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Laas \Laas\, n. A lace. See {Lace}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lac \Lac\, d8Lakh \[d8]Lakh\, n. [Hind. lak, l[be]kh, l[be]ksh, Skr. laksha a mark, sign, lakh.] One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [Written also {lack}.] [East Indies] | |
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Lac \Lac\, n. [Per. lak; akin to Skr. l[be]ksh[be]: cf. F. lague, It. & NL. lacca. Cf. {Lake} a color, {Lacquer}, {Litmus}.] A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the {Coccus lacca} | |
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Lace \Lace\, v. i. To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace. | |
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Lace \Lace\ (l[be]s), n. [OE. las, OF. laz, F. lacs, dim. lacet, fr. L. laqueus noose, snare; prob. akin to lacere to entice. Cf. {Delight}, {Elicit}, {Lasso}, {Latchet}.] 1. That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. His hat hung at his back down by a lace. --Chaucer. For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied. --Spenser. 2. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. [Obs.] --Fairfax. Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace. --Chaucer. 3. A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costlylaces. --Bacon. 4. Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. [Old Slang] --Addison. {Alencon lace}, a kind of point lace, entirely of needlework, first made at Alencon in France, in the 17th century. It is very durable and of great beauty and cost. {Bone lace}, {Brussels lace}, etc. See under {Bone}, {Brussels}, etc. {Gold lace}, [or] {Silver lace}, lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt. {Lace leather}, thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts. {Lace lizard} (Zo[94]l.), a large, aquatic, Australian lizard ({Hydrosaurus giganteus}), allied to the monitors. {Lace paper}, paper with an openwork design in imitation of lace. {Lace piece} (Shipbuilding), the main piece of timber which supports the beak or head projecting beyond the stem of a ship. {Lace pillow}, [and] {Pillow lace}. See under {Pillow}. | |
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Lace \Lace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laced} ([be]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lacing}.] 1. To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. --Shak. When Jenny's stays are newly laced. --Prior. 2. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. --Shak. 3. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.] I'll lace your coat for ye. --L'Estrange. 4. To add spirits to (a beverage). [Old Slang] | |
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Lace \Lace\, v. t. To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. The Gond . . . picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temble door. --Kipling. | |
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Laches \Lach"es\, Lache \Lache\, n. [OF. lachesse, fr. lache lax, indolent, F. l[83]che, ultimately fr. L. laxus loose, lax. See {Lax}.] (Law) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim. It ill became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney. --Macaulay. | |
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Lac \Lac\, d8Lakh \[d8]Lakh\, n. [Hind. lak, l[be]kh, l[be]ksh, Skr. laksha a mark, sign, lakh.] One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [Written also {lack}.] [East Indies] | |
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Lack \Lack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lacking}.] 1. To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.] Love them and lakke them not. --Piers Plowman. 2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. --James i. 5. | |
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Lack \Lack\, v. i. 1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. What hour now ? I think it lacks of twelve. --Shak. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty. --Gen. xvii. 28. 2. To be in want. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. --Ps. xxxiv. 10. | |
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Lack \Lack\, n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. le[a0]n.] 1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. --Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. --Shak. | |
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Lack \Lack\, interj. [Cf. {Alack}.] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] --Cowper. | |
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Lac \Lac\, d8Lakh \[d8]Lakh\, n. [Hind. lak, l[be]kh, l[be]ksh, Skr. laksha a mark, sign, lakh.] One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [Written also {lack}.] [East Indies] | |
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Lack \Lack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lacking}.] 1. To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.] Love them and lakke them not. --Piers Plowman. 2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. --James i. 5. | |
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Lack \Lack\, v. i. 1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. What hour now ? I think it lacks of twelve. --Shak. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty. --Gen. xvii. 28. 2. To be in want. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. --Ps. xxxiv. 10. | |
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Lack \Lack\, n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. le[a0]n.] 1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. --Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. --Shak. | |
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Lack \Lack\, interj. [Cf. {Alack}.] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] --Cowper. | |
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Lackey \Lack"ey\, v. t. To attend as a lackey; to wait upon. A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton. | |
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Lackey \Lack"ey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lackeyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lackeying}.] To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance. | |
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Lackey \Lack"ey\, n.; pl. {Lackeys}. [F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. of German origin, and akin to E. lick, v.] An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. --Shak. {Lackey caterpillar} (Zo[94]l.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus {Clisiocampa}; -- so called from its party-colored markings. The common European species ({C. neustria}) is striped with blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species ({C. Americana} and {C. sylvatica}) are commonly called {tent caterpillars}. See {Tent caterpillar}, under {Tent}. {Lackey moth} (Zo[94]l.), the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar. | |
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Lag \Lag\, a. [Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir. lagweak, feeble, faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to E. lax, languid.] 1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.] Came too lag to see him buried. --Shak. 2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. [bd]The lag end of my life.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Lag \Lag\, v. t. 1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] [bd]To lag his flight.[b8] --Heywood. 2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See {Lag}, n., 4. | |
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Lag \Lag\, n. One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.] | |
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Lag \Lag\, v. t. To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.] She lags us if we poach. --De Quincey. | |
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Lag \Lag\, n. 1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] [bd]The lag of all the flock.[b8] --Pope. 2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. The common lag of people. --Shak. 3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. 4. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine. 5. (Zo[94]l.) See {Graylag}. {Lag of the tide}, the interval by which the time of high water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third quarters of the moon; -- opposed to {priming} of the tide, or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon. {Lag screw}, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags. | |
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Lag \Lag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lagging}.] To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. [bd]I shall not lag behind.[b8] --Milton. Syn: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy. | |
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Lag \Lag\, n. The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it. | |
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Laguay \Lag"uay\, n. A lackey. [Obs.] --Evelyn. | |
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Laic \La"ic\, Laical \La"ic*al\, a. [L. laicus: cf. F. la[8b]que. See {Lay} laic.] Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity. [bd]Laical literature.[b8] --Lowell. An unprincipled, unedified, and laic rabble. --Milton. | |
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Laic \La"ic\, n. A layman. --Bp. Morton. | |
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Lake \Lake\, n. [F. laque, fr. Per. See {Lac}.] A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. | |
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Lake \Lake\, n. [Cf. G. laken.] A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lake \Lake\, v. i. [AS. l[be]can, l[91]can, to spring, jump, l[be]c play, sport, or fr. Icel. leika to play, sport; both akin to Goth. laikan to dance. [root]120. Cf. {Knowledge}.] To play; to sport. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Lake \Lake\, n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea, Icel. l[94]gr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. [?] pond, tank. Cf. {Loch}, {Lough}.] A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean. {Lake dwellers} (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland. {Lake dwellings} (Arch[91]ol.), dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also {lacustrine dwellings}. See {Crannog}. {Lake fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus {Chironomus}. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larv[91] live in lakes. {Lake herring} (Zo[94]l.), the cisco ({Coregonus Artedii}). {Lake poets}, {Lake school}, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also {lakers} and {lakists}. {Lake sturgeon} (Zo[94]l.), a sturgeon ({Acipenser rubicundus}), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food. {Lake trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. {Salmo fario}; in the United States, esp. {Salvelinus namaycush} of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout ({S. fontinalis}), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See {Namaycush}. {Lake whitefish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Whitefish}. {Lake whiting} (Zo[94]l.), an American whitefish ({Coregonus Labradoricus}), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish. | |
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Lakke \Lak"ke\, n. & v. See {Lack}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Laky \Lak"y\, a. Pertaining to a lake. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Laky \Lak"y\, a. [From {Lake} the pigment.] Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles. | |
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Las \Las\, a. & adv. Less. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Las \Las\, n. A lace. See {Lace}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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d8Plumula \[d8]Plu"mu*la\, n.; pl. L. {Plumule}, E.{-las}. [L. See {Plumule}.] 1. (Bot.) A plumule. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A down feather. | |
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Las \Las\, a. & adv. Less. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Las \Las\, n. A lace. See {Lace}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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d8Plumula \[d8]Plu"mu*la\, n.; pl. L. {Plumule}, E.{-las}. [L. See {Plumule}.] 1. (Bot.) A plumule. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A down feather. | |
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Lash \Lash\ (l[acr]sh), n. [OE. lasche; cf. D. lasch piece set in, joint, seam, G. lashe latchet, a bit of leather, gusset, stripe, laschen to furnish with flaps, to lash or slap, Icel. laski gusset, flap, laska to break.] 1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. --Addison. 2. A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare. [Obs.] 3. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes. 4. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut. The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. --L'Estrange. 5. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash. 6. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure. | |
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Lash \Lash\ (l[acr]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lashng}.] 1. To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one. We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. --Dryden. 2. To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail. And big waves lash the frighted shores. --Dryden. 3. To throw out with a jerk or quickly. He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. --Dryden. 4. To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice. | |
