English Dictionary: Ludwig Boltzmann | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Loreto \Lo*ret"o\, [or] Loretto \Lo*ret"to\, nuns \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. | |
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Bedchamber \Bed"cham`ber\, n. A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. --Shak. {Lords of the bedchamber}, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] {Ladies of the bedchamber}, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.] | |
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Lady \La"dy\, n.; pl. {Ladies}. [OE. ladi, l[91]fdi, AS. hl[?]fdige, hl[?]fdie; AS. hl[be]f loaf + a root of uncertain origin, possibly akin to E. dairy. See {Loaf}, and cf. {Lord}.] 1. A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household. Agar, the handmaiden of Sara, whence comest thou, and whither goest thou? The which answered, Fro the face of Sara my lady. --Wyclif (Gen. xvi. 8.). 2. A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord. [bd]Lord or lady of high degree.[b8] --Lowell. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, . . . We make thee lady. --Shak. 3. A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, And takes new valor from his lady's eyes. --Waller. 4. A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right. 5. A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman. 6. A wife; -- not now in approved usage. --Goldsmith. 7. (Zo[94]l.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates. {Ladies' man}, a man who affects the society of ladies. {Lady altar}, an altar in a lady chapel. --Shipley. {Lady chapel}, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. {Lady court}, the court of a lady of the manor. {Lady court}, the court of a lady of the manor. {Lady crab} (Zo[94]l.), a handsomely spotted swimming crab ({Platyonichus ocellatus}) very common on the sandy shores of the Atlantic coast of the United States. {Lady fern}. (Bot.) See {Female fern}, under {Female}, and Illust. of {Fern}. {Lady in waiting}, a lady of the queen's household, appointed to wait upon or attend the queen. {Lady Mass}, a Mass said in honor of the Virgin Mary. --Shipley. {Lady of the manor}, a lady having jurisdiction of a manor; also, the wife of a manor lord. {Lady's maid}, a maidservant who dresses and waits upon a lady. --Thackeray. {Our Lady}, the Virgin Mary. | |
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Lady's bedstraw \La"dy's bed"straw`\, (Bot.) The common bedstraw ({Galium verum}); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub ({Pharnaceum Mollugo}), with white flowers in umbels. | |
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Lady's bower \La"dy's bow"er\ (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms ({Clematis vitalba}). Note: This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus. | |
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Lady's finger \La"dy's fin"ger\, 1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch. 2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger. 3. A long, slender variety of the potato. 4. (Zo[94]l.) One of the branchi[91] of the lobster. | |
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Ladyship \La"dy*ship\, n. The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your). Your ladyship shall observe their gravity. --B. Jonson. | |
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Lath-shaped \Lath"-shaped`\, a. Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections. | |
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Laticiferous \Lat`i*cif"er*ous\, a. [L. latex, laticis, a liquid + -ferous.] (Bot.) Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found. | |
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Lattice \Lat"tice\, n. [OE. latis, F. lattis lathwork, fr. latte lath. See {Latten}, 1st {Lath}.] 1. Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also {latticework}. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. --Judg. v. 28. 2. (Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal. {Lattice bridge}, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses. {Lattice girder} (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework. {Lattice plant} (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar ({Ouvirandra fenestralis}), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is {O. Berneriana}. The genus is merged in {Aponogeton} by recent authors. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bridge \Bridge\, n. [OE. brig, brigge, brug, brugge, AS. brycg, bricg; akin to Fries. bregge, D. brug, OHG. brucca, G. br[81]cke, Icel. bryggja pier, bridge, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and prob. Icel. br[umac] bridge, Sw. & Dan. bro bridge, pavement, and possibly to E. brow.] 1. A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other. 2. Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed. 3. (Mus.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. 4. (Elec.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit. 5. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a {bridge wall}. {Aqueduct bridge}. See {Aqueduct}. {Asses' bridge}, {Bascule bridge}, {Bateau bridge}. See under {Ass}, {Bascule}, {Bateau}. {Bridge of a steamer} (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes. {Bridge of the nose}, the upper, bony part of the nose. {Cantalever bridge}. See under {Cantalever}. {Draw bridge}. See {Drawbridge}. {Flying bridge}, a temporary bridge suspended or floating, as for the passage of armies; also, a floating structure connected by a cable with an anchor or pier up stream, and made to pass from bank to bank by the action of the current or other means. {Girder bridge} or {Truss bridge}, a bridge formed by girders, or by trusses resting upon abutments or piers. {Lattice bridge}, a bridge formed by lattice girders. {Pontoon bridge}, {Ponton bridge}. See under {Pontoon}. {Skew bridge}, a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering. {Suspension bridge}. See under {Suspension}. {Trestle bridge}, a bridge formed of a series of short, simple girders resting on trestles. {Tubular bridge}, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or rectangular tube, with cellular walls made of iron plates riveted together, as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the Victoria bridge at Montreal. {Wheatstone's bridge} (Elec.), a device for the measurement of resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain wire forming a bridge or connection between two points of the apparatus; -- invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lattice \Lat"tice\, n. [OE. latis, F. lattis lathwork, fr. latte lath. See {Latten}, 1st {Lath}.] 1. Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also {latticework}. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. --Judg. v. 28. 2. (Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal. {Lattice bridge}, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses. {Lattice girder} (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework. {Lattice plant} (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar ({Ouvirandra fenestralis}), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is {O. Berneriana}. The genus is merged in {Aponogeton} by recent authors. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Soap \Soap\, n. [OE. sope, AS. s[be]pe; akin to D. zeep, G. seife, OHG. seifa, Icel. s[be]pa, Sw. s[?]pa, Dan. s[?]be, and perhaps to AS. s[c6]pan to drip, MHG. s[c6]fen, and L. sebum tallow. Cf. {Saponaceous}.] A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. {Saponification}. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not. Note: In general, soaps are of two classes, hard and soft. Calcium, magnesium, lead, etc., form soaps, but they are insoluble and useless. The purifying action of soap depends upon the fact that it is decomposed by a large quantity of water into free alkali and an insoluble acid salt. The first of these takes away the fatty dirt on washing, and the latter forms the soap lather which envelops the greasy matter and thus tends to remove it. --Roscoe & Schorlemmer. {Castile soap}, a fine-grained hard soap, white or mottled, made of olive oil and soda; -- called also {Marseilles, [or] Venetian, soap}. {Hard soap}, any one of a great variety of soaps, of different ingredients and color, which are hard and compact. All solid soaps are of this class. {Lead soap}, an insoluble, white, pliable soap made by saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; -- used externally in medicine. Called also {lead plaster}, {diachylon}, etc. {Marine soap}. See under {Marine}. {Pills of soap} (Med.), pills containing soap and opium. {Potash soap}, any soap made with potash, esp. the soft soaps, and a hard soap made from potash and castor oil. {Pumice soap}, any hard soap charged with a gritty powder, as silica, alumina, powdered pumice, etc., which assists mechanically in the removal of dirt. {Resin soap}, a yellow soap containing resin, -- used in bleaching. {Silicated soap}, a cheap soap containing water glass (sodium silicate). {Soap bark}. (Bot.) See {Quillaia bark}. {Soap bubble}, a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something attractive, but extremely unsubstantial. This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. --J. C. Shairp. {Soap cerate}, a cerate formed of soap, olive oil, white wax, and the subacetate of lead, sometimes used as an application to allay inflammation. {Soap fat}, the refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses, etc., used in making soap. {Soap liniment} (Med.), a liniment containing soap, camphor, and alcohol. {Soap nut}, the hard kernel or seed of the fruit of the soapberry tree, -- used for making beads, buttons, etc. {Soap plant} (Bot.), one of several plants used in the place of soap, as the {Chlorogalum pomeridianum}, a California plant, the bulb of which, when stripped of its husk and rubbed on wet clothes, makes a thick lather, and smells not unlike new brown soap. It is called also {soap apple}, {soap bulb}, and {soap weed}. {Soap tree}. (Bot.) Same as {Soapberry tree}. {Soda soap}, a soap containing a sodium salt. The soda soaps are all hard soaps. {Soft soap}, a soap of a gray or brownish yellow color, and of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the lye from wood ashes. It is strongly alkaline and often contains glycerin, and is used in scouring wood, in cleansing linen, in dyehouses, etc. Figuratively, flattery; wheedling; blarney. [Colloq.] {Toilet soap}, hard soap for the toilet, usually colored and perfumed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Led \Led\ (l[ecr]d), imp. & p. p. of {Lead}. {Led captain}. An obsequious follower or attendant. [Obs.] --Swift. {Led horse}, a sumpter horse, or a spare horse, that is led along. | |
