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10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; — used in counting score at tennis, etc. He won the match by three sets to love. The Field.
Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in most of which the meaning is very obvious; as, love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked, love-taught, etc. A labor of love, a labor undertaken on account of regard for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself, without expectation of reward. — Free love, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See Free love. — Free lover, one who avows or practices free love. — In love, in the act of loving; — said esp. of the love of the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love. — Love apple (Bot.), the tomato. — Love bird (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small, short- tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus Agapornis, and allied genera. They are mostly from Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are celebrated for the affection which they show for their mates. — Love broker, a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. Shak. — Love charm, a charm for exciting love. Ld. Lytton. — Love child. an illegitimate child. Jane Austen. — Love day, a day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer. — Love drink, a love potion; a philter. Chaucer. — Love favor, something given to be worn in token of love. — Love feast, a religious festival, held quarterly by some religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists, in imitation of the agapæ of the early Christians. — Love feat, the gallant act of a lover. Shak. — Love game, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished person or party does not score a point. — Love grass. Etym: [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus Eragrostis. — Love-in-a-mist. (Bot.) (a) An herb of the Buttercup family (Nigella Damascena) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts. (b) The West Indian Passiflora foetida, which has similar bracts. — Love-in-idleness (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy. A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness. Shak. — Love juice, juice of a plant supposed to produce love. Shak. — Love knot, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; — so called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection. Milman. — Love lass, a sweetheart. — Love letter, a letter of courtship. Shak. — Love-lies-bleeding (Bot.), a species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). — Love match, a marriage brought about by love alone. — Love potion, a compounded draught intended to excite love, or venereal desire. — Love rites, sexual intercourse. Pope — Love scene, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the stage. — Love suit, courtship. Shak. — Of all loves, for the sake of all love; by all means. [Obs.] "Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again." Holinshed. — The god of love, or Love god, Cupid. — To make love to, to express affection for; to woo. "If you will marry, make your loves to me." Shak. — To play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes. "A game at piquet for love." Lamb.
Syn.
— Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight.
LOVE Love, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loved; p. pr. & vb. n. Loving.] Etym: [AS. lufian. Love, n.]
1. To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matt. xxii. 37. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. Matt. xxii. 39.
2. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
3. To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures. Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved. Cowley.
LOVE
Love, v. i.
Defn: To have the feeling of love; to be in love.
LOVEABLE
Love"a*ble, a.
Defn: See Lovable.
LOVE-DRURY
Love"-*dru`ry, n. Etym: [Love + OF. druerie. Cf. Druery.]
Defn: Affection. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LOVEE
Lov*ee", n.
Defn: One who is loved. [Humorous] "The lover and lovee." Richardson.
LOVEFUL
Love"ful, a.
Defn: Full of love. [Obs.] Sylvester.
LOVELESS
Love"less, a.
1. Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness. Milton. Shelton.
2. Not attracting love; unattractive. These are ill-favored to see to; and yet, asloveless as they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues. Holland.
LOVELILY
Love"li*ly, adv. Etym: [From Lovely.]
Defn: In manner to excite love; amiably. [R.] Otway.
LOVELINESS
Love"li*ness, n. Etym: [From Lovely.]
Defn: The state or quality of being lovely. If there is such a native loveliness in the sex as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! Spectator.
LOVELOCK
Love"lock`, n.
Defn: A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock;
— worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
Burton.
A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.
LOVELORN
Love"lorn`, a.
Defn: Forsaken by one's love.
The lovelorn nightingale. Milton.
LOVELY Love"ly, a. [Compar. Lovelier; superl. Loveliest.] Etym: [AS. luflic.]
1. Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. "Lovely to look on." Piers Plowman. Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely. Robert of Brunne. If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers. Shak.
2. Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship. A most lovely gentlemanlike man. Shak.
3. Loving; tender. [Obs.] "A lovely kiss." Shak. Many a lovely look on them he cast. Chaucer.
4. Very pleasing; — applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody. Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns. Tennyson.
Syn. — Beautiful; charming; delightful; delectable; enchanting; lovable; amiable.
LOVELY
Love"ly, adv.
Defn: In a manner to please, or to excite love. [Obs. or R.] Tyndale.
LOVE-MAKING
Love"-mak`ing, n.
Defn: Courtship. Bacon.
LOVEMONGER
Love"mon`ger, n.
Defn: One who deals in affairs of love.[Obs.] Shak.
LOVER
Lov"er, n.
1. One who loves; one who is in love; — usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. Gower. Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak.
2. A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country. I slew my best lover for the good of Rome. Shak.
3. One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music. "A lover of knowledge." T. Burnet.
LOVER; LOVERY
Lo"ver, Lo"ver*y, n.
Defn: See Louver. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
LOVERWISE
Lo"ver*wise`, adv.
Defn: As lovers do.
As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
LOVE-SICK
Love"-sick`, a.
1. Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden.
2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden.
LOVE-SICKNESS
Love"-sick`ness, n.
Defn: The state of being love-sick.
LOVESOME
Love"some, a. Etym: [AS. lufsum.]
Defn: Lovely. [Obs.]
LOVING
Lov"ing, a.
1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson.
2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
LOVING CUP
Lov"ing cup`.
Defn: A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.
LOVING-KINDNESS
Lov"ing-kind"ness, n.
Defn: Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.
LOVINGLY
Lov"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: With love; affectionately.
LOVINGNESS
Lov"ing*ness, n.
Defn: Affection; kind regard.
The only two bands of good will, loveliness and lovingness. Sir. P.
Sidney.
LOVYER
Lov"yer, n.
Defn: A lover. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LOW
Low, obs
Defn: , strong imp. of Laugh. Chaucer.
LOW Low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lowing.] Etym: [OE. lowen, AS. hl; akin to D. loeijen, OHG. hl, hluojan.]
Defn: To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to
moo.
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.
LOW
Low, n.
Defn: The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine
animals.
Talking voices and the law of herds. Wordsworth.
LOW Low, n. Etym: [AS. hlaw; akin to Goth. hlaiw a grave, hlains a hill, and to E. lean to incline.]
Defn: A hill; a mound; a grave. [Obs. except in place names.] Skeat.
LOW
Low, n. Etym: [Icel. log, logi; akin to E. light, n.]
Defn: Fire; a flame; a light. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
LOW
Low, v. i.
Defn: To burn; to blaze. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.
LOW
Low, a. [Compar. Lower; superl. Lowest.] Etym: [OE. low, louh, lah,
Icel. lagr; akin to Sw. låg, Dan. lav, D. laag, and E. lie. See Lie
to be prostrate.]
1. Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.
2. Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.
3. Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.
4. Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.
5. Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.
6. Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.
7. (Mus.)
Defn: Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.
8. (Phon.)
Defn: Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, . See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 5, 10, 11.
9. Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.
10. Numerically small; as, a low number.
11. Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.
12. Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes. Why but to keep ye low and ignorant Milton.
13. Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.
14. Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison. In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull. Felton.
15. Submissive; humble. "Low reverence." Milton.
16. Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
17. Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.
18. Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.
19. Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.
Note: Low is often used in the formation of compounds which require no special explanation; as, low-arched, low- browed, low-crowned, low-heeled, low-lying, low-priced, low-roofed, low-toned, low-voiced, and the like. Low Church. See High Church, under High. — Low Countries, the Netherlands. — Low German, Low Latin, etc. See under German, Latin, etc. — Low life, humble life. — Low milling, a process of making flour from grain by a single grinding and by siftings. — Low relief. See Bas-relief. — Low side window (Arch.), a peculiar form of window common in mediæval churches, and of uncertain use. Windows of this sort are narrow, near the ground, and out of the line of the windows, and in many different situations in the building. — Low spirits, despondency. — Low steam, steam having a low pressure. — Low steel, steel which contains only a small proportion of carbon, and can not be hardened greatly by sudden cooling. — Low Sunday, the Sunday next after Easter; — popularly so called. — Low tide, the farthest ebb of the tide; the tide at its lowest point; low water. — Low water. (a) The lowest point of the ebb tide; a low stage of the in a river, lake, etc. (b) (Steam Boiler) The condition of an insufficient quantity of water in the boiler. — Low water alarm or indicator (Steam Boiler), a contrivance of various forms attached to a boiler for giving warning when the water is low. — Low water mark, that part of the shore to which the waters recede when the tide is the lowest. Bouvier. — Low wine, a liquor containing about 20 percent of alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still; — often in the plural.
LOW
Low, n. (Card Playing)
Defn: The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
LOW
Low, adv.
1. In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.
2. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.
3. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
4. In time approaching our own. In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds. Locke.
5. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.
Addison.
The . . . odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the moon.
Tennyson.
6. With a low musical pitch or tone. Can sing both high and low. Shak.
7. In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice. Spenser.
8. (Astron.)
Defn: In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; — said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
LOW
Low, v. t.
Defn: To depress; to lower. [Obs.] Swift.
LOWBELL
Low"bell`, n. Etym: [Low a flame + bell.]
1. A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net. The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep. King.
2. A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep. A lowbell hung about a sheep's . . . neck. Howell.
LOWBELL
Low"bell`, v. t.
Defn: To frighten, as with a lowbell.
LOWBORN
Low"born`, a.
Defn: Born in a low condition or rank; — opposed to highborn.
LOWBOY
Low"boy`, n.