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Lash \Lash\, v. i. To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language. To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. --Dryden. {To lash out}, to strike out wildly or furiously. | |
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Lash \Lash\, v. t. [Cf. D. lasschen to fasten together, lasch piece, joint, Sw. laska to stitch, Dan. laske stitch. See {Lash}, n. ] To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back. | |
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Lask \Lask\, n. A diarrhea or flux. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
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Lass \Lass\, n. [OE. lasse; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. llodes girl, fem. of llawd lad. ([?]). See {Lad} a youth.] A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart. | |
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Lasse \Lasse\, a. & adv. Less. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lassie \Las"sie\, n. A young girl; a lass. [Scot.] | |
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Lasso \Las"so\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lassoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lassoing}.] To catch with a lasso. | |
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Lasso \Lass"o\ (l[acr]s"s[osl]) n.; pl. {Lassos} (-s[omac]z). [Sp. lazo, L. laqueus. See {Lace}.] A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc. {Lasso cell} (Zo[94]l.), one of a peculiar kind of defensive and offensive stinging cells, found in great numbers in all c[d2]lenterates, and in a few animals of other groups. They are most highly developed in the tentacles of jellyfishes, hydroids, and Actini[91]. Each of these cells is filled with, fluid, and contains a long, slender, often barbed, hollow thread coiled up within it. When the cell contracts the thread is quickly ejected, being at the same time turned inside out. The thread is able to penetrate the flesh of various small, soft-bodied animals, and carries a subtle poison by which they are speedily paralyzed and killed. The threads, at the same time, hold the prey in position, attached to the tentacles. Some of the jellyfishes, as the Portuguese man-of-war, and {Cyanea}, are able to penetrate the human skin, and inflict painful stings in the same way. Called also {nettling cell}, {cnida}, {cnidocell}. | |
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Laugh \Laugh\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Laughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laughing}.] [OE. laughen, laghen, lauhen, AS. hlehhan, hlihhan, hlyhhan, hliehhan; akin to OS. hlahan, D. & G. lachen, OHG. hlahhan, lahhan, lahh[?]n, Icel. hl[91]ja. Dan. lee, Sw. le, Goth. hlahjan; perh. of imitative origin.] 1. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er. --Shak. He laugheth that winneth. --Heywood's Prov. 2. Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport. Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned. --Dryden. In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy. --Pope. {To laugh at}, to make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride. No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. --Pope. {To laugh in the sleeve} | |
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Laugh \Laugh\, v. t. 1. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy? --Shak. I shall laugh myself to death. --Shak. 2. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out. From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause. --Shak. {To laugh away}. (a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret. (b) To waste in hilarity. [bd]Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.[b8] --Shak. {To laugh down}. (a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter; as, to laugh down a speaker. (b) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule; as, to laugh down a reform. {To laugh one out of}, to cause one by laughter or ridicule to abandon or give up; as, to laugh one out of a plan or purpose. {To laugh to scorn}, to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt, and scorn; to despise. | |
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Laugh \Laugh\, n. An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See {Laugh}, v. i. And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. --Goldsmith. That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh. --F. W. Robertson. | |
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Sardonic \Sar*don"ic\, a. [F. sardonique, L. sardonius, Gr. [?], [?], perhaps fr. [?] to grin like a dog, or from a certain plant of Sardinia, Gr. [?], which was said to screw up the face of the eater.] Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety. Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will. --Sir H. Wotton. The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian. --Burke. {Sardonic grin} [or] {laugh}, an old medical term for a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving it an appearance of laughter. | |
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Laugh \Laugh\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Laughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laughing}.] [OE. laughen, laghen, lauhen, AS. hlehhan, hlihhan, hlyhhan, hliehhan; akin to OS. hlahan, D. & G. lachen, OHG. hlahhan, lahhan, lahh[?]n, Icel. hl[91]ja. Dan. lee, Sw. le, Goth. hlahjan; perh. of imitative origin.] 1. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er. --Shak. He laugheth that winneth. --Heywood's Prov. 2. Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport. Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned. --Dryden. In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy. --Pope. {To laugh at}, to make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride. No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. --Pope. {To laugh in the sleeve} | |
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Laugh \Laugh\, v. t. 1. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy? --Shak. I shall laugh myself to death. --Shak. 2. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out. From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause. --Shak. {To laugh away}. (a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret. (b) To waste in hilarity. [bd]Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.[b8] --Shak. {To laugh down}. (a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter; as, to laugh down a speaker. (b) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule; as, to laugh down a reform. {To laugh one out of}, to cause one by laughter or ridicule to abandon or give up; as, to laugh one out of a plan or purpose. {To laugh to scorn}, to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt, and scorn; to despise. | |
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Laugh \Laugh\, n. An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See {Laugh}, v. i. And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. --Goldsmith. That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh. --F. W. Robertson. | |
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Sardonic \Sar*don"ic\, a. [F. sardonique, L. sardonius, Gr. [?], [?], perhaps fr. [?] to grin like a dog, or from a certain plant of Sardinia, Gr. [?], which was said to screw up the face of the eater.] Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety. Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will. --Sir H. Wotton. The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian. --Burke. {Sardonic grin} [or] {laugh}, an old medical term for a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving it an appearance of laughter. | |
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Laus \Laus\, a. Loose. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lax \Lax\, n. A looseness; diarrhea. | |
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Lax \Lax\, a. [Compar. {Laxer}; superl. {Laxest}.] [L. laxus Cf. {Laches}, {Languish}, {Lease}, v. t., {Leash}.] 1. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. --Ray. 2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. The discipline was lax. --Macaulay. Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. --J. A. Symonds. The word [bd][91]ternus[b8] itself is sometimes of a lax signification. --Jortin. 3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious. | |
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Laze \Laze\, v. t. To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [Colloq.] | |
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Laze \Laze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lazed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lazing}.] [See {Lazy}.] To be lazy or idle. [Colloq.] -- Middleton. | |
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Lazy \La"zy\, a. [Compar. {Lazier}; superl. {Laziest}.] [OE. lasie, laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. F. las tired, L. lassus, akin to E. late; or cf. LG. losig, lesig.] 1. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work. --Bacon. 2. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. [bd]The night owl's lazy flight.[b8] --Shak. 3. Wicked; vicious. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Leach \Leach\, n. (Naut.) See 3d {Leech}. | |
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Leach \Leach\, n. [Written also {letch}.] [Cf. As. le[a0]h lye, G. lauge. See {Lye}.] 1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. 2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. {Leach tub}, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached. | |
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Leach \Leach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaching}.] [Written also leech and letch.] 1. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. 2. To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. | |
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Leach \Leach\, v. i. To part with soluble constituents by percolation. | |
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Leach \Leach\, n. See {Leech}, a physician. [Obs.] | |
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Leech \Leech\, n. [OE. leche, l[91]che, physician, AS. l[aemac]ce; akin to Fries. l[emac]tza, OHG. l[be]hh[c6], Icel. l[91]knari, Sw. l[84]kare, Dan. l[91]ge, Goth. l[emac]keis, AS. l[be]cnian to heal, Sw. l[84]ka, Dan. l[91]ge, Icel. l[91]kna, Goth. l[emac]kin[omac]n.] 1. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing. [Written also {leach}.] [Archaic] --Spenser. Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke iv. 23). 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order {Hirudinea}, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species | |
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Leech \Leech\, n. [Cf. LG. leik, Icel. l[c6]k, Sw. lik boltrope, st[aring]ende liken the leeches.] (Naut.) The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also {leach}.] {Leech line}, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. --Totten. {Leech rope}, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed. | |
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Leach \Leach\, n. (Naut.) See 3d {Leech}. | |
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Leach \Leach\, n. [Written also {letch}.] [Cf. As. le[a0]h lye, G. lauge. See {Lye}.] 1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. 2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. {Leach tub}, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached. | |
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Leach \Leach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaching}.] [Written also leech and letch.] 1. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. 2. To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. | |
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Leach \Leach\, v. i. To part with soluble constituents by percolation. | |
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Leach \Leach\, n. See {Leech}, a physician. [Obs.] | |
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Leech \Leech\, n. [OE. leche, l[91]che, physician, AS. l[aemac]ce; akin to Fries. l[emac]tza, OHG. l[be]hh[c6], Icel. l[91]knari, Sw. l[84]kare, Dan. l[91]ge, Goth. l[emac]keis, AS. l[be]cnian to heal, Sw. l[84]ka, Dan. l[91]ge, Icel. l[91]kna, Goth. l[emac]kin[omac]n.] 1. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing. [Written also {leach}.] [Archaic] --Spenser. Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke iv. 23). 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order {Hirudinea}, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species | |
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Leech \Leech\, n. [Cf. LG. leik, Icel. l[c6]k, Sw. lik boltrope, st[aring]ende liken the leeches.] (Naut.) The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also {leach}.] {Leech line}, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. --Totten. {Leech rope}, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed. | |
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Leachy \Leach"y\, a. Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like. | |
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League \League\, n. [F. ligue, LL. liga, fr. L. ligare to bind; cf. Sp. liga. Cf. {Ally} a confederate, {Ligature}.] An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc. And let there be 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity. --Denham. Note: A league may be offensive or defensive, or both; offensive, when the parties agree to unite in attacking a common enemy; defensive, when they agree to a mutual defense of each other against an enemy. {The Holy League}, an alliance of Roman Catholics formed in 1576 by influence of the Duke of Guise for the exclusion of Protestants from the throne of France. {Solemn League and Covenant}. See {Covenant},2. {The land league}, an association, organized in Dublin in 1879, to promote the interests of the Irish tenantry, its avowed objects being to secure fixity of tenure fair rent, and free sale of the tenants' interest. It was declared illegal by Parliament, but vigorous prosecutions have failed to suppress it. Syn: Alliance; confederacy; confederation; coalition; combination; compact; co[94]peration. | |
