English Dictionary: lip-read | by the DICT Development Group |
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L91vorotatory \L[91]"vo*ro"ta*to*ry\, a. Same as {Levorotatory}. Cf. {Dextrorotatory}. | |
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Levorotatory \Le`vo*ro"ta*to*ry\ (-r[omac]"t[adot]*t[osl]*r[ycr]), a. [Levo- + rotatory.] (Chem. & Physics) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc. [Written also {l[91]vorotatory}.] | |
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L91vorotatory \L[91]"vo*ro"ta*to*ry\, a. Same as {Levorotatory}. Cf. {Dextrorotatory}. | |
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Levorotatory \Le`vo*ro"ta*to*ry\ (-r[omac]"t[adot]*t[osl]*r[ycr]), a. [Levo- + rotatory.] (Chem. & Physics) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc. [Written also {l[91]vorotatory}.] | |
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Labor Day \Labor Day\ In most of the States and Territories of the United States, a day, usually the first Monday of September, set aside as a legal holiday, in honor of, or in the interest of, workingmen as a class. Also, a similar holiday in Canada, Australia, etc. | |
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Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Laboratories}. [Shortened fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See {Elaborate}, {Labor.}] [Formerly written also {elaboratory.}] The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile. | |
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Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Laboratories}. [Shortened fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See {Elaborate}, {Labor.}] [Formerly written also {elaboratory.}] The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile. | |
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Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See {Labor}, n.] [Written also {labour}.] 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. --Milton. 2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. 3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville. The line too labors,and the words move slow. --Pope. To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. 5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. -- Totten. | |
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Labored \La"bored\, a. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. | |
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Laboredly \La"bored*ly\, adv. In a labored manner; with labor. | |
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Labrador \Lab`ra*dor"\, n. A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. {Labrador duck} (Zo[94]l.), a sea duck ({Camtolaimus Labradorius}) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878. {Labrador feldspar}. See {Labradorite}. {Labrador tea} (Bot.), a name of two low, evergreen shrubs of the genus {Ledum} ({L. palustre} and {L. latifolium}), found in Northern Europe and America. They are used as tea in British America, and in Scandinavia as a substitute for hops. | |
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Labrador \Lab`ra*dor"\, n. A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. {Labrador duck} (Zo[94]l.), a sea duck ({Camtolaimus Labradorius}) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878. {Labrador feldspar}. See {Labradorite}. {Labrador tea} (Bot.), a name of two low, evergreen shrubs of the genus {Ledum} ({L. palustre} and {L. latifolium}), found in Northern Europe and America. They are used as tea in British America, and in Scandinavia as a substitute for hops. | |
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Skunkhead \Skunk"head`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The surf duck. (b) A duck ({Camptolaimus Labradorus}) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also {Labrador duck}, and {pied duck}. | |
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Labrador \Lab`ra*dor"\, n. A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. {Labrador duck} (Zo[94]l.), a sea duck ({Camtolaimus Labradorius}) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878. {Labrador feldspar}. See {Labradorite}. {Labrador tea} (Bot.), a name of two low, evergreen shrubs of the genus {Ledum} ({L. palustre} and {L. latifolium}), found in Northern Europe and America. They are used as tea in British America, and in Scandinavia as a substitute for hops. | |
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Labrador \Lab`ra*dor"\, n. A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. {Labrador duck} (Zo[94]l.), a sea duck ({Camtolaimus Labradorius}) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878. {Labrador feldspar}. See {Labradorite}. {Labrador tea} (Bot.), a name of two low, evergreen shrubs of the genus {Ledum} ({L. palustre} and {L. latifolium}), found in Northern Europe and America. They are used as tea in British America, and in Scandinavia as a substitute for hops. | |
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Tea \Tea\, n. [Chin. tsh[be], Prov. Chin. te: cf. F. th[82].] 1. The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree ({Thea, [or] Camellia, Chinensis}). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries. Note: Teas are classed as green or black, according to their color or appearance, the kinds being distinguished also by various other characteristic differences, as of taste, odor, and the like. The color, flavor, and quality are dependent upon the treatment which the leaves receive after being gathered. The leaves for green tea are heated, or roasted slightly, in shallow pans over a wood fire, almost immediately after being gathered, after which they are rolled with the hands upon a table, to free them from a portion of their moisture, and to twist them, and are then quickly dried. Those intended for black tea are spread out in the air for some time after being gathered, and then tossed about with the hands until they become soft and flaccid, when they are roasted for a few minutes, and rolled, and having then been exposed to the air for a few hours in a soft and moist state, are finally dried slowly over a charcoal fire. The operation of roasting and rolling is sometimes repeated several times, until the leaves have become of the proper color. The principal sorts of green tea are Twankay, the poorest kind; Hyson skin, the refuse of Hyson; Hyson, Imperial, and Gunpowder, fine varieties; and Young Hyson, a choice kind made from young leaves gathered early in the spring. Those of black tea are Bohea, the poorest kind; Congou; Oolong; Souchong, one of the finest varieties; and Pekoe, a fine-flavored kind, made chiefly from young spring buds. See {Bohea}, {Congou}, {Gunpowder tea}, under {Gunpowder}, {Hyson}, {Oolong}, and {Souchong}. --K. Johnson. Tomlinson. Note: [bd]No knowledge of . . . [tea] appears to have reached Europe till after the establishment of intercourse between Portugal and China in 1517. The Portuguese, however, did little towards the introduction of the herb into Europe, and it was not till the Dutch established themselves at Bantam early in 17th century, that these adventurers learned from the Chinese the habit of tea drinking, and brought it to Europe.[b8] --Encyc. Brit. 2. A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage. 3. Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea. 4. The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper. {Arabian tea}, the leaves of {Catha edulis}; also (Bot.), the plant itself. See {Kat}. {Assam tea}, tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the year 1850. {Australian}, [or] {Botany Bay}, {tea} (Bot.), a woody clambing plant ({Smilax glycyphylla}). {Brazilian tea}. (a) The dried leaves of {Lantana pseodothea}, used in Brazil as a substitute for tea. (b) The dried leaves of {Stachytarpheta mutabilis}, used for adulterating tea, and also, in Austria, for preparing a beverage. {Labrador tea}. (Bot.) See under {Labrador}. {New Jersey tea} (Bot.), an American shrub, the leaves of which were formerly used as a substitute for tea; redroot. See {Redroot}. {New Zealand tea}. (Bot.) See under {New Zealand}. {Oswego tea}. (Bot.) See {Oswego tea}. {Paraguay tea}, mate. See 1st {Mate}. {Tea board}, a board or tray for holding a tea set. {Tea bug} (Zo[94]l.), an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by sucking the juice of the tender leaves. {Tea caddy}, a small box for holding tea. {Tea chest}, a small, square wooden case, usually lined with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. {Tea clam} (Zo[94]l.), a small quahaug. [Local, U. S.] {Tea garden}, a public garden where tea and other refreshments are served. {Tea plant} (Bot.), any plant, the leaves of which are used in making a beverage by infusion; specifically, {Thea Chinensis}, from which the tea of commerce is obtained. {Tea rose} (Bot.), a delicate and graceful variety of the rose ({Rosa Indica}, var. {odorata}), introduced from China, and so named from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. {Tea service}, the appurtenances or utensils required for a tea table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot, milk pitcher, and sugar dish. {Tea set}, a tea service. {Tea table}, a table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. {Tea taster}, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea by tasting. {Tea tree} (Bot.), the tea plant of China. See {Tea plant}, above. | |
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Labradorite \Lab"ra*dor`ite\, n. (Min.) A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See {Feldspar}. | |
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Labret \La"bret\, n. [L. labrum lip.] (Anthropology) A piece of wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages. | |
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Labroid \La"broid\, a. [Labrus + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.) Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family {Labrid[91]}, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples. | |
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Levorotation \Le`vo*ro*ta"tion\, n. [Written also {l[ae]vorotation}.] [Levo- + rotation.] (Physics & Chem.) Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light. | |
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Laparotomy \Lap`a*rot"o*my\, n. [Gr. [?] loins + [?] to cut.] (Surg.) A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the C[91]sarean section. | |
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Lapboard \Lap"board`\, n. A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors. | |
