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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Largifical \Lar*gif"i*cal\, a. [L. largificus; largus large + facere.] Generous; ample; liberal. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Largifluous \Lar*gif"lu*ous\, a. [L. largifiuus; large abundantly + fluere to flow.] Flowing copiously. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lark \Lark\, n. [OE. larke, laverock, AS. l[be]werce; akin to D. leeuwerik, LG. lewerke, OHG. l[?]rahha, G. lerche, Sw. l[84]rka, Dan. lerke, Icel. l[91]virki.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus {Alauda} and allied genera (family {Alaudid[91]}). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus {Otocoris}. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors. Note: The European skylark, or lark of the poets ({Alauda arvensis}), is of a brown mottled color, and is noted for its clear and sweet song, uttered as it rises and descends almost perpendicularly in the air. It is considered a table delicacy, and immense numbers are killed for the markets. Other well-known European species are the crested, or tufted, lark ({Alauda cristata}), and the wood lark ({A. arborea}). The pipits, or titlarks, of the genus {Anthus} (family {Motacillid[91]}) are often called larks. See {Pipit}. The American meadow larks, of the genus {Sturnella}, are allied to the starlings. See {Meadow Lark}. The Australian bush lark is {Mirafra Horsfieldii}. See {Shore lark}. {Lark bunting} (Zo[94]l.), a fringilline bird ({Calamospiza melanocorys}) found on the plains of the Western United States. {Lark sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a sparrow ({Chondestes grammacus}), found in the Mississippi Valley and the Western United States. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lark \Lark\, n. [OE. larke, laverock, AS. l[be]werce; akin to D. leeuwerik, LG. lewerke, OHG. l[?]rahha, G. lerche, Sw. l[84]rka, Dan. lerke, Icel. l[91]virki.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus {Alauda} and allied genera (family {Alaudid[91]}). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus {Otocoris}. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors. Note: The European skylark, or lark of the poets ({Alauda arvensis}), is of a brown mottled color, and is noted for its clear and sweet song, uttered as it rises and descends almost perpendicularly in the air. It is considered a table delicacy, and immense numbers are killed for the markets. Other well-known European species are the crested, or tufted, lark ({Alauda cristata}), and the wood lark ({A. arborea}). The pipits, or titlarks, of the genus {Anthus} (family {Motacillid[91]}) are often called larks. See {Pipit}. The American meadow larks, of the genus {Sturnella}, are allied to the starlings. See {Meadow Lark}. The Australian bush lark is {Mirafra Horsfieldii}. See {Shore lark}. {Lark bunting} (Zo[94]l.), a fringilline bird ({Calamospiza melanocorys}) found on the plains of the Western United States. {Lark sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a sparrow ({Chondestes grammacus}), found in the Mississippi Valley and the Western United States. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Larkspur \Lark"spur\, n. (Bot.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants ({Delphinium}), having showy flowers, and a spurred calyx. They are natives of the North Temperate zone. The commonest larkspur of the gardens is {D. Consolida}. The flower of the bee larkspur ({D. elatum}) has two petals bearded with yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
1. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility. Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc. 2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc. 3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett. 4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang] {Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n. {Ivory gull} (Zo[94]l.), a white Arctic gull ({Larus eburneus}). {Ivory nut} (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the {Phytephas macroarpa}, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance, resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence it is called {vegetable ivory}. It is wrought into various articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the {Phytephas microarpa}. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso nuts. {Ivory palm} (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts. {Ivory shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Eburna}, a genus of marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually white with red or brown spots. {Vegetable ivory}, the meat of the ivory nut. See {Ivory nut} (above). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Serrator \Ser*ra"tor\, n. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) The ivory gull ({Larus eburneus}). | |
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{White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels, and for other purposes. {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}. {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show the white feather}, under {Feather}, n. {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A. concolor}. {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under {Ruffed}. [Canada] {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}. {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan. {White garnet} (Min.), leucite. {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica}) with greenish-white pale[91]. {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The white ptarmigan. (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.] {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and other plants, and often do much damage. {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under {Squirrel}. {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier. {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which they emit. {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum} ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2. {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak. {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps. {The White House}. See under {House}. {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba}) having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}. {White iron}. (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron. (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large proportion of combined carbon. {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite. {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. [Eng.] {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting. {White lead}. (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for other purposes; ceruse. (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite. {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and