English Dictionary: Littre | by the DICT Development Group |
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Ladder \Lad"der\, n. [OE. laddre, AS. hl[?]der, hl[?]dder; akin to OFries. hladder, OHG. leitara, G. leiter, and from the root of E. lean, v. ([?]). See {Lean}, v. i., and cf. {Climax}.] 1. A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps. Some the engines play, And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. --Dryden. 2. That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence. Lowliness is young ambition's ladder. --Shak. {Fish ladder}. See under {Fish}. {Ladder beetle} (Zo[94]l.), an American leaf beetle ({Chrysomela scalaris}). The elytra are silvery white, striped and spotted with green; the under wings are rose-colored. It feeds upon the linden tree. {Ladder handle}, an iron rail at the side of a vertical fixed ladder, to grasp with the hand in climbing. {Ladder shell} (Zo[94]l.), a spiral marine shell of the genus Scalaria. See {Scalaria}. | |
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Late \Late\, a. [Compar. {Later}, or {latter}; superl. {Latest}.] [OE. lat slow, slack, AS. l[91]t; akin to OS. lat, D. laat late, G. lass weary, lazy, slack, Icel. latr, Sw. lat, Dan. lad, Goth. lats, and to E. let, v. See {Let} to permit, and cf. {Alas}, {Lassitude}.] 1. Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring. 2. Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life. 3. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration. 4. Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence. 5. Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher. | |
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Later \Lat"er\, a. Compar. of {Late}, a. & adv. | |
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Lather \Lath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lathering}.] [AS. l[emac][edh]rian to lather, anoint. See {Lather}, n. ] To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face. | |
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Lather \Lath"er\, v. i. To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse. | |
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Lather \Lath"er\, v. t. [Cf. {Leather}.] To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog. [Low] | |
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Lather \Lath"er\, n. [AS. le[a0][edh]or niter, in le[a0][edh]orwyrt soapwort; cf. Icel. lau[?]r; perh. akin to E. lye.] 1. Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water. 2. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse. | |
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Late \Late\, a. [Compar. {Later}, or {latter}; superl. {Latest}.] [OE. lat slow, slack, AS. l[91]t; akin to OS. lat, D. laat late, G. lass weary, lazy, slack, Icel. latr, Sw. lat, Dan. lad, Goth. lats, and to E. let, v. See {Let} to permit, and cf. {Alas}, {Lassitude}.] 1. Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring. 2. Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life. 3. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration. 4. Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence. 5. Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher. | |
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Latter \Lat"ter\, a. [OE. later, l[91]tter, compar. of lat late. See {Late}, and cf. {Later}.] 1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to {former}; as, the former and latter rain. 2. Of two things, the one mentioned second. The difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter is superior. --I. Watts. 3. Recent; modern. Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania? --Locke. 4. Last; latest; final. [R.] [bd]My latter gasp.[b8] --Shak. {Latter harvest}, the last part of the harvest. {Latter spring}, the last part of the spring of the year. --Shak. | |
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Late \Late\, a. [Compar. {Later}, or {latter}; superl. {Latest}.] [OE. lat slow, slack, AS. l[91]t; akin to OS. lat, D. laat late, G. lass weary, lazy, slack, Icel. latr, Sw. lat, Dan. lad, Goth. lats, and to E. let, v. See {Let} to permit, and cf. {Alas}, {Lassitude}.] 1. Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring. 2. Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life. 3. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration. 4. Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence. 5. Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher. | |
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Latter \Lat"ter\, a. [OE. later, l[91]tter, compar. of lat late. See {Late}, and cf. {Later}.] 1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to {former}; as, the former and latter rain. 2. Of two things, the one mentioned second. The difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter is superior. --I. Watts. 3. Recent; modern. Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania? --Locke. 4. Last; latest; final. [R.] [bd]My latter gasp.[b8] --Shak. {Latter harvest}, the last part of the harvest. {Latter spring}, the last part of the spring of the year. --Shak. | |
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Lauder \Laud"er\, n. One who lauds. | |
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Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint. | |
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Leader \Lead"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. Especially: (a) One who goes first. (b) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander. (c) (Mus.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins. (d) (Naut.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places. (e) (Mach.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. [Obs. or R.] --G. Francis. (f) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses. He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times. --Hare. (g) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor. (h) (Fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached. (i) (Mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. 2. The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article. 3. (Print.) (a) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face. (b) pl. a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number. Syn: chief; chieftain; commander. See {Chief}. | |