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Nettle \Net"tle\, n. [AS. netele; akin to D. netel, G. nessel, OHG. nezz[8b]la, nazza, Dan. nelde, n[84]lde, Sw. n[84]ssla; cf, Lith. notere.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Urtica}, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. {Urtica gracitis} is common in the Northern, and {U. cham[91]dryoides} in the Southern, United States. the common European species, {U. urens} and {U. dioica}, are also found in the Eastern united States. {U. pilulifera} is the Roman nettle of England. Note: The term nettle has been given to many plants related to, or to some way resembling, the true nettle; as: {Australian nettle}, a stinging tree or shrub of the genus {Laportea} (as {L. gigas} and {L. moroides}); -- also called {nettle tree}. {Bee nettle}, {Hemp nettle}, a species of {Galeopsis}. See under {Hemp}. {Blind nettle}, {Dead nettle}, a harmless species of {Lamium}. {False nettle} ({B[91]hmeria cylindrica}), a plant common in the United States, and related to the true nettles. {Hedge nettle}, a species of {Stachys}. See under {Hedge}. {Horse nettle} ({Solanum Carolinense}). See under {Horse}. {nettle tree}. (a) Same as {Hackberry}. (b) See {Australian nettle} (above). {Spurge nettle}, a stinging American herb of the Spurge family ({Jatropha urens}). {Wood nettle}, a plant ({Laportea Canadensis}) which stings severely, and is related to the true nettles. {Nettle cloth}, a kind of thick cotton stuff, japanned, and used as a substitute for leather for various purposes. {Nettle rash} (Med.), an eruptive disease resembling the effects of whipping with nettles. {Sea nettle} (Zo[94]l.), a medusa. | |
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Lavaret \Lav"a*ret\, n. [F.] (Zo[94]l.) A European whitefish ({Coregonus laveretus}), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland. | |
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Lave-eared \Lave"-eared`\, a. [Cf. W. llaf that extends round, llipa flaccid, flapping, G. lapp flabby, lappohr flap ear.] Having large, pendent ears. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Lay \Lay\, a. [F. lai, L. laicus, Gr. [?] of or from the people, lay, from [?], [?], people. Cf. {Laic}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother. 2. Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.[Obs.] 3. Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease. {Lay baptism} (Eccl.), baptism administered by a lay person. --F. G. Lee. {Lay brother} (R. C. Ch.), one received into a convent of monks under the three vows, but not in holy orders. {Lay clerk} (Eccl.), a layman who leads the responses of the congregation, etc., in the church service. --Hook. {Lay days} (Com.), time allowed in a charter party for taking in and discharging cargo. --McElrath. {Lay elder}. See 2d {Elder}, 3, note. | |
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Leaf \Leaf\, n.; pl. {Leaves}. [OE. leef, lef, leaf, AS. le[a0]f; akin to S. l[?]f, OFries. laf, D. loof foliage, G. laub,OHG. loub leaf, foliage, Icel. lauf, Sw. l[94]f, Dan. l[94]v, Goth. laufs; cf. Lith. lapas. Cf. {Lodge}.] 1. (Bot.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage. Note: Such leaves usually consist of a blade, or lamina, supported upon a leafstalk or petiole, which, continued through the blade as the midrib, gives off woody ribs and veins that support the cellular texture. The petiole has usually some sort of an appendage on each side of its base, which is called the stipule. The green parenchyma of the leaf is covered with a thin epiderm pierced with closable microscopic openings, known as stomata. 2. (Bot.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril. Note: In this view every part of a plant, except the root and the stem, is either a leaf, or is composed of leaves more or less modified and transformed. 3. Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. {Leaf beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any beetle which feeds upon leaves; esp., any species of the family {Chrysomelid[91]}, as the potato beetle and helmet beetle. {Leaf bridge}, a draw-bridge having a platform or leaf which swings vertically on hinges. {Leaf bud} (Bot.), a bud which develops into leaves or a leafy branch. {Leaf butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), any butterfly which, in the form and colors of its wings, resembles the leaves of plants upon which it rests; esp., butterflies of the genus {Kallima}, found in Southern Asia and the East Indies. {Leaf crumpler} (Zo[94]l.), a small moth ({Phycis indigenella}), the larva of which feeds upon leaves of the apple tree, and forms its nest by crumpling and fastening leaves together in clusters. {Leaf cutter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of various species of wild bees of the genus {Megachile}, which cut rounded pieces from the edges of leaves, or the petals of flowers, to be used in the construction of their nests, which are made in holes and crevices, or in a leaf rolled up for the purpose. Among the common American species are {M. brevis} and {M. centuncularis}. Called also {rose-cutting bee}. {Leaf fat}, the fat which lies in leaves or layers within the body of an animal. {Leaf flea} (Zo[94]l.), a jumping plant louse of the family {Psyllid[91]}. {Leaf frog} (Zo[94]l.), any tree frog of the genus {Phyllomedusa}. {Leaf green}.(Bot.) See {Chlorophyll}. {Leaf hopper} (Zo[94]l.), any small jumping hemipterous insect of the genus {Tettigonia}, and allied genera. They live upon the leaves and twigs of plants. See {Live hopper}. {Leaf insect} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several genera and species of orthopterous insects, esp. of the genus {Phyllium}, in which the wings, and sometimes the legs, resemble leaves in color and form. They are common in Southern Asia and the East Indies. {Leaf lard}, lard from leaf fat. See under {Lard}. {Leaf louse} (Zo[94]l.), an aphid. {Leaf metal}, metal in thin leaves, as gold, silver, or tin. {Leaf miner} (Zo[94]l.), any one of various small lepidopterous and dipterous insects, which, in the larval stages, burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as, the pear-tree leaf miner ({Lithocolletis geminatella}). {Leaf notcher} (Zo[94]l.), a pale bluish green beetle ({Artipus Floridanus}), which, in Florida, eats the edges of the leaves of orange trees. {Leaf roller} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of any tortricid moth which makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of plants. See {Tortrix}. {Leaf scar} (Bot.), the cicatrix on a stem whence a leaf has fallen. {Leaf sewer} (Zo[94]l.), a tortricid moth, whose caterpillar makes a nest by rolling up a leaf and fastening the edges together with silk, as if sewn; esp., {Phoxopteris nubeculana}, which feeds upon the apple tree. {Leaf sight}, a hinges sight on a firearm, which can be raised or folded down. {Leaf trace} (Bot.), one or more fibrovascular bundles, which may be traced down an endogenous stem from the base of a leaf. {Leaf tier} (Zo[94]l.), a tortricid moth whose larva makes a nest by fastening the edges of a leaf together with silk; esp., {Teras cinderella}, found on the apple tree. {Leaf valve}, a valve which moves on a hinge. {Leaf wasp} (Zo[94]l.), a sawfiy. {To turn over a new leaf}, to make a radical change for the better in one's way of living or doing. [Colloq.] They were both determined to turn over a new leaf. --Richardson. | |
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Leeboard \Lee"board`\ (l[emac]"b[omac]rd`), n. A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught. | |
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Leopard \Leop"ard\ (l[ecr]p"[etil]rd), n. [OE. leopart, leparde, lebarde, libbard, OF. leopard, liepart, F. l[82]opard, L. leopardus, fr. Gr. leo`pardos; le`wn lion + pa`rdos pard. See {Lion}, and {Pard}.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal ({Felis leopardus}). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther ({Felis pardus}) is regarded as a variety of leopard. {Hunting leopard}. See {Cheetah}. {Leopard cat} (Zo[94]l.) any one of several species or varieties of small, spotted cats found in Africa, Southern Asia, and the East Indies; esp., {Felis Bengalensis}. {Leopard marmot}. See {Gopher}, 2. | |
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Leopard \Leop"ard\ (l[ecr]p"[etil]rd), n. [OE. leopart, leparde, lebarde, libbard, OF. leopard, liepart, F. l[82]opard, L. leopardus, fr. Gr. leo`pardos; le`wn lion + pa`rdos pard. See {Lion}, and {Pard}.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal ({Felis leopardus}). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther ({Felis pardus}) is regarded as a variety of leopard. {Hunting leopard}. See {Cheetah}. {Leopard cat} (Zo[94]l.) any one of several species or varieties of small, spotted cats found in Africa, Southern Asia, and the East Indies; esp., {Felis Bengalensis}. {Leopard marmot}. See {Gopher}, 2. | |
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Leopard \Leop"ard\ (l[ecr]p"[etil]rd), n. [OE. leopart, leparde, lebarde, libbard, OF. leopard, liepart, F. l[82]opard, L. leopardus, fr. Gr. leo`pardos; le`wn lion + pa`rdos pard. See {Lion}, and {Pard}.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal ({Felis leopardus}). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther ({Felis pardus}) is regarded as a variety of leopard. {Hunting leopard}. See {Cheetah}. {Leopard cat} (Zo[94]l.) any one of several species or varieties of small, spotted cats found in Africa, Southern Asia, and the East Indies; esp., {Felis Bengalensis}. {Leopard marmot}. See {Gopher}, 2. | |
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Gopher \Go"pher\, n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See {Gauffer}.] (Zo[94]l.) 1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera {Geomys} and {Thomomys}, of the family {Geomyid[91]}; -- called also {pocket gopher} and {pouched rat}. See {Pocket gopher}, and {Tucan}. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the earth. 2. One of several western American species of the genus {Spermophilus}, of the family {Sciurid[91]}; as, the gray gopher ({Spermophilus Franklini}) and the striped gopher ({S. tridecemlineatus}); -- called also {striped prairie squirrel}, {leopard marmot}, and {leopard spermophile}. See {Spermophile}. 3. A large land tortoise ({Testudo Carilina}) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows. 4. A large burrowing snake ({Spilotes Couperi}) of the Southern United States. {Gopher drift} (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. --Raymond. | |
