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Lain \Lain\, p. p. of {Lie}, v. i. | |
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Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. {Lay} (l[amac]); p. p. {Lain} (l[amac]n), ({Lien} (l[imac]"[ecr]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lying}.] [OE. lien, liggen, AS. licgan; akin to D. liggen, OHG. ligen, licken, G. liegen, Icel. liggja, Sw. ligga, Dan. ligge, Goth. ligan, Russ. lejate, L. lectus bed, Gr. le`chos bed, le`xasqai to lie. Cf. {Lair}, {Law}, {Lay}, v. t., {Litter}, {Low}, adj.] 1. To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. The watchful traveler . . . Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes. --Dryden. 2. To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port. 3. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall. 4. To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in. Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. --Collier. He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen. --Locke. 5. To lodge; to sleep. Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. --Evelyn. Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. --Dickens. 6. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. The wind is loud and will not lie. --Shak. 7. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. [bd]An appeal lies in this case.[b8] --Parsons. Note: Through ignorance or carelessness speakers and writers often confuse the forms of the two distinct verbs lay and lie. Lay is a transitive verb, and has for its preterit laid; as, he told me to lay it down, and I laid it down. Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay; as, he told me to lie down, and I lay down. Some persons blunder by using laid for the preterit of lie; as, he told me to lie down, and I laid down. So persons often say incorrectly, the ship laid at anchor; they laid by during the storm; the book was laying on the shelf, etc. It is only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the preterit of lay, and not of lie. {To lie along the shore} (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight. {To lie at the door of}, to be imputable to; as, the sin, blame, etc., lies at your door. {To lie at the heart}, to be an object of affection, desire, or anxiety. --Sir W. Temple. {To lie at the mercy of}, to be in the power of. {To lie by}. (a) To remain with; to be at hand; as, he has the manuscript lying by him. (b) To rest; to intermit labor; as, we lay by during the heat of the day. {To lie hard} [or] {heavy}, to press or weigh; to bear hard. {To lie in}, to be in childbed; to bring forth young. {To lie in one}, to be in the power of; to belong to. [bd]As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.[b8] --Rom. xii. 18. {To lie in the way}, to be an obstacle or impediment. {To lie in wait}, to wait in concealment; to lie in ambush. {To lie on} [or] {upon}. (a) To depend on; as, his life lies on the result. (b) To bear, rest, press, or weigh on. {To lie low}, to remain in concealment or inactive. [Slang] {To lie on hand}, {To lie on one's hands}, to remain unsold or unused; as, the goods are still lying on his hands; they have too much time lying on their hands. {To lie on the head of}, to be imputed to. What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. --Shak. {To lie over}. (a) To remain unpaid after the time when payment is due, as a note in bank. (b) To be deferred to some future occasion, as a resolution in a public deliberative body. {To lie to} (Naut.), to stop or delay; especially, to head as near the wind as possible as being the position of greatest safety in a gale; -- said of a ship. Cf. {To bring to}, under {Bring}. {To lie under}, to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by. {To lie with}. (a) To lodge or sleep with. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. (c) To belong to; as, it lies with you to make amends. | |
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Lam \Lam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lammed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lamming}.] [Icel. lemja to beat, or lama to bruise, both fr. lami, lama, lame. See {Lame}.] To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Lama \La"ma\ (?; 277), n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Llama}. | |
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Lama \La"ma\, n. [Thibet. blama (pronounced l[84][b6]ma) a chief, a high priest.] In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. {The Grand Lama}, [or] {Dalai Lama} [lit., Ocean Lama], the supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy. See {Lamaism}. | |
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Lame \Lame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laming}.] To make lame. If you happen to let child fall and lame it. --Swift. | |
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Lame \Lame\, a. [Compar. {Lamer}; superl. {Lamest}.] [OE. lame, AS. lama; akin to D. lam, G. lahm,OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. lomate to break, lomota rheumatism.] 1. (a) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle. (b) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. [bd]Lame of one leg.[b8] --Arbuthnot. [bd]Lame in both his feet.[b8] --2 Sam. ix. 13. [bd]He fell, and became lame.[b8] --2 Sam. iv. 4. 2. Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. [bd]A lame endeavor.[b8] --Barrow. O, most lame and impotent conclusion! --Shak. {Lame duck} (stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his contracts. [Cant] | |
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Lamia \La"mi*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] (Class. Myth.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch. | |
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Lamm \Lamm\, v. t. See {Lam}. | |
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Lane \Lane\, a. [See {Lone}.] Alone. [Scot.] {His lane}, by himself; himself alone. | |
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Lane \Lane\, n. [OE. lane, lone, AS. lone, lone; akin to D. laan, OFries. lana, lona.] A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. --Tyndale. | |
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Lawm \Lawm\, n. [Earlier laune lynen, i. e., lawn linen; prob. from the town Laon in France.] A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. A saint in crape is twice in lawn. --Pope. | |
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Lawn \Lawn\, n. [OE. laund, launde, F. lande heath, moor; of Celtic origin; cf. W. llan an open, clear place, llawnt a smooth rising hill, lawn, Armor. lann or lan territory, country, lann a prickly plant, pl. lannou heath, moor.] 1. An open space between woods. --Milton. [bd]Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.[b8] --Tennyson. 2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. {Lawn mower}, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns. {Lawn tennis}, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See {Tennis}. | |
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Lawny \Lawn"y\, a. Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. Musing through the lawny park. --T. Warton. | |
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Lawny \Lawn"y\, a. Made of lawn or fine linen. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Leam \Leam\, n. & v. i. See {Leme}. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
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Leam \Leam\, n. [See {Leamer}, {Lien}.] A cord or strap for leading a dog. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Lean \Lean\ (l[emac]n), a. [Compar. {Leaner} (l[emac]n"[etil]r); superl. {Leanest}.] [OE. lene, AS. hl[aemac]ne; prob. akin to E. lean to incline. See {Lean}, v. i. ] 1. Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle. 2. Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. [bd]No lean wardrobe.[b8] --Shak. Their lean and fiashy songs. --Milton. What the land is, whether it be fat or lean. --Num. xiii. 20. Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something. --Shak. 3. (Typog.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to {fat}; as, lean copy, matter, or type. Syn: slender; spare; thin; meager; lank; skinny; gaunt. | |
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Lean \Lean\ (l[emac]n), v. t. [Icel. leyna; akin to G. l[84]ugnen to deny, AS. l[ymac]gnian, also E. lie to speak falsely.] To conceal. [Obs.] --Ray. | |
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Lean \Lean\ (l[emac]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaned} (l[emac]nd), sometimes {Leant} (l[ecr]nt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaning}.] [OE. lenen, AS. hlinian, hleonian, v. i.; akin to OS. hlin[d3]n, D. leunen, OHG. hlin[c7]n, lin[c7]n, G. lehnen, L. inclinare, Gr. kli`nein, L. clivus hill, slope. [root]40. Cf. {Declivity}, {Climax}, {Incline}, {Ladder}.] 1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. [bd]He leant forward.[b8] --Dickens. 2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc. They delight rather to lean to their old customs. --Spenser. 3. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. He leaned not on his fathers but himself. --Tennyson. | |
