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   L-P
         n 1: a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at
               33.3 rpm [syn: {LP}, {L-P}]

English Dictionary: lay off by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lab
n
  1. a workplace for the conduct of scientific research [syn: lab, laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lap
n
  1. the upper side of the thighs of a seated person; "he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap"
  2. an area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in my lap"
  3. the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs; "his lap was covered with food stains"
    Synonym(s): lap, lap covering
  4. a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"
    Synonym(s): lap, overlap
  5. movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance"
    Synonym(s): lap, circle, circuit
  6. touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet"
    Synonym(s): lick, lap
v
  1. lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
  2. pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand"
    Synonym(s): lick, lap
  3. move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open"
    Synonym(s): lap, swish, swosh, swoosh
  4. take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
    Synonym(s): lap, lap up, lick
  5. wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"
    Synonym(s): lave, lap, wash
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lapp
n
  1. a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
    Synonym(s): Lapp, Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Same, Saame
  2. the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula
    Synonym(s): Lapp, Sami, Saami, Same, Saame
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lav
n
  1. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lava
n
  1. rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lave
v
  1. wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" [syn: lave, lap, wash]
  2. cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
    Synonym(s): wash, lave
  3. wash one's face and hands; "She freshened up in the bathroom"
    Synonym(s): wash up, lave
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lay off
v
  1. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
    Synonym(s): discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
    Antonym(s): bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold
  2. dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"
    Synonym(s): furlough, lay off
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lay up
v
  1. disable or confine, as with an illness; "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lay-by
n
  1. designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily
    Synonym(s): pull-off, rest area, rest stop, layby, lay-by
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lay-up
n
  1. a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
    Synonym(s): lay-up, layup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
layby
n
  1. designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily
    Synonym(s): pull-off, rest area, rest stop, layby, lay-by
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
layoff
n
  1. the act of laying off an employee or a work force
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
layup
n
  1. a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
    Synonym(s): lay-up, layup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lb
n
  1. 16 ounces avoirdupois; "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"
    Synonym(s): pound, lb
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lbf.
n
  1. a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
    Synonym(s): pound, lbf.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leaf
n
  1. the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
    Synonym(s): leaf, leafage, foliage
  2. a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
    Synonym(s): leaf, folio
  3. hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
v
  1. look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
    Synonym(s): flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff
  2. turn over pages; "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript"
  3. produce leaves, of plants
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leafy
adj
  1. having or covered with leaves; "leafy trees"; "leafy vegetables"
    Antonym(s): leafless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leap
n
  1. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce]
  2. an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"
    Synonym(s): leap, jump, saltation
  3. a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"
    Synonym(s): jump, leap
  4. the distance leaped (or to be leaped); "a leap of 10 feet"
v
  1. move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
    Synonym(s): jump, leap, bound, spring
  2. pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"
    Synonym(s): leap, jump
  3. jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
    Synonym(s): jump, leap, jump off
  4. cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
    Synonym(s): jump, leap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leave
n
  1. the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty; "a ten day's leave to visit his mother"
    Synonym(s): leave, leave of absence
  2. permission to do something; "she was granted leave to speak"
  3. the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow"
    Synonym(s): farewell, leave, leave-taking, parting
v
  1. go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight"
    Synonym(s): leave, go forth, go away
    Antonym(s): arrive, come, get
  2. go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; "She left a mess when she moved out"; "His good luck finally left him"; "her husband left her after 20 years of marriage"; "she wept thinking she had been left behind"
  3. act or be so as to become in a specified state; "The inflation left them penniless"; "The president's remarks left us speechless"
  4. leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"
    Synonym(s): leave, leave alone, leave behind
  5. move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"
    Synonym(s): exit, go out, get out, leave
    Antonym(s): come in, enter, get in, get into, go in, go into, move into
  6. make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
    Synonym(s): leave, allow for, allow, provide
  7. have as a result or residue; "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin"
    Synonym(s): leave, result, lead
  8. remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"
    Synonym(s): leave, depart, pull up stakes
  9. put into the care or protection of someone; "He left the decision to his deputy"; "leave your child the nurse's care"
    Synonym(s): entrust, leave
  10. leave or give by will after one's death; "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate"
    Synonym(s): bequeath, will, leave
    Antonym(s): disinherit, disown
  11. have left or have as a remainder; "That left the four of us"; "19 minus 8 leaves 11"
  12. be survived by after one's death; "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats"
    Synonym(s): leave, leave behind
  13. transmit (knowledge or skills); "give a secret to the Russians"; "leave your name and address here"; "impart a new skill to the students"
    Synonym(s): impart, leave, give, pass on
  14. leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"
    Synonym(s): forget, leave
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leipoa
n
  1. Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
    Synonym(s): mallee fowl, leipoa, lowan, Leipoa ocellata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leppy
n
  1. motherless calf in a range herd of cattle [syn: dogie, dogy, leppy]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lev
n
  1. the basic unit of money in Bulgaria
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
levee
n
  1. a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
  2. a pier that provides a landing place on a river
  3. an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Levi
n
  1. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel
    Synonym(s): Matthew, Saint Matthew, St. Matthew, Saint Matthew the Apostle, St. Matthew the Apostle, Levi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
levy
n
  1. a charge imposed and collected
  2. the act of drafting into military service
    Synonym(s): levy, levy en masse
v
  1. impose and collect; "levy a fine"
    Synonym(s): levy, impose
  2. cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
    Synonym(s): recruit, levy, raise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
LF
n
  1. 30 to 300 kilohertz
    Synonym(s): low frequency, LF
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Li Po
n
  1. Chinese lyric poet (700-762)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Libby
n
  1. United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980)
    Synonym(s): Libby, Willard Frank Libby
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Libya
n
  1. a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum
    Synonym(s): Libya, Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lief
adv
  1. in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it"
    Synonym(s): gladly, lief, fain
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
life
n
  1. a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
  2. the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
    Synonym(s): life, living
  3. the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"
  4. the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
    Synonym(s): animation, life, living, aliveness
  5. the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"
    Synonym(s): life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
  6. the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
  7. the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
  8. a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
  9. animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
    Synonym(s): liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness
  10. living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
  11. the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
  12. an account of the series of events making up a person's life
    Synonym(s): biography, life, life story, life history
  13. a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
  14. a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard"
    Synonym(s): life sentence, life
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
LIFO
n
  1. inventory