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word: lodgings
definition:
lodgings

lodgings
n.
[pl. of lodging{2}.]
temporary living quarters.

Syn. -- diggings, digs, domiciliation, pad.


word: Lodgment
definition:
Lodgment

Lodg"ment
(?)
n.
[Written also lodgement.]
[Cf. F. logement. See Lodge, v.]
1.
The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.

Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries.
Paley.

2.
A lodging place; a room.
[Obs.]

3.
An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.

4.
(Mil.)
The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.


word: Lodicule
definition:
Lodicule

Lod"i*cule
(?)
n.
[L. lodicula. dim, of lodix, lodicis, a coverlet: cf. F. lodicule.]
(Bot.)
One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.


word: Loellingite
definition:
Loellingite

Loel"ling*ite
(?)
n.
[So called from Lölling, in Austria.]
(Min.)
A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.


word: Loess
definition:
Loess

Loess
(lẽe)
n.
[G. löss.]
(Geol.)
A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.


word: Loeven's larva
definition:
Loeven's larva

Loev"en's lar"va
(?)
n.
[Named after the Swedish Zoologist, S. F. Löven, who discovered it.]
(Zool.)
The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.


word: Loft
definition:
Loft

Loft
(l&obreve_;ft)
n.
[Icel. lopt air, heaven, loft, upper room; akin to AS. lyft air, G. luft, Dan. loft loft, Goth. luftus air.  Cf. Lift, v. & n. ]
1.
That which is lifted up; an elevation.
Hence, especially:
(a)
The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.
(b)
A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.
(c)
A floor or room placed above another; a story.
especially
an upper story located in a building with a business below, often having no partitions, and in cities sometimes converted into living quarters, or used as studios for artists.

Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft.
Acts xx. 9.

2.
(Golf)
Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).

On loft, aloft; on high.  Cf. Onloft. [Obs.] Chaucer.


word: Loft₃
definition:
Loft

Loft
v. t.
To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft; as, a lofted house; a lofted golf-club head.

A wooden club with a lofted face.
Encyc. of Sport.


word: Loft₄
definition:
Loft

Loft
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Lofted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lofting.]
To raise aloft; to send into the air;
esp.
(Golf)
to strike (the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.


word: Lofter
definition:
Lofter

Loft"er
(?)
n.
(Golf)
An iron club with a sloped face, used in lofting the ball; -- called also lofting iron.


word: Lofty
definition:
Lofty

Loft"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Loftier (?); superl. Loftiest.]
[From Loft.]
1.
Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

See lofty Lebanon his head advance.
Pope.

2.
Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.
Is. lvii. 15.

Lofty and sour to them that loved him not
Shak.

Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Milton.


word: Log₂
definition:
Log

Log
(?)
n.
[Icel. lāg a felled tree, log; akin to E. lie. See Lie to lie prostrate.]
1.
A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

2.
[Prob. the same word as in sense 1; cf. LG. log, lock, Dan. log, Sw. logg.]
(Naut.)
An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

&hand_; The common log consists of the log-chip, or logship, often exclusively called the log, and the log line, the former being commonly a thin wooden quadrant of five or six inches radius, loaded with lead on the arc to make it float with the point up. It is attached to the log line by cords from each corner. This line is divided into equal spaces, called knots, each bearing the same proportion to a mile that half a minute does to an hour. The line is wound on a reel which is so held as to let it run off freely. When the log is thrown, the log-chip is kept by the water from being drawn forward, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots run out in half a minute. There are improved logs, consisting of a piece of mechanism which, being towed astern, shows the distance actually gone through by the ship, by means of the revolutions of a fly, which are registered on a dial plate.

3.
Hence:
The record of the rate of speed of a ship or airplane, and of the course of its progress for the duration of a voyage; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.

4.
Hence, generally:
A record and tabulated statement of the person(s) operating, operations performed, resources consumed, and the work done by any machine, device, or system.

5.
(Mining)
A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

6.
(computers)
A record of activities performed within a program, or changes in a database or file on a computer, and typically kept as a file in the computer.

Log board (Naut.), a board consisting of two parts shutting together like a book, with columns in which are entered the direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., during each hour of the day and night. These entries are transferred to the log book. A folding slate is now used instead. -- Log book, or Logbook (Naut.), (a) a book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board. (b) a book in which a log{4} is recorded. -- Log cabin, Log house, a cabin or house made of logs. -- Log canoe, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log; a dugout canoe. -- Log glass (Naut.), a small sandglass used to time the running out of the log line. -- Log line (Naut.), a line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms long, fastened to the log-chip. See Note under 2d Log, n., 2. -- Log perch (Zool.), an ethiostomoid fish, or darter (Percina caprodes); -- called also hogfish and rockfish. -- Log reel (Naut.), the reel on which the log line is wound. -- Log slate. (Naut.) See Log board (above). -- Rough log (Naut.), a first draught of a record of the cruise or voyage. -- Smooth log (Naut.), a clean copy of the rough log. In the case of naval vessels this copy is forwarded to the proper officer of the government. -- To heave the log (Naut.), to cast the log-chip into the water; also, the whole process of ascertaining a vessel's speed by the log.


word: Log₃
definition:
Log

Log
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Logged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Logging (?).]
1.
(Naut.)
To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
J. F. Cooper.

2.
To record any event in a logbook, especially an event relating to the operation of a machine or device.


word: Log₄
definition:
Log

Log
v. i.
1.
To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
[U.S.]

2.
To move to and fro; to rock.
[Obs.]


word: Logania
definition:
Logania

Logania
prop. n.
The type genus of the Loganiaceae; Australian and New Zealand shrubs sometimes cultivated for their flowers.

Syn. -- genus Logania.


word: Logaoedic
definition:
Logaoedic

Log`a*œd"ic
(l&obreve_;g`ȧ*ĕd"ĭk)
a.
[Gr. logaoidiko`s; lo`gos discourse, prose + 'aoidh` song.]
(Gr. Pros.)
Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.


word: Logarithm
definition:
Logarithm

Log"a*rithm
(l&obreve_;g"ȧ*rĭ&thlig_;'m)
n.
[Gr. lo`gos word, account, proportion + 'ariqmo`s number: cf. F. logarithme.]
(Math.)
One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.
The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus,


0    1    2     3      4       Indices or logarithms
1   10   100  1000  10,000     Numbers in geometrical progression


Hence, the logarithm of any given number is the exponent of a power to which another given invariable number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce that given number. Thus, let 10 be the base, then 2 is the logarithm of 100, because 102 = 100, and 3 is the logarithm of 1,000, because 103 = 1,000.

Arithmetical complement of a logarithm, the difference between a logarithm and the number ten. -- Binary logarithms. See under Binary. -- Common logarithms, or Brigg's logarithms, logarithms of which the base is 10; -- so called from Henry Briggs, who invented them. -- Gauss's logarithms, tables of logarithms constructed for facilitating the operation of finding the logarithm of the sum of difference of two quantities from the logarithms of the quantities, one entry of those tables and two additions or subtractions answering the purpose of three entries of the common tables and one addition or subtraction.  They were suggested by the celebrated German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (died in 1855), and are of great service in many astronomical computations. -- Hyperbolic logarithm or Napierian logarithm or Natural logarithm, a logarithm (devised by John Speidell, 1619) of which the base is e (2.718281828459045...); -- so called from Napier, the inventor of logarithms. -- Logistic logarithms or Proportional logarithms, See under Logistic.


word: Logarithmetical
definition:
Logarithmetical

Logarithmetic

{ Log`a*rith*met"ic (?), Log"a*rith*met"ic*al (?), }
a.
See Logarithmic.


word: Logarithmical
definition:
Logarithmical

Logarithmic

{ Log`a*rith"mic (?), Log`a*rith"mic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. logarithmique.]
1.
Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

2.
Using logarithms; as, logarithmic graph paper; a logarithmic scale.

3.
Having a logarithm in one or more of the unknowns; -- of an equation.

Logarithmic curve (Math.), a curve which, referred to a system of rectangular coordinate axes, is such that the ordinate of any point will be the logarithm of its abscissa. -- Logarithmic spiral, a spiral curve such that radii drawn from its pole or eye at equal angles with each other are in continual proportion. See Spiral.


word: Log-chip
definition:
Log-chip

Log"-chip`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2.


word: Loggat
definition:
Loggat

Log"gat
(?)
n.
[Also written logget.]
1.
A small log or piece of wood.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

2.
pl.
An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Logged
definition:
Logged

Logged
(?)
a.
1.
Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged.
Beaconsfield.

2.
Entered in a logbook.


word: Loggerhead
definition:
Loggerhead

Log"ger*head`
(?)
n.
[Log + head.]
1.
A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
Shak. Milton.

2.
A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.

3.
(Naut.)
An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.

4.
(Zool.)
A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta syn. Thalassochelys caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.

5.
(Zool.)
An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.

To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange.


word: Loggerheaded
definition:
Loggerheaded

Log"ger*head`ed
a.
Dull; stupid.
Shak.

A rabble of loggerheaded physicians.
Urquhart.


word: Loggia
definition:
Loggia

Log"gia
(?)
n.
[It. See Lodge.]
(Arch.)
A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.


word: Logging
definition:
Logging

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


word: Logic
definition:
Logic

Log"ic
(?)
n.
[OE. logike, F. logique, L. logica, logice, Gr. logikh` (sc. te`chnh), fr. logiko`s belonging to speaking or reason, fr. lo`gos speech, reason, le`gein to say, speak.  See Legend.]
1.
The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; the science of correct reasoning.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought; that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject.
Sir W. Hamilton.

&hand_; Logic is distinguished as pure and applied. “Pure logic is a science of the form, or of the formal laws, of thinking, and not of the matter. Applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those objects about which men do think.”  Abp. Thomson.

2.
A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.

3.
correct reasoning; as, I can't see any logic in his argument; also, sound judgment; as, the logic of surrender was uncontestable.

4.
The path of reasoning used in any specific argument; as, his logic was irrefutable.

5.
(Electronics, Computers)
A function of an electrical circuit (called a gate) that mimics certain elementary binary logical operations on electrical signals, such as AND, OR, or NOT; as, a logic circuit; the arithmetic and logic unit.


word: Logical
definition:
Logical

Log"ic*al
(l&obreve_;j"ĭ*kal)
a.
[Cf. F. logique, L. logicus, Gr. logiko`s.]
1.
Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.
Bacon.

2.
According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical; a logical argument; a logical impossibility.
Prior.

3.
Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker.
Addison.


word: Logician
definition:
Logician

Lo*gi"cian
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. logicien.]
A person skilled in logic.
Bacon.

Each fierce logician still expelling Locke.
Pope.


word: log on
definition:
log on

log in

log in, log on
v. i.
(Computers)
To establish communication with a host computer from a terminal or remote computer.


word: Logistical
definition:
Logistical

Logistic

{ Lo*gis"tic (?), Lo*gis"tic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _; skilled in calculating, _; to calculate, fr. lo`gos word, number, reckoning: cf. F. logistique.]
1.
Logical.
[Obs.]
Berkeley.

2.
(Math.)
Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic.

3.
Of or pertaining to logistics; as, logistic requirements; logistical problems; a logistical nightmare.

Logistic logarithms, or Proportional logarithms, certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are expressed in minutes and seconds; -- not now used.


word: Logistics
definition:
Logistics

Lo*gis"tics
(?)
n.
1.
(Mil.)
That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy.
H. L. Scott.

2.
By extension:
The planning and coordination of the movement of materials, and other details of any large activity, such as a business or a political campaign.

3.
(Math.)
A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.


word: Logodaedaly
definition:
Logodaedaly

Log`o*dæd"a*ly
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;. See Logos, and Dædal.]
Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
[R.]
Coleridge.


word: Logogram
definition:
Logogram

Log"o*gram
(?)
n.
[Gr. lo`gos word + -gram.]
A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it.  Cf. Grammalogue.


word: Logographer
definition:
Logographer

Lo*gog"ra*pher
(?)
n.
1.
A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.

2.
One skilled in logography.


word: Logographical
definition:
Logographical

Logographic

{ Log`o*graph"ic (?), Log`o*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _; of writing speeches: cf. F. logographique.]
Of or pertaining to logography.


word: Logography
definition:
Logography

Lo*gog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a writing of speeches; lo`gos word, speech + _; to write: cf. F. logographie.]
1.
A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.

2.
A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words.
Brande & C.


word: Logogriph
definition:
Logogriph

Log"o*griph
(?)
n.
[Gr. lo`gos word + gri^fos a fishing net, a dark saying, a riddle: F. logogriphe.]
A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.
B. Jonson.


word: Logomachy
definition:
Logomachy

Lo*gom"a*chy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; lo`gos word + _; fight, battle, contest: cf. F. logomachie.]
1.
Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.

The discussion concerning the meaning of the word “justification” . . . has largely been a mere logomachy.
L. Abbott.

2.
A game of word making.


word: Logometric
definition:
Logometric

Log`o*met"ric
(?)
a.
[Gr. lo`gos word, ratio + me`tron measure.]
(Chem.)
Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric.
[R.]


word: Logos
definition:
Logos

Log"os
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. lo`gos the word or form which expresses a thought, also, the thought, fr. _; to speak.]
1.
A word; reason; speech.
H. Bushell.

2.
The divine Word; Christ.


word: Logothete
definition:
Logothete

Log"o*thete
(?)
[LL. logotheta, fr. Gr. _;; lo`gos word, account + _; to put.]
An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.


word: Logotype
definition:
Logotype

Log"o*type
(?)
n.
[Gr. lo`gos word + -type.]
(Print.)
A single type, containing two or more letters; as, æ, \œ, Æ, &filig, &fllig, &ffllig, etc.; -- called also ligature.


word: Logroll
definition:
Logroll

Log"roll`
(?)
v. i. & t.
To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.
[Political cant, U. S.]


word: Logroller
definition:
Logroller

Log"roll`er
(?)
n.
One who engages in logrolling.
[Political cant, U. S.]

The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it.
The. Nation.


word: Logrolling
definition:
Logrolling

Log"roll`ing
n.
1.
(Logging)
The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
Longfellow.
[U.S.]

2.
Hence:
A combining or mutual agreement in which one politician supports or assists another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; wheeling and dealing; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.
[Cant, U.S.]


word: Logwood
definition:
Logwood

Log"wood`
(?)
n.
[So called from being imported in logs.]
The heartwood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.


word: -logy
definition:
-logy

-lo*gy
(?)
suff.
[Gr. _;, fr. lo`gos word, discourse, fr. le`gein to speak. See Logic.]
A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.


word: Logy
definition:
Logy

Lo"gy
(l&omacr"gē)
a.
[From D. log.]
Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse; feeling logy.
[U.S.]

Syn. -- sluggish; dull; lethargic.

Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures.
C. H. Merriam.


word: Loimic
definition:
Loimic

Loi"mic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; plague.]
Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.


word: Loin
definition:
Loin

Loin
(?)
n.
[OE. loine, OF. logne, F. longe, from (assumed) LL. lumbea, L. lumbus join.  Cf. Lends, Lumbar, Nombles.]
1.
That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

2.
A cut of meat taken from this part of a food animal, as from cattle or hogs.

3.
pl.
The pubic area; the genitalia, especially in women; as, receptive loins.


word: loincloth
definition:
loincloth

loincloth
n.
A cloth covering for the loins, worn around the hips; -- sometimes worn in tropical areas as the only article of clothing.

Syn. -- breechcloth, breechclout, G-string.


word: Loiseleuria
definition:
Loiseleuria

Loiseleuria
prop. n.
A genus of plants having only one species, the alpine azalea.

Syn. -- genus Loiseleuria.


word: Loiter
definition:
Loiter

Loi"ter
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Loitered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Loitering.]
[D. leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. G. lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, OHG. lotar.]
1.
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.

Sir John, you loiter here too long.
Shak.

If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.
Rogers.

2.
To wander as an idle vagrant.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Loiterer
definition:
Loiterer

Loi"ter*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who loiters; an idler.

2.
An idle vagrant; a tramp.
[Obs.]
Bp. Sanderson.


word: Loki
definition:
Loki

Lok

{ Lok (l&obreve_;k), Lo"ki (l&omacr"k), }
n.
[Icel. Loki, perh. akin to lokka, locka to allure, entice.]
(Scandinavian Myth.)
The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the Ahriman of the Persians.


word: Loke
definition:
Loke

Loke
(l&omacrk)
n.
[See Lock a fastening.]
A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Loligo
definition:
Loligo

Lo*li"go
(?)
n.
[L., cuttle fish.]
(Zool.)
A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.


word: Loll
definition:
Loll

Loll
(l&obreve_;l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lolled (l&obreve_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Lolling.]
[Cf. Icel. lolla to act lazily, loll, lolla, laziness, OD. lollen to sit over the fire, and E. lull.  Cf. Lill, Lull.]
1.
To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease; as, to loll around the house on a lazy summer day.

Void of care, he lolls supine in state.
Dryden.

2.
To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.

The triple porter of the Stygian seat,
With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.
Dryden.

3.
To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.


word: Loll₂
definition:
Loll

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

Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues.
Dryden.


word: Lollard
definition:
Lollard

Lol"lard
(?)
n.
[LL. Lollardi, Lullardi, from Walter Lolhardus, a German; cf. LG. & D. lollen to mumble, to hum, sing in a murmuring strain; hence, OD. lollaerd a mumbler, i. e., of prayers or psalms, which was prob. the origin of the name. See Loll, Lull.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
(a)
One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
(b)
One of the followers of Wyclif in England.
[Called also Loller.]

By Lollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany.
Fuller.


word: Lollardy
definition:
Lollardy

Lollardism

{ Lol"lard*ism (?), Lol"lard*y (?), }
n.
The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.


word: Loller
definition:
Loller

Loll"er
(?)
n.
[See Loll.]
1.
One who lolls.

2.
An idle vagabond.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

3.
A Lollard.


word: Lollipop
definition:
Lollipop

Lol"li*pop
(?)
n.
[Perhaps fr. Prov. E. loll to soothe + pope a mixed liquor.]
1.
A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.
[Archaic]
Thackeray.

2.
Hence:
A piece of hard candy, often of discoid shape, attached to the end of a handle of wood or hard paper by which it is held in the hand while being licked; -- it is popular with small children.


word: Lollop
definition:
Lollop

Lol"lop
(?)
v. i.
[From Loll.]
To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.
[Low.]
Charles Reade.


word: loma
definition:
loma

lo"ma
(?)
n.
pl. lomata (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, a fringe.]
(Zool.)
A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.


word: lomatia
definition:
lomatia

lomatia
n.
any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers.


word: Lombard₂
definition:
Lombard

Lom"bard
prop. n.
[F. lombard, fr. the Longobardi or Langobardi, i. e., Longbeards, a people of Northern Germany, west of the Elbe, and afterward in Northern Italy. See Long, and Beard, and cf. Lumber.]
1.
A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.

2.
A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.

3.
Same as Lombard-house.

A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns.
Fuller.

4.
(Mil.)
A form of cannon formerly in use.
Prescott.

Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.


word: Lombar-house
definition:
Lombar-house

Lombard-house

{ Lom"bard-house (?), Lom"bar-house` (?), }
[F. or D. lombard. See Lombard, n.]
1.
A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

2.
A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.


word: Lombardic
definition:
Lombardic

Lom*bar"dic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Lombardy of the Lombards.

Lombardic alphabet, the ancient alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscript of Italy. -- Lombardic architecture, the debased Roman style of architecture as found in parts of Northern Italy. F. G. Lee. Lombardy poplar. (Bot.) See Poplar.


word: Loment
definition:
Loment

Lo"ment
(?)
n.
[L. lomentum a mixture of bean meal and rice, used as a cosmetic wash, bean meal, fr. lavare, lotum, to wash.]
(Bot.)
An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.


word: Lomentaceous
definition:
Lomentaceous

Lo`men*ta"ceous
(?)
a.
[From Loment.]
(Bot.)
Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.


word: Lonchocarpus
definition:
Lonchocarpus

Lonchocarpus
prop. n.
A genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers.

Syn. -- genus Lonchocarpus.


word: London
definition:
London

Lon"don
(?)
n.
The capital city of England.

London paste (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain. (b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. Dr. Prior. -- London rocket (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (Sisymbrium Irio) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins of the great fire of 1667.


word: Londonism
definition:
Londonism

Lon"don*ism
(?)
n.
A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.


word: Londonize
definition:
Londonize

Lon"don*ize
(?)
v. i.
To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.


word: London smoke
definition:
London smoke

Lon"don smoke
A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.


word: Lone₂
definition:
Lone

Lone
a.
[Abbrev. fr. alone.]
1.
Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.

When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared,
And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
Shenstone.

2.
Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
[Archaic]

Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
Collection of Records (1642).

A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
Shak.

3.
Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.
lone
Pope.

By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
Byron.

4.
Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.

Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls,
And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
Pope.


word: Loneliness
definition:
Loneliness

Lone"li*ness
(?)
n.
1.
The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.

2.
The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.

3.
Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.

I see
The mystery of your loneliness.
Shak.

4.
A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.


word: Lonely
definition:
Lonely

Lone"ly
a.
[Compar. Lonelier (?); superl. Loneliest.]
[Shortened fr. alonely.]
1.
Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

2.
Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.

To the misled and lonely traveler.
Milton.

3.
Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.

4.
Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.

I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely.
H. James.


word: Lonesome
definition:
Lonesome

Lone"some
(?)
a.
[Compar. Lonesomer (?); superl. Lonesomest.]
1.
Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.

Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread.
Coleridge.

2.
Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.


word: lonesomeness
definition:
lonesomeness

lone"some*ness
n.
1.
a disposition toward being alone.

Syn. -- aloneness, loneliness, solitude.

2.
The condition of being alone; the feeling of sadness resulting from being alone.


word: Lone-Star State
definition:
Lone-Star State

Lone-Star State
prop. n.
Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.


word: Long
definition:
Long

Long
(?)
a.
[Compar. Longer (?); superl. Longest (?).]
[AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. lång, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus.  √125.  Cf. Length, Ling a fish, Linger, Lunge, Purloin.]
1.
Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

2.
Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.

3.
Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.

4.
Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.

The we may us reserve both fresh and strong
Against the tournament, which is not long.
Spenser.

5.
Having a length of the specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.

6.
Far-reaching; extensive.
Long
Burke.

7.
(Phonetics)
Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30.

8.
(Finance & Com.)
Having a supply of stocks or goods; prepared for, or depending for a profit upon, advance in prices; as, long of cotton.  Hence, the phrases: to be, or go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the market, to hold products or securities for a rise in price, esp. when bought on a margin.  Contrasted to short.

&hand_; Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned, long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded, etc.

In the long run, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually. -- Long clam (Zool.), the common clam (Mya arenaria) of the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also soft-shell clam and long-neck clam. See Mya. -- Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality. -- Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending below the feet. -- Long division. (Math.) See Division. -- Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen. -- Long home, the grave. -- Long measure, Long meter. See under Measure, Meter. -- Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653. -- Long price, the full retail price. -- Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the Orchis mascula. Dr. Prior. -- Long suit (a) (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. R. A. Proctor. (b) One's most important resource or source of strength; as, as an entertainer, her voice was her long suit. -- Long tom. (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel. (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western U.S.] (c) (Zool.) The long-tailed titmouse. -- Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed. -- Of long, a long time. [Obs.] Fairfax. -- To be long of the market, or To go long of the market, To be on the long side of the market, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to short in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See Short. -- To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.


word: Long₂
definition:
Long

Long
(?)
n.
1.
(Mus.)
A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

2.
(Phonetics)
A long sound, syllable, or vowel.

3.
The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.
Addison.


word: Long₃
definition:
Long

Long
adv.
[AS. lance.]
1.
To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line.

2.
To a great extent in time; during a long time.

They that tarry long at the wine.
Prov. xxiii. 30.

When the trumpet soundeth long.
Ex. xix. 13.

3.
At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.

4.
Through the whole extent or duration.

The bird of dawning singeth all night long.
Shak.

5.
Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?


word: Long₄
definition:
Long

Long
prep.
[Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d Along.]
By means of; by the fault of; because of.
[Obs.]
See Along of, under 3d Along.


word: Long₅
definition:
Long

Long
v. i.
[imp. &  p. p. Longed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Longing.]
[AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang long. See Long, a.]
1.
To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by for or after.

I long to see you.
Rom. i. 11.

I have longed after thy precepts.
Ps. cxix. 40.

I have longed for thy salvation.
Ps. cxix. 174.

Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea.
Arbuthnot.

2.
To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for.
[Obs.]

The labor which that longeth unto me.
Chaucer.


word: Longan
definition:
Longan

Lon"gan
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian longanberry (Nephelium Longan).


word: longanberry
definition:
longanberry

longanberry
n.
A tree (Dimocarpus longan) of Southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet translucent-fleshed edible fruit (the longan) resembling litchi nuts; -- it is sometimes placed in genera Euphoria or Nephelium.

Syn. -- longan, lungen, Dimocarpus longan, Euphoria litchi, Nephelium longana.

2.
Asian fruit similar to litchi.

Syn. -- dragon's eye.


word: Longanimity
definition:
Longanimity

Lon`ga*nim"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. longanimitas; longus long + animus mind: cf. F. longanimité.]
Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Longbeak
definition:
Longbeak

Long"beak`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.


word: longbeard
definition:
longbeard

longbeard
n.
a fat-bellied stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century).

Syn. -- bellarmine, graybeard.


word: Longboat
definition:
Longboat

Long"boat`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.


word: Longbow
definition:
Longbow

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

To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.


word: Long-breathed
definition:
Long-breathed

Long"-breathed`
(?)
a.
Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.


word: long-dated
definition:
long-dated

long-dated
adj.
(Finance)
of a gilt-edged security: having more than 15 years to run before redemption.
[British]


word: long-distance
definition:
long-distance

long-distance
adj.
covering long distances; as, a long-distance runner; a long-distance telephone call.


word: Long-drawn
definition:
Long-drawn

Long"-drawn`
(?)
a.
Extended to a great length.

Syn. -- long-drawn-out.

The cicadae hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains.
G. W. Cable.


word: long-drawn-out
definition:
long-drawn-out

long-drawn-out
adj.
1.
relatively long in duration; as, a long-drawn-out visit from my mother-in-law.

Syn. -- drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted.


word: Longe
definition:
Longe

Longe
(?)
n.
[Abbrev. fr. allonge. See Lunge.]

1.
A thrust. See Lunge.
Smollett.

2.
The training ground for a horse.
Farrow.


word: Longevity
definition:
Longevity

Lon*gev"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. longaevitas. See Longevous.]
Long duration of life; length of life.

The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious.
Arbuthnot.


word: Longevous
definition:
Longevous

Lon*ge"vous
(?)
a.
[L. longaevus; longus long + aevum lifetime, age. See Long, and Age.]
Living a long time; of great age.
Sir T. Browne.


word: long-faced
definition:
long-faced

long-faced
adj.
1.
filled with or reflecting gloom.

Syn. -- glum, gloomy.

2.
having a face longer than the usual.


word: long-familiar
definition:
long-familiar

long-familiar
adj.
frequently seen or experienced; as, a long-familiar face.

Syn. -- well-known(prenominal), well known(predicate).


word: Longhand
definition:
Longhand

Long"hand`
(?)
n.
The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand; as, took it down in longhand.


word: Longheaded
definition:
Longheaded

Long"head"ed
(?)
a.
1.
Having unusual foresight or sagacity.

2.
having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75.  Opposite of brachycephalic.

Syn. -- dolichocephalic, dolichocranal, dolichocranic.


word: Longhorn
definition:
Longhorn

Long"horn`
(?)
n.
1.
(Zool.)
A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned.

2.
The Texas longhorn.


word: Long-horned
definition:
Long-horned

Long"-horned`
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
[Obs.]
Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennæ, as certain beetles (Longicornia).


word: Longicorn
definition:
Longicorn

Lon"gi*corn
(?)
a.
[L. longus long + cornu horn: cf. F. longicorne.]
(Zool.)
Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia.
n. One of the Longicornia.


word: Longicornia
definition:
Longicornia

Lon`gi*cor"ni*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. longus long + cornu horn.]
(Zool.)
A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennæ are very long.  Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.


word: Longilateral
definition:
Longilateral

Lon`gi*lat"er*al
(?)
a.
[L. longus long + lateralis lateral, fr. latus side.]
Having long sides; especially, having the form of a long parallelogram.

Nineveh . . . was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five furlongs broad, and a hundred and fifty long.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Longiloquence
definition:
Longiloquence

Lon*gil"o*quence
(?)
n.
[L. langus long + loquentia a talking.]
Long-windedness.

American longiloquence in oratory.
Fitzed. Hall.


word: Longimanous
definition:
Longimanous

Lon*gim"a*nous
(?)
a.
[L. longus long + manus hand.]
Having long hands.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Longimetry
definition:
Longimetry

Lon*gim"e*try
(?)
n.
[L. longus long + -metry: cf. F. longimétrie.]
The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths.
Cheyne.


word: Longing
definition:
Longing

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

Put on my crown; I have
immortal longings in me.
Shak.


word: Longinquity
definition:
Longinquity

Lon*gin"qui*ty
(?)
n.
[L. longinquitas, fr. longinquus extensive, remote, fr. longus long.]
Greatness of distance; remoteness.
[R.]
Barrow.


word: Longipalp
definition:
Longipalp

Lon"gi*palp
(?)
n.
[F. longipalpe, fr. L. longus long + F. palpe a feeler, a palp.]
(Zool.)
One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.


word: Longipennate
definition:
Longipennate

Lon"gi*pen"nate
(?)
a.
[L. longus long + E. pennate.]
(Zool.)
Having long wings, or quills.


word: Longipennes
definition:
Longipennes

Lon`gi*pen"nes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from L. longus long + penna wing.]
(Zool.)
A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.


word: Longiroster
definition:
Longiroster

Lon`gi*ros"ter
(?)
n.
pl. L. Longirostres (#), E. Longirosters (#).
[L. longus long + rostrum beak: cf. F. longirostre.]
(Zool.)
One of the Longirostres.


word: Longirostral
definition:
Longirostral

Lon`gi*ros"tral
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.


word: Longirostres
definition:
Longirostres

Lon`gi*ros"tres
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. longus long + rostrum beak.]
(Zool.)
A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.


word: Longitude
definition:
Longitude

Lon"gi*tude
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. longitudo, fr. longus long.]
1.
Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.
Sir H. Wotton.

The longitude of their cloaks.
Sir. W. Scott.

Mine [shadow] spindling into longitude immense.
Cowper.

2.
(Geog.)
The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74° or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.

3.
(Astron.)
The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is 79°.

Geocentric longitude (Astron.), the longitude of a heavenly body as seen from the earth. -- Heliocentric longitude, the longitude of a heavenly body, as seen from the sun's center. -- Longitude stars, certain stars whose position is known, and the data in regard to which are used in observations for finding the longitude, as by lunar distances.


word: Longitudinal
definition:
Longitudinal

Lon`gi*tu"di*nal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. longitudinal.]
1.
Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.

2.
Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.
Cheyne.


word: long-lasting
definition:
long-lasting

long-lasting
adj.
Existing or persisting for a long time; as, a long-lasting friendship.

Syn. -- durable, lasting, long-lived.


word: Long-lived
definition:
Long-lived

Long"-lived`
(?)
a.
1.
Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a long-lived family; long-lived prejudices.

2.
same as long-lasting.

Syn. -- durable, lasting, long-lasting.


word: Longmynd rocks
definition:
Longmynd rocks

Long"mynd rocks"
(?)
n. pl.
(Geol.)
The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and slates of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.


word: long-playing
definition:
long-playing

long-playing
adj.
playing at a slower speed and for a longer time than earlier records; -- used of phonograph records.

Syn. -- long-play, LP.


word: Long primer
definition:
Long primer

Long" prim"er
(?)
n.
(Print.)
A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.

&hand_; This line is printed in long primer.


word: long-range
definition:
long-range

long-range
adj.
1.
involving an extended span of time; -- of plans, goals, or predictions; as, long-range goals; a long-range weather forecast.

2.
suitable for or reaching long distances; as, a long-range missile; long-range nuclear capability.


word: long-run
definition:
long-run

long-run
adj.
1.
relating to or extending over a relatively long time; as, the long-run significance of the elections.

Syn. -- long-term.


word: Longshore
definition:
Longshore

Long"shore`
(?)
a.
[Abbrev. from alongshore.]
Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.
Longshore
R. Browning.


word: Longshoreman
definition:
Longshoreman

Long"shore`man
(?)
n.
pl. Longshoremen (#).
[Abbrev. fr. alongshoreman.]
One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.


word: Long-sighted
definition:
Long-sighted

Long"-sight`ed
(?)
a.
1.
Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.

2.
Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand; hypermetropic.


word: Long-sightedness
definition:
Long-sightedness

Long"-sight`ed*ness
n.
1.
The state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness.

2.
(Med.)
See Hypermetropia.


word: Longsome
definition:
Longsome

Long"some
(?)
a.
[AS. langsum.]
Extended in length; tiresome.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.
Prior.
Long"some*ness, n. [Obs.] Fuller.


word: Longspun
definition:
Longspun

Long"spun`
(?)
a.
Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.

The longspun allegories fulsome grow,
While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Addison.


word: Longspur
definition:
Longspur

Long"spur`
(?)
n.
[So called from the length of the hind claw.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera.  The Lapland longspur (Calcarius Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (Calcarius ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.


word: long-standing
definition:
long-standing

long-standing
adj.
existing since a time in the distant past; as, long-standing policies.
[prenominal]

Syn. -- longtime(prenominal).


word: Long-sufferance
definition:
Long-sufferance

Long"-suf`fer*ance
(?)
n.
1.
Forbearance to punish or resent.

