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   Lady with the Lamp
         n 1: English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean
               War (1820-1910) [syn: {Nightingale}, {Florence
               Nightingale}, {Lady with the Lamp}]

English Dictionary: Lithodidae by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
latitude
n
  1. the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
  2. freedom from normal restraints in conduct; "the new freedom in movies and novels"; "allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money"
  3. an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
    Synonym(s): latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude, parallel
  4. scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
latitudinal
adj
  1. of or relating to latitudes north or south
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
latitudinarian
adj
  1. unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
    Synonym(s): free-thinking, latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical
n
  1. a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lithodidae
n
  1. deep-sea crabs of cold waters [syn: Lithodidae, {family Lithodidae}]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latitation \Lat`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. latitatio.]
      A lying in concealment; hiding. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latitude \Lat"i*tude\, n. [F. latitude, L. latitudo, fr. latus
      broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. akin to E. strew.]
      1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a
            given point or line; breadth; width.
  
                     Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above
                     one third part.                                 --Sir H.
                                                                              Wotton.
  
      2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence,
            looseness; laxity; independence.
  
                     In human actions there are no degrees and precise
                     natural limits described, but a latitude is
                     indulged.                                          --Jer. Taylor.
  
      3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.;
            extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
  
                     No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles,
                     in the latitude of monkish relations. --Fuller.
  
      4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
  
                     I pretend not to treat of them in their full
                     latitude.                                          --Locke.
  
      5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured
            on a meridian.
  
      6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the
            ecliptic.
  
      {Ascending latitude}, {Circle of latitude}, {Geographical
      latitude}, etc. See under {Ascending}. {Circle}, etc.
  
      {High latitude}, that part of the earth's surface near either
            pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the
            antarctic circle.
  
      {Low latitude}, that part of the earth's surface which is
            near the equator.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heliocentric \He`li*o*cen"tric\, Heliocentrical
   \He`li*o*cen"tric"al\, a. [Helio- + centric, centrical: cf. F.
      h[82]liocentrique.] (Astron.)
      pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from
      it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed
      to geocentrical.
  
      {Heliocentric parallax}. See under {Parallax}.
  
      {Heliocentric place}, {latitude}, {longitude}, etc. (of a
            heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc.,
            of the body as viewed from the sun.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latitude \Lat"i*tude\, n. [F. latitude, L. latitudo, fr. latus
      broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. akin to E. strew.]
      1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a
            given point or line; breadth; width.
  
                     Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above
                     one third part.                                 --Sir H.
                                                                              Wotton.
  
      2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence,
            looseness; laxity; independence.
  
                     In human actions there are no degrees and precise
                     natural limits described, but a latitude is
                     indulged.                                          --Jer. Taylor.
  
      3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.;
            extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
  
                     No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles,
                     in the latitude of monkish relations. --Fuller.
  
      4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
  
                     I pretend not to treat of them in their full
                     latitude.                                          --Locke.
  
      5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured
            on a meridian.
  
      6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the
            ecliptic.
  
      {Ascending latitude}, {Circle of latitude}, {Geographical
      latitude}, etc. See under {Ascending}. {Circle}, etc.
  
      {High latitude}, that part of the earth's surface near either
            pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the
            antarctic circle.
  
      {Low latitude}, that part of the earth's surface which is
            near the equator.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heliocentric \He`li*o*cen"tric\, Heliocentrical
   \He`li*o*cen"tric"al\, a. [Helio- + centric, centrical: cf. F.
      h[82]liocentrique.] (Astron.)
      pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from
      it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed
      to geocentrical.
  
      {Heliocentric parallax}. See under {Parallax}.
  
      {Heliocentric place}, {latitude}, {longitude}, etc. (of a
            heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc.,
            of the body as viewed from the sun.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latitudinal \Lat`i*tu"di*nal\, a.
      Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latitudinarian \Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an\, a. [Cf. F.
      latitudinaire.]
      1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
  
      2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of
            belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely
            from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian
            divines; latitudinarian theology.
  
                     Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects.
                                                                              --Allibone.
  
      3. Lax in moral or religious principles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latitudinarian \Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an\, n.
      1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by
            precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges
            freedom in thinking.
  
      2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in
            the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions
            in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of
            the church than generally prevailed.
  
                     They were called [bd]men of latitude;[b8] and upon
                     this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the
                     name of latitudinarians.                     --Bp. Burnet.
  
      3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict
            principles of orthodoxy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latitudinarianism \Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an*ism\, n.
      A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in
      matters pertaining to religious belief.
  
               Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. --De
                                                                              Quincey.
  
               He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest
               latitudinarianism of opinion.                  --J. S.
                                                                              Harford.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latitudinous \Lat`i*tu"di*nous\, a.
      Having latitude, or wide extent.
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