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Leather \Leath"er\, n. [OE. lether, AS. le[?]er; akin to D. leder, le[88]r, G. leder, OHG. ledar, Icel. le[?]r, Sw. l[84]der, Dan. l[91]der.] 1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. [Ironical or Sportive] Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. {Leather board}, an imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps, rags, paper, etc. {Leather carp} (Zo[94]l.), a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under {Carp}. {Leather jacket}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A California carangoid fish ({Oligoplites saurus}). (b) A trigger fish ({Balistes Carolinensis}). {Leather flower} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Clematis Viorna}) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color. {Leather leaf} (Bot.), a low shrub ({Cassandra calyculata}), growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy leaves. {Leather plant} (Bot.), one or more New Zealand plants of the composite genus {Celmisia}, which have white or buff tomentose leaves. {Leather turtle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Leatherback}. {Vegetable leather}. (a) An imitation of leather made of cotton waste. (b) Linen cloth coated with India rubber. --Ure. | |
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Leather \Leath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leathering}.] To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.] --G. Eliot. | |
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Leathery \Leath"er*y\, a. Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. [bd]A leathery skin.[b8] --Grew. | |
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Letter \Let"ter\ (l[ecr]t"t[etil]r), n. [From {Let} to permit.] One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire. | |
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Letter \Let"ter\, n. [From {Let} to hinder.] One who retards or hinders. [Archaic.] | |
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Letter \Let"ter\, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L. littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by graving the characters upon tablets smeared over or covered with wax. --Pliny, xiii. 11. See {Liniment}, and cf. {Literal}.] 1. A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. --Luke xxiii. 38. 2. A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle. The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and natural. --Walsh. 3. A writing; an inscription. [Obs.] None could expound what this letter meant. --Chaucer. 4. Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement. We must observe the letter of the law, without doing violence to the reason of the law and the intention of the lawgiver. --Jer. Taylor. I broke the letter of it to keep the sense. --Tennyson. 5. (Print.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type. Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed. --Evelyn. 6. pl. Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters. 7. pl. A letter; an epistle. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Dead letter}, {Drop letter}, etc. See under {Dead}, {Drop}, etc. {Letter book}, a book in which copies of letters are kept. {Letter box}, a box for the reception of letters to be mailed or delivered. {Letter carrier}, a person who carries letters; a postman; specif., an officer of the post office who carries letters to the persons to whom they are addressed, and collects letters to be mailed. {Letter cutter}, one who engraves letters or letter punches. {Letter lock}, a lock that can not be opened when fastened, unless certain movable lettered rings or disks forming a part of it are in such a position (indicated by a particular combination of the letters) as to permit the bolt to be withdrawn. A strange lock that opens with AMEN. --Beau. & Fl. {Letter paper}, paper for writing letters on; especially, a size of paper intermediate between note paper and foolscap. See {Paper}. {Letter punch}, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the end, used in making the matrices for type. {Letters of administration} (Law), the instrument by which an administrator or administratrix is authorized to administer the goods and estate of a deceased person. {Letter of attorney}, {Letter of credit}, etc. See under {Attorney}, {Credit}, etc. {Letter of license}, a paper by which creditors extend a debtor's time for paying his debts. {Letters close [or] clause} (Eng. Law.), letters or writs directed to particular persons for particular purposes, and hence closed or sealed on the outside; -- distinguished from letters patent. --Burrill. {Letters of orders} (Eccl.), a document duly signed and sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon, etc. {Letters patent}, {overt}, [or] {open} (Eng. Law), a writing executed and sealed, by which power and authority are granted to a person to do some act, or enjoy some right; as, letters patent under the seal of England. {Letter-sheet envelope}, a stamped sheet of letter paper issued by the government, prepared to be folded and sealed for transmission by mail without an envelope. {Letters testamentary} (Law), an instrument granted by the proper officer to an executor after probate of a will, authorizing him to act as executor. {Letter writer}. (a) One who writes letters. (b) A machine for copying letters. (c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of letters. | |
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Letter \Let"ter\ (l[ecr]t"t[etil]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lettered} (-t[etil]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lettering}.] To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered. | |
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Letter \Let"ter\, n. (Teleg.) A telegram longer than an ordinary message sent at rates lower than the standard message rate in consideration of its being sent and delivered subject to priority in service of regular messages. Such telegrams are called by the Western Union Company {day, [or] night, letters} according to the time of sending, and by The Postal Telegraph Company {day, [or] night, lettergrams}. | |