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League \League\, n. [Cf. OE. legue, lieue, a measure of length, F. lieue, Pr. lega, legua, It. & LL. lega, Sp. legua, Pg. legoa, legua; all fr. LL. leuca, of Celtic origin: cf. Arm. leo, lev (perh. from French), Ir. leige (perh. from English); also Ir. & Gael. leac a flag, a broad, flat stone, W. llech, -- such stones having perh. served as a sort of milestone (cf. {Cromlech}).] 1. A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each. Note: The English land league is equal to three English statute miles. The Spanish and French leagues vary in each country according to usage and the kind of measurement to which they are applied. The Dutch and German leagues contain about four geographical miles, or about 4.6 English statute miles. 2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. [Obs.] | |
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League \League\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leagued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaguing}.] [Cf. F. se liguer. See 2d {League}.] To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate. --South. | |
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League \League\, v. t. To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements. | |
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Leak \Leak\, n. [Akin to D. lek leaky, a leak, G. leck, Icel. lekr leaky, Dan. l[91]k leaky, a leak, Sw. l[84]ck; cf. AS. hlec full of cracks or leaky. Cf. {Leak}, v.] 1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe. [bd]One leak will sink a ship.[b8] --Bunyan. 2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps. {To spring a leak}, to open or crack so as to let in water; to begin to let in water; as, the ship sprung a leak. | |
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Leak \Leak\, a. Leaky. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Leak \Leak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaking}.] [Akin to D. lekken, G. lecken, lechen, Icel. leka, Dan. l[91]kke, Sw. l[84]cka, AS. leccan to wet, moisten. See {Leak}, n.] 1. To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks. 2. To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc.; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out. {To leak out}, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, the facts leaked out. | |
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Leak \Leak\, n. (Elec.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs. | |
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Leaky \Leak"y\, a. [Compar. {Leakier}; superl. {Leakiest}.] 1. Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask. 2. Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close. [Colloq.] | |
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Lease \Lease\, n. [Cf. OF. lais. See {Lease}, v. t.] 1. A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation. 2. The contract for such letting. 3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time. Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature. --Shak. {Lease and release} a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. --Burrill. --Warren's Blackstone. | |
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Lease \Lease\, v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.] To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Lease \Lease\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leasing}.] [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See {Lax}, and cf. {Lesser}.] 1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out. There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives. --Addison. 2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner. | |
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Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.] 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] [bd]I it you record.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.] They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax. 3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42. {To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public. | |
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Lease \Lease\, n. [Cf. OF. lais. See {Lease}, v. t.] 1. A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation. 2. The contract for such letting. 3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time. Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature. --Shak. {Lease and release} a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. --Burrill. --Warren's Blackstone. | |
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Lease \Lease\, v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.] To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Lease \Lease\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leasing}.] [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See {Lax}, and cf. {Lesser}.] 1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out. There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives. --Addison. 2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner. | |
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Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.] 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] [bd]I it you record.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.] They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax. 3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42. {To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public. | |
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Leash \Leash\, n. [OE. lese, lees, leece, OF. lesse, F. laisse, LL. laxa, fr. L. laxus loose. See {Lax}.] 1. A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash. --Shak. 2. (Sporting) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. [I] kept my chamber a leash of days. --B. Jonson. Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings. --Tennyson. 3. (Weaving) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom. | |
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Leash \Leash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leashing}.] To tie together, or hold, with a leash. | |
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Leasow \Lea"sow\, n. [AS. lesu, l[91]su.] A pasture. [Obs.] | |
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Leasy \Lea"sy\, a. [AS. le[a0]s void, loose, false. Cf. {Leasing}.] Flimsy; vague; deceptive. [Obs.] --Ascham. | |
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Lech \Lech\, v. t. [F. l[82]cher. See {Lick}.] To lick. [Obs.] | |
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Leche \Le*che"\, n. See {water buck}, under 3d {Buck}. | |
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Leech \Leech\, n. [OE. leche, l[91]che, physician, AS. l[aemac]ce; akin to Fries. l[emac]tza, OHG. l[be]hh[c6], Icel. l[91]knari, Sw. l[84]kare, Dan. l[91]ge, Goth. l[emac]keis, AS. l[be]cnian to heal, Sw. l[84]ka, Dan. l[91]ge, Icel. l[91]kna, Goth. l[emac]kin[omac]n.] 1. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing. [Written also {leach}.] [Archaic] --Spenser. Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke iv. 23). 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order {Hirudinea}, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species | |
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Leech \Leech\ (l[emac]ch), n. See 2d {Leach}. | |
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Leech \Leech\, v. t. See {Leach}, v. t. | |
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Leech \Leech\, n. [Cf. LG. leik, Icel. l[c6]k, Sw. lik boltrope, st[aring]ende liken the leeches.] (Naut.) The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also {leach}.] {Leech line}, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. --Totten. {Leech rope}, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed. | |
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Leech \Leech\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leeched} (l[emac]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leeching}.] 1. To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds. [Archaic] 2. To bleed by the use of leeches. | |
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Leek \Leek\ (l[emac]k), n. [AS. le[a0]c; akin to D. look, G. lauch, OHG. louh, Icel. laukr, Sw. l[94]k, Dan l[94]g. Cf. {Garlic}.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Allium} ({A. Porrum}), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion. {Wild leek}, in America, a plant ({Allium tricoccum}) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves. | |
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Lee \Lee\, n.; pl. {Lees} (l[emac]z). [F. lie, perh. fr. L. levare to lift up, raise. Cf. {Lever}.] That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.] [bd]The lees of wine.[b8] --Holland. A thousand demons lurk within the lee. --Young. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. --Shak. | |
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Lees \Lees\ (l[emac]z), n. pl. Dregs. See 2d {Lee}. | |
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Lees \Lees\ (l[emac]s), n. A leash. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Leese \Leese\ (l[emac]z), v. t. [See {Lose}.] To lose. [Obs.] They would rather leese their friend than their jest. --Lord Burleigh. | |
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Leese \Leese\, v. t. [Cf. F. l[82]ser, L. laesus, p. p. of laedere.] To hurt. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Leg \Leg\ (l[ecr]g), v. t. To use as a leg, with it as object: (a) To bow. [Obs.] (b) To run. [Low] | |
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Leg \Leg\ (l[ecr]g), n. [Icel. leggr; akin to Dan. l[91]g calf of the leg, Sw. l[84]gg.] 1. A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot. 2. That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers. 3. The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers. 4. A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing. [Obs.] He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks for a favor he never received. --Fuller. 5. A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. [Slang, Eng.] 6. (Naut.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks. 7. (Steam Boiler) An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also {water leg}. 8. (Grain Elevator) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. 9. (Cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter. {A good leg} (Naut.), a course sailed on a tack which is near the desired course. {Leg bail}, escape from custody by flight. [Slang] {Legs of an hyperbola} (or other curve) (Geom.), the branches of the curve which extend outward indefinitely. {Legs of a triangle}, the sides of a triangle; -- a name seldom used unless one of the sides is first distinguished by some appropriate term; as, the hypothenuse and two legs of a right-angled triangle. {On one's legs}, standing to speak. {On one's last legs}. See under {Last}. {To have legs} (Naut.), to have speed. | |
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Leg \Leg\, n. 1. (Math.) Either side of a triangle of a triangle as distinguished from the base or, in a right triangle, from the hypotenuse; also, an indefinitely extending branch of a curve, as of a hyperbola. 2. (Telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. 3. (Elec.) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. | |
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Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. [82]l[82]vateur.] One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: (a) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. (b) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. (c) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. (d) (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. (e) (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. {Elevator head}, {leg}, [and] {boot}, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. | |
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Leg \Leg\ (l[ecr]g), v. t. To use as a leg, with it as object: (a) To bow. [Obs.] (b) To run. [Low] | |
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Leg \Leg\ (l[ecr]g), n. [Icel. leggr; akin to Dan. l[91]g calf of the leg, Sw. l[84]gg.] 1. A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot. 2. That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers. 3. The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers. 4. A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing. [Obs.] He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks for a favor he never received. --Fuller. 5. A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. [Slang, Eng.] 6. (Naut.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks. 7. (Steam Boiler) An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also {water leg}. 8. (Grain Elevator) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. 9. (Cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter. {A good leg} (Naut.), a course sailed on a tack which is near the desired course. {Leg bail}, escape from custody by flight. [Slang] {Legs of an hyperbola} (or other curve) (Geom.), the branches of the curve which extend outward indefinitely. {Legs of a triangle}, the sides of a triangle; -- a name seldom used unless one of the sides is first distinguished by some appropriate term; as, the hypothenuse and two legs of a right-angled triangle. {On one's legs}, standing to speak. {On one's last legs}. See under {Last}. {To have legs} (Naut.), to have speed. | |