salt. {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}. {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under {Rattlesnake}. {White lie}. See under {Lie}. {White light}. (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the same proportion as in the light coming directly from the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1. (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white illumination for signals, etc. {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for whitewashing; whitewash. {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a blank line. {White meat}. (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry. (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc. Driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding only upon their milk and white meats. --Spenser. {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew. {White metal}. (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia, etc. (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}. {White money}, silver money. {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common mouse. {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema}) ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; -- called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}. {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its head, which give the appearance of a hood. {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}. {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The snowy owl. (b) The barn owl. {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan. {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana}) valued as a food fish. (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum. (c) Any California surf fish. {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}. {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele. {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}. {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise. [Obs.] A pistol charged with white powder. --Beau. & Fl. {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}. {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage. (b) An albino rabbit. {White rent}, (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; -- opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3. (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.] {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}. (b) The umhofo. {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity; as, the White-ribbon Army. {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope. {White rot}. (Bot.) (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease called rot in sheep. (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}. {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter fat}. {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon. {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt. {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii}) injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under {Orange}. {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See under {Shark}. {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under {Softening}. {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1. {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on the surface of the sea. {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of England. --Macaulay. {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork. {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose} (d) . {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}). {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind. {White tombac}. See {Tombac}. {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United States. {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White vitriol}, under {Vitriol}. {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail. {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching. {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga. {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew. {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; -- distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer. {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather. {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and {Thibetan wolf}. (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf. {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called from the color of the under parts. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rudder \Rud"der\, n. [OE. rother, AS. r[omac][edh]er a paddle; akin to D. roer rudder, oar, G. ruder, OHG. roadar, Sw. roder, ror, Dan. roer, ror. [root] 8. See {Row} to propel with an oar, and cf. {Rother}. ] 1. (Naut.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment. 2. Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course. For rhyme the rudder is of verses. --Hudibras. {Balance rudder} (Naut.), a rudder pivoted near the middle instead of at the edge, -- common on sharpies. {Drop rudder} (Naut.), a rudder extending below the keel so as to be more effective in steering. {Rudder chain} (Naut.), one of the loose chains or ropes which fasten the rudder to the quarters to prevent its loss in case it gets unshipped, and for operating it in case the tiller or the wheel is broken. {Rudder coat} (Naut.), a covering of tarred canvas used to prevent water from entering the rudderhole. {Rudder fish}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The pilot fish. (b) The amber fish ({Seriola zonata}), which is bluish having six broad black bands. (c) A plain greenish black American fish ({Leirus perciformis}); -- called also {black rudder fish}, {logfish}, and {barrel fish}. The name is also applied to other fishes which follow vessels. {Rudder pendants} (Naut.), ropes connected with the rudder chains. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Larkfield-Wikiup, CA (CDP, FIPS 40426) Location: 38.51339 N, 122.75248 W Population (1990): 6779 (2680 housing units) Area: 11.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Larkspur, CA (city, FIPS 40438) Location: 37.94115 N, 122.52915 W Population (1990): 11070 (5966 housing units) Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 94939 Larkspur, CO (town, FIPS 43550) Location: 39.18162 N, 104.89599 W Population (1990): 232 (96 housing units) Area: 11.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 80118 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Larksville, PA (borough, FIPS 41608) Location: 41.25937 N, 75.93232 W Population (1990): 4700 (1808 housing units) Area: 12.3 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Lawyersville, NY Zip code(s): 12113 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Le Raysville, PA (borough, FIPS 42824) Location: 41.83762 N, 76.18074 W Population (1990): 336 (124 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 18829 |