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Attorney \At*tor"ney\, n.; pl. {Attorneys}. [OE. aturneye, OF. atorn[82], p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus, fr. attornare. See {Attorn}.] 1. A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.] And will have no attorney but myself. --Shak. 2. (Law) (a) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact. (b) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law. Note: An attorney is either public or private. A private attorney, or an attorney in fact, is a person appointed by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to transact any business for him out of court; but in a more extended sense, this class includes any agent employed in any business, or to do any act in pais, for another. A public attorney, or attorney at law, is a practitioner in a court of law, legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court, on the retainer of clients. --Bouvier. -- The attorney at law answers to the procurator of the civilians, to the solicitor in chancery, and to the proctor in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, and all of these are comprehended under the more general term lawyer. In Great Britain and in some states of the United States, attorneys are distinguished from counselors in that the business of the former is to carry on the practical and formal parts of the suit. In many states of the United States however, no such distinction exists. In England, since 1873, attorneys at law are by statute called solicitors. {A power}, {letter}, or {warrant}, {of attorney}, a written authority from one person empowering another to transact business for him. | |
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Letter \Let"ter\ (l[ecr]t"t[etil]r), n. [From {Let} to permit.] One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire. | |
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Letter \Let"ter\, n. [From {Let} to hinder.] One who retards or hinders. [Archaic.] | |
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Letter \Let"ter\, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L. littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by graving the characters upon tablets smeared over or covered with wax. --Pliny, xiii. 11. See {Liniment}, and cf. {Literal}.] 1. A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. --Luke xxiii. 38. 2. A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle. The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and natural. --Walsh. 3. A writing; an inscription. [Obs.] None could expound what this letter meant. --Chaucer. 4. Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement. We must observe the letter of the law, without doing violence to the reason of the law and the intention of the lawgiver. --Jer. Taylor. I broke the letter of it to keep the sense. --Tennyson. 5. (Print.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type. Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed. --Evelyn. 6. pl. Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters. 7. pl. A letter; an epistle. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Dead letter}, {Drop letter}, etc. See under {Dead}, {Drop}, etc. {Letter book}, a book in which copies of letters are kept. {Letter box}, a box for the reception of letters to be mailed or delivered. {Letter carrier}, a person who carries letters; a postman; specif., an officer of the post office who carries letters to the persons to whom they are addressed, and collects letters to be mailed. {Letter cutter}, one who engraves letters or letter punches. {Letter lock}, a lock that can not be opened when fastened, unless certain movable lettered rings or disks forming a part of it are in such a position (indicated by a particular combination of the letters) as to permit the bolt to be withdrawn. A strange lock that opens with AMEN. --Beau. & Fl. {Letter paper}, paper for writing letters on; especially, a size of paper intermediate between note paper and foolscap. See {Paper}. {Letter punch}, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the end, used in making the matrices for type. {Letters of administration} (Law), the instrument by which an administrator or administratrix is authorized to administer the goods and estate of a deceased person. {Letter of attorney}, {Letter of credit}, etc. See under {Attorney}, {Credit}, etc. {Letter of license}, a paper by which creditors extend a debtor's time for paying his debts. {Letters close [or] clause} (Eng. Law.), letters or writs directed to particular persons for particular purposes, and hence closed or sealed on the outside; -- distinguished from letters patent. --Burrill. {Letters of orders} (Eccl.), a document duly signed and sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon, etc. {Letters patent}, {overt}, [or] {open} (Eng. Law), a writing executed and sealed, by which power and authority are granted to a person to do some act, or enjoy some right; as, letters patent under the seal of England. {Letter-sheet envelope}, a stamped sheet of letter paper issued by the government, prepared to be folded and sealed for transmission by mail without an envelope. {Letters testamentary} (Law), an instrument granted by the proper officer to an executor after probate of a will, authorizing him to act as executor. {Letter writer}. (a) One who writes letters. (b) A machine for copying letters. (c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of letters. | |
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Letter \Let"ter\ (l[ecr]t"t[etil]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lettered} (-t[etil]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lettering}.] To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered. | |
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Letter \Let"ter\, n. (Teleg.) A telegram longer than an ordinary message sent at rates lower than the standard message rate in consideration of its being sent and delivered subject to priority in service of regular messages. Such telegrams are called by the Western Union Company {day, [or] night, letters} according to the time of sending, and by The Postal Telegraph Company {day, [or] night, lettergrams}. | |