Defn: A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; — applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. [U. S.]
LOWBRED
Low"bred`, a.
Defn: 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
Low"-church`, a.
Defn: 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
Low"-church`ism, n.
Defn: The principles of the low-church party.
LOW-CHURCHMAN
Low"-church`man, n.; pl. -men (.
Defn: One who holds low-church principles.
LOW-CHURCHMANSHIP
Low"-church`man*ship, n.
Defn: The state of being a low-churchman.
LOWER
Low"er, a.
Defn: Compar. of Low, a.
LOWER
Low"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lowered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lowering.] Etym:
[From Low, a.]
1. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag. Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave. Tennyson.
2. To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
3. To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
4. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
5. To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
6. To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
LOWER
Low"er, v. i.
Defn: To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
LOWER
Low"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lowered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lowering.] Etym:
[OE. lowren, luren; cf. D. loeren, LG. luren. G. lauern to lurk, to
be on the watch, and E. leer, lurk.]
1. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. All the clouds that lowered upon our house. Shak.
2. To frown; to look sullen. But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. Dryden.
LOWER
Low"er, n. [Obs.]
1. Cloudiness; gloominess.
2. A frowning; sullenness.
LOWER-CASE
Low"er-case`, a. (Print.)
Defn: 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.
LOWERING
Low"er*ing, a.
Defn: Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
LOWERINGLY
Low"er*ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
LOWERMOST Low"er*most`, a. [Irreg. superl. of Low. Cf. Uppermost, Foremost, etc.]
Defn: Lowest.
LOWERY
Low"er*y, a.
Defn: Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
LOWGH; LOWH
Lowgh, Lowh, obs.
Defn: strong imp. of Laugh. Etym: [Cf. 1st Low and 2d Lough.]
Chaucer.
LOWING
Low"ing, n.
Defn: The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.
LOWISH
Low"ish, a.
Defn: Somewhat low. [Colloq.] Richardson.
LOWK
Lowk, n.
Defn: See Louk. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LOWLAND
Low"land, n.
Defn: Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; — opposed to highland. The Lowlands, Belgium and Holland; the Netherlands; also, the southern part of Scotland.
LOWLANDER
Low"land*er, n.
Defn: A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the
Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.
LOWLIHOOD; LOWLIHEAD
Low"li*hood, Low"li*head, n.
Defn: A lowly state. [R.] Tennyson.
LOWLILY
Low"li*ly, adv.
Defn: In a lowly place or manner; humbly. [Obs. or R.]
Thinking lowlily of himself and highly of those better than himself.
J. C. Shairp.
LOWLINESS
Low"li*ness, n. Etym: [From Lowly.]
1. The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind. Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. Eph. iv. 1, 2.
2. Low condition, especially as to manner of life. The lowliness of my fortune has not brought me to flatter vice. Dryden.
LOW-LIVED
Low"-lived`, a.
Defn: Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.
LOWLY Low"ly, a. [Compar. Lowlier; superl. Lowliest.] Etym: [Low, a. + - ly.]
1. Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands." Dryden.
2. Low in rank or social importance. One common right the great and lowly claims. Pope.
3. Not lofty or sublime; humble. These rural poems, and their lowly strain. Dryden.
4. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Matt. xi. 29.
LOWLY
Low"ly, adv.
1. In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly. "Be lowly wise." Milton.
2. In a low condition; meanly. I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught. Shak.
LOW-MINDED
Low"-mind`ed, a.
Defn: Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base
mind.
Low-minded and immoral. Macaulay.
All old religious jealousies were condemned as low-minded
infirmities. Bancroft.
LOW-MINDEDNESS
Low"-mind`ed*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.
LOWN
Lown, n. Etym: [See Loon.]
Defn: A low fellow. [Obs.]
LOW-NECKED
Low"-necked`, a.
Defn: Cut low in the neck; decollete; — said of a woman's dress.
LOWNESS
Low"ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being low.
LOW-PRESSURE
Low"-pres`sure, a.
Defn: Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure. Low- pressure steam engine, a steam engine in which low steam is used; often applied to a condensing engine even when steam at high pressure is used. See Steam engine.
LOWRY
Low"ry, n.
Defn: An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.
LOW-SPIRITED
Low"-spir`it*ed, a.
Defn: Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not
sprightly.
— Low"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
LOW STEEL
Low steel.
Defn: See under Low.
LOW-STUDDED
Low"-stud`ded, a.
Defn: Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
LOW-THOUGHTED
Low"-thought`ed, a.
Defn: Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.
LOXODROMIC
Lox`o*drom"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. loxodromique.]
Defn: Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. Loxodromic curve or line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass.
LOXODROMICS
Lox`o*drom"ics, n.
Defn: The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line.
LOXODROMISM
Lox*od"ro*mism, n.
Defn: The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.
LOXODROMY
Lox*od"ro*my, n. Etym: [Cf. F. loxodromic.]
Defn: The science of loxodromics. [R.]
LOY
Loy, n.
Defn: A long, narrow spade for stony lands.
LOYAL Loy"al, a. Etym: [F. loyal, OF. loial, leial, L. legalis, fr. lex, legis, law. See Legal, and cf. Leal.]
1. 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. Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms -To help King Edward in his time of storm, As every loyal subject ought to do. Shak.
2. True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle. Your true and loyal wife. Shak. Unhappy both, but loyaltheir loves. Dryden.
LOYALIST
Loy"al*ist, n.
Defn: 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
Loy"al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a loyal manner; faithfully.
LOYALNESS
Loy"al*ness, n.
Defn: Loyalty. [R.] Stow.
LOYALTY
Loy"al*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. loyaute. See Loyal, and cf. Legality.]
Defn: The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or
to duty, love, etc.
He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon.
Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his
love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved. Spenser.
Note: "Loyalty . . . expresses, properly, that fidelity which one owes according to law, and does not necessarily include that attachment to the royal person, which, happily, we in England have been able further to throw into the word." Trench.
Syn.
— Allegiance; fealty. See Allegiance.
LOZENGE
Loz"enge, n. Etym: [F. lozange, losange; perh. the same as OF.
losengef flattery, praise, the heraldic sense being the oldest (cf.
E. hatchment, blazon). Cf. Losenger, Laudable.]
1. (Her.) (a) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil. (b) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
2. A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
3. Anything in the form of lozenge.
4. A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. — originally in the form of a lozenge. Lozenge coach, the coach of a dowager, having her coat of arms painted on a lozenge. [Obs.] Walpole. — Lozenge-molding (Arch.), a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments.
LOZENGED; LOZENGE-SHAPED
Loz"enged, Loz"enge-shaped`, a.
Defn: Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb.
The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.
LOZENGY
Loz"en*gy, a. Etym: [F. losangé. See Lozenge.] (Her.)
Defn: Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.
LU
Lu, n. & v. t.
Defn: See Loo.
LUBBARD
Lub"bard, n. Etym: [See Lubber.]
Defn: A lubber. [Obs.] Swift.
LUBBARD
Lub"bard, a.
Defn: Lubberly.
LUBBER
Lub"ber, n. Etym: [Cf. dial. Sw. lubber. See Looby, Lob.]
Defn: A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. — Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romalea microptera, which is injurious to orange trees in Florida. — Lubber's hole (Naut.), a hole in the floor of the "top," next the mast, through which sailors may go aloft without going over the rim by the futtock shrouds. It is considered by seamen as only fit to be used by lubbers. Totten. — Lubber's line, point, or mark, a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering.
LUBBERLY
Lub"ber*ly, a.
Defn: Like a lubber; clumsy.
A great lubberly boy. Shak.
LUBBERLY
Lub"ber*ly, adv.
Defn: Clumsily; awkwardly. Dryden.
LUBRIC; LUBRICAL
Lu"bric, Lu"bric*al, a. Etym: [L. lubricus: cf. F. lubrique.]
1. Having a smooth surface; slippery. [R.]
2. Lascivious; wanton; lewd. [R.] This lubric and adulterate age. Dryden.
LUBRICANT
Lu"bri*cant, a. Etym: [L. lubricans, p. pr. of lubricare, See
Lubricate.]
Defn: Lubricating.
LUBRICANT
Lu"bri*cant, n.
Defn: That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.
LUBRICATE Lu"bri*cate, v. t. Etym: [L. lubricatus, p. p. of lubricare to lubricate. See Lubric.]
1. To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.
2. To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.
LUBRICATION
Lu`bri*ca"tion, n.
Defn: The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.
LUBRICATOR
Lu"bri*ca`tor, n.
1. One who, or that which, lubricates. " Lubricator of the fibers." Burke.
2. A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.
LUBRICITATE
Lu*bric"i*tate, v. i.
Defn: See Lubricate.
LUBRICITY
Lu*bric"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. lubricitas: cf. F. lubricité.]
1. Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray.
2. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.
3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.
LUBRICOUS
Lu"bri*cous, a. Etym: [L. lubricus.]
Defn: Lubric.
LUBRIFICATION; LUBRIFACTION Lu`bri*fi*ca"tion, Lu`bri*fac"tion, n. Etym: [L. lubricus lubric + facere to make.]
Defn: The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray. Bacon.
LUCARNE
Lu`carne", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. lucerna a lamp. See Luthern.] (Arch.)
Defn: A dormer window.
LUCCHESE
Luc*chese", n. sing. & pl. Etym: [It. Lucchese.]