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Lean \Lean\, n. 1. That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat. The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. --Goldsmith. 2. (Typog.) Unremunerative copy or work. | |
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Lean \Lean\, v. t. [From {Lean}, v. i.; AS. hl[aemac]nan, v. t., fr. hleonian, hlinian, v. i.] To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. --Mrs. Browning. His fainting limbs against an oak he leant. --Dryden. | |
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Leany \Lean"y\, a. Lean. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Leeme \Leeme\ (l[emac]m), v. & n. See {Leme}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Leme \Leme\ (l[emac]m), n. [OE. leem, leme, leam, AS. le[a2]ma light, brightness; akin to E. light, n. [root]122.] A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Leme \Leme\, v. i. To shine. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. | |
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Lemma \Lem"ma\ (l[ecr]m"m[adot]), n.; pl. L. {Lemmata} (-m[adot]*t[adot]), E. {Lemmas} (-m[adot]z). [L. lemma, Gr. lh^mma anything received, an assumption or premise taken for granted, fr. lamba`nein to take, assume. Cf. {Syllable}.] A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic. | |
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Lene \Le"ne\, n. (Phonetics) (a) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis). (b) Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or t (or Gr. [pi], [kappa], [tau]). --W. E. Jelf. | |
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Lene \Lene\ (l[emac]n), v. t. [See {Lend}.] To lend; to grant; to permit. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lene \Le"ne\ (l[emac]"n[esl]), a. [L. lenis smooth.] (Phonetics) (a) Smooth; as, the lene breathing. (b) Applied to certain mute consonants, as p, k, and t (or Gr. [pi], [kappa], [tau]). --W. E. Jelf. | |
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Leno \Le"no\ (l[emac]"n[osl]), n. [Cf. It. leno weak, flexible.] A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains. | |
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Leon \Le"on\ (l[emac]"[ocr]n), n. A lion. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Liane \Li*ane"\ (l[isl]*[amac]n"), Liana \Li*a"na\ (l[isl]*[amac]"n[adot]), n. [F. liane; prob. akin to lien a band, fr. L. ligamen, fr. ligare to bind. Cf. {Lien}, n. ] (Bot.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. | |
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Liane \Li*ane"\ (l[isl]*[amac]n"), Liana \Li*a"na\ (l[isl]*[amac]"n[adot]), n. [F. liane; prob. akin to lien a band, fr. L. ligamen, fr. ligare to bind. Cf. {Lien}, n. ] (Bot.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. | |
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Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. {Lay} (l[amac]); p. p. {Lain} (l[amac]n), ({Lien} (l[imac]"[ecr]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lying}.] [OE. lien, liggen, AS. licgan; akin to D. liggen, OHG. ligen, licken, G. liegen, Icel. liggja, Sw. ligga, Dan. ligge, Goth. ligan, Russ. lejate, L. lectus bed, Gr. le`chos bed, le`xasqai to lie. Cf. {Lair}, {Law}, {Lay}, v. t., {Litter}, {Low}, adj.] 1. To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. The watchful traveler . . . Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes. --Dryden. 2. To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port. 3. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall. 4. To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in. Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. --Collier. He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen. --Locke. 5. To lodge; to sleep. Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. --Evelyn. Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. --Dickens. 6. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. The wind is loud and will not lie. --Shak. 7. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. [bd]An appeal lies in this case.[b8] --Parsons. Note: Through ignorance or carelessness speakers and writers often confuse the forms of the two distinct verbs lay and lie. Lay is a transitive verb, and has for its preterit laid; as, he told me to lay it down, and I laid it down. Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay; as, he told me to lie down, and I lay down. Some persons blunder by using laid for the preterit of lie; as, he told me to lie down, and I laid down. So persons often say incorrectly, the ship laid at anchor; they laid by during the storm; the book was laying on the shelf, etc. It is only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the preterit of lay, and not of lie. {To lie along the shore} (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight. {To lie at the door of}, to be imputable to; as, the sin, blame, etc., lies at your door. {To lie at the heart}, to be an object of affection, desire, or anxiety. --Sir W. Temple. {To lie at the mercy of}, to be in the power of. {To lie by}. (a) To remain with; to be at hand; as, he has the manuscript lying by him. (b) To rest; to intermit labor; as, we lay by during the heat of the day. {To lie hard} [or] {heavy}, to press or weigh; to bear hard. {To lie in}, to be in childbed; to bring forth young. {To lie in one}, to be in the power of; to belong to. [bd]As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.[b8] --Rom. xii. 18. {To lie in the way}, to be an obstacle or impediment. {To lie in wait}, to wait in concealment; to lie in ambush. {To lie on} [or] {upon}. (a) To depend on; as, his life lies on the result. (b) To bear, rest, press, or weigh on. {To lie low}, to remain in concealment or inactive. [Slang] {To lie on hand}, {To lie on one's hands}, to remain unsold or unused; as, the goods are still lying on his hands; they have too much time lying on their hands. {To lie on the head of}, to be imputed to. What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. --Shak. {To lie over}. (a) To remain unpaid after the time when payment is due, as a note in bank. (b) To be deferred to some future occasion, as a resolution in a public deliberative body. {To lie to} (Naut.), to stop or delay; especially, to head as near the wind as possible as being the position of greatest safety in a gale; -- said of a ship. Cf. {To bring to}, under {Bring}. {To lie under}, to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by. {To lie with}. (a) To lodge or sleep with. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. (c) To belong to; as, it lies with you to make amends. | |
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Lien \Li"en\ (l[imac]"[ecr]n), obs. p. p. of {Lie}. See {Lain}. --Ps. lxviii. 13. | |
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Lien \Lien\ (l[emac]n [or] l[imac]"[ecr]n; 277), n. [F. lien band, bond, tie, fr. L. ligamen, fr. ligare to bind. Cf. {League} a union, {Leam} a string, {Leamer}, {Ligament}.] (Law) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied. | |
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Floating charge \Floating charge\, lien \lien\, etc. (Law) A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed. | |
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Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. {Lay} (l[amac]); p. p. {Lain} (l[amac]n), ({Lien} (l[imac]"[ecr]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lying}.] [OE. lien, liggen, AS. licgan; akin to D. liggen, OHG. ligen, licken, G. liegen, Icel. liggja, Sw. ligga, Dan. ligge, Goth. ligan, Russ. lejate, L. lectus bed, Gr. le`chos bed, le`xasqai to lie. Cf. {Lair}, {Law}, {Lay}, v. t., {Litter}, {Low}, adj.] 1. To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. The watchful traveler . . . Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes. --Dryden. 2. To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port. 3. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall. 4. To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in. Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. --Collier. He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen. --Locke. 5. To lodge; to sleep. Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. --Evelyn. Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. --Dickens. 6. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. The wind is loud and will not lie. --Shak. 7. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. [bd]An appeal lies in this case.[b8] --Parsons. Note: Through ignorance or carelessness speakers and writers often confuse the forms of the two distinct verbs lay and lie. Lay is a transitive verb, and has for its preterit laid; as, he told me to lay it down, and I laid it down. Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay; as, he told me to lie down, and I lay down. Some persons blunder by using laid for the preterit of lie; as, he told me to lie down, and I laid down. So persons often say incorrectly, the ship laid at anchor; they laid by during the storm; the book was laying on the shelf, etc. It is only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the preterit of lay, and not of lie. {To lie along the shore} (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight. {To lie at the door of}, to be imputable to; as, the sin, blame, etc., lies at your door. {To lie at the heart}, to be an object of affection, desire, or anxiety. --Sir W. Temple. {To lie at the mercy of}, to be in the power of. {To lie by}. (a) To remain with; to be at hand; as, he has the manuscript lying by him. (b) To rest; to intermit labor; as, we lay by during the heat of the day. {To lie hard} [or] {heavy}, to press or weigh; to bear hard. {To lie in}, to be in childbed; to bring forth young. {To lie in one}, to be in the power of; to belong to. [bd]As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.[b8] --Rom. xii. 18. {To lie in the way}, to be an obstacle or impediment. {To lie in wait}, to wait in concealment; to lie in ambush. {To lie on} [or] {upon}. (a) To depend on; as, his life lies on the result. (b) To bear, rest, press, or weigh on. {To lie low}, to remain in concealment or inactive. [Slang] {To lie on hand}, {To lie on one's hands}, to remain unsold or unused; as, the goods are still lying on his hands; they have too much time lying on their hands. {To lie on the head of}, to be imputed to. What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. --Shak. {To lie over}. (a) To remain unpaid after the time when payment is due, as a note in bank. (b) To be deferred to some future occasion, as a resolution in a public deliberative body. {To lie to} (Naut.), to stop or delay; especially, to head as near the wind as possible as being the position of greatest safety in a gale; -- said of a ship. Cf. {To bring to}, under {Bring}. {To lie under}, to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by. {To lie with}. (a) To lodge or sleep with. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. (c) To belong to; as, it lies with you to make amends. | |
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Lien \Li"en\ (l[imac]"[ecr]n), obs. p. p. of {Lie}. See {Lain}. --Ps. lxviii. 13. | |
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Lien \Lien\ (l[emac]n [or] l[imac]"[ecr]n; 277), n. [F. lien band, bond, tie, fr. L. ligamen, fr. ligare to bind. Cf. {League} a union, {Leam} a string, {Leamer}, {Ligament}.] (Law) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied. | |
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Floating charge \Floating charge\, lien \lien\, etc. (Law) A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed. | |
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Lim \Lim\ (l[icr]m), n. [See {Limb}.] A limb. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Lima \Li"ma\ (l[emac]"m[adot] [or] l[imac]"m[adot]), n. The capital city of Peru, in South America. {Lima bean}. (Bot.) (a) A variety of climbing or pole bean ({Phaseolus lunatus}), which has very large flattish seeds. (b) The seed of this plant, much used for food. {Lima wood} (Bot.), the beautiful dark wood of the South American tree {C[91]salpinia echinata}. | |
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Lime \Lime\, n. [Formerly line, for earlier lind. See {Linden}.] (Bot.) The linden tree. See {Linden}. | |
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Lime \Lime\, n. [F. lime; of Persian origin. See {Lemon}.] (Bot.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; {Citrus Medica}, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime ({C. Medica}, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour. | |
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Lime \Lime\, n. [AS. l[c6]m; akin to D. lijm, G. leim, OHG. l[c6]m, Icel. l[c6]m, Sw. lim, Dan. liim, L. limus mud, linere to smear, and E. loam. [root]126. Cf. {Loam}, {Liniment}.] 1. Birdlime. Like the lime That foolish birds are caught with. --Wordsworth. 2. (Chem.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called {quicklime}, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, | |
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Lime \Lime\ (l[imac]m), n. [See {Leam} a string.] A thong by which a dog is led; a leash. --Halliwell. | |
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Lime \Lime\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Limed} (l[imac]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liming}.] [Cf. AS. gel[c6]man to glue or join together. See {Lime} a viscous substance.] 1. To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime. These twigs, in time, will come to be limed. --L'Estrange. 2. To entangle; to insnare. We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must take the chance. --Tennyson. 3. To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them. Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming. --Sir J. Child. 4. To cement. [bd]Who gave his blood to lime the stones together.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Limn \Limn\ (l[icr]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Limned} (l[icr]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Limning} (l[icr]m"n[icr]ng [or] l[icr]m"[icr]ng).] [OE. limnen, fr. luminen, for enluminen, F. enluminer to illuminate, to limn, LL. illuminare to paint. [root]122. See {Illuminate}, {Luminous}.] 1. To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush. Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders. | |
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Limy \Lim"y\ (l[imac]m"[ycr]), a. [See 4th {Lime}.] 1. Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous. [bd]Limy snares.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Containing lime; as, a limy soil. 3. Resembling lime; having the qualities of lime. | |
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Lin \Lin\ (l[icr]n), v. i. [AS. linnan. See {Lithe}.] To yield; to stop; to cease. [Obs. or Scot.] --Marston. | |
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Lin \Lin\, v. t. To cease from. [Obs. or Scot.] | |
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Lin \Lin\, n. [Ir. linn, or Gael. linne; akin to W. llyn a pool, pond, lake, but in senses 2 and 3 prob. from AS. hlynn torrent. Cf. {Dunlin}.] 1. A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water. 2. A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin. 3. A steep ravine. Note: Written also linn and lyn. | |
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Arecoline \A*re"co*line\, n. Also -lin \-lin\ . [From NL. Areca, a genus of palms bearing betel nut.] An oily liquid substance, {C8H13O2N}, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action. | |
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Lin \Lin\ (l[icr]n), v. i. [AS. linnan. See {Lithe}.] To yield; to stop; to cease. [Obs. or Scot.] --Marston. | |
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Lin \Lin\, v. t. To cease from. [Obs. or Scot.] | |
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Lin \Lin\, n. [Ir. linn, or Gael. linne; akin to W. llyn a pool, pond, lake, but in senses 2 and 3 prob. from AS. hlynn torrent. Cf. {Dunlin}.] 1. A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water. 2. A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin. 3. A steep ravine. Note: Written also linn and lyn. | |
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Arecoline \A*re"co*line\, n. Also -lin \-lin\ . [From NL. Areca, a genus of palms bearing betel nut.] An oily liquid substance, {C8H13O2N}, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action. | |
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Line \Line\, n. [OE. line, AS. l[c6]ne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See {Linen}.] 1. A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline. Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. --Piers Plowman. 2. A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line. 3. The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel. 4. Direction; as, the line of sight or vision. 5. A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column. 6. A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend. 7. (Poet.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure. In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. --Broome. 8. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. --Coleridge. 9. (Math.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness. 10. The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline. Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. --Milton. 11. A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark. Though on his brow were graven lines austere. --Byron. He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. --Cleveland. 12. Lineament; feature; figure. [bd]The lines of my boy's face.[b8] --Shak. 13. A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers. Unite thy forces and attack their lines. --Dryden. 14. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings. Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. --Chaucer. 15. A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line. 16. (Geog.) (a) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map. (b) The equator; -- usually called {the line}, or {equinoctial line}; as, to cross the line. 17. A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline. 18. (Script.) (a) A measuring line or cord. He marketh it out with a line. --Is. xliv. 13. (b) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. --Ps. xvi. 6. (c) Instruction; doctrine. Their line is gone out through all the earth. --Ps. xix. 4. 