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Leopard \Leop"ard\ (l[ecr]p"[etil]rd), n. [OE. leopart, leparde, lebarde, libbard, OF. leopard, liepart, F. l[82]opard, L. leopardus, fr. Gr. leo`pardos; le`wn lion + pa`rdos pard. See {Lion}, and {Pard}.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal ({Felis leopardus}). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther ({Felis pardus}) is regarded as a variety of leopard. {Hunting leopard}. See {Cheetah}. {Leopard cat} (Zo[94]l.) any one of several species or varieties of small, spotted cats found in Africa, Southern Asia, and the East Indies; esp., {Felis Bengalensis}. {Leopard marmot}. See {Gopher}, 2. | |
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Gopher \Go"pher\, n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See {Gauffer}.] (Zo[94]l.) 1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera {Geomys} and {Thomomys}, of the family {Geomyid[91]}; -- called also {pocket gopher} and {pouched rat}. See {Pocket gopher}, and {Tucan}. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the earth. 2. One of several western American species of the genus {Spermophilus}, of the family {Sciurid[91]}; as, the gray gopher ({Spermophilus Franklini}) and the striped gopher ({S. tridecemlineatus}); -- called also {striped prairie squirrel}, {leopard marmot}, and {leopard spermophile}. See {Spermophile}. 3. A large land tortoise ({Testudo Carilina}) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows. 4. A large burrowing snake ({Spilotes Couperi}) of the Southern United States. {Gopher drift} (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. --Raymond. | |
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Gopher \Go"pher\, n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See {Gauffer}.] (Zo[94]l.) 1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera {Geomys} and {Thomomys}, of the family {Geomyid[91]}; -- called also {pocket gopher} and {pouched rat}. See {Pocket gopher}, and {Tucan}. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the earth. 2. One of several western American species of the genus {Spermophilus}, of the family {Sciurid[91]}; as, the gray gopher ({Spermophilus Franklini}) and the striped gopher ({S. tridecemlineatus}); -- called also {striped prairie squirrel}, {leopard marmot}, and {leopard spermophile}. See {Spermophile}. 3. A large land tortoise ({Testudo Carilina}) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows. 4. A large burrowing snake ({Spilotes Couperi}) of the Southern United States. {Gopher drift} (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. --Raymond. | |
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Leopard's bane \Leop"ard's bane`\ (l[ecr]p"[etil]rdz b[amac]n`). (Bot.) A name of several harmless plants, as {Arnica montana}, {Senecio Doronicum}, and {Paris quadrifolia}. | |
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Mountain \Moun"tain\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer. 2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great. The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron. {Mountain antelope} (Zo[94]l.), the goral. {Mountain ash} (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana}, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the {P. aucuparia}, or rowan tree. {Mountain barometer}, a portable barometer, adapted for safe transportation, used in measuring the heights of mountains. {Mountain beaver} (Zo[94]l.), the sewellel. {Mountain blue} (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite. {Mountain cat} (Zo[94]l.), the catamount. See {Catamount}. {Mountain chain}, a series of contiguous mountain ranges, generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves. {Mountain cock} (Zo[94]l.), capercailzie. See {Capercailzie}. {Mountain cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling cork in its texture. {Mountain crystal}. See under {Crystal}. {Mountain damson} (Bot.), a large tree of the genus {Simaruba} ({S. amarga}) growing in the West Indies, which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes used in medicine. {Mountain dew}, Scotch whisky, so called because often illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous] {Mountain ebony} (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and in tanning. {Mountain flax} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very fine fibers; amianthus. See {Amianthus}. {Mountain fringe} (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under {Fumitory}. {Mountain goat}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mazama}. {Mountain green}. (Min.) (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper. (b) See {Green earth}, under {Green}, a. {Mountain holly} (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries. It is found in the Northern United States. {Mountain laurel} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is poisonous. Called also {American laurel}, {ivy bush}, and {calico bush}. See {Kalmia}. {Mountain leather} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling leather in its texture. {Mountain licorice} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Trifolium} ({T. Alpinum}). {Mountain limestone} (Geol.), a series of marine limestone strata below the coal measures, and above the old red standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of {Geology}. {Mountain linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the twite. {Mountain magpie}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker. (b) The European gray shrike. {Mountain mahogany} (Bot.) See under {Mahogany}. {Mountain meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence. {Mountain milk} (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime. {Mountain mint}. (Bot.) See {Mint}. {Mountain ousel} (Zo[94]l.), the ring ousel; -- called also {mountain thrush} and {mountain colley}. See {Ousel}. {Mountain pride}, [or] {Mountain green} (Bot.), a tree of Jamaica ({Spathelia simplex}), which has an unbranched palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate leaves. {Mountain quail} (Zo[94]l.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender, plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are dark gray. {Mountain range}, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction. {Mountain rice}. (Bot.) (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation, in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States. (b) An American genus of grasses ({Oryzopsis}). {Mountain rose} (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa alpina}). {Mountain soap} (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish color, used in crayon painting; saxonite. {Mountain sorrel} (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray. {Mountain sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), the European tree sparrow. {Mountain spinach}. (Bot.) See {Orach}. {Mountain tobacco} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica montana}) of Europe; called also {leopard's bane}. {Mountain witch} (Zo[94]l.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the genus {Geotrygon}. | |
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Leopard's bane \Leop"ard's bane`\ (l[ecr]p"[etil]rdz b[amac]n`). (Bot.) A name of several harmless plants, as {Arnica montana}, {Senecio Doronicum}, and {Paris quadrifolia}. | |
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Mountain \Moun"tain\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer. 2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great. The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron. {Mountain antelope} (Zo[94]l.), the goral. {Mountain ash} (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana}, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the {P. aucuparia}, or rowan tree. {Mountain barometer}, a portable barometer, adapted for safe transportation, used in measuring the heights of mountains. {Mountain beaver} (Zo[94]l.), the sewellel. {Mountain blue} (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite. {Mountain cat} (Zo[94]l.), the catamount. See {Catamount}. {Mountain chain}, a series of contiguous mountain ranges, generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves. {Mountain cock} (Zo[94]l.), capercailzie. See {Capercailzie}. {Mountain cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling cork in its texture. {Mountain crystal}. See under {Crystal}. {Mountain damson} (Bot.), a large tree of the genus {Simaruba} ({S. amarga}) growing in the West Indies, which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes used in medicine. {Mountain dew}, Scotch whisky, so called because often illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous] {Mountain ebony} (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and in tanning. {Mountain flax} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very fine fibers; amianthus. See {Amianthus}. {Mountain fringe} (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under {Fumitory}. {Mountain goat}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mazama}. {Mountain green}. (Min.) (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper. (b) See {Green earth}, under {Green}, a. {Mountain holly} (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries. It is found in the Northern United States. {Mountain laurel} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is poisonous. Called also {American laurel}, {ivy bush}, and {calico bush}. See {Kalmia}. {Mountain leather} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling leather in its texture. {Mountain licorice} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Trifolium} ({T. Alpinum}). {Mountain limestone} (Geol.), a series of marine limestone strata below the coal measures, and above the old red standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of {Geology}. {Mountain linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the twite. {Mountain magpie}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker. (b) The European gray shrike. {Mountain mahogany} (Bot.) See under {Mahogany}. {Mountain meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence. {Mountain milk} (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime. {Mountain mint}. (Bot.) See {Mint}. {Mountain ousel} (Zo[94]l.), the ring ousel; -- called also {mountain thrush} and {mountain colley}. See {Ousel}. {Mountain pride}, [or] {Mountain green} (Bot.), a tree of Jamaica ({Spathelia simplex}), which has an unbranched palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate leaves. {Mountain quail} (Zo[94]l.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender, plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are dark gray. {Mountain range}, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction. {Mountain rice}. (Bot.) (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation, in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States. (b) An American genus of grasses ({Oryzopsis}). {Mountain rose} (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa alpina}). {Mountain soap} (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish color, used in crayon painting; saxonite. {Mountain sorrel} (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray. {Mountain sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), the European tree sparrow. {Mountain spinach}. (Bot.) See {Orach}. {Mountain tobacco} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica montana}) of Europe; called also {leopard's bane}. {Mountain witch} (Zo[94]l.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the genus {Geotrygon}. | |