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Lettuce \Let"tuce\ (l[ecr]t"t[icr]s), n. [OE. letuce, prob. through Old French from some Late Latin derivative of L. lactuca lettuce, which, according to Varro, is fr. lac, lactis, milk, on account of the milky white juice which flows from it when it is cut: cf. F. laitue. Cf. {Lacteal}, {Lactucic}.] (Bot.) A composite plant of the genus {Lactuca} ({L. sativa}), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is {L. Canadensis}. {Hare's lettuce}, {Lamb's lettuce}. See under {Hare}, and {Lamb}. {Lettuce opium}. See {Lactucarium}. {Sea lettuce}, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus {Ulva}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puccoon \Puc*coon"\, n. [From the American Indian name.] (Bot.) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of {Lithospermum} ({L. hirtum}, and {L. canescens}); also, the pigment itself. | |
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Lithosphere \Lith"o*sphere\, n. [Litho- + sphere.] (Phys. Geog.) (a) The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere. (b) The outer part of the solid earth, the portion undergoing change through the gradual transfer of material by volcanic eruption, the circulation of underground water, and the process of erosion and deposition. It is, therefore, regarded as a third mobile envelope comparable with the hydrosphere and atmosphere. | |
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Litigable \Lit"i*ga*ble\, a. Such as can be litigated. | |
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Lode-ship \Lode"-ship`\, n. An old name for a pilot boat. | |
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Lodgeable \Lodge"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. logeable.] 1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. 2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. [R.] [bd] The lodgeable area of the earth.[b8] --Jeffrey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
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Cobaltic \Co*balt"ic\ (?; 74), a. [Cf. F. cobaltique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide. {Luteo-cobaltic compounds} (Chem.), an extensive series of complex yellow compounds of ammonia and cobaltic salts. {Roseo-cobaltic compounds} (Chem.), an extensive series of complex red compounds of cobalt and ammonia. Modifications of these are the {purpureo-cobaltic compounds}. | |
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Leitchfield, KY (city, FIPS 44686) Location: 37.48066 N, 86.29335 W Population (1990): 4965 (2114 housing units) Area: 11.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
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Litchfield, CA Zip code(s): 96117 Litchfield, CT (borough, FIPS 43300) Location: 41.74468 N, 73.19007 W Population (1990): 1378 (600 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 06759 Litchfield, IL (city, FIPS 43965) Location: 39.17586 N, 89.65601 W Population (1990): 6883 (2915 housing units) Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62056 Litchfield, ME Zip code(s): 04350 Litchfield, MI (city, FIPS 47980) Location: 42.04308 N, 84.75753 W Population (1990): 1317 (535 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49252 Litchfield, MN (city, FIPS 37448) Location: 45.11950 N, 94.52705 W Population (1990): 6041 (2519 housing units) Area: 9.3 sq km (land), 2.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55355 Litchfield, NE (village, FIPS 28350) Location: 41.15607 N, 99.15190 W Population (1990): 314 (146 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68852 Litchfield, OH Zip code(s): 44253 | |
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Litchfield County, CT (county, FIPS 5) Location: 41.79478 N, 73.24457 W Population (1990): 174092 (74274 housing units) Area: 2382.8 sq km (land), 63.8 sq km (water) | |
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Litchfield Park, AZ (city, FIPS 41330) Location: 33.50253 N, 112.35882 W Population (1990): 3303 (1433 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 85340 | |
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Litchville, ND (city, FIPS 47140) Location: 46.65739 N, 98.19133 W Population (1990): 205 (125 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58461 | |
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Lithia Springs, GA (CDP, FIPS 46832) Location: 33.77900 N, 84.64420 W Population (1990): 11403 (5027 housing units) Area: 40.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30057 | |
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Lodgepole, NE (village, FIPS 28420) Location: 41.14849 N, 102.63832 W Population (1990): 368 (169 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69149 Lodgepole, SD Zip code(s): 57640 | |
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Lottsburg, VA Zip code(s): 22511 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
lots of MIPS but no I/O adj. Used to describe a person who is technically brilliant but can't seem to communicate with human beings effectively. Technically it describes a machine that has lots of processing power but is bottlenecked on input-output (in 1991, the IBM Rios, a.k.a. RS/6000, was a notorious example). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lots of MIPS but no I/O Used to describe a person who is technically brilliant but can't seem to communicate with human beings effectively. Technically it describes a machine that has lots of processing power but is bottlenecked on input-output (in 1991, the IBM Rios, a.k.a. RS/6000, is a notorious recent example). [{Jargon File}] | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Laodicea, Epistle from (Col. 4:16), was probably the Epistle to the Ephesians, as designed for general circulation. It would reach the Colossians by way of Laodicea. |