Defn: A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.
LUCE
Luce, n. Etym: [OF. lus, L. lucius a kind of fish.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A pike when full grown. Halliwell.
LUCENCY
Lu"cen*cy, n.
Defn: The quality of being lucent.
LUCENT Lu"cent, a. Etym: [L. lucens, p. pr. of lucere to shine, fr. lux, lucis, light.]
Defn: Shining; bright; resplendent. " The sun's lucent orb." Milton.
LUCERN
Lu"cern, n. Etym: [Etymology uncertain.] [Obs.]
1. A sort of hunting dog; — perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine. Chapman.
2. An animal whose fur was formerly much in req [Written also lusern
and luzern.]
The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase.
Beau. & Fl.
LUCERN
Lu"cern, n. Etym: [F. luzerne.] (Bot.)
Defn: A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; — called also alfalfa. [Written also lucerne.]
LUCERN
Lu"cern, n. Etym: [L. lucerna.]
Defn: A lamp. [Obs.] Lydgate.
LUCERNAL
Lu*cer"nal, a. Etym: [L. lucerna a lamp.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a lamp. Lucernal microscope, a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.
LUCERNARIA
Lu`cer*na"ri*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. lucerna a lamp.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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
Lu`cer*na"ri*an, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida.
— n.
Defn: One of the Lucernarida.
LUCERNARIDA lu`cer*nar"i*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Lucernaria.] (Zoöl.) (a) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa. (b) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.
LUCERNE
Lu"cerne, n. (Bot.)
Defn: See Lucern, the plant.
LUCID
Lu"cid, a. Etym: [L. lucidus, fr. lux, lucis, light. See Light, n.]
1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven. Lucid, like a glowworm. Sir I. Newton. A court compact of lucid marbles. Tennyson.
2. Clear; transparent. " Lucid streams." Milton.
3. Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear. A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate. Macaulay.
4. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
Syn.
— Luminous; bright; clear; transparent; sane; reasonable. See
Luminous.
LUCIDITY
Lu*cid"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. lucidité. See Lucid.]
Defn: The quality or state of being lucid.
LUCIDLY
Lu"cid*ly, adv.
Defn: In a lucid manner.
LUCIDNESS
Lu"cid*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being lucid; lucidity.
LUCIFER Lu"ci*fer, n. Etym: [L., bringing light, n., the morning star, fr. lux, lucis, light + ferre to bring.]
1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; — applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations ! Is. xiv. 12. Tertullian and Gregory the Great understood this passage of Isaiah in reference to the fall of Satan; in consequence of which the name Lucifer has since been applied to, Satan. Kitto.
2. Hence, Satan.
How wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! . . .
When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. Shak.
3. A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; — called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco.
4. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.
LUCIFERIAN
Lu`ci*fe"ri*an, a.
1. Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.
2. Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader.
LUCIFERIAN
Lu`ci*fe"ri*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.
LUCIFEROUS
Lu*cif"er*ous, a. Etym: [See Lucifer.]
Defn: Giving light; affording light or means of discovery. Boyle.
LUCIFEROUSLY
Lu*cif"er*ous*ly, adv.
Defn: In a luciferous manner.
LUCIFIC Lu*cif"ic, a. Etym: [L. lucificus; lux, lucis, light + facere to make.]
Defn: Producing light. Grew.
LUCIFORM
Lu"ci*form, a. Etym: [L. lux, lucis, light = -form.]
Defn: Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light. Berkeley.
LUCIFRIAN
Lu*cif"ri*an, a.
Defn: Luciferian; satanic. [Obs.] Marston.
LUCIMETER
Lu*cim"e*ter, n. Etym: [L. lux, lucis, light + -meter.]
Defn: an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.
LUCK Luck, n. Etym: [Akin to D. luk, geluk, G. glück, Icel. lukka, Sw. lycka, Dan. lykke, and perh. to G. locken to entice. Cf. 3d Gleck.]
Defn: 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. If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds. Shak. Luck penny, a small sum given back for luck to one who pays money. [Prov. Eng.] — To be is luck, to receive some good, or to meet with some success, in an unexpected manner, or as the result of circumstances beyond one's control; to be fortunate.
LUCKILY
Luck"i*ly, adv. Etym: [From Lucky.]
Defn: In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; — used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.
LUCKINESS
Luck"i*ness, n.
1. The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.
2. Good fortune; favorable issue or event. Locke.
LUCKLESS
Luck"less, a.
Defn: Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting
with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless
maid.
Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. Dryden.
— Luck"less*ly, adv.
— Lock"less*ness, n.
LUCKY
Luck"y, a. [Compar. Luckier; superl. Luckiest.]
1. Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; — said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer. " Lucky wight." Spenser.
2. Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour. We doubt not of a fair and lucky war. Shak.
Syn.
— Successful; fortunate; prosperous; auspicious.
LUCKY PROACH
Luck`y proach". (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Fatherlasher.
LUCRATIVE Lu"cra*tive, a. Etym: [L. lucrativus, fr. lucrari to gain, fr. lucrum gain: cf. F. lucratif. See Lucre.]
1. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon.
2. Greedy of gain [Obs.]
Such diligence as the most part of our lucrative lawyers do use, in
deferring and prolonging of matters and actions from term to term.
Latimer.
LUCRATIVELY
Lu"cra*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In a lucrative manner.
LUCRE
Lu"cre, n. Etym: [F. lucre, L. lucrum.]
Defn: Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; — often in an ill
sense.
The lust of lucre and the dread of death. Pope.
LUCRIFEROUS
Lu*crif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. lucrum gain +-ferous.]
Defn: Gainful; profitable. [Obs.] Boyle.
LUCRIFIC
Lu*crif"ic, a. Etym: [L. lucrificus; lucrum gain + facere to make.]
Defn: Producing profit; gainful. [Obs.]
LUCTATION
Luc*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. luctatio, fr. luctari to wrestle, strive.]
Defn: Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor. [R.]
Farindon.
LUCTUAL Luc"tu*al, a. Etym: [L. luctus mourning, sorrow, fr. lugere, fr. luctum, to mourn.]
Defn: Producing grief; saddening. [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.
LUCUBRATE
Lu"cu*brate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lucubrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lucubrated.] Etym: [L. lucubratus, p. p. of lucubrare to work by
lamplight, fr. lux light. See Light, n.]
Defn: To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.
LUCUBRATE
Lu"cu*brate, v. t.
Defn: To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.
LUCUBRATION
Lu`cu*bra"tion, n. Etym: [l. lucubratio;cf. F. lucubration.]
1. The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith.
2. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition. Thy lucubrations have been perused by several of our friends. Tatler.
LUCUBRATOR
Lu"cu*bra`tor, n.
Defn: One who studies by night; also, one who produces lucubrations.
LUCUBRATORY
Lu"cu*bra*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. lucubratorius.]
Defn: Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking. Pope.
LUCULE
Lu"cule, n. Etym: [Dim. fr. L. lux, lucis, light.] (Astron.)
Defn: A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.
LUCULENT
Lu"cu*lent, a. Etym: [L. luculentus, from lux, lucis, light.]
1. Lucid; clear; transparent. Thomson.
2. Clear; evident; luminous. " Most luculent testimonies." Hooker.
3. Bright; shining in beauty. [Obs.] Most debonair and luculent lady. B. Jonson.
LUCULENTLY
Lu"cu*lent*ly, adv.
Defn: In a luculent manner; clearly.
LUCULLITE Lu*cul"lite, n. Etym: [From Lucullus, a Roman consul, famous for his great wealth and luxury: cf. F. lucullite.] (Min.)
Defn: A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.
LUCUMA
Lu*cu"ma, n. (Bot.)
Defn: An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.
Note: Lucuma mammosum is called natural marmalade in the West Indies; L. Caimito, of Peru, furnishes a delicious fruit called lucuma and caimito.
LUDDITE
Lud"dite, n.
Defn: 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. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.
LUDIBRIOUS Lu*dib"ri*ous, a. Etym: [L. ludibrium mockery, derision, from ludere to play, sport.]
Defn: Sportive; ridiculous; wanton. [Obs.] Tooker.
LUDIBUND
Lu"di*bund, a. Etym: [L. ludibundus.]
Defn: Sportive. [Obs.] — Lu"di*bund*ness, n. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
LUDICROUS Lu"di*crous, a. Etym: [L. ludicrus, or ludicer, from ludus play, sport, fr. ludere to play.]
Defn: Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive. Broome. A chapter upon German rhetoric would be in the same ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland — there are none. De Quincey.
Syn.
— Laughable; sportive; burlesque; comic; droll; ridiculous.
— Ludicrous, Laughable, Ridiculous. We speak of a thing as
ludicrous when it tends to produce laughter; as laughable when the
impression is somewhat stronger; as ridiculous when more or less
contempt is mingled with the merriment created.
— Lu"di*crous*ly, adv.
— Lu"di*crous*ness, n.
LUDIFICATION Lu`di*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. ludificatio, fr. ludificare to make sport of; ludus sport + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]
Defn: The act of deriding.
LUDIFICATORY
Lu*dif"i*ca*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. ludificatorius.]
Defn: Making sport; tending to excite derision. [Obs.]
LUDLAMITE
Lud"lam*ite, n. Etym: [Named after Mr. Ludlam, of London.] (Min.)