19. (Mach.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line. 20. The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad. 21. (Mil.) (a) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to {column}. (b) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc. 22. (Fort.) (a) A trench or rampart. (b) pl. Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy. 23. pl. (Shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections. 24. (Mus.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed. 25. (Stock Exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber. 26. (Trade) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc. --McElrath. 27. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name. 28. pl. The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver. [U. S.] 29. A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch. {Hard lines}, hard lot. --C. Kingsley. [See Def. 18.] {Line breeding} (Stockbreeding), breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother. {Line conch} (Zo[94]l.), a spiral marine shell ({Fasciolaria distans}), of Florida and the West Indies. It is marked by narrow, dark, revolving lines. {Line engraving}. (a) Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, cut with the burin upon copper or similar material; also, a plate so engraved. (b) A picture produced by printing from such an engraving. {Line of battle}. (a) (Mil. Tactics) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver. (b) (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement. {Line of battle ship}. See {Ship of the line}, below. {Line of beauty} (Fine Arts),an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; -- differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth). {Line of centers}. (Mach.) (a) A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. (b) A line which determines a dead center. See {Dead center}, under {Dead}. {Line of dip} (Geol.), a line in the plane of a stratum, or part of a stratum, perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon. {Line of fire} (Mil.), the direction of fire. {Line of force} (Physics), any line in a space in which forces are acting, so drawn that at every point of the line its tangent is the direction of the resultant of all the forces. It cuts at right angles every equipotential surface which it meets. Specifically (Magnetism), a line in proximity to a magnet so drawn that any point in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point. --Faraday. {Line of life} (Palmistry), a line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life. {Line of lines}. See {Gunter's line}. {Line of march}. (Mil.) (a) Arrangement of troops for marching. (b) Course or direction taken by an army or body of troops in marching. {Line of operations}, that portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. --H. W. Halleck. {Line of sight} (Firearms), the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object. {Line tub} (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled. {Mason and Dixon's line} | |
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Line \Line\ (l[imac]n), n. [OE. lin. See {Linen}.] 1. Flax; linen. [Obs.] [bd]Garments made of line.[b8] --Spenser. 2. The longer and finer fiber of flax. | |
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Line \Line\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lined} (l[imac]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lining}.] [See {Line} flax.] 1. To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin. The inside lined with rich carnation silk. --W. Browne. 2. To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money. The charge amounteth very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto. --Carew. Till coffee has her stomach lined. --Swift. 3. To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers. Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant. --Shak. 4. To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals. --Creech. {Lined gold}, gold foil having a lining of another metal. | |
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Line \Line\ (l[imac]n), v. t. 1. To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book. He had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. --Dickens. 2. To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray. [R.] [bd]Pictures fairest lined.[b8] --Shak. 3. To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn. This custom of reading or lining, or, as it was frequently called, [bd]deaconing[b8] the hymn or psalm in the churches, was brought about partly from necessity. --N. D. Gould. 4. To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops. {To line bees}, to track wild bees to their nest by following their line of flight. {To line up} (Mach.), to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. See 3d {Line}, 19. | |
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Loxodromic \Lox`o*drom"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] slanting, oblique + [?] a running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. {Loxodromic curve} [or] {line} (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass. | |
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Shaft \Shaft\, n. [OE. shaft, schaft, AS. sceaft; akin to D. schacht, OHG. scaft, G. schaft, Dan. & Sw. skaft handle, haft, Icel. skapt, and probably to L. scapus, Gr. [?][?][?][?], [?][?][?][?], a staff. Probably originally, a shaven or smoothed rod. Cf. {Scape}, {Scepter}, {Shave}.] 1. The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft. --Chaucer. A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. --Ascham. 2. The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts. --Milton. Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule. --V. Knox. 3. That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. Specifically: (a) (Bot.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. (b) (Zo[94]l.) The stem or midrib of a feather. See Illust. of {Feather}. (c) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill. (d) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold . . . his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. --Ex. xxv. 31. (e) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. (f) A pole, especially a Maypole. [Obs.] --Stow. (g) (Arch.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of {Column}). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple. [Obs. or R.] --Gwilt. (h) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to thee. --Emerson. (i) (Weaving) A rod at the end of a heddle. (j) (Mach.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine. See Illust. of {Countershaft}. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A humming bird ({Thaumastura cora}) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also {cora humming bird}. 5. [Cf. G. schacht.] (Mining) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. 6. A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft. 7. The chamber of a blast furnace. {Line shaft} (Mach.), a main shaft of considerable length, in a shop or factory, usually bearing a number of pulleys by which machines are driven, commonly by means of countershafts; -- called also {line}, or {main line}. {Shaft alley} (Naut.), a passage extending from the engine room to the stern, and containing the propeller shaft. {Shaft furnace} (Metal.), a furnace, in the form of a chimney, which is charged at the top and tapped at the bottom. | |
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Line \Line\, n. [OE. line, AS. l[c6]ne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See {Linen}.] 1. A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline. Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. --Piers Plowman. 2. A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line. 3. The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel. 4. Direction; as, the line of sight or vision. 5. A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column. 6. A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend. 7. (Poet.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure. In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. --Broome. 8. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. --Coleridge. 9. (Math.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness. 10. The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline. Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. --Milton. 11. A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark. Though on his brow were graven lines austere. --Byron. He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. --Cleveland. 12. Lineament; feature; figure. [bd]The lines of my boy's face.[b8] --Shak. 13. A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers. Unite thy forces and attack their lines. --Dryden. 14. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings. Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. --Chaucer. 15. A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line. 16. (Geog.) (a) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map. (b) The equator; -- usually called {the line}, or {equinoctial line}; as, to cross the line. 17. A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline. 18. (Script.) (a) A measuring line or cord. He marketh it out with a line. --Is. xliv. 13. (b) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. --Ps. xvi. 6. (c) Instruction; doctrine. Their line is gone out through all the earth. --Ps. xix. 4. 