2.
patient endurance of pain or unhappiness.

Syn. -- long-suffering.


word: Long-suffering
definition:
Long-suffering

Long"-suf`fer*ing
n.
Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient endurance of pain or unhappiness; patient; not easily provoked.

Syn. -- long-sufferance.

The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.
Ex. xxxiv. 6.


word: Long-suffering₂
definition:
Long-suffering

Long"-suf`fer*ing
n.
disposed to bear inconvenience or injury patiently; long patience of offense; as, a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife.

Syn. -- enduring, forbearing, longanimous, meek.

Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering?
Rom. ii. 4. 


word: Longtail
definition:
Longtail

Long"tail`
(?)
n.
An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail.  Cf. Curtail. Dog.

&hand_; A longtail was a gentleman's dog, or the dog of one qualified to bunt, other dogs being required to have their tails cut.

Cut and longtail, all, gentlefolks and others, as they might come. Shak.


word: Long-tongued
definition:
Long-tongued

Long"-tongued`
(?)
a.
1.
Having a long tongue.

2.
Talkative; babbling; loquacious.
Shak.


word: Longulite
definition:
Longulite

Lon"gu*lite
(?)
n.
[L. longus long + -lie.]
(Min.)
A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.


word: Long-waisted
definition:
Long-waisted

Long"-waist`ed
(?)
a.
1.
Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the bottom of the waist; -- said of persons.

2.
Long from the part about the neck or shoulder, or from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; -- said of garments; as, a long-waisted coat.


word: long-wearing
definition:
long-wearing

long-wearing
adj.
withstanding long use without deterioration; resistant to damage.

Syn. -- durable.


word: Long-winded
definition:
Long-winded

Long"-wind"ed
(?)
a.
1.
Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker.

A tedious, long-winded harangue.
South.

2.
using or containing too many words; as, long-winded (or windy) speakers.

Syn. -- tedious, verbose, windy, wordy.


word: Lonicera
definition:
Lonicera

Lonicera
n.
A genus of vines including the woodbine, Lonicera periclymenum.

Syn. -- genus Lonicera.


word: lontar
definition:
lontar

lontar
n.
A tall fan palm (Borassus flabellifer) of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; the palmyra; -- its leaves are used for thatching and weaving.

Syn. -- palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer.


word: Loo
definition:
Loo

Loo
(lō)
n.
[For older lanterloo, F. lanturelu, lanturlu, name of the game; orig., the refrain of a vaudeville.]
(a)
An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack.  When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.
(b)
A modification of the game of “all fours” in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.

Loo table, a round table adapted for a circle of persons playing loo.


word: Loo₂
definition:
Loo

Loo
(lō)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Looed (lōd); p. pr. & vb. n. Looing.]
To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.
[Written also lu.]
Goldsmith.


word: Loob
definition:
Loob

Loob
(lōb)
n.
[Corn., slime, sludge.]
(Mining)
The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.


word: Loof
definition:
Loof

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


word: Loof₂
definition:
Loof

Loof
(lōf or lŭf; 277)
n.
[See Luff.]
[Also written luff.]
(Naut.)
(a)
Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.
(b)
The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.


word: Look
definition:
Look

Look
(lŏk)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Looked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Looking.]
[OE. loken, AS. l&omacrcian; akin to G. lugen, OHG. luogēn.]
1.
To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.

2.
To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.

3.
To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.

It would look more like vanity than gratitude.
Addison.

Observe how such a practice looks in another person.
I. Watts.

4.
To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.

The inner gate that looketh to north.
Ezek. viii. 3.

The east gate . . . which looketh eastward.
Ezek. xi. 1.

5.
In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.

Look, how much we thus expel of sin, so much we expel of virtue.
Milton.

&hand_; Look, in the imperative, may be followed by a dependent sentence, but see is oftener so used.

Look that ye bind them fast.
Shak.

Look if it be my daughter.
Talfourd.

6.
To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively.

My toes look through the overleather.
Shak.

7.
To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.

Looking each hour into death's mouth to fall.
Spenser.

To look about, to look on all sides, or in different directions. -- To look about one, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded. -- To look after. (a) To attend to; to take care of; as, to look after children. (b) To expect; to be in a state of expectation.
[1913 Webster]
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke xxi. 26.
(c) To seek; to search.
[1913 Webster]
My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place where to it is now retreated. Woodward.
-- To look at, to direct the eyes toward so that one sees, or as if to see; as, to look at a star; hence, to observe, examine, consider; as, to look at a matter without prejudice. -- To look black, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance.
[1913 Webster]
The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. Holinshed.
-- To look down on or To look down upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. -- To look for. (a) To expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship. “Look now for no enchanting voice.” Milton. (b) To seek for; to search for; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle. -- To look forth. (a) To look out of something, as from a window. (b) To threaten to come out. Jer. vi. 1. (Rev. Ver.). -- To look forward to. To anticipate with an expectation of pleasure; to be eager for; as, I am looking forward to your visit. -- To look into, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as, to look into the works of nature; to look into one's conduct or affairs. -- To look on. (a) To regard; to esteem.
[1913 Webster]
Her friends would look on her the worse. Prior.
(b) To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think of.
[1913 Webster]
I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer. Dryden.
(c) To be a mere spectator.
[1913 Webster]
I'll be a candleholder, and look on. Shak.
-- To look out, to be on the watch; to be careful; as, the seaman looks out for breakers. -- To look through. (a) To see through. (b) To search; to examine with the eyes. -- To look to or To look unto. (a) To watch; to take care of. “Look well to thy herds.” Prov. xxvii. 23. (b) To resort to with expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from; as, the creditor may look to surety for payment. “Look unto me, and be ye saved.” Is. xlv. 22. -- To look up, to search for or find out by looking; as, to look up the items of an account. -- To look up to, to respect; to regard with deference.


word: Look₂
definition:
Look

Look
v. t.
1.
To look at; to turn the eyes toward.

2.
To seek; to search for.
[Obs.]

Looking my love, I go from place to place.
Spenser.

3.
To expect.
[Obs.]
Shak.

4.
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.

A spirit fit to start into an empire,
And look the world to law.
Dryden.

5.
To express or manifest by a look.

Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.
Byron.

To look daggers. See under Dagger. -- To look in the face, to face or meet with boldness or confidence; hence, sometimes, to meet for combat. -- To look out, to seek for; to search out; as, prudent persons look out associates of good reputation.


word: Look₃
definition:
Look

Look
(?)
n.
1.
The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.

Threw many a northward look to see his father
Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.
Shak.

2.
Expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a proud or defiant look.
looks
Shak.

Up ! up! my friends, and clear your looks.
Wordsworth.

3.
Hence;
Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look.

Pain, disgrace, and poverty have frighted looks.
Locke.

There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of this.
Carlyle.


word: look-down
definition:
look-down

lookdown

look"down`, look"-down`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A fish (Selene vomer) similar to the moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead; it was also called moonfish at one time.

Syn. -- Selene vomer.


word: looked-for
definition:
looked-for

looked-for
adj.
same as anticipated, 2; as, his looked-for advancement.
[prenominal]

Syn. -- anticipated.


word: Looker
definition:
Looker

Look"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who looks.

2.
A person who is physically very attractive, especially a beautiful woman.

Looker-on, a spectator; an onlooker; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair.

Did not this fatal war affront thy coast,
Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on ?
Fairfax.


word: Looking
definition:
Looking

Look"ing
a.
Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.


word: Looking₂
definition:
Looking

Look"ing
n.
1.
The act of one who looks; a glance.

2.
The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face.
[Obs.]

All dreary was his cheer and his looking.
Chaucer.

Looking for, anticipation; expectation. “A certain fearful looking for of judgment.”  Heb. x. 27.


word: Looking-glass
definition:
Looking-glass

Look"ing-glass`
(?)
n.
A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.

There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass.
South.


word: Lookout
definition:
Lookout

Look"out`
(?)
n.
1.
A careful looking or watching for any object or event.

2.
The place from which such observation is made.

3.
A person engaged in watching; a sentinel; a sentry.

4.
Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
[Colloq.]

on the lookout for in search of; looking for.


word: look-over
definition:
look-over

look-over
n.
a swift cursory examination or inspection; as, I gave the car a quick look-over.

Syn. -- once-over.


word: lookup
definition:
lookup

look"up
n.
(Computers)
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; as, they wrote a program to do a table lookup.

Syn. -- search.


word: Loom₂
definition:
Loom

Loom
(lōm)
n.
[OE. lome, AS. gel&omacrma utensil, implement.]

1.
A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.
Rambler.

2.
(Naut.)
That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.
Totten.


word: Loom₃
definition:
Loom

Loom
(lōm)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Loomed (lōmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Looming.]
[OE. lumen to shine, Icel. ljoma; akin to AS. leíma light, and E. light; or cf. OF. lumer to shine, L. luminare to illumine, lumen light; akin to E. light.  √122.  See Light not dark.]
1.
To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high.

Awful she looms, the terror of the main.
H. J. Pye.

2.
To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context.
J. M. Mason.

3.
To become imminent; to impend.


word: Loom₄
definition:
Loom

Loom
n.
The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.


word: Looming
definition:
Looming

Loom"ing
n.
The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.


word: Loon
definition:
Loon

Loon
(lōn)
n.
[Scot. loun, lown, loon; akin to OD. loen a stupid man; prob. for an older lown, and akin to E. lame.]
A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.


word: Loon₂
definition:
Loon

Loon
n.
[For older loom, Icel. l&omacrmr; akin to Dan. & Sw. lom.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus Urinator (formerly Colymbus), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern diver (Urinator imber, or Colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated loon or diver (Urinator septentrionalis), are the best known species. See Diver.


word: looney
definition:
looney

looney
(lōn"&ybreve_;)
n.
someone deranged and possibly dangerous.

Syn. -- crazy, loony, weirdo.


word: loony
definition:
loony

loon"y
(lōn"&ybreve_;)
a.
[Shortened fr. lunatic.]
1.
Crazy; insane; lunatic; mentally unsound.
[Low, U.S.]
[Written also loony, luny and looney.]
See Luny.

2.
Very foolish; very impractical; as, loony ideas.


word: loony₂
definition:
loony

loony
(lōn"&ybreve_;)
n.
someone mentally deranged and possibly dangerous.

Syn. -- crazy, looney, weirdo, psycho.


word: loony bin
definition:
loony bin

loony bin
(lōn"&ybreve_; bĭn)
n.
An institution for the confinement or treatment of insane persons, such as an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
[slang]

Syn. -- mental institution.


word: Loop
definition:
Loop

Loop
(lōp)
n.
[G. luppe an iron lump.  Cf. Looping.]
(Iron Works)
A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.
[Written also loup.]


word: Loop₂
definition:
Loop

Loop
n.
[Cf. Ir. & Gael. lub loop, noose, fold, thong, bend, lub to bend, incline.]
1.
A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.

That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop
To hang a doubt on.
Shak.

2.
A small, narrow opening; a loophole.

And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
The eye of Reason may pry in upon us.
Shak.

3.
A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.

4.
(Telegraphy)
A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.

5.
(Acoustics)
The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.

Loop knot, a single knot tied in a doubled cord, etc. so as to leave a loop beyond the knot. See Illust. of Knot.


word: Loop₃
definition:
Loop

Loop
(lōp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Looped (lōpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Looping.]
To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.


word: Looped
definition:
Looped

Looped
(lōpt)
a.
1.
Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.

2.
Full of holes.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Looper
definition:
Looper

Loop"er
(lōp"ẽr)
n.
1.
An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.

2.
(Zool.)
The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.


word: Loophole
definition:
Loophole

Loop"hole`
(?)
n.
1.
(Mil.)
A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.

2.
A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion.

3.
An amibiguity or unintended omission in a law, rule, regulation, or contract which allows a party to circumvent the intent of the text and avoid its obligations under certain circumstances. -- used usually in a negative sense; -- distinguished from escape clause in that the latter usually is included to deliberately allow evasion of obligation under certain specified and foreseen circumstances; as, a loophole in the law big enough to drive a truck through.


word: Looping
definition:
Looping

Loop"ing
n.
[Cf. D. loopen to run.  Cf. Loop a mass of iron, Leap.]
(Metal.)
The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.


word: Looping₂
definition:
Looping

Loop"ing
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Loop.

Looping snail (Zool.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.


word: Looplight
definition:
Looplight

Loop"light`
(?)
n.
A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.


word: loop-line
definition:
loop-line

loop-line
n.
a railway line that branches from the trunk line and then rejoins it at another point.


word: Loos
definition:
Loos

Loos
(?)
n.
[OE. los, fr. OF. los, laus.]
Praise; fame; reputation.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Good conscience and good loos.
Chaucer.


word: Loose
definition:
Loose

Loose
(lōs)
a.
[Compar. Looser (lōs"ẽr); superl. Loosest.]
[OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. &  Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose.  √127.   See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.]
1.
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.
Shak.

2.
Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of.

Now I stand
Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ?
Addison.

3.
Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.

4.
Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.

With horse and chariots ranked in loose array.
Milton.

5.
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.

The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation.
Whewel.

6.
Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.

The loose morality which he had learned.
Sir W. Scott.

7.
Unconnected; rambling.

Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
I. Watts.

8.
Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
Locke.

9.
Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.

Loose ladies in delight.
Spenser.

10.
Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
Dryden.

At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. -- Fast and loose. See under Fast. -- To break loose. See under Break. -- Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. -- To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.


word: Loose₂
definition:
Loose

Loose
n.
1.
Freedom from restraint.
[Obs.]
Prior.

2.
A letting go; discharge.
B. Jonson.

To give a loose, to give freedom.

Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
Addison.


word: Loose₃
definition:
Loose

Loose
(lōs)
v. n.
[imp. & p. p. Loosed (lōst); p. pr. & vb. n. Loosing.]
[From Loose, a.]
1.
To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion ?
Job. xxxviii. 31.

Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.
Matt. xxi. 2.

2.
To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.

Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife.
1 Cor. vii. 27.

Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Matt. xvi. 19.

3.
To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.

The joints of his loins were loosed.
Dan. v. 6.

4.
To solve; to interpret.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: loose-fitting
definition:
loose-fitting

loose-fitting
adj.
large enough to leave space for movement over the skin; not tight-fitting; -- of clothing.  Opposite of close-fitting, tight, and tight-fitting.

Syn. -- loose.


word: loose-jowled
definition:
loose-jowled

loose-jowled
adj.
having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw.

Syn. -- double-chinned, jowly.


word: loose-leaf
definition:
loose-leaf

looseleaf

loose"leaf`, loose"-leaf`
(lōs"lēf`)
adj.
having rings that open and close permitting insertion and removal of pages; -- of notebooks and binders and the paper used in them; as, a looseleaf notebook; looseleaf paper.

Syn. -- loose-leaf.


word: looseleaf notebook
definition:
looseleaf notebook

looseleaf binder

looseleaf binder, looseleaf notebook
n.
A type of notebook with hard covers attached to metal rings which open, allowing sheets of writing paper to be conveniently inserted into it and removed from it.


word: looseleaf paper
definition:
looseleaf paper

looseleaf paper
n.
Sheets of writing paper having holes at the edge permitting insertion into and removal from a looseleaf binder.


word: Loosen
definition:
Loosen

Loos"en
(lōs"'n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Loosened (lōs"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Loosening.]
[See Loose, v. t.]
1.
To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.

After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth.
Bacon.

2.
To free from restraint; to set at liberty..

It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding.
Dryden.

3.
To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
Bacon.


word: loosened
definition:
loosened

loosened
adj.
1.
having constraints removed.

Syn. -- freed.

2.
straightened out; untangled.

Syn. -- disentangled, unsnarled.


word: Looseness
definition:
Looseness

Loose"ness
n.
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.


word: Loosestrife
definition:
Loosestrife

Loose"strife`
(lōs"strīf`)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.
(b)
Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers.
Gray.

False loosestrife, a plant of the genus Ludwigia, which includes several species, most of which are found in the United States. -- Tufted loosestrife, the plant Lysimachia thyrsiflora, found in the northern parts of the United States and in Europe. Gray.


word: Loot
definition:
Loot

Loot
(lōt)
n.
[Hind. lū&tsdot_;, Skr. l&omacrtra, l&omacrptra, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.]
1.
The act of plundering.

2.
Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city.

3.
Hence:
Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty.

4.
Broadly:
Valuable objects; as, the child was delighted with all the loot he got for his birthday.

5.
Money; as, you shouldn't carry all that loot around with you in the city; she made a pile of loot from trading in cattle futures.
[slang]


word: Loot₂
definition:
Loot

Loot
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Looted; p. pr. & vb. n. Looting.]
To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses.
L. Oliphant.


word: looted
definition:
looted

looted
adj.
wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; as, the robbers left the looted train.

Syn. -- pillaged, plundered, ransacked.


word: Lop₂
definition:
Lop

Lop
(l&obreve_;p)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lopping (?).]
[Prov. G. luppen, lubben, to cut, geld, or OD. luppen, D. lubben.]
1.
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove, as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
lopped
Milton.

Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
Pope.

2.
To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.


word: Lop₆
definition:
Lop

Lop
a.
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.


word: Lope₂
definition:
Lope

Lope
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Loped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Loping.]
[See Leap.]
1.
To leap; to dance.
[Prov. Eng.]
lopes
Middleton.

2.
To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse.
[U.S.]

3.
To run with an easy, bounding stride; -- of people.


word: Lope₃
definition:
Lope

Lope
n.
1.
A leap; a long step.
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
[U.S.]

The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle.
T. B. Thorpe.


word: Lop-eared
definition:
Lop-eared

Lopeared

Lop"eared`, Lop"-eared`
(?)
a.
Having ears which droop or hang down; as, a lop-eared hound.


word: Loper
definition:
Loper

Lop"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.
[U.S.]

2.
(Rope Making)
A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.


word: Lophine
definition:
Lophine

Loph"ine
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a tuft or crest of feathers.]
(Chem.)
A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.


word: Lophiomys
definition:
Lophiomys

Lo*phi"o*mys
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. lofia` a mane, bristly ridge + my^s a mouse.]
(Zool.)
A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidæ), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.


word: Lophobranch
definition:
Lophobranch

Loph"o*branch
(?)
a.
[Gr. lofia`  crest or tuft + bra`gchion gill.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
n. One of the Lophobranchii.


word: Lophobranchii
definition:
Lophobranchii

Loph`o*bran"chi*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. lo`fos a crest or tuft + bra`gchion gill.]
(Zool.)
An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.


word: Lophophore
definition:
Lophophore

Loph"o*phore
(?)
n.
[Gr. lo`fos a crest or tuft + fe`rein to bear.]
(Zool.)
A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.


word: Lophopoda
definition:
Lophopoda

Lo*phop"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. lo`fos a crest or tuft + -poda.]
(Zool.)
Same as Phylactolemata.


word: Lophosteon
definition:
Lophosteon

Lo*phos"te*on
(?)
n.
pl. L. Lophostea (#), E. Lophosteons (#).
[NL., from Gr. lo`fos a crest + _; a bone.]
(Anat.)
The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.


word: Lopper₂
definition:
Lopper

Lop"per
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Loppered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Loppering.]
[Cf. Prov. G. lübbern, levern, OHG. giliber&omacrn, G. luppe, lab, rennet.]
To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.


word: Lopping
definition:
Lopping

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

The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood.
Burke.


word: Lopseed
definition:
Lopseed

Lop"seed`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.


word: Lopsided
definition:
Lopsided

Lop"sid`ed
(?)
a.
[Lop + side. Cf. Lobsided.]
1.
Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.
Marryat.

2.
Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; having much more on one side than the other; -- also used metaphorically; as, a lopsided victory.

3.
Full of idiosyncrasies.
J. S. Mill.


word: lopsided victory
definition:
lopsided victory

lop"sid`ed victory
(?)
n.
A victory in a contest in which one side defeats the other overwhelmingly; -- in sports, meaning one side scores much more than the other; in war, meaning one side has many more casualties than the other.


word: Loquacious
definition:
Loquacious

Lo*qua"cious
(?)
a.
[L. loquax, -acis, talkative, fr. loqui to speak; cf. Gr. _; to rattle, shriek, shout.]
1.
Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.

Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong.
Dryden.

2.
Speaking; expressive.
[R.]
J. Philips.

3.
Apt to blab and disclose secrets.


word: Loquacity
definition:
Loquacity

Lo*quac"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. loquacitas: cf. F. loquacité.]
The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.

Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits.
Arbuthnot.


word: Loquat
definition:
Loquat

Lo"quat
(?)
n.
[Chinese name.]
(Bot.)
The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.


word: Loran
definition:
Loran

Lor"an
(lôr"ăn or l&omacrr"ăn)
n.
[Acronym, from LOng RAnge Navigation]
(Naut., aviation)
A system of electronic navigation in which a vessel or aircraft determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the time differences between low frequency radio transmissions from two stationary transmitters (slaves) and a stationary master transmitter.  Contrary to the name, Loran is a medium range system, usually effective for no more than a few hundred miles from shore.  The first commercial system was called Loran A; the latest (and final) development is Loran C.
[acronym]


word: Lorate
definition:
Lorate

Lo"rate
(?)
a.
[L. loratus, fr. lorum thong.]
(Bot.)
Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.


word: Lorcha
definition:
Lorcha

Lor"cha
(?)
n.
[Pg.]
(Naut.)
A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.
Admiral Foote.


word: Lord
definition:
Lord

Lord
(lôrd)
n.
[Cf. Gr. _; bent so as to be convex in front.]
A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
[Eng.]
Richardson (Dict.).


word: Lord₂
definition:
Lord

Lord
n.
[OE. lord, laverd, loverd, AS. hlāford, for hlāfweard, i. e., bread keeper; hlāf bread, loaf + weardian to look after, to take care of, to ward. See Loaf, and Ward to guard, and cf. Laird, Lady.]
1.
One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.

But now I was the lord
Of this fair mansion.
Shak.

Man over men
He made not lord.
Milton.

2.
A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a baron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
[Eng.]

3.
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
[Eng.]

4.
A husband.
lord
Gen. xviii. 12.

Thou worthy lord
Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee.
Shak.

5.
(Feudal Law)
One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.

6.
The Supreme Being; Jehovah.

&hand_; When Lord, in the Old Testament, is printed in small capitals, it is usually equivalent to Jehovah, and might, with more propriety, be so rendered.

7.
(Christianity)
The Savior; Jesus Christ.

House of Lords, one of the constituent parts of the British Parliament, consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal. -- Lord high chancellor, Lord high constable, etc. See Chancellor, Constable, etc. -- Lord justice clerk, the second in rank of the two highest judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. -- Lord justice general, or Lord president, the highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. -- Lord keeper, an ancient officer of the English crown, who had the custody of the king's great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents.  The office is now merged in that of the chancellor. -- Lord lieutenant, a representative of British royalty: the lord lieutenant of Ireland being the representative of royalty there, and exercising supreme administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county. -- Lord of misrule, the master of the revels at Christmas in a nobleman's or other great house. Eng. Cyc. -- Lords spiritual, the archbishops and bishops who have seats in the House of Lords. -- Lords temporal, the peers of England; also, sixteen representative peers of Scotland, and twenty-eight representatives of the Irish peerage. -- Our lord, Jesus Christ; the Savior. -- The Lord's Day, Sunday; the Christian Sabbath, on which the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. -- The Lord's Prayer, (Christianity) the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples, also called the Our Father. Matt. vi. 9-13. -- The Lord's Supper. (a) The paschal supper partaken of by Jesus the night before his crucifixion. (b) The sacrament of the eucharist; the holy communion. -- The Lord's Table. (a) The altar or table from which the sacrament is dispensed. (b) The sacrament itself.


word: Lord₃
definition:
Lord

Lord
v. t.
1.
To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
[R.]
Shak.

2.
To rule or preside over as a lord.
[R.]


word: Lord₄
definition:
Lord

Lord
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Lording.]
To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb; as, rich students lording it over their classmates.

The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss.
Spenser.

I see them lording it in London streets.
Shak.

And lorded over them whom now they serve.
Milton.


word: Lording
definition:
Lording

Lord"ing
n.
[Lord + -ing, 3.]
1.
The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule.
[Obs.]
Swift.

&hand_; In the plural, a common ancient mode of address equivalent to “Sirs” or “My masters.”

Therefore, lordings all, I you beseech.
Chaucer.


word: lordless
definition:
lordless

lordless
adj.
1.
having no lord or master; as, the “ronin” of Japan were lordless samurai.

Syn. -- masterless, ungoverned.


word: Lordlike
definition:
Lordlike

Lord"like`
a.
[2d lord + like.  Cf. Lordly.]

1.
Befitting or like a lord; lordly.

2.
Haughty; proud; insolent; arrogant.


word: Lordly
definition:
Lordly

Lord"ly
a.
[Compar. Lordlier (?); superl. Lordliest.]
[Lord + -ly.  Cf. Lordlike.]
1.
Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Judges v. 25.

Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
South.

The maidens gathered strength and grace
And presence, lordlier than before.
Tennyson.

2.
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

Lords are lordliest in their wine.
Milton.


word: Lordolatry
definition:
Lordolatry

Lord*ol"a*try
(?)
n.
[Lord + -olatry, as in idolatry.]
Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such.
[Jocose]

But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed?
Thackeray.


word: Lordosis
definition:
Lordosis

Lor*do"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; , fr. _; bent so as to be convex in front.]
(Med.)
(a)
A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.
(b)
Any abnormal curvature of the bones.


word: Lords and Ladies
definition:
Lords and Ladies

Lords" and La"dies
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.
Dr. Prior.


word: Lordship
definition:
Lordship

Lord"ship
(?)
n.
1.
The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.

2.
Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.

What lands and lordships for their owner know
My quondam barber.
Dryden.

3.
Dominion; power; authority.

They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them.
Mark x. 42.


word: Lore
definition:
Lore

Lore
(l&omacrr)
n.
[F. lore, L. lorum thong.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
(b)
The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.


word: Lore₂
definition:
Lore

Lore
obs.
imp. & p. p.
of Lose.
[See Lose.]
Lost.

Neither of them she found where she them lore.
Spenser.


word: Lore₃
definition:
Lore

Lore
n.
[OE. lore, lare, AS. lār, fr. l&aemacr_;ran to teach; akin to D. leer teaching, doctrine, G. lehre, Dan. lære, Sw. lära. See Learn, and cf. Lere, v. t.]
1.
That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.
lore
Fairfax.

His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore.
Milton.

2.
That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.
Chaucer.

If please ye, listen to my lore.
Spenser.

3.
Workmanship.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Loral₂
definition:
Loral

Loreal

{ Lor"e*al (?), Lor"al (?), }
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.


word: Loretto nuns
definition:
Loretto nuns

Loreto nuns

{ Lo*ret"o nuns (?), or Lo*ret"to nuns (?) }
[From Loreto, a city in Italy famous for its Holy House, said to be that in which Jesus lived, brought by angels from Nazareth.]
(R. C. Ch.)
Members of a congregation of nuns founded by Mrs. Mary Teresa Ball, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1822, and now spread over Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States.  The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto.  They are engaged in teaching girls.


word: Lorette
definition:
Lorette

Lo`rette"
(?)
n.
[F.]
In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.


word: Lorettine
definition:
Lorettine

Lo`ret*tine"
(?)
n.
[From Loreto in Italy.]
(R. C. Ch.)
(a)
One of an order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the western United States.
(b)
A Loreto nun.


word: Lorica
definition:
Lorica

Lo*ri"ca
(?)
n.
pl. Loricæ (#).
[L., lit., a corselet of thongs, fr. lorum thong.]
1.
(Anc. Armor)
A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.

2.
(Chem.)
Lute{1} for protecting vessels from the fire.

3.
(Zool.)
The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.


word: Loricata
definition:
Loricata

Lor`i*ca"ta
(l&obreve_;r`ĭ*kā"tȧ)
n. pl.
[NL. See Loricate.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.
(b)
The crocodilia.


word: Loricate
definition:
Loricate

Lor"i*cate
(l&obreve_;r"ĭ*kāt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Loricated (l&obreve_;r"ĭ*kāt`ĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Loricating (l&obreve_;r"ĭ*kā`tĭng).]
[L. loricatus, p. p. of loricare to clothe in mail, to cover with plastering, fr. lorica a leather cuirass, a plastering, fr. lorum thong.]
To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute{1}, a crust, coating, or plates.


word: Loricate₂
definition:
Loricate

Lor"i*cate
(l&obreve_;r"ĭ*ka̝t)
a.
[See Loricate, v.]
Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.


word: Loricate₃
definition:
Loricate

Lor"i*cate
n.
(Zool.)
An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.


word: Lorication
definition:
Lorication

Lor`i*ca"tion
(l&obreve_;r`ĭ*kā"shŭn)
n.
[L. loricatio.]
The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.


word: Lorikeet
definition:
Lorikeet

Lor"i*keet
(l&obreve_;r"ĭ*kēt)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies.  They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers.  They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.


word: Loriner
definition:
Loriner

Lorimer

{ Lor"i*mer (?), Lor"i*ner (?), }
n.
[OF. lormier, loremier, fr. LL. loranum bridle, L. lorum thong, the rein of a bridle.]
A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.
[Obs.]
Holinshed.


word: Loriot
definition:
Loriot

Lo"ri*ot
(?)
n.
[F., fr. OF. loriou, for l'oriol, oriol, l' being the article. The same word as oriole. See Oriole.]
(Zool.)
The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole.


word: Loris
definition:
Loris

Lo"ris
(?)
n.
[Loris, or lori, the indigenous East Indian name.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops.  They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits.  The slender loris (Stenops gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species.
[Written also lori.]


word: Lorn
definition:
Lorn

Lorn
(lôrn)
a.
[Strong p. p. of Lose. See Lose, Forlorn.]
1.
Lost; undone; ruined.
[Archaic]

If thou readest, thou art lorn.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
Forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft; as, a lone, lorn woman.


word: Lorry
definition:
Lorry

Lorrie

{ Lor"rie, Lor"ry  }
(?)
n.
pl. Lorries (#).
[Prob. from lurry to pull or lug.]
1.
A small cart or wagon moving on rails, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

2.
A motorized wheeled land vehicle, esp. a large one, with a cab for the driver and a separate rear compartment for transporting freight; called truck in the U. S.
[Brit.]

Syn. -- camion.

3.
a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides.
[wns=1]


word: Lory
definition:
Lory

Lo"ry
(?)
n.
pl. Lories (#).
[Hind. & Malay. lūrī, nūrī.]
(Zool.)
Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidæ, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots.  They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands.  They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.

&hand_; The lory, or louri, of South Africa is the white-crested plantain eater or turacou. See Turacou.


word: Lose
definition:
Lose

Lose
(lōz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lost (l&obreve_;st; 115) p. pr. & vb. n. Losing (lōz"ĭng).]
[OE. losien to loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE. leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. leísan, p. p. loren (in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw. förlisa, förlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a & v., L. luere to loose, Gr. ly`ein, Skr. lū to cut.  √127.  Cf. Analysis, Palsy, Solve, Forlorn, Leasing, Loose, Loss.]

1.
To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.

Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
Of having lost her favorite dove.
Prior.

2.
To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.

If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
Matt. v. 13.

3.
Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.

The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose.
Dryden.

4.
To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.

He hath lost his fellows.
Shak

5.
To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.

The woman that deliberates is lost.
Addison.

6.
To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.

Like following life thro' creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect.
Pope.

7.
To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.

He shall in no wise lose his reward.
Matt. x. 42.

I fought the battle bravely which I lost,
And lost it but to Macedonians.
Dryden.

8.
To cause to part with; to deprive of.
[R.]

How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?
Sir W. Temple.

9.
To prevent from gaining or obtaining.

O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.
Baxter.

To lose ground, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage. -- To lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. “The mutineers lost heart.” Macaulay. -- To lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment, through fear, anger, or other emotion.

In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads.
Whitney.


word: Lose₂
definition:
Lose

Lose
(?)
v. i.
To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

We 'll . . . hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out.
Shak.


word: Losel
definition:
Losel

Los"el
(?)
n.
[From the root of lose, loss.  √127.  Cf. Lorel.]
One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel.
[Archaic]
Spenser.

One sad losel soils a name for aye.
Byron.


word: Losenger
definition:
Losenger

Los"en*ger
(?)
n.
[OF. losengier, losengeor, fr. losengier to deceive, flatter, losenge, flattery, Pr. lauzenga, fr. L. laus praise.  Cf. Lozenge.]
A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done.
Holinshed.


word: Loser
definition:
Loser

Los"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who loses; as, the loser pays for a round of beer.
South.

2.
A person who is habitually unsuccessful at some endeavor, such as employment or personal relationships.
[slang]

3.
A plan or strategy unlikely to succeed.
[slang]


word: Losing
definition:
Losing

Lo"sing
(?)
a.
[See Losenger.]
Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening.
[Obs.]

Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Flatterer.
Fuller.


word: Losing₂
definition:
Losing

Los"ing
(?)
a.
[See Lose, v. t.]
Causing or likely to cause a loss; as, a losing game or business; a losing strategy.

Who strive to sit out losing hands are lost.
Herbert.


word: losings
definition:
losings

losings
n.
something lost, especially money lost at gambling.  Inverse of winnings.

Syn. -- losses.


word: Loss
definition:
Loss

Loss
(l&obreve_;s; 115)
n.
[AS. los loss, losing, fr. leísan to lose.  √127. See Lose, v. t.]
1.
The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

Assured loss before the match be played.
Shak.