Defn: A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
LUDLOW GROUP
Lud"low group`. (Geol.)
Defn: 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
Lud"wig*ite, n. Etym: [Named after the chemist Ludwig.] (Min.)
Defn: A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.
LUES
Lu"es, n. Etym: [L.] (Med.)
Defn: Disease, especially of a contagious kind. Lues venerea, syphilis; — called also simply lues.
LUFF Luff, n. Etym: [OE. lof, prob. a sort of timber by which the course of a ship was directed, perh. a sort of paddle; cf. D. loef luff, loeven to luff. The word is perh. akin to E. glove. Cf. Aloof.] (Naut.) (a) The side of a ship toward the wind. (b) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind. (c) The roundest part of a ship's bow. (d) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails. Luff tackle, a purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes. Totten. — Luff upon luff, a luff tackle attached to the fall of another luff tackle. R. H. Dana, Jr.
LUFF
Luff, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Luffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Luffing.] (Naut.)
Defn: To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind. To luff round, or To luff alee, to make the extreme of this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head into the wind.
LUFFA Luf"fa, n. [NL., fr. Ar. lufah.] (Bot.) (a) A small genus of tropical cucurbitaceous plants having white flowers, the staminate borne in racemes, and large fruits with a dry fibrous pericarp. The fruit of several species and the species themselves, esp. L. Ægyptiaca, are called dishcloth gourds. (b) Any plant of this genus, or its fruit. (c) The fibrous skeleton of the fruit, used as a sponge and in the manufacture of caps and women's hats; — written also loofah.
LUFFER
Luf"fer, n. (Arch.)
Defn: See Louver.
LUG
Lug, n. Etym: [Sw. lugg the forelock.]
1. The ear, or its lobe. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
2. That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
3. (Mach.)
Defn: A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc.
4. (Harness)
Defn: The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
5. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The lugworm. Lug bolt (Mach.), a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt.
LUG Lug, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lugging.] Etym: [OE. luggen, Sw. lugga to pull by the hair, fr. lugg the forelock.]
Defn: To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome. Dryden. They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share. Collier.
LUG
Lug, v. i.
Defn: To move slowly and heavily.
LUG
Lug, n.
1. The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.[Colloq.]
2. Anything which moves slowly. [Obs.] Ascham.
LUG
Lug, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
1. A rod or pole. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
2. A measure of length, being 16 [Obs.] " Eight lugs of ground." Spenser. Chimney lug, or Lug pole, a pole on which a kettle is hung over the fire, either in a chimney or in the open air. [Local, U.S.] Whittier.
LUGGAGE
Lug"gage, n. Etym: [From 4th Lug.]
Defn: That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be
carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their
contents.
I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. Swift.
What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage! Shak.
Syn. — Plunder; baggage. Luggage van, a vehicle for carrying luggage; a railway car, or compartment of a car, for carrying luggage. [Eng.]
LUGGER
Lug"ger, n. (Naut.)
Defn: A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix. Totten.
LUGGER
Lug"ger, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
LUGMARK
Lug"mark`, n. Etym: [From Lug an ear.]
Defn: A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.
LUGSAIL
Lug"sail`, n. (Naut.)
Defn: A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.
LUGUBRIOUS Lu*gu"bri*ous, a. Etym: [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. ruj to break.]
Defn: Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly;
doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of
mortality. Hawthorne.
— Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv.
— Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.
LUGWORM
Lug"worm`, n. Etym: [1st lug + worm.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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 Luke, a. Etym: [Prob. fr. lew, perh. influenced by AS. wlæc warm, lukewarm, remiss. Cf. Lew.]
Defn: Moderately warm; not hot; tepid.
— Luke"ness, n. [Obs.]
Nine penn'orth o'brandy and water luke. Dickens.
LUKEWARM
Luke"warm`, a. Etym: [See Luke.]
Defn: Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not
zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm blood." Spenser. " Lukewarm
patriots." Addison.
An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name
of passion. Dryden.
— Luce"warm`ly, adv.
— Luce"warm`ness, n.
LULL
Lull, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lulled; p. pr. & vb. n. Lulling.] Etym:
[Akin to OD. lullen to sing to sleep, G. lullen, Dan. lulle, Sw.
lulla; all of imitative origin. Cf. Loll, Lollard.]
Defn: To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet. " To lull him soft asleep." Spenser. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity. Milton.
LULL
Lull, v. i.
Defn: To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.
LULL
Lull, n.
1. The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby. [R.] Young.
2. A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.
LULLABY lull"a*by, n. Etym: [From Lull, v. t. ]
1. A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets. Shak.
2. Hence: Good night; good-by. [Obs.] Shak.
LULLER
Lull"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, lulls.
LULLINGLY
Lull"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In a lulling manner; soothingly.
LUM Lum, n. Etym: [W. llumon chimney, llum that shoots up or ends in a point.]
1. A chimney. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.
2. A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
3. A woody valley; also, a deep pool. [Prov. Eng.]
LUMACHEL; LUMACHELLA Lu"ma*chel, Lu`ma*chel"la, n. Etym: [F. lumachelle, It. lumachella, fr. lamachella a little snail, dim. of lumaca a snail, fr. L. limax, -acis.] (Min.)
Defn: 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
Lum*bag"i*nous, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to lumbago.
LUMBAGO
Lum*ba"go, n. Etym: [L., fr. lumbus loin. See Lumbar.] (Med.)
Defn: A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.
LUMBAR; LUMBAL
Lum"bar, Lum"bal, a. Etym: [L. lumbus loin. See Loin.] (Anat.)
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries. Lumbar region (Anat.), the region of the loin; specifically, a region between the hypochondriac and ilias regions, and outside of the umbilical region.
LUMBER Lum"ber, n. Etym: [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard.]
1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.
2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] — Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] — Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.
LUMBER
Lum"ber, b. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.]
1. To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together." Rymer.
2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
LUMBER
Lum"ber, v. i.
1. To move heavily, as if burdened.
2. Etym: [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.]
Defn: To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
Cowper.
3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]
LUMBERER
Lum"ber*er, n.
Defn: One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [U.S.] Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell.
LUMBERING
Lum"ber*ing, n.
Defn: The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.]
LUMBERMAN
Lum"ber*man, n.; pl. Lumbermen (.
Defn: One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
[U.S.]
LUMBER STATE
Lum"ber State.
Defn: Maine; — a nickname.
LUMBOSACRAL
Lum`bo*sa"cral, n. Etym: [L. lumbus loin + E. sacral.] (Anat.)
Defn: 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
Lum"bric, n. Etym: [L. lumbricus.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.
LUMBRICAL
Lum"bric*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. lombrical. See Lumbric.] (Anat.)
Defn: Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet. — n.
Defn: A lumbrical muscle.
LUMBRICIFORM
Lum*bric"i*form, a. Etym: [L. lumbricus worm + -form.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.
LUMBRICOID
Lum"bri*coid, a. Etym: [Lumbricus + -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family
Lumbricidæ.
LUMBRICUS
Lum"bri*cus, n. Etym: [L. See Lumbric.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochæta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm.
LUMEN Lu"men, n.; pl. L. Lumina (#), E. Lumens (#). [L., light, an opening for light.]
1. (Photom.) (a) A unit of illumination, being the amount of illumination of a unit area of spherical surface, due to a light of unit intensity placed at the center of the sphere. (b) A unit of light flux, being the flux through one square meter of surface the illumination of which is uniform and of unit brightness.
2. (Biol.) An opening, space, or cavity, esp. a tubular cavity; a vacuole.
LUMINANT
Lu"mi*nant, a.
Defn: Luminous. [R.]
LUMINARY Lu"mi*na*ry, n.; pl. Luminaries, Etym: [F. luminaire, L. luminare a light or lamp, which was lighted in the churches, a luminary, fr. lumen, luminis, light, fr. lucere to be light, to shine, lux, lucis, light. See Light.]
1. Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies. " Radiant luminary." Skelton. Where the great luminary . . . Dispenses light from far. Milton.
2. One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.
LUMINATE Lu"mi*nate, v. t. Etym: [L. luminatus, p. p. of luminare to illumine, fr. lumen light. See Limn.]
Defn: To illuminate. [Obs.]
LUMINATION
Lu`mi*na"tion, n.
Defn: Illumination. [Obs.]
LUMINE
Lu"mine, v. i.
Defn: To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.
LUMINESCENCE
Lu`mi*nes"cence, n. [See Luminescent.]
1. (Physics) Any emission of light not ascribable directly to incandescence, and therefore occurring at low temperatures, as in phosphorescence and fluorescence or other luminous radiation resulting from vital processes, chemical action, friction, solution, or the influence of light or of ultraviolet or cathode rays, etc.
2. (Zoöl.)
(a) The faculty or power of voluntarily producing light, as in the
firefly and glowworm.
(b) The light thus produced; luminosity; phosphorescence.
LUMINESCENT
Lu`mi*nes"cent, a. [L. luminare to illuminate + -escent.] (Physics)
Defn: Shining with a light due to any of the various causes which produce luminescence.
LUMINIFEROUS
Lu`mi*nif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. lumen light + -ferous.]
Defn: Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.
LUMINOSITY
Lu`mi*nos"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.
LUMINOUS
Lu"mi*nous, a. Etym: [L. luminosus, fr. lumen light: cf. F. lumineux.