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Leg \Leg\, n. 1. (Math.) Either side of a triangle of a triangle as distinguished from the base or, in a right triangle, from the hypotenuse; also, an indefinitely extending branch of a curve, as of a hyperbola. 2. (Telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. 3. (Elec.) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. | |
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Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. [82]l[82]vateur.] One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: (a) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. (b) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. (c) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. (d) (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. (e) (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. {Elevator head}, {leg}, [and] {boot}, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. | |
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Lege \Lege\ (l[ecr]j), v. t. [Abbrev. fr. allege to assert.] To allege; to assert. [Obs.] --Bp. Fisher. | |
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Legge \Legge\ (l[ecr]g), v. t. [See {Lay}, v. t. ] To lay. [Obs.] | |
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Legge \Legge\, v. t. [Abbrev. fr. alegge.] To lighten; to allay. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. | |
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Leggy \Leg"gy\ (-g[ycr]), a. Having long legs. --Thackeray. | |
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Les \Les\ (l[ecr]s), n. A leash. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lese \Lese\ (l[emac]z), v. t. To lose. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Less \Less\ (l[ecr]s), conj. Unless. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Less \Less\, a. [OE. lesse, AS. l[aemac]ssa; akin to OFries. l[emac]ssa; a compar. from a lost positive form. Cf. {Lesser}, {Lest}, {Least}. Less has the sense of the comparative degree of little.] Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before. Note: The substantive which less qualifies is often omitted; as, the purse contained less (money) than ten dollars. See {Less}, n. Thus in less [time] than a hundred years from the coming of Augustine, all England became Christian. --E. A. Freeman. | |
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Less \Less\, adv. [AS. l[aemac]s. See {Less}, adj., and cf. {Lest}.] Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful. | |
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Less \Less\, n. 1. A smaller portion or quantity. The children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17. 2. The inferior, younger, or smaller. The less is blessed of the better. --Heb. vii. 7. | |
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-less \-less\ (-l[ecr]s). [AS. le[a0]s loose, false; akin to OS. l[omac]s loose, false, D. los loose, loos false, sly, G. los loose, Icel. lauss loose, vacant, Goth. laus empty, vain, and also to E. loose, lose. [root]127. See {Lose}, and cf. {Loose}, {Leasing}.] A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless. | |
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Less \Less\, v. t. To make less; to lessen. [Obs.] --Gower. | |
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Less \Less\ (l[ecr]s), conj. Unless. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Less \Less\, a. [OE. lesse, AS. l[aemac]ssa; akin to OFries. l[emac]ssa; a compar. from a lost positive form. Cf. {Lesser}, {Lest}, {Least}. Less has the sense of the comparative degree of little.] Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before. Note: The substantive which less qualifies is often omitted; as, the purse contained less (money) than ten dollars. See {Less}, n. Thus in less [time] than a hundred years from the coming of Augustine, all England became Christian. --E. A. Freeman. | |
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Less \Less\, adv. [AS. l[aemac]s. See {Less}, adj., and cf. {Lest}.] Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful. | |
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Less \Less\, n. 1. A smaller portion or quantity. The children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17. 2. The inferior, younger, or smaller. The less is blessed of the better. --Heb. vii. 7. | |
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-less \-less\ (-l[ecr]s). [AS. le[a0]s loose, false; akin to OS. l[omac]s loose, false, D. los loose, loos false, sly, G. los loose, Icel. lauss loose, vacant, Goth. laus empty, vain, and also to E. loose, lose. [root]127. See {Lose}, and cf. {Loose}, {Leasing}.] A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless. | |
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Less \Less\, v. t. To make less; to lessen. [Obs.] --Gower. | |
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Less \Less\ (l[ecr]s), conj. Unless. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Less \Less\, a. [OE. lesse, AS. l[aemac]ssa; akin to OFries. l[emac]ssa; a compar. from a lost positive form. Cf. {Lesser}, {Lest}, {Least}. Less has the sense of the comparative degree of little.] Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before. Note: The substantive which less qualifies is often omitted; as, the purse contained less (money) than ten dollars. See {Less}, n. Thus in less [time] than a hundred years from the coming of Augustine, all England became Christian. --E. A. Freeman. | |
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Less \Less\, adv. [AS. l[aemac]s. See {Less}, adj., and cf. {Lest}.] Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful. | |
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Less \Less\, n. 1. A smaller portion or quantity. The children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17. 2. The inferior, younger, or smaller. The less is blessed of the better. --Heb. vii. 7. | |
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-less \-less\ (-l[ecr]s). [AS. le[a0]s loose, false; akin to OS. l[omac]s loose, false, D. los loose, loos false, sly, G. los loose, Icel. lauss loose, vacant, Goth. laus empty, vain, and also to E. loose, lose. [root]127. See {Lose}, and cf. {Loose}, {Leasing}.] A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless. | |
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Less \Less\, v. t. To make less; to lessen. [Obs.] --Gower. | |
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Lessee \Les*see"\ (l[ecr]s*s[emac]"), n. [F. laiss[82], p. p. of laisser. See {Lease}, v. t.] (Law) The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. --Blackstone. | |
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Leuco- \Leu"co-\ (l[umac]"k[osl]-), Leuc- \Leuc-\ (l[umac]k-). [Gr. leyko`s white.] A combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (Chem.), denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc. | |
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Leuc- \Leuc-\ (l[umac]k-). Same as {Leuco-}. | |
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Leuco- \Leu"co-\ (l[umac]"k[osl]-), Leuc- \Leuc-\ (l[umac]k-). [Gr. leyko`s white.] A combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (Chem.), denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc. | |
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Leuke \Leuke\ (l[umac]k), a., Leukeness \Leuke"ness\, n. See {Luke}, etc. | |
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Lewis \Lew"is\ (l[umac]"[icr]s), Lewisson \Lew"is*son\ (-s[ucr]n), n. 1. An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc. 2. A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth. {Lewis hole}, a hole wider at the bottom than at the mouth, into which a lewis is fitted. --De Foe. | |
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Liage \Li"age\ (l[imac]"[asl]j), n. [Cf. OF. liage a bond. See {Liable}.] Union by league; alliance. [Obs.] | |
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Lias \Li"as\ (l[imac]"[ait]s), n. [Cf. F. lias, fr. liais sort of limestone, OF. also liois; perh. of Celtic origin, cf. Armor. liach, leach, a stone, Gael. leac, W. llech. Cf. {Cromlech}.] (Geol.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the O[94]lite. See the Chart of {Geology}. | |
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Lice \Lice\ (l[imac]s), n.; pl. of {Louse}. | |
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Louse \Louse\ (lous), n.; pl. {Lice} (l[imac]s). [OE. lous, AS. l[umac]s, pl. l[ymac]s; akin to D. luis, G. laus, OHG. l[umac]s, Icel. l[umac]s, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because it is destructive, and akin to E. lose, loose.] (Zo[94]l.) 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 ({P. 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}. Note: The term is also applied to various other parasites; as, the whale louse, beelouse, horse louse. {Louse fly} (Zo[94]l.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse. {Louse mite} (Zo[94]l.), 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. | |
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Lich \Lich\ (l[icr]k), a. Like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser. | |
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Lich \Lich\ (l[icr]ch), n. [AS. l[c6]c body. See {Like}, a.] A dead body; a corpse. [Obs.] {Lich fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the European goatsucker; -- called also {lich owl}. {Lich gate}, a covered gate through which the corpse was carried to the church or burial place, and where the bier was placed to await the clergyman; a corpse gate. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Lich wake}, the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.] --Chaucer. {Lich wall}, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. {Lich way}, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Lich \Lich\ (l[icr]ch), n. [AS. l[c6]c body. See {Like}, a.] A dead body; a corpse. [Obs.] {Lich fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the European goatsucker; -- called also {lich owl}. {Lich gate}, a covered gate through which the corpse was carried to the church or burial place, and where the bier was placed to await the clergyman; a corpse gate. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Lich wake}, the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.] --Chaucer. {Lich wall}, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. {Lich way}, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Lichi \Li"chi`\ (l[emac]"ch[emac]`), n. (Bot.) See {Litchi}. | |
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Litchi \Li"tchi`\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of a tree native to China ({Nephelium Litchi}). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form. [Written also {lichi}, and {lychee}.] -- {lite}. See -{lith}. | |
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Lichi \Li"chi`\ (l[emac]"ch[emac]`), n. (Bot.) See {Litchi}. | |
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Litchi \Li"tchi`\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of a tree native to China ({Nephelium Litchi}). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form. [Written also {lichi}, and {lychee}.] -- {lite}. See -{lith}. | |
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Lick \Lick\, v. t. [Cf. OSw. l[84]gga to place, strike, prick.] To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter. [Colloq. or Low] | |
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Lick \Lick\ (l[icr]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Licked} (l[icr]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Licking}.] [AS. liccian; akin to OS. likk[omac]n, D. likken, OHG. lecch[omac]n, G. lecken, Goth. bi-laig[omac]n, Russ. lizate, L. lingere, Gr. lei`chein, Skr. lih, rih. [root]121. Cf. {Lecher}, {Relish}.] 1. To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand. --Addison. 2. To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk. --Shak. {To lick the dust}, to be slain; to fall in battle. [bd]His enemies shall lick the dust.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 9. {To lick into shape}, to give proper form to; -- from a notion that the bear's cubs are born shapeless and subsequently formed by licking. --Hudibras. {To lick the spittle of}, to fawn upon. --South. {To lick up}, to take all of by licking; to devour; to consume entirely. --Shak. --Num. xxii. 4. | |
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Lick \Lick\, n. A slap; a quick stroke.[Colloq.] [bd]A lick across the face.[b8] --Dryden. | |
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Lick \Lick\, n. [See {Lick}, v.] 1. A stroke of the tongue in licking. [bd]A lick at the honey pot.[b8] --Dryden. 2. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied. [Colloq.] A lick of court whitewash. --Gray. 3. A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs. [U. S.] | |
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d8Tetanus \[d8]Tet"a*nus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] stretched, [?] to stretch.] 1. (Med.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called {locked-jaw}, or {lickjaw}, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm. | |
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Liege \Liege\ (l[emac]j), a. [OE. lige, lege, F. lige, LL. ligius, legius, liege, unlimited, complete, prob. of German origin; cf. G. ledig free from bonds and obstacles, MHG. ledec, ledic, lidic, freed, loosed, and Charta Ottonis de Benthem, ann. 1253, [bd]ligius homo quod Teutonic[8a] dicitur ledigman,[b8] i. e., uni soli homagio obligatus, free from all obligations to others; influenced by L. ligare to bind. G. ledig perh. orig. meant, free to go where one pleases, and is perh. akin to E. lead to conduct. Cf. {Lead} to guide.] 1. Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord. --Chaucer. She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; And he, he reverenced his liege lady there. --Tennyson. 2. Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject. 3. (Old Law) Full; perfect; complete; pure. --Burrill. {Liege homage} (Feudal Custom), that homage of one sovereign or prince to another which acknowledged an obligation of fealty and services. {Liege poustie} [L. legitima potestas] (Scots Law), perfect, i. e., legal, power; specif., having health requisite to do legal acts. {Liege widowhood}, perfect, i. e., pure, widowhood. [Obs.] | |
