymphoid tissue; lymphatic.
Lymphate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lymphated.
Lymphated Dictionary L - adjective Frightened into madness; raving.
Lymphatic Dictionary L - adjective pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
Lymphitis Dictionary L - noun See Lymphadenitis.
Lymphogenic Dictionary L - adjective Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands.
Lymphography Dictionary L - noun A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.
Lymphoid Dictionary L - adjective Resembling lymph; also, resembling a lymphatic gland; adenoid; as, lymphoid tissue.
Lymphoma Dictionary L - noun A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; - called also lymphadenoma.
Lymphy Dictionary L - adjective Containing, or like, lymph.
Lyn Dictionary L - noun A waterfall. See Lin.
Lyncean Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to the lynx.
Lynched Dictionary L - imperative & past particle of Lynch.
Lynching Dictionary L - past particle & verb noun of Lynch.
Lynch Dictionary L - verb transitive To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.
Lyncher Dictionary L - noun One who assists in lynching.
Lynch law Dictionary L - The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.
Lynde Dictionary L - noun Alt. of Lynden.
Lynden Dictionary L - noun See Linden.
Lyne Dictionary L - noun Linen.
Lynx Dictionary L - noun Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.
Lynx-eyed Dictionary L - adjective Having acute sight.
Lyonnaise Dictionary L - adjective Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
Lyopomata Dictionary L - noun plural An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are not articulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and allied forms.
Lyra Dictionary L - noun A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.
Lyraid Dictionary L - noun Same as Lyrid.
Lyrate Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lyrated.
Lyrated Dictionary L - adjective Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.
Lyre Dictionary L - noun A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
Lyre bird Dictionary L - Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.
Lyric Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lyrical.
Lyrical Dictionary L - adjective Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
Lyrically Dictionary L - adverb In a lyrical manner.
Lyricism Dictionary L - noun A lyric composition.
Lyrid Dictionary L - noun One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; - so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.
Lyrie Dictionary L - noun A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; - called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.
Lyriferous Dictionary L - adjective Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.
Lyrism Dictionary L - noun The act of playing on a lyre or harp.
Lyrist Dictionary L - noun A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.
Lysimeter Dictionary L - noun An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.
Lysis Dictionary L - noun The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.
Lyssa Dictionary L - noun Hydrophobia.
Lyterian Dictionary L - adjective Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.
Lythe Dictionary L - noun The European pollack; - called also laith, and leet.
Lythonthriptic Dictionary L - adjective Alt. of Lythontriptic.
Lythontriptic Dictionary L - adjective See Lithontriptic.
Lyttae Dictionary L - pleural of Lytta.
Lytta Dictionary L - noun A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.

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