See Luminary, Illuminate.]
1. Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow.
2. Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous. Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness. Longfellow.
3. Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." Macaulay. " A luminous statement." Brougham. Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.
Syn.
— Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous.
— Lu"mi*nous*ly, adv.
— Lu"mi*nous*ness, n.
LUMMOX
Lum"mox, n.
Defn: A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Law.]
LUMP
Lump, n. Etym: [Cf. OD. lompe piece, mass. Cf. Lunch.]
1. A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. " A lump of cheese." Piers Plowman. " This lump of clay." Shak.
2. A mass or aggregation of things.
3. (Firearms)
Defn: A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel. In the lump, In a lump, the whole together; in gross. They may buy them in the lump. Addison. — Lump coal, coal in large lumps; — the largest size brought from the mine. — Lump sum, a gross sum without a specification of items; as, to award a lump sum in satisfaction of all claims and damages.
LUMP
Lump, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumping.]
1. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars. The expenses ought to be lumped together. Ayliffe.
2. To take in the gross; to speak of collectively. Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment you, I lump all together. Sterne.
3. To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it. [Law]
LUMPER
Lump"er, n. Etym: [Cf. Lamper eel.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The European eelpout; — called also lumpen.
LUMPER
Lump"er, n.
1. One who lumps.
2. A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
LUMPFISH Lump"fish`, n. Etym: [From Lump, on account of its bulkiness: cf. G. & D. lump, F. lompe.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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.
LUMPING
Lump"ing, a.
Defn: Bulky; heavy. Arbuthnot.
LUMPISH
Lump"ish, a.
Defn: Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless. " Lumpish,
heavy, melancholy." Shak.
— Lump"ish*ly, adv.
— Lump"ish*ness, n.
LUMPSUCKER
Lump"suck`er, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The lumprish.
LUMPY
Lump"y, a. [Compar. Lumpier; superl. Lumpiest.]
Defn: Full of lumps, or small compact masses.
LUMPY-JAW
Lump"y-jaw`. (Med.)
Defn: Actinomycosis. [Colloq.]
LUNA
Lu"na, n. Etym: [L.; akin to lucere to shine. See Light, n., and cf.
Lune.]
1. The moon.
2. (Alchemy)
Defn: Silver. Luna cornea (Old Chem.), horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; — so called from its resemblance to horn. Luna moth (Zoöl.), a very large and beautiful American moth (Actias luna). Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior wings, the other margins being edged with pale yellow. Each wing has a lunate spot surrounded by rings of light yellow, blue, and black. The caterpillar commonly feeds on the hickory, sassafras, and maple.
LUNACY
Lu"na*cy, n.; pl. Lunacies. Etym: [See Lunatic.]
1. 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. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.
2. A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism. Dr. H. More.
Syn.
— Derangement; craziness; mania. See Insanity.
LUNAR
Lu"nar, a. Etym: [L. lunaris, fr. luna the moon. See Luna, and cf.
Lunary.]
1. Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
2. Resembling the moon; orbed. Dryden.
3. Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
4. Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs. Bacon. Lunar caustic (Med. Chem.), silver nitrate prepared to be used as a cautery; — so named because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists. — Lunar cycle. Same as Metonic cycle. See under Cycle. — Lunar distance, the angular distance of the moon from the sun, a star, or a planet, employed for determining longitude by the lunar method. — Lunar method, the method of finding a ship's longitude by comparing the local time of taking (by means of a sextant or circle) a given lunar distance, with the Greenwich time corresponding to the same distance as ascertained from a nautical almanac, the difference of these times being the longitude. — Lunar month. See Month. — Lunar observation, an observation of a lunar distance by means of a sextant or circle, with the altitudes of the bodies, and the time, for the purpose of computing the longitude. — Lunar tables. (a) (Astron.) Tables of the moon's motions, arranged for computing the moon's true place at any time past or future. (b) (Navigation) Tables for correcting an observed lunar distance on account of refraction and parallax. — Lunar year, the period of twelve lunar months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34.38 seconds.
LUNAR
Lu"nar, n.
1. (Astron.)
Defn: A lunar distance.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; — called also semilunar, and intermedium.
LUNARIAN
Lu*na"ri*an, n. Etym: [See Lunar, Luna.]
Defn: An inhabitant of the moon.
LUNARY
Lu"na*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. lunaire. See Lunar.]
Defn: Lunar. [Obs.] Fuller.
LUNARY Lu"na*ry, n. Etym: [Cf. F. lunaire.] (Bot.) (a) The herb moonwort or "honesty". (b) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.
LUNATE; LUNATED Lu"nate, Lu"na*ted, a. Etym: [L. lunatus crescent-shaped, p. p. of lunare to bend like a crescent, fr. luna the moon.]
Defn: Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross. Gray.
LUNATIC
Lu"na*tic, a. Etym: [F. lunatique, L. lunaticus, fr. luna the moon.
See Lunar.]
1. Affected by lunacy; insane; mad. Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. Wyclif (Matt. xvii. 15).
2. Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.
LUNATIC
Lu"na*tic, n.
Defn: A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has
lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact.
Shak.
LUNATION
Lu*na"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. Lunated.]
Defn: 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
LUNCH
Lunch, n. Etym: [Of uncertain etymol. Cf. Prov. Eng. nunc a lump.]
Defn: A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.
LUNCH
Lunch, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lunched; p. pr. & vb. n. Lunching.]
Defn: To take luncheon. Smart.
LUNCHEON Lunch"eon, n. Etym: [Prov. E. luncheon, lunchion, lunshin, a large lump of food, fr. lunch. See Lunch.]
1. A lump of food. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.
LUNCHEON
Lunch"eon, v. i.
Defn: To take luncheon. Beaconsfield.
LUNE
Lune, n. Etym: [L. luna moon: cf. F. lune. See Luna.]
1. Anything in the shape of a half moon. [R.]
2. (Geom.)
Defn: A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
3. A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. [Obs.] These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. Shak.
LUNET
Lu"net, n. Etym: [See Lunette.]
Defn: A little moon or satellite. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
LUNETTE Lu*nette", n. Etym: [F., dim. of lune moon, L.luna. See Lune a crescent.]
1. (Fort.)
Defn: A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
2. (Far.)
Defn: A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.
3. A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
4. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
5. (Arch.)
Defn: Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
6. An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. Lunette window (Arch.), a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.
LUNG Lung, n. Etym: [OE. lunge, AS. lunge, pl. lungen; akin to D. long, G. lunge, Icel. & Sw. lunga, Dan. lunge, all prob. from the root of E. light. See Light not heavy.] (Anat.)
Defn: An organ for aërial respiration; — commonly in the plural.
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. Shak.
Note: In all air-breathing vertebrates the lungs are developed from the ventral wall of the esophagus as a pouch which divides into two sacs. In amphibians and many reptiles the lungs retain very nearly this primitive saclike character, but in the higher forms the connection with the esophagus becomes elongated into the windpipe and the inner walls of the sacs become more and more divided, until, in the mammals, the air spaces become minutely divided into tubes ending in small air cells, in the walls of which the blood circulates in a fine network of capillaries. In mammals the lungs are more or less divided into lobes, and each lung occupies a separate cavity in the thorax. See Respiration. Lung fever (Med.), pneumonia. — Lung flower (Bot.), a species of gentian (G. Pneumonanthe). — Lung lichen (Bot.), tree lungwort. See under Lungwort. Lung sac (Zoöl.), one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.
LUNGE
Lunge, n. Etym: [Also spelt longe, fr. allonge. See Allonge, Long.]
Defn: A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
LUNGE
Lunge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lunged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lunging.]
Defn: To make a lunge.
LUNGE
Lunge, v. t.
Defn: To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter. Thackeray.
LUNGE
Lunge, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Namaycush.
LUNGED
Lunged, a.
Defn: Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.
LUNGFISH
Lung"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; — so called because they have both lungs and gills.
LUNG-GROWN
Lung"-grown`, a. (Med.)
Defn: Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.
LUNGIE
Lun"gie, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A guillemot. [Written also longie.] [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W.
Scott.
LUNGIS
Lun"gis, n. Etym: [OF. longis. See Lounge.]
Defn: A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. [Obs.]
LUNGLESS
Lung"less, a.
Defn: Being without lungs.
LUNGOOR
Lun"goor, n. Etym: [Hind. langur.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India.
LUNGWORM
Lung"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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 Lung"wort`, n. (Bot.) (a) 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. (b) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip. Gray. Cow's lungwort mullein. — Sea lungwort, Mertensia maritima, found on the seacoast of Northern Europe and America. — Tree lungwort, a lichen (Sticta pulmonacea) growing on trees and rocks. The thallus is lacunose, and in appearance somewhat resembles the lungs, for diseases of which it was once thought a remedy.
LUNICURRENT
Lu"ni*cur"rent, a. Etym: [L. luna moon + E. current.]
Defn: Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases. Bache.
LUNIFORM
Lu"ni*form, a. Etym: [L. luna moon + -form: cf. F. luniforme.]
Defn: Resembling the moon in shape.
LUNISOLAR
Lu"ni*so"lar, a. Etym: [L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F. lunisolaire.]
Defn: Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. — Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of years in the cycle of the sun and the cycle of the moon.
LUNISTICE
Lu"ni*stice, n. Etym: [L. luna. moon + sistere to cause to stand. Cf.