19. (Mach.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line. 20. The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad. 21. (Mil.) (a) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to {column}. (b) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc. 22. (Fort.) (a) A trench or rampart. (b) pl. Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy. 23. pl. (Shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections. 24. (Mus.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed. 25. (Stock Exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber. 26. (Trade) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc. --McElrath. 27. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name. 28. pl. The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver. [U. S.] 29. A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch. {Hard lines}, hard lot. --C. Kingsley. [See Def. 18.] {Line breeding} (Stockbreeding), breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother. {Line conch} (Zo[94]l.), a spiral marine shell ({Fasciolaria distans}), of Florida and the West Indies. It is marked by narrow, dark, revolving lines. {Line engraving}. (a) Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, cut with the burin upon copper or similar material; also, a plate so engraved. (b) A picture produced by printing from such an engraving. {Line of battle}. (a) (Mil. Tactics) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver. (b) (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement. {Line of battle ship}. See {Ship of the line}, below. {Line of beauty} (Fine Arts),an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; -- differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth). {Line of centers}. (Mach.) (a) A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. (b) A line which determines a dead center. See {Dead center}, under {Dead}. {Line of dip} (Geol.), a line in the plane of a stratum, or part of a stratum, perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon. {Line of fire} (Mil.), the direction of fire. {Line of force} (Physics), any line in a space in which forces are acting, so drawn that at every point of the line its tangent is the direction of the resultant of all the forces. It cuts at right angles every equipotential surface which it meets. Specifically (Magnetism), a line in proximity to a magnet so drawn that any point in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point. --Faraday. {Line of life} (Palmistry), a line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life. {Line of lines}. See {Gunter's line}. {Line of march}. (Mil.) (a) Arrangement of troops for marching. (b) Course or direction taken by an army or body of troops in marching. {Line of operations}, that portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. --H. W. Halleck. {Line of sight} (Firearms), the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object. {Line tub} (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled. {Mason and Dixon's line} | |
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Line \Line\ (l[imac]n), n. [OE. lin. See {Linen}.] 1. Flax; linen. [Obs.] [bd]Garments made of line.[b8] --Spenser. 2. The longer and finer fiber of flax. | |
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Line \Line\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lined} (l[imac]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lining}.] [See {Line} flax.] 1. To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin. The inside lined with rich carnation silk. --W. Browne. 2. To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money. The charge amounteth very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto. --Carew. Till coffee has her stomach lined. --Swift. 3. To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers. Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant. --Shak. 4. To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals. --Creech. {Lined gold}, gold foil having a lining of another metal. | |
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Line \Line\ (l[imac]n), v. t. 1. To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book. He had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. --Dickens. 2. To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray. [R.] [bd]Pictures fairest lined.[b8] --Shak. 3. To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn. This custom of reading or lining, or, as it was frequently called, [bd]deaconing[b8] the hymn or psalm in the churches, was brought about partly from necessity. --N. D. Gould. 4. To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops. {To line bees}, to track wild bees to their nest by following their line of flight. {To line up} (Mach.), to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. See 3d {Line}, 19. | |
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Loxodromic \Lox`o*drom"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] slanting, oblique + [?] a running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. {Loxodromic curve} [or] {line} (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass. | |
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Shaft \Shaft\, n. [OE. shaft, schaft, AS. sceaft; akin to D. schacht, OHG. scaft, G. schaft, Dan. & Sw. skaft handle, haft, Icel. skapt, and probably to L. scapus, Gr. [?][?][?][?], [?][?][?][?], a staff. Probably originally, a shaven or smoothed rod. Cf. {Scape}, {Scepter}, {Shave}.] 1. The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft. --Chaucer. A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. --Ascham. 2. The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts. --Milton. Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule. --V. Knox. 3. That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. Specifically: (a) (Bot.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. (b) (Zo[94]l.) The stem or midrib of a feather. See Illust. of {Feather}. (c) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill. (d) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold . . . his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. --Ex. xxv. 31. (e) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. (f) A pole, especially a Maypole. [Obs.] --Stow. (g) (Arch.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of {Column}). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple. [Obs. or R.] --Gwilt. (h) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to thee. --Emerson. (i) (Weaving) A rod at the end of a heddle. (j) (Mach.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine. See Illust. of {Countershaft}. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A humming bird ({Thaumastura cora}) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also {cora humming bird}. 5. [Cf. G. schacht.] (Mining) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. 6. A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft. 7. The chamber of a blast furnace. {Line shaft} (Mach.), a main shaft of considerable length, in a shop or factory, usually bearing a number of pulleys by which machines are driven, commonly by means of countershafts; -- called also {line}, or {main line}. {Shaft alley} (Naut.), a passage extending from the engine room to the stern, and containing the propeller shaft. {Shaft furnace} (Metal.), a furnace, in the form of a chimney, which is charged at the top and tapped at the bottom. | |
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Linne \Linne\ (l[icr]n), n. Flax. See {Linen}. [Obs.] | |
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Lion \Li"on\ (l[imac]"[ucr]n), n. [F. lion, L. leo, -onis, akin to Gr. le`wn. Cf. {Chameleon}, {Dandelion}, {Leopard}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A large carnivorous feline mammal ({Felis leo}), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the {maneless lion}, the male has only a slight mane. | |
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Lion \Li"on\, n. {Lion of Lucerne}, a famous sculptured lion at Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Thorwaldsen and dedicated in 1821 as a memorial to the Swiss Guards who fell defending Louis XVI. in the attack of the mob on the Tuileries, Aug. 10, 1792. The animal, which is hewn out of the face of a rock, is represented as transfixed with a broken spear and dying, but still trying to protect with its paw a shield bearing the fleur-de-lis of France. {Lion of St. Mark}, a winged lion, the emblem of the evangelist Mark, especially that of bronze surmounting a granite column in the Piazzetta at Venice, and holding in its fore paws an open book representing St. Mark's Gospel. {Lion of the North}, Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632), King of Sweden, the hero of the Protestant faith in the Thirty Years' War. Liquid air \Liq"uid air\ (Physics) A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied oxygen and nitrogen. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cooling it by its own expansion to a temperature below the boiling point of its constituents (N -194[deg] C; O -183[deg] C.). | |