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Leopardwood \Leop"ard*wood`\, n. (Bot.) See {Letterwood}. | |
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Letterwood \Let"ter*wood`\ (-w[oocr]d`), n. (Bot.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus {Brosimum} ({B. Aubletii}), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called {snakewood}, and {leopardwood}. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks. | |
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Leopardwood \Leop"ard*wood`\, n. (Bot.) See {Letterwood}. | |
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Letterwood \Let"ter*wood`\ (-w[oocr]d`), n. (Bot.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus {Brosimum} ({B. Aubletii}), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called {snakewood}, and {leopardwood}. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks. | |
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Lepered \Lep"ered\ (-[etil]rd), a. Affected or tainted with leprosy. | |
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Lever \Le"ver\ (l[emac]"v[etil]r [or] l[ecr]v"[etil]r; 277), n. [OE. levour, OF. leveor, prop., a lifter, fr. F. lever to raise, L. levare; akin to levis light in weight, E. levity, and perh. to E. light not heavy: cf. F. levier. Cf. {Alleviate}, {Elevate}, {Leaven}, {Legerdemain}, {Levee}, {Levy}, n.] 1. (Mech.) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures. 2. (Mach.) (a) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it. (b) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it. {Compound lever}, a machine consisting of two or more levers acting upon each other. {Lever escapement}. See {Escapement}. {Lever jack}. See {Jack}, n., 5. {Lever watch}, a watch having a vibrating lever to connect the action of the escape wheel with that of the balance. {Universal lever}, a machine formed by a combination of a lever with the wheel and axle, in such a manner as to convert the reciprocating motion of the lever into a continued rectilinear motion of some body to which the power is applied. | |
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Note: Watches are often distinguished by the kind of escapement used, as an {anchor watch}, a {lever watch}, a {chronometer watch}, etc. (see the Note under {Escapement}, n., 3); also, by the kind of case, as a {gold} or {silver watch}, an {open-faced watch}, a {hunting watch}, or {hunter}, etc. 6. (Naut.) (a) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. {Dogwatch}. (b) That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the {port watch}, and the {starboard watch}. {Anchor watch} (Naut.), a detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck when a vessel is at anchor. {To be on the watch}, to be looking steadily for some event. {Watch and ward} (Law), the charge or care of certain officers to keep a watch by night and a guard by day in towns, cities, and other districts, for the preservation of the public peace. --Wharton. --Burrill. {Watch and watch} (Naut.), the regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided. {Watch barrel}, the brass box in a watch, containing the mainspring. {Watch bell} (Naut.), a bell struck when the half-hour glass is run out, or at the end of each half hour. --Craig. {Watch bill} (Naut.), a list of the officers and crew of a ship as divided into watches, with their stations. --Totten. {Watch case}, the case, or outside covering, of a watch; also, a case for holding a watch, or in which it is kept. {Watch chain}. Same as {watch guard}, below. {Watch clock}, a watchman's clock; see under {Watchman}. {Watch fire}, a fire lighted at night, as a signal, or for the use of a watch or guard. {Watch glass}. (a) A concavo-convex glass for covering the face, or dial, of a watch; -- also called {watch crystal}. (b) (Naut.) A half-hour glass used to measure the time of a watch on deck. | |
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Lever \Le"ver\ (l[emac]"v[etil]r [or] l[ecr]v"[etil]r; 277), n. [OE. levour, OF. leveor, prop., a lifter, fr. F. lever to raise, L. levare; akin to levis light in weight, E. levity, and perh. to E. light not heavy: cf. F. levier. Cf. {Alleviate}, {Elevate}, {Leaven}, {Legerdemain}, {Levee}, {Levy}, n.] 1. (Mech.) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures. 2. (Mach.) (a) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it. (b) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it. {Compound lever}, a machine consisting of two or more levers acting upon each other. {Lever escapement}. See {Escapement}. {Lever jack}. See {Jack}, n., 5. {Lever watch}, a watch having a vibrating lever to connect the action of the escape wheel with that of the balance. {Universal lever}, a machine formed by a combination of a lever with the wheel and axle, in such a manner as to convert the reciprocating motion of the lever into a continued rectilinear motion of some body to which the power is applied. | |
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Note: Watches are often distinguished by the kind of escapement used, as an {anchor watch}, a {lever watch}, a {chronometer watch}, etc. (see the Note under {Escapement}, n., 3); also, by the kind of case, as a {gold} or {silver watch}, an {open-faced watch}, a {hunting watch}, or {hunter}, etc. 6. (Naut.) (a) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. {Dogwatch}. (b) That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the {port watch}, and the {starboard watch}. {Anchor watch} (Naut.), a detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck when a vessel is at anchor. {To be on the watch}, to be looking steadily for some event. {Watch and ward} (Law), the charge or care of certain officers to keep a watch by night and a guard by day in towns, cities, and other districts, for the preservation of the public peace. --Wharton. --Burrill. {Watch and watch} (Naut.), the regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided. {Watch barrel}, the brass box in a watch, containing the mainspring. {Watch bell} (Naut.), a bell struck when the half-hour glass is run out, or at the end of each half hour. --Craig. {Watch bill} (Naut.), a list of the officers and crew of a ship as divided into watches, with their stations. --Totten. {Watch case}, the case, or outside covering, of a watch; also, a case for holding a watch, or in which it is kept. {Watch chain}. Same as {watch guard}, below. {Watch clock}, a watchman's clock; see under {Watchman}. {Watch fire}, a fire lighted at night, as a signal, or for the use of a watch or guard. {Watch glass}. (a) A concavo-convex glass for covering the face, or dial, of a watch; -- also called {watch crystal}. (b) (Naut.) A half-hour glass used to measure the time of a watch on deck. | |
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Leveret \Lev"er*et\ (l[ecr]v"[etil]r*[ecr]t), n. [F. levraut, dim. of li[8a]vre hare, L. lepus. Cf. {Leporine}.] (Zo[94]l.) A hare in the first year of its age. | |
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Leverwood \Lev"er*wood`\ (l[ecr]v"[etil]r*w[oocr]d`), n. (Bot.) The American hop hornbeam ({Ostrya Virginica}), a small tree with very tough wood. | |
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Levirate \Lev"i*rate\ (l[ecr]v"[icr]*r[asl]t), Leviratical \Lev`i*rat"ic*al\ (-r[acr]t"[icr]*k[ait]l), a. [L. levir a husband's brother, brother-in-law; akin to Gr. dah`r: cf. F. l[82]virat leviration.] Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother. The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother. --Alford. | |
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Levirate \Lev"i*rate\ (l[ecr]v"[icr]*r[asl]t), Leviratical \Lev`i*rat"ic*al\ (-r[acr]t"[icr]*k[ait]l), a. [L. levir a husband's brother, brother-in-law; akin to Gr. dah`r: cf. F. l[82]virat leviration.] Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother. The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother. --Alford. | |
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Leviration \Lev`i*ra"tion\ (l[ecr]v`[icr]*r[amac]"sh[ucr]n), n. Levirate marriage or marriages. --Kitto. | |
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Levorotation \Le`vo*ro*ta"tion\, n. [Written also {l[ae]vorotation}.] [Levo- + rotation.] (Physics & Chem.) Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light. | |
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Levorotatory \Le`vo*ro"ta*to*ry\ (-r[omac]"t[adot]*t[osl]*r[ycr]), a. [Levo- + rotatory.] (Chem. & Physics) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc. [Written also {l[91]vorotatory}.] | |
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Libbard \Lib"bard\ (l[icr]b"b[etil]rd), n. [See {Leopard}.] A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] --Spenser. Keats. | |
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Libbard's bane \Lib"bard's bane`\ (-b[etil]rdz b[amac]n`). Leopard's bane. [Obs.] | |
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Liberate \Lib"er*ate\ (-[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liberated} (-[amac]`t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liberating} (-[amac]`t[icr]ng).] [L. liberatus, p. p. of liberare to free, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}, a., and cf. {Deliver}.] To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases. Syn: To deliver; free; release. See {Deliver}. | |
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Liberate \Lib"er*ate\ (-[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liberated} (-[amac]`t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liberating} (-[amac]`t[icr]ng).] [L. liberatus, p. p. of liberare to free, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}, a., and cf. {Deliver}.] To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases. Syn: To deliver; free; release. See {Deliver}. | |