Solstice.] (Astron.)
Defn: The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]
LUNITIDAL
Lu"ni*tid`al, a.
Defn: Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache.
Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.
LUNT Lunt, n. Etym: [D. lont; akin to Dan. & G. lunte, Sw. lunta. Cf. Link a torch.]
1. The match cord formerly used in firing cannon.
2. A puff of smoke. [Scotch.] Burns.
LUNULA
Lu"nu*la, n.; pl. Lunulæ. Etym: [L., prop., a little moon. See
Lunule.] (Anat. & Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Lunule.
LUNULAR
Lu"nu*lar, a. Etym: [Cf. F. lunulaire. See Lunula.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.
LUNULATE; LUNULATED
Lu"nu*late, Lu"nu*la`ted, a. Etym: [See Lunula.] (Bot. & Zoöl.)
Defn: Resembling a small crescent. Gray.
LUNULE
Lu"nule, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. lunula, dim. of luna moon.]
1. (Anat.)
Defn: Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.
2. (Chem.)
Defn: A lune. See Lune.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) A small or narrow crescent. (b) A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart- shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve.
LUNULET
Lu"nu*let, n. Etym: [Dim. of lunule.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.
LUNULITE
Lu"nu*lite, n. Etym: [Lunule + -life: cf. F. lunulithe. See Lunula.]
(Paleon.)
Defn: Any bryozoan of the genus Lunulites, having a more or less circular form.
LUNY
Lu"ny, a. Etym: [Shortened fr. lunatic.]
Defn: Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also loony.] [Law, U.S.]
LUPERCAL
Lu*per"cal, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Lupercalia.
LUPERCAL
Lu*per"cal, n.
Defn: A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean
Pan.
LUPERCALIA
Lu`per*ca"li*a, n. pl. Etym: [L. luperealis, fr. Lupercus the Lycean
Pan, so called fr. lupus a wolf, because he kept off the wolves.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
Defn: A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.
LUPINE Lu"pine, n. Etym: [L. lupinus, lupinum, apparently fr. lupinus belonging to a wolf, fr. lupus a wolf; perh. so called because it was supposed to exhaust the soil: cf. F. lupin. Cf. Wolf.] (Bot.)
Defn: 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.
LUPINE
Lu"pine, a. Etym: [See Lupine, n.]
Defn: Wolfish; ravenous. Gauden.
LUPININ
Lu"pin*in, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.
LUPININE
Lu"pin*ine, n. (Chem.)
Defn: An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus,
L. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance.
LUPULIN
Lu"pu*lin, n. Etym: [Cf. F. lupulin. See Lupuline.]
1. (Chem.)
Defn: A bitter principle extracted from hops.
2. The fine yellow resinous powder found upon the strobiles or fruit of hops, and containing this bitter principle. [Written also lupuline.]
LUPULINE
Lu"pu*line, n. Etym: [NL. lupulus the hop, fr. L. lupus the hop: cf.
F. lupuline.] (Chem.)
Defn: An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid.
LUPULINIC
Lu`pu*lin"ic, a. (Chem.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or obtained from, hops; specifically, designating an acid obtained by the decomposition of lupulin.
LUPUS
Lu"pus, n. Etym: [L., a wolf. See Wolf.]
1. (Med.)
Defn: A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.
Note: Lupus erythematosus is characterized by an eruption of red patches, which become incrusted, leaving superficial scars. L. vulgaris is marked by the development of nodules which often ulcerate deeply and produce great deformity. Formerly the latter was often confounded with cancer, and some varieties of cancer were included under Lupus.
2. (Astron.)
Defn: The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.
LURCATION
Lur*ca"tion, n. Etym: [See its Lurch.]
Defn: Gluttony; gormandizing. [Obs.]
LURCH
Lurch, v. i. Etym: [L. lurcare, lurcari.]
Defn: To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
[Obs.]
Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near
them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.
Bacon.
LURCH Lurch, n. Etym: [OF. lourche name of a game; as adj., deceived, embarrassed.]
1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. Lady —- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. Walpole. To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to stand by, a person in a difficulty. Denham. But though thou'rt of a different church, I will not leave thee in the lurch. Hudibras.
LURCH
Lurch, v. t.
1. To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.] Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. South.
2. To steal; to rob. [Obs.] And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He lurched all swords of the garland. Shak.
LURCH Lurch, n. Etym: [Cf. W. llerch, llerc, a frisk, a frisking backward or forward, a loitering, a lurking, a lurking, llercian, llerciaw, to be idle, to frisk; or perh. fr. E. lurch to lurk.]
Defn: A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
LURCH
Lurch, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurched; p. pr. & vb. n. Lurching.]
Defn: To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
LURCH
Lurch, v. i. Etym: [A variant of lurk.]
1. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. L'Estrange.
2. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks. I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. Shak.
LURCHER
Lurch"er, n. Etym: [See Lurch to lurk.]
1. One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.
LURCHER
Lurch"er, n. Etym: [L. lurco, lurcho, a glutton. See 1st Lurch.]
Defn: A glutton; a gormandizer. [Obs.]
LURCHLINE
Lurch"line`, n.
Defn: The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.
LURDAN
Lur"dan, a.
Defn: Stupid; blockish. [Obs.]
LURDAN
Lur"dan, n. Etym: [OF. lourdin, fr. lourd heavy, dull, thick-headed.
See Lord.]
Defn: A blockhead. [Obs.]
LURE
Lure, n. Etym: [OF. loire, loirre, loerre, F. leurre lure, decoy; of
German origin; cf. MHG. luoder, G. luder lure, carrion.]
1. A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; — used by falconers in recalling hawks. Shak.
2. Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy. Milton.
3. (Hat Making)
Defn: A velvet smoothing brush. Knight.
LURE Lure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lured; p. pr. & vb. n. Luring.] Etym: [OF. loirer, loirier, F. leurrer. See Lure, n.]
Defn: To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of
anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
I am not lured with love. Piers Plowman.
And various science lures the learned eye. Gay.
LURE
Lure, v. i.
Defn: To recall a hawk or other animal.
LURG
Lurg, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large marine annelid (Nephthys cæca), 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
Lu"rid, a. Etym: [L. luridus.]
1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
LURK
Lurk, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurked; p. pr. & vb. n. Lurking.] Etym:
[OE. lurken, lorken, prob. a dim. from the source of E. lower to
frown. See Lower, and cf. Lurch, a sudden roll, Lurch to lurk.]
1. To lie hid; to lie in wait. Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den. Spenser. Let us . . . lurk privily for the innocent. Prov. i. 11.
2. To keep out of sight. The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks. Blackstone.
LURKER
Lurk"er, n.
1. One who lurks.
2. A small fishing boat. [Prov. Eng.]
LURRY
Lur"ry, n. Etym: [W. llwry precipitant, a provision.]
Defn: A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of
sounds. [Obs.]
To turn prayer into a kind of lurry. Milton.
LUSCIOUS Lus"cious, a. Etym: [Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. Lush, Lusty.]
1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden.
2. Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey.
3. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. [R.] Steele.
— Lus"cious*ly, adv.
— Lus"cious*ness, n.
LUSERN
Lu"sern, n. Etym: [F. loup-cervier, L. lupus cervarius.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.
LUSH
Lush, a. Etym: [Prob. an abbrev. of lushious, fr. luscious.]
Defn: Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson.
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak.
LUSHBURG
Lush"burg, n.
Defn: See Lussheburgh. [Obs.]
LUSITANIAN
Lu`si*ta"ni*an, a.
Defn: Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. — n.
Defn: One of the people of Lusitania.
LUSK
Lusk, a.
Defn: Lazy; slothful. [Obs.]
LUSK
Lusk, n.
Defn: A lazy fellow; a lubber. [Obs.] T. Kendall.
LUSK
Lusk, v. i.
Defn: To be idle or unemployed. [Obs.]
LUSKISH
Lusk"ish, a.
Defn: Inclined to be lazy. Marston.
— Lusk"*ish*ly, adv. -Lusk"ish*ness, n. [Obs.] Spenser.
LUSORIOUS; LUSORY
Lu*so"ri*ous, Lu"so*ry, a. Etym: [L. lusorius. See Illusory.]
Defn: Used in play; sportive; playful. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.
LUSSHEBURGH
Lus"she*burgh, n.
Defn: A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from
Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called. [Obs.]
God wot, no Lussheburghes payen ye. Chaucer.
LUST
Lust, n. Etym: [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS., D.,
G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr.
lush to desire, or to E. loose. Cf. List to please, Listless.]
1. Pleasure [Obs.] " Lust and jollity." Chaucer.
2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall.
3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; — in a had sense; as, the lust of gain. The lust of reigning. Milton.
4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. Milton.
5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] Bacon.
LUST
Lust, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lusting.] Etym:
[AS. lystan. See Lust, n., and cf. List to choose.]
1. To list; to like. [Obs.] Chaucer. " Do so if thou lust. " Latimer.
Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal.
In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste. Chaucer.
2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; — often with after. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. James iv. 5.
LUSTER
Lust"er, n.
Defn: One who lusts.
LUSTER; LUSTRE
Lus"ter Lus"tre, n. Etym: [L. lustrum: cf. F. lustre.]
Defn: A period of five years; a lustrum.
Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.