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Llama \Lla"ma\, n. [Peruv.] (Zo[94]l.) A South American ruminant ({Auchenia llama}), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes. | |
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Llano \Lla"no\, n.; pl. {Llanos}. [Sp., plain even, level. See {Plain}.] An extensive plain with or without vegetation. [Spanish America] | |
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Loam \Loam\, n. [AS. l[be]m; akin to D. leem, G. lehm, and E. lime. See 4th {Lime}.] 1. A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain. --Hooker. 2. (Founding) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern. {Loam mold} (Founding), a mold made with loam. See {Loam}, n., 2. {Loam molding}, the process or business of making loam molds. {Loam plate}, an iron plate upon which a section of a loam mold rests, or from which it is suspended. {Loam work}, loam molding or loam molds. | |
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Loam \Loam\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Loaming}.] To cover, smear, or fill with loam. | |
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Loamy \Loam"y\, a. Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. --Bacon. | |
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Loan \Loan\, n. [See {Lawn}.] A loanin. [Scot.] | |
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Loan \Loan\, n. [OE. lone, lane, AS. l[be]n, l[91]n, fr. le[a2]n to lend; akin to D. leen loan, fief, G. lehen fief, Icel. l[be]n, G. leihen to lend, OHG. l[c6]han, Icel. lj[c6], Goth. leihwan, L. linquere to leave, Gr. [?], Skr. ric. [?] Cf. {Delinquent}, {Eclipse}, {Eleven}, {Ellipse}, {Lend}, {License}, {Relic}.] 1. The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services. 2. That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. {Loan office}. (a) An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker's shop. | |
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Loan \Loan\, n. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loaned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Loaning}.] To lend; -- sometimes with out. --Kent. By way of location or loaning them out. --J. Langley (1644). | |
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Loin \Loin\, n. [OE. loine, OF. logne, F. longe, from (assumed) LL. lumbea, L. lumbus join. Cf. {Lends}, {Lumbar}, {Nombles}.] That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of {Beef}. | |
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Lone \Lone\, n. A lane. See {Loanin}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Lone \Lone\, a. [Abbrev. fr. alone.] 1. Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher. When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered. --Shenstone. 2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic] Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman. --Collection of Records (1642). A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. --Shak. 3. Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. [bd] A lone isle.[b8] --Pope. By a lone well a lonelier column rears. --Byron. 4. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary. Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. --Pope. | |
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Loom \Loom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Looming}.] [OE. lumen to shine, Icel. ljoma; akin to AS. le[a2]ma light, and E. light; or cf. OF. lumer to shine, L. luminare to illumine, lumen light; akin to E. light. [?] See {Light} not dark.] 1. To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high. Awful she looms, the terror of the main. --H. J. Pye. 2. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense. On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context. --J. M. Mason. | |
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Loom \Loom\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Loon}, the bird. | |
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Loom \Loom\, n. [OE. lome, AS. gel[?]ma utensil, implement.] 1. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. --Rambler. 2. (Naut.) That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock. --Totten. | |
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Loom \Loom\, n. The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea. | |
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Loon \Loon\, n. [Scot. loun, lown, loon; akin to OD. loen a stupid man; prob. for an older lown, and akin to E. lame.] A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue. | |
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Loon \Loon\, n. [For older loom, Icel. l[?]mr; akin to Dan. & Sw. lom.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus {Urinator} (formerly {Colymbus}), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern diver ({Urinator imber}, or {Colymbus torquatus}), and the red-throated loon or diver ({U. septentrionalis}), are the best known species. See {Diver}. | |
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Loony \Loon"y\, a. See {Luny}. | |
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Luny \Lu"ny\, a. [Shortened fr. lunatic.] Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also {loony}.] [Law, U.S.] | |
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Loony \Loon"y\, a. See {Luny}. | |
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Luny \Lu"ny\, a. [Shortened fr. lunatic.] Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also {loony}.] [Law, U.S.] | |
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Low \Low\, a. [Compar. {Lower}; superl. {Lowest}.] [OE. low, louh, lah, Icel. l[be]gr; akin to Sw. l[86]g, Dan. lav, D. laag, and E. lie. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight. 2. Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence. 3. Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer. 4. Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide. 5. Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages. 6. Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound. 7. (Mus.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note. 8. (Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, [?] ([?]m), [?] (all). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 10, 11. 9. Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes. 10. Numerically small; as, a low number. 11. Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits. 12. Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes. Why but to keep ye low and ignorant ? --Milton. 13. Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem. 14. Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison. In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull. --Felton. 15. Submissive; humble. [bd]Low reverence.[b8] --Milton. 16. Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness. 17. Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever. 18. Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate. 19. Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet. Note: Low is often used in the formation of compounds which require no special explanation; as, low-arched, low- browed, low-crowned, low-heeled, low-lying, low-priced, low-roofed, low-toned, low-voiced, and the like. {Low Church}. See {High Church}, under {High}. {Low Countries}, the Netherlands. {Low German}, {Low Latin}, etc. See under {German}, {Latin}, etc. {Low life}, humble life. {Low milling}, a process of making flour from grain by a single grinding and by siftings. {Low relief}. See {Bas-relief}. {Low side window} (Arch.), a peculiar form of window common in medi[91]val churches, and of uncertain use. Windows of this sort are narrow, near the ground, and out of the line of the windows, and in many different situations in the building. {Low spirits}, despondency. {Low steam}, steam having a low pressure. {Low steel}, steel which contains only a small proportion of carbon, and can not be hardened greatly by sudden cooling. {Low Sunday}, the Sunday next after Easter; -- popularly so called. {Low tide}, the farthest ebb of the tide; the tide at its lowest point; low water. {Low water}. (a) The lowest point of the ebb tide; a low stage of the in a river, lake, etc. (b) (Steam Boiler) The condition of an insufficient quantity of water in the boiler. {Low water} {alarm [or] indicator} (Steam Boiler), a contrivance of various forms attached to a boiler for giving warning when the water is low. {Low water mark}, that part of the shore to which the waters recede when the tide is the lowest. --Bouvier. {Low wine}, a liquor containing about 20 percent of alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still; -- often in the plural. | |
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Lown \Lown\, n. [See {Loon}.] A low fellow. [Obs.] | |
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Lum \Lum\, n. [W. llumon chimney, llum that shoots up or ends in a point.] 1. A chimney. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Burns. 2. A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine. 3. A woody valley; also, a deep pool. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Lune \Lune\, n. [L. luna moon: cf. F. lune. See {Luna}.] 1. Anything in the shape of a half moon. [R.] 2. (Geom.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles. 3. A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. [Obs.] These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. --Shak. | |