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Liberate \Lib"er*ate\ (-[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liberated} (-[amac]`t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liberating} (-[amac]`t[icr]ng).] [L. liberatus, p. p. of liberare to free, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}, a., and cf. {Deliver}.] To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases. Syn: To deliver; free; release. See {Deliver}. | |
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Liberation \Lib`er*a"tion\ (l[icr]b`[etil]r*[amac]"sh[ucr]n), n. [L. liberatio: cf. F. lib[82]ration. Cf. {Livraison}.] The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. --Pownall. | |
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Liberator \Lib"er*a`tor\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*[amac]`t[etil]r), n. [L.] One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer. | |
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Liberatory \Lib"er*a*to*ry\ (-[adot]*t[osl]*r[ycr]), a. Tending, or serving, to liberate. [R.] | |
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Libertarian \Lib`er*ta"ri*an\ (-t[amac]"r[icr]*[ait]n), a. [See {Liberty}.] Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity. | |
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Libertarian \Lib`er*ta"ri*an\, n. One who holds to the doctrine of free will. | |
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Libertarianism \Lib`er*ta"ri*an*ism\ (-[icr]z'm), n. Libertarian principles or doctrines. | |
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Liberticide \Lib"er*ti*cide\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[icr]*s[imac]d), n. [L. libertas liberty + caedere to kill: cf. (for sense 2) F. liberticide.] 1. The destruction of civil liberty. 2. A destroyer of civil liberty. --B. F. Wade. | |
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Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Liberties} (-t[icr]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[82], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. --Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. --Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. --Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. --Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.] Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. --Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. --Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. --J. A. Symonds. 9. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. 10. (Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. {At liberty}. (a) Unconfined; free. (b) At leisure. {Civil liberty}, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. {Liberty bell}. See under {Bell}. {Liberty cap}. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. {Liberty of the press}, freedom to print and publish without official supervision. {Liberty party}, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. {Liberty pole}, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] {Moral liberty}, that liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility. {Religious liberty}, freedom of religious opinion and worship. Syn: Leave; permission; license. Usage: {Liberty}, {Freedom}. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought. | |
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Libertinage \Lib"er*tin*age\ (-t[icr]n*[asl]j), n. [Cf. F. libertinage. See {Libertine}.] Libertinism; license. [R.] | |
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Libertine \Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See {Libertine}, n. ] 1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.] You are too much libertine. --Beau. & Fl. 2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. --Bacon. | |
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Libertine \Lib"er*tine\ (-t[icr]n), n. [L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See {Liberal}.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women. 3. One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. --Shak. 4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.] | |
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Libertinism \Lib"er*tin*ism\ (-t[icr]n*[icr]z'm), n. 1. The state of a libertine or freedman. [R.] --Hammond. 2. Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness. 3. Licentiousness of principle or opinion. That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. --Atterbury. | |
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Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Liberties} (-t[icr]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[82], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. --Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. --Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. --Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. --Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.] Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. --Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. --Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. --J. A. Symonds. 9. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. 10. (Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. {At liberty}. (a) Unconfined; free. (b) At leisure. {Civil liberty}, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. {Liberty bell}. See under {Bell}. {Liberty cap}. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. {Liberty of the press}, freedom to print and publish without official supervision. {Liberty party}, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. {Liberty pole}, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] {Moral liberty}, that liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility. {Religious liberty}, freedom of religious opinion and worship. Syn: Leave; permission; license. Usage: {Liberty}, {Freedom}. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought. | |
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Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Liberties} (-t[icr]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[82], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. --Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. --Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. --Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. --Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.] Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. --Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. --Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. --J. A. Symonds. 9. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. 10. (Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. {At liberty}. (a) Unconfined; free. (b) At leisure. {Civil liberty}, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. {Liberty bell}. See under {Bell}. {Liberty cap}. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. {Liberty of the press}, freedom to print and publish without official supervision. {Liberty party}, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. {Liberty pole}, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] {Moral liberty}, that liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility. {Religious liberty}, freedom of religious opinion and worship. Syn: Leave; permission; license. Usage: {Liberty}, {Freedom}. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought. | |
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Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Liberties} (-t[icr]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[82], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. --Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. --Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. --Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. --Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.] Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. --Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. --Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. --J. A. Symonds. 9. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. 10. (Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. {At liberty}. (a) Unconfined; free. (b) At leisure. {Civil liberty}, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. {Liberty bell}. See under {Bell}. {Liberty cap}. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. {Liberty of the press}, freedom to print and publish without official supervision. {Liberty party}, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. {Liberty pole}, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] {Moral liberty}, that liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility. {Religious liberty}, freedom of religious opinion and worship. Syn: Leave; permission; license. Usage: {Liberty}, {Freedom}. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought. | |
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Phrygian cap \Phryg"i*an cap`\ A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape. It has been adopted in modern art as the so-called {liberty cap}, or {cap of liberty}. | |
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Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Liberties} (-t[icr]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[82], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. --Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. --Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. --Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. --Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.] Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. --Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. --Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. --J. A. Symonds. 9. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. 10. (Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. {At liberty}. (a) Unconfined; free. (b) At leisure. {Civil liberty}, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. {Liberty bell}. See under {Bell}. {Liberty cap}. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. {Liberty of the press}, freedom to print and publish without official supervision. {Liberty party}, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. {Liberty pole}, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] {Moral liberty}, that liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility. {Religious liberty}, freedom of religious opinion and worship. Syn: Leave; permission; license. Usage: {Liberty}, {Freedom}. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought. | |