LUSTER; LUSTRE Lus"ter, Lus"tre, n. Etym: [F. lustre; cf. It. lustro; both fr. L. lustrare to purify, go about (like the priests at the lustral sacrifice), traverse, survey, illuminate, fr. lustrum a purificatory sacrifice; perh. akin to E. loose. But lustrare to illuminate is perh. a different word, and akin to L. lucere to be light or clear, to shine. See Lucid, and cf. Illustrious, Lustrum.]
1. Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter. The right mark and very true luster of the diamond. Sir T. More. The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky. Addison.
Note: There is a tendency to limit the use of luster, in this sense, to the brightness of things which do not shine with their own light, or at least do not blaze or glow with heat. One speaks of the luster of a diamond, or of silk, or even of the stars, but not often now of the luster of the sun, a coal of fire, or the like.
2. Renown; splendor; distinction; glory. His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great luster. Sir H. Wotton.
3. A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character. Pope.
4. (Min.)
Defn: The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.
Note: The principal kinds of luster recognized are: metallic, adamantine, vitreous, resinous, greasy, pearly, and silky. With respect to intensity, luster is characterized as splendent, shining, glistening, glimmering, and dull.
5. A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.
6. A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, — used for women's dresses. Luster ware, earthenware decorated by applying to the glazing metallic oxides, which acquire brilliancy in the process of baking.
LUSTER; LUSTRE
Lus"ter, Lus"tre, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lustred; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lustering, or Lustring.]
Defn: To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic]
Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold. Lowell.
LUSTERING
Lus"ter*ing, n.
1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.
2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
Lus"ter*less, Lus"tre*less, a.
Defn: Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
LUSTFUL
Lust"ful, a.
1. Full of lust; excited by lust Spenser. Tillotson.
2. Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality. " Lustful orgies." Milton.
3. Strong; lusty. [Obs.] " Lustful health." Sackville.
Syn.
— sensual; fleshly; carnal; inordinate; licentious; lewd; unchaste;
impure; libidinous; lecherous.
— Lust"ful*ly, adv.
— Lust"ful*ness, n.
LUSTIC
Lus"tic, a.
Defn: Lusty; vigorous. [Obs.]
LUSTIHEAD
Lus"ti*head, n. Etym: [Lusty + -head.]
Defn: See Lustihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LUSTIHOOD
Lus"ti*hood, n. Etym: [Lusty + -hood.]
Defn: State of being lusty; vigor of body. " Full of lustihood."
Tennyson.
LUSTILY
Lus"ti*ly, adv.
Defn: In a lusty or vigorous manner.
LUSTINESS
Lus"ti*ness, n.
Defn: State of being lusty; vigor; strength.
LUSTLESS
Lust"less, a. Etym: [CF. Listless.]
1. Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Free from sexual lust.
LUSTRAL
Lus"tral, a. Etym: [L. lustralis, fr. lustrum: cf. F. lustral. See
Lustrum.]
1. Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.
2. Of or pertaining to a lustrum.
LUSTRATE
Lus"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lustrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lustrating.] Etym: [L. lustratus, p. p. of lustrare to lustrate, fr.
lustrum. See Lustrum.]
Defn: To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to
purify.
We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city. Hammond.
LUSTRATION
Lus*tra"tion, n. Etym: [L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]
1. The act of lustrating or purifying. And holy water for lustration bring. Dryden.
2. (Antiq.)
Defn: A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
LUSTRE
Lus"tre, n.
Defn: Same as Luster.
LUSTRICAL
Lus"tri*cal, a. Etym: [L. lustricus, fr. lustrum. See Lustrum.]
Defn: Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
LUSTRING Lus"tring, n. Etym: [F. lustrine, It. lustrino, fr. lustrare to polish, L. lustrare. See 3d Luster, and cf. Lutestring.]
Defn: A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.
LUSTROUS
Lus"trous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. lustreux. See 3d Luster.]
Defn: Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak.
— Lus"trous*ly, adv.
LUSTRUM
Lus"trum, n.; pl. E. Lustrums, L. Lustra. Etym: [L. Cf. 2d & 3d
Luster.]
Defn: 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
Lust"wort` n. (Bot.)
Defn: See Sundew.
LUSTY
Lust"y, a. [Compar. Lustier; superl. Lustiest.] Etym: [From Lust. See
Lust, and cf. Luscious.]
1. Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body. Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home. Milton.
2. Beautiful; handsome; pleasant. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant. [Obs. or Prov.]
4. Lustful; lascivious. [Obs.] Milton.
LUSUS NATURAE Lu"sus na*tu"ræ. Etym: [L., fr. lusus sport + naturae, gen. of natura nature.]
Defn: Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.
LUTANIST Lut"a*nist, n. Etym: [LL.lutanista, fr. lutana lute. See Lute the instrument.]
Defn: A person that plays on the lute. Johnson.
LUTARIOUS
Lu*ta"ri*ous, a. Etym: [L. lutarius fr. lutum mud.]
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud. [Obs.] Grew.
LUTATION Lu*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. lutare, lutatum, to bedaub with mud, fr. lutum mud: cf. F. lutation.]
Defn: The act or method of luting vessels.
LUTE
Lute, n. Etym: [L. lutum mud, clay: cf. OF. lut.]
1. (Chem.)
Defn: 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.
2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
3. (Brick Making)
Defn: A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
LUTE
Lute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Luted; p. pr. & vb. n. Luting.]
Defn: To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
LUTE Lute, n. Etym: [OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. laút, It. liúto, leúto, Sp. laúd, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. al'; al the + ' wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp.] (Mus.)
Defn: A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
LUTE
Lute, v. i.
Defn: To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
LUTE
Lute, v. t.
Defn: To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson.
LUTE-BACKED
Lute"-backed`, a.
Defn: Having a curved spine.
LUTECIUM
Lu*te"ci*um, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A metallic element separated from ytterbium in 1907, by Urbain in Paris and by von Welsbach in Vienna. Symbol, Lu; at. wt. 174.0.
LUTEIC Lu*te"ic, a. (Chem.) (a) Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola). (b) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of Euphorbia cyparissias.
LUTEIN
Lu"te*in, n. Etym: [From corpus luteum.] (Physiol. Chem.)
Defn: A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.
LUTENIST
Lut"e*nist, n.
Defn: Same as Lutanist.
LUTEO-
Lu"te*o-. Etym: [L. luteus.] (Chem.)
Defn: A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.
LUTEOCOBALTIC
Lu"te*o*co*balt"ic, a. (Chem.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic. Luteocobaltic chloride (Chem.), a brilliant reddish yellow crystalline compound, Co2Cl6(NH3)12, obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on an ammoniacal solution of cobaltic chloride.
LUTEOLIN Lu"te*o*lin, n. Etym: [From NL. Reseda luteola, fr. L. luteolus yellowish, fr. luteus: cf. F. lutéoline. See Luteous.] (Chem.)
Defn: A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom
(Reseda luteola).
LUTEOUS Lu"te*ous, a. Etym: [L. luteus, fr. lutum dyer's broom, weld, which is used as a yellow dye.]
Defn: Yellowish; more or less like buff.
LUTER
Lut"er, n. Etym: [From 3d Lute.]
Defn: One who plays on a lute.
LUTER
Lut"er, n. Etym: [From Ist Lute.]
Defn: One who applies lute.
LUTESCENT
Lu*tes"cent, a. Etym: [L. luteus yellow.]
Defn: Of a yellowish color.
LUTESTRING
Lute"string`, n. Etym: [Corrupted fr. lustring.]
Defn: A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.
LUTH
Luth, n. Etym: [F.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The leatherback.
LUTHERAN
Lu"ther*an, a. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.
LUTHERAN
Lu"ther*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the
Lutheran Church.
LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
Lu"ther*an*ism, Lu"ther*ism, n.
Defn: The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
LUTHERN Lu"thern, n. Etym: [F. lucarne a dormer, dormer window, garret window, L. lucerna lamp, fr. lucere to be light or clear, fr. lux light. See Light, n., and cf. Lucarne.] (Arch.)
Defn: A dormer window. See Dormer.
LUTIDINE
Lu"ti*dine, n. Etym: [From toluidine, by transposition.] (Chem.)
Defn: 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.
LUTING
Lut"ing, n. (Chem.)
Defn: See Lute, a cement.
LUTIST
Lut"ist, n.
Defn: One who plays on a lute.
LUTOSE
Lu*tose", a. Etym: [L. lutosus, fr. lutum mud.]
Defn: Covered with clay; miry.
LUTULENCE
Lu"tu*lence, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being lutulent.
LUTULENT
Lu"tu*lent, a. Etym: [L. lutulentus, fr. lutum mud.]
Defn: Muddy; turbid; thick. [Obs.]
LUWACK
Lu*wack", n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Paradoxure.
LUX
Lux, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. luxer. See Luxate.]
Defn: To put out of joint; to luxate. [Obs.]
LUXATE
Lux"ate, a. Etym: [L. luxatus, p. p. of luxare to dislocate.]
Defn: Luxated. [Obs.]
LUXATE
Lux"ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Luxated; p. pr. & vb. n. Luxating.]
Defn: To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.
LUXATION
Lux*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. luxatio: cf. F. luxation.]
Defn: The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
LUXE
Luxe, n. Etym: [L. luxus: cf. F. luxe.]