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Liege \Liege\ (l[emac]j), n. 1. A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign. --Mrs. Browning. The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. --Shak. 2. The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman. A liege lord seems to have been a lord of a free band; and his lieges, though serving under him, were privileged men, free from all other obligations, their name being due to their freedom, not to their service. --Skeat. | |
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Lig \Lig\ (l[icr]g), v. i. [See {Lie} to be prostrate.] To recline; to lie still. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer. Spenser. | |
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Lige \Lig"e\ (l[icr]g"[eit]), v. t. & i. To lie; to tell lies. [Obs.] | |
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Ligge \Lig"ge\ (l[icr]g"g[eit]), v. i. To lie or recline. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Like \Like\ (l[imac]k), a. [Compar. {Liker} (l[imac]k"[etil]r); superl. {Likest}.] [OE. lik, ilik, gelic, AS. gel[c6]c, fr. pref. ge- + l[c6]c body, and orig. meaning, having the same body, shape, or appearance, and hence, like; akin to OS. gil[c6]k, D. gelijk, G. gleich, OHG. gil[c6]h, Icel. l[c6]kr, gl[c6]kr, Dan. lig, Sw. lik, Goth. galeiks, OS. lik body, D. lijk, G. leiche, Icel. l[c6]k, Sw. lik, Goth. leik. The English adverbial ending-ly is from the same adjective. Cf. {Each}, {Such}, {Which}.] 1. Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character. 'T is as like you As cherry is to cherry. --Shak. Like master, like man. --Old Prov. He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. --Ps. cxlvii. 16. Note: To, which formerly often followed like, is now usually omitted. 2. Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent. More clergymen were impoverished by the late war than ever in the like space before. --Sprat. 3. Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely. Usage: [Likely is more used now.] --Shak. But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices. --South. Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules. --Clarendon. 4. Inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel like taking a walk. {Had like} (followed by the infinitive), had nearly; came little short of. Had like to have been my utter overthrow. --Sir W. Raleigh Ramona had like to have said the literal truth, . . . but recollected herself in time. --Mrs. H. H. Jackson. {Like figures} (Geom.), similar figures. Note: Like is used as a suffix, converting nouns into adjectives expressing resemblance to the noun; as, manlike, like a man; childlike, like a child; godlike, like a god, etc. Such compounds are readily formed whenever convenient, and several, as crescentlike, serpentlike, hairlike, etc., are used in this book, although, in some cases, not entered in the vocabulary. Such combinations as bell-like, ball-like, etc., are hyphened. | |
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Like \Like\ (l[imac]k), v. i. 1. To be pleased; to choose. He may either go or stay, as he best likes. --Locke. 2. To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). [Obs.] You like well, and bear your years very well. --Shak. 3. To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under {Like}, a. [Colloq.] He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden. --Walpole. {To like of}, to be pleased with. [Obs.] --Massinger. | |
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Like \Like\, adv. [AS. gel[c6]ce. See {Like}, a.] 1. In a manner like that of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him. He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. --Job xii. 25. Note: Like, as here used, is regarded by some grammarians as a preposition. 2. In a like or similar manner. --Shak. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. --Ps. ciii. 13. 3. Likely; probably. [bd]Like enough it will.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liked} (l[imac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liking}.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[c6]cian, gel[c6]cian, fr. gel[c6]c. See {Like}, a.] 1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.] Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. --R. of Gloucester. I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy. He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving. --Sir P. Sidney. 3. To liken; to compare.[Obs.] Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak. | |
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Like \Like\, n. 1. That which is equal or similar to another; the counterpart; an exact resemblance; a copy. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. --Shak. 2. A liking; a preference; inclination; -- usually in pl.; as, we all have likes and dislikes. | |
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Like \Like\, n. (Golf) The stroke which equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side; as, to play the like. | |
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Liss \Liss\ (l[icr]s), n. [AS. liss.] Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] [bd]Of penance had a lisse.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Liss \Liss\, v. t. [AS. lissan.] To free, as from care or pain; to relieve. [Obs.] [bd]Lissed of his care.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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{White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels, and for other purposes. {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}. {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show the white feather}, under {Feather}, n. {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A. concolor}. {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under {Ruffed}. [Canada] {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}. {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan. {White garnet} (Min.), leucite. {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica}) with greenish-white pale[91]. {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The white ptarmigan. (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.] {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and other plants, and often do much damage. {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under {Squirrel}. {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier. {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which they emit. {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum} ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2. {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak. {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps. {The White House}. See under {House}. {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba}) having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}. {White iron}. (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron. (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large proportion of combined carbon. {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite. {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. [Eng.] {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting. {White lead}. (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for other purposes; ceruse. (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite. {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and salt. {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}. {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under {Rattlesnake}. {White lie}. See under {Lie}. {White light}. (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the same proportion as in the light coming directly from the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1. (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white illumination for signals, etc. {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for whitewashing; whitewash. {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a blank line. {White meat}. (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry. (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc. Driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding only upon their milk and white meats. --Spenser. {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew. {White metal}. (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia, etc. (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}. {White money}, silver money. {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common mouse. {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema}) ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; -- called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}. {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its head, which give the appearance of a hood. {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}. {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The snowy owl. (b) The barn owl. {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan. {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana}) valued as a food fish. (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum. (c) Any California surf fish. {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}. {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele. {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}. {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise. [Obs.] A pistol charged with white powder. --Beau. & Fl. {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}. {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage. (b) An albino rabbit. {White rent}, (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; -- opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3. (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.] {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}. (b) The umhofo. {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity; as, the White-ribbon Army. {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope. {White rot}. (Bot.) (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease called rot in sheep. (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}. {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter fat}. {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon. {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt. {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii}) injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under {Orange}. {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See under {Shark}. {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under {Softening}. {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1. {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on the surface of the sea. {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of England. --Macaulay. {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork. {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose} (d) . {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}). {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind. {White tombac}. See {Tombac}. {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United States. {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White vitriol}, under {Vitriol}. {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail. {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching. {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga. {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew. {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; -- distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer. {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather. {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and {Thibetan wolf}. (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf. {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called from the color of the under parts. | |
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Loach \Loach\, n. [OE. loche, F. loche.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera {Cobitis}, {Nemachilus}, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species ({N. barbatulus}) is used as a food fish. | |
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Locus \Lo"cus\, n.; pl. {Loci}, & {Loca}. [L., place. Cf. {Allow}, {Couch}, {Lieu}, {Local}.] 1. A place; a locality. 2. (Math.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law. {Plane locus}, a locus that is a straight line, or a circle. {Solid locus}, a locus that is one of the conic sections. | |
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Loch \Loch\, n. [Gael. & Olr. loch. See {Lake} of water.] A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.] | |
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Loch \Loch\, n. [F. looch, Ar. la'[?]g, an electuary, or any medicine which may be licked or sucked, fr. la'[?]g to lick.] (Med.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture. | |
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Loche \Loche\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Loach}. | |
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Locus \Lo"cus\, n.; pl. {Loci}, & {Loca}. [L., place. Cf. {Allow}, {Couch}, {Lieu}, {Local}.] 1. A place; a locality. 2. (Math.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law. {Plane locus}, a locus that is a straight line, or a circle. {Solid locus}, a locus that is one of the conic sections. | |
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Lock \Lock\, n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr. [?] to bend, twist.] A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. --Shak. | |
