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Lad \Lad\, obs. p. p. of {Lead}, to guide. --Chaucer. | |
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Lad \Lad\, n. [OE. ladde, of Celtic origin; cf. W. llawd, Ir. lath. [root]123. Cf. {Lass}.] 1. A boy; a youth; a stripling. [bd]Cupid is a knavish lad.[b8] --Shak. There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes. --John vi. 9. 2. A companion; a comrade; a mate. {Lad's love}. (Bot.) See {Boy's love}, under {Boy}. | |
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Ladde \Lad"de\, obs. imp. of {Lead}, to guide. --Chaucer. | |
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Laddie \Lad"die\, n. A lad; a male sweetheart. [Scot.] | |
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Lade \Lade\, v. i. [See {Lade}, v. t.] 1. To draw water. [Obs.] 2. (Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc. | |
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Lade \Lade\, n. [Prov. E., a ditch or drain. Cf. {Lode}, {Lead} to conduct.] 1. The mouth of a river. [Obs.] --Bp. Gibson. 2. A passage for water; a ditch or drain. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Lade \Lade\, v. t. [imp. {Laded}; p. p. {Laded}, {Laded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lading}.] [AS. hladan to heap, load, draw (water); akin to D. & G. laden to load, OHG. hladan, ladan, Icel. hla[?]a, Sw. ladda, Dan. lade, Goth. afhlapan. Cf. {Load}, {Ladle}, {Lathe} for turning, {Last} a load.] 1. To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object. And they laded their asses with the corn. --Gen. xlii. 26. 2. To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. --Shak. 3. (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table. | |
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Lady \La"dy\, n.; pl. {Ladies}. [OE. ladi, l[91]fdi, AS. hl[?]fdige, hl[?]fdie; AS. hl[be]f loaf + a root of uncertain origin, possibly akin to E. dairy. See {Loaf}, and cf. {Lord}.] 1. A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household. Agar, the handmaiden of Sara, whence comest thou, and whither goest thou? The which answered, Fro the face of Sara my lady. --Wyclif (Gen. xvi. 8.). 2. A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord. [bd]Lord or lady of high degree.[b8] --Lowell. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, . . . We make thee lady. --Shak. 3. A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, And takes new valor from his lady's eyes. --Waller. 4. A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right. 5. A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman. 6. A wife; -- not now in approved usage. --Goldsmith. 7. (Zo[94]l.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates. {Ladies' man}, a man who affects the society of ladies. {Lady altar}, an altar in a lady chapel. --Shipley. {Lady chapel}, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. {Lady court}, the court of a lady of the manor. {Lady court}, the court of a lady of the manor. {Lady crab} (Zo[94]l.), a handsomely spotted swimming crab ({Platyonichus ocellatus}) very common on the sandy shores of the Atlantic coast of the United States. {Lady fern}. (Bot.) See {Female fern}, under {Female}, and Illust. of {Fern}. {Lady in waiting}, a lady of the queen's household, appointed to wait upon or attend the queen. {Lady Mass}, a Mass said in honor of the Virgin Mary. --Shipley. {Lady of the manor}, a lady having jurisdiction of a manor; also, the wife of a manor lord. {Lady's maid}, a maidservant who dresses and waits upon a lady. --Thackeray. {Our Lady}, the Virgin Mary. | |
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Lady \La"dy`\ The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See {Annunciation}. | |
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Lady \La"dy\, a. Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike. [bd]Some lady trifles.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Laid \Laid\, imp. & p. p. of {Lay}. {Laid paper}, paper marked with parallel lines or water marks, as if ribbed, from parallel wires in the mold. It is called blue laid, cream laid, etc., according to its color. | |
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Lay \Lay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laying}.] [OE. leggen, AS. lecgan, causative, fr. licgan to lie; akin to D. leggen, G. legen, Icel. leggja, Goth. lagjan. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust. A stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den. --Dan. vi. 17. Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid. --Milton. 2. To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table. 3. To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan. 4. To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint. 5. To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit. After a tempest when the winds are laid. --Waller. 6. To cause to lie dead or dying. Brave C[91]neus laid Ortygius on the plain, The victor C[91]neus was by Turnus slain. --Dryden. 7. To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk. I dare lay mine honor He will remain so. --Shak. 8. To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs. 9. To apply; to put. She layeth her hands to the spindle. --Prov. xxxi. 19. 10. To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. --Is. Iiii. 6. 11. To impute; to charge; to allege. God layeth not folly to them. --Job xxiv. 12. Lay the fault on us. --Shak. 12. To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one. 13. To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one. 14. (Law) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue. --Bouvier. 15. (Mil.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun. 16. (Rope Making) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope. 17. (Print.) (a) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. (b) To place (new type) properly in the cases. {To lay asleep}, to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless. --Bacon. {To lay bare}, to make bare; to strip. And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain. --Byron. {To lay before}, to present to; to submit for consideration; as, the papers are laid before Congress. {To lay by}. (a) To save. (b) To discard. Let brave spirits . . . not be laid by. --Bacon. {To lay by the heels}, to put in the stocks. --Shak. {To lay down}. (a) To stake as a wager. (b) To yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay down one's life; to lay down one's arms. (c) To assert or advance, as a proposition or principle. {To lay forth}. (a) To extend at length; (reflexively) to exert one's self; to expatiate. [Obs.] (b) To lay out (as a corpse). [Obs.] --Shak. {To lay hands on}, to seize. {To lay hands on one's self}, or {To lay violent hands on one's self}, to injure one's self; specif., to commit suicide. {To lay heads together}, to consult. {To lay hold of}, or {To lay hold on}, to seize; to catch. {To lay in}, to store; to provide. {To lay it on}, to apply without stint. --Shak. | |
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Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait}, {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. | |
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Lythe \Lythe\ (l[imac]th), n. (Zo[94]l.) The European pollack; -- called also {laith}, and {leet}. [Scot.] | |
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Laity \La"i*ty\ (l[amac]"[icr]*t[ycr]), n. [See {Lay}, a.] 1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste. --Macaulay. 2. The state of a layman. [Obs.] --Ayliffe. 3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it. | |
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Lat \Lat\, v. t. To let; to allow. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lata \La"ta\, Latah \La"tah\, n. [Malay.] A convulsive tic or hysteric neurosis prevalent among Malays, similar to or identical with miryachit and jumping disease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person. | |
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Lata \La"ta\, Latah \La"tah\, n. [Malay.] A convulsive tic or hysteric neurosis prevalent among Malays, similar to or identical with miryachit and jumping disease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person. | |
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Late \Late\, adv. [AS. late. See {Late}, a.] 1. After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to {early}. 2. Not long ago; lately. 3. Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night. {Of late}, in time not long past, or near the present; lately; as, the practice is of late uncommon. {Too late}, after the proper or available time; when the time or opportunity is past. | |