2.
The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.

Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss.
Shak

3.
That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.

4.
The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.

5.
Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.

6.
Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.

7.
(Mil.)
Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.

8.
(Insurance)
Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars.

To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it. -- To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty.


word: losses
definition:
losses

losses
n.
something lost, especially money lost at gambling.  Inverse of winnings.

Syn. -- losings.


word: loss leader
definition:
loss leader

loss leader
n.
an article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers.

Syn. -- drawing card, loss leader, leader.


word: lossy compression
definition:
lossy compression

los"sy com*pres"sion
n.
(Computers)
The compression of binary data into a form which, when it is re-expanded, has most, but not all, of the original information.  It is used primarily for compression of images and sounds, and is designed to provide a high degree of compression at the cost of a slight loss of data.  It is expemplified by the JPEG compression standard.  Images compressed by a lossy compression algorithm are re-expanded into an image close, but not identical to the original image; the difference between the original and the reconstructed image may be imperceptible to normal viewing by the eye.


word: Lost
definition:
Lost

Lost
(?)
a.
[Prop. p. p. of OE. losien. See Lose, v. t.]
1.
Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

2.
Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.

3.
Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.

5.
Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.

6.
Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.

7.
Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

8.
Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.

9.
Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.

Lost motion (Mach.), the difference between the motion of a driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of parts or looseness of joints.


word: Lot
definition:
Lot

Lot
(l&obreve_;t)
n.
[AS. hlot; akin to hleítan to cast lots, OS. hl&omacrt lot, D. lot, G. loos, OHG. l&omacrz, Icel. hlutr, Sw. lott, Dan. lod, Goth. hlauts.  Cf. Allot, Lotto, Lottery.]

1.
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.
Spenser.

2.
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.

The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Prov. xvi. 33.

If we draw lots, he speeds.
Shak.

3.
The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's
Enough to bear.
Milton.

He was but born to try
The lot of man -- to suffer and to die.
Pope.

4.
A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; all objects sold in a single purchase transaction; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.

I, this winter, met with a very large lot of English heads, chiefly of the reign of James I.
Walpole.

5.
A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.

The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York.
Kent.

6.
A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; to waste a lot of time on line; lots of people think so.
[Colloq.]

He wrote to her . . . he might be detained in London by a lot of business.
W. Black.

7.
A prize in a lottery.
[Obs.]
Evelyn.

To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast lots, to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforeseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined. -- To draw lots, to determine an event, or make a decision, by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer. -- To pay scot and lot, to pay taxes according to one's ability. See Scot.


word: Lot₂
definition:
Lot

Lot
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lotted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lotting (?).]
To allot; to sort; to portion.
[R.]

To lot on or To lot upon, to count or reckon upon; to expect with pleasure. [Colloq. U. S.]


word: Lote
definition:
Lote

Lote
(?)
n.
[L. lotus, Gr. _;.  Cf. Lotus.]
(Bot.)
A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree.
Eng. Cyc.


word: Lothsome
definition:
Lothsome

Lothly

Loth

Loth (?), a., Loth"ly, a. & adv., Loth"some (_;), a.
See Loath, Loathly, etc.


word: loth
definition:
loth

loth
adj.
strongly opposed.
[wns=2]
[predicate]

Syn. -- antipathetic, antipathetical, averse(predicate), averse to(predicate), indisposed(predicate), loath(predicate), opposed.


word: Lothario
definition:
Lothario

Lo*tha"ri*o
(?)
n.
[Name of a character in Rowe's drama, “The Fair Penitent.”]
A gay seducer of women; a libertine.


word: Lothringen
definition:
Lothringen

Lothringen
prop. n.
Lorraine, a French region rich in iron-ore deposits.

Syn. -- Lorraine.


word: Lotion
definition:
Lotion

Lo"tion
(?)
n.
[L. lotio, fr. lavare, lotum, to wash: cf. F. lotion. See Lave to wash.]
1.
A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.

2.
A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.


word: Lotophagi
definition:
Lotophagi

Lo*toph"a*gi
(?)
n. pl.
[L., fr. Gr. _;; _; the lotus + _; to eat.]
(Class. Myth.)
A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.


word: Lottery
definition:
Lottery

Lot"ter*y
(?)
n.
pl. Lotteries (#).
[Lot + -ery, as in brewery, bindery.]
1.
A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of the tickets are blanks.
Fig.
An affair of chance.

&hand_; The laws of the United States and of most of the States make private lotteries illegal, except in certain circumstances for charitable institutions; however, many of the states now conduct lotteries tehmselves as a revenue source.

2.
Allotment; thing allotted.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Lotto
definition:
Lotto

Lot"to
(l&obreve_;t"to̝)
n.
[F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of German origin. See Lot.]
A game of chance, played with cards or tickets, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance.  The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer.  In some systems, lesser prizes are awarded for having some but not all of the numbers selected, such as four or five numbers in a six-number drawing.  A variety of lotto is called keno.  In another variety, the player chooses the numbers for the card or ticket s/he holds.  There may be from three to seven different numbers on a card or ticket.  In a modern computerized lotto system conducted by state authorities, the player chooses numbers, or allows the computer to choose numbers at random, which are then printed on a ticket that the player holds until the winning number is selected.
[Often written loto.]


word: Lotus
definition:
Lotus

Lo"tus
(l&omacr"tŭs)
n.
[L. lotus, Gr. lwto`s.  Cf. Lote.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphæa Lotus and Nymphæa cærulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.
(b)
The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.
(c)
The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
(d)
A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
[Written also lotos.]

European lotus, a small tree (Diospyros Lotus) of Southern Europe and Asia; also, its rather large bluish black berry, which is called also the date plum.

2.
(Arch.)
An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.


word: Lotos-eater
definition:
Lotos-eater

Lotus-eater

{ Lo"tus-eat`er (l&omacr"tŭs-ēt`ẽr), Lo"tos-eat`er (l&omacr"t&obreve_;s-ēt`ẽr), }
n.
(Class. Myth.)
One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.

The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters.
Tennyson.


word: louche
definition:
louche

louche
adj.
of questionable taste, decency, or morality; not reputable; as, a louche nightclub; a louche painting.

Syn. -- shady.


word: Louchettes
definition:
Louchettes

Lou*chettes"
(?)
n. pl.
[F.]
Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front.
Knight.


word: Loud
definition:
Loud

Loud
(loud)
a.
[Compar. Louder (loud"ẽr); superl. Loudest.]
[OE. loud, lud, AS. hlūd; akin to OS. hlūd, D. luid, OHG. lūt, G. laut, L. -clutus, in inclutus, inclitus, celebrated, renowned, cluere to be called, Gr. klyto`s heard, loud, famous, kly`ein to hear, Skr. çru. √41.  Cf. Client, Listen, Slave a serf.]
1.
Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.

They were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified.
Luke xxiii. 23.

2.
Clamorous; boisterous.

She is loud and stubborn.
Prov. vii. 11.

3.
Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.
[Colloq.]

4.
Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.
[Slang]


word: loud-mouth
definition:
loud-mouth

loud-mouth
n.
1.
a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscretely.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- loudmouth, blusterer.

2.
Aperson who is loud-mouthed.


word: Loud-mouthed
definition:
Loud-mouthed

Loud"-mouthed`
(?)
a.
Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent or offensive.


word: loudspeaker
definition:
loudspeaker

loud"speak*er
n.
A device which converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance, usually outdoors; it is used to amplify or transmit over a distance speech from a person, who is typically speaking into a microphone.  Sometimes it is used to play recorded speech or music.

Syn. -- speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system.


word: Loud-voiced
definition:
Loud-voiced

Loud"-voiced`
(?)
a.
Having a loud voice; speaking with a loud voice; noisy; clamorous.
Byron.


word: Louis d'or
definition:
Louis d'or

Lou"is d'or`
(?)
n.
[F., gold louis.]
Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.


word: Louis quatorze
definition:
Louis quatorze

Lou"is qua*torze"
(lō"ĭ kȧ*tôrz")
n.
[F., Louis fourteenth.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the art or style of the times of Louis XIV. of France; as, Louis quatorze architecture.


word: Lounge
definition:
Lounge

Lounge
(lounj)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lounged (lounjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lounging (loun"jĭng).]
[OE. lungis a tall, slow, awkward fellow, OF. longis, longin, said to be fr. Longinus, the name of the centurion who pierced the body of Christ, but with reference also to L. longus long.  Cf. Long, a.]
To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.
J. Hannay.


word: Lounge₂
definition:
Lounge

Lounge
n.
1.
An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.

She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop served as a fashionable lounge.
Miss Edgeworth.

2.
A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.


word: loupe
definition:
loupe

loupe
(lōp)
n.
Any of a variety of small magnifying glasses, having a magnifying power from 2X to 20X, commonly of 10X, which may be held in the hand, or in some cases held within the eyesocket without the use of a hand.  It is commonly used by jewelers and watchmakers.


word: Loup-garou
definition:
Loup-garou

Loup`-ga`rou"
(?)
n.
pl. Loups-garous (#)
[F., fr. loup wolf + a Teutonic word akin to E. werewolf.]
A werewolf; a lycanthrope.

The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of “Little Red Riding-hood” and others.
Brinton.


word: Louping
definition:
Louping

Loup"ing
(?)
n.
[From Loup to leap.]
(Veter.)
An enzoötic, often fatal, disease of sheep and other domestic animals, of unknown cause. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.


word: Loups
definition:
Loups

Loups
(?)
n. pl.
sing.  Loup.
[F., prop., a wolf.]
(Ethnol.)
The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.


word: Louse
definition:
Louse

Louse
(lous)
n.
pl. Lice (līs).
[OE. lous, AS. lūs, pl. l&ymacr_;s; akin to D. luis, G. laus, OHG. lūs, Icel. lūs, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because it is destructive, and akin to E. lose, loose.]
(Zool.)
1.
Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (Pediculus vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.

2.
Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.

3.
Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.

4.
Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.

&hand_; The term is also applied to various other parasites; as, the whale louse, beelouse, horse louse.

Louse fly (Zool.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse. -- Louse mite (Zool.), any one of numerous species of mites which infest mammals and birds, clinging to the hair and feathers like lice. They belong to Myobia, Dermaleichus, Mycoptes, and several other genera.


word: Lousewort
definition:
Lousewort

Louse"wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
Any species of Pedicularis, a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy.

Yellow lousewort, a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.


word: Lousily
definition:
Lousily

Lous"i*ly
(?)
adv.
[From Lousy.]
In a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily.
[Vulgar]


word: Lousy
definition:
Lousy

Lous"y
(?)
a.
1.
Infested with lice.

2.
Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave.
[informal]

Such lousy learning as this is.
Bale.
3.
Very bad; as, to feel lousy; to do a lousy job.


word: Lout
definition:
Lout

Lout
(lout)
v. i.
[OE. louten, luten, AS. lūtan; akin to Icel. lūta, Dan. lude, OHG. lūzēn to lie hid.]
To bend; to box; to stoop.
[Archaic]
Chaucer. Longfellow.

He fair the knight saluted, louting low.
Spenser.


word: Loutish
definition:
Loutish

Lout"ish
a.
Clownish; rude; awkward.
Loutish
Sir P. Sidney.
Lout"ish*ly, adv. -- Lout"ish*ness, n.


word: Loutou
definition:
Loutou

Lou*tou"
(?)
n.
[Native names.]
(Zool.)
A crested black monkey (Semnopithecus maurus) of Java.


word: Louvre
definition:
Louvre

Louver

{ Lou"ver, Lou"vre  }
(?)
n.
[OE. lover, OF. lover, lovier; or l'ouvert the opening, fr. overt, ouvert, p. p. of ovrir, ouvrir, to open, F. ouvrir.  Cf. Overt.]
(Arch.)
A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a).
[Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer.]
2.
Same as louver boards, below

3.
A set of slats resembling louver boards, arranged in a vertical row and attached at each slat end to a frame inserted in or part of a door or window; the slats may be made of wood, plastic, or metal, and the angle of inclination of the slats may be adjustable simultaneously, to allow more or less light or air into the enclosure.

Louver boards or Louver boarding, the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc. -- Louver work, slatted work.


word: louvered door
definition:
louvered door

lou"vered door`
(?)
n.
A door having louvers in place of a solid panel, in part or all of the surface of the door.


word: louvered window
definition:
louvered window

lou"vered win"dow
(?)
n.
A window having louvers in place of glass, usually over the entire surface of the window.


word: Lovable
definition:
Lovable

Lov"a*ble
(?)
a.
Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.

Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable,
Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat.
Tennyson.


word: Lovage
definition:
Lovage

Lov"age
(?)
n.
[F. livèche, fr. L. levisticum, ligusticum, a plant indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian, Liguria a country of Cisalpine Gaul.]
(Bot.)
An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.


word: Love
definition:
Love

Love
(lŭv)
n.
[OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. See Lief.]
1.
A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

Of all the dearest bonds we prove
Thou countest sons' and mothers' love
Most sacred, most Thine own.
Keble.

2.
Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

He on his side
Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love
Hung over her enamored.
Milton.

3.
Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

Demetrius . . . 
Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
And won her soul.
Shak.

4.
Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.

Love, and health to all.
Shak.

Smit with the love of sacred song.
Milton.

The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
Fenton.

5.
Due gratitude and reverence to God.

Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Jude 21.

6.
The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading.
love
Dryden.

Open the temple gates unto my love.
Spenser.

7.
Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

Such was his form as painters, when they show
Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow.
Dryden.

Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
Shak.

8.
A thin silk stuff.
[Obs.]
Boyle.

9.
(Bot.)
A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).

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.

11.
Sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism.

&hand_; 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 (Zool.), 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. [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 fœtida, which has similar bracts. -- Love-in-idleness (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy.
[1913 Webster]
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 The Love god, Cupid. -- To make love, to engage in sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism. -- 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.


word: Love₂
definition:
Love

Love
(lŭv)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Loved (lŭvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Loving.]
[AS. lufian.  √124. See 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.


word: lovebird
definition:
lovebird

lovebird
n.
A small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors; also called the budgie.

Syn. -- budgerigar, budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, shell parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus.

2.
small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates.


word: loved
definition:
loved

loved
adj.
1.
p. p. of love, v. t..  Opposite of unloved.
admired, esteemed
Also See: wanted.


word: Loveless
definition:
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, as loveless as they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues.
Holland.


word: Loveliness
definition:
Loveliness

Love"li*ness
n.
[From Lovely.]
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.


word: Lovelock
definition:
Lovelock

Love"lock`
(?)
n.
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.


word: Lovely
definition:
Lovely

Love"ly
(?)
a.
[Compar. Lovelier (?); superl. Loveliest.]
[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
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.]
lovely
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.


word: love-philtre
definition:
love-philtre

love-philter

love-philter, love-philtre
n.
a fabled drink credited with magical power; it can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.

Syn. -- philter, philtre, love-potion.


word: love-potion
definition:
love-potion

love-potion
n.
a fabled drink credited with magical power; it can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.

Syn. -- philter, philtre, love-philter, love-philtre.


word: Lover
definition:
Lover

Lov"er
(lŭv"ẽr)
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.
lover
T. Burnet.

4.
One who is involved in a sexual relationship with another; as, she took a lover.


word: Loverwise
definition:
Loverwise

Lo"ver*wise`
(lŭv"ẽr*wīz`)
adv.
As lovers do.

As they sat down here loverwise.
W. D. Howells.


word: Love-sick
definition:
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.


word: love song
definition:
love song

lovesong

lovesong, love song
n.
a song about love or expressing love for another person.


word: Loving
definition:
Loving

Lov"ing
(?)
a.
1.
Affectionate.

The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.
Tennyson.

2.
Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.


word: Loving cup
definition:
Loving cup

Lov"ing cup`
1.
A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.

2.
an award resembling a loving cup{1} that is given to the winner of a competition.


word: Lovingness
definition:
Lovingness

Lov"ing*ness
n.
Affection; kind regard.

The only two bands of good will, loveliness and lovingness.
Sir. P. Sidney.


word: Low₂
definition:
Low

Low
(l&omacr)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lowed (l&omacrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lowing.]
[OE. lowen, AS. hl&omacrwan; akin to D. loeijen, OHG. hl&omacrjan, hluojan.]
To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
Gray.


word: Low₃
definition:
Low

Low
n.
The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.

Talking voices and the law of herds.
Wordsworth.


word: Low₄
definition:
Low

Low
n.
[AS. hlāw; akin to Goth. hlaiw a grave, hlains a hill, and to E. lean to incline.]
A hill; a mound; a grave.
[Obs. except in place names.]
Skeat.


word: Low₅
definition:
Low

Low
(l&omacr; Scot. lou)
n.
[Icel. log, logi; akin to E. light, n.]
Fire; a flame; a light.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]


word: Low₇
definition:
Low

Low
(l&omacr)
a.
[Compar. Lower (l&omacr"ẽr); superl. Lowest.]
[OE. low, louh, lah, Icel. lāgr; 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.)
Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.

8.
(Phon.)
Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, ă (ăm), &asuml_; (&asuml_;ll). 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 in thought 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
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.

&hand_; 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 Low water 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.


word: Low₉
definition:
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 or 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.)
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.


word: lowan
definition:
lowan

lowan
n.
The Australian moundbird (Leipoa ocellata); it incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds.

Syn. -- mallee fowl, mallee-fowl, leipoa, Leipoa ocellata.


word: lowball₂
definition:
lowball

lowball
v. t.
to give a deceptively low estimate of the price of (merchandise or services); -- a sales tactic to induce a person to buy.

Syn. -- underestimate.


word: Lowbell
definition:
Lowbell

Low"bell`
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Lowboy
definition:
Lowboy

Low"boy`
(?)
n.
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.]


word: Lowbred
definition:
Lowbred

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


word: low-cal
definition:
low-cal

low-cal
adj.
having relatively few calories.

Syn. -- diet(prenominal), lite, low-calorie.


word: Low-church
definition:
Low-church

Low"-church`
(?)
a.
Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.


word: low-class
definition:
low-class

low-class
adj.
1.
Occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society.  Contrasted with middle-class and upper-class.
propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar
Also See: lowborn, proletarian, propertyless.

Syn. -- lower-class (vs. upper-class).

2.
characteristic of the lower classes.
non-U, vulgar


word: low-cost
definition:
low-cost

low-cost
adj.
inexpensive; cheap.  Opposite of expensive.

Syn. -- inexpensive, low-priced.


word: low-cut
definition:
low-cut

low-cut
adj.
1.
having a neckline low enough to expose part of the breast; -- of a woman's garment; as, a low-cut party dress.

Syn. -- decollete, low-necked.

2.
having a back exposing skin between the shoulder blades.


word: low-down
definition:
low-down

lowdown

low"down`, low"-down`
n.
true confidential information.

Syn. -- details, dope, poop, inside dope, inside information.


word: low-down₂
definition:
low-down

lowdown

low"down`, low"-down`
a.
of the most contemptible kind; contemptible; mean; base; vile; -- of people or the actions of people; as, a lowdown sneak thief.

Syn. -- abject, base, despicable, low, lowdown, miserable, vile.

2.
having the soulful feeling of early blues; -- of jazz.

Syn. -- funky.


word: low-emission
definition:
low-emission

low-emission
adj.
producing little emission of atmospheric pollutants; as, a low-emission vehicle.

Syn. -- low-polluting.


word: Lower₂
definition:
Lower

Low"er
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lowered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lowering.]
[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.


word: Lower₃
definition:
Lower

Low"er
v. i.
To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.


word: Lower₄
definition:
Lower

Low"er
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lowered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lowering.]
[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.


word: Lower₅
definition:
Lower

Low"er
n.
[Obs.]
1.
Cloudiness; gloominess.

2.
A frowning; sullenness.

adj.
1.
relating to small or noncapital letters which were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case.
Also See minuscule, minuscular.


word: Lower-case
definition:
Lower-case

lowercase

low"er*case`, Low"er-case`
(?)
a.
(Print.)
Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals; as, lowercase letters a and b and c etc.. Contrasted with uppercase.  See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.


word: lower-class
definition:
lower-class

lower-class
adj.
same as low-class.  Contrasted with middle-class and upper-class.

Syn. -- low-class.


word: lower-limit
definition:
lower-limit

lower limit

lower limit, lower-limit
n.
the limit on the lower (or southernmost) side of something.


word: lower-middle-class
definition:
lower-middle-class

lower-middle-class
adj.
occupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society.


word: lower-ranking
definition:
lower-ranking

lower-ranking
adj.
inferior in rank or status.

Syn. -- junior-grade, inferior, lower, lowly, petty(prenominal), secondary, subaltern, subordinate.


word: low-keyed
definition:
low-keyed

low-key

low-key low-keyed
adj.
restrained in style or quality; not flashy or intense; understated; as, a little masterpiece of low-keyed eloquence.

Syn. -- subdued.


word: Lowland
definition:
Lowland

Low"land
(?)
n.
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.


word: Lowlander
definition:
Lowlander

Low"land*er
(?)
n.
A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.


word: low-level
definition:
low-level

low-level
adj.
1.
weak; not intense; as, low-level radiation.

2.
lower in rank or importance.
adjunct, assistant
associate(prenominal) 
buck 
deputy(prenominal), proxy(prenominal) 
subject, dependent 
subservient 
under(prenominal) 
ruled 
secondary 
Also See inferior, subordinate.
dominant

Syn. -- subordinate.

3.
at a low level in rank or importance; as, a low-level job; low-level discussions.

4.
occurring at a relatively low altitude; as, a low-level strafing run; low-level bombing.


word: Lowlily
definition:
Lowlily

Low"li*ly
adv.
In a lowly place or manner; humbly.
[Obs. or R.]

Thinking lowlily of himself and highly of those better than himself.
J. C. Shairp.


word: Lowliness
definition:
Lowliness

Low"li*ness
n.
[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.


word: Low-lived
definition:
Low-lived

Low"-lived`
(?)
a.
Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean; dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.


word: Lowly
definition:
Lowly

Low"ly
(?)
a.
[Compar. Lowlier (?); superl. Lowliest.]
[Low, a. + -ly.]
1.
Not high; not elevated in place; low.
Lowly
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.


word: Lowly₂
definition:
Lowly

Low"ly
adv.
1.
In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
lowly
Milton.

2.
In a low condition; meanly.

I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught.
Shak.


word: low-lying
definition:
low-lying

low-lying
adj.
1.
having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level; as, low-lying clouds.

2.
at a low elevation above sea level.

Syn. -- sea-level.


word: Low-minded
definition:
Low-minded

Low"-mind`ed
(?)
a.
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.


word: Low-necked
definition:
Low-necked

Low"-necked`
(?)
a.
Cut low in the neck; decollete; low-cut; -- said of a woman's dress.


word: low-pitched
definition:
low-pitched

low-pitched
adj.
1.
low in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices.  Opposite of high-pitched.
alto, contralto 
baritone 
bass, deep 
contrabass, double-bass 
throaty 

Syn. -- low.

2.
set at a low angle or slant; having a low degree of pitch; as, a low-pitched roof.


word: low-polluting
definition:
low-polluting

low-polluting
adj.
producing little pollution, especially air pollution; as, a low-polluting electric car.

Syn. -- low-emission.


word: Low-pressure
definition:
Low-pressure

Low"-pres`sure
(?)
a.
1.
Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.

2.
same as easygoing, 4; as, a low-pressure salesman.

Syn. -- easygoing.

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.


word: low-resolution
definition:
low-resolution

low-resolution
adj.
producing images that are not sharply defined; -- of optical instruments or image display devices.  Opposite of high-resolution.


word: low-rise
definition:
low-rise

low-rise
adj.
Lower than the highest heights; -- used of buildings of one or only a few stories; as, a low-rise apartment building.
three-story, three-storied, three-storey, three-storeyed
high-rise


word: low-set
definition:
low-set

low-set
adj.
short and thick; especially having short legs and heavy musculature; -- of people.

Syn. -- chunky, dumpy, squat, squatty, stubby, stumpy, stocky.


word: Low-spirited
definition:
Low-spirited

Low"-spir`it*ed
(?)
a.
Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; dispirited; not sprightly.

Syn. -- depressed, dispirited, down(predicate), downcast, downhearted, low.


word: Low-studded
definition:
Low-studded

Low"-stud`ded
(?)
a.
Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.


word: low-sudsing
definition:
low-sudsing

low-sudsing
adj.
causing little foam to form; -- used of e.g. detergents.  Contrasted with high-sudsing.


word: low-tech
definition:
low-tech

low-tech
adj.
not involving high technology; using long-established technology.  Opposite of high-tech.


word: low-tension
definition:
low-tension

low-tension
adj.
(Elecricity)
subjected to or capable of operating under relative low voltage.  Contrasted with high-tension.

Syn. -- low-voltage.


word: Low-thoughted
definition:
Low-thoughted

Low"-thought`ed
(?)
a.
Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.


word: low-toned
definition:
low-toned

low-toned
adj.
relatively low in volume; soft; -- of sound; as, making low-toned noises with their mouths that went as an undercurrent of sound.  Opposite of loud.

Syn. -- low, subdued, soft.


word: low-voltage
definition:
low-voltage

low-voltage
adj.
1.
(Electricity)
subjected to or capable of operating under relative low voltage, usually considered as no greater than 250 volts.  Contrasted with high-voltage.


word: low warp loom
definition:
low warp loom

low-warp loom

low-warp loom, low warp loom
n.
a hand loom in which the warp is carried horizontally; for weaving tapestry.


word: Loxodromic
definition:
Loxodromic

Lox`o*drom"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; slanting, oblique + _; a running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.]
Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.

Loxodromic curve or Loxodromic 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.


word: Loxodromism
definition:
Loxodromism

Lox*od"ro*mism
(?)
n.
The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.


word: Loyal
definition:
Loyal

Loy"al
(?)
a.
[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.


word: Loyalist
definition:
Loyalist

Loy"al*ist
n.
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.


word: Loyalty
definition:
Loyalty

Loy"al*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. loyauté. See Loyal, and cf. Legality.]
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.

&hand_; “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.


word: Lozenge
definition:
Lozenge

Loz"enge
(l&obreve_;z"ĕnj)
n.
[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.
Specifically:
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.


word: Lozenge-shaped
definition:
Lozenge-shaped

Lozenged

{ Loz"enged (l&obreve_;z"ĕnjd), Loz"enge-shaped` (-shāpt) }
a.
Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb.

The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window.
C. Bronté.


word: Lozengy
definition:
Lozengy

Loz"en*gy
(-ĕn*j&ybreve_;)
a.
[F. losangé. See Lozenge.]
(Her.)
Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.


word: LP
definition:
LP

L-P

L-P, LP
n.
[long-playing.]
a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm.
[Acronym]


word: L-plate
definition:
L-plate

L-plate
n.
a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner.
[British]


word: Lr
definition:
Lr

Lr
n.
The chemical symbol for lawrencium, a transuranic element of atomic number 103.

Syn. -- lawrencium.


word: LSD
definition:
LSD

LSD
n.
lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful hallucinogenic drug.
[Acronym]

Syn. -- lysergic acid diethylamide, acid.


word: Ltd.
definition:
Ltd.

Ltd.
n.
A term attached to the name of a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability; it corresponds to Inc. in the United States.
[British]

Syn. -- limited company, Ld.


word: LTM
definition:
LTM

LTM
n.
(Psychology, Neurophysiology)
long-term memory, the term for the set of neurons and neural processes responsible for the general store of information remembered for more than a day.

Syn. -- long-term memory.


word: Lubber
definition:
Lubber

Lub"ber
(?)
n.
[Cf. dial. Sw. lubber. See Looby, Lob.]
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 (Zool.), 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, Lubber's point, or Lubber's mark, a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering.


word: Lubrical
definition:
Lubrical

Lubric

{ Lu"bric (?), Lu"bric*al (?), }
a.
[L. lubricus: cf. F. lubrique.]
1.
Having a smooth surface; slippery.
[R.]

2.
Lascivious; wanton; lewd.
[R.]

This lubric and adulterate age.
Dryden.


word: Lubricant₂
definition:
Lubricant

Lu"bri*cant
n.
That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, graphite, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.


word: Lubricate
definition:
Lubricate

Lu"bri*cate
(?)
v. t.
[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.

3.
Hence:
To reduce social frictions or difficulties between people, thus making cooperation easier and joint action smoother.

4.
To inebriate by supplying with alcoholic beverages.
[slang]


word: Lubricator
definition:
Lubricator

Lu"bri*ca`tor
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, lubricates.
Lubricator
Burke.

2.
A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.


word: Lubricity
definition:
Lubricity

Lu*bric"i*ty
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Lubrifaction
definition:
Lubrifaction

Lubrification

{ Lu`bri*fi*ca"tion (?), Lu`bri*fac"tion (?), }
n.
[L. lubricus lubric + facere to make.]
The act of lubricating, or making smooth.
Ray. Bacon.


word: Lucchese
definition:
Lucchese

Luc*chese"
(?)
n. sing. & pl.
[It. Lucchese.]
A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.


word: Luce
definition:
Luce

Luce
(līs)
n.
[OF. lus, L. lucius a kind of fish.]
(Zool.)
A pike when full grown.
Halliwell.


word: Lucent
definition:
Lucent

Lu"cent
(?)
a.
[L. lucens, p. pr. of lucere to shine, fr. lux, lucis, light.]
Shining; bright; resplendent.
lucent
Milton.


word: Lucern
definition:
Lucern

Lu"cern
(?)
n.
[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 request (by some supposed to be the lynx).
[Written also lusern and luzern.]

The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern
I know to chase.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Lucern₂
definition:
Lucern

Lu"cern
n.
[F. luzerne.]
(Bot.)
A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa.
[Written also lucerne.]


word: Lucernal
definition:
Lucernal

Lu*cer"nal
(?)
a.
[L. lucerna a lamp.]
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.


word: Lucernaria
definition:
Lucernaria

Lu`cer*na"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. lucerna a lamp.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Lucernarian
definition:
Lucernarian

Lu`cer*na"ri*an
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida.
n. One of the Lucernarida.


word: Lucernarida
definition:
Lucernarida

Lu`cer*nar"i*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Lucernaria.]
(Zool.)
(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.


word: Lucid
definition:
Lucid

Lu"cid
(?)
a.
[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
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.


word: Lucifer
definition:
Lucifer

Lu"ci*fer
(?)
n.
[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{1} made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco, now most commonly referred to as a friction match. See Locofoco.

4.
(Zool.)
A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.


word: Luciferian
definition:
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.


word: Luciferian₂
definition:
Luciferian

Lu`ci*fe"ri*an
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
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.


word: Luciferin
definition:
Luciferin

Lu*cif"er*in
(lō*sĭf"ẽr*ĭn)
n.
(Biochem.)
any of several substances found in luminescent organisms (such as the firefly, Photinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light.  It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence.  See also firefly luciferin


word: Luciferase
definition:
Luciferase

Lu*cif"er*ase
(lō*sĭf"ẽr*ās)
n.
(Biochem.)
an enzyme which catalyzes the oxidation of luciferin, thereby producing bioluminescence.


word: Luciferous
definition:
Luciferous

Lu*cif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[See Lucifer.]
Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.
Boyle.


word: Lucific
definition:
Lucific

Lu*cif"ic
(?)
a.
[L. lucificus; lux, lucis, light + facere to make.]
Producing light.
Grew.


word: Luciform
definition:
Luciform

Lu"ci*form
(?)
a.
[L. lux, lucis, light = -form.]
Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light.
Berkeley.


word: Lucimeter
definition:
Lucimeter

Lu*cim"e*ter
(?)
n.
[L. lux, lucis, light + -meter.]
an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.


word: Lucite
definition:
Lucite

Lu"cite
(lō"sīt)
prop. n.
A brand name for a transparent plastic based on methyl methacrylate esters; the term is often used generically to refer to any similar transparent plastic.  It is sold in various forms, including rigid sheets which may be used as a substitute for glass in windows.
[Trademark]


word: Luck
definition:
Luck

Luck
(?)
n.
[Akin to D. luk, geluk, G. glück, Icel. lukka, Sw. lycka, Dan. lykke, and perh. to G. locken to entice.  Cf. 3d Gleck.]
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 by itself to mean good luck; as, luck is better than skill; a stroke of luck.

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 in 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.


word: Luckily
definition:
Luckily

Luck"i*ly
(?)
adv.
[From Lucky.]
In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.


word: Luckiness
definition:
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.


word: Luckless
definition:
Luckless

Luck"less
a.
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.


word: Lucknow
definition:
Lucknow

Lucknow
n.
1.
A city in India, the site of the Indian Mutiny (1857) when the British were beseiged.


word: Lucky
definition:
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
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.


word: Lucrative
definition:
Lucrative

Lu"cra*tive
(?)
a.
[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.


word: Lucre
definition:
Lucre

Lu"cre
(?)
n.
[F. lucre, L. lucrum.]
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

The lust of lucre and the dread of death.
Pope.


word: Lucrific
definition:
Lucrific

Lu*crif"ic
(?)
a.
[L. lucrificus; lucrum gain + facere to make.]
Producing profit; gainful.
[Obs.]


word: Luctation
definition:
Luctation

Luc*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. luctatio, fr. luctari to wrestle, strive.]
Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor.
[R.]
Farindon.


word: Luctual
definition:
Luctual

Luc"tu*al
(?)
a.
[L. luctus mourning, sorrow, fr. lugere, fr. luctum, to mourn.]
Producing grief; saddening.
[Obs.]
Sir G. Buck.


word: Lucubrate
definition:
Lucubrate

Lu"cu*brate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lucubrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lucubrated (?).]
[L. lucubratus, p. p. of lucubrare to work by lamplight, fr. lux light. See Light, n.]
To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.


word: Lucubrate₂
definition:
Lucubrate

Lu"cu*brate
v. t.
To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.


word: Lucubration
definition:
Lucubration

Lu`cu*bra"tion
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Lucubratory
definition:
Lucubratory

Lu"cu*bra*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. lucubratorius.]
Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking.
Pope.


word: Lucule
definition:
Lucule

Lu"cule
(?)
n.
[Dim. fr. L. lux, lucis, light.]
(Astron.)
A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.


word: Luculent
definition:
Luculent

Lu"cu*lent
(?)
a.
[L. luculentus, from lux, lucis, light.]
1.
Lucid; clear; transparent.
Thomson.