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Luny \Lu"ny\, a. [Shortened fr. lunatic.] Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also {loony}.] [Law, U.S.] | |
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Lyam \Ly"am\, n. [See {Leam}.] A leash. [Obs.] | |
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Lym \Lym\, [or] Lymhound \Lym"hound`\, n. A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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d8Lim n91a \[d8]Lim *n[91]"a\ (l[icr]m*n[emac]"[adot]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. limnai^os pertaining to a marsh, fr. li`mh a marsh.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also {pond snail}. [Written also {Lymn[91]a}.] | |
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Lyn \Lyn\, n. A waterfall. See {Lin}. [Scot.] | |
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Lyne \Lyne\, n. Linen. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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La Homa, TX (CDP, FIPS 40342) Location: 26.24968 N, 98.36320 W Population (1990): 1403 (369 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Lahaina, HI (CDP, FIPS 42950) Location: 20.89128 N, 156.67426 W Population (1990): 9073 (2982 housing units) Area: 14.9 sq km (land), 3.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 96761 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lahoma, OK (town, FIPS 40700) Location: 36.38789 N, 98.09027 W Population (1990): 645 (277 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73754 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lamy, NM Zip code(s): 87540 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lane, KS (city, FIPS 38400) Location: 38.44026 N, 95.08084 W Population (1990): 247 (100 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66042 Lane, OK Zip code(s): 74555 Lane, SC (town, FIPS 40210) Location: 33.52481 N, 79.88047 W Population (1990): 523 (202 housing units) Area: 7.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29564 Lane, SD (town, FIPS 35780) Location: 44.06916 N, 98.42410 W Population (1990): 71 (37 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57358 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Laona, WI Zip code(s): 54541 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lawen, OR Zip code(s): 97740 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lawn, TX (town, FIPS 41872) Location: 32.13623 N, 99.74997 W Population (1990): 358 (159 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79530 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lemay, MO (CDP, FIPS 41438) Location: 38.53180 N, 90.28394 W Population (1990): 18005 (7774 housing units) Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63125 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lena, IL (village, FIPS 42834) Location: 42.38094 N, 89.82582 W Population (1990): 2605 (1065 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61048 Lena, MS (town, FIPS 40360) Location: 32.59457 N, 89.59352 W Population (1990): 175 (86 housing units) Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39094 Lena, WI (village, FIPS 43325) Location: 44.95266 N, 88.05012 W Population (1990): 590 (254 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Leoma, TN Zip code(s): 38468 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Leon, IA (city, FIPS 44535) Location: 40.74131 N, 93.75325 W Population (1990): 2047 (983 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50144 Leon, KS (city, FIPS 39450) Location: 37.68825 N, 96.78354 W Population (1990): 707 (290 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67074 Leon, OK (town, FIPS 42450) Location: 33.87701 N, 97.42952 W Population (1990): 101 (40 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73441 Leon, VA Zip code(s): 22725 Leon, WV (town, FIPS 46300) Location: 38.74735 N, 81.95613 W Population (1990): 145 (72 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Leona, KS (city, FIPS 39475) Location: 39.78580 N, 95.32190 W Population (1990): 39 (23 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66532 Leona, TX (town, FIPS 42340) Location: 31.15458 N, 95.97547 W Population (1990): 178 (86 housing units) Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75850 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Leone, AS (village, FIPS 44900) Location: 14.34027 S, 170.78367 W Population (1990): 3013 (443 housing units) Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Leonia, NJ (borough, FIPS 40020) Location: 40.86311 N, 73.99155 W Population (1990): 8365 (3337 housing units) Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07605 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lima, IL (village, FIPS 43445) Location: 40.17668 N, 91.37501 W Population (1990): 120 (48 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62348 Lima, MT (town, FIPS 43525) Location: 44.63843 N, 112.59145 W Population (1990): 265 (170 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59739 Lima, NY (village, FIPS 42323) Location: 42.90645 N, 77.61309 W Population (1990): 2165 (766 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14485 Lima, OH (city, FIPS 43554) Location: 40.74325 N, 84.11140 W Population (1990): 45549 (18666 housing units) Area: 32.8 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45801, 45804, 45805 Lima, OK (town, FIPS 43000) Location: 35.17328 N, 96.59804 W Population (1990): 133 (53 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Lima, PA (CDP, FIPS 43272) Location: 39.91671 N, 75.44232 W Population (1990): 2670 (599 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Lima, WV Zip code(s): 26383 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Linn, KS (city, FIPS 41425) Location: 39.67938 N, 97.08639 W Population (1990): 472 (199 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66953 Linn, MO (city, FIPS 43238) Location: 38.48076 N, 91.84440 W Population (1990): 1148 (532 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65051 Linn, TX Zip code(s): 78563 Linn, WV Zip code(s): 26384 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Llano, TX (city, FIPS 43144) Location: 30.75134 N, 98.67390 W Population (1990): 2962 (1437 housing units) Area: 8.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Loami, IL (village, FIPS 44173) Location: 39.67440 N, 89.84797 W Population (1990): 802 (314 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62661 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lohn, TX Zip code(s): 76852 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Loma, CO Zip code(s): 81524 Loma, MT Zip code(s): 59460 Loma, ND (city, FIPS 47660) Location: 48.63789 N, 98.52501 W Population (1990): 27 (13 housing units) Area: 68.3 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58311 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Louann, AR (town, FIPS 41630) Location: 33.39159 N, 92.79275 W Population (1990): 158 (74 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71751 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Louin, MS (town, FIPS 42200) Location: 32.07249 N, 89.26170 W Population (1990): 289 (138 housing units) Area: 15.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39338 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Luana, IA (city, FIPS 47055) Location: 43.06094 N, 91.45499 W Population (1990): 190 (103 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52156 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Luma, AS (village, FIPS 46500) Location: 14.21848 S, 169.54490 W Population (1990): 293 (63 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 49.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lyme, NH Zip code(s): 03768 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lynn, AL (town, FIPS 44800) Location: 34.04377 N, 87.54669 W Population (1990): 611 (267 housing units) Area: 17.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35575 Lynn, AR (town, FIPS 42260) Location: 36.00657 N, 91.25199 W Population (1990): 299 (146 housing units) Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72440 Lynn, IN (town, FIPS 45468) Location: 40.04868 N, 84.94226 W Population (1990): 1183 (511 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47355 Lynn, KY Zip code(s): 41144 Lynn, MA (city, FIPS 37490) Location: 42.47417 N, 70.96255 W Population (1990): 81245 (34670 housing units) Area: 28.0 sq km (land), 7.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 01901, 01902 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lyon, MS (town, FIPS 42960) Location: 34.21706 N, 90.54218 W Population (1990): 446 (170 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38645 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
line 666 [from Christian eschatological myth] n. The notional line of source at which a program fails for obscure reasons, implying either that _somebody_ is out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be so gotten (when you are not). "It works when I trace through it, but seems to crash on line 666 when I run it." "What happens is that whenever a large batch comes through, mmdf dies on the Line of the Beast. Probably some twit hardcoded a buffer size." | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