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Lock \Lock\, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. l[umac]can to lock, fasten; akin to OS. l[umac]kan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. l[umac]hhan, Icel. l[?]ka, Goth. l[umac]kan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break. Cf. {Locket}.] 1. Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened. 2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. --De Quincey. 3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. --Dryden. 4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. 5. An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also {lift lock}. 6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc. 7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning. 8. A grapple in wrestling. --Milton. {Detector lock}, a lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with. {Lock bay} (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber. {Lock chamber}, the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock. {Lock nut}. See {Check nut}, under {Check}. {Lock plate}, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached. {Lock rail} (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail nearest the lock. {Lock rand} (Masonry), a range of bond stone. --Knight. {Mortise lock}, a door lock inserted in a mortise. {Rim lock}, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a {mortise lock}. | |
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Lock \Lock\, v. i. To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close. When it locked none might through it pass. --Spenser. {To lock into}, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. --Boyle. | |
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Lock \Lock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Locked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Locking}.] 1. To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc. 2. To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc. 3. To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast. 4. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. [bd] Lock hand in hand.[b8] --Shak. 5. (Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock. 6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. | |
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Lockjaw \Lock"jaw`\, n. (Med.) A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus. | |
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Locky \Lock"y\, a. Having locks or tufts. [R.] --Sherwood. | |
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Loco \Lo"co\, n. [Sp. loco insane.] (Bot.) A plant ({Astragalus Hornii}) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also {loco weed}. | |
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Loco \Lo"co\, n. A locomotive. [Colloq.] --Kipling. | |
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Loco \Lo"co\, n. (Bot.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides {Astragalus}, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as {Spiesia Lambertii}, syn. {Oxytropis Lambertii}. | |
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Loco \Lo"co\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Locoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Locoing}.] To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. [bd]The locoed novelist.[b8] --W. D. Howells. | |
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Loess \Loess\, n. [G. l[94]ss.] (Geol.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers. | |
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Log \Log\, n. [Heb. l[omac]g.] A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills. --W. H. Ward. | |
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Log \Log\, n. [Icel. l[be]g 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. Note: 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 ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book. 4. A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time. 5. (Mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave. {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 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. {Log cabin}, {Log house}, a cabin or house made of logs. {Log canoe}, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log. | |
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Log \Log\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Logged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Logging}.] (Naut.), To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run. --J. F. Cooper. | |
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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.] | |
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Loge \Loge\, n. [F. See {Lodge}.] A lodge; a habitation. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Logge \Logge\, n. & v. See {Lodge}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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-logy \-lo*gy\ [Gr. [?], fr. [?] word, discourse, fr. [?] to speak. See {Logic}.] A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy. | |
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Logy \Lo"gy\, a. [From D. log.] Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse. [U.S.] Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures. --C. H. Merriam. | |
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-logy \-lo*gy\ [Gr. [?], fr. [?] word, discourse, fr. [?] to speak. See {Logic}.] A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy. | |
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Logy \Lo"gy\, a. [From D. log.] Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse. [U.S.] Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures. --C. H. Merriam. | |
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Lohock \Lo"hock\, n. (Med.) See {Loch}, a medicine. | |
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Lok \Lok\, Loki \Lo"ki\, 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 African of the Persians. | |
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Loke \Loke\, n. [See {Lock} a fastening.] A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Lok \Lok\, Loki \Lo"ki\, 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 African of the Persians. | |
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Looch \Looch\, n. See 2d {Loch}. | |
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Look \Look\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Looked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Looking}.] [OE. loken, AS. l[omac]cian; akin to G. lugen, OHG. luog[emac]n.] 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. Note: Look, in the imperative, may be followed by a dependent sentence, but see is oftener so used. | |
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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; as, prudent persons look out associates good reputation. | |
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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. [bd]Gentle looks.[b8] --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. | |
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Loos \Loos\, n. [OE. los, fr. OF. los, laus.] Praise; fame; reputation. [Obs.] --Spenser. Good conscience and good loos. --Chaucer. | |
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Loose \Loose\, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.] --Acts xiii. 13. | |
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Loose \Loose\, a. [Compar. {Looser}; superl. {Loosest}.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le[a0]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l[94]s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. [?] 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. | |
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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. | |
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Loose \Loose\, v. n. [imp. & p. p. {Loosed}; 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. | |
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Los \Los\, n. Praise. See {Loos}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lose \Lose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Losing}.] [OE. losien to loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE. leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le[a2]san, p. p. loren (in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw. f[94]rlisa, f[94]rlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a & v., L. luere to loose, Gr. [?], Skr. l[?] to cut. [root]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. [bd]The mutineers lost heart.[b8] --Macaulay. {To lose one's head}, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment. In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads. --Whitney. {To lose one's self}. (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. {To lose sight of}. (a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land. (b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue. | |
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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. | |
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Loss \Loss\, n. [AS. los loss, losing, fr. le[a2]san to lose. [?]. 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. Syn: Privation; detriment; injury; damage. | |
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Lough \Lough\, n. [See 1st {Loch}.] A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland. | |
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Lough \Lough\, obs. strong imp. of {Laugh}. --Chaucer. | |
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Louk \Louk\, n. An accomplice; a [bd]pal.[b8] [Obs.] There is no thief without a louk. --Chaucer. | |
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Louse \Louse\ (lous), n.; pl. {Lice} (l[imac]s). [OE. lous, AS. l[umac]s, pl. l[ymac]s; akin to D. luis, G. laus, OHG. l[umac]s, Icel. l[umac]s, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because it is destructive, and akin to E. lose, loose.] (Zo[94]l.) 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 ({P. 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}. Note: The term is also applied to various other parasites; as, the whale louse, beelouse, horse louse. {Louse fly} (Zo[94]l.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse. {Louse mite} (Zo[94]l.), 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. | |
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Louse \Louse\, v. t. To clean from lice. [bd]You sat and loused him.[b8] --Swift. | |
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Lousy \Lous"y\, a. 1. Infested with lice. 2. Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar] | |
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Lowgh \Lowgh\, Lowh \Lowh\, obs. strong imp. of {Laugh}. [Cf. 1st Low and 2d {Lough}.] | |
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Lowish \Low"ish\, a. Somewhat low. [Colloq.] --Richardson. | |
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Lowk \Lowk\, n. See {Louk}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Luce \Luce\, n. [OF. lus, L. lucius a kind of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) A pike when full grown. --Halliwell. | |
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Luck \Luck\, n. [Akin to D. luk, geluk, G. gl[81]ck, 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 for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds. --Shak. {Luck penny}, a small sum given back for luck to one who pays money. [Prov. Eng.] {To be 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. | |
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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. [bd] Lucky wight.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour. We doubt not of a fair and lucky war. --Shak. Syn: Successful; fortunate; prosperous; auspicious. | |
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d8Lues \[d8]Lu"es\, n. [L.] (Med.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind. {Lues venerea}, syphilis; -- called also simply {lues}. | |
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Lug \Lug\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lugging}.] [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. | |
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Lug \Lug\, 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. (Zo[94]l.) The lugworm. {Lug bolt} (Mach.), a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lug \Lug\, v. i. To move slowly and heavily. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lug \Lug\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] 1. A rod or pole. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. 2. A measure of length, being 16[frac12] feet; a rod, pole, or perch. [Obs.] [bd] Eight lugs of ground.[b8] --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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Luke \Luke\, a. [Prob. fr. lew, perh. influenced by AS. wl[91]c warm, lukewarm, remiss. Cf. Lew.] Moderately warm; not hot; tepid. -- {Luke"ness}, n. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lush \Lush\, a. [Prob. an abbrev. of lushious, fr. luscious.] Full of juice or succulence. --Tennyson. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lush \Lush\, n. [Etymol uncertain; said to be fr. Lushington, name of a London brewer.] Liquor, esp. intoxicating liquor; drink. [Slang] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lusk \Lusk\, a. Lazy; slothful. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lusk \Lusk\, n. A lazy fellow; a lubber. [Obs.] --T. Kendall. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lusk \Lusk\, v. i. To be idle or unemployed. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Luwack \Lu*wack"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Paradoxure}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lux \Lux\, v. t. [Cf. F. luxer. See {Luxate}.] To put out of joint; to luxate. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Luxe \Luxe\, n. [L. luxus: cf. F. luxe.] Luxury. [Obs.] --Shenstone. {[d8][90]dition de luxe}. [F.] (Printing) A sumptuous edition as regards paper, illustrations, binding, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Luz \Luz\, 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lyche \Lyche\, a. Like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Litchi \Li"tchi`\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of a tree native to China ({Nephelium Litchi}). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form. [Written also {lichi}, and {lychee}.] -- {lite}. See -{lith}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lychee \Ly"chee`\, n. (Bot.) See {Litchi}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Litchi \Li"tchi`\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of a tree native to China ({Nephelium Litchi}). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form. [Written also {lichi}, and {lychee}.] -- {lite}. See -{lith}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lychee \Ly"chee`\, n. (Bot.) See {Litchi}. | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