2.
Clear; evident; luminous.
luculent
Hooker.

3.
Bright; shining in beauty.
[Obs.]

Most debonair and luculent lady.
B. Jonson.


word: Lucullite
definition:
Lucullite

Lu*cul"lite
(?)
n.
[From Lucullus, a Roman consul, famous for his great wealth and luxury: cf. F. lucullite.]
(Min.)
A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.


word: Lucuma
definition:
Lucuma

Lu*cu"ma
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.

&hand_; Lucuma mammosum is called natural marmalade in the West Indies; Lucuma Caimito, of Peru, furnishes a delicious fruit called lucuma and caimito.


word: Luddite
definition:
Luddite

Lud"dite
(?)
n.
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.


word: Ludibrious
definition:
Ludibrious

Lu*dib"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. ludibrium mockery, derision, from ludere to play, sport.]
Sportive; ridiculous; wanton.
[Obs.]
Tooker.


word: Ludibund
definition:
Ludibund

Lu"di*bund
(?)
a.
[L. ludibundus.]
Sportive.
[Obs.]
Lu"di*bund*ness, n. [Obs.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Ludicrous
definition:
Ludicrous

Lu"di*crous
(?)
a.
[L. ludicrus, or ludicer, from ludus play, sport, fr. ludere to play.]
1.
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.
2.
Ridiculously absurd.


word: Ludification
definition:
Ludification

Lu`di*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. ludificatio, fr. ludificare to make sport of; ludus sport + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]
The act of deriding.


word: Ludificatory
definition:
Ludificatory

Lu*dif"i*ca*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. ludificatorius.]
Making sport; tending to excite derision.
[Obs.]


word: Ludlamite
definition:
Ludlamite

Lud"lam*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after Mr. Ludlam, of London.]
(Min.)
A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.


word: Ludlow group
definition:
Ludlow group

Lud"low group`
(?)
n.
(Geol.)
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.


word: Ludwigite
definition:
Ludwigite

Lud"wig*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after the chemist Ludwig.]
(Min.)
A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.


word: Lues
definition:
Lues

Lu"es
(?)
n.
[L.]
(Med.)
1.
Disease, especially of a contagious kind.
[archaic]

2.
syphilis; -- called also Lues venerea.

Lues venerea, syphilis; -- called also simply lues.


word: Luff
definition:
Luff

Luff
(lŭf)
n.
[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.


word: Luff₂
definition:
Luff

Luff
(lŭf)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Luffed (lŭft); p. pr. & vb. n. Luffing.]
1.
(Naut.)
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.

2.
(Naut.)
To flutter or shake from being aligned close to the direction of the wind; -- said of a sail.

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.


word: Lug
definition:
Lug

Lug
(lŭg)
n.
[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.)
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)
The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

5.
(Zool.)
The lugworm.

6.
A man; sometimes implying clumsiness.
[slang]

Lug bolt (Mach.), a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt. -- Lug nut (Mach.), a large nut fitting a heavy bolt; -- used especially of the nuts used to attach wheels to vehicles. -- Lug wrench (Mach.), a wrench used to tighten or loosen lug nuts, usually a steel rod having a hexagonally shaped socket which fits closely over the lug nut; sometimes in the shape of a cross, having several such sockets, one at the end of each arm, to accommodate nuts of different sizes.


word: Lug₂
definition:
Lug

Lug
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lugged (lŭgd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lugging (lŭg"gĭng).]
[OE. luggen, Sw. lugga to pull by the hair, fr. lugg the forelock.]
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.


word: Lug₄
definition:
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.


word: Lug₅
definition:
Lug

Lug
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
1.
A rod or pole.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.

2.
A measure of length, being 161/2 feet; a rod, pole, or perch.
[Obs.]
lugs
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.


word: luge
definition:
luge

luge
(lōzh)
n.
a racing sled for one or two people; it is raced down a chute of packed snow or ice, and the occupant(s) lie down on it with feet in the direction of motion.


word: Luggage
definition:
Luggage

Lug"gage
(?)
n.
[From 4th Lug.]
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.
Luggage van, a vehicle for carrying luggage; a railway car, or compartment of a car, for carrying luggage. [Eng.] -- Luggage compartment, the compartment in a train, bus or other vehicle designed for storage of luggage during a journey.  Separate from the passenger compartment.


word: Lugger
definition:
Lugger

Lug"ger
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix.
Totten.


word: Lugger₂
definition:
Lugger

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


word: Lugmark
definition:
Lugmark

Lug"mark`
(?)
n.
[From Lug an ear.]
A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.


word: Lugsail
definition:
Lugsail

Lug"sail`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.
Totten.


word: Lugubrious
definition:
Lugubrious

Lu*gu"bri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. lygro`s sad, Skr. ruj to break.]
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.


word: Lugworm
definition:
Lugworm

Lug"worm`
(?)
n.
[1st lug + worm.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Luke
definition:
Luke

Luke
(lūk)
a.
[Prob. fr. lew, perh. influenced by AS. wlæc warm, lukewarm, remiss.  Cf. Lew.]
Moderately warm; not hot; tepid; lukewarm.
Luke"ness, n. [Obs.]

Nine penn'orth o'brandy and water luke.
Dickens.


word: Lukewarm
definition:
Lukewarm

Luke"warm`
(lūk"w&asuml_;rm`)
a.
[See Luke.]
1.
Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.

2.
Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent.
Lukewarm
Spenser.
Lukewarm
Addison.

An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion.
Dryden.


word: Lull
definition:
Lull

Lull
(lŭl)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lulled (lŭld); p. pr. & vb. n. Lulling.]
[Akin to OD. lullen to sing to sleep, G. lullen, Dan. lulle, Sw. lulla; all of imitative origin.  Cf. Loll, Lollard.]
To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.
lull
Spenser.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie,
To lull the daughters of necessity.
Milton.


word: Lull₂
definition:
Lull

Lull
v. i.
To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.


word: Lull₃
definition:
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.


word: lullaby
definition:
lullaby

lull"a*by
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Lum
definition:
Lum

Lum
(lŭm)
n.
[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.]


word: Lumachella
definition:
Lumachella

Lumachel

{ Lu"ma*chel (?), &VerbarLu`ma*chel"la (?), }
n.
[F. lumachelle, It. lumachella, fr. lamachella a little snail, dim. of lumaca a snail, fr. L. limax, -acis.]
(Min.)
A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.


word: Lumbago
definition:
Lumbago

Lum*ba"go
(?)
n.
[L., fr. lumbus loin. See Lumbar.]
(Med.)
A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.


word: Lumbal
definition:
Lumbal

Lumbar

{ Lum"bar (?), Lum"bal (?), }
a.
[L. lumbus loin. See Loin.]
(Anat.)
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 iliac regions, and outside of the umbilical region.


word: Lumber
definition:
Lumber

Lum"ber
(?)
n.
[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. -- dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc.


word: Lumber₂
definition:
Lumber

Lum"ber
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lumbered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.]
1.
To heap together in disorder.
lumbered
Rymer.

2.
To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.


word: Lumber₃
definition:
Lumber

Lum"ber
v. i.
1.
To move heavily, as if burdened.

2.
[Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.]
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.]


word: Lumberer
definition:
Lumberer

Lum"ber*er
(?)
n.
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.


word: Lumbering
definition:
Lumbering

Lum"ber*ing
n.
The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
[U.S.]


word: lumberjack
definition:
lumberjack

lum"ber*jack`
n.
1.
a person who works at lumbering; a lumberman.

Syn. -- lumberman, timberman.

2.
(Zool.)
The grey jay.
[Canadian]


word: Lumberman
definition:
Lumberman

Lum"ber*man
(?)
n.
pl. Lumbermen (_;).
One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
[U.S.]


word: Lumbosacral
definition:
Lumbosacral

Lum`bo*sa"cral
(?)
n.
[L. lumbus loin + E. sacral.]
(Anat.)
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.


word: Lumbrical
definition:
Lumbrical

Lum"bric*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. lombrical. See Lumbric.]
(Anat.)
Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet.
n. A lumbrical muscle.


word: Lumbriciform
definition:
Lumbriciform

Lum*bric"i*form
(?)
a.
[L. lumbricus worm + -form.]
(Zool.)
Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.


word: Lumbricoid
definition:
Lumbricoid

Lum"bri*coid
(?)
a.
[Lumbricus + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricidæ.


word: Lumbricus
definition:
Lumbricus

Lum"bri*cus
(?)
n.
[L. See Lumbric.]
(Zool.)
A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochæta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm.


word: Lumen
definition:
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.


word: Luminary
definition:
Luminary

Lu"mi*na*ry
(?)
n.
pl.
Luminaries
(#)
[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.
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.


word: Luminate
definition:
Luminate

Lu"mi*nate
(?)
v. t.
[L. luminatus, p. p. of luminare to illumine, fr. lumen light. See Limn.]
To illuminate.
[Obs.]


word: Luminescence
definition:
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.
(Zool.)
(a)
The faculty or power of producing light by biological processes, as in the firefly and glowworm.  Also called bioluminescence.
(b)
The light produced by biological or biochemical processes.  Also called bioluminescence.


word: Luminescent
definition:
Luminescent

Lu`mi*nes"cent
(?)
a.
[L. luminare to illuminate + -escent.]
(Physics)
Shining with a light due to any of the various causes which produce luminescence.


word: Luminiferous
definition:
Luminiferous

Lu`mi*nif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. lumen light + -ferous.]
Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.


word: Luminous
definition:
Luminous

Lu"mi*nous
(?)
a.
[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
Macaulay.
luminous
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.


word: luminousness
definition:
luminousness

lu"mi*nous*ness
n.
the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light.

Syn. -- luminosity, luminance, light.


word: Lump
definition:
Lump

Lump
(lŭmp)
n.
[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.
lump
Piers Plowman.
lump
Shak.

2.
A mass or aggregation of things.

3.
(Firearms)
A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

In the lump, In a lump, the whole together; in gross.
[1913 Webster]
They may buy them in the lump. Addison.
-- Lump coal, coal in large lumps; -- the largest size brought from the mine. -- Lump sum, (a) a gross sum without a specification of items; as, to award a lump sum in satisfaction of all claims and damages. (b) a single sum paid once in satisfaction of a claim, as contrasted with the alternate choice of several payments over a period of time; -- sometimes allowed, e.g., as an alternative to periodical pension payments for a lifetime.


word: Lump₂
definition:
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 to you, I lump all together.
Sterne.

3.
To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he doesn't like it, he can lump it.
[Low]


word: Lumpectomy
definition:
Lumpectomy

Lump*ec"to*my
n.
(Med.)
the removal of a cyst or tumor from the breast by surgery.  This is one method of treating breast tumors when in an early stage, and is preferred for cosmetic reasons, when medically feasible, to radical mastectomy, the removal of the entire breast along with nearby muscles.


word: Lumpen
definition:
Lumpen

Lump"en
(?)
n.
1.
(Politics)
same as lumpenproletariat.

2.
(Zool.)
The European eelpout; -- called also lumper.


word: Lumpenproletariat
definition:
Lumpenproletariat

Lump`en*pro*le*tar"i*at
(?)
n.
(Politics)
the lowest level of the proletariat, comprising unskilled workers, the unemployed, and the dispossessed, alienated from the class with with they would normally identify and having little or no class solidarity; -- an important element in Marxist theory.


word: Lumper₂
definition:
Lumper

Lump"er
n.
1.
One who lumps.

2.
A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.


word: Lumpfish
definition:
Lumpfish

Lump"fish`
(?)
n.
[From Lump, on account of its bulkiness: cf. G. & D. lump, F. lompe.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Lump together
definition:
Lump together

Lump together
v. t.
To combine (various items) and treat them as a unit.  See lump, v. i.


word: Lumpy
definition:
Lumpy

Lump"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Lumpier (?); superl. Lumpiest.]
Full of lumps, or small compact masses; as, a lumpy bed; a lumpy batch of dough.


word: Luna
definition:
Luna

Lu"na
(?)
n.
[L.; akin to lucere to shine. See Light, n., and cf. Lune.]
1.
The moon.

2.
(Alchemy)
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 (Zool.), 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.


word: Lunacy
definition:
Lunacy

Lu"na*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Lunacies (#).
[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.


word: Lunar
definition:
Lunar

Lu"nar
(lū"nẽr)
a.
[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.


word: Lunar₂
definition:
Lunar

Lu"nar
n.
1.
(Astron.)
A lunar distance.

2.
(Anat.)
The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.


word: Lunaria
definition:
Lunaria

Lunaria
prop. n.
A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family, including the herb honesty (Lunaria annua), which is also called moonwort and lunary.

Syn. -- genus Lunaria.


word: Lunary₂
definition:
Lunary

Lu"na*ry
n.
[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.


word: Lunated
definition:
Lunated

Lunate

{ Lu"nate (?), Lu"na*ted (?), }
a.
[L. lunatus crescent-shaped, p. p. of lunare to bend like a crescent, fr. luna the moon.]
Crescent-shaped; resembling the crescent moon; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross.
Gray.

Syn. -- lunular, bicephalous, crescent(prenominal), crescent-shaped.


word: Lunatic
definition:
Lunatic

Lu"na*tic
(?)
a.
[F. lunatique, L. lunaticus, fr. luna the moon. See Lunar.]
1.
Affected by lunacy; insane; mad; crazy; demented.

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.


word: Lunatic₂
definition:
Lunatic

Lu"na*tic
n.
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.


word: lunatic fringe
definition:
lunatic fringe

lunatic fringe
n.
the members of a political or social group espousing extreme, fanatical, or seemingly irrational views.


word: Lunation
definition:
Lunation

Lu*na"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. Lunated.]
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 291/4 to 295/6 days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s.


word: Lunch
definition:
Lunch

Lunch
(lŭnch)
n.
[Of uncertain etymol.  Cf. Prov. Eng. nunc a lump.]
A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner, most commonly about noontime.


word: Luncheon
definition:
Luncheon

Lunch"eon
(?)
n.
[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.
[obsolescnet]

3.
A lunch, especially one organized by a group as a formal social gathering.


word: lunchroom
definition:
lunchroom

lunchroom
n.
a dining room (in a school, business, or other non-domestic facility) where lunch can be purchased.


word: Lune
definition:
Lune

Lune
(lūn)
n.
[L. luna moon: cf. F. lune. See Luna.]
1.
Anything in the shape of a half moon.
[R.]

2.
(Geom.)
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.


word: Lunette
definition:
Lunette

Lu*nette"
(?)
n.
[F., dim. of lune moon, L. luna. See Lune a crescent.]
1.
(Fort.)
A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

2.
(Far.)
A half horseshoe, which lacks 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.)
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.


word: Lung
definition:
Lung

Lung
(lŭng)
n.
[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.  √125.  See Light not heavy.]
(Anat.)
An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.

My lungs began to crow
like chanticleer.
Shak.
&hand_; 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 (Gentian Pneumonanthe). -- Lung lichen (Bot.), tree lungwort. See under Lungwort. -- Lung sac (Zool.), one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.


word: Lunge
definition:
Lunge

Lunge
(?)
n.
[Also spelt longe, fr. allonge. See Allonge, Long.]
A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.


word: Lunge₃
definition:
Lunge

Lunge
v. t.
To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
Thackeray.


word: Lungfish
definition:
Lungfish

Lung"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.


word: Lungie
definition:
Lungie

Lun"gie
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A guillemot.
[Written also longie.]
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.


word: Lungoor
definition:
Lungoor

Lun"goor
(?)
n.
[Hind. langūr.]
(Zool.)
A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India.


word: Lungworm
definition:
Lungworm

Lung"worm`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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 (Strongylus filaria) are the best known.


word: Lungwort
definition:
Lungwort

Lung"wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (Pulmonaria 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. Mertensia Virginica and Mertensia 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.


word: Lunicurrent
definition:
Lunicurrent

Lu"ni*cur"rent
(?)
a.
[L. luna moon + E. current.]
Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases.
Bache.


word: Luniform
definition:
Luniform

Lu"ni*form
(?)
a.
[L. luna moon + -form: cf. F. luniforme.]
Resembling the moon in shape.


word: Lunisolar
definition:
Lunisolar

Lu"ni*so"lar
(?)
a.
[L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F. lunisolaire.]
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.


word: Lunistice
definition:
Lunistice

Lu"ni*stice
(?)
n.
[L. luna moon + sistere to cause to stand.  Cf. Solstice.]
(Astron.)
The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution.
[Obs.]


word: Lunitidal
definition:
Lunitidal

Lu"ni*tid`al
(?)
a.
Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon.
Bache.

Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.


word: Lunt
definition:
Lunt

Lunt
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Lunula
definition:
Lunula

Lunulae

Lu"nu*la
(?)
n.
pl. Lunulæ (#).
[L., prop., a little moon. See Lunule.]
(Anat. & Zool.)
Same as Lunule.


word: Lunular
definition:
Lunular

Lu"nu*lar
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. lunulaire. See Lunula.]
(Bot.)
Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent; lunate.


word: Lunulated
definition:
Lunulated

Lunulate

{ Lu"nu*late (?), Lu"nu*la`ted (?), }
a.
[See Lunula.]
(Bot. & Zool.)
Resembling a small crescent.
Gray.


word: Lunule
definition:
Lunule

Lu"nule
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. lunula, dim. of luna moon.]
1.
(Anat.)
Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula; a lune.

2.
(Chem.)
A lune. See Lune.

3.
(Zool.)
(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.


word: Lunulet
definition:
Lunulet

Lu"nu*let
(?)
n.
[Dim. of lunule.]
(Zool.)
A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.


word: Lunulite
definition:
Lunulite

Lu"nu*lite
(?)
n.
[Lunule + -life: cf. F. lunulithe. See Lunula.]
(Paleon.)
Any bryozoan of the genus Lunulites, having a more or less circular form.


word: Luny
definition:
Luny

Lu"ny
(?)
a.
[Shortened fr. lunatic.]
Crazy; insane; mentally unsound.
[Written also loony and looney.]
[Low, U.S.]


word: Lupercalia
definition:
Lupercalia

Lu`per*ca"li*a
(?)
n. pl.
[L. luperealis, fr. Lupercus the Lycean Pan, so called fr. lupus a wolf, because he kept off the wolves.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.


word: Lupine
definition:
Lupine

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


word: Lupinin
definition:
Lupinin

Lu"pin*in
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.


word: Lupinine
definition:
Lupinine

Lu"pin*ine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, Lupinus albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance, having a formula C10H19NO.  Called also l-lupinine 

  Chemically it is a a bicyclic saturated quinolizine [1-R-trans]-Octahydro-2H-quinolizine-1-methanol, with the structure:
                  CH2OH
                  |
          /\  H  /\
        /    \|/    \
       |      |      |
       |      N      |
        \    / \    /
          \/     \/    

[MI11]


word: Lupulin
definition:
Lupulin

Lu"pu*lin
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. lupulin. See Lupuline.]
1.
(Chem.)
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.]


word: Lupuline
definition:
Lupuline

Lu"pu*line
(?)
n.
[NL. lupulus the hop, fr. L. lupus the hop: cf. F. lupuline.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid.


word: Lupulinic
definition:
Lupulinic

Lu`pu*lin"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, hops; specifically, designating an acid obtained by the decomposition of lupulin.


word: Lupus
definition:
Lupus

Lu"pus
(?)
n.
[L., a wolf. See Wolf.]
1.
(Med.)
originally, a cutaneous disease with the appearance of the skin having been gnawed, and occurring under two distinct forms.  Now used as a generic term for over ten distinguishable diseases having visible cutaneous symptoms.

&hand_; Lupus erythematosus is characterized by an eruption of red patches, which become incrusted, leaving superficial scars. Lupus vulgaris is marked by the development of nodules which often ulcerate deeply and produce great deformity. Prior to 1900 the latter was often confounded with cancer, and some varieties of cancer were included under Lupus.  Systemic lupus erythematosus is an inflammatory connective tissue disease occurring mostly in women, characterized by skin rash, fever, and arthritic symptoms, and often accompanied by hemolytic anemia, inflammation of the pericardium, glomerular lesions, and hyperglobulinemia; the condition shows positive in the LE cell test. [Stedman]
2.
(Astron.)
The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.


word: Lurch
definition:
Lurch

Lurch
(?)
v. i.
[L. lurcare, lurcari.]
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.


word: Lurch₂
definition:
Lurch

Lurch
n.
[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.
[1913 Webster]
But though thou'rt of a different church,
I will not leave thee in the lurch. Hudibras.


word: Lurch₃
definition:
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.


word: Lurch₄
definition:
Lurch

Lurch
n.
[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.]
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.


word: Lurch₅
definition:
Lurch

Lurch
(lûrch)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lurched (lûrcht); p. pr. & vb. n. Lurching.]
To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man; to move forward while lurching.


word: Lurch₆
definition:
Lurch

Lurch
v. i.
[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.


word: Lurcher
definition:
Lurcher

Lurch"er
(lûrch"ẽr)
n.
[See Lurch to lurk.]
1.
One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; one who lurks; a lurker; a poacher.

2.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Lurcher₂
definition:
Lurcher

Lurch"er
n.
[L. lurco, lurcho, a glutton. See 1st Lurch.]
A glutton; a gormandizer.
[Obs.]


word: Lurchline
definition:
Lurchline

Lurch"line`
(?)
n.
The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.


word: Lurdan₂
definition:
Lurdan

Lur"dan
n.
[OF. lourdin, fr. lourd heavy, dull, thick-headed. See Lord.]
A blockhead.
[Obs.]


word: Lure
definition:
Lure

Lure
(?)
n.
[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)
A velvet smoothing brush.
Knight.


word: Lure₂
definition:
Lure

Lure
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Luring.]
[OF. loirer, loirier, F. leurrer. See Lure, n.]
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.


word: Lurg
definition:
Lurg

Lurg
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Lurid
definition:
Lurid

Lu"rid
(?)
a.
[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.)
Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

3.
(Zool.)
Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

4.
Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder.


word: Lurk
definition:
Lurk

Lurk
(lûrk)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lurked (lûrkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lurking.]
[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 hidden; 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.


word: Lurry
definition:
Lurry

Lur"ry
(?)
n.
[W. llwry precipitant, a provision.]
A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.
[Obs.]

To turn prayer into a kind of lurry.
Milton.


word: Luscinia
definition:
Luscinia

Luscinia
n.
A genus of birds including the nightingale Luscinia megarhyncos.

Syn. -- genus Luscinia.


word: Luscious
definition:
Luscious

Lus"cious
(?)
a.
[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.


word: Lusern
definition:
Lusern

Lu"sern
(?)
n.
[F. loup-cervier, L. lupus cervarius.]
(Zool.)
A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.


word: Lush
definition:
Lush

Lush
(lŭsh)
a.
[Prob. an abbrev. of lushious, fr. luscious.]
1.
Full of juice or succulence.
Tennyson.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
Shak.

2.
Having thick and luxurient vegetation.

3.
Characterized by abundance or luxurience; rich.


word: Lush₂
definition:
Lush

Lush
(?)
n.
[Etymol uncertain; said to be fr. Lushington, name of a London brewer.]
1.
Liquor, esp. intoxicating liquor; drink.
[Slang]
C. Lever.

2.
an habitual drunkard.


word: Lusitania
definition:
Lusitania

Lusitania
n.
An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian peninsula, corresponding roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain.


word: Lusitanian
definition:
Lusitanian

Lu`si*ta"ni*an
(?)
a.
Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal.
n. One of the people of Lusitania.


word: Luskish
definition:
Luskish

Lusk"ish
a.
Inclined to be lazy.
Marston.
Lusk"ish*ly, adv. -Lusk"ish*ness, n. [Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Lusory
definition:
Lusory

Lusorious

{ Lu*so"ri*ous (?), Lu"so*ry (?), }
a.
[L. lusorius. See Illusory.]
Used in play; sportive; playful.
[Obs.]
Bp. Sanderson.


word: Lussheburgh
definition:
Lussheburgh

Lus"she*burgh
(?)
n.
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.


word: Lust
definition:
Lust

Lust
(?)
n.
[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.]
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; a strong sexual appetite.
Milton.

5.
Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Lust₂
definition:
Lust

Lust
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Lusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lusting.]
[AS. lystan. See Lust, n., and cf. List to choose.]
1.
To list; to like.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
lust
Latimer.

&hand_; In earlier usage lust was impersonal.
[1913 Webster]
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. 


word: Lustre
definition:
Lustre

Luster

Lus"ter
Lus"tre
(?)
n.
[L. lustrum: cf. F. lustre.]
A period of five years; a lustrum.

Both of us have closed the tenth luster.
Bolingbroke.


word: Lustre₂
definition:
Lustre

Luster

{ Lus"ter, Lus"tre, }
n.
[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 perhaps 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.

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

&hand_; 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 graphite 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.


word: Lustre₃
definition:
Lustre

Luster

{ Lus"ter, Lus"tre, }
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lustred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lustering, or Lustring.]
To make lustrous.
[R. & Poetic]

Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold.
Lowell.


word: Lustering
definition:
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.


word: Lustful
definition:
Lustful

Lust"ful
(?)
a.
1.
Full of lust; excited by lust.
Spenser. Tillotson.

2.
Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality.
Lustful
Milton.

3.
Strong; lusty.
[Obs.]
Lustful
Sackville.


word: Lustihood
definition:
Lustihood

Lus"ti*hood
(?)
n.
[Lusty + -hood.]
State of being lusty; vigor of body.
lustihood
Tennyson.


word: Lustless
definition:
Lustless

Lust"less
(?)
a.
[CF. Listless.]
1.
Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
Free from sexual lust.


word: Lustral
definition:
Lustral

Lus"tral
(?)
a.
[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.


word: Lustrate
definition:
Lustrate

Lus"trate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lustrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lustrating (?).]
[L. lustratus, p. p. of lustrare to lustrate, fr. lustrum. See Lustrum.]
To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.

We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.
Hammond.


word: Lustration
definition:
Lustration

Lus*tra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]
1.
The act of lustrating or purifying.

And holy water for lustration bring.
Dryden.

2.
(Antiq.)
A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.


word: Lustrical
definition:
Lustrical

Lus"tri*cal
(?)
a.
[L. lustricus, fr. lustrum. See Lustrum.]
Pertaining to, or used for, purification.


word: Lustring
definition:
Lustring

Lus"tring
(?)
n.
[F. lustrine, It. lustrino, fr. lustrare to polish, L. lustrare. See 3d Luster, and cf. Lutestring.]
A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.


word: Lustrous
definition:
Lustrous

Lus"trous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. lustreux. See 3d Luster.]
Bright; shining; luminous.
lustrous
Shak.
Lus"trous*ly, adv.


word: Lustrum
definition:
Lustrum

Lus"trum
(?)
n.
pl. E. Lustrums (#), L. Lustra (#).
[L.  Cf. 2d & 3d Luster.]
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.


word: Lusty
definition:
Lusty

Lust"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Lustier (?); superl. Lustiest.]
[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.]
lusty
Evelyn.
Hence, sometimes,
pregnant.
[Obs. or Prov.]

4.
Lustful; lascivious.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: Lusus naturae
definition:
Lusus naturae

Lu"sus na*tu"ræ
(?)
n.
[L., fr. lusus sport + naturae, gen. of natura nature.]
Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.


word: Lutanist
definition:
Lutanist

Lut"a*nist
(?)
n.
[LL. lutanista, fr. lutana lute. See Lute the instrument.]
A person that plays on the lute.
Johnson.


word: Lutarious
definition:
Lutarious

Lu*ta"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. lutarius fr. lutum mud.]
Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud.
[Obs.]
Grew.


word: Lutation
definition:
Lutation

Lu*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. lutare, lutatum, to bedaub with mud, fr. lutum mud: cf. F. lutation.]
The act or method of luting vessels.


word: Lute
definition:
Lute

Lute
(?)
n.
[L. lutum mud, clay: cf. OF. lut.]

1.
(Chem.)
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)
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.


word: Lute₂
definition:
Lute

Lute
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Luted; p. pr. & vb. n. Luting.]
To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.


word: Lute₃
definition:
Lute

Lute
n.
[OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. laút, It. liúto, leúto, Sp. laúd, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. al‘ūd; al the + ‘ūd wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp.]
(Mus.)
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.


word: Lute₅
definition:
Lute

Lute
v. t.
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

Knaves are men
That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
Tennyson.


word: Luteic
definition:
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.


word: Lutein
definition:
Lutein

Lu"te*in
(?)
n.
[From corpus luteum.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yolk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.


word: Luteo-
definition:
Luteo-

Lu"te*o-
(?)
pref.
[L. luteus.]
(Chem.)
A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.


word: Luteocobaltic
definition:
Luteocobaltic

Lu"te*o*co*balt"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
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.


word: Luteolin
definition:
Luteolin

Lu"te*o*lin
(?)
n.
[From NL. Reseda luteola, fr. L. luteolus yellowish, fr. luteus: cf. F. lutéoline. See Luteous.]
(Chem.)
A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).


word: Luteous
definition:
Luteous

Lu"te*ous
(?)
a.
[L. luteus, fr. lutum dyer's broom, weld, which is used as a yellow dye.]
Yellowish; more or less like buff.


word: Lutestring
definition:
Lutestring

Lute"string`
(?)
n.
[Corrupted fr. lustring.]
A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
Goldsmith.


word: Lutetium
definition:
Lutetium

Lu*te"ti*um
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A metallic element separated from ytterbium in 1907, by Urbain in Paris and by von Welsbach in Vienna.  It is a member of the Lanthanide rare earth group. Symbol, Lu; atomic number 71; atomic weight 174.967 [C=12.011].  Previously spelled Lutecium.


word: Lutheran
definition:
Lutheran

Lu"ther*an
(?)
a.
(Eccl. Hist.)
Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.


word: Lutheran₂
definition:
Lutheran

Lu"ther*an
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.


word: Lutherism
definition:
Lutherism

Lutheranism

{ Lu"ther*an*ism, Lu"ther*ism  }
(?)
n.
The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.


word: Luthern
definition:
Luthern

Lu"thern
(?)
n.
[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.)
A dormer window. See Dormer.


word: luthier
definition:
luthier

lu"thi*er
(lō"te̝*ẽr)
n.
One who makes wooden stringed instruments, such as violins, guitars, etc.

  A guitarmaking Web site can be found at:   http://www.cybozone.com/luthier/


word: Lutidine
definition:
Lutidine

Lu"ti*dine
(?)
n.
[From toluidine, by transposition.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Lutra
definition:
Lutra

Lutra
n.
A genus which in some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.

Syn. -- genus Lutra.


word: Lutrinae
definition:
Lutrinae

Lutrinae
n.
A subdivision of mammals including the otters; it is not used in some classifications.

Syn. -- subfamily Lutrinae.


word: Lutzen
definition:
Lutzen

Lutzen
n.
A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632) at which the Swedes under King Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Imperialists under Wallenstein, and in which Adolphus was killed.

Syn. -- battle of Lutzen.


word: Luxate₂
definition:
Luxate

Lux"ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Luxated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Luxating (?).]
To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.


word: Luxation
definition:
Luxation

Lux*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. luxatio: cf. F. luxation.]
The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.


word: Luxe
definition:
Luxe

Luxe
(?)
n.
[L. luxus: cf. F. luxe.]
Luxury.
[Obs.]
Shenstone.

&VerbarÉdition de luxe (_;) n. [F.] (Printing) A sumptuous edition as regards paper, illustrations, binding, etc.


word: Luxembourgian
definition:
Luxembourgian

Luxembourgian
adj.
of or pertaining to Luxembourg (definition 2); as, Luxembourgian food.


word: Luxemburger₂
definition:
Luxemburger

Luxemburger
adj.
1.
of or pertaining to Luxemburg; as, Luxemburger streets.

2.
of or pertaining to Luxemburg (definition 2); as, Luxemburger castles.

3.
of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Luxemburg; as, our Luxemburger neighbors.


word: Luxullianite
definition:
Luxullianite

Lux*ul"li*an*ite
(?)
n.
[So called from Luxullian, in Cornwall.]
(Min.)
A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.


word: luxuria
definition:
luxuria

luxuria
n.
self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins).

Syn. -- lust.


word: Luxuriance
definition:
Luxuriance

Lux*u"ri*ance
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. luxuriance.]
The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.
luxuriance
B. Taylor.


word: Luxuriancy
definition:
Luxuriancy

Lux*u"ri*an*cy
(?)
n.
The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance.

Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion.
Spectator.


word: Luxuriant
definition:
Luxuriant

Lux*u"ri*ant
(?)
a.
[L. luxurians, p. pr. of luxuriare: cf. F. luxuriant. See Luxuriate.]
1.
Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.

Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine.
Pope.

2.
Producing luxuriant growth; very fertile; -- of soil.

3.
Having or producing an abundance of elaborate details; unrestrained; -- of imagery or ornamentation.

Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.


word: Luxuriate
definition:
Luxuriate

Lux*u"ri*ate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Luxuriated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Luxuriating.]
[L. luxuriatus, p. p. of luxuriari, -are, to luxuriate. See Luxury.]