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Late \Late\, a. [Compar. {Later}, or {latter}; superl. {Latest}.] [OE. lat slow, slack, AS. l[91]t; akin to OS. lat, D. laat late, G. lass weary, lazy, slack, Icel. latr, Sw. lat, Dan. lad, Goth. lats, and to E. let, v. See {Let} to permit, and cf. {Alas}, {Lassitude}.] 1. Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring. 2. Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life. 3. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration. 4. Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence. 5. Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher. | |
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Lath \Lath\, n.; pl. {Laths}. [OE. laththe, latthe, latte, AS. l[91]tta; akin to D. lat, G. latte, OHG. latta; cf. W. llath a rod, staff, yard. Cf. {Lattice}, {Latten}.] A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. {Lath brick}, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. {Lath nail} a slender nail for fastening laths. | |
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Lath \Lath\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lathed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lathing}.] To cover or line with laths. | |
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Lathe \Lathe\, n. [AS. l[aemac][edh]. Of. uncertain origin.] Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. [Written also {lath}.] --Brande & C. | |
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Lath \Lath\, n.; pl. {Laths}. [OE. laththe, latthe, latte, AS. l[91]tta; akin to D. lat, G. latte, OHG. latta; cf. W. llath a rod, staff, yard. Cf. {Lattice}, {Latten}.] A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. {Lath brick}, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. {Lath nail} a slender nail for fastening laths. | |
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Lath \Lath\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lathed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lathing}.] To cover or line with laths. | |
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Lathe \Lathe\, n. [AS. l[aemac][edh]. Of. uncertain origin.] Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. [Written also {lath}.] --Brande & C. | |
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Lathe \Lathe\, n. [OE. lathe a granary; akin to G. lade a chest, Icel. hla[edh]a a storehouse, barn; but cf. also Icel. l[94][edh] a smith's lathe. Senses 2 and 3 are perh. of the same origin as lathe a granary, the original meaning being, a frame to hold something. If so, the word is from an older form of E. lade to load. See {Lade} to load.] 1. A granary; a barn. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. (Mach.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool. | |
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Lathe \Lathe\, n. [AS. l[aemac][edh]. Of. uncertain origin.] Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. [Written also {lath}.] --Brande & C. | |
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Lathy \Lath"y\, a. Like a lath; long and slender. A lathy horse, all legs and length. --R. Browning. | |
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Laud \Laud\, n. [L. laus, laudis. See {Laud}, v. i.] 1. High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory. [bd]Laud be to God.[b8] --Shak. So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same. --Tyndals. 2. A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; -- usually in the pl. Note: In the Roman Catholic Church, the prayers used at daybreak, between those of matins and prime, are called lauds. 3. Music or singing in honor of any one. | |
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Laud \Laud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lauded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lauding}.] [L. laudare, fr. laus, laudis, praise. Cf. {Allow}.] To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol. With all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name. --Book of Common Prayer. | |
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Law \Law\ (l[add]), n. [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root of E. lie: akin to OS. lag, Icel. l[94]g, Sw. lag, Dan. lov; cf. L. lex, E. legal. A law is that which is laid, set, or fixed; like statute, fr. L. statuere to make to stand. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts. Note: A law may be universal or particular, written or unwritten, published or secret. From the nature of the highest laws a degree of permanency or stability is always implied; but the power which makes a law, or a superior power, may annul or change it. These are the statutes and judgments and law, which the Lord made. --Lev. xxvi. 46. The law of thy God, and the law of the King. --Ezra vii. 26. As if they would confine the Interminable . . . Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. --Milton. His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. --Cowper. 2. In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature. 3. The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament. What things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law . . . But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. --Rom. iii. 19, 21. 4. In human government: (a) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community. (b) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority. 5. In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation. 6. In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence. 7. In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist. 8. Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law. 9. Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. --Coke. Law is beneficence acting by rule. --Burke. And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. --Sir W. Jones. 10. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law. When every case in law is right. --Shak. He found law dear and left it cheap. --Brougham. 11. An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See {Wager of law}, under {Wager}. {Avogadro's law} (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according to which, under similar conditions of temperature and pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after Avogadro, an Italian scientist. Sometimes called {Amp[8a]re's law}. {Bode's law} (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression of the distances of the planets from the sun, as follows: -- Mer. Ven. Earth. Mars. Aste. Jup. Sat. Uran. Nep. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 384 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- --- 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 388 5.9 7.3 10 15.2 27.4 52 95.4 192 300 where each distance (line third) is the sum of 4 and a multiple of 3 by the series 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, etc., the true distances being given in the lower line. {Boyle's law} (Physics), an expression of the fact, that when an elastic fluid is subjected to compression, and kept at a constant temperature, the product of the pressure and volume is a constant quantity, i. e., the volume is inversely proportioned to the pressure; -- known also as {Mariotte's law}, and the {law of Boyle and Mariotte}. {Brehon laws}. See under {Brehon}. {Canon law}, the body of ecclesiastical law adopted in the Christian Church, certain portions of which (for example, the law of marriage as existing before the Council of Tent) were brought to America by the English colonists as part of the common law of the land. --Wharton. {Civil law}, a term used by writers to designate Roman law, with modifications thereof which have been made in the different countries into which that law has been introduced. The civil law, instead of the common law, prevails in the State of Louisiana. --Wharton. {Commercial law}. See {Law merchant} (below). {Common law}. See under {Common}. {Criminal law}, that branch of jurisprudence which relates to crimes. {Ecclesiastical law}. See under {Ecclesiastical}. {Grimm's law} (Philol.), a statement (propounded by the German philologist Jacob Grimm) of certain regular changes which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants, so-called (most plainly seen in Sanskrit and, with some changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone in the Teutonic languages. Examples: Skr. bh[be]tr, L. frater, E. brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three, G. drei, Skr. go, E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dh[be] to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do, OHG, tuon, G. thun. {Kepler's laws} (Astron.), three important laws or expressions of the order of the planetary motions, discovered by John Kepler. They are these: (1) The orbit of a planet with respect to the sun is an ellipse, the sun being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a vector drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes of their mean distances. {Law binding}, a plain style of leather binding, used for law books; -- called also {law calf}. {Law book}, a book containing, or treating of, laws. {Law calf}. See {Law binding} (above). {Law day}. (a) Formerly, a day of holding court, esp. a court-leet. (b) The day named in a mortgage for the payment of the money to secure which it was given. [U. S.] {Law French}, the dialect of Norman, which was used in judicial proceedings and law books in England from the days of William the Conqueror to the thirty-sixth year of Edward III. {Law language}, the language used in legal writings and forms. {Law Latin}. See under {Latin}. {Law lords}, peers in the British Parliament who have held high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal profession. {Law merchant}, or {Commercial law}, a system of rules by which trade and commerce are regulated; -- deduced from the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures. | |