lag n. [MUD, IRC; very common] When used without qualification this is synomous with {netlag}. Curiously, people will often complain "I'm really lagged" when in fact it is their server or network connection that is lagging. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
lase /layz/ vt. To print a given document via a laser printer. "OK, let's lase that sucker and see if all those graphics-macro calls did the right things." | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
leak n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. {memory leak} and {fd leak} have their own entries; one might also refer, to, say, a `window handle leak' in a window system. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
leech n. Among BBS types, crackers and {warez d00dz}, one who consumes knowledge without generating new software, cracks, or techniques. BBS culture specifically defines a leech as someone who downloads files with few or no uploads in return, and who does not contribute to the message section. Cracker culture extends this definition to someone (a {lamer}, usually) who constantly presses informed sources for information and/or assistance, but has nothing to contribute. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
lose vi. 1. [very common] To fail. A program loses when it encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner. 2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky. 3. Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed to ignorant). See also {deserves to lose}. 4. n. Refers to something that is {losing}, especially in the phrases "That's a lose!" and "What a lose!" | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
loss n. Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which something is losing. Emphatic forms include `moby loss', and `total loss', `complete loss'. Common interjections are "What a loss!" and "What a moby loss!" Note that `moby loss' is OK even though **`moby loser' is not used; applied to an abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier, whereas when applied to a person it implies substance and has positive connotations. Compare {lossage}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Lace Language for Assembling Classes in Eiffel. Specifies how to assemble an Eiffel system : in which directories to find the clusters, which class to use as the root, permits class renaming to avoid name clashes. "Eiffel: The Language", Bertrand Meyer, P-H 1992. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lag {netlag} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LaQuey [LaQuey, T. (with J. Ryer), "The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1992.] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lase /layz/ To print a given document via a laser printer. "OK, let's lase that sucker and see if all those graphics-macro calls did the right things." | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LAX LAnguage eXample. A {toy language} used to illustrate {compiler} design. ["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984]. (1994-12-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lc (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LCC Language for Conversational Computing. Written at {CMU} in the 1960's. Similar to {JOSS}, with declarations, pointers and block structure from {ALGOL 60}. Implemented for {IBM 360}/{IBM 370} under {TSS}. ["LCC Reference Manual", H.R. Van Zoeren, CMU 196]9. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lcc {ANSI C} written by Dave Hanson {parser} is faster than {yacc} and the code it generates is "as good as {GCC}". Version 1.8 includes a {compiler}, test suite and documentation. lcc has been ported to {Vax}, commercial backends for {MIPS}, {SPARC}, {68000} are cheap for universities. {Chop} is a {code generator} for use with lcc. {Home (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/)}. E-mail: ["A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation", Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0-8053-1670-1]. (1998-03-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LCC Language for Conversational Computing. Written at {CMU} in the 1960's. Similar to {JOSS}, with declarations, pointers and block structure from {ALGOL 60}. Implemented for {IBM 360}/{IBM 370} under {TSS}. ["LCC Reference Manual", H.R. Van Zoeren, CMU 196]9. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lcc {ANSI C} written by Dave Hanson {parser} is faster than {yacc} and the code it generates is "as good as {GCC}". Version 1.8 includes a {compiler}, test suite and documentation. lcc has been ported to {Vax}, commercial backends for {MIPS}, {SPARC}, {68000} are cheap for universities. {Chop} is a {code generator} for use with lcc. {Home (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/)}. E-mail: ["A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation", Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0-8053-1670-1]. (1998-03-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LCS {Language for Communicating Systems} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
leak resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. One might refer to, say, a "window handle leak" in a {window system}. See {memory leak}, {fd leak}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LEC {Local Exchange Carrier} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Lex 1. input language. There is a {GNU} version called {flex} and a version written in, and outputting, {SML/NJ} called {ML-lex}. A version, by David Poole at Montana has been retargeted to {Turbo Pascal}, {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/lyprg.zip)}. ["Lex - A Lexical Analyzer Generator", M.E. Lesk, CS TR 39, Bell Labs, Oct 1975]. 2. language for {COPS}. ["Metalanguages of the Compiler Production System COPS", J. Borowiec, in GI Fachgesprach "Compiler-Compiler", ed W. Henhapl, Tech Hochs Darmstadt 1978, pp.122-159]. (2000-11-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LG Simple language for analytic geometry, with graphic output. "LG: A Language for Analytic Geometry", J. Reymond, CACM 12(8) (Aug 1969). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lhs {Haskell} source files. (1995-02-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LIS Langage Implementation Systeme. A predecessor of {Ada} developed by Ichbiah in 1973. It was influenced by {Pascal}'s data structures and {Sue}'s control structures. A type declaration can have a low-level implementation specification. ["The System Implementation Language LIS", J.D. Ichbiah et al, CII Honeywell-Bull, TR 4549 E/EN, Louveciennes France (Dec 1974)]. ["The Two-Level Approach to Data Independent Programming in LIS", J.D. Ichbiah et al, in Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel ed, N-H 1974, pp.161-169]. (1994-12-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LISA 1. A {personal computer} introduced by {Apple Computer, Inc.} in 1983. The LISA was a predecessor of the {Macintosh} and was the first personal computer on the market with a {graphical user interface}. It was origionally named after {Steve Jobs}'s daughter. The acronym was applied later. [Spec?] 2. {S}. {FTP MIT (ftp://dolphin.mit.edu/)}. 3. (2001-10-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lk (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LLC {Logical Link Control} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LOC {lines of code} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
{log} ["{log}: A Logic Programming Language with Finite Sets", A Dovier et al, Proc 8th Intl Conf Logic Prog, June 1991, pp.111-124]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LogC A {C} extension incorporating {rule-oriented programming}, for {AI} {application program}s. {Production rule}s are encapsulated into functional components called rulesets. LogC uses a {search network algorithm} similar to {RETE}. Version 1.6. ["LogC: A Language and Environment for Embedded Rule Based Systems", F. Yulin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 27(11):27-32 (Nov 1992)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LOGO programming, noted for its "turtle graphics" used to draw geometric shapes. LOGO was developed in 1966-1968 by a group at Bolt, Beranek & Newman (now "{BBN Technolgoies}") headed by Wally Fuerzeig 2003) and including Seymour Papert There are Logo {interpreters} for {Macintosh}, {Unix}, {IBM PC}, {X Window System}, and many PCs. Implmentations include {Berkeley Logo}, {MswLogo}. (2000-03-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LOOK A specification language. ["A Look at Algebraic Specifications", S.N. Zilles et al, IBM RR, 1982]. (1994-11-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LOOKS ["LOOKS: Knowledge-Representation System for Designing Expert Systems in a Logical Programming Framework", F. Mizoguchi, Proc Intl Conf 5th Gen Comp Sys, ICOT 1984]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lose encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner. 2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky. 3. Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed to ignorant). 4. Refers to something that is {losing}, especially in the phrases "That's a lose!" and "What a lose!" [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-19) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
loss which something is losing. Emphatic forms include "moby loss", and "total loss", "complete loss". Common interjections are "What a loss!" and "What a moby loss!" Note that "moby loss" is OK even though **"moby loser" is not used; applied to an abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier, whereas when applied to a person it implies substance and has positive connotations. Compare {lossage}. (1995-04-19) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lossy which actually reduces the amount of information in the data, rather than just the number of bits used to represent that information. The lost information is usually removed because it is subjectively less important to the quality of the data (usually an {image} or {sound}) or because it can be recovered reasonably by {interpolation} from the remaining data. {MPEG} and {JPEG} are examples of lossy compression techniques. Opposite: {lossless}. (1995-03-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ls 1. {directory}. {Unix manual page}: ls(1). 2. (2000-03-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LSA {Link State Advertisement} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LSE {Language Sensitive Editor} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Lucy which is an {actor} subset of {Janus}. ["Actors as a Special Case of Concurrent Constraint Programming", K. Kahn Notices 25(10):57-66 (OOPSLA/ ECOOP '90), Oct 1990]. (2001-03-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LUG {Linux User Group} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lzh produced by the {LHA} program. (1995-04-03) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Laish a lion. (1.) A city of the Sidonians, in the extreme north of Palestine (Judg. 18:7, 14); called also Leshem (Josh. 19:47) and Dan (Judg. 18:7, 29; Jer. 8:16). It lay near the sources of the Jordan, about 4 miles from Paneas. The restless and warlike tribe of Dan (q.v.), looking out for larger possessions, invaded this country and took Laish with its territory. It is identified with the ruin Tell-el-Kady, "the mound of the judge," to the north of the Waters of Merom (Josh. 11:5). (2.) A place mentioned in Isa. 10:30. It has been supposed to be the modern el-Isawiyeh, about a mile north-east of Jerusalem. (3.) The father of Phalti (1 Sam. 25:44). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lasaea a city in the island of Crete (Acts 27:8). Its ruins are still found near Cape Leonda, about 5 miles east of "Fair Havens." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lasha fissure, a place apparently east of the Dead Sea (Gen. 10:19). It was afterwards known as Callirhoe, a place famous for its hot springs. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