1.
To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.
luxuriates
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.


word: Luxurious
definition:
Luxurious

Lux*u"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. luxuriosus: cf. F. luxurieux. See Luxury.]
Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease.
Luxurious
Milton.


word: Luxury
definition:
Luxury

Lux"u*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Luxuries (#).
[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, is not necessary for life, 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.  Contrasted to necessity.

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.


word: Luz
definition:
Luz

Luz
(lŭz)
n.
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.


word: lx
definition:
lx

lx
adj.
the Roman numeral representation of sixty; six times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.

Syn. -- sixty, 60, threescore.


word: lxx
definition:
lxx

lxx
adj.
the Roman numeral representation of seventy; seven times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.

Syn. -- seventy, 70.


word: lxxx
definition:
lxxx

lxxx
adj.
the Roman numeral representation of eighty; eight times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.

Syn. -- eighty, 80, fourscore.


word: -ly
definition:
-ly

-ly
(?)
suff.
[OE. -lich, AS. -lic, orig. the same word as E. like, a. See Like, a.]
A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance; as, housewifely duties.

Syn. -- -ish(postnominal), -y(postnominal).


word: Lycaena
definition:
Lycaena

Lycaena
n.
The type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper.

Syn. -- genus Lycaena.


word: lycaenid
definition:
lycaenid

lycaenid
n.
any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

Syn. -- lycaenid butterfly.


word: Lycaenidae
definition:
Lycaenidae

Lycaenidae
n.
A natural family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs.

Syn. -- family Lycaenidae.


word: Lycanthrope
definition:
Lycanthrope

Ly"can*thrope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _; a wolf + _; a man.]
1.
A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.

2.
One affected with lycanthropy.


word: Lycanthropy
definition:
Lycanthropy

Ly*can"thro*py
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. lycanthropie.]
1.
The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.
Lowell.

2.
(Med.)
A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.


word: Lycee
definition:
Lycee

lycee

lycee, &VerbarLy`cée"
(?)
n.
[F. Cf. Lyceum.]
A French lyceum, or secondary school for students intermediate between elementary school and college, supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.

Syn. -- secondary school, lyceum, Gymnasium, middle school.


word: Lyceum
definition:
Lyceum

Ly*ce"um
(?)
n.
pl. E. Lyceums (#), L. Lycea (#).
[L. lyceum, Gr. _;, so named after the neighboring temple of _; _; Apollo the wolf slayer, prob. fr. _; belonging to a wolf, fr _; wolf. See 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.


word: Lychnis
definition:
Lychnis

Lych"nis
(?)
n.
[L., a kind of red flower, Gr. lychni`s; cf. ly`chnos a lamp.]
(Bot.)
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 served 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.


word: Lychnobite
definition:
Lychnobite

Lych"no*bite
(?)
n.
[Gr. ly`chnos a lamp + bi`os life.]
One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.


word: Lychnoscope
definition:
Lychnoscope

Lych"no*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; + -scope.]
(Arch.)
Same as Low side window, under Low, a.


word: Lycine
definition:
Lycine

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


word: Lycium
definition:
Lycium

Lycium
prop. n.
A genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions.

Syn. -- genus Lycium.


word: Lycoperdaceae
definition:
Lycoperdaceae

Lycoperdaceae
prop. n.
A natural family of fungi including the genus Lycoperdon, consisting of puffballs.

Syn. -- family Lycoperdaceae.


word: Lycoperdales
definition:
Lycoperdales

Lycoperdales
prop. n.
A small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies: puffpalls; earthstars.

Syn. -- order Lycoperdales.


word: Lycoperdon
definition:
Lycoperdon

Ly`co*per"don
(?)
prop. n.
[NL., from Gr. _; wolf + _; to break wind.]
(Bot.)
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.


word: Lycopersicum
definition:
Lycopersicum

Lycopersicon

Lycopersicon, Lycopersicum
n.
The genus including tomatoes.

Syn. -- genus Lycopersicon, genus Lycopersicum.


word: Lycopodiaceous
definition:
Lycopodiaceous

Ly`co*po`di*a"ceous
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
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.


word: Lycopodineae
definition:
Lycopodineae

Lycopodineae
n.
An alternative designation for the class Lycopsida.

Syn. -- class Lycopodineae.


word: Lycopodium
definition:
Lycopodium

Ly`co*po"di*um
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _; wolf + _;, _;, a foot.]
(Bot.)
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.


word: Lycopsida
definition:
Lycopsida

Lycopsida
n.
The class including club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta.

Syn. -- class Lycopsida, Lycopodiate, class Lycopodiate.


word: Lycosidae
definition:
Lycosidae

Lycosidae
n.
The natural family of arachnids including the wolf spiders.

Syn. -- family Lycosidae.


word: Lyddite
definition:
Lyddite

Lydd"ite
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
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.


word: Lydian
definition:
Lydian

Lyd"i*an
(?)
a.
[L. Lydius, fr. Lydia, Gr. _;.]
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.


word: Lye
definition:
Lye

Lye
(?)
n.
[Written also lie and ley.]
[AS. leáh; akin to D. loog, OHG. louga, G. lauge; cf. Icel. laug a bath, a hot spring.]
1.
A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.

2.
(Chem.)
Sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, or a concentrated aqueous solution of either compound.


word: Lye₂
definition:
Lye

Lye
n.
(Railroad)
A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
[Eng.]


word: Lyencephala
definition:
Lyencephala

Ly`en*ceph"a*la
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; to loose + _; the brain.]
(Zool.)
A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.


word: Lyencephalous
definition:
Lyencephalous

Ly`en*ceph"a*lous
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.


word: Lyginopteridales
definition:
Lyginopteridales

Lyginopteridales
n.
An order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: the seed ferns.

Syn. -- Cycadofilicales, order Cycadofilicales, order Lyginopteridales.


word: Lyginopteris
definition:
Lyginopteris

Lyginopteris
n.
A genus of fossil seed ferns of the Carboniferous.

Syn. -- genus Lyginopteris.


word: Lygodium
definition:
Lygodium

Ly*go"di*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; flexible; _; a willow twig + e'i^dos form.]
(Bot.)
A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

&hand_; Lygodium palmatum, much prized for indoor ornament, inhabits shaded and moist grassy places, from Massachusetts to Virginia and Kentucky, and sparingly southwards.


word: Lying₂
definition:
Lying

Ly"ing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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.


word: Lying-in
definition:
Lying-in

Ly"ing-in"
(?)
n.
1.
The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement; as, a lying-in hospital.

2.
The act of bearing a child.


word: Lyken
definition:
Lyken

Ly"ken
(?)
v. t.
[See Like, v. t. ]
To please; -- chiefly used impersonally.
[Obs.]
lyketh
Chaucer.


word: Lymhound
definition:
Lymhound

Lym

{ Lym (?), or Lym"hound` (?) }
n.
A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: lymantriid
definition:
lymantriid

lymantriid
n.
A dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees.

Syn. -- tussock moth.


word: Lymantriidae
definition:
Lymantriidae

Lymantriidae
n.
The natural family comprising the tussock moths.

Syn. -- family Lymantriidae.


word: Lyme grass
definition:
Lyme grass

Lyme" grass`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. Elymus Canadensis, and the European Elymus arenarius.


word: Lymph
definition:
Lymph

Lymph
(?)
n.
[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.)
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.)
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.

4.
(Physiol. Chem.)
A fluid containing certain products resulting from the growth of specific microorganisms upon some culture medium, and supposed to be possessed of curative properties.

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.


word: Lymphadenitis
definition:
Lymphadenitis

Lym`pha*de*ni"tis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Lymph, and Adenitis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the lymphatic glands; -- called also lymphitis.


word: Lymphangeitis
definition:
Lymphangeitis

Lym*phan`ge*i"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., from L. lympha lymph + Gr. _; vessel + -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
[Written also lymphangitis.]


word: Lymphangial
definition:
Lymphangial

Lym*phan"gi*al
(?)
a.
[See Lymphangeitis.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the lymphatics, or lymphoid tissue; lymphatic.


word: Lymphated
definition:
Lymphated

Lymphate

{ Lymph"ate (?), Lymph"a*ted (?), }
a.
[L. lymphatus, p. p. of lymphare to water, dilute with water, to drive out of one's senses, to make mad.]
Frightened into madness; raving.
[Obs.]


word: Lymphatic
definition:
Lymphatic

Lym*phat"ic
(?)
a.
[L. lymphaticus distracted, frantic: cf. F. lymphatique]
pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.

2.
Madly enthusiastic; frantic.
[Obs.]
Lymphatic
Sir T. Herbert.
[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.


word: Lymphatic₂
definition:
Lymphatic

Lym*phat"ic
n.
1.
(Anat.)
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.]


word: Lymphogenic
definition:
Lymphogenic

Lym`pho*gen"ic
(?)
a.
[Lymph + root of L. gignere to produce.]
(Physiol.)
Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands.


word: Lymphography
definition:
Lymphography

Lym*phog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Lymph + -graphy.]
A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.


word: Lymphoid
definition:
Lymphoid

Lymph"oid
(?)
a.
[Lymph + -oid.]
(Anat.)
Resembling lymph; also, resembling a lymphatic gland; adenoid; as, lymphoid tissue.


word: Lymphoma
definition:
Lymphoma

Lym*pho"ma
(?)
n.
[NL. See Lymph, and -oma.]
(Med.)
A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma.

Malignant lymphoma, a fatal disease characterized by the formation in various parts of the body of new growths resembling lymphatic glands in structure.


word: Lynch
definition:
Lynch

Lynch
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lynched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lynching.]
[See Note under Lynch law.]
To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.


word: Lynch law
definition:
Lynch law

Lynch" law`
(?)
n.
The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.

&hand_; The term Lynch law is said to be derived from a Virginian named Lynch, who took the law into his own hands. But the origin of the term is very doubtful.


word: Lynx
definition:
Lynx

Lynx
(lĭ&nsmacr_;ks)
n.
[L. lynx, lyncis, Gr. ly`gx; akin to AS. lox, G. luchs, prob. named from its sharp sight, and akin to E. light. See Light, n., and cf. Ounce an animal.]
1.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.

&hand_; Among the well-known species are the European lynx (Felis borealis); the Canada lynx or loup-cervier (Felis Canadensis syn. Lynx lynx); the bay lynx of America (Felis rufa), and its western spotted variety (var. maculata); and the pardine lynx (Felis pardina) of Southern Europe.
2.
(Astron.)
One of the northern constellations.


word: Lyonia
definition:
Lyonia

Lyonia
prop. n.
A genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of the U. S. to the Antilles and eastern Asia to Himalaya.

Syn. -- genus Lyonia.


word: Lyonnais
definition:
Lyonnais

Lyonnais
prop. n.
a former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes.


word: Lyonnaise
definition:
Lyonnaise

Ly`on`naise"
(?)
a.
[F. lyonnaise, fem. of lyonnais of Lyons.]
(Cookery)
Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter.  They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.


word: lyophilize
definition:
lyophilize

lyophilize
v. t.
to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.


word: lyophilized
definition:
lyophilized

lyophilized
adj.
dried by freezing and subsequent evaporation of the water in a high vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological or sensitive substances.

Syn. -- lyophilised, freeze-dried.


word: Lyopomata
definition:
Lyopomata

Ly`o*po"ma*ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; to loose + _;, _;, a lid.]
(Zool.)
An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are not articulated by a hinge.  It includes the Lingula, Discina, and allied forms.
[Written also Lyopoma.]


word: Lyra
definition:
Lyra

Ly"ra
(?)
n.
[L. lyra, Gr. _;. See Lyre.]
1.
(Astron.)
A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyræ, or Vega.

2.
(Anat.)
The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.


word: Lyrated
definition:
Lyrated

Lyrate

{ Ly"rate (?), Ly"ra*ted (?), }
a.
[NL. lyratus. See Lyre.]
1.
(Bot.)
Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

2.
(Zool.)
Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.


word: Lyre
definition:
Lyre

Lyre
(?)
n.
[OE. lire, OF. lyre, L. lyra, Gr. _;.  Cf. Lyra.]
1.
(Mus.)
A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

&hand_; The lyre was the peculiar instrument of Apollo, the tutelary god of music and poetry. It gave name to the species of verse called lyric, to which it originally furnished an accompaniment.

2.
(Astron.)
One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.

Lyre bat (Zool.), a small bat (Megaderma lyra), inhabiting India and Ceylon. It is remarkable for the enormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears. -- Lyre turtle (Zool.), the leatherback.


word: Lyre bird
definition:
Lyre bird

Lyre" bird`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.


word: lyreflower
definition:
lyreflower

lyreflower
(Bot.)
n.
A garden plant (Dicentra spectabilis) having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers.

Syn. -- bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis.


word: Lyrical
definition:
Lyrical

Lyric

{ Lyr"ic (?), Lyr"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. lyricus, Gr. _;: cf. F. lyrique. See Lyre.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

2.
Fitted to be sung to the lyre;
hence, also,
appropriate for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; -- of music or poetry.

3.
expressing deep personal emotion; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet; as, the dancer's lyrical performance.
lyric
Milton.

Syn. -- lyric.


word: Lyric
definition:
Lyric

Lyr"ic
n.
1.
A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

2.
A composer of lyric poems.
[R.]
Addison.

3.
A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.

4.
pl.
The words of a song.


word: lyricality
definition:
lyricality

lyricality
n.
1.
the property of being suitable for singing.

Syn. -- lyricism, songfulness.


word: Lyrid
definition:
Lyrid

Ly"rid
(lī"rĭd)
n.
(Astron.)
One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars if traced backwards crosses the constellation Lyra.


word: Lyrie
definition:
Lyrie

Ly"rie
(lī"rĭ)
n.
[Icel. hl&ymacr_;ri a sort of fish.]
(Zool.)
A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.


word: Lyriferous
definition:
Lyriferous

Ly*rif"er*ous
(li̝*rĭf"ẽr*ŭs)
a.
[Lyre + -ferous.]
(Zool.)
Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.


word: Lyrist
definition:
Lyrist

Lyr"ist
n.
[L. lyristes, Gr. lyristh`s: cf. F. lyriste.]
A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.
Shelley.


word: Lysichitum
definition:
Lysichitum

Lysichiton

Lysichiton, Lysichitum
n.
A genus of plants including one of the skunk cabbages.

Syn. -- genus Lysichiton, genus Lysichitum.


word: Lysiloma
definition:
Lysiloma

Lysiloma
n.
A small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods.

Syn. -- genus Lysiloma.


word: Lysimachia
definition:
Lysimachia

Lysimachia
n.
1.
a cosmopolitan genus of plants, including some of the loosestrifes, found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; they are inclined to be invasive.

Syn. -- genus Lysimachia.


word: Lysimeter
definition:
Lysimeter

Ly*sim"e*ter
(li̝*sĭm"e̝*tẽr)
n.
[Gr. ly`sis a loosing + -meter.]
An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.
Knight.


word: Lysis
definition:
Lysis

Ly"sis
(lī"sĭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ly`sis.]
(Med.)
The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

&hand_; It is usually contrasted with crisis, in which the improvement is sudden and marked; as, pneumonia ends by crisis, typhoid fever by lysis.


word: Lyssa
definition:
Lyssa

Lys"sa
(lĭs"sȧ)
n.
[NL. See Lytta.]
(Med.)
Hydrophobia.

&hand_; The plural (Lyssæ) has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia.


word: Lyterian
definition:
Lyterian

Ly*te"ri*an
(li̝*tē"rĭ*an)
a.
[Gr. lyth`rios healing, fr. lyth`r a deliverer, fr. ly`ein to loosen.]
(Med.)
Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.


word: Lythontriptic
definition:
Lythontriptic

Lythonthriptic

{ Lyth`on*thrip"tic (lĭth`&obreve_;n*thrĭp"tĭk), Lyth`on*trip"tic (-trĭp"tĭk) }
a.
(Med.)
See Lithontriptic.


word: Lytta
definition:
Lytta

Lyt"ta
(lĭt"tȧ)
n.
pl. Lyttæ (-tē).
[L., a worm said to grow under the tongue of dogs, and to cause canine madness, fr. Gr. ly`tta, ly`ssa, lit., madness.]
(Anat.)
A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.


word: M
definition:
M

M
(ĕm)
1.
M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178-180, 242.

    The letter M came into English from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being further derived from the Phœnician, and ultimately, it is believed, from the Egyptian. Etymologically M is related to n, in lime, linden; emmet, ant; also to b.
[1913 Webster]
    M is readily followed by b and p. the position of the lips in the formation of both letters being the same. The relation of b and m is the same as that of d and t to n. and that of g and k to ng.

2.
As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin.


word: M₂
definition:
M

M
n.
1.
(Print.)
A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.
[Written also em.]

2.
(law)
A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy.


word: M-1
definition:
M-1

M-1
n.
A semiautomatic rifle which was standard issue to infantrymen in the United States Army in the mid-20th century.

Syn. -- Garand rifle, Garand, M-1 rifle.


word: M1
definition:
M1

M1
n.
The narrowest measure of the money supply, comprising the currency in circulation plus demand deposits or checking account balances.


word: M2
definition:
M2

M2
n.
A measure of the money supply broader than M1 but narrower than M3, comprising M1 plus net time deposits (other than large certificates of deposit).


word: M3
definition:
M3

M3
n.
A broad measure of the money supply, comprising M2 plus deposits at nonbanks such as savings and loan associations.


word: Ma
definition:
Ma

Ma
(mä)
n.
[Cf. Mamma.]
1.
A child's word for mother.

2.
[Hind.]
In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).


word: Ma₂
definition:
Ma

Ma
conj.
[It.]
(Mus.)
But; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, “Vivace, ma non troppo presto” (i. e., lively, but not too quick).
Moore (Encyc. of Music).


word: Maa
definition:
Maa

Maa
(?)
n.
[See New a gull.]
(Zool.)
The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull.


word: Ma'am
definition:
Ma'am

Ma'am
(?)
n.
Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

Syn. -- dame, madam, madame, lady, gentlewoman.


word: Maara shell
definition:
Maara shell

Ma"a*ra shell`
(?)
(Zool.)
A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used as an ornament.


word: Mab
definition:
Mab

Mab
(măb)
prop. n.
[Cf. W. mad a male child, a boy.]

1.
A slattern.
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
[capitalized]
The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.
Shak.


word: Mabby
definition:
Mabby

Mab"by
(?)
n.
A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.


word: Mabolo
definition:
Mabolo

Ma*bo"lo
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.


word: Mac
definition:
Mac

Mac
prop. n.
Shortened form of Macintosh, a brand name for a personal computer; as, the latest Mac has great new features.


word: mac
definition:
mac

mac
n.
Shortened form of mackintosh, a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.

Syn. -- mackintosh, mac, mack.


word: macabre
definition:
macabre

macabre
(mȧ*kä"bẽr)
adj.
1.
portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen.
[Also spelled macaber.]

Syn. -- ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid.

2.
Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical dance of death.


word: Macaca
definition:
Macaca

Macaca
prop. n.
A genus of macaques including the  rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), much used in laboratory biomedical research.  Formerly called Macacus.

Syn. -- genus Macaca.


word: Macaca mulatta
definition:
Macaca mulatta

Macaca mulatta
n.
The rhesus monkey of South Asia; used in medical research.

Syn. -- rhesus, rhesus monkey.


word: Macaca radiata
definition:
Macaca radiata

Macaca radiata
n.
An Indian macaque with a bonnetlike tuft of hair.

Syn. -- bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkey.


word: Macaca sylvana
definition:
Macaca sylvana

Macaca sylvana
n.
The Barbary ape, a tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of Northwest Africa and Gibralter.


word: Macaco
definition:
Macaco

Ma*ca"co
(?)
n.
[Cf. Pg. macaco.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).


word: Macacus
definition:
Macacus

Ma*ca"cus
(?)
n.
[NL., a word of African origin.  Cf. Macaco, Macaque.]
(Zool.)
A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies, now usually called Macaca.  They have short tails and prominent eyebrows.  See also Macaca.


word: macadam
definition:
macadam

macadam
n.
The broken stone used in macadamized roadways.

2.
A paved surface formed of compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar.

Syn. -- tartarmac, macadam.


word: macadamized
definition:
macadamized

macadam

macadam macadamized
adj.
1.
paved with macadam{2}.

Syn. -- asphalt, tarmac, tarmacadam.


word: macadamia
definition:
macadamia

macadamia
n.
1.
any tree of the genus Macadamia, especially Macadamia ternifolia.

Syn. -- macadamia tree.

2.
A macadamia nut.


word: macadamia nut
definition:
macadamia nut

macadamia nut
n.
The hard-shelled nut of the Macadamia ternifolia, or the delicious edible nut without its shell; large quantities are produced in Hawaii and sold commercially.


word: Macadamize
definition:
Macadamize

Mac*ad"am*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Macadamized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Macadamizing.]
[From John Loudon McAdam, who introduced the process into Great Britain in 1816.]
To cover, as a road, or street, parking lot, playground, or other flat area, with macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

Syn. -- tarmac.


word: macamba
definition:
macamba

macamba
n.
A tropical American feather palm (Acrocomia aculeata) having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.

Syn. -- grugru, gri gri, grugru palm, Acrocomia aculeata.


word: Macao₂
definition:
Macao

Ma*ca"o
(?)
prop. n.
A territory in South China, on the Zhu Jiang river on the South China sea, formerly a territory of Portugal.  Also, the capital city of this territory.


word: Macaque
definition:
Macaque

Ma`caque"
(?)
n.
[F. See Macacus.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macaca (formerly Macacus), found in rocky regions of Asia and Africa; as, Macaca maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.
Macaca mulatta is the Rhesus monkey, much used in biomedical research, and namesake of the Rh factor used in blood typing (due to discovery of that factor in the Rhesus monkey).


word: Macaranga gum
definition:
Macaranga gum

Mac`a*ran"ga gum`
(?)
A gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (Macaranga Indica) that grows in the East Indies.  It is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).


word: macarena
definition:
macarena

macarena
n.
a dance performed by dancers in a line, or several lines, consisting mainly of hand and arm movements; also, the name of the song to which the dance is usually performed.  It became popular in 1996.


word: Macaroni
definition:
Macaroni

Mac`a*ro"ni
(?)
n.
pl. Macaronis (#), or Macaronies.
[Prov. It. macaroni, It. maccheroni, fr. Gr. _; happiness, later, a funeral feast, fr. _; blessed, happy. Prob. so called because eaten at such feasts in honor of the dead; cf. Gr. _; blessed, i. e., dead.  Cf. Macaroon.]
1.
Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of a wheat flour such as semolina, and used as an article of food; a form of Italian pasta.

&hand_; A paste similarly prepared is largely used as food in Persia, India, and China, but is not commonly made tubular like the Italian macaroni.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).

2.
A medley; something droll or extravagant.

3.
A sort of droll or fool.
[Obs.]
Addison.

4.
A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775, who affected the mannerisms and clothing of continental Europe.
Goldsmith.

5.
pl.
(U. S. Hist.)
The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
W. Irving.


word: Macaronic
definition:
Macaronic

Macaronian

{ Mac`a*ro"ni*an (?), Mac`a*ron"ic (?), }
a.
[Cf. It. maccheronico, F. macaronique.]
1.
Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.

2.
Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.


word: Macaronic₂
definition:
Macaronic

Mac`a*ron"ic
(?)
n.
1.
A heap of things confusedly mixed together; a jumble.

2.
A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.


word: Macaroon
definition:
Macaroon

Mac`a*roon"
(?)
n.
[F. macaron, It. maccherone. See Macaroni.]
1.
A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds or coconut, and sugar.

2.
A finical fellow, or macaroni.
[Obs.]


word: Macassar oil
definition:
Macassar oil

Ma*cas`sar oil"
(?)
n.
A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; -- so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil.  Cf. antimacassar.


word: Macauco
definition:
Macauco

Ma*cau"co
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of small lemurs, as Lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size.


word: Macavahu
definition:
Macavahu

Ma`ca*va"hu
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix torquatus), -- called also collared teetee.


word: Macaw
definition:
Macaw

Ma*caw"
(?)
n.
[From the native name in the Antilles.]
(Zool.)
Any parrot of the genus Ara, Sittace, or Macrocercus.  About eighteen species are known, all of them found in Central and South America.  They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes.  The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted; they are among the largest and showiest of parrots.  Different species names have been given to the same macaw, as for example the Hyacinthine macaw, which has been variously classified as Anodorhyncus hyacynthinus, Anodorhyncus maximiliani, and Macrocercus hyacynthinus.

Macaw bush (Bot.), a West Indian name for a prickly kind of nightshade (Solanum mammosum). -- Macaw palm, Macaw tree (Bot.), a tropical American palm (Acrocomia fusiformis and other species) having a prickly stem and pinnately divided leaves. Its nut yields a yellow butter, with the perfume of violets, which is used in making violet soap. Called also grugru palm.


word: Maccabean
definition:
Maccabean

Mac`ca*be"an
(?)
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.


word: Maccabees
definition:
Maccabees

Mac"ca*bees
(?)
n. pl.
1.
The name given in later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 b. c., which led to a period of freedom for Israel.
Schaff-Herzog.

2.
The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.


word: Maccoboy
definition:
Maccoboy

Maccaboy

{ Mac"ca*boy (?), Mac"co*boy (?), }
n.
[From a district in the Island of Martinique where it is made: cf. F. macouba.]
A kind of snuff.


word: maccaroni wheat
definition:
maccaroni wheat

maccaroni wheat
n.
A type of wheat (Triticum durum) with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in South Russia, North Africa, and North central North America.

Syn. -- durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum.


word: Mace
definition:
Mace

Mace
(mās)
n.
[Jav. & Malay. mās, fr. Skr. māsha a bean.]
A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.
S. W. Williams.


word: Mace₂
definition:
Mace

Mace
(?)
n.
[F. macis, L. macis, macir, Gr. _;; cf. Skr. makaranda the nectar or honey of a flower, a fragrant mango.]
(Bot.)
A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.

&hand_; Red mace is the aril of Myristica tingens, and white mace that of Myristica Otoba, -- East Indian trees of the same genus with the nutmeg tree.


word: Mace₃
definition:
Mace

Mace
n.
[OF. mace, F. masse, from (assumed) L. matea, of which the dim.  mateola a kind of mallet or beetle, is found.]
1.
A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
Chaucer.

Death with his mace petrific . . . smote.
Milton.

2.
Hence:
A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.
mace
Wordsworth.

3.
An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority; a macebearer.
Macaulay.

4.
A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

5.
(Billiards)
A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.


word: Mace₄
definition:
Mace

Mace
(?)
prop. n.
[Trademark.]
A chemical preparation containing tear gas in a solvent, packaged in the form of a spray, and used to temporarily incapacitate people, such as rioters or criminals, by causing intense eye and skin irritation; also called chemical mace.  It is designed to be a non-lethal weapon for defending against violent people.


word: mace bearer
definition:
mace bearer

macebearer

macebearer, mace bearer
n.
an official who carries the mace of office before persons in authority.

Syn. -- mace, macer.


word: Macedoine
definition:
Macedoine

Ma`cé`doine"
(?)
n.
[F., apparently the same word as Macédoine Macedonia.]
A kind of mixed dish, as of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, mixed diced fruits or vegetables etc.; served hot or cold;
Also,
(fig.)
a medley.


word: Macedonia
definition:
Macedonia

Macedon

Macedon, Macedonia
prop. n.
1.
The ancient kingdom of Phillip II and Alexander the Great in the Southeastern Balkans that is now part of Greece, Bulgaria and the independent republic of Macedonia that was part of the former Yugoslavia.

Syn. -- Macedonia.

2.
The modern republic of Macedonia, population 2,033,964, which was formerly one of the constituent republics of Yugoslavia.  It became independent on November 17, 1991, after a referendum held on September 9, 1991.  Its capital city is Skopje.  The currency is the Denar. The ethnic composition is approximately 65% Macedonians, 21.73% Albanians, 3.79 Turks, 2.56% Romanians, 2.10% Serbs, and 0.38% Vlachs.  Its language is Macedonian, which  uses the Cyrillic alphabet.  Its second largest city is Bitola (pop. 84,002).
    At independence in 1991 a new Constitution was adopted, which proclaimed the Republic of Macedonia a sovereign and independent state.   On april 8, 1993, the Republic of Macedonia became a member of the United Nations Organization. Due to the pressure of Greece, which was concerned about possible claims on part of its territory, it was admitted under the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
    The Republic of Macedonia is situated in the center of the the Balkan Peninsula and has a unique strategic position at the junction of the main routes which have for millenia linked the West to the Orient. It covers an area of  25,713 square killometres and borders with Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, Albania to the west and Serbia to the north.  With the 1913 treaty of  Bucharest, the territory of Macedonia, mainly populated with macedonians, was divided between Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria.  Vardar Macedonia (the territory of today's Republic of Macedonia) became part of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia - which existed until 1941. The larger part of Macedonia, geographically known as Aegean Macedonia, covering an area  of 34,356 sqare kilometres, was incorporated into Greece.  The territory of Pirin Macedonia (6,798 sqare kilometres) was assigned to Bulgaria.
    In World War II Macedonians started to struggle against the fascist occupiers on October 11, 1941.  The First Session of ASNOM (The Anti-Fascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia) was held on August 2, 1944.  It finally crowned the process of the historical establishment of the Macedonian state and was the basis for its soveregnity, and integrity.  Macedonia (Socialistic Republic of Macedonia) became part of Tito's Yugoslavia and remained part until independence in 1991.
Goce Vasilevski

3.
A region in northern Greece with its capital at Thessalonica.


word: Macedonian
definition:
Macedonian

Mac`e*do"ni*an
(?)
a.
[L. Macedonius, Gr. _;.]
(Geog.)
Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia.
n. A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.


word: Macedonian₂
definition:
Macedonian

Mac`e*do"ni*an
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.


word: Macer
definition:
Macer

Ma"cer
(?)
n.
[F. massier. See Mace staff.]
A mace bearer; an officer of a court.
P. Plowman.


word: Macerate
definition:
Macerate

Mac"er*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Macerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Macerating.]
[L. maceratus, p. p.  of macerare to make soft, weaken, enervate; cf. Gr. _; to knead.]
1.
To make lean; to cause to waste away.
[Obs. or R.]
Harvey.

2.
To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
Baker.

3.
To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.


word: Macerater
definition:
Macerater

Mac"er*a`ter
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.


word: Maceration
definition:
Maceration

Mac`er*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. maceratio: cf. F. macération.]
The act or process of macerating.


word: Machaeranthera
definition:
Machaeranthera

Machaeranthera
n.
A genus of wildflowers of Western North America.

Syn. -- genus Machaeranthera.


word: Machairodus
definition:
Machairodus

Machaerodus

{ &VerbarMa*chae"ro*dus (mȧ*kē"ro̝*dŭs), &VerbarMa*chai"ro*dus (mȧ*kī"ro̝*dŭs), }
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ma`chaira dagger + 'odoy`s tooth.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.


word: Machete
definition:
Machete

Ma*che"te
(mȧ*shĕt"e̝; Sp. mȧ*chā"ta̝)
n.
[Sp.]
A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
J. Stevens.

Syn. -- matchet.


word: Machiavellian
definition:
Machiavellian

Machiavelian

Mach`i*a*vel"ian, Mach`i*a*vel"lian
(?)
a.
[From Machiavel (also called Machiavelli), an Italian writer, secretary and historiographer to the republic of Florence.]
Of or pertaining to Machiavelli, or to his supposed principles for conduct of government, as enunciated in his tract The Prince; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity, political expediency, unscrupulous cunning, or bad faith; crafty.


word: Machiavellian₂
definition:
Machiavellian

Machiavelian

Mach`i*a*vel"ian, Mach`i*a*vel"lian
n.
One who adopts the principles of Machiavelli; a cunning and unprincipled politician.


word: Machiavellianism
definition:
Machiavellianism

Machiavelism

{ Mach"i*a*vel*ism (?), Mach`i*a*vel"lian*ism (?), }
n.
[Cf. F. machiavélisme; It. machiavellismo.]
The supposed principles of Machiavelli, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.


word: Machicolated
definition:
Machicolated

Ma*chic"o*la`ted
(?)
a.
[LL. machicolatus, p. p. of machicolare, machicollare. See Machicolation.]
Having machicolations.
Machicolated
C. Kingsley.


word: Machicolation
definition:
Machicolation

Mach`i*co*la"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. machicolamentum, machacolladura, F. mâchicolis, mâchecoulis; perh. fr. F. mèche match, combustible matter + OF. coulis, couleis, flowing, fr. OF. & F. couler to flow. Cf. Match for making fire, and Cullis.]

1.
(Mil. Arch.)
An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, for shooting or dropping missiles upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.  Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.

2.
The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.


word: machilid
definition:
machilid

mach"i*lid
(?)
n.
A wingless insect living in dark moist places, as under tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed; called also jumping bristletail.

Syn. -- jumping bristletail.


word: Machilidae
definition:
Machilidae

Machilidae
(?)
prop. n.
A natural family of insects including the jumping bristletails.


word: Machinate
definition:
Machinate

Mach"i*nate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Machinated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Machinating (?).]
[L. machinatus, p. p. of machinari to devise, plot. See Machine.]
To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.
machinate
Sandys.


word: Machination
definition:
Machination

Mach`i*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. machinatio: cf. F. machination.]
1.
The act of machinating.
Shak.

2.
That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

Devilish machinations come to naught.
Milton.