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Phrygian cap \Phryg"i*an cap`\ A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape. It has been adopted in modern art as the so-called {liberty cap}, or {cap of liberty}. | |
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Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Liberties} (-t[icr]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[82], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. --Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. --Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. --Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. --Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.] Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. --Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. --Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. --J. A. Symonds. 9. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. 10. (Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. {At liberty}. (a) Unconfined; free. (b) At leisure. {Civil liberty}, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. {Liberty bell}. See under {Bell}. {Liberty cap}. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. {Liberty of the press}, freedom to print and publish without official supervision. {Liberty party}, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. {Liberty pole}, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] {Moral liberty}, that liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility. {Religious liberty}, freedom of religious opinion and worship. Syn: Leave; permission; license. Usage: {Liberty}, {Freedom}. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought. | |
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4. An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press. --Shak. 5. The act of pressing or thronging forward. In their throng and press to that last hold. --Shak. 6. Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements. 7. A multitude of individuals crowded together; [?] crowd of single things; a throng. They could not come nigh unto him for the press. --Mark ii. 4. {Cylinder press}, a printing press in which the impression is produced by a revolving cylinder under which the form passes; also, one in which the form of type or plates is curved around a cylinder, instead of resting on a flat bed. {Hydrostatic press}. See under {Hydrostatic}. {Liberty of the press}, the free right of publishing books, pamphlets, or papers, without previous restraint or censorship, subject only to punishment for libelous, seditious, or morally pernicious matters. {Press bed}, a bed that may be folded, and inclosed, in a press or closet. --Boswell. {Press of sail}, (Naut.), as much sail as the state of the wind will permit. | |
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Yard \Yard\, n. [OE. yard, yerd, AS. geard; akin to OFries. garda garden, OS. gardo garden, gard yard, D. gaard garden, G. garten, OHG. garto garden, gari inclosure, Icel. gar[edh]r yard, house, Sw. g[86]rd, Dan. gaard, Goth. gards a house, garda sheepfold, L. hortus garden, Gr. cho`rtos an inclosure. Cf. {Court}, {Garden}, {Garth}, {Horticulture}, {Orchard}.] 1. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard. A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks In which she had a cock, hight chanticleer. --Chaucer. 2. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard. {Liberty of the yard}, a liberty, granted to persons imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any other limits prescribed by law, on their giving bond not to go beyond those limits. {Prison yard}, an inclosure about a prison, or attached to it. {Yard grass} (Bot.), a low-growing grass ({Eleusine Indica}) having digitate spikes. It is common in dooryards, and like places, especially in the Southern United States. Called also {crab grass}. {Yard of land}. See {Yardland}. | |
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Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Liberties} (-t[icr]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[82], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. --Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. --Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. --Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. --Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.] Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. --Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. --Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. --J. A. Symonds. 9. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. 10. (Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. {At liberty}. (a) Unconfined; free. (b) At leisure. {Civil liberty}, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. {Liberty bell}. See under {Bell}. {Liberty cap}. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. {Liberty of the press}, freedom to print and publish without official supervision. {Liberty party}, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. {Liberty pole}, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] {Moral liberty}, that liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility. {Religious liberty}, freedom of religious opinion and worship. Syn: Leave; permission; license. Usage: {Liberty}, {Freedom}. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought. | |
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Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[icr]b"[etil]r*t[ycr]), n.; pl. {Liberties} (-t[icr]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[82], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. --Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. --Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. --Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. --Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.] Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. --Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. --Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. --J. A. Symonds. 9. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. 10. (Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. {At liberty}. (a) Unconfined; free. (b) At leisure. {Civil liberty}, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. {Liberty bell}. See under {Bell}. {Liberty cap}. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. {Liberty of the press}, freedom to print and publish without official supervision. {Liberty party}, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. {Liberty pole}, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] {Moral liberty}, that liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility. {Religious liberty}, freedom of religious opinion and worship. Syn: Leave; permission; license. Usage: {Liberty}, {Freedom}. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought. | |
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Librate \Li"brate\ (l[imac]"br[amac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Librated} (l[imac]"br[asl]*t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Librating}.] [L. libratus, p. p. of librare to balance, to make even, fr. libra. Cf. {Level}, {Deliberate}, {Equilibrium}.] To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised. Their parts all librate on too nice a beam. --Clifton. | |
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Librate \Li"brate\, v. t. To poise; to balance. | |
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Librate \Li"brate\ (l[imac]"br[amac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Librated} (l[imac]"br[asl]*t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Librating}.] [L. libratus, p. p. of librare to balance, to make even, fr. libra. Cf. {Level}, {Deliberate}, {Equilibrium}.] To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised. Their parts all librate on too nice a beam. --Clifton. | |
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Librate \Li"brate\ (l[imac]"br[amac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Librated} (l[imac]"br[asl]*t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Librating}.] [L. libratus, p. p. of librare to balance, to make even, fr. libra. Cf. {Level}, {Deliberate}, {Equilibrium}.] To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised. Their parts all librate on too nice a beam. --Clifton. | |
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Libration \Li*bra"tion\ (l[isl]*br[amac]"sh[ucr]n), n. [L. libratio: cf. F. libration.] 1. The act or state of librating. --Jer. Taylor. 2. (Astron.) A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest. {Libration of the moon}, any one of those small periodical changes in the position of the moon's surface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which narrow portions at opposite limbs become visible or invisible alternately. It receives different names according to the manner in which it takes place; as: {(a)} Libration in longitude, that which, depending on the place of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes small portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month. ({b}) Libration in latitude, that which depends on the varying position of the moon's axis in respect to the spectator, causing the alternate appearance and disappearance of either pole. ({c}) Diurnal or parallactic libration, that which brings into view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisphere. | |
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Libration \Li*bra"tion\ (l[isl]*br[amac]"sh[ucr]n), n. [L. libratio: cf. F. libration.] 1. The act or state of librating. --Jer. Taylor. 2. (Astron.) A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest. {Libration of the moon}, any one of those small periodical changes in the position of the moon's surface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which narrow portions at opposite limbs become visible or invisible alternately. It receives different names according to the manner in which it takes place; as: {(a)} Libration in longitude, that which, depending on the place of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes small portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month. ({b}) Libration in latitude, that which depends on the varying position of the moon's axis in respect to the spectator, causing the alternate appearance and disappearance of either pole. ({c}) Diurnal or parallactic libration, that which brings into view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisphere. | |