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Layette \Lay*ette"\, n. [F.] (Med.) The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used. | |
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Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint. | |
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Lead \Lead\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leading}.] 1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle. 2. (Print.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter. | |
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Lead \Lead\ (l[emac]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Led} (l[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leading}.] [OE. leden, AS. l[aemac]dan (akin to OS. l[emac]dian, D. leiden, G. leiten, Icel. le[imac][edh]a, Sw. leda, Dan. lede), properly a causative fr. AS. li[edh]an to go; akin to OHG. l[imac]dan, Icel. l[imac][edh]a, Goth. lei[thorn]an (in comp.). Cf. {Lode}, {Loath}.] 1. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man. If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. --Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.) They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill. --Luke iv. 29. In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. --Milton. 2. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil. The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way. --Ex. xiii. 21. He leadeth me beside the still waters. --Ps. xxiii. 2. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Content, though blind, had I no better guide. --Milton. 3. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party. Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places. --South. 4. To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages. As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. --Fairfax. And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. --Leigh Hunt. 5. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause. He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions. --Eikon Basilike. Silly women, laden with sins,led away by divers lusts. --2 Tim. iii. 6 (Rev. Ver.). 6. To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course). That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. --1 Tim. ii. 2. Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. --Tennyson. You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife and daughter. --Dickens. 7. (Cards & Dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led. {To lead astray}, to guide in a wrong way, or into error; to seduce from truth or rectitude. {To lead captive}, to carry or bring into captivity. {To lead the way}, to show the way by going in front; to act as guide. --Goldsmith. | |
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Lead \Lead\, n. 1. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another. At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, . . . I am sure I did my country important service. --Burke. 2. precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second. 3. (Cards & Dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead. 4. An open way in an ice field. --Kane. 5. (Mining) A lode. 6. (Naut.) The course of a rope from end to end. 7. (Steam Engine) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. Note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust. 8. (Civil Engineering) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. 9. (Horology) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. --Saunier. {Lead angle} (Steam Engine), the angle which the crank maker with the line of centers, in approaching it, at the instant when the valve opens to admit steam. {Lead screw} (Mach.), the main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage. | |
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Lead \Lead\, v. i. 1. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or pre[89]minence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t. 2. To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices. The mountain foot that leads towards Mantua. --Shak. {To lead} {off [or] out}, to go first; to begin. | |
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Lead \Lead\, n. 1. (Music.) (a) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. (b) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others. 2. In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full {lead of the ignition}. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called {negative lead}. 3. (Mach.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft. 4. (Mach.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn. 5. (Elec.) (a) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo. (b) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. (c) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it. 6. (Theat.) A r[ocir]le for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a r[ocir]le. | |
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Leady \Lead"y\, a. Resembling lead. --Sir T. Elyot. | |
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Leat \Leat\, n. [Cf. {Lead} to conduct.] An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. --C. Kingsley. | |
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Led \Led\ (l[ecr]d), imp. & p. p. of {Lead}. {Led captain}. An obsequious follower or attendant. [Obs.] --Swift. {Led horse}, a sumpter horse, or a spare horse, that is led along. | |
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Lead \Lead\ (l[emac]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Led} (l[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leading}.] [OE. leden, AS. l[aemac]dan (akin to OS. l[emac]dian, D. leiden, G. leiten, Icel. le[imac][edh]a, Sw. leda, Dan. lede), properly a causative fr. AS. li[edh]an to go; akin to OHG. l[imac]dan, Icel. l[imac][edh]a, Goth. lei[thorn]an (in comp.). Cf. {Lode}, {Loath}.] 1. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man. If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. --Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.) They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill. --Luke iv. 29. In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. --Milton. 2. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil. The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way. --Ex. xiii. 21. He leadeth me beside the still waters. --Ps. xxiii. 2. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Content, though blind, had I no better guide. --Milton. 3. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party. Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places. --South. 4. To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages. As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. --Fairfax. And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. --Leigh Hunt. 5. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause. He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions. --Eikon Basilike. Silly women, laden with sins,led away by divers lusts. --2 Tim. iii. 6 (Rev. Ver.). 6. To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course). That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. --1 Tim. ii. 2. Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. --Tennyson. You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife and daughter. --Dickens. 7. (Cards & Dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led. {To lead astray}, to guide in a wrong way, or into error; to seduce from truth or rectitude. {To lead captive}, to carry or bring into captivity. {To lead the way}, to show the way by going in front; to act as guide. --Goldsmith. | |
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Leed \Leed\, Leede \Leede\ (l[emac]d), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A caldron; a copper kettle. [Obs.] [bd]A furnace of a leed.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Leed \Leed\, Leede \Leede\ (l[emac]d), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A caldron; a copper kettle. [Obs.] [bd]A furnace of a leed.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Leet \Leet\ (l[emac]t), obs. imp. of {Let}, to allow. --Chaucer. | |