His ingenious machinations had failed.
Macaulay.


word: Machinator
definition:
Machinator

Mach"i*na`tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.


word: Machine
definition:
Machine

Ma*chine"
(mȧ*shēn")
n.
[F., fr. L. machina machine, engine, device, trick, Gr. mhchanh`, from mh^chos means, expedient.  Cf. Mechanic.]
1.
In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

&hand_; The term machine is most commonly applied to such pieces of mechanism as are used in the industrial arts, for mechanically shaping, dressing, and combining materials for various purposes, as in the manufacture of cloth, etc.  Where the effect is chemical, or other than mechanical, the contrivance is usually denominated an apparatus or device, not a machine; as, a bleaching apparatus.  Many large, powerful, or specially important pieces of mechanism are called engines; as, a steam engine, fire engine, graduating engine, etc.  Although there is no well-settled distinction between the terms engine and machine among practical men, there is a tendency to restrict the application of the former to contrivances in which the operating part is not distinct from the motor.

2.
Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
Dryden. Southey. Thackeray.

3.
A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another.

4.
A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.
Landor.

5.
A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine.
[Political Cant]

6.
Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
Addison.

Elementary machine, a name sometimes given to one of the simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical. -- Infernal machine. See under Infernal. -- Machine gun.See under Gun. -- Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into metal, in distinction from one which is designed especially to be screwed into wood. -- Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc. -- Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less general use in a machine shop, in distinction from a machine for producing a special article as in manufacturing. -- Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine. -- Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done by hand labor.


word: Machine₂
definition:
Machine

Ma*chine"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Machined (mȧ*shēnd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Machining.]
To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.


word: machine bolt
definition:
machine bolt

machine bolt
n.
A threaded hexagonal or square-headed bolt with a nut; it is tightened with a wrench and used to connect metal parts.


word: machine-driven
definition:
machine-driven

machine-controlled

machine-controlled machine-driven
adj.
same as automated.

Syn. -- automated.


word: machine gun
definition:
machine gun

machine gun
n.
A fully automatic rapid-firing rifle, which continues to fire bullets repeatedly as long as the trigger is depressed; lighter versions may be carried in the hands, and heavier versions may be mounted on a tripod, vehicle, or other mount.  The lighweight versions are sometimes called a submachine gun.


word: machine gun₂
definition:
machine gun

machine-gun

machine-gun, machine gun
a.
Occurring in rapid succession, like the firing of a machine gun; as, Tom was a persuasive speaker, with a smooth deep voice, polysyllabic vocabulary, and a machine-gun articulation that overwhelmed listeners.

Syn. -- rapid-fire.


word: machine language
definition:
machine language

machine language
n.
(Computers)
a set of instructions{3} in a binary form that can be executed directly by the CPU of a computer without translation by a computer program.

Syn. -- machine code, binary code.


word: machine-like
definition:
machine-like

machinelike

machinelike, machine-like
adj.
behaving in an unthinking manner, like the functioning of a machine; as, machine-like fools.

Syn. -- automatic, automaton-like, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike.


word: machine-oriented language
definition:
machine-oriented language

machine-oriented language
n.
A programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers.

Syn. -- computer language, computer-oriented language, machine language.


word: machine-readable
definition:
machine-readable

ma*chin"e-read"a*ble
(?)
a.
(Computers)
Readable by a machine;
especially,
available on a data-storage medium in a binary format that can be rapidly converted by standard input devices into data in a computer memory; as, the CIDE dictionary is a machine-readable dictionary.


word: Machinery
definition:
Machinery

Ma*chin"er*y
(mȧ*shēn"ẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
[From Machine: cf. F. machinerie.]
1.
Machines, in general, or collectively.

2.
The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.

3.
The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.

The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem.
Pope.

4.
The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

An indispensable part of the machinery of state.
Macaulay.

The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).


word: machine screw
definition:
machine screw

machine screw
n.
A type of screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole; it has a slotted head which can be driven by a screwdriver.


word: machine shop
definition:
machine shop

machine shop
n.
A small business or a room within a business establishment where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools.


word: machine tool
definition:
machine tool

machine tool
n.
A power-driven machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials.


word: machine translation
definition:
machine translation

ma*chine" trans*la"tion
n.
(Computers)
The translation of human language from one language to another by a computer; -- a branch of artificial intelligence.

Syn. -- computer translation, automatic translation.


word: Machining
definition:
Machining

Ma*chin"ing
a.
Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.
[Obs.]
Dryden.


word: Machinist
definition:
Machinist

Ma*chin"ist
n.
[Cf. F. machiniste.]
1.
A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

2.
One skilled in the use of machine tools.

3.
A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.


word: machismo
definition:
machismo

machismo
n.
1.
A strong, and by some considered exaggerated, sense of manly pride, associated with an attitude that the proper expression of masculinity includes virility, courage, and an entitlement to dominate, especially over women.

2.
An exaggerated sense of power entitling one to dominate others; as, the civilian authorities occasionally need to rein in the military's machismo.


word: machmeter
definition:
machmeter

machmeter
n.
an instrument for measuring the speed of an aircraft relative to the speed of sound.


word: mach number
definition:
mach number

mach number
n.
(aeronautics)
The ratio of the speed of a moving body to the speed of sound.


word: Macho
definition:
Macho

Ma"cho
(?)
n.
[Sp.]
(Zool.)
The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil Mexicanus).


word: macho
definition:
macho

ma"cho
(?)
a.
[Sp.]
Manly, especially with an assertive and domineering manner toward women.


word: MACHO
definition:
MACHO

MACHO
(mä"ko̝)
n.
[acronym from Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Object.]
A form of dark matter in distant outer space unobservable except by its gravitational effect, and believed to be at least part of the “missing matter” which is unobservable as ordinary stars, but helps keep galaxies from flying apart; MACHOS are massive but compact objects such as neutron stars or brown dwarfs, which can be detected (with difficulty) by their effect in bending light from distant light sources, such as other galaxies.  This can occur if by rare chance a MACHO passes in front of a more distant visible object, and the light from that object becomes temporarily amplified by the MACHO acting as a gravitational lens.  Some MACHOs have been discovered in the halo of dark matter that surrounds our milky way.  It is, however, questionable whether the amount of such matter is sufficient to explain the ability of galaxies to stay together in spite of rotation rates that would cause them to fly apart if the only matter present was that observable as visible stars.


word: Macilent
definition:
Macilent

Mac"i*lent
(?)
a.
[L. macilentus, fr. macies leanness, macere to be lean.]
Lean; thin.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Macintosh
definition:
Macintosh

Mac"in*tosh
(?)
n.
1.
Same as Mackintosh.

2.
[Trademark.]
(Computers)
A brand of personal computer featuring an integrated system in which the hardware and system-operating software were designed by or under the control of a single company, the Apple Computer Corporation; among personal computers, distinguished from the IBM-compatible or Intel-based series of computers.


word: Mackenzie
definition:
Mackenzie

Mackenzie
peop. n.
a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea.

Syn. -- Mackenzie River.


word: Mackerel
definition:
Mackerel

Mack"er*el
(?)
n.
[OF. maquerel, F. maquereau, fr. D. makelaar mediator, agent, fr. makelen to act as agent.]
A pimp; also, a bawd.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.


word: Mackerel₂
definition:
Mackerel

Mack`er*el
(?)
n.
[OF. maquerel, F. maquereau (LL. macarellus), prob. for maclereau, fr. L. macula a spot, in allusion to the markings on the fish.  See Mail armor.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus Scomber of the family Scombridae, and of several related genera.  They are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes.  Most of them are highly prized for food.

&hand_; The common mackerel (Scomber scombrus), which inhabits both sides of the North Atlantic, is one of the most important food fishes.  It is mottled with green and blue.  The Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus), of the American coast, is covered with bright yellow circular spots.

Bull mackerel, Chub mackerel. (Zool.) See under Chub. -- Frigate mackerel. See under Frigate. -- Horse mackerel . See under Horse. -- Mackerel bird (Zool.), the wryneck; -- so called because it arrives in England at the time when mackerel are in season. -- Mackerel cock (Zool.), the Manx shearwater; -- so called because it precedes the appearance of the mackerel on the east coast of Ireland. -- Mackerel guide. (Zool.) See Garfish (a). -- Mackerel gull (Zool.) any one of several species of gull which feed upon or follow mackerel, as the kittiwake. -- Mackerel midge (Zool.), a very small oceanic gadoid fish of the North Atlantic.  It is about an inch and a half long and has four barbels on the upper jaw.  It is now considered the young of the genus Onos, or Motella. -- Mackerel plow, an instrument for creasing the sides of lean mackerel to improve their appearance. Knight. -- Mackerel shark (Zool.), the porbeagle. -- Mackerel sky, or Mackerel-back sky, a sky flecked with small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus. See Cloud.

Mackerel sky and mare's-tails
Make tall ships carry low sails.
Old Rhyme.


word: mackerel shad
definition:
mackerel shad

mackerel scad

mackerel scad, mackerel shad
n.
(Zool.)
A small silvery fish (Decapterus macarellus) found from Nova Scotia to Brazil.


word: Mackinaw
definition:
Mackinaw

Mackinaw blanket

{ Mack"i*naw blan"ket (?), Mack"i*naw. }
[From Mackinac, the State of Michigan, where blankets and other stores were distributed to the Indians.]
1.
A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.
[wns=2]

2.
a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design.
[wns=4]


word: Mackinaw boat
definition:
Mackinaw boat

Mackinaw

Mack"i*naw, Mack"i*naw boat
A flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and square stern, using oars or sails or both, used esp. on the upper Great Lakes and their tributaries.


word: Mackinaw coat
definition:
Mackinaw coat

Mackinaw

Mack"i*naw, Mack"i*naw coat
A short, heavy, double-breasted plaid coat, the design of which is large and striking.
[Local, U. S.]


word: Mackintosh
definition:
Mackintosh

Mack"in*tosh
(?)
n.
A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.


word: Mackle₂
definition:
Mackle

Mac"kle
v. t. & i.
To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.


word: Macle
definition:
Macle

Ma"cle
(?)
n.
[L. macula a spot: cf. F. macle.  Cf. Mackle, Mascle.]
(Min.)
(a)
Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.
(b)
A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.
(c)
A twin crystal.


word: Macleaya
definition:
Macleaya

Macleaya
(?)
prop. n.
(Bot.)
A genus of East Asian perennial herbs including the plume poppy.


word: Macled
definition:
Macled

Ma"cled
(?)
a.
1.
(Min.)
(a)
Marked like macle (chiastolite).
(b)
Having a twin structure. See Twin, a.

2.
See Mascled.


word: Maclurea
definition:
Maclurea

Ma*clu"re*a
(?)
n.
[NL. Named from William Maclure, the geologist.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.


word: maconnais
definition:
maconnais

macon

macon, maconnais
(?)
n.
A fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry, produced in the area around Macon, a city in France.


word: Macowanites
definition:
Macowanites

Macowanites
(?)
prop. n.
A stout-stemmed genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely.


word: Macowanites americanus
definition:
Macowanites americanus

Macowanites americanus
(?)
prop. n.
A small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap.


word: Macrame
definition:
Macrame

Mac"ra*me
(?)
n.
1.
the art of tying knots in patterns.

2.
a coarse lace, made by weaving and knotting cords; macrame lace.


word: Macrame lace
definition:
Macrame lace

Mac"ra*me lace"
(?)
A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.


word: Macrencephalous
definition:
Macrencephalous

Macrencephalic

{ Mac`ren*ce*phal"ic (?), Mac`ren*ceph"a*lous (?), }
a.
[Macro + encephalic, encephalous.]
Of or pertaining to macrencephaly; having a large brain.


word: macro
definition:
macro

macro
n.
[shortened form of macroinstruction]
1.
a single computer instruction which symbolizes, and is converted at the time of program execution or by a compiler into, a series of instructions in the same computer language.

2.
A keystroke (or combination of keystrokes) which symbolizes and is replaced by a series of keystrokes; -- a convenient feature of some advanced programs, such as word processors or database programs, which allows a user to rapidly execute any series of operations which may be performed multiple times.  Such macros may typically be defined by the program user, without rewriting or recompiling the program.


word: Macro-
definition:
Macro-

Mac"ro-
(?)
pref.
[Gr. makro`s, adj.]
A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore, macromolecule, macrocosm.


word: Macrobiotic
definition:
Macrobiotic

Mac`ro*bi*ot"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; long-lived; makro`s long + bi`os life: cf. F. macrobiotique.]
1.
Long-lived.
 Dunglison.

2.
Of or pertaining to macrobiotics.

3.
Of or pertaining to macrobiotic food; serving macrobiotic food.


word: Macrobiotics
definition:
Macrobiotics

Mac`ro*bi*ot"ics
(?)
n.
1.
(Physiol.)
The art of prolonging life.

2.
Specifically:
A philosophy or attitude that health and long life are promoted by adhering to a diet consisting mostly of whole grains, with some vegetables, beans, fruit, and moderate amounts of seafood.  However, the absence of essential nutrients such as fat makes such a diet of questionable value if strictly adhered to.


word: macrocephalous
definition:
macrocephalous

macrocephalic

mac`ro*ce*phal"ic (?), mac`ro*ceph"a*lous
(?)
a.
[Macro + Gr. kefalh` the head.]
1.
Of or pertaining to macrocephaly; having an unusually large head.

2.
(Bot.)
Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body.
Henslow.


word: macrocephaly
definition:
macrocephaly

macrocephaly
n.
THe condition of having an unusually large head; it differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increase intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical.

Syn. -- megacephaly, megalocephaly.


word: Macro-chemistry
definition:
Macro-chemistry

Mac`ro-chem"is*try
(?)
n.
[Macro- + chemistry.]
(Chem.)
The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro-chemistry.


word: Macrochires
definition:
Macrochires

Mac`ro*chi"res
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. makro`s long + _; hand.]
(Zool.)
A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.


word: Macrocosm
definition:
Macrocosm

Mac"ro*cosm
(?)
n.
[Macro- + Gr. _; the world: cf. F. macrocosme.]
The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.


word: Macrocystis
definition:
Macrocystis

Mac`ro*cys"tis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Macro-, and Cyst.]
(Bot.)
An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.


word: macro lens
definition:
macro lens

macro lens
n.
a camera lens designed to focus at short distances so as to achieve photographic magnifications of objects larger than with standard lenses.


word: macrocytosis
definition:
macrocytosis

macrocytosis
n.
An abnormal physiological condition characterized by the presence of macrocytes in the blood.


word: Macrodactyl
definition:
Macrodactyl

Mac`ro*dac"tyl
(măk`ro̝*dăk"tĭl)
n.
[Gr. makroda`ktylos long-fingered; makro`s long + da`ktylos finger: cf. F. macrodactyle.]
(Zool.)
One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes.
[Written also macrodactyle.]


word: Macrodactylous
definition:
Macrodactylous

Macrodactylic

{ Mac`ro*dac*tyl"ic (?), Mac`ro*dac"tyl*ous (?), }
a.
(Zool.)
Having long toes.


word: Macrodiagonal
definition:
Macrodiagonal

Mac`ro*di*ag"o*nal
(?)
n.
[Macro- + diagonal.]
(Crystallog.)
The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.


word: Macrodome
definition:
Macrodome

Mac"ro*dome
(?)
n.
[Macro- + dome.]
(Crystallog.)
A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.


word: Macrodont
definition:
Macrodont

Mac"ro*dont
a.
[Macro- + Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth.]
(Zool.)
Having large teeth.
n. A macrodont animal.


word: Macroglossia
definition:
Macroglossia

Mac`ro*glos"si*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Macro-, and Glossa.]
(Med.)
Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.


word: Macrograph
definition:
Macrograph

Mac"ro*graph
(?)
n.
[Macro- + -graph.]
A picture of an object as seen by the naked eye (that is, unmagnified); as, a macrograph of a metallic fracture.


word: Macrography
definition:
Macrography

Ma*crog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
Examination or study with the naked eye, as distinguished from micrography.


word: Macrology
definition:
Macrology

Ma*crol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[L. macrologia, Gr. _;; _; long + lo`gos discourse: cf. F. macrologie.]
Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.


word: Macrometer
definition:
Macrometer

Ma*crom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Macro- + -meter.]
An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.


word: macromolecule
definition:
macromolecule

mac`ro*mol"e*cule
(?)
n.
(Chem., Biochem.)
A very large molecule, especially a polymer having from hundreds to many thousands of atoms, such as DNA, RNA, protein, polysaccharide, polyethylene, polycarbonate, etc.


word: Macron
definition:
Macron

Ma"cron
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; long.]
(Pron.)
A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, ā, in dāme; ē, in sēam, etc.

Syn. -- macrotone.


word: Macrophyllous
definition:
Macrophyllous

Ma*croph"yl*lous
(?)
a.
[Macro- + Gr. _; a leaf.]
(Bot.)
Having long or large leaves.


word: Macropinacoid
definition:
Macropinacoid

Mac`ro*pin"a*coid
(?)
n.
[Macro- + pinacoid.]
(Crystallog.)
One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.


word: Macropod
definition:
Macropod

Mac"ro*pod
(?)
n.
[Macro- + -pod.]
(Zool.)
Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.


word: Macroprism
definition:
Macroprism

Mac"ro*prism
(?)
n.
[Macro- + prism.]
(Crystallog.)
A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.


word: Macropteres
definition:
Macropteres

Ma*crop"te*res
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; long + ptero`n feather, wing.]
(Zool.)
A division of birds; the Longipennes.


word: Macropus
definition:
Macropus

Mac"ro*pus
(?)
n.
[NL. See Macropod.]
(Zool.)
A genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.


word: Macroscopical
definition:
Macroscopical

Macroscopic

{ Mac`ro*scop"ic (?), Mac`ro*scop"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Macro- + Gr. _; to view.]
Visible to the unassisted eye; -- as opposed to microscopic.
Mac`ro*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Macrosporangium
definition:
Macrosporangium

Mac`ro*spo*ran"gi*um
(?)
n.
[NL. See Macro-, and Sporangium.]
(Bot.)
A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium.  Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.


word: Macrospore
definition:
Macrospore

Mac"ro*spore
(?)
n.
[Macro- + spore.]
(Bot.)
One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.


word: Macrotone
definition:
Macrotone

Mac"ro*tone
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; stretched out. See Macro-, and Tone.]
(Pron.)
Same as Macron.


word: macrotus
definition:
macrotus

ma*cro"tus
(?)
n.
A large-eared grayish bat (Macrotus californicus) of southern California and northwestern Mexico.


word: Macroural
definition:
Macroural

Macroura

&VerbarMa*crou"ra (?), n. pl., Ma*crou"ral (_;), a., etc.
(Zool.)
Same as Macrura, Macrural, etc.


word: Macrouridae
definition:
Macrouridae

Macrouridae
(?)
prop. n.
(Zool.)
A natural family of fish including the grenadiers.

Syn. -- Macruridae.


word: Macrozoospore
definition:
Macrozoospore

Mac`ro*zo"o*spore
(?)
n.
[Macro- + zoospore.]
(Bot.)
A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algae.


word: Macrura
definition:
Macrura

Ma*cru"ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; long + _; tail.]
(Zool.)
A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms.  Cf. Decapoda.


word: Mactation
definition:
Mactation

Mac*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. mactatio, fr. macture to slay, sacrifice.]
The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.
[Obs.]


word: Mactra
definition:
Mactra

Mac"tra
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; kneading trough, fr. _; to knead.]
(Zool.)
Any marine bivalve shell of the genus Mactra, and allied genera. Many species are known. Some of them are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe. See Surf clam, under Surf.


word: Macula
definition:
Macula

Mac"u*la
(?)
n.
pl. Maculae (#).
[L., spot, stain, blot. See Mail armor, and cf. Mackle, Macule.]
1.
A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb; called also macule.

2.
(Zool.)
A rather large spot or blotch of color.


word: macular area
definition:
macular area

macula lutea

macula lutea, macular area
n.
A yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones.

Syn. -- macula, yellow spot.


word: Maculate
definition:
Maculate

Mac"u*late
(?)
v. t.
[L. maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot. See Macula, and cf. Macule, v.]
To spot; to stain; to blur.

Maculate the honor of their people.
Sir T. Elyot.


word: Maculate₂
definition:
Maculate

Mac"u*late
(?)
a.
[L. maculatus, p. p.]
Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts.
Shak.


word: Maculation
definition:
Maculation

Mac"u*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. maculatio.]
The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish; a macula.
Shak.


word: Macule
definition:
Macule

Mac"ule
(?)
n.
[F. macule. See Macula.]
1.
A spot.
[Obs.]

2.
(Print.)
A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle.


word: Macule₂
definition:
Macule

Mac"ule
v. t.
[Cf. F. maculer. See Maculate, v.]
To blur; especially (Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle.


word: Maculose
definition:
Maculose

Mac"u*lose`
(?)
a.
[L. maculosus.]
Of or pertaining to spots upon a surface; spotted; maculate.


word: macumba
definition:
macumba

macumba
(?)
n.
1.
A popular dance music of Brazil, derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult.

2.
a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing a chanting and dancing.


word: Mad₂
definition:
Mad

Mad
(?)
a.
[Compar. Madder (?); superl. Maddest (?).]
[AS. gem_;d, gemād, mad; akin to OS. gem_;d foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel. mei_;a to hurt, Goth. gamáids weak, broken. _;.]
1.
Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

I have heard my grandsire say full oft,
Extremity of griefs would make men mad.
Shak.

2.
Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.

It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Jer. 1. 88.

And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Acts xxvi. 11.

3.
Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
Mad
Milton.

Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.
Franklin.

The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled.
Jowett (Thucyd.).

4.
Extravagant; immoderate.
mad
Shak.
mad
Shak.

5.
Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

6.
Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
[Colloq.]

7.
Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
[Colloq.]

Like mad, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad. L'Estrange. -- To run mad. (a) To become wild with excitement. (b) To run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia. -- To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of infatuation or immoderate desire. “The world is running mad after farce.” Dryden.


word: Mad₃
definition:
Mad

Mad
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Madded; p. pr. & vb. n. Madding.]
To make mad or furious; to madden.

Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,
It would have madded me.
Shak.


word: Mad₄
definition:
Mad

Mad
v. i.
To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
[Archaic]
Chaucer.

Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest.
Wyclif (Acts).


word: Mad₅
definition:
Mad

Mad
n.
[AS. ma_;a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.]
(Zool.)
An earthworm.
[Written also made.]


word: Madagascan
definition:
Madagascan

Madagascan
prop. a.
1.
Of or pertaining to Madagascar; as, Madagascan pepper.

2.
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Madagascar; as, Madagascan soldiers.

Syn. -- Malagasy.


word: Madagascar
definition:
Madagascar

Mad`a*gas"car
(măd`ȧ*găs"kẽr)
prop. n.
An island in the Indian Ocean, about 240 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, governed as a single country, the Republic of Madagascar.  It is the world's fourth-largest island, with a total area of 587,040 sq km, with 4,828 km of coastline.  Once a French colony, it gained independence from France in 1960.  The name of the government after independence was the Malagasy Republic.

   Formerly an independent kingdom, Madagascar became a French colony in 1886, but regained its independence in 1960. During 1992-93, free presidential and National Assembly elections were held, ending 17 years of single-party rule. In 1997 in the second presidential race, Didier RATSIRAKA, the leader during the 1970s and 1980s, was returned to the presidency.  The Population: is 15,982,563 (July 2001 est.)  The highest point is Maromokotro, at 2,876 m.   Natural resources are: graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, fish, and hydropower.
CIA World Factbook


word: madagascar cat
definition:
madagascar cat

madagascar cat
n.
(Zool.)
A small lemur having its tail barred with black.

Syn. -- ring-tailed lemur, Lemur catta.


word: madagascar jasmine
definition:
madagascar jasmine

madagascar jasmine
n.
(Bot.)
A twining woody vine (Stephanotis floribunda) of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions.

Syn. -- waxflower, Stephanotis floribunda.


word: madagascar pepper
definition:
madagascar pepper

madagascar pepper
n.
(Bot.)
A climber (Piper nigrum) having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; found in South India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in North Burma and Assam.

Syn. -- pepper, common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum.


word: madagascar periwinkle
definition:
madagascar periwinkle

madagascar periwinkle
n.
(Bot.)
A commonly cultivated Old World woody herb (Vinca rosea) having large pinkish to red flowers.

Syn. -- periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, Cape periwinkle, red periwinkle, cayenne jasmine, Catharanthus roseus, Vinca rosea.


word: madagascar plum
definition:
madagascar plum

madagascar plum
n.
(Bot.)
A small shrubby tree (Flacourtia indica) of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums.

Syn. -- governor's plum, governor plum, Madagascar plum, ramontchi, batoko palm, Flacourtia indica.


word: madake
definition:
madake

madake
n.
large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely brown elsewhere.

Syn. -- giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides.


word: Madam
definition:
Madam

Mad"am
(?)
n.
pl. Madams, or Mesdames (#).
[See Madame.]
1.
A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir; often abbreviated ma'am when used as a term of address.

2.
The woman who is in charge of a household.

3.
The woman who is in charge of a brothel.


word: Madame
definition:
Madame

Ma`dame"
(?)
n.
pl. Mesdames (#).
[F., fr. ma my (L. mea) + dame dame. See Dame, and cf. Madonna.]
My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women.
Chaucer.


word: Mad apple
definition:
Mad apple

Mad-apple

Mad"-ap`ple, Mad" ap`ple
(?)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
The eggplant bush (Solanum melongena).  See Eggplant.

Syn. -- eggplant, aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg, Solanum melongena.

2.
The fruit of the eggplant bush, a large egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow.

Syn. -- eggplant, aubergine.


word: Madcap
definition:
Madcap

Mad"cap`
(?)
a.
1.
Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
madcap
Shak.

2.
Wild; reckless.
Madcap
Beau. & Fl.


word: Madden
definition:
Madden

Mad"den
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Maddened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Maddening.]
1.
To make mad; to drive to madness; to drive to insanity; to craze.

2.
To make very angry; to enrage; to excite violently with passion.


word: Madden₂
definition:
Madden

Mad"den
v. i.
To become mad; to act as if mad.

They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Pope.


word: maddened
definition:
maddened

maddened
adj.
filled with or indicating extreme anger.

Syn. -- angered, enraged, furious, infuriated.


word: maddening
definition:
maddening

maddening
adj.
extremely annoying or displeasing.

Syn. -- annoying, exasperating, infuriating, vexing.


word: Madder
definition:
Madder

Mad"der
(măd"dẽr)
n.
[OE. mader, AS. maedere; akin to Icel. maðra.]
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus Rubia (Rubia tinctorum).  The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine.  It is cultivated in France and Holland.  See Rubiaceous.

&hand_; Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which receive their names from their colors, such as madder yellow.

Field madder, an annual European weed (Sherardia arvensis) resembling madder. -- Indian madder , the East Indian Rubia cordifolia, used in the East for dyeing; -- called also munjeet. -- Wild madder, Rubia peregrina of Europe; also the Galium Mollugo, a kind of bedstraw.


word: madder family
definition:
madder family

madder family
n.
A widely distributed natural family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs including coffee; chinchona; gardenia; madder; bedstraws; nd partridgeberry.

   Rubiaceae, family Rubiaceae, madder family --


word: Madderwort
definition:
Madderwort

Mad"der*wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder.


word: Madding
definition:
Madding

Mad"ding
(?)
a.
Affected with madness; raging; furious.
Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic]

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Gray.

The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged.
Milton.


word: mad-dog weed
definition:
mad-dog weed

mad-dog skullcap

mad-dog skullcap, mad-dog weed
n.
(Bot.)
An American mint (Scutellaria lateriflora) that yields a resinous exudate used esp. formerly as an antispasmodic.

Syn. -- blue pimpernel, blue skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora.


word: Made₃
definition:
Made

Made
a.
Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar.
[wns=1]

2.
having the sheets and blankets set in order; -- of a bed; as, is the bed made?.

3.
successful or assured of success; as, a self-made man.

Now I am a made man forever.
Christopher Marlowe

Made up. (a) Complete; perfect. “A made up villain.” Shak. (b) Falsely devised; fabricated; as, a made up story. (c) Artificial; as, a made up figure or complexion.


word: Madecassee
definition:
Madecassee

Madecass

{ Mad"e*cass (?), Mad`e*cas"see (?), }
prop. n.
1.
A native or inhabitant of Madagascar, or Madecassee. See Malagasy

2.
The language of the natives of Madagascar.


word: Madecassee₂
definition:
Madecassee

Mad`e*cas"see
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants; now replaced by Madagascan.
[archaic]


word: Madefication
definition:
Madefication

Madefaction

{ Mad`e*fac"tion (?), Mad`e*fi*ca"tion (?), }
n.
[L. madefacere to make wet; madere to be wet + facere to make: cf. F. madéfaction.]
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet.
[R.]
Bacon.


word: Madefy
definition:
Madefy

Mad"e*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Madefied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Madefying (?).]
[Cf. F. madéfier, L. madefacere. See Madefaction.]
To make wet or moist.
[R.]


word: Madeira
definition:
Madeira

Ma*dei"ra
(?)
n.
[Pg., the Island Madeira, properly, wood, fr. L. materia stuff, wood. The island was so called because well wooded. See Matter.]
A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.

A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg.
Shak.

Madeira nut (Bot.), the European walnut; the nut of the Juglans regia.


word: Madeira vine
definition:
Madeira vine

Ma*dei"ra vine
(?)
(Bot.)
A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers.


word: madeira winter cherry
definition:
madeira winter cherry

madeira winter cherry
n.
(Bot.)
A small South American shrub (Solanum pseudocapsicum) cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherrylike fruit.

Syn. -- Jerusalem cherry, winter cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum.


word: Madeira wood
definition:
Madeira wood

Madeira wood
(Bot.)
(a)
The mahogany tree (Swietenia Mahogoni).
(b)
A West Indian leguminous tree (Lysiloma Latisiliqua) the wood of which is used for boat trimming.


word: Mademoiselle
definition:
Mademoiselle

Ma`de*moi`selle"
(?)
n.
pl. Mesdemoiselles (#).
[F., fr. ma my, f. of mon + demoiselle young lady. See Damsel.]
1.
A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss.
Goldsmith.

2.
(Zool.)
A marine food fish (Sciaena chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.


word: made-to-order
definition:
made-to-order

made-to-order
adj.
1.
made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of manufacture.  Contrasted with mass-produced, standard.

Syn. -- custom-made.

2.
made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing.  Contrasted with off-the-rack, ready-to-wear.

Syn. -- custom-made, custom-tailored.


word: made-up
definition:
made-up

made-up
adj.
1.
formed or conceived by the imagination; not true; as, a made-up story.

Syn. -- fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, invented.

2.
having been paved.
[British]

3.
marked by the use of cosmetic makeup; as, heavily made-up eyes.

4.
formed by fitting or joining components together.

Syn. -- assembled, built(prenominal).


word: Madhouse
definition:
Madhouse

Mad"house`
(?)
n.
1.
An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; -- usually used in a deprecatory sense.

Syn. -- Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, insane asylum, loony bin, nuthouse, sanatorium.

2.
Hence:
(fig.)
A chaotic, raucus or highly disordered situation.


word: Madia
definition:
Madia

Ma"di*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Sp. madi, fr. Chilian madi, the native name.]
(Bot.)
A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure.  This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table.

Syn. -- melosa, Chile tarweed, madia oil plant, Madia sativa.


word: madia oil
definition:
madia oil

madia oil
n.
The vegetable oil obtained from the Madia sativa.  See Madia and madia oil plant.


word: madia oil plant
definition:
madia oil plant

madia oil plant
n.
The Madia sativa, a South American herb with sticky glandular foliage, the source of madia oil.  See Madia.


word: Madid
definition:
Madid

Mad"id
(?)
a.
[L. madidus, fr. madere to be wet.]
Wet; moist; as, a madid eye.
[R.]
Beaconsfield.


word: Madjoun
definition:
Madjoun

Mad"joun
(?)
n.
[Hind., fr. Ar. ma'jūn.]
An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindus.
[Written also majoun.]


word: Madly
definition:
Madly

Mad"ly
(?)
adv.
[From Mad, a.]
In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- insanely, crazily, dementedly.

2.
In a desperate manner; as, she fought back madly.
[wns=1]

3.
intensely; as, she was madly in love.
[wns=3]

Syn. -- insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly.


word: Madman
definition:
Madman

Mad"man
(?)
n.
pl. Madmen (_;).
A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined.
Coleridge.


word: Madnep
definition:
Madnep

Mad"nep
(?)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium), a tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant.

2.
(Bot.)
A biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip; called also wild parsnip.


word: Madness
definition:
Madness

Mad"ness
n.
[From Mad, a.]
1.
The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

2.
Frenzy; ungovernable rage.

3.
Extreme folly.


word: Madonna
definition:
Madonna

Ma*don"na
(?)
n.
[It. madonna my lady. See Dame, Donna, and cf. Madame, Monkey.]
1.
My lady; -- a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English.
Shak.

2.
[pl. Madonnas (nȧz).]
A picture of the Virgin Mary (usually with the babe).

The Italian painters are noted for drawing the Madonnas by their own wives or mistresses.
Rymer.


word: madonna lily
definition:
madonna lily

madonna lily
n.
(Bot.)
A lily (Lilium candidum) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers.

Syn. -- white lily, Annunciation lily, Lent lily, Lilium candidum.


word: Madoqua
definition:
Madoqua

Ma"do*qua
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare.


word: Madrague
definition:
Madrague

Ma`drague"
(?)
n.
[R.]
A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.


word: madras
definition:
madras

ma*dras"
(?)
n.
[So named after Madras, a city and presidency of India.]
1.
A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans.
A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban . . . crouched against the wall.
G. W. Cable.

2.
A light patterned cotton fabric.


word: Madrepora
definition:
Madrepora

Mad`re*po"ra
(măd`re̝*p&omacr"rȧ)
n.
[NL. See Madrepore.]
(Zool.)
A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched.
Mad`re*po"ral (#), a.


word: Madreporaria
definition:
Madreporaria

Mad`re*po*ra"ri*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Madrepore.]
(Zool.)
An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa.
Mad`re*po*ra"ri*an (#), a. & n.


word: Madrepore
definition:
Madrepore

Mad"re*pore
(?)
n.
[F. madrepore, perh. fr.  madré spotted, fr. OF. madre, mazre, a kind of knotty wood with brown spots, fr. OHG. masar a knot, grain, or vein in wood, a speck, G. maser + pore (see Pore); or perh. F. madrépore is rather from It. madrepora, and this perh. fr. It. madre mother (see Mother) + Gr. _; a soft stone.]
(Zool.)
Any coral of the genus Madrepora, a group of corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

Syn. -- stony coral, madriporian coral.


word: Madreporic
definition:
Madreporic

Madreporian

{ Mad`re*po"ri*an (?), Mad`re*po"ric (?), }
a.
(Zool.)
Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.

Madreporic plate (Zool.), a perforated plate in echinoderms, through which water is admitted to the ambulacral tubes; -- called also madreporic tubercule.


word: Madreporiform
definition:
Madreporiform

Mad`re*po"ri*form
(?)
a.
[Madrepore + -form.]
(Zool.)
Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.


word: Madreporite
definition:
Madreporite

Mad"re*po*rite
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. madréporite]
1.
(Paleon.)
A fossil coral.

2.
(Zool.)
The madreporic plate of echinoderms.


word: Madrier
definition:
Madrier

Ma*drier"
(?)
n.
[F., from Sp. madero, or Pg. madeiro, fr. Sp. madera wood for building, timber, Pg. madeira, L. materia stuff, materials, lumber. See Matter.]
A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes
especially:
(a)
A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down.
(b)
A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.


word: Madrigal
definition:
Madrigal

Mad"ri*gal
(măd"rĭ*gal)
n.
[It. madrigale, OIt. madriale, mandriale (cf. LL. matriale); of uncertain origin, possibly fr. It mandra flock, L. mandra stall, herd of cattle, Gr. ma`ndra fold, stable; hence, madrigal, originally, a pastoral song.]
1.
A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.

Whose artful strains have oft delayed
 The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.
Milton.

2.
(Mus.)
An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes.  Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.


word: Madrilenian
definition:
Madrilenian

Mad`ri*le"ni*an
(?)
a.
[Sp. Madrileño.]
Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants.
n. A native or inhabitant of Madrid.


word: Madrina
definition:
Madrina

Ma*dri"na
(?)
n.
[Sp., prop., a godmother.]
An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.
[S. America]


word: madrono
definition:
madrono

madrona

ma*dro"na, ma*dro"ña, ma*dro"no
(?)
n.
[Sp. madroño.]
(Bot.)
A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of Pacific North America, having a smooth bark, thick glossy leathery leaves, and edible orange-red berries, which are often called madroña apples; the wood is used for furniture and the bark for tanning.
[Written also madroño.]

Syn. -- madrona, manzanita, Arbutus menziesii.


word: Madwort
definition:
Madwort

Mad"wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. Alyssum maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.


word: Mae West
definition:
Mae West

Mae West
prop. n.
[after Mae West (1892-1980) an actress with a well-developed bosom.]
An inflatable life jacket, originally used as a personal flotation device by aviators downed at sea.

Syn. -- air jacket.


word: Magbote
definition:
Magbote

Maegbote

{ Maeg"bote`, Mag"bote`  }
(?)
n.
[AS. m&aemacr_;g kinsman + b&omacrt compensation.]
(Anglo-Saxon Law)
Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.
Spelman.


word: Maelstrom
definition:
Maelstrom

Mael"strom
(?)
n.
[Norw., a whirlpool.]
1.
A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.
Hence:
any large or powerful whirlpool.

Syn. -- whirlpool, vortex.

2.
Also
(Fig.)
An uncontrollable agitated or confusedly disordered state or situation; as, a maelstrom of vice.


word: Maenad
definition:
Maenad

Mae"nad
(?)
n.
[L. Maenas, -adis, Gr. _;, _;, fr. _; to rave.]
1.
A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

2.
A frantic or frenzied woman.


word: Maestoso
definition:
Maestoso

Ma`es*to"so
(?)
a. & adv.
[It.]
(Mus.)
Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.


word: Maestricht monitor
definition:
Maestricht monitor

Maes"tricht mon"i*tor
(?)
[So called from Maestricht, a town in Holland.]
(Paleon.)
The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.


word: Maestro
definition:
Maestro

Ma*es"tro
(mīs"tro̝; It. mä*a̝s"tro̝)
n.
[It., fr. L. magister. See Master.]
A master in any art, especially in music; a composer or orchestra conductor.


word: Mafa
definition:
Mafa

Mafa
(?)
prop. n.
(Linguistics)
A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad; called also Matakam.


word: Mafia
definition:
Mafia

Maffia

{ &VerbarMaf"fi*a (?), &VerbarMa"fi*a (?) }
n.
[It. maffia.]
1.
A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods; called also the Sicilian Mafia.
[wns=2]

2.
A group of loosely associated of criminal organizations in the United States, some having ties to the Sicilian Mafia, and organized in “families”; the term is applied to the entire group of organizations, or to any one local group.  Also, loosely, organized groups of criminals anywhere, as the Russian mafia.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- syndicate, mob, Cosa Nostra, La Cosa Nostra, organized crime.

3.
Any tightly knit group of trusted associates having strong control or influence in some area; as, Kennedy and his Irish Mafia.
[informal]
[wns=3]


word: maffick
definition:
maffick

maffick
v. i.
to celebrate publicly with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious and extravagant behavior.
[Chiefly Brit.]


word: Mafioso
definition:
Mafioso

Maffioso

{ &VerbarMaf`fi*o"so (?), &VerbarMa`fi*o"so (?) }
n.
pl. -si (#)
[It. maffioso.]
A member of the mafia.


word: Maffle
definition:
Maffle

Maf"fle
(?)
v. i.
[Akin to OD. maffelen to stammer.  Cf. Muffle to mumble.]
To stammer.
[Obs.]


word: Magazine
definition:
Magazine

Mag`a*zine"
(?)
n.
[F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp. magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or cellar.]

1.
A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
magazines
Milton.

2.
The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

3.
A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

4.
A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

5.
A country or district especially rich in natural products.

6.
A city viewed as a marketing center.

7.
A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.

8.
A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.

Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine. -- Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing. -- Magazine stove, a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.


word: Magazine₂
definition:
Magazine

Mag`a*zine"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Magazined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Magazining.]
To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.


word: Magazine camera
definition:
Magazine camera

Magazine camera
(Photog.)
A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.


word: Magdala
definition:
Magdala

Mag"da*la
(?)
a.
Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.


word: Magdalen
definition:
Magdalen

Mag"da*len
(?)
n.
[From Mary Magdalene, traditionally reported to have been the repentant sinner forgiven by Christ. See Luke vii. 36.]
A reformed prostitute.


word: Magdaleon
definition:
Magdaleon

Mag*da"le*on
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; crumb of bread, fr. _; to knead.]
(Med.)
A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.


word: Magdeburg
definition:
Magdeburg

Mag"de*burg
(?)
n.
A city of Saxony.

Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and Hemisphere.


word: Magellanic
definition:
Magellanic

Mag`el*lan"ic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to, or named from, Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the navigator.


word: Magellanic cloud
definition:
Magellanic cloud

Mag`el*lan"ic cloud
(?)
n.
(Astron.)
Either of two conspicuous celestial nebulae near the south celestial pole, resembling thin white clouds, each of which is a galaxy{2} smaller than but separate from the Milky Way galaxy, and together they are the galactic formations nearest to our galaxy.  They are not visible from the northern hemisphere, and are named after Ferdinand Magellan, who saw them in his expedition, which passed through the Strait of Magellan in South America, and one ship of which completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.


word: Magen David
definition:
Magen David

Magen David
(?)
n.
[Hebrew, shield of David.]
A hexagram{1a}, when used as the symbol of Judaism; called also Mogen David and Star of David.  It is included on the flag of Israel

Syn. -- Star of David, Mogen David.


word: magenta
definition:
magenta

ma*gen"ta
(mȧ*jĕn"tȧ)
n.
(Chem.)
An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin, fuchsine, roseine, etc.

2.
The purplish-red color of magenta.


word: Maggiore
definition:
Maggiore

Mag`gio"re
(mäd`j&omacr"ra̝)
a.
[It., from L. major, compar. of magnus great. See Major.]
(Mus.)
Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.
Moore (Encyc. of Music).


word: Maggot
definition:
Maggot

Mag"got
(?)
n.
[W. macai, pl. maceiod, magiod, a worn or grub; cf. magu to bread.]
1.
(Zool.)
The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.

2.
A whim; an odd fancy.
Hudibras. Tennyson.


word: Maghet
definition:
Maghet

Ma"ghet
(?)
n.
[Cf. Fl. maghet maid.]
(Bot.)
A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.


word: Magi
definition:
Magi

Ma"gi
(?)
n. pl.
[L., pl. of Magus, Gr. _;; of Per. origin.  Cf. Mage, Magic.]
A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.

The inspired Magi from the Orient came.
Sandys.


word: Magian₂
definition:
Magian

Ma"gi*an
n.
One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion.
Ma"gi*an*ism (#), n.


word: Magic
definition:
Magic

Mag"ic
(?)
n.
[OE. magique, L. magice, Gr. _; (sc. _;), fr. _;. See Magic, a., and Magi.]
1.
A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.

An appearance made by some magic.
Chaucer.

2.
The art of creating illusions which appear to the observer to be inexplicable except by some supernatural influence; it includes simple sleight of hand (legerdemain) as well as more elaborate stage magic, using special devices constructed to produce mystifying effects; as, the magic of David Copperfield.  It is practised as an entertainment, by magicians who do not pretend to have supernatural powers.

Celestial magic, a supposed supernatural power which gave to spirits a kind of dominion over the planets, and to the planets an influence over men. -- Natural magic, the art of employing the powers of nature to produce effects apparently supernatural. -- Superstitious magic, or Geotic magic, the invocation of devils or demons, involving the supposition of some tacit or express agreement between them and human beings.


word: Magical
definition:
Magical

Magic

{ Mag"ic (?), Mag"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. magicus, Gr. _;, fr. _;: cf. F. magique. See Magi.]
1.
Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.

2.
Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done by, or seemingly done by, enchantment or sorcery; as, a magical spell.
Hence:
Seemingly requiring more than human power; imposing or startling in performance; producing effects which seem supernatural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle.

The painter's magic skill.
Cowper.

&hand_; Although with certain words magic is used more than magical, -- as, magic circle, magic square, magic wand, -- we may in general say magic or magical; as, a magic or magical effect; a magic or magical influence, etc. But when the adjective is predicative, magical, and not magic, is used; as, the effect was magical.

Magic circle, a series of concentric circles containing the numbers 12 to 75 in eight radii, and having somewhat similar properties to the magic square. -- Magic humming bird (Zool.), a Mexican humming bird (Iache magica) , having white downy thing tufts. -- Magic lantern. See Lantern. -- Magic square, numbers so disposed in parallel and equal rows in the form of a square, that each row, taken vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, shall give the same sum, the same product, or an harmonical series, according as the numbers taken are in arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonical progression. -- Magic wand, a wand used by a magician in performing feats of magic.


word: magic bullet
definition:
magic bullet

magic bullet
n.
[From the notion of a bullet that will kill only the bacterium or disease it is intended for.]
A drug or therapy or preventive that cures or prevents a disease, with only minimal side effects; as, there is no magic bullet against cancer.


word: Magician
definition:
Magician

Ma*gi"cian
(?)
n.
[F. magicien. See Magic, n.]
1.
One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

2.
An entertainer who produces seemingly magical effects by clever illusions; most magicians admit that the craft is mere illusion, rather than a true supernatural art.


word: magic spell
definition:
magic spell

magic spell
n.
A verbal formula considered to have magical force.

Syn. -- spell, incantation.


word: magic trick
definition:
magic trick

magic trick
n.
An feat of illusion performed by an illusionist, which appears magical to naive observers.

Syn. -- conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, illusion, deception.


word: Maginot line
definition:
Maginot line

Maginot line
prop. n.
A line of fortifications built before World War II to protect France's eastern border.


word: Magister
definition:
Magister

Ma*gis"ter
(?)
n.
[L. See Master.]
Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.


word: Magisterial
definition:
Magisterial

Mag`is*te"ri*al
(?)
a.
[L. magisterius magisterial. See Master.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.

When magisterial duties from his home
Her father called.
Glover.

We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man.
Sir T. Browne.

Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
L'Estrange.

2.
(Alchem. & Old Chem.)
Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2.


word: Magistery
definition:
Magistery

Mag"is*ter*y
(?)
n.
[L. magisterium the office of a chief, president, director, tutor. See Magistrate.]
1.
Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.
[Obs.]
Holland.

2.
A magisterial injunction.
[R.]
Brougham.

3.
(Chem.)
A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth.
Ure.


word: Magistracy
definition:
Magistracy

Mag"is*tra*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Magistracies (#).
[From Magistrate.]
1.
The office or dignity of a magistrate.
Blackstone.

2.
The collective body of magistrates.


word: Magistral
definition:
Magistral

Mag"is*tral
(?)
a.
[L. magistralis: cf. F. magistral. See Magistrate.]
1.
Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

2.
Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.
magistral
Bacon.

3.
(Pharmacy)
Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.
Dunglison.

Magistral line (Fort.), the guiding line, or outline, by which the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.


word: Magistral₂
definition:
Magistral

Mag"is*tral
n.
1.
(Med.)
A sovereign medicine or remedy.
[Obs.]
Burton.

2.
(Fort.)
A magistral line.

3.
(Metal.)
Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.


word: Magistrate
definition:
Magistrate

Mag"is*trate
(?)
n.
[L. magistratus, fr. magister master: cf. F. magistrat. See Master.]
A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.
magistrates
Book of Com. Prayer.

Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate.
Blackstone.


word: Magistratical
definition:
Magistratical

Magistratic

{ Mag`is*trat"ic (?), Mag`is*trat"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Magma
definition:
Magma

Mag"ma
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to squeeze, knead.]
1.
Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.
Ure.

2.
(Med.)
(a)
A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.
(b)
A salve or confection of thick consistency.
Dunglison.

3.
(Geol.)
(a)
The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
(b)
The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

4.
(Chem.)
The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.


word: Magna Charta
definition:
Magna Charta

Magna Carta

Mag"na Car"ta, Mag"na Char"ta
(?)
[L., great charter.]
1.
The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215.  This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.

2.
Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.


word: Magnality
definition:
Magnality

Mag*nal"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. magnalis mighty, fr. magnus great.]
A great act or event; a great attainment.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Magna Mater
definition:
Magna Mater

Magna Mater
prop. n.
A great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; the counterpart of the Greek Rhea and the Roman Ops.

Syn. -- Cybele, Dindymene, Great Mother, Mater Turrita.


word: Magnanimity
definition:
Magnanimity

Mag`na*nim"i*ty
(?)
n.
[F. magnanimité, L. magnanimitas.]
The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.


word: Magnanimous
definition:
Magnanimous

Mag*nan"i*mous
(?)
a.
[L. magnanimus; magnus great + animus mind. See Magnate, and Animus.]
1.
Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.

Be magnanimous in the enterprise.
Shak.

To give a kingdom hath been thought
Greater and nobler done, and to lay down
Far more magnanimous than to assume.
Milton.

2.
Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish.

Both strived for death; magnanimous debate.
Stirling.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
Washington.


word: Magnase black
definition:
Magnase black

Mag"nase black`
(?)
(Paint.)
A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body.
Fairholt.


word: Magnate
definition:
Magnate

Mag"nate
(?)
[F. magnat, L. (pl.) magnates, magnati, fr. magnus great. See Master.]
1.
A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere; -- used mostly of prominent business executives; as, an industrial magnate.
Macaulay.

2.
One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.


word: Magnesia
definition:
Magnesia

Mag*ne"si*a
(?; 277)
n.
[L. Magnesia, fem. of Magnesius of the country Magnesia, Gr. h` Magnhsi`a li`qos a magnet.  Cf. Magnet.]
(Chem.)
A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide (MgO), and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium.  It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

Magnesia alba [L.] (Med. Chem.), a bulky white amorphous substance, consisting of a hydrous basic carbonate of magnesium, and used as a mild cathartic.


word: Magnesian
definition:
Magnesian

Mag*ne"sian
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.

Magnesian limestone.  (Min.) See Dolomite.


word: Magnesite
definition:
Magnesite

Mag"ne*site
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. magnésite.]
(Min.)
Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.


word: Magnesium
definition:
Magnesium

Mag*ne"si*um
(?)
n.
[NL. & F. See Magnesia.]
(Chem.)
A light silver-white metallic element of atomic number 12, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc.  Symbol Mg.  Atomic weight, 24.305.  Specific gravity, 1.75.

Magnesium sulphate. (Chem.) Same as Epsom salts.


word: magnesium hydroxide
definition:
magnesium hydroxide

magnesium hydroxide
n.
(Chem.)
A slightly alkaline chemical substance, Mg(OH)2, the active principle in the antacid milk of magnesia, also used as a laxative.


word: Magnet
definition:
Magnet

Mag"net
(măg"nĕt)
n.
[OE. magnete, OF. magnete, L. magnes, -etis, Gr. Magnh^tis li`qos a magnet, metal that looked like silver, prop., Magnesian stone, fr. Gr. Magnhsi`a, a country in Thessaly.  Cf. Magnesia, Manganese.]
1.
The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.

Dinocrates began to make the arched roof of the temple of Arsinoë all of magnet, or this loadstone.
Holland.

Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to bliss,
The larger loadstone that, the nearer this.
Dryden.

2.
(Physics)
A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.

&hand_; An artificial magnet, produced by the action of an electrical current, is called an electro-magnet.

Field magnet (Physics & Elec.), a magnet used for producing and maintaining a magnetic field; -- used especially of the stationary or exciting magnet of a dynamo or electromotor in distinction from that of the moving portion or armature.


word: Magnetical
definition:
Magnetical

Magnetic

{ Mag*net"ic (?), Mag*net"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. magneticus: cf. F. magnétique.]
1.
Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.

2.
Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.

3.
Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals.

4.
Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.

She that had all magnetic force alone.
Donne.

5.
Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; hypnotic; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism.
[Archaic]

Magnetic amplitude, attraction, dip, induction, etc. See under Amplitude, Attraction, etc. -- Magnetic battery, a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with great power. -- Magnetic compensator, a contrivance connected with a ship's compass for compensating or neutralizing the effect of the iron of the ship upon the needle. -- Magnetic curves, curves indicating lines of magnetic force, as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of a powerful magnet. -- Magnetic elements. (a) (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic. (b) (Physics) In respect to terrestrial magnetism, the declination, inclination, and intensity. (c) See under Element.  -- Magnetic fluid, the hypothetical fluid whose existence was formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of magnetism; -- no longer considered a meaningful concept. -- Magnetic iron, or Magnetic iron ore. (Min.) Same as Magnetite. -- Magnetic needle, a slender bar of steel, magnetized and suspended at its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a delicate fiber, so that it may take freely the direction of the magnetic meridian.  It constitutes the essential part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the surveyor's. -- Magnetic poles, the two points in the opposite polar regions of the earth at which the direction of the dipping needle is vertical. -- Magnetic pyrites. See Pyrrhotite. -- Magnetic storm (Terrestrial Physics), a disturbance of the earth's magnetic force characterized by great and sudden changes. -- magnetic tape (Electronics), a ribbon of plastic material to which is affixed a thin layer of powder of a material which can be magnetized, such as ferrite.  Such tapes are used in various electronic devices to record fluctuating voltages, which can be used to represent sounds, images, or binary data.  Devices such as audio casette recorders, videocasette recorders, and computer data storage devices use magnetic tape as an inexpensive medium to store data.  Different magnetically susceptible materials are used in such tapes. -- Magnetic telegraph, a telegraph acting by means of a magnet. See Telegraph.


word: Magnetic
definition:
Magnetic

Mag*net"ic
(?)
n.
1.
A magnet.
[Obs.]

As the magnetic hardest iron draws.
Milton.

2.
Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.


word: magnetic bottle
definition:
magnetic bottle

magnetic bottle
n.
(Physics)
Any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions.


word: magnetic compass
definition:
magnetic compass

magnetic compass
n.
An device using a magnet (such as a magnetic needle) to indicate the direction of magnetic north.


word: magnetic declination
definition:
magnetic declination

magnetic declination
n.
The angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north; called also magnetic variation.


word: magnetic dip
definition:
magnetic dip

magnetic dip
n.
The angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.

Syn. -- dip, angle of dip, magnetic inclination, inclination.


word: magnetic dipole moment
definition:
magnetic dipole moment

magnetic dipole moment
n.
A physical quantity associated with the magnetic field of a dundamental particle; as, An orbiting electron in an atom will have a magnetic dipole moment.


word: magnetic disk
definition:
magnetic disk

magnetic disc

magnetic disc, magnetic disk
n.
A ditical memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored; a hard disk, floppy disk, and diskette are typically magnetic disks.

Syn. -- disk, disc.


word: magnetic equator
definition:
magnetic equator

magnetic equator
n.
An imaginary line paralleling the equator where a magnetic needle has no dip, the dipping needle being horizontal; called also aclinic line.


word: magnetic field
definition:
magnetic field

magnetic field
n.
(Physics)
The space around a magnet through which it exerts magnetic force; a field of force surrounding a permanent magnet, electrical current, or a moving charged particle; called also magnetic flux and field of magnetic force.


word: magnetic field strength
definition:
magnetic field strength

magnetic field strength
n.
The amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow.

Syn. -- magnetic intensity, magnetic induction, magnetic flux density.


word: magnetic flux
definition:
magnetic flux

magnetic flux
n.
1.
A measure of the strength of a magnetic field over a given area.

2.
Same as magnetic field.


word: magnetic flux density
definition:
magnetic flux density

magnetic flux density
n.
The amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow.

Syn. -- magnetic field strength, magnetic intensity, magnetic induction.


word: magnetic force
definition:
magnetic force

magnetic force
n.
The force caused by a magnetic field, a force which affects objects having a magnetic field and objects in which a magnetic field can be induced, such as ferromagnetic substances; a magnetic force manifests itself as an attraction for iron. It is associated with electric currents and moving charged paticles as well as permanent magnets.

Syn. -- magnetism, magnetic attraction.


word: magnetic head
definition:
magnetic head

magnetic head
n.
(Electronics)
An electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a magnetizable surface and later retrieved.


word: magnetic induction
definition:
magnetic induction

magnetic induction
n.
1.
The process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently).

Syn. -- magnetization, magnetisation.

2.
Same as magnetic field strength.

Syn. -- magnetic intensity, magnetic flux density.


word: magnetic intensity
definition:
magnetic intensity

magnetic intensity
(Physics)
n.
Same as magnetic field strength.

Syn. -- magnetic flux density.


word: magnetic levitation
definition:
magnetic levitation

magnetic levitation
n.
The process of supporting an object, such as a vehicle, with a magnetic field so that it does not contact the object supporting it; it is a method used for eliminating friction in moving vehicles, and is used, e.g. in high-speed rail technology where a train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction.


word: magnetic meridian
definition:
magnetic meridian

magnetic meridian
(Physics)
n.
An imaginary line passing through both magnetic poles of the earth.


word: magnetic mine
definition:
magnetic mine

magnetic mine
n.
(Mil.)
A marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that detects the nearness of magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship).  A magnetic counter mine may allow the passagw of several ships before detonating.


word: magnetic moment
definition:
magnetic moment

magnetic moment
n.
The torque exerted on a magnet or dipole when it is placed in a magnetic field.

Syn. -- moment of a magnet.


word: magnetic monopole
definition:
magnetic monopole

magnetic monopole
(Physics)
a hypothetical subatomic particle having only one type of magnetic charge, the magnetic analogue of an electrically charged particle; it has only one magnetic pole instead of the two observed in all common magnetic object; -- it was still not observed as of 1998.


word: magnetic needle
definition:
magnetic needle

magnetic needle
n.
A slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a low-friction mounting; used to indicate the direction of the earth's magnetic pole.


word: magnetic north
definition:
magnetic north

magnetic north
n.
The direction in which the north-pointing end of a compass needle points; at low latitudes it is close to geographic (true) north, but deviates substantially from true north as one nears the north pole.

Syn. -- north, compass north.


word: magnetic pole
definition:
magnetic pole

magnetic pole
n.
1.
Either of two points where the lines of force of the earth's magnetic field are vertical.

2.
One of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetic field is strongest.


word: magnetic recorder
definition:
magnetic recorder

magnetic recorder
n.
A device for making records (of sound, data, etc.) on magnetic media such as magnetic tape or wire.


word: magnetic resonance
definition:
magnetic resonance

magnetic resonance
n.
(Physics)
A phenomenon resulting from quantization in the magnetic field of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei exposed to an external magnetic field, by which a narrow frequency band of radio waves may be absorbed and re-emitted by the object.


word: magnetic resonance imaging
definition:
magnetic resonance imaging

mag*net"ic res"on*ance im"ag*ing
n.
(Medicine)
a medical diagnostic procedure utilizing the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance to generate images of internal parts of the body.  It depends on the differential absorption of electromagnetic radiation by different types of living tissue in a magnetic field.  It is complementary to X-ray imaging in that the softer tissue show more prominently in magnetic resonance images, rather than bone, as with X-rays.  It is a non-invasive procedure, allowing such images to be obtained without penetration of the tissue by objects.  It is abbreviated MRI.  As with computerized tomography, the results are usually presented as images of sequential planar sections of that part of the body of concern to the physician.


word: magnetic storm
definition:
magnetic storm

magnetic storm
n.
A sudden disturbance of the earth's magnetic field; caused by emission of particles from the sun.


word: magnetic tape
definition:
magnetic tape

magnetic tape
n.
A long thin plastic ribbon coated with iron oxide or other ferromagnetic material, used to record audio or video signals digital data in the form of small magnetized regions on the tape; it is a common digital data storage medium for computer information.

Syn. -- mag tape, tape.


word: Magnetiferous
definition:
Magnetiferous

Mag`net*if"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. magnes, -etis + -ferous.]
Producing or conducting magnetism.


word: Magnetism
definition:
Magnetism

Mag"net*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. magnétisme.]
The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet.  At one time it was believed to be separate from the electrical force, but it is now known to be intimately associated with electricity, as part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism.

2.
The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.

3.
Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
magnetism
Glanvill.

Animal magnetism, Same as hypnotism, at one time believe to be due to a force more or less analogous to magnetism, which, it was alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one body to another with or without actual contact.  The existence of such a force, and its potentiality for the cure of disease, were asserted by Mesmer in 1775.  His theories and methods were afterwards called mesmerism, a name which has been popularly applied to theories and claims not put forward by Mesmer himself. See Mesmerism, Biology, Od, Hypnotism. -- Terrestrial magnetism, the magnetic force exerted by the earth, and recognized by its effect upon magnetized needles and bars.


word: Magnetite
definition:
Magnetite

Mag"net*ite
(?)
n.
(Min.)
An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster.  It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone.  It is an important iron ore.  Called also magnetic iron.


word: Magnetize
definition:
Magnetize

Mag"net*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Magnetized (?); prep. & adv. Magnetizing (?).]
[Cf. F. magnétiser.]
1.
To communicate magnetic properties to; to make magnetic; as, to magnetize a needle.

2.
To attract as a magnet attracts, or like a magnet; to move; to influence.

Fascinated, magnetized, as it were, by his character.
Motley.

3.
To bring under the influence of animal magnetism.


word: magneto
definition:
magneto

mag*ne"to
(măg*nē"to̝)
n.
A small electric generator with an armature rotating in a magnetic field, having a secondary winding that generates a high voltage, such as one used to generate a voltage sufficient to cause a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in an internal-combustion engine.


word: Magneto-
definition:
Magneto-

Mag"net*o-
(?)
pref.
[See Magnet.]
A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some way connected with, magnetism.


word: Magneto-electrical
definition:
Magneto-electrical

Magneto-electric

{ Mag`net*o-e*lec"tric (?), Mag`net*o-e*lec"tric*al (?), }
a.
(Physics)
Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction.

Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.


word: Magneto-electricity
definition:
Magneto-electricity

Mag`net*o-e`lec*tric"i*ty
(?)
n.
1.
Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.

2.
(Physics)
That branch of science which treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro-magnetism.


word: Magnetograph
definition:
Magnetograph

Mag*net"o*graph
(?)
n.
[Magneto- + -graph.]
(Physics)
An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.


word: magnetohydrodynamics
definition:
magnetohydrodynamics

mag*net"o*hy`dro*dy*nam"ics
(?)
n.
The study of the interaction of magnetic fields with electrically conductive fluids, such as a plasma or a molten metal.


word: Magnetometer
definition:
Magnetometer

Mag`net*om"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Magneto-  + -meter: cf. F. magnétomètre.]
(Physics)
An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.


word: Magnetometric
definition:
Magnetometric

Mag`net*o*met"ric
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.


word: Magnetomotive
definition:
Magnetomotive

Mag`net*o*mo"tive
(?)
a.
[Magneto- + motive, a.]
(Elec.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a force producing magnetic flux, analogous to electromotive force, and equal to the magnetic flux multiplied by the magnetic reluctance.


word: Magnetomotor
definition:
Magnetomotor

Mag`net*o*mo"tor
(?)
n.
A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.
[R.]


word: magnetosphere
definition:
magnetosphere

mag*net"o*sphere
(?)
n.
the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field.


word: Magnetotherapy
definition:
Magnetotherapy

Mag`net*o*ther"a*py
(?)
n.
(Med.)
The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.


word: magnetron
definition:
magnetron

mag"ne*tron
(?)
n.
a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators.


word: Magnifical
definition:
Magnifical

Magnific

{ Mag*nif"ic (?), Mag*nif"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. magnificus; magnus great + facere to make: cf. F. magnifique. See Magnitude, Fact. and cf. Magnificent.]
Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.
[Obs.]
1 Chron. xxii. 5.
magnific
Milton.
Mag*nif"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]


word: Magnificat
definition:
Magnificat

Mag*nif"i*cat
(?)
n.
[L., it magnifies.]
The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.


word: Magnificate
definition:
Magnificate

Mag*nif"i*cate
(?)
v. t.
[L. magnificatus, p. p. of magnificare.]
To magnify or extol.
[Obs.]
Marston.


word: Magnificence
definition:
Magnificence

Mag*nif"i*cence
(?)
n.
[F. magnificence, L. magnificentia. See Magnific.]
The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.
Acts xix. 27.
magnificence
Chaucer.

And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak
The Maker's high magnificence, who built
so spacious.
Milton.

The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence.
Eustace.


word: Magnificent
definition:
Magnificent

Mag*nif"i*cent
(?)
a.
[See Magnificence.]
1.
Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.

A prince is never so magnificent
As when he's sparing to enrich a few
With the injuries of many.
Massinger.

2.
Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid; pompous.

When Rome's exalted beauties I descry
Magnificent in piles of ruin lie.
Addison.


word: Magnifico
definition:
Magnifico

Mag*nif"i*co
(?)
n.
pl. Magnificoes (#).
[It. See Magnific.]
1.
A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy.
Shak.

2.
A rector of a German university.


word: Magnify
definition:
Magnify

Mag"ni*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Magnified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Magnifying (?).]
[OE. magnifien, F. magnifier, L. magnificare. See Magnific.]
1.
To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.

The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified.
Grew.

2.
To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held.

On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel.
Joshua iv. 14.

3.
To praise highly; to laud; to extol.
[Archaic]

O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Ps. xxxiv. 3.

4.
To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.

To magnify one's self (Script.), to exhibit pride and haughtiness; to boast. -- To magnify one's self against (Script.), to oppose with pride.


word: Magnify₂
definition:
Magnify

Mag"ni*fy
v. i.
1.
To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.

2.
To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
[Cant & Obs.]
Spectator.


word: magnifying glass
definition:
magnifying glass

magnifying glass
n.
A single convex lens which magnifies the apparent dimensions of objects seen through it, and is used to produce an enlarged image.

Syn. -- hand glass.


word: Magniloquence
definition:
Magniloquence

Mag*nil"o*quence
(?)
n.
[L. magniloquentia.]
The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.


word: Magniloquent
definition:
Magniloquent

Mag*nil"o*quent
(?)
a.
[L. magnus great + loquens, -entis, p. pr. of loqui to speak. See Magnitude, Loquacious.]
Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.


word: Magnitude
definition:
Magnitude

Mag"ni*tude
(?)
n.
[L. magnitudo, from magnus great. See Master, and cf. Maxim.]
1.
Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breadth, and thickness.

Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to them all.
Sir I. Newton.

2.
(Geom.)
That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

3.
Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.

4.
Greatness; grandeur.
magnitude
Milton.

5.
Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.

The magnitude of his designs.
Bp. Horsley.

6.
(Astron.)
See magnitude of a star, below.

Apparent magnitude 1. (Opt.), the angular breadth of an object viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the observer; -- called also apparent diameter. 2. (Astron.) Same as magnitude of a star, below. -- Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a star with respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth magnitude being just visible to the naked eye; called also visual magnitude, apparent magnitude, and simply magnitude.  Stars observable only in the telescope are classified down to below the twelfth magnitude.  The difference in actual brightness between magnitudes is now specified as a factor of 2.512, i.e. the difference in brightness is 100 for stars differing by five magnitudes.


word: Magnolia
definition:
Magnolia

Mag*no"li*a
(?)
n.
[NL. Named after Pierre Magnol, professor of botany at Montpellier, France, in the 17th century.]
(Bot.)
A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.

&hand_; Magnolia grandiflora has coriaceous shining leaves and very fragrant blossoms. It is common from North Carolina to Florida and Texas, and is one of the most magnificent trees of the American forest. The sweet bay (Magnolia glauca)is a small tree found sparingly as far north as Cape Ann.  Other American species are Magnolia Umbrella, Magnolia macrophylla, Magnolia Fraseri, Magnolia acuminata, and Magnolia cordata.  Magnolia conspicua and Magnolia purpurea are cultivated shrubs or trees from Eastern Asia. Magnolia Campbellii, of India, has rose-colored or crimson flowers.

Magnolia warbler (Zool.), a beautiful North American wood warbler (Dendroica maculosa).  The rump and under parts are bright yellow; the breast and belly are spotted with black; the under tail coverts are white; the crown is ash.


word: Magnoliaceae
definition:
Magnoliaceae

Magnoliaceae
n.
A natural family of plants, a subclass of the Magnoliidae; it includes the genera Liriodendron; Magnolia; Manglietia; and Michelia.

Syn. -- family Magnoliaceae, magnolia family.


word: Magnoliaceous
definition:
Magnoliaceous

Mag*no`li*a"ceous
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceae) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.


word: Magnoliidae
definition:
Magnoliidae

Magnoliidae
n.
a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder.

Syn. -- subclass Magnoliidae, ranalian complex.


word: Magnoliophyta
definition:
Magnoliophyta

Magnoliophyta
n.
A class of flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta).

Syn. -- Angiospermae, class Angiospermae, division Magnoliophyta, Anthophyta, division Anthophyta.


word: Magnoliopsida
definition:
Magnoliopsida

Magnoliopsida
n.
A class of seed plants that produce an embryo with two cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae.

Syn. -- Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, class Magnoliopsida.


word: Magnum
definition:
Magnum

Mag"num
(măg"nŭm)
n.
[Neut. sing. of L. magnus great.]
1.
A large wine bottle.

They passed the magnum to one another freely.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
(Anat.)
A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.

3.
A magnum pistol, or the cartridge such a pistol uses; as, he always carried a .44 magnum.


word: magnum
definition:
magnum

mag"num
(măg"nŭm)
a.
1.
(Firearms)
Having a larger charge than usual for a cartridge of the same caliber; -- of cartridges for handgun; as, a .44 magnum cartridge.

2.
(Firearms)
Designed to use a cartridge with a larger charge than usual for handguns of the same caliber; -- of handguns; as, a .44 magnum pistol.


word: magnum opus
definition:
magnum opus

mag"num o"pus
(măg"nŭm &omacr"pŭs)
n.
1.
A great work of art or literature.

2.
The greatest work or achievement of a particular artist, writer, or other individual.

Inspired by this milieu, [Max Stirner] wrote his magnum opus The Ego and Its Own, which was published in November 1844.
Svein Nyberg (The Small Max Stirner Web Page, 1988 [http://www.math.uio.no/~solan/stirner/stirner.html])


word: Magpie
definition:
Magpie

Mag"pie
(?)
n.
[OE. & Prov. E. magot pie, maggoty pie, fr. Mag, Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and common name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita pearl, Gr. _;, prob. of Eastern origin. See Pie magpie, and cf. the analogous names Tomtit, and Jackdaw.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

2.
Any one of several black-and-white birds, such as Gymnorhina tibicen, not belonging to the genus Pica.

&hand_; The common European magpie (Pica pica, or Pica caudata) is a black and white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak.  The American magpie (Pica Hudsonica) is very similar. The yellow-belled magpie (Pica Nuttalli) inhabits California.  The blue magpie (Cyanopolius Cooki) inhabits Spain. Other allied species are found in Asia.  The Tasmanian and Australian magpies are crow shrikes, as the white magpie (Gymnorhina organicum), the black magpie (Strepera fuliginosa), and the Australian magpie (Cracticus picatus).

3.
A talkative person; a chatterbox.

Magpie lark (Zool.), a common Australian bird (Grallina picata), conspicuously marked with black and white; -- called also little magpie. -- Magpie moth (Zool.), a black and white European geometrid moth (Abraxas grossulariata); the harlequin moth. Its larva feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes.


word: Maguari
definition:
Maguari

Ma`gua*ri"
(?)
n.
[From native name: cf. Pg. magoari.]
(Zool.)
A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail.


word: Maguey
definition:
Maguey

Mag"uey
(?)
n.
[Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.]
(Bot.)
Any of several species of Agave,  such as the century plant (Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and the Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for making pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal; and the cantala (Agave cantala), a Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine.  See Agave.

2.
A hard fibre used in making coarse twine, derived from the Philippine Agave cantala (Agave cantala); also called cantala.


word: magus
definition:
magus

magus
n.
1.
a magician or sorcerer of ancient times.

2.
a member of the Zoroastrian priesthood of the ancient Persians.


word: Magyar
definition:
Magyar

Mag"yar
(măg"yär; Hung. m&obreve_;d"y&obreve_;r)
prop. n.
[Hung.]
1.
(Ethnol.)
One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.

2.
The language of the Magyars.


word: Maha₂
definition:
Maha

Ma"ha
(?)
prop. n.
(Ethnol.)
A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in Northeastern Nebraska; called also Omaha.


word: Mahabharatam
definition:
Mahabharatam

Mahabarata

{ &VerbarMa*ha*ba"ra*ta (?), &VerbarMa*ha*bha"ra*tam (?), }
n.
[Skr. mahābhārata.]
(Hinduism)
A celebrated sacred epic poem of the Hindus, written in Sanskrit.  It is of great length, and is chiefly devoted to a history, in many episodes, of a civil war between two dynasties of ancient India.

Syn. -- Mahabharatam, Mahabharatum.


word: Mahaled
definition:
Mahaled

Ma*ha"led
(?)
n.
[Ar. mahled.]
(Bot.)
A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern Europe.  The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.


word: maharajah
definition:
maharajah

maharaja

maharaja, ma*ha*ra"jah
(?)
n.
[Skr. mahārāja; mahat great + rāja king.]
A sovereign prince in India; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.


word: maharani
definition:
maharani

maharani
n.
A great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja.
[Also spelled maharanee.]


word: Maharif
definition:
Maharif

Ma`ha*rif"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.


word: Maharmah
definition:
Maharmah

Ma*har"mah
(?)
n.
A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.


word: Mahatma
definition:
Mahatma

Ma*hat"ma
(?)
n.
[Skr. mahātman, lit., great-souled, wise.]
(Theosophy)
One of a class of sages, or “adepts,” reputed to have knowledge and powers of a higher order than those of ordinary men.
The title was popularly applied to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in tribute to his wisdom, though not implying any supernatural powers; he is thus often referred to as Mahatma Ghandi or The Mahatma.  He was most noted for his advocacy of non-violence in resisting oppression, and played an important role in convincing Great Britain to grant independence to India and Pakistan.
Ma*hat"ma*ism (#), n.


word: Mahayana
definition:
Mahayana

Mahayana
n.
1.
a major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation, found in China; Japan; Tibet; Nepal; Korea; and Mongolia.

2.
one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation esp through faith alone; chiefly in China; Tibet; Japan.


word: Mahdi
definition:
Mahdi

Mah"di
(?)
n.
[Ar., guide, leader.]
Among Muslims, the last imam or leader of the faithful.  The Sunni, the largest sect of the Muslims, believe that he is yet to appear.

&hand_; The title has been taken by several persons in countries where Islam prevails, -- notably by Mohammad Ahmed, who overran the Egyptian Sudan, and in 1885 captured Khartum, his soldiers killing General Gordon, an Englishman, who was then the Egyptian governor of the region.


word: Mahdism
definition:
Mahdism

Mah"dism
(?)
n.
Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title.
Mah"dist (#), n.
Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed.
E. N. Bennett.


word: mahimahi
definition:
mahimahi

mahimahi
n.
1.
either of two large slender food and game fish (Coryphaena equisetis or Coryphaena hippurus) of warm waters.  They are highly esteemed as food fish, especially in Hawaii.  See also dolphin{2}.

Syn. -- dolphin, dolphinfish.

2.
lean-fleshed fish of warm waters, esp. Hawaii.

Syn. -- dolphinfish.


word: mahl-stick
definition:
mahl-stick

mahlstick

mahl"stick`, mahl"-stick`
(?)
n.
[G. malerstock; maler a painter + stock stick.]
A long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush while painting.  Same as Maul-stick.


word: Mahoe
definition:
Mahoe

Ma"hoe
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage.


word: Mahogany tree
definition:
Mahogany tree

Mahogany

Ma*hog"a*ny, Ma*hog"a*ny tree`
(?)
n.
[From the South American name.]
1.
(Bot.)
A large tree of the genus Swietenia (Swietenia Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

&hand_; Several other trees, with wood more or less like mahogany, are called by this name; as, African mahogany (Khaya Senegalensis), Australian mahogany (Eucalyptus marginatus), Bastard mahogany (Batonia apetala of the West Indies), Indian mahogany (Cedrela Toona of Bengal, and trees of the genera Soymida and Chukrassia), Madeira mahogany (Persea Indica), Mountain mahogany, the black or cherry birch (Betula lenta), also the several species of Cercocarpus of California and the Rocky Mountains.

2.
The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture.

3.
A table made of mahogany wood.
[Colloq.]

To be under the mahogany, to be so drunk as to have fallen under the table. [Eng.] -- To put one's legs under some one's mahogany, to dine with him. [Slang]


word: Maholi
definition:
Maholi

Ma*ho"li
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A South African lemur (Galago maholi), having very large ears.
[Written also moholi.]


word: Mahometanize
definition:
Mahometanize

Ma*hom"et*an*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Mahometanized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mahometanizing (?).]
To convert to Islam, the religion of Mohammed; to Mohammedanize.


word: mahonia
definition:
mahonia

ma*ho"ni*a
(?)
n.
[Named after Bernard McMahon.]
(Bot.)
The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.


word: Mahonia
definition:
Mahonia

Mahonia
prop. n.
A genus of evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia.


word: mahon stock
definition:
mahon stock

ma*hon" stock`
(?)
(Bot.)
An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima).  It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.


word: Mahori
definition:
Mahori

Ma"ho*ri
(?)
n.
[Native name.  Cf. Maori.]
(Ethnol.)
One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.


word: Mahound
definition:
Mahound

Ma`hound
(?)
n.
A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil.
[Obs.]

Who's this, my mahound cousin ?
Beau. & Fl.


word: Mahout
definition:
Mahout

Ma*hout"
(?)
n.
[Hind. mahāwat, Skr. mahāmātra; mahat great + mātrā measure.]
The keeper and driver of an elephant.
[East Indies]


word: Mahovo
definition:
Mahovo

Ma*ho"vo
(?)
n.
(Mach.)
A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.


word: Mahrati
definition:
Mahrati

Mah*rat"i
(?)
n.
The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in the Deccan and Concan.
[Written also Marathi.]


word: Mahratta
definition:
Mahratta

Mah*rat"ta
(?)
n.
[Hind. Marhatā, Marhāttā, the name of a famous Hindoo race, from the old Skr. name Mahā-rāshtra.]
One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit.
a. Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas.
[Written also Maratha.]


word: Mahumetanism
definition:
Mahumetanism

Mahumetan

{ Ma*hu"met*an (?), Ma*hu"met*an*ism (?), n. }
See Mohammedan, Muslim, Mohammedanism.


word: Mahwa tree
definition:
Mahwa tree

Mah"wa tree`
(?)
(Bot.)
An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also Bassia butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.


word: Maia
definition:
Maia

Ma"i*a
(?)
n.
[From L. Maia, a goddess.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).
(b)
A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).


word: Maid
definition:
Maid

Maid
(?)
n.
[Shortened from maiden. _;. See Maiden.]
1.
An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.

Would I had died a maid,
And never seen thee, never borne thee son.
Shak.

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me.
Jer. ii. 32.

2.
A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
[Obs.]

Christ was a maid and shapen as a man.
Chaucer.

3.
A female servant.

Spinning amongst her maids.
Shak.

&hand_; Maid is used either adjectively or in composition, signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant.

4.
(Zool.)
The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (Raia clavata).
[Prov. Eng.]

Fair maid. (Zool.) See under Fair, a. -- Maid of honor, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; -- usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties. -- Old maid. See under Old.


word: Maidan
definition:
Maidan

Mai*dan"
(?)
n.
[Written also midan, meidan, mydan, etc.]
[Hind. & Per. maidān, fr. Ar. maidān.]
In various  parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.
A gallop on the green maidan.
M. Crawford.


word: Maiden
definition:
Maiden

Maid"en
(mād"'n)
n.
[OE. maiden, meiden, AS. maegden, dim. of AS. maegð, fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth.  magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to Zend. magu youth.  Cf. Maid a virgin.]
1.
An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens.
Carew.

A maiden of our century, yet most meek.
Tennyson.

2.
A female servant.
[Obs.]

3.
An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
Wharton.

4.
A machine for washing linen.


word: Maiden₂
definition:
Maiden

Maid"en
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
maiden
Addison.

Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ?
Shak.

2.
Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
maiden
Thackeray.

3.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
Maiden
Shak.

Full bravely hast thou fleshed
Thy maiden sword.
Shak.

4.
Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
 T. Warton. Macaulay.

Maiden assize (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. Smart. -- Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her marriage. -- Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink. -- Maiden plum (Bot.), a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain. -- Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body. -- Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy. -- maiden voyage the first regular service voyage of a ship.


word: Maiden₃
definition:
Maiden

Maid"en
v. t.
To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

For had I maiden'd it, as many use.
Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse.
Bp. Hall.

Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass. -- Maiden tree. See Ginkgo.


word: maiden aunt
definition:
maiden aunt

maiden aunt
n.
Literally, an aunt who has never been married.  Figuratively, it is a term used as the prototype of a person who is broadly naive and not wise in worldly ways; as, he knows as much about programming as my maiden aunt.


word: maiden blue-eyed mary
definition:
maiden blue-eyed mary

maiden blue-eyed mary
n.
A small widely branching Western wildflower (Collinsia parviflora) with tiny blue-and-white flowers; found from British Columbia to Ontaria and south to California and Colorado.


word: maidenhair fern
definition:
maidenhair fern

maidenhair

maid"en*hair`, maidenhair fern
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having very slender graceful stalks and delicate palmately branched fronds, especially  (Adiantum pedatum).  It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine.  The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.


word: maidenhair berry
definition:
maidenhair berry

maidenhair berry
n.
A slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet (Gaultheria hispidula) of Northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough-hairy seeds.

Syn. -- creeping snowberry, moxie plum, Gaultheria hispidula.


word: maidenhair spleenwort
definition:
maidenhair spleenwort

maidenhair spleenwort
n.
A small rock-inhabiting fern (Asplenium trichomanes) of the North temperate zone and Hawaii, having pinnate fronds.


word: maidenhair tree
definition:
maidenhair tree

maidenhair tree
n.
A deciduous dioecious gymnospermous Chinese tree (Ginkgo biloba) having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds, also called the ginkgo; it exists almost exclusively in cultivation esp. as an ornamental street tree.


word: Maidenhead
definition:
Maidenhead

Maid"en*head
(?)
n.
[See Maidenhood.]
1.
The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
Shak.

2.
The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
[Obs.]

The maidenhead of their credit.
Sir H. Wotton.

3.
The hymen, or virginal membrane.


word: Maidenhood
definition:
Maidenhood

Maid"en*hood
(?)
n.
[AS. maegdenhād. See Maid, and -hood.]
1.
The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity.
Shak.

2.
Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state.

The maidenhood
Of thy fight.
Shak.


word: Maidenliness
definition:
Maidenliness

Maid"en*li*ness
(?)
n.
The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.


word: Maidenly
definition:
Maidenly

Maid"en*ly
a.
Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.

Must you be blushing ? . . . 
What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become !
Shak.


word: maiden pink
definition:
maiden pink

maiden pink
n.
A low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink (Dianthus deltoides) with single crimson-eyed pale pink flowers.


word: Maidmarian
definition:
Maidmarian

Maid`ma"ri*an
(?)
n.
[Maid + Marian, relating to Mary, or the Virgin Mary.]
1.
The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

2.
A kind of dance.
Sir W. Temple.


word: Maieutical
definition:
Maieutical

Maieutic

{ Ma*ieu"tic (ma̝*ū"tĭk), Ma*ieu"tic*al (ma̝*ū"tĭ*kal), }
a.
[Gr. maieytiko`s, fr. mai^a midwife.]
1.
Serving to assist childbirth.
Cudworth.

2.
[Fig.]
Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
Payne.


word: maieutic method
definition:
maieutic method

maieutic method
n.
A method of teaching by question and answer; it was used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students; -- called also the Socratic method


word: Maieutics
definition:
Maieutics

Ma*ieu"tics
(?)
n.
The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
Payne.


word: Maigre
definition:
Maigre

Mai"gre
(?)
a.
[F. See Meager.]
Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.
Walpole.

Maigre food (R. C. Ch.), food allowed to be eaten on fast days.


word: Maikel
definition:
Maikel

Mai*kel"
(mäĭ*ka̝l")
n.
(Zool.)
A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.


word: Maikong
definition:
Maikong

Mai*kong"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.


word: Mail₂
definition:
Mail

Mail
n.
[F. maille, OF. also maaille, LL. medalia. See Medal.]
1.
A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
[Obs.]
[Written also maile, and maille.]

2.
Rent; tribute.
[Obs., except in certain compounds and phrases, as blackmail, mails and duties, etc.]

Mail and duties (Scots Law), the rents of an estate, in whatever form paid.


word: Mail₃
definition:
Mail

Mail
(māl)
n.
[OE. maile, maille, F. maille a ring of mail, mesh, network, a coat of mail, fr. L. macula spot, a mesh of a net.  Cf. Macle, Macula, Mascle.]
1.
A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
Chaucer.

Chain mail, Coat of mail. See under Chain, and Coat.

2.
Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.

3.
(Naut.)
A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

4.
(Zool.)
Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

We . . . strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.
Gay.


word: Mail₅
definition:
Mail

Mail
(māl)
n.
[OE. male bag, OF. male, F. malle bag, trunk, mail, OHG. malaha, malha, wallet; akin to D. maal, male; cf. Gael. & Ir. mala, Gr. molgo`s  hide, skin.]
1.
A bag; a wallet.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
The bag or bags with the letters, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.

There is a mail come in to-day, with letters dated Hague.
Tatler.

3.
That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.

4.
A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Scott.

Mail catcher, an iron rod, or other contrivance, attached to a railroad car for catching a mail bag while the train is in motion. -- Mail guard, an officer whose duty it is to guard the public mails. [Eng.] -- Mail train, a railroad train carrying the mail.


word: Mail₆
definition:
Mail

Mail
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Mailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mailing.]
To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.
[U. S.]

&hand_; In the United States to mail and to post are both in common use; as, to mail or post a letter. In England post is the commoner usage.


word: Mailable
definition:
Mailable

Mail"a*ble
(?)
a.
Admissible lawfully into the mail.  Opposed to non-mailable.  Dangerous items such as explosives, weapons, or corrosive chemicals are often classified by the postal authorities as non-mailable.
[U.S.]


word: mail bag
definition:
mail bag

mailbag

mail"bag`, mail bag
n.
A bag in which mailed matter is conveyed or shipped under public authority.

Syn. -- mail pouch.

2.
A letter carrier's shoulder bag; as, in England they call a mailbag a postbag.

Syn. -- postbag.


word: mail boat
definition:
mail boat

mailboat

mail"boat`, mail" boat`
n.
1.
a boat that carries the mail.

Syn. -- mail boat, packet, packet boat.


word: mailbox
definition:
mailbox

mail"box`
n.
1.
A public box for deposit of mail, where it is later picked up by the postal authority for delivery.

Syn. -- postbox, letter box.

2.
A private box to recieve delivery of mail.  The term is used both for boxes receiving mail delivered by the public postal authority, or by a private services, such as for mail to employees in large corporations.

Syn. -- letter box.

3.
(Computers)
A location within a computer storage device where electronic mail is held until it is retrieved by the addressee.  Creation and use of an electronic mailbox requires special software as well as a data storage device.


word: mail call
definition:
mail call

mail call
n.
A call of the names of those persons receiving mail for the purpose of transmitting mail to them; -- a technique used in the military services to deliver mail to enlisted personnel.


word: mail car
definition:
mail car

mail car
n.
A  railway car of special design used for the transportation and sorting of mail en route to its destination, and having employees of the post office inside to perform those functions.


word: mail carrier
definition:
mail carrier

mail carrier
n.
A person who delivers the mail; -- also called a letter carrier.  A male mail carrier is also called a mailman.

Syn. -- postman, letter carrier, carrier, mailman.


word: Mailing
definition:
Mailing

Mail"ing
(?)
n.
[Scot., fr. mail tribute, rent. See 2d Mail.]
A farm.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.


word: mailing
definition:
mailing

mail"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act or process of sending materials through the mail.

2.
A quantity of mail, such as letters, magazines, advertising brochures, etc., sent at one time by one person or organization; as, the ads with coupons will go out in our next mailing.


word: mailing address
definition:
mailing address

mailing address
n.
The postal address where a maile can be addressed to a person or organization.


word: mailing list
definition:
mailing list

mailing list
n.
A list of names and addresses to which advertising, solicitations of money, or other materials material sent in large quantities is mailed; -- it is usually used by comercial or charitable organizations.  Mailing lists are often sold by organizations to other organizations, and are frequently used for targeted mailing, i. e., mailing to groups of people who are more likely htan the general population to respond as desired to the message in the mail.


word: maillot
definition:
maillot

maillot
n.
A woman's one-piece bathing suit.

Syn. -- tank suit.

2.
for dancers or gymnasts.


word: mailman
definition:
mailman

mail"man`
n.
A man who delivers the mail.  A male mail carrier.

Syn. -- postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier.


word: mail-order
definition:
mail-order

mail-order buying

mail-order buying, mail-order
n.
The buying and selling of goods to be shipped from the vendor through the mail to the purchaser.  Information about to be purchased may be found in catalogs, advertisements, on the web, etc., and purchase orders transmitted to the vendor by mail, telephone, or internet connection.


word: mail slot
definition:
mail slot

mail slot
n.
A usually horizontal slot in a door through which mail can be delivered.  It often has a hinged cover to keep the opening cloised when not in use.


word: Maim
definition:
Maim

Maim
(mām)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Maimed (māmd);p. pr. & vb. n. Maiming.]
[OE. maimen, OF. mahaignier, mehaignier, meshaignier, cf. It. magagnare, LL. mahemiare, mahennare; perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. mac'haña to mutilate, māc'ha to crowd, press; or cf. OHG. mang&omacrn to lack, perh. akin to E. mangle to lacerate.  Cf.  Mayhem.]
1.
To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person in fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part.
Blackstone.

2.
To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.

My late maimed limbs lack wonted might.
Spenser.

You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.
Shak.


word: Maim₂
definition:
Maim

Maim
n.
[Written in law language maihem, and mayhem.]
[OF. mehaing. See Maim, v.]
1.
The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

2.
The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish.
Hooker.

A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited.
Hayward.


word: main
definition:
main

main
(mān)
n.
[F. main hand, L. manus. See Manual.]
1.
A hand or match at dice.
Prior. Thackeray.

2.
A stake played for at dice.
[Obs.]
Shak.

3.
The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.

4.
A match at cockfighting.
main
Thackeray.

5.
A main-hamper.
[Obs.]
Ainsworth.


word: Main
definition:
Main

Main
n.
[AS. mægen strength, power, force; akin to OHG. magan, Icel. megin, and to E. may, v.  √103.  See May, v.]
1.
Strength; force; might; violent effort.
[Obs., except in certain phrases.]

There were in this battle of most might and main.
R. of Gl.

He 'gan advance,
With huge force, and with importable main.
Spenser.

2.
The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
[Obs., except in special uses.]

Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two . . . but as supporters.
Bacon.

3.
(a)
The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
main
Dryden.
(b)
The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
main
Bacon.
(c)
principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.

Forcing main, the delivery pipe of a pump. -- For the main, or In the main, for the most part; in the greatest part. -- With might and main, or With all one's might and main, with all one's strength; with violent effort.

With might and main they chased the murderous fox.
Dryden.


word: Main₂
definition:
Main

Main
(mān)
a.
[From Main strength, possibly influenced by OF.  maine, magne, great, L. magnus.  Cf. Magnate.]
1.
Very or extremely strong.
[Obs.]

That current with main fury ran.
Daniel.

2.
Vast; huge.
[Obs.]
main
Milton.

3.
Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
[Obs.]
man
Sir W. Scott.

4.
Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.; as, the main reason to go; the main proponent.

Our main interest is to be happy as we can.
Tillotson.

5.
Important; necessary.
[Obs.]

That which thou aright
Believest so main to our success, I bring.
Milton.

By main force, by mere force or sheer force; by violent effort; as, to subdue insurrection by main force.
[1913 Webster]
That Maine which by main force Warwick did win. Shak.
[1913 Webster]
-- By main strength, by sheer strength; as, to lift a heavy weight by main strength. -- Main beam (Steam Engine), working beam. -- Main boom (Naut.), the boom which extends the foot of the mainsail in a fore and aft vessel. -- Main brace. (a) (Mech.) The brace which resists the chief strain.  Cf. Counter brace. (b) (Naut.) The brace attached to the main yard. -- Main center (Steam Engine), a shaft upon which a working beam or side lever swings. -- Main chance. See under Chance. -- Main couple (Arch.), the principal truss in a roof. -- Main deck (Naut.), the deck next below the spar deck; the principal deck. -- Main keel (Naut.), the principal or true keel of a vessel, as distinguished from the false keel.


word: main course
definition:
main course

main course
n.
1.
The principal part of a meal.

Syn. -- entree.

2.
(Nautical)
A square mainsail.


word: main deck
definition:
main deck

main deck
n.
The uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel.

Syn. -- second deck.


word: Maine
definition:
Maine

Maine
(mān)
prop. n.
One of the New England States.

Maine law, any law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, esp. one resembling that enacted in the State of Maine.  At present, the state of Maine sells such beverages in its own stores.


word: maine lobster
definition:
maine lobster

maine lobster
n.
1.
Any of several cold-water lobsters with large tender claws, caught from Maine to the Carolinas.

Syn. -- American lobster, Northern lobster.

2.
A lobster (Homarus americanus) found off the Atlantic coast of North America.

Syn. -- American lobster, Northern lobster, Homarus americanus.


word: main entry word
definition:
main entry word

main entry word
n.
The form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary; also called entry word, headword, and lemma.

Syn. -- citation form, entry word, headword, lemma.

&hand_;  In different languages, different wordforms, such as cases for verbs, may be taken as the main entry word.  In English dictionaries, it is the infinitive form, but in latin dictionaries it is usually the first person singular present.


word: main file
definition:
main file

main file
n.
(computers)
A file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent.

Syn. -- master file.


word: mainframe
definition:
mainframe

main"frame`
n.
(Computers)
1.
A large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room.  At any given point in development of computer technology, the mainframe will be faster, have large main memeory, and be more capable than a minicomputer, which will in turn be faster and more capable than a personal computer.  The typical personal computer in 1999 is faster than a mainframe was in 1970.

Syn. -- mainframe computer.

2.
The board holding the CPU and the memory forming the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached.


word: Main-gauche
definition:
Main-gauche

Main`-gauche"
(măN`g&omacrsh")
n.
[F., the left hand.]
(Ancient Armor)
The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.


word: Main-hamper
definition:
Main-hamper

Main"-ham`per
(?)
n.
[F.  main hand (see Main a hand at dice) + E. hamper.]
A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.


word: Mainland
definition:
Mainland

Main"land`
(?)
n.
The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula.
Dryden.

After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland.
Hawthorne.


word: mainland China
definition:
mainland China

mainland China
n.
The People's Republic of China, also called Communist China, in distinction from Nationalist China, the government located on the island of Taiwan.  Both governments claim to represent the entire people of China, but the People's republic is recognized as China by the United Nationss and most of its member states.

Syn. -- Red China, PRC, Beijing.


word: main line
definition:
main line

main line
n.
Ahe principal route of a transportation system, such as a railroad or bus line.


word: mainline
definition:
mainline

main"line`
(mān"līn`)
v. t.
1.
to inject (illegal drugs) into the vein; as, he preferred to mainline heroin rather than sniff coke.


word: Mainly
definition:
Mainly

Main"ly
(?)
adv.
[From main strong. See Main strength.]
Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree.
[Obs.]
Bacon. Shak.


word: main office
definition:
main office

main office
n.
The office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise,

Syn. -- headquarters, central office, home office.


word: main memory
definition:
main memory

main memory
n.
(Computers)
The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program; it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid-access storage in a computer; -- also called RAM (random access memory.  It is contrasted to ROM, disk data storage, cache, registers and other forms of data storage.


word: Mainor
definition:
Mainor

Main"or
(?)
n.
[Anglo-Norm. meinoure, OF. manuevre. See Maneuver.]
(O. Eng. Law)
A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

&hand_; A thief was said to be “taken with the mainor,” when he was taken with the thing stolen upon him, that is, in his hands.
Wharton. Bouvier.


word: Mainpernable
definition:
Mainpernable

Main"per*na*ble
(?)
a.
[OF. main hand + pernable, for prenable, that may be taken, pregnable. See Mainpernor.]
(Law)
Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.


word: Mainpernor
definition:
Mainpernor

Main"per*nor
(?)
n.
[OF. main hand + pernor, for preneor, a taker, F. preneur, fr. prendre to take.]
(Law)
A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.

&hand_; Mainpernors differ from bail in that a man's bail may imprison or surrender him before the stipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can do neither; they are bound to produce him to answer all charges whatsoever.
Blackstone.


word: Mainprise
definition:
Mainprise

Main"prise
(?)
n.
[F. main hand + prise a taking, fr. prendre, p. p. pris to take, fr. L. prehendere, prehensum.]
(Law)
(a)
A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete.
Wharton.
(b)
Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day.


word: Mainprise₂
definition:
Mainprise

Main"prise
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Mainprised (?); p. pr.  & vb. n. Mainprising.]
(Law)
To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.


word: main rotor
definition:
main rotor

main rotor
n.
(Aviation)
The assembly of large rotating airfoils (blades) on a helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air.


word: mains
definition:
mains

mains
(mānz)
n.
[Scot. See Manse.]
The farm attached to a mansion house; a manse.
[Scot. or Brit. dial.]


word: mains₂
definition:
mains

mains
(mānz)
n.
(Electricity)
The source of electrical power in a building; the wiring system of a building.


word: Mainsail
definition:
Mainsail

Main"sail`
(mān"sāl`)
n.
(Naut.)
The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.

[They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind.
 Acts xxvii. 40.

&hand_; The mainsail of a ship is extended upon a yard attached to the mainmast, and that of a sloop or schooner upon the boom.


word: main sequence
definition:
main sequence

main" se`quence
(?)
n.
(Astronomy)
That region on a two-dimensional graph of luminosity versus temperature for stars (the Herzsprung-Russel diagram), which runs from high temperature and high luminosity to low temperature and low luminosity, in which most of the stars (plotted as points on the diagram) are found.  A normal star such as the earth's sun will spend most of its time over billions of years within this region of temperature and luminosity, as it progressively converts more of its original hydrogen into heavier elements.  After the hydrogen is consumed, a star may become a red giant or evolve into other types of star not within the main sequence region.


word: mainsheet
definition:
mainsheet

main"sheet`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.


word: mainspring
definition:
mainspring

main"spring`
(?)
n.
The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer.
Hence:
(Fig.)
The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action; as, the mainspring of action.


word: Mainstay
definition:
Mainstay

Main"stay`
(?)
n.
1.
(Naut.)
The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

2.
Main support; principal dependence.

The great mainstay of the Church.
Buckle.


word: mainstream
definition:
mainstream

main"stream`
n.
The prevailing opinion or practise; as, the doctor avoided using therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice.


word: mainstream₂
definition:
mainstream

main"stream`
v. t.
(Education)
TO place (a student) in regular school classes; -- used especially of mentally or physically handicapped children.


word: mainstreamed
definition:
mainstreamed

main"streamed`
adj.
(Education)
Placed in regular school classes; -- of the handicapped.


word: main street
definition:
main street

main street
n.
1.
A main thoroughfare, usually one in a small town having the largest concentration of retail businesses.

2.
Hence:
(Fig.)
The attitudes, environment, or life style of a small town; -- usually capitalized, and often used attributively; as, Main Street attitudes toward Washington.


word: Mainswear
definition:
Mainswear

Main"swear`
(?)
v. i.
[AS. mānswerian to forswear; mān sin, crime + swerian to swear.]
To swear falsely.
[Obs.]
Blount.


word: Maintain
definition:
Maintain

Main*tain
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Maintained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Maintaining.]
[OE. maintenen, F. maintenir, properly, to hold by the hand; main hand (L. manus) + F. tenir to hold (L. tenere). See Manual, and Tenable.]
1.
To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

2.
To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.
Grew.

3.
To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

Maintain talk with the duke.
Shak.

4.
To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life.
Stirling.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Franklin.

5.
To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.
South.