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Libratory \Li"bra*to*ry\ (l[imac]"br[adot]*t[osl]*r[ycr]), a. Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level. | |
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Libretto \Li*bret"to\ (l[icr]*br[ecr]t"t[osl]; It. l[esl]*br[asl]t"t[osl]), n.; pl. E. {Librettos} (-t[omac]z), It. {Libretti} (-t[esl]). [It., dim. of libro book, L. liber. See {Libel}.] (Mus.) (a) A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. (b) The words themselves. | |
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Librettist \Li*bret"tist\ (l[icr]*br[ecr]t"t[icr]st), n. One who makes a libretto. | |
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Libretto \Li*bret"to\ (l[icr]*br[ecr]t"t[osl]; It. l[esl]*br[asl]t"t[osl]), n.; pl. E. {Librettos} (-t[omac]z), It. {Libretti} (-t[esl]). [It., dim. of libro book, L. liber. See {Libel}.] (Mus.) (a) A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. (b) The words themselves. | |
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Libretto \Li*bret"to\ (l[icr]*br[ecr]t"t[osl]; It. l[esl]*br[asl]t"t[osl]), n.; pl. E. {Librettos} (-t[omac]z), It. {Libretti} (-t[esl]). [It., dim. of libro book, L. liber. See {Libel}.] (Mus.) (a) A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. (b) The words themselves. | |
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{Life buoy}. See {Buoy}. {Life car}, a water-tight boat or box, traveling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore. In it persons are hauled through the waves and surf. {Life drop}, a drop of vital blood. --Byron. {Life estate} (Law), an estate which is held during the term of some certain person's life, but does not pass by inheritance. {Life everlasting} (Bot.), a plant with white or yellow persistent scales about the heads of the flowers, as {Antennaria}, and {Gnaphalium}; cudweed. {Life of an execution} (Law), the period when an execution is in force, or before it expires. {Life guard}. (Mil.) See under {Guard}. {Life insurance}, the act or system of insuring against death; a contract by which the insurer undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium (usually at stated periods), to pay a stipulated sum in the event of the death of the insured or of a third person in whose life the insured has an interest. {Life interest}, an estate or interest which lasts during one's life, or the life of another person, but does not pass by inheritance. {Life land} (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life or lives. {Life line}. (a) (Naut.) A line along any part of a vessel for the security of sailors. (b) A line attached to a life boat, or to any life saving apparatus, to be grasped by a person in the water. {Life rate}, the rate of premium for insuring a life. {Life rent}, the rent of a life estate; rent or property to which one is entitled during one's life. {Life school}, a school for artists in which they model, paint, or draw from living models. {Life table}, a table showing the probability of life at different ages. {To lose one's life}, to die. {To seek the life of}, to seek to kill. {To the life}, so as closely to resemble the living person or the subject; as, the portrait was drawn to the life. | |
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Lip \Lip\ (l[icr]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[91]be, Sw. l[84]pp, L. labium, labrum. Cf. {Labial}.] 1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Thine own lips testify against thee. --Job xv. 6. 2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel. 3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger. 4. (Bot.) (a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the {Orchis} family. See {Orchidaceous}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell. {Lip bit}, a pod auger. See {Auger}. {Lip comfort}, comfort that is given with words only. {Lip comforter}, one who comforts with words only. {Lip labor}, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. --Bale. {Lip reading}, the catching of the words or meaning of one speaking by watching the motion of his lips without hearing his voice. --Carpenter. {Lip salve}, a salve for sore lips. {Lip service}, expression by the lips of obedience and devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such sentiments. {Lip wisdom}, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by experience. {Lip work}. (a) Talk. (b) Kissing. [Humorous] --B. Jonson. {To make a lip}, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. --Shak. {To shoot out the lip} (Script.), to show contempt by protruding the lip. | |
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Liparite \Lip"a*rite\ (l[icr]p"[adot]*r[imac]t), n. [So called from Lipari, the island.] (Min.) A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite. | |
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Livered \Liv"ered\, a. Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered. | |
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Liveried \Liv"er*ied\, a. Wearing a livery. See {Livery}, 3. The liveried servants wait. --Parnell. | |
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Lopeared \Lop"eared`\, a. Having ears which lop or hang down. | |
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Loppard \Lop"pard\, n. [Lop + -ard.] A tree, the top of which has been lopped off. [Eng.] | |
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Lopper \Lop"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loppered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Loppering}.] [Cf. Prov. G. l[81]bbern, levern, OHG. giliber[?]n, G. luppe, lab, rennet.] To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk. | |
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Love \Love\, n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet,it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. See {Lief}.] 1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre[89]minent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own. --Keble. 2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex. He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. --Milton. 3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage. Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul. --Shak. 4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to {hate}; often with of and an object. Love, and health to all. --Shak. Smit with the love of sacred song. --Milton. The love of science faintly warmed his breast. --Fenton. 5. Due gratitude and reverence to God. Keep yourselves in the love of God. --Jude 21. 6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address. [bd]Trust me, love.[b8] --Dryden. Open the temple gates unto my love. --Spenser. 7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus. Such was his form as painters, when they show Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow. --Dryden. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love. --Shak. 8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.] --Boyle. 9. (Bot.) A climbing species of Clematis ({C. Vitalba}). 10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc. He won the match by three sets to love. --The Field. Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in most of which the meaning is very obvious; as, love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked, love-taught, etc. {A labor of love}, a labor undertaken on account of regard for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself, without expectation of reward. {Free love}, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See {Free love}. {Free lover}, one who avows or practices free love. {In love}, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love. {Love apple} (Bot.), the tomato. {Love bird} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small, short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus {Agapornis}, and allied genera. They are mostly from Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are celebrated for the affection which they show for their mates. {Love broker}, a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak. {Love charm}, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton. {Love child}. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen. {Love day}, a day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. --Chaucer. {Love drink}, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer. {Love favor}, something given to be worn in token of love. {Love feast}, a religious festival, held quarterly by some religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists, in imitation of the agap[91] of the early Christians. {Love feat}, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak. {Love game}, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished person or party does not score a point. {Love grass}. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus {Eragrostis}. {Love-in-a-mist}. (Bot.) (a) An herb of the Buttercup family ({Nigella Damascena}) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts. (b) The West Indian {Passiflora f[d2]tida}, which has similar bracts. {Love-in-idleness} (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy. A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness. --Shak. {Love juice}, juice of a plant supposed to produce love. --Shak. {Love knot}, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection. --Milman. {Love lass}, a sweetheart. {Love letter}, a letter of courtship. --Shak. {Love-lies-bleeding} (Bot.), a species of amaranth ({Amarantus melancholicus}). {Love match}, a marriage brought about by love alone. {Love potion}, a compounded draught intended to excite love, or venereal desire. {Love rites}, sexual intercourse. --Pope {Love scene}, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the stage. {Love suit}, courtship. --Shak. {Of all loves}, for the sake of all love; by all means. [Obs.] [bd]Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again.[b8] --Holinshed. {The god of love}, [or] {Love god}, Cupid. {To make love to}, to express affection for; to woo. [bd]If you will marry, make your loves to me.[b8] --Shak. {To play for love}, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes. [bd]A game at piquet for love.[b8] --Lamb. Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lowbred \Low"bred`\, a. Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lubbard \Lub"bard\, n. [See {Lubber}.] A lubber. [Obs.] --Swift. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lubbard \Lub"bard\, a. Lubberly. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