Defn: Luxury. [Obs.] Shenstone. Édition de luxe (. Etym: [F.] (Printing) A sumptuous edition as regards paper, illustrations, binding, etc.
LUXIVE
Lux"ive, a.
Defn: Given to luxury; voluptuous. [Obs.]
LUXULLIANITE
Lux*ul"li*an*ite, n. Etym: [So called from Luxullian, in Cornwall.]
(Min.)
Defn: A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.
LUXURIANCE
Lux*u"ri*ance, n. Etym: [Cf. F. luxuriance.]
Defn: The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth. "Tropical luxuriance." B. Taylor.
LUXURIANCY
Lux*u"ri*an*cy, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance. Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion. Spectator.
LUXURIANT Lux*u"ri*ant, a. Etym: [L. luxurians, p. pr. of luxuriare: cf. F. luxuriant. See Luxuriate.]
Defn: Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.
LUXURIANTLY
Lux*u"ri*ant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a luxuriant manner.
LUXURIATE
Lux*u"ri*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Luxuriated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Luxuriating.] Etym: [L. luxuriatus, p. p. of luxuriari, -are, to
luxuriate. See Luxury.]
1. To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton.
2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures.
3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.
LUXURIATION
Lux*u`ri*a"tion, n.
Defn: The act or process luxuriating.
LUXURIETY
Lux`u*ri"e*ty, n.
Defn: Luxuriance. [Obs.]
LUXURIOUS
Lux*u"ri*ous, a. Etym: [L. luxuriosus: cf. F. luxurieux. See Luxury.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. — Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. — Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
LUXURIST
Lux"u*rist, n.
Defn: One given to luxury. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
LUXURY Lux"u*ry, n.; pl. Luxuries. Etym: [L. luxuria, fr. luxus: cf. F. luxure.]
1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator.
2. Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury. He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. Addison.
3. Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer.
4. Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] Bacon.
Syn. — Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality; lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification.
LUZ
Luz, n.
Defn: A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute. Brande & C.
-LY -ly. Etym: [OE. -lich, AS. -lic, orig. the same word as E. li, a. See Like, a.]
Defn: A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance.
LYAM
Ly"am, n. Etym: [See Leam.]
Defn: A leash. [Obs.]
LYCANTHROPE
Ly"can*thrope, n. Etym: [Gr.
1. A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.
2. One affected with lycanthropy.
LYCANTHROPIA
Ly`can*thro"pi*a, n. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: See Lycanthropy, 2.
LYCANTHROPIC
Ly`can*throp"ic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to lycanthropy.
LYCANTHROPIST
Ly*can"thro*pist, n.
Defn: One affected by the disease lycanthropy.
LYCANTHROPOUS
Ly*can"thro*pous, a.
Defn: Lycanthropic.
LYCANTHROPY
Ly*can"thro*py, n. Etym: [Gr. lycanthropie.]
1. The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf. Lowell.
2. (Med.)
Defn: A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.
LYCEE
Ly`cée", n. [F. Cf. Lyceum.]
Defn: A French lyceum, or secondary school supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.
LYCEUM
Ly*ce"um, n.; pl. E. Lyceums, L. Lycea. Etym: [L. lyceum, Gr. Wolf.]
1. A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.
2. A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.
3. A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.
4. An association for debate and literary improvement.
LYCHE
Lyche, a.
Defn: Like. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LYCHEE
Ly"chee`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: See Litchi.
LYCH GATE
Lych" gate`
Defn: . See under Lich.
LYCHNIS Lych"nis, n. Etym: [L., a kind of red flower, Gr. lychni`s; cf. ly`chnos a lamp.] (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceæ). 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
Lych"no*bite, n. Etym: [Gr. ly`chnos a lamp + bi`os life.]
Defn: One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.
LYCHNOSCOPE
Lych"no*scope, n. Etym: [Gr. -scope.] (Arch.)
Defn: Same as Low side window, under Low, a.
LYCINE
Lyc"ine, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A weak base identical with betaine; — so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.
LYCOPERDON
Ly`co*per"don, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: 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
Ly"co*pod, n. Etym: [Cf. F. lycopode.] (Bot.)
Defn: A plant of the genus Lycopodium.
LYCOPODE
Ly"co*pode, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Same as Lycopodium powder. See under Lycopodium.
LYCOPODIACEOUS
Ly`co*po`di*a"ceous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.
LYCOPODITE
Ly*cop"o*dite, n. (Paleon.)
Defn: An old name for a fossil club moss.
LYCOPODIUM
Ly`co*po"di*um, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss. Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceæ. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of lightning.
LYCOTROPOUS
Ly*cot"ro*pous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Campylotropous.
LYDDITE
Lydd"ite, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used as a shell explosive in the British service; — so named from the proving grounds at Lydd, England.
LYDEN
Lyd"en, n.
Defn: See Leden. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LYDIAN
Lyd"i*an, a. Etym: [L. Lydius, fr. Lydia, Gr.
Defn: 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. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.
LYDINE
Lyd"ine, n. (Dyeing)
Defn: A violet dye derived from aniline.
LYE
Lye, n. [Written also lie and ley.] Etym: [AS. leáh; akin to D. loog,
OHG. louga, G. lauge; cf. Icel. laug a bath, a hot spring.]
Defn: A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
LYE
Lye, n. (Railroad)
Defn: A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding. [Eng.]
LYE
Lye, n.
Defn: A falsehood. [Obs.] See Lie.
LYENCEPHALA
Ly`en*ceph"a*la, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; - - so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.
LYENCEPHALOUS
Ly`en*ceph"a*lous, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.
LYERMAN
Ly"er*man, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The cicada.
LYGODIUM
Ly*go"di*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.
Note: Lygodium palmatum, much prized for indoor ornament, inhabits shaded and moist grassy places, from Massachusetts to Virginia and Kentucky, and sparingly southwards.
LYING
Ly"ing, p. pr. & vb. n.
Defn: of Lie, to tell a falsehood.
LYING
Ly"ing, p. pr. & vb. n.
Defn: of Lie, to be supported horizontally. Lying panel (Arch.), a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal. [R.] — Lying to (Naut.), having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other.
LYING-IN
Ly"ing-in", n.
1. The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.
2. The act of bearing a child.
LYINGLY
Ly"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In a lying manner; falsely.
LYKEN
Ly"ken, v. t. Etym: [See Like, v. t. ]
Defn: To please; — chiefly used impersonally. [Obs.] " Sith it lyketh you." Chaucer.
LYM; LYMHOUND
Lym, or; Lym"hound`, n.
Defn: A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound. [Obs.] Shak.
LYMAIL
Ly*mail", n.
Defn: See Limaille. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LYME GRASS
Lyme" grass`. (Bot.)
Defn: A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E.
Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius.
LYMPH
Lymph, n. Etym: [L. lympha: cf. F. lymphe.]
1. A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water. A fountain bubbled up, whose lymph serene Nothing of earthly mixture might distain. Trench.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.
3. (Med.)
Defn: A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together. Lymph corpuscles (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lymph and chyle. — Lymph duct (Anat.), a lymphatic. — Lymph heart. See Note under Heart, n., 1.
LYMPHADENITIS
Lym`pha*de*ni"tis, n. Etym: [NL. See Lymph, and Adenitis.] (Med.)
Defn: Inflammation of the lymphatic glands; — called also lymphitis.
LYMPHADENOMA
Lym`pha*de*no"ma, n. Etym: [NL. See Lymph, Aden-, and -oma.] (Med.)
Defn: See Lymphoma.
LYMPHANGEITIS
Lym*phan`ge*i"tis, n. Etym: [NL., from L. lympha lymph + Gr. -itis.]
(Med.)
Defn: Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels. [Written also lymphangitis.]
LYMPHANGIAL
Lym*phan"gi*al, a. Etym: [See Lymphangeitis.] (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the lymphatics, or lymphoid tissue; lymphatic.
LYMPHATE; LYMPHATED Lymph"ate, Lymph"a*ted, a. Etym: [L. lymphatus, p. p. of lymphare to water, dilute with water, to drive out of one's senses, to make mad.]
Defn: Frightened into madness; raving. [Obs.]
LYMPHATIC Lym*phat"ic, a. Etym: [L. lymphaticus distracted, frantic: cf. F. lymphatique]
Defn: pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
2. Madly enthusiastic; frantic. [Obs.] " Lymphatic rapture. " Sir T. Herbert. Etym: [See Lymphate.] Lymphatic gland (Anat.), one of the solid glandlike bodies connected with the lymphatics or the lacteals; — called also lymphatic ganglion, and conglobate gland. — Lymphatic temperament (Old Physiol.), a temperament in which the lymphatic system seems to predominate, that is, a system in which the complexion lacks color and the tissues seem to be of loose texture; hence, a temperament lacking energy, inactive, indisposed to exertion or excitement. See Temperament.
LYMPHATIC
Lym*phat"ic, n.
1. (Anat.)
Defn: One of the lymphatic or absorbent vessels, which carry lymph and discharge it into the veins; lymph duct; lymphatic duct.
2. A mad enthusiast; a lunatic. [Obs.]
LYMPHITIS
Lym*phi"tis, n. Etym: [NL.] (Med.)
Defn: See Lymphadenitis.
LYMPH NODE
Lymph node. (Anat.)
Defn: A lymphatic gland.