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Leet \Leet\, n. [Cf. AS. hl[emac]t share, lot.] A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office. [Scot.] | |
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Leet \Leet\, n. [LL. leta. Cf. F. lit de justice a solemn sitting of the king in Parliament, L. lis, litis, a lawsuit, It., Sp., & Pg. lite.] (Eng. Hist.) A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held. --Shak. Note: The original intent of the court-leet was to view the frankpledges or freemen within the liberty; hence called the view of frankpledge. Latterly it has fallen into almost entire disuse. --Burrill. Warren's Blackstone. {Leet ale}, a feast or merrymaking in time of leet. [Obs.] | |
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Leet \Leet\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.) The European pollock. | |
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Lythe \Lythe\ (l[imac]th), n. (Zo[94]l.) The European pollack; -- called also {laith}, and {leet}. [Scot.] | |
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Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait}, {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. | |
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Leet \Leet\ (l[emac]t), obs. imp. of {Let}, to allow. --Chaucer. | |
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Leet \Leet\, n. [Cf. AS. hl[emac]t share, lot.] A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office. [Scot.] | |
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Leet \Leet\, n. [LL. leta. Cf. F. lit de justice a solemn sitting of the king in Parliament, L. lis, litis, a lawsuit, It., Sp., & Pg. lite.] (Eng. Hist.) A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held. --Shak. Note: The original intent of the court-leet was to view the frankpledges or freemen within the liberty; hence called the view of frankpledge. Latterly it has fallen into almost entire disuse. --Burrill. Warren's Blackstone. {Leet ale}, a feast or merrymaking in time of leet. [Obs.] | |
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Leet \Leet\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.) The European pollock. | |
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Lythe \Lythe\ (l[imac]th), n. (Zo[94]l.) The European pollack; -- called also {laith}, and {leet}. [Scot.] | |
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Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait}, {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. | |
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Leod \Le"od\ (l[emac]"[ocr]d), n. [AS. le[a2]d people, nation, man, chief; akin to OS. liud, OHG. liut, pl. liuti, G. leute, pl., fr. AS. le[a2]dan to grow, akin to Goth. liudan, OS. liodan, OHG. liotan to grow; cf. Skr. ruh. [root]123.] People; a nation; a man. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. --Bp. Gibson. | |
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-let \-let\ (-l[ecr]t). [From two French dim. endings -el (L. -ellus) and -et, as in bracelet.] A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet. | |
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Let \Let\ (l[ecr]t), v. t. [OE. letten, AS. lettan to delay, to hinder, fr. l[91]t slow; akin to D. letten to hinder, G. verletzen to hurt, Icel. letja to hold back, Goth. latjan. See {Late}.] To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose. [Archaic] He was so strong that no man might him let. --Chaucer. He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. --2. Thess. ii. 7. Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, And lets me from the saddle. --Tennyson. | |
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Let \Let\, n. 1. A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic. --Keats. Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not. --Latimer. 2. (Lawn Tennis) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over. | |
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Let \Let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Let} ({Letted} (l[ecr]t"t[ecr]d), [Obs].); p. pr. & vb. n. {Letting}.] [OE. leten, l[91]ten (past tense lat, let, p. p. laten, leten, lete), AS. l[aemac]tan (past tense l[emac]t, p. p. l[aemac]ten); akin to OFries. l[emac]ta, OS. l[be]tan, D. laten, G. lassen, OHG. l[be]zzan, Icel. l[be]ta, Sw. l[86]ta, Dan. lade, Goth. l[emac]tan, and L. lassus weary. The original meaning seems to have been, to let loose, let go, let drop. Cf. {Alas}, {Late}, {Lassitude}, {Let} to hinder.] 1. To leave; to relinquish; to abandon. [Obs. or Archaic, except when followed by alone or be.] He . . . prayed him his voyage for to let. --Chaucer. Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, But to her mother Nature all her care she lets. --Spenser. Let me alone in choosing of my wife. --Chaucer. 2. To consider; to think; to esteem. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought. [Obs.] This irous, cursed wretch Let this knight's son anon before him fetch. --Chaucer. He . . . thus let do slay hem all three. --Chaucer. Anon he let two coffers make. --Gower. 4. To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent. Note: In this sense, when followed by an infinitive, the latter is commonly without the sign to; as to let us walk, i. e., to permit or suffer us to walk. Sometimes there is entire omission of the verb; as, to let [to be or to go] loose. Pharaoh said, I will let you go. --Ex. viii. 28. If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is. --Shak. 5. To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses. 6. To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering. Note: The active form of the infinitive of let, as of many other English verbs, is often used in a passive sense; as, a house to let (i. e., for letting, or to be let). This form of expression conforms to the use of the Anglo-Saxon gerund with to (dative infinitive) which was commonly so employed. See {Gerund}, 2. [bd] Your elegant house in Harley Street is to let.[b8] --Thackeray. In the imperative mood, before the first person plural, let has a hortative force. [bd] Rise up, let us go.[b8] --Mark xiv. 42. [bd] Let us seek out some desolate shade.[b8] --Shak. {To let alone}, to leave; to withdraw from; to refrain from interfering with. {To let blood}, to cause blood to flow; to bleed. {To let down}. (a) To lower. (b) To soften in tempering; as, to let down tools, cutlery, and the like. | |
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Let \Let\, v. i. 1. To forbear. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under {Let}, v. t. {To let on}, to tell; to tattle; to divulge something. [Low] {To let up}, to become less severe; to diminish; to cease; as, when the storm lets up. [Colloq.] | |
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-let \-let\ (-l[ecr]t). [From two French dim. endings -el (L. -ellus) and -et, as in bracelet.] A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet. | |
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Let \Let\ (l[ecr]t), v. t. [OE. letten, AS. lettan to delay, to hinder, fr. l[91]t slow; akin to D. letten to hinder, G. verletzen to hurt, Icel. letja to hold back, Goth. latjan. See {Late}.] To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose. [Archaic] He was so strong that no man might him let. --Chaucer. He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. --2. Thess. ii. 7. Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, And lets me from the saddle. --Tennyson. | |
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Let \Let\, n. 1. A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic. --Keats. Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not. --Latimer. 2. (Lawn Tennis) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over. | |