La Porte, CA Zip code(s): 95981 La Porte, IN (city, FIPS 42246) Location: 41.60748 N, 86.71477 W Population (1990): 21507 (9135 housing units) Area: 29.2 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46350 La Porte, TX (city, FIPS 41440) Location: 29.66655 N, 95.04466 W Population (1990): 27910 (9966 housing units) Area: 49.9 sq km (land), 2.7 sq km (water) | |
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La Porte City, IA (city, FIPS 43365) Location: 42.31308 N, 92.19120 W Population (1990): 2128 (925 housing units) Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50651 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
La Porte County, IN (county, FIPS 91) Location: 41.54916 N, 86.74500 W Population (1990): 107066 (42268 housing units) Area: 1549.5 sq km (land), 38.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Laporte, CO Zip code(s): 80535 Laporte, MN (city, FIPS 35612) Location: 47.21429 N, 94.75725 W Population (1990): 101 (70 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56461 Laporte, PA (borough, FIPS 41512) Location: 41.41856 N, 76.49172 W Population (1990): 328 (233 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
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Leverett, MA Zip code(s): 01054 | |
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Liberty, IL (village, FIPS 43133) Location: 39.88076 N, 91.10802 W Population (1990): 541 (216 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62347 Liberty, IN (town, FIPS 43434) Location: 39.63447 N, 84.92697 W Population (1990): 2051 (888 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47353 Liberty, KS (city, FIPS 40250) Location: 37.15614 N, 95.59775 W Population (1990): 140 (63 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67351 Liberty, KY (city, FIPS 46072) Location: 37.31785 N, 84.93060 W Population (1990): 1937 (905 housing units) Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 42539 Liberty, ME Zip code(s): 04949 Liberty, MO (city, FIPS 42032) Location: 39.24205 N, 94.41911 W Population (1990): 20459 (7645 housing units) Area: 69.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Liberty, MS (town, FIPS 40640) Location: 31.16015 N, 90.80121 W Population (1990): 624 (300 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39645 Liberty, NC (town, FIPS 38100) Location: 35.85416 N, 79.57136 W Population (1990): 2047 (929 housing units) Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27298 Liberty, NE (village, FIPS 26980) Location: 40.08503 N, 96.48304 W Population (1990): 74 (44 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68381 Liberty, NY (village, FIPS 42224) Location: 41.79746 N, 74.74636 W Population (1990): 4128 (1827 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 12754 Liberty, OK (town, FIPS 42860) Location: 35.85872 N, 95.97720 W Population (1990): 155 (67 housing units) Area: 15.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Liberty, PA (borough, FIPS 43064) Location: 40.32380 N, 79.85798 W Population (1990): 2744 (1144 housing units) Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Liberty, PA (borough, FIPS 43128) Location: 41.55987 N, 77.10511 W Population (1990): 199 (86 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16930 Liberty, SC (town, FIPS 41380) Location: 34.79247 N, 82.69536 W Population (1990): 3228 (1357 housing units) Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29657 Liberty, TN (town, FIPS 42040) Location: 36.00398 N, 85.97782 W Population (1990): 391 (160 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Liberty, TX (city, FIPS 42568) Location: 30.04602 N, 94.79769 W Population (1990): 7733 (3125 housing units) Area: 92.0 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water) Liberty, WV Zip code(s): 25124 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Liberty Center, IA Zip code(s): 50145 Liberty Center, IN Zip code(s): 46766 Liberty Center, OH (village, FIPS 43414) Location: 41.44344 N, 84.00811 W Population (1990): 1084 (421 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43532 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Liberty City, TX (CDP, FIPS 42616) Location: 32.45006 N, 94.94461 W Population (1990): 1607 (578 housing units) Area: 10.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Liberty County, FL (county, FIPS 77) Location: 30.23280 N, 84.88691 W Population (1990): 5569 (2157 housing units) Area: 2165.1 sq km (land), 18.9 sq km (water) Liberty County, GA (county, FIPS 179) Location: 31.80000 N, 81.46192 W Population (1990): 52745 (16776 housing units) Area: 1344.5 sq km (land), 216.2 sq km (water) Liberty County, MT (county, FIPS 51) Location: 48.54889 N, 111.02519 W Population (1990): 2295 (1007 housing units) Area: 3703.2 sq km (land), 45.0 sq km (water) Liberty County, TX (county, FIPS 291) Location: 30.14895 N, 94.81238 W Population (1990): 52726 (22243 housing units) Area: 3003.9 sq km (land), 42.7 sq km (water) | |
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Liberty Farms, CA Zip code(s): 95620 | |
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Liberty Hill, TX Zip code(s): 78642 | |
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Liberty Lake, WA (CDP, FIPS 39335) Location: 47.65441 N, 117.08248 W Population (1990): 2015 (836 housing units) Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 2.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99019 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Libertyville, AL (town, FIPS 42808) Location: 31.24367 N, 86.46001 W Population (1990): 133 (60 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Libertyville, IA (city, FIPS 44985) Location: 40.95860 N, 92.04892 W Population (1990): 264 (117 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52567 Libertyville, IL (village, FIPS 43250) Location: 42.28410 N, 87.96603 W Population (1990): 19174 (6899 housing units) Area: 21.2 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60048 | |
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Lyford, TX (city, FIPS 45228) Location: 26.41090 N, 97.78963 W Population (1990): 1674 (566 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78569 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Laboratory INstrument Computer 1962 by {Wesley Clark}, {Charles Molnar}, Severo Ornstein and others at the {Lincoln Laboratory Group}, to facilitate scientific research. With its {digital logic} and {stored programs}, the LINC is accepted by the {IEEE Computer Society} to be the World's first {interactive} {personal computer}. The machine was developed to fulfil a need for better laboratory tools by doctors and medical researchers. It would supplant the 1958 {Average Response Computer}, and was designed for individual use. Led by William N. Papian and mainly funded by the {National Institute of Health}, Wesley Clark designed the logic while Charles Molnar did the engineering. The first LINC was finished in March 1962. In January 1963, the project moved to {MIT}, and then to {Washington University} (in St. Louis) in 1964. The LINC had a simple {operating system}, four "knobs" (which was used like a {mouse}), a {Soroban keyboard} (for alpha-numeric data entry), two {LINCtape} drives and a small {CRT} display. It originally had one {kilobit} of {core memory}, but this was expanded to 2 Kb later. The computer was made out of {Digital Equipment Corporation} (DEC) hardware modules. Over 24 LINC systems had been built before late 1964 when DEC began to sell the LINC commercially. After the introduction of the {PDP-8}, {Dick Clayton} at DEC produced a rather frightening hybrid of the LINC and PDP-8 called a LINC-8. This really was not a very satisfactory machine, but it used the new PDP-8 style DEC cards and was cheaper and easier to produce. It still didn't sell that well. In the late 1960s, Clayton brought the design to its pinnacle with the PDP-12, an amazing tour de force of the LINC concept; along with about as seamless a merger as could be done with the PDP-8. This attempted to incorporate {TTL logic} into the machine. The end of the LINC line had been reached. Due to the success of the LINC-8, {Spear, Inc.} produced a LINC clone (since the design was in the {public domain}). The interesting thing about the Spear {micro-LINC 300} was that it used {MECL} II logic. MECL logic was known for its blazing speed (at the time!), but the Spear computer ran at very modest rates. In 1995 the last of the classic LINCs was turned off for the final time after 28 years of service. This LINC had been in use in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology (EPL) of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. On 15 August 1995, it was transferred to the MIT {Computer Museum} where it was put on display. {LINC/8, PDP-12 (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/pdp8/section-7.html)}. {Lights out for last LINC (http://rleweb.mit.edu/publications/currents/6-1linc.HTM)}. ["Computers and Automation", Nov. 1964, page 43]. (1999-05-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench originally developed to provide a {graphical user interface} to instruments connected by the {IEEE 488} (GPIB) bus. It has powerful graphical editing facilities for defining and interconnecting "virtual instruments". (1996-04-24) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Leopard (Heb. namer, so called because spotted, Cant. 4:8), was that great spotted feline which anciently infested the mountains of Syria, more appropriately called a panther (Felis pardus). Its fierceness (Isa. 11:6), its watching for its prey (Jer. 5:6), its swiftness (Hab. 1:8), and the spots of its skin (Jer. 13:23), are noticed. This word is used symbolically (Dan. 7:6; Rev. 13:2). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Levirate Law from Latin levir, "a husband's brother," the name of an ancient custom ordained by Moses, by which, when an Israelite died without issue, his surviving brother was required to marry the widow, so as to continue his brother's family through the son that might be born of that marriage (Gen. 38:8; Deut. 25:5-10; comp. Ruth 3; 4:10). Its object was "to raise up seed to the departed brother." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Libertine found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been carried captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other Roman generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been liberated. In A.D. 19 these manumitted Jews were banished from Rome. Many of them found their way to Jerusalem, and there established a synagogue. |