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Attorney \At*tor"ney\, n.; pl. {Attorneys}. [OE. aturneye, OF. atorn[82], p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus, fr. attornare. See {Attorn}.] 1. A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.] And will have no attorney but myself. --Shak. 2. (Law) (a) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact. (b) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law. Note: An attorney is either public or private. A private attorney, or an attorney in fact, is a person appointed by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to transact any business for him out of court; but in a more extended sense, this class includes any agent employed in any business, or to do any act in pais, for another. A public attorney, or attorney at law, is a practitioner in a court of law, legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court, on the retainer of clients. --Bouvier. -- The attorney at law answers to the procurator of the civilians, to the solicitor in chancery, and to the proctor in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, and all of these are comprehended under the more general term lawyer. In Great Britain and in some states of the United States, attorneys are distinguished from counselors in that the business of the former is to carry on the practical and formal parts of the suit. In many states of the United States however, no such distinction exists. In England, since 1873, attorneys at law are by statute called solicitors. {A power}, {letter}, or {warrant}, {of attorney}, a written authority from one person empowering another to transact business for him. | |
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Letuary \Let"u*a*ry\ (l[ecr]t"[usl]*[asl]*r[ycr]), n. Electuary. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lewd \Lewd\ (l[umac]d), a. [Compar. {Lewder} (-[etil]r); superl. {Lewdest}.] [{OE}. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS. l[aemac]wed laical, belonging to the laity.] 1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. --Chaucer. So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. --Sir. J. Davies. 2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic] --Chaucer. But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason. --Acts xvii. 5. Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. --Southey. 3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous. --Dryden. 4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language. Syn: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute; sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous; rakish; debauched. -- {Lewd"ly}, adv. -- {Lewd"ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Lied \[d8]Lied\ (l[emac]t), n.; pl. {Lieder} (l[emac]"d[etil]r). [G.] (Mus.) A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national. The German Lied is perhaps the most faithful reflection of the national sentiment. --Grove. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Liter \Li"ter\, Litre \Li"tre\, n. [F. litre, Gr. [?] a silver coin.] A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lither \Li"ther\, a. [AS. [?] bad, wicked.] Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. --Bp. Woolton. Note: Professor Skeat thinks [bd] the lither sky[b8] as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. ((Part I. IY. YII., 21) means the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- {Li"ther*ly}, adv. [Obs.]. -- {Li"ther*ness}, n. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Liter \Li"ter\, Litre \Li"tre\, n. [F. litre, Gr. [?] a silver coin.] A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Litre \Li"tre\, n. [F.] Same as {Liter}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Litter \Lit"ter\, n. [F. liti[8a]re, LL. lectaria, fr. L. lectus couch, bed. See {Lie} to be prostrated, and cf. {Coverlet}.] 1. A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. There is a litter ready; lay him in 't. --Shak. 2. Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants. To crouch in litter of your stable planks. --Shak. Take off the litter from your kernel beds. --Evelyn. 3. Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish. Strephon, who found the room was void. Stole in, and took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay. --Swift. 4. Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter. 5. The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig. A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter. --D. Estrange. Reflect upon numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world. --South. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Litter \Lit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Littered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Littering}.] 1. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp. Hacke[?]. For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden. 2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room. The room with volumes littered round. --Swift. 3. To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt. We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us. --Sir T. Browne. The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Litter \Lit"ter\, v. i. 1. To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. [R.] The inn Where he and his horse littered. --Habington. 2. To produce a litter. A desert . . . where the she-wolf still littered. --Macaulay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Littery \Lit"ter*y\, a. Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Loader \Load"er\, n. One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Loather \Loath"er\, n. One who loathes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. Syn: To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Looter \Loot"er\, n. A plunderer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lothario \Lo*tha"ri*o\, n. [Name of a character in Rowe's drama, [bd]The Fair Penitent.[b8]] A gay seducer of women; a libertine. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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 tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance. Note: The laws of the United States and of most of the States make lotteries illegal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Loture \Lo"ture\, n. [L. lotura. See {Lotion}.] See {Lotion}. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Loud \Loud\, a. [Compar. {Louder}; superl. {Loudest}.] [OE. loud, lud, AS. hl[?]d; akin to OS. hl[?]d, D. luid, OHG. l[?]t, G. laut, L. -clutus, in inclutus, inclitus, celebrated, renowned, cluere to be called, Gr. [?] heard, loud, famous, [?] to hear, Skr. [?]ru. [?]