l10n {localisation} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LAN {local area network} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LAWN {wireless local area network} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Lean An experimental language from the {University of Nijmegen} and {University of East Anglia}, based on graph rewriting and useful as an intermediate language. Lean is descended from {Dactl0}. {Clean} is a subset of Lean. ["Towards an Intermediate Language Based on Graph Rewriting", H.P. Barendregt et al in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, G. Goos ed, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.159-175]. (1995-01-25) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lemma of some further result. (1995-03-25) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Liana programming} language, {class} library, and integrated development environment designed specifically for development of {application programs} for {Microsoft Windows} and {Windows NT}. Designed by Jack Krupansky {Base Technology}, Liana was first released as a commercial product in August 1991. The language is designed to be as easy to use as {BASIC}, as concise as {C}, and as flexible as {Smalltalk}. The {OOP} {syntax} of {C++} was chosen over the less familiar syntax of {Smalltalk} and {Objective-C} to appeal to {C} programmers and in recognition of C++ being the leading OOP language. The syntax is a simplified subset of {C/C++}. The {semantics} are also a simplified subset of C/C++, but extended to achieve the flexibility of Smalltalk. Liana is a typeless language (like {Lisp}, {Snobol} and {Smalltalk}), which means that the datatypes of variables, function parameters, and function return values are not needed since values carry the type information. Hence, variables are simply containers for values and function parameters are simply pipes through which any type of value can flow. {Single inheritance}, but not {multiple inheritance}, is supported. {Memory management} is automatic using {reference counting}. The library includes over 150 {classes}, for {dynamic arrays}, {associative lookup} tables, windows, menus, dialogs, controls, bitmaps, cursors, icons, mouse movement, keyboard input, fonts, text and graphics display, {DDE}, and {MDI}. Liana provides flexible OOP support for Windows programming. For example, a {list box} automatically fills itself from an associated {object}. That object is not some sort of special object, but is merely any object that "behaves like" an array (i.e., has a "size" member function that returns the number of elements, a "get" function that returns the ith element, and the text for each element is returned by calling the "text" member function for the element). A related product, C-odeScript, is an embeddable application scripting language. It is an implementation of Liana which can be called from C/C++ applications to dynamically evaluate expressions and statement sequences. This can be used to offer the end-user a macro/scripting capability or to allow the C/C++ application to be customized without changing the C/C++ source code. Here's a complete Liana program which illustrates the flexibility of the language semantics and the power of the class library: main { // Prompt user for a string. // No declaration needed for "x" (becomes a global variable.) x = ask ("Enter a String"); // Use "+" operator to concatenate strings. Memory // management for string temporaries is automatic. The // "message" function displays a Windows message box. message ("You entered: " + x); // Now x will take on a different type. The "ask_number" // function will return a "real" if the user's input // contains a decimal point or an "int" if no decimal // point. x = ask_number ("Enter a Number"); // The "+" operator with a string operand will // automatically convert the other operand to a string. message ("You entered: " + x); // Prompt user for a Liana expression. Store it in a // local variable (the type, string, is merely for // documentation.) string expr = ask ("Enter an Expression"); // Evaluate the expression. The return value of "eval" // could be any type. The "source_format" member function // converts any value to its source format (e.g., add // quotes for a string.) The "class_name" member function // return the name of the class of an object/value. // Empty parens can be left off for member function calls. x = eval (expr); message ("The value of " + expr + " is " + x.source_format + " its type is " + x.class_name); } The author explained that the "Li" of Liana stands for "Language interpreter" and liana are vines that grow up trees in tropical forests, which seemed quite appropriate for a tool to deal with the complexity of MS Windows! It is also a woman's name. ["Liana for Windows", Aitken, P., PC TECHNIQUES, Dec/Jan 1993]. ["Liana: A Language For Writing Windows Programs", Burk, R., Tech Specialist (R&D Publications), Sep 1991]. ["Liana v. 1.0." Hildebrand, J.D., Computer Language, Dec 1992]. ["Liana: A Windows Programming Language Based on C and C++", Krupansky, J., The C Users Journal, Jul 1992]. ["Writing a Multimedia App in Liana", Krupansky, J., Dr. Dobb's Journal, Winter Multimedia Sourcebook 1994]. ["The Liana Programming Language", R. Valdes, Dr Dobbs J Oct 1993, pp.50-52]. (1999-06-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
line 1. than a breadbox, a single line may consist of two electrical conductors in twisted, parallel, or concentric arrangement used to transport one logical signal. By extension, a (usually physical) medium such as an {optical fibre} which carries a signal. (1995-09-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
line 666 source at which a program fails for obscure reasons, implying either that *somebody* is out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be got (when you are not). E.g. "It works when I trace through it, but seems to crash on line 666 when I run it." "What happens is that whenever a large batch comes through, mmdf dies on the Line of the Beast. Probably some twit {hard-coded} a buffer size." [{Jargon File}] (1999-03-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LLM3 /el el em trwa/ The {assembly language} for a {virtual machine} used as the implementation language for {Le-Lisp}. Developed by J. Chailloux of {INRIA}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LM3 The {Larch} interface language for {Modula-3}. ["LM3: A Larch/Modula-3 Interface Language", Kevin D. Jones, TR 72, DEC SRC, Palo Alto CA]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LMAO (1996-02-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LOM early 1980s for {data processing}. (1996-03-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LUN {Logical Unit Number} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lama (Matt. 27:46), a Hebrew word meaning why, quoted from Ps. 22:1. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lime The Hebrew word so rendered means "boiling" or "effervescing." From Isa. 33:12 it appears that lime was made in a kiln lighted by thorn-bushes. In Amos 2:1 it is recorded that the king of Moab "burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime." The same Hebrew word is used in Deut. 27:2-4, and is there rendered "plaster." Limestone is the chief constituent of the mountains of Syria. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Lo-ammi not my people, a symbolical name given by God's command to Hosea's second son in token of Jehovah's rejection of his people (Hos. 1:9, 10), his treatment of them as a foreign people. This Hebrew word is rendered by "not my people" in ver. 10; 2:23. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Loan The Mosaic law required that when an Israelite needed to borrow, what he asked was to be freely lent to him, and no interest was to be charged, although interest might be taken of a foreigner (Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:19, 20; Lev. 25:35-38). At the end of seven years all debts were remitted. Of a foreigner the loan might, however, be exacted. At a later period of the Hebrew commonwealth, when commerce increased, the practice of exacting usury or interest on loans, and of suretiship in the commercial sense, grew up. Yet the exaction of it from a Hebrew was regarded as discreditable (Ps. 15:5; Prov. 6:1, 4; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 27:13; Jer. 15:10). Limitations are prescribed by the law to the taking of a pledge from the borrower. The outer garment in which a man slept at night, if taken in pledge, was to be returned before sunset (Ex. 22:26, 27; Deut. 24:12, 13). A widow's garment (Deut. 24:17) and a millstone (6) could not be taken. A creditor could not enter the house to reclaim a pledge, but must remain outside till the borrower brought it (10, 11). The Hebrew debtor could not be retained in bondage longer than the seventh year, or at farthest the year of jubilee (Ex. 21:2; Lev. 25:39, 42), but foreign sojourners were to be "bondmen for ever" (Lev. 25:44-54). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lahmi, my bread; my war | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Lo-ammi, not my people |