League a treaty or confederacy. The Jews were forbidden to enter into an alliance of any kind (1) with the Canaanites (Ex. 23:32, 33; 34:12-16); (2) with the Amalekites (Ex. 17:8, 14; Deut. 25:17-19); (3) with the Moabites and Ammonites (Deut. 2:9, 19). Treaties were permitted to be entered into with all other nations. Thus David maintained friendly intercourse with the kings of Tyre and Hamath, and Solomon with the kings of Tyre and Egypt. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Leek (Heb. hatsir; the Allium porrum), rendered "grass" in 1 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 19:26, Job 40:15, etc.; "herb" in Job 8:12; "hay" in Prov. 27:25, and Isa. 15:6; "leeks" only in Num. 11:5. This Hebrew word seems to denote in this last passage simply herbs, such as lettuce or savoury herbs cooked as kitchen vegetables, and not necessarily what are now called leeks. The leek was a favourite vegetable in Egypt, and is still largely cultivated there and in Palestine. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lees (Heb. shemarim), from a word meaning to keep or preserve. It was applied to "lees" from the custom of allowing wine to stand on the lees that it might thereby be better preserved (Isa. 25:6). "Men settled on their lees" (Zeph. 1:12) are men "hardened or crusted." The image is derived from the crust formed at the bottom of wines long left undisturbed (Jer. 48:11). The effect of wealthy undisturbed ease on the ungodly is hardening. They become stupidly secure (comp. Ps. 55:19; Amos 6:1). To drink the lees (Ps. 75:8) denotes severe suffering. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lice (Heb. kinnim), the creatures employed in the third plague sent upon Egypt (Ex. 8:16-18). They were miraculously produced from the dust of the land. "The entomologists Kirby and Spence place these minute but disgusting insects in the very front rank of those which inflict injury upon man. A terrible list of examples they have collected of the ravages of this and closely allied parasitic pests." The plague of lice is referred to in Ps. 105:31. Some have supposed that the word denotes not lice properly, but gnats. Others, with greater probability, take it to mean the "tick" which is much larger than lice. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lock The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (Judg. 3:24). (See {KEY}.) Lock of hair (Judg. 16:13, 19; Ezek. 8:3; Num. 6:5, etc.). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Log the smallest measure for liquids used by the Hebrews (Lev. 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24), called in the Vulgate sextarius. It is the Hebrew unit of measure of capacity, and is equal to the contents of six ordinary hen's eggs=the twelfth part of a him, or nearly a pint. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lois the maternal grandmother of Timothy. She is commended by Paul for her faith (2 Tim. 1:5). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Luke the evangelist, was a Gentile. The date and circumstances of his conversion are unknown. According to his own statement (Luke 1:2), he was not an "eye-witness and minister of the word from the beginning." It is probable that he was a physician in Troas, and was there converted by Paul, to whom he attached himself. He accompanied him to Philippi, but did not there share his imprisonment, nor did he accompany him further after his release in his missionary journey at this time (Acts 17:1). On Paul's third visit to Philippi (20:5, 6) we again meet with Luke, who probably had spent all the intervening time in that city, a period of seven or eight years. From this time Luke was Paul's constant companion during his journey to Jerusalem (20:6-21:18). He again disappears from view during Paul's imprisonment at Jerusalem and Caesarea, and only reappears when Paul sets out for Rome (27:1), whither he accompanies him (28:2, 12-16), and where he remains with him till the close of his first imprisonment (Philemon 1:24; Col. 4:14). The last notice of the "beloved physician" is in 2 Tim. 4:11. There are many passages in Paul's epistles, as well as in the writings of Luke, which show the extent and accuracy of his medical knowledge. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Luz a nut-bearing tree, the almond. (1.) The ancient name of a royal Canaanitish city near the site of Bethel (Gen. 28:19; 35:6), on the border of Benjamin (Josh. 18:13). Here Jacob halted, and had a prophetic vision. (See {BETHEL}.) (2.) A place in the land of the Hittites, founded (Judg. 1:26) by "a man who came forth out of the city of Luz." It is identified with Luweiziyeh, 4 miles north-west of Banias. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lycia a wolf, a province in the south-west of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Rhodes. It forms part of the region now called Tekeh. It was a province of the Roman empire when visited by Paul (Acts 21:1; 27:5). Two of its towns are mentioned, Patara (21:1, 2) and Myra (27:5). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Laish, a lion | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lasea, thick; wise | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lashah, to call; to anoint | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lekah, walking; going | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lois, better | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Luke, luminous; white | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Luz, separation; departure; an almond | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
Laos Laos:Geography Location: Southeastern Asia, northeast of Thailand Map references: Southeast Asia Area: total area: 236,800 sq km land area: 230,800 sq km comparative area: slightly larger than Utah Land boundaries: total 5,083 km, Burma 235 km, Cambodia 541 km, China 423 km, Thailand 1,754 km, Vietnam 2,130 km Coastline: 0 km (landlocked) Maritime claims: none; landlocked International disputes: boundary dispute with Thailand Climate: tropical monsoon; rainy season (May to November); dry season (December to April) Terrain: mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus Natural resources: timber, hydropower, gypsum, tin, gold, gemstones Land use: arable land: 4% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 3% forest and woodland: 58% other: 35% Irrigated land: 1,554 sq km (1992 est.) Environment: current issues: deforestation; soil erosion; a majority of the population does not have access to potable water natural hazards: floods, droughts, and blight international agreements: party to - Climate Change, Environmental Modification, Nuclear Test Ban; signed, but not ratified - Law of the Sea Note: landlocked Laos:People Population: 4,837,237 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 45% (female 1,084,615; male 1,111,928) 15-64 years: 51% (female 1,280,142; male 1,199,149) 65 years and over: 4% (female 86,390; male 75,013) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 2.84% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 42.64 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 14.28 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 99.2 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 52.2 years male: 50.66 years female: 53.81 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 5.98 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Lao(s) or Laotian(s) adjective: Lao or Laotian Ethnic divisions: Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong ("Meo") and the Yao (Mien) 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1% Religions: Buddhist 60%, animist and other 40% Languages: Lao (official), French, English, and various ethnic languages Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1992) total population: 50% male: 65% female: 35% Labor force: 1 million-1.5 million by occupation: agriculture 80% (1992 est.) Laos:Government Names: conventional long form: Lao People's Democratic Republic conventional short form: Laos local long form: Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao local short form: none Digraph: LA Type: Communist state Capital: Vientiane Administrative divisions: 16 provinces (khoueng, singular and plural) and 1 municipality* (kampheng nakhon, singular and plural); Attapu, Bokeo, Bolikhamxai, Champasak, Houaphan, Khammouan, Louangnamtha, Louangphabang, Oudomxai, Phongsali, Salavan, Savannakhet, Viangchan*, Viangchan, Xaignabouli, Xekong, Xiangkhoang Independence: 19 July 1949 (from France) National holiday: National Day, 2 December (1975) (proclamation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic) Constitution: promulgated 14 August 1991 Legal system: based on traditional customs, French legal norms and procedures, and Socialist practice Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President NOUHAK PHOUMSAVAN (since 25 November 1992) head of government: Prime Minister Gen. KHAMTAI SIPHANDON (since 15 August 1991) cabinet: Council of Ministers; appointed by the president, approved by the Assembly Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly: elections last held on 20 December 1992 (next to be held NA); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (85 total) number of seats by party NA Judicial branch: Supreme People's Court Political parties and leaders: Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP), KHAMTAI Siphandon, party president; other parties proscribed Other political or pressure groups: non-Communist political groups proscribed; most opposition leaders fled the country in 1975 Member of: ACCT, AsDB, ASEAN (observer), CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT (nonsignatory user), INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, NAM, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO, WTO Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Ambassador HIEM PHOMMACHANH chancery: 2222 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 telephone: [1] (202) 332-6416, 6417 FAX: [1] (202) 332-4923 US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Ambassador Victor L. TOMSETH embassy: Rue Bartholonie, Vientiane mailing address: B. P. 114, Vientiane; American Embassy, Box V, APO AP 96546 telephone: [856] (21) 212581, 212582, 212585 FAX: [856] (21) 212584 Flag: three horizontal bands of red (top), blue (double width), and red with a large white disk centered in the blue band Economy Overview: The government of Laos - one of the few remaining official Communist states - has been decentralizing control and encouraging private enterprise since 1986. The results, starting from an extremely low base, have been striking - growth has averaged 7.5% annually since 1988. Even so, Laos is a landlocked country with a primitive infrastructure. It has no railroads, a rudimentary road system, and limited external and internal telecommunications. Electricity is available in only a few urban areas. Subsistence agriculture accounts for half of GDP and provides 80% of total employment. The predominant crop is rice. In non-drought years, Laos is self-sufficient overall in food, but each year flood, pests, and localized drought cause shortages in various parts of the country. For the foreseeable future the economy will continue to depend on aid from the IMF and other international sources; aid from the former USSR and Eastern Europe has been cut sharply. As in many developing countries, deforestation and soil erosion will hamper efforts to maintain the high rate of GDP growth. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $4 billion (1994 est.) National product real growth rate: 8.4% (1994 est.) National product per capita: $850 (1994 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.5% (1994 est.) Unemployment rate: 21% (1992 est.) Budget: revenues: $NA expenditures: $NA Exports: $277 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.) commodities: electricity, wood products, coffee, tin, garments partners: Thailand 57%, Germany 10%, France 10%, Japan 5% (1991) Imports: $528 million (c.i.f., 1994 est.) commodities: food, fuel oil, consumer goods, manufactures partners: Thailand 55%, Japan 16%, China 8%, Italy 4% (1991) External debt: $NA Industrial production: growth rate 7.5% (1992 est.); accounts for 18% of GDP (1992 est.) Electricity: capacity: 260,000 kW production: 870 million kWh consumption per capita: 44 kWh (1993) Industries: tin and gypsum mining, timber, electric power, agricultural processing, construction Agriculture: principal crops - rice (80% of cultivated land), sweet potatoes, vegetables, corn, coffee, sugarcane, cotton; livestock - buffaloes, hogs, cattle, poultry Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, opium poppy for the international drug trade, fourth largest opium producer (85 metric tons in 1994); heroin producer; increasingly used as transshipment point for heroin produced in Burma Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-79), $276 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $605 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $995 million; international assistance in loans and grant aid (1993/94) $217.7 million Currency: 1 new kip (NK) = 100 at Exchange rates: new kips (NK) per US$1 - 717 (1994 est.), 720 (July 1993). 710 (May 1992), 710 (December 1991), 700 (September 1990), 576 (1989) Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September Laos:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 14,130 km paved: 2,260 km unpaved: 11,870 km (1992 est.) Inland waterways: about 4,587 km, primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,897 additional kilometers are sectionally navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m Pipelines: petroleum products 136 km Ports: none Merchant marine: total: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,370 GRT/3,000 DWT Airports: total: 52 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3 with paved runways under 914 m: 25 with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 1 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 17 Laos:Communications Telephone system: 7,390 telephones (1986); service to general public very poor; radio communications network provides generally erratic service to government users local: 16 telephone lines per 1,000 people intercity: radio communications international: 1 earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 10, FM 0, shortwave 0 radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: 2 televisions: NA Laos:Defense Forces Branches: Lao People's Army (LPA; includes riverine naval and militia elements), Air Force, National Police Department Manpower availability: males age 15-49 1,051,105; males fit for military service 567,017; males reach military age (18) annually 51,437 (1995 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $105 million, 8.1% of GDP (FY92/93) |