. 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] Syn: Noisy; boisterous; vociferous; clamorous; obstreperous; turbulent; blustering; vehement. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Low \Low\, a. [Compar. {Lower}; superl. {Lowest}.] [OE. low, louh, lah, Icel. l[be]gr; akin to Sw. l[86]g, 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, [?] ([?]m), [?] (all). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 10, 11. 9. Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes. 10. Numerically small; as, a low number. 11. Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits. 12. Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes. Why but to keep ye low and ignorant ? --Milton. 13. Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem. 14. Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison. In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull. --Felton. 15. Submissive; humble. [bd]Low reverence.[b8] --Milton. 16. Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness. 17. Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever. 18. Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate. 19. Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet. Note: Low is often used in the formation of compounds which require no special explanation; as, low-arched, low- browed, low-crowned, low-heeled, low-lying, low-priced, low-roofed, low-toned, low-voiced, and the like. {Low Church}. See {High Church}, under {High}. {Low Countries}, the Netherlands. {Low German}, {Low Latin}, etc. See under {German}, {Latin}, etc. {Low life}, humble life. {Low milling}, a process of making flour from grain by a single grinding and by siftings. {Low relief}. See {Bas-relief}. {Low side window} (Arch.), a peculiar form of window common in medi[91]val churches, and of uncertain use. Windows of this sort are narrow, near the ground, and out of the line of the windows, and in many different situations in the building. {Low spirits}, despondency. {Low steam}, steam having a low pressure. {Low steel}, steel which contains only a small proportion of carbon, and can not be hardened greatly by sudden cooling. {Low Sunday}, the Sunday next after Easter; -- popularly so called. {Low tide}, the farthest ebb of the tide; the tide at its lowest point; low water. {Low water}. (a) The lowest point of the ebb tide; a low stage of the in a river, lake, etc. (b) (Steam Boiler) The condition of an insufficient quantity of water in the boiler. {Low water} {alarm [or] indicator} (Steam Boiler), a contrivance of various forms attached to a boiler for giving warning when the water is low. {Low water mark}, that part of the shore to which the waters recede when the tide is the lowest. --Bouvier. {Low wine}, a liquor containing about 20 percent of alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still; -- often in the plural. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Luter \Lut"er\, n. [From 3d {Lute}.] One who plays on a lute. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Luter \Lut"er\, n. [From Ist {Lute}.] One who applies lute. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
La Tour, MO (town, FIPS 40862) Location: 38.63397 N, 94.10241 W Population (1990): 87 (33 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Ladera, CA Zip code(s): 94028 | |
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Ladora, IA (city, FIPS 42330) Location: 41.75581 N, 92.18540 W Population (1990): 308 (135 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52251 | |
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Latour, MO Zip code(s): 64760 | |
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Leader, MN Zip code(s): 56466 | |
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Leadore, ID (city, FIPS 45910) Location: 44.67975 N, 113.35665 W Population (1990): 74 (46 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83464 | |
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Luther, IA (city, FIPS 47280) Location: 41.96714 N, 93.81970 W Population (1990): 154 (62 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50152 Luther, IL Zip code(s): 62664 Luther, MI (village, FIPS 49740) Location: 44.03867 N, 85.68292 W Population (1990): 343 (189 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49656 Luther, MT Zip code(s): 59051 Luther, OK (town, FIPS 44500) Location: 35.66426 N, 97.18041 W Population (1990): 1560 (598 housing units) Area: 86.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73054 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LTR Langage Temps-Réel. (French for "real-time language") A French predecessor to {Ada}, LTR is {Modula}-like with a set of special-purpose {real-time} constructs based on an event model. It was mentioned in the reference below. ["An Overview of Ada", J.G.P. Barnes, Soft Prac & Exp 10:851-887 (1980)]. (1995-01-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LTR3 Version three of {LTR}, by A. Parayre of Delegation Generale pour l'Armement, France. LTR3 was widely used by the French military and avionics companies. ["The LTR3 Reference Manual", A. Parayre, Delegation Generale pour l'Armement, France]. (1995-01-31) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Ladder occurs only once, in the account of Jacob's vision (Gen. 28:12). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Leather a girdle of, worn by Elijah (2 Kings 1:8) and John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4). Leather was employed both for clothing (Num. 31:20; Heb. 11:37) and for writing upon. The trade of a tanner is mentioned (Acts 9:43; 10:6, 32). It was probably learned in Egypt. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Letter in Rom. 2:27, 29 means the outward form. The "oldness of the letter" (7:6) is a phrase which denotes the old way of literal outward obedience to the law as a system of mere external rules of conduct. In 2 Cor. 3:6, "the letter" means the Mosaic law as a written law. (See {WRITING}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Litter (Heb. tsab, as being lightly and gently borne), a sedan or palanquin for the conveyance of persons of rank (Isa. 66:20). In Num. 7:3, the words "covered wagons" are more literally "carts of the litter kind." There they denote large and commodious vehicles drawn by oxen, and fitted for transporting the furniture of the temple. |