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Let \Let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Let} ({Letted} (l[ecr]t"t[ecr]d), [Obs].); p. pr. & vb. n. {Letting}.] [OE. leten, l[91]ten (past tense lat, let, p. p. laten, leten, lete), AS. l[aemac]tan (past tense l[emac]t, p. p. l[aemac]ten); akin to OFries. l[emac]ta, OS. l[be]tan, D. laten, G. lassen, OHG. l[be]zzan, Icel. l[be]ta, Sw. l[86]ta, Dan. lade, Goth. l[emac]tan, and L. lassus weary. The original meaning seems to have been, to let loose, let go, let drop. Cf. {Alas}, {Late}, {Lassitude}, {Let} to hinder.] 1. To leave; to relinquish; to abandon. [Obs. or Archaic, except when followed by alone or be.] He . . . prayed him his voyage for to let. --Chaucer. Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, But to her mother Nature all her care she lets. --Spenser. Let me alone in choosing of my wife. --Chaucer. 2. To consider; to think; to esteem. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought. [Obs.] This irous, cursed wretch Let this knight's son anon before him fetch. --Chaucer. He . . . thus let do slay hem all three. --Chaucer. Anon he let two coffers make. --Gower. 4. To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent. Note: In this sense, when followed by an infinitive, the latter is commonly without the sign to; as to let us walk, i. e., to permit or suffer us to walk. Sometimes there is entire omission of the verb; as, to let [to be or to go] loose. Pharaoh said, I will let you go. --Ex. viii. 28. If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is. --Shak. 5. To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses. 6. To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering. Note: The active form of the infinitive of let, as of many other English verbs, is often used in a passive sense; as, a house to let (i. e., for letting, or to be let). This form of expression conforms to the use of the Anglo-Saxon gerund with to (dative infinitive) which was commonly so employed. See {Gerund}, 2. [bd] Your elegant house in Harley Street is to let.[b8] --Thackeray. In the imperative mood, before the first person plural, let has a hortative force. [bd] Rise up, let us go.[b8] --Mark xiv. 42. [bd] Let us seek out some desolate shade.[b8] --Shak. {To let alone}, to leave; to withdraw from; to refrain from interfering with. {To let blood}, to cause blood to flow; to bleed. {To let down}. (a) To lower. (b) To soften in tempering; as, to let down tools, cutlery, and the like. | |
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Let \Let\, v. i. 1. To forbear. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under {Let}, v. t. {To let on}, to tell; to tattle; to divulge something. [Low] {To let up}, to become less severe; to diminish; to cease; as, when the storm lets up. [Colloq.] | |
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Lete \Lete\ (l[ecr]t), v. t. To let; to leave. [Obs.] | |
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Lethe \Le"the\ (l[emac]"th[esl] [or] l[emac]th), n. [See {Lethal}.] Death.[Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Lethe \Le"the\ (l[emac]"th[esl]), n. [L., fr. Gr. lh`qh, prop., forgetfulness; akin to lanqa`nesqai to forget, lanqa`nein to escape notice.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past. 2. Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness. | |
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Lethy \Le"thy\ (l[emac]"th[ycr]), a. Lethean. [Obs.] --Marston. | |
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Letts \Letts\ (l[ecr]ts), n. pl.; sing. {Lett} (l[ecr]t). (Ethnol.) An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia. | |
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Lette \Let"te\ (l[ecr]t"t[eit]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Letted}.] To let; to hinder. See {Let}, to hinder. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lewd \Lewd\ (l[umac]d), a. [Compar. {Lewder} (-[etil]r); superl. {Lewdest}.] [{OE}. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS. l[aemac]wed laical, belonging to the laity.] 1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. --Chaucer. So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. --Sir. J. Davies. 2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic] --Chaucer. But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason. --Acts xvii. 5. Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. --Southey. 3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous. --Dryden. 4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language. Syn: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute; sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous; rakish; debauched. -- {Lewd"ly}, adv. -- {Lewd"ness}, n. | |
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liad \l"i*ad\, n. [L. Ilias, -adis, Gr. [?], [?] (sc. [?]), fr. [?], [?], Ilium, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium, which is a poetical name of Troy.] A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer. | |
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Lid \Lid\ (l[icr]d), n. [AS. hlid, fr. hl[c6]dan (in comp.) to cover, shut; akin to OS. hl[c6]dan (in comp.), D. lid lid, OHG. hlit, G. augenlid eyelid, Icel. hli[edh] gate, gateway. [root]40.] 1. That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk. 2. The cover of the eye; an eyelid. --Shak. Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid. --Byron. 3. (Bot.) (a) The cover of the spore cases of mosses. (b) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian {Eucalypti}. (c) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts. | |
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Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lied} (l[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lying} (l[imac]"[icr]ng).] [OE. lien, li[yogh]en, le[yogh]en, leo[yogh]en, AS. le[a2]gan; akin to D. liegen, OS. & OHG. liogan, G. l[81]gen, Icel. lj[umac]ga, Sw. ljuga, Dan. lyve, Goth. liugan, Russ. lgate.] To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation. | |
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Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (-[ecr]d) or {Lit} (l[icr]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[ymac]htan, l[c6]htan, to shine. [root]122. See {Light}, n.] 1. To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up. If a thousand candles be all lighted from one. --Hakewill. And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay. Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison. 2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up. Ah, hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead. --Pope. One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. --F. Harrison. The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden. 3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. --Landor. {To light a fire}, to kindle the material of a fire. | |
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Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (-[ecr]d) [or] {Lit} (l[icr]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[c6]htan to alight, orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. l[c6]ht light. See {Light} not heavy, and cf. {Alight}, {Lighten} to make light.] 1. To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in. When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. --Gen. xxiv. 64. Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. --Tennyson. 2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.] It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer. 3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. [The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. --Sir. J. Davies. On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson. 4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon. On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due. --Milton. 5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into. The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive. --Locke. They shall light into atheistical company. --South. And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest. --Tennyson. | |
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Lit \Lit\, a form of the imp. & p. p. of {Light}. | |
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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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Lite \Lite\, a., adv., & n. Little. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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-lith \-lith\, -lite \-lite\ Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks. | |
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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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Lite \Lite\, a., adv., & n. Little. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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-lith \-lith\, -lite \-lite\ Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks. | |
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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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Lite \Lite\, a., adv., & n. Little. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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-lith \-lith\, -lite \-lite\ Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks. | |
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-lith \-lith\, -lite \-lite\ Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks. | |
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Lith \Lith\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Lie}, to recline, for lieth. --Chaucer. | |
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Lith \Lith\, n. [AS. li[edh].] A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts. --Chaucer. | |
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-lith \-lith\, -lite \-lite\ Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks. | |
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Lith \Lith\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Lie}, to recline, for lieth. --Chaucer. | |
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Lith \Lith\, n. [AS. li[edh].] A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts. --Chaucer. | |
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Lithe \Lithe\, v. i. & i. [Icel [?]. See {Listen}.] To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. | |
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Lithe \Lithe\, a. [AS. [?], for [?] tender, mild, gentle; akin to G. lind, gelind, OHG. lindi, Icel. linr, L. lenis soft, mild, lentus flexible, and AS. linnan to yield. Cf. {Lenient}.] 1. Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.] 2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. --Milton. | |
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Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. [?]. See {Lithe}, a.] To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.] | |
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Lithia \Lith"i*a\, n. [NL., from Gr. li`qos stone.] (Chem.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See {Lithium}. {Lithia emerald}. See {Hiddenite}. | |
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Litho \Lith"o\ (l[icr]th"[osl]) A combining form from Gr. li`qos, stone. | |
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Lithy \Lith"y\a. [See {Lithe}.] Easily bent; pliable. {Lithy tree} (Bot.), a European shrub ({Viburnum Lantana}); -- so named from its tough and flexible stem. | |
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d8Lituus \[d8]Lit"u*us\, n.; pl. {Litui}. [L.] 1. (Rom. Antig.) (a) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. (b) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note. 2. (Math.) A spiral whose polar equation is r^{2}[theta] = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line. | |
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Load \Load\, n. [OE. lode load, way; properly the same word as lode, but confused with lade, load, v. See {Lade}, {Lead}, v., {Lode}.] 1. A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load. He might such a load To town with his ass carry. --Gower. 2. The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading. 3. That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care. [bd] A . . . load of guilt.[b8] --Ray. [bd] Our life's a load.[b8] --Dryden. 4. A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters. 5. The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder. 6. Weight or violence of blows. [Obs.] --Milton. 7. (Mach.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. {Load line}, [or] {Load water line} (Naut.), the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded. Syn: Burden; lading; weight; cargo. See {Burden}. | |
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Load \Load\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Loading}. Loaden is obsolete, and laden belongs to lade.] 1. To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon. I strive all in vain to load the cart. --Gascoigne. I have loaden me with many spoils. --Shak. Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house. --Shak. | |
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Loath \Loath\ (l[omac]th), a. [OE. looth, loth, AS. l[be][?] hostile, odious; akin to OS. l[amac][edh], G. leid, Icel. lei[edh]r, Sw. led, G. leiden to suffer, OHG. l[c6]dan to suffer, go, cf. AS. l[c6][edh]an to go, Goth. leipan, and E. lead to guide.] 1. Hateful; odious; disliked. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. Full loth were him to curse for his tithes. --Chaucer. Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content. --Shak. | |
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Loathe \Loathe\ (l[omac][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loathed} (l[omac][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Loathing}.] [AS. l[be][edh]ian to hate. See {Loath}.] 1. To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. --Cowley. 2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate. The secret which I loathe. --Waller. She loathes the vital sir. --Dryden. Syn: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See {Hate}. | |
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Loathe \Loathe\, v. i. To feel disgust or nausea. [Obs.] | |
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Loathy \Loath"y\, a. Loathsome. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Lodde \Lod"de\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The capelin. | |
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Lode \Lode\, n. [AS. l[be]d way, journey, fr. l[c6][eb]an to go. See {Lead} to guide, and cf. {Load} a burden.] 1. A water course or way; a reach of water. Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. --C. Kingsley. 2. (Mining) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not. | |
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Loo \Loo\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Looed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Looing}.] To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick. [Written also {lu}.] --Goldsmith. | |
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Loot \Loot\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Looted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Looting}.] To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war. Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --L.O[?]phant. | |
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Loot \Loot\, n. [Hind. l[?]t, Skr. l[?]tra, l[?]ptra, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.] 1. The act of plundering. 2. Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city. | |
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Lot \Lot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lotting}.] To allot; to sort; to portion. [R.] {To lot on} [or] {upon}, to count or reckon upon; to expect with pleasure. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
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Lot \Lot\, n. [AS. hlot; akin to hle[a2]tan to cast lots, OS. hl[?]t lot, D. lot, G. loos, OHG. l[?]z, Icel. hlutr, Sw. lott, Dan. lod, Goth. hlauts. Cf. {Allot}, {Lotto}, {Lottery}.] 1. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate. But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay. --Spenser. 2. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots. The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. --Prov. xvi. 33. If we draw lots, he speeds. --Shak. 3. The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning. O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's Enough to bear. --Milton. He was but born to try The lot of man -- to suffer and to die. --Pope. 4. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot. I, this winter, met with a very large lot of English heads, chiefly of the reign of James I. --Walpole. 5. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city. The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York. --Kent. 6. A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so. [Colloq.] He wrote to her . . . he might be detained in London by a lot of business. --W. Black. 7. A prize in a lottery. [Obs.] --Evelyn. {To cast in one's lot with}, to share the fortunes of. {To cast lots}, to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforeseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined. {To draw lots}, to determine an event, or make a decision, by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer. {To pay scot and lot}, to pay taxes according to one's ability. See {Scot}. | |
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Lote \Lote\, n. [F. lotte.] (Zo[94]l.) The European burbot. | |
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Lote \Lote\, v. i. [AS. lutian.] To lurk; to lie hid. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lote \Lote\, n. [L. lotus, Gr. [?]. Cf. {Lotus}.] (Bot.) A large tree ({Celtis australis}), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also {nettle tree}. --Eng. Cyc. | |
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Loth \Loth\, a., Lothly \Loth"ly\, a. & adv., Lothsome \Loth"some\, a., See {Loath}, {Loathly}, etc. | |
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Loto \Lo"to\, n. See {Lotto}. | |
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Lotto \Lot"to\, n. [F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of German origin. See {Lot}.] A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called {keno}. [Often written {loto}.] | |
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Loto \Lo"to\, n. See {Lotto}. | |
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Lotto \Lot"to\, n. [F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of German origin. See {Lot}.] A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called {keno}. [Often written {loto}.] | |
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Lotto \Lot"to\, n. [F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of German origin. See {Lot}.] A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called {keno}. [Often written {loto}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Loud \Loud\, a. [Compar. {Louder}; superl. {Loudest}.] [OE. loud, lud, AS. hl[?]d; akin to OS. hl[?]d, D. luid, OHG. l[?]t, G. laut, L. -clutus, in inclutus, inclitus, celebrated, renowned, cluere to be called, Gr. [?] heard, loud, famous, [?] to hear, Skr. [?]ru. [?]. Cf. {Client}, {Listen}, {Slave} a serf.] 1. Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder. They were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. --Luke xxiii. 23. 2. Clamorous; boisterous. She is loud and stubborn. --Prov. vii. 11. 3. Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort. [Colloq.] 4. Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang] Syn: Noisy; boisterous; vociferous; clamorous; obstreperous; turbulent; blustering; vehement. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Loud \Loud\, adv. [AS. hl[umac]de.] With loudness; loudly. To speak loud in public assemblies. --Addison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lout \Lout\, v. i. [OE. louten, luten, AS. l[?]tan; akin to Icel. l[?]ta, Dan. lude, OHG. l[?]z[?]n to lie hid.] To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lout \Lout\, n. [Formerly also written lowt.] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. --Sir P. Sidney. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lout \Lout\, v. t. To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Low \Low\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lowing}.] [OE. lowen, AS. hl[?]wan; akin to D. loeijen, OHG. hl[?]jan, hluojan.] To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. --Gray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lute \Lute\, n. [L. lutum mud, clay: cf. OF. lut.] 1. (Chem.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also {luting}. 2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. 3. (Brick Making) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lute \Lute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Luted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Luting}.] To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lute \Lute\, n. [OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. la[a3]t, It. li[a3]to, le[a3]to, Sp. la[a3]d, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. al'[?]d; al the + '[?]d wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp.] (Mus.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or [bd]sides,[b8] arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lute \Lute\, v. i. To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lute \Lute\, v. t. To play on a lute, or as on a lute. Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. --Tennyson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Luteo- \Lu"te*o-\ [L. luteus.] (Chem.) A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Luth \Luth\, n. [F.] (Zo[94]l.) The leatherback. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lythe \Lythe\ (l[imac]th), n. (Zo[94]l.) The European pollack; -- called also {laith}, and {leet}. [Scot.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lythe \Lythe\ (l[imac][th]), a. [See {Lithe}, a.] Soft; flexible. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait}, {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lythe \Lythe\ (l[imac]th), n. (Zo[94]l.) The European pollack; -- called also {laith}, and {leet}. [Scot.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lythe \Lythe\ (l[imac][th]), a. [See {Lithe}, a.] Soft; flexible. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait}, {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Lytta \[d8]Lyt"ta\ (l[icr]t"t[adot]), n.; pl. {Lytt[91]} (-t[emac]). [L., a worm said to grow under the tongue of dogs, and to cause canine madness, fr. Gr. ly`tta, ly`ssa, lit., madness.] (Anat.) A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
La Due, MO (village, FIPS 39638) Location: 38.31275 N, 93.87776 W Population (1990): 20 (12 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Ladd, IL (village, FIPS 40598) Location: 41.38266 N, 89.21431 W Population (1990): 1283 (542 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Ladue, MO (city, FIPS 39656) Location: 38.63684 N, 90.38160 W Population (1990): 8847 (3384 housing units) Area: 22.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63124 | |
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Laotto, IN Zip code(s): 46763 | |
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Latty, OH (village, FIPS 41986) Location: 41.08810 N, 84.58337 W Population (1990): 205 (73 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Lawtey, FL (city, FIPS 39700) Location: 30.04560 N, 82.07077 W Population (1990): 676 (284 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32058 | |
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Lead, SD (city, FIPS 36220) Location: 44.35213 N, 103.76693 W Population (1990): 3632 (1654 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Leaday, TX Zip code(s): 76888 | |
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Leawood, KS (city, FIPS 39075) Location: 38.90712 N, 94.62520 W Population (1990): 19693 (7210 housing units) Area: 38.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66206, 66209, 66211 Leawood, MO (village, FIPS 41132) Location: 37.03340 N, 94.49050 W Population (1990): 736 (261 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Leedey, OK (town, FIPS 42050) Location: 35.86948 N, 99.34499 W Population (1990): 468 (251 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73654 | |
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Leith, ND (city, FIPS 45860) Location: 46.35991 N, 101.63729 W Population (1990): 43 (28 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58551 | |
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Leota, MN Zip code(s): 56153 | |
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Leoti, KS (city, FIPS 39550) Location: 38.48303 N, 101.35719 W Population (1990): 1738 (760 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67861 | |
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Letha, ID Zip code(s): 83636 | |
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Lithia, FL Zip code(s): 33547 Lithia, VA Zip code(s): 24066 | |
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Lloyd, MT Zip code(s): 59535 | |
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Loda, IL (village, FIPS 44264) Location: 40.51671 N, 88.07535 W Population (1990): 390 (178 housing units) Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60948 | |
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Lodi, CA (city, FIPS 42202) Location: 38.12325 N, 121.29442 W Population (1990): 51874 (19676 housing units) Area: 27.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95240, 95242 Lodi, MO Zip code(s): 63950 Lodi, NJ (borough, FIPS 41100) Location: 40.87902 N, 74.08120 W Population (1990): 22355 (9472 housing units) Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07644 Lodi, NY (village, FIPS 43214) Location: 42.61330 N, 76.82249 W Population (1990): 364 (152 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14860 Lodi, OH (village, FIPS 44604) Location: 41.03366 N, 82.01313 W Population (1990): 3042 (1271 housing units) Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44254 Lodi, WI (city, FIPS 45350) Location: 43.31640 N, 89.53207 W Population (1990): 2093 (833 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53555 | |
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Lott, TX (city, FIPS 44176) Location: 31.20602 N, 97.03335 W Population (1990): 775 (348 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76656 | |
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Lottie, LA Zip code(s): 70756 | |
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Lydia, LA (CDP, FIPS 46755) Location: 29.92449 N, 91.78238 W Population (1990): 1136 (404 housing units) Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LADY J. Nehmer et al IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-13(8):913-923 (Aug 1987)]. (1996-06-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LAT {Local Area Transport} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ld 1. 2. (1999-03-19) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LDT Logic Design Translator. Computer system design analysis. [Sammet 1969, p. 621]. (1994-12-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LED | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LEDA {Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Leda A multi-paradigm language (imperative, declarative, procedural, applicative, functional, logic, and object-oriented!) by Tim Budd U, 1990-1993. ["Blending Imperative and Relational Programming", Tim Budd, IEEE Software 8(1):58-65 (Jan 1991)]. Forthcoming book. {(ftp://cs.orst.edu/pub/budd/leda/)}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LEDA {Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Leda A multi-paradigm language (imperative, declarative, procedural, applicative, functional, logic, and object-oriented!) by Tim Budd U, 1990-1993. ["Blending Imperative and Relational Programming", Tim Budd, IEEE Software 8(1):58-65 (Jan 1991)]. Forthcoming book. {(ftp://cs.orst.edu/pub/budd/leda/)}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
leet {elite} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LIDO An input language for the attribute evaluator generator {LIGA} (a successor of {GAG} and a subsystem of the {Eli} compiler-compiler). LIDO is derived from GAG's input language {ALADIN}. ["LIDO: A Specification Language for Attribute Grammars", U. Kastens (Oct 1989)]. (1994-10-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lite "lightweight") A suffix denoting a scaled-down or crippled product, often designed to be distributed without charge, e.g. on a magazine {coverdisk}. An example is {pklite}. (1995-10-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LITHE Object-oriented with extensible syntax. "LITHE: A Language Combining a Flexible Syntax and Classes", D. Sandberg, Conf Rec 9th Ann ACM Sym POPL, ACM 1982, pp.142-145. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
load 1. To copy {data} (often {program} {code} to be {run}) into {memory}, possibly {parsing} it somehow in the process. E.g. "{WordPerfect} can't load this {RTF} file - are you sure it didn't get corrupted in the {download}?" Opposite of {save}. 2. The degree to which a computer, {network}, or other resource is used, sometimes expressed as a percentage of the maximum available. E.g. "What kind of CPU load does that program give?", "The network's constantly running at 100% load". Sometimes used, by extension, to mean "to increase the level of use of a resource". E.g. "Loading a spreadsheet really loads the CPU". See also: {load balancing}. 3. To {install} a piece of {software} onto a system. E.g. "The computer guy is gonna come load Excel on my laptop for me". This usage is widely considered to be incorrect. (2002-07-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Lout Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston language is procedural, with {Scribe}-like {syntax}. Lout features equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages and automatic cross-referencing. Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very much easier to write than {troff} of {TeX} {macro}s because Lout is a {high-level language}, the outcome of an eight-year research project that went back to the beginning. Version 2.05 includes a translator from Lout to {PostScript} and documentation. and runs under {Unix} and on the {Amiga}. {Author's site (ftp://ftp.cs.su.oz.au/jeff/lout.2.03.tar.Z)}, {(ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/lout.tar.Z)}. {Amiga (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/text/dtp/loutBin203.lha)}. (1993-07-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lt (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LT-2 An early system on the {IBM 701}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1995-01-31) | |
From The Elements (22Oct97) [elements]: | |
lead Symbol: Pb Atomic number: 82 Atomic weight: 207.19 Heavy dull grey ductile metallic element, belongs to group 14. Used in building construction, lead-place accumulators, bullets and shot, and is part of solder, pewter, bearing metals, type metals and fusible alloys. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lot (Heb. goral, a "pebble"), a small stone used in casting lots (Num. 33:54; Jonah 1:7). The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a method of ascertaining the divine will (Prov. 16:33), and in serious cases of doubt (Esther 3:7). Thus the lot was used at the division of the land of Canaan among the serveral tribes (Num. 26:55; 34:13), at the detection of Achan (Josh. 7:14, 18), the election of Saul to be king (1 Sam. 10:20, 21), the distribution of the priestly offices of the temple service (1 Chr. 24:3, 5, 19; Luke 1:9), and over the two goats at the feast of Atonement (Lev. 16:8). Matthias, who was "numbered with the eleven" (Acts 1:24-26), was chosen by lot. This word also denotes a portion or an inheritance (Josh. 15:1; Ps. 125:3; Isa. 17:4), and a destiny, as assigned by God (Ps. 16:5; Dan. 12:13). Lot, (Heb. lot), a covering; veil, the son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham (Gen. 11:27). On the death of his father, he was left in charge of his grandfather Terah (31), after whose death he accompanied his uncle Abraham into Canaan (12:5), thence into Egypt (10), and back again to Canaan (13:1). After this he separated from him and settled in Sodom (13:5-13). There his righteous soul was "vexed" from day to day (2 Pet. 2:7), and he had great cause to regret this act. Not many years after the separation he was taken captive by Chedorlaomer, and was rescued by Abraham (Gen. 14). At length, when the judgment of God descended on the guilty cities of the plain (Gen. 19:1-20), Lot was miraculously delivered. When fleeing from the doomed city his wife "looked back from behind him, and became a pillar of salt." There is to this day a peculiar crag at the south end of the Dead Sea, near Kumran, which the Arabs call Bint Sheik Lot, i.e., Lot's wife. It is "a tall, isolated needle of rock, which really does bear a curious resemblance to an Arab woman with a child upon her shoulder." From the words of warning in Luke 17:32, "Remember Lot's wife," it would seem as if she had gone back, or tarried so long behind in the desire to save some of her goods, that she became involved in the destruction which fell on the city, and became a stiffened corpse, fixed for a time in the saline incrustations. She became "a pillar of salt", i.e., as some think, of asphalt. (See {SALT}.) Lot and his daughters sought refuge first in Zoar, and then, fearing to remain there longer, retired to a cave in the neighbouring mountains (Gen. 19:30). Lot has recently been connected with the people called on the Egyptian monuments Rotanu or Lotanu, who is supposed to have been the hero of the Edomite tribe Lotan. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lud (1.) The fourth son of Shem (Gen. 10:22; 1 Chr. 1:17), ancestor of the Lydians probably. (2.) One of the Hamitic tribes descended from Mizraim (Gen. 10:13), a people of Africa (Ezek. 27:10; 30:5), on the west of Egypt. The people called Lud were noted archers (Isa. 66:19; comp. Jer. 46:9). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Luhith made of boards, a Moabitish place between Zoar and Horonaim (Isa. 15:5; Jer. 48:5). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lydda a town in the tribe of Ephraim, mentioned only in the New Testament (Acts 9:32, 35, 38) as the scene of Peter's miracle in healing the paralytic AEneas. It lay about 9 miles east of Joppa, on the road from the sea-port to Jerusalem. In the Old Testament (1 Chr. 8:12) it is called Lod. It was burned by the Romans, but was afterwards rebuilt, and was known by the name of Diospolis. Its modern name is Ludd. The so-called patron saint of England, St. George, is said to have been born here. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lydia (1.) Ezek. 30:5 (Heb. Lud), a province in the west of Asia Minor, which derived its name from the fourth son of Shem (Gen. 10:22). It was bounded on the east by the greater Phrygia, and on the west by Ionia and the AEgean Sea. (2.) A woman of Thyatira, a "seller of purple," who dwelt in Philippi (Acts 16:14, 15). She was not a Jewess but a proselyte. The Lord opened her heart as she heard the gospel from the lips of Paul (16:13). She thus became the first in Europe who embraced Christianity. She was a person apparently of considerable wealth, for she could afford to give a home to Paul and his companions. (See {THYATIRA}.) | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Laadah, to assemble together; to testify; passing over | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lahad, praising; to confess | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lod, nativity; generation | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lot, Lotan, wrapt up; hidden; covered; myrrh; rosin | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lud, Ludim, same as Lod | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Luhith, made of boards | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lydda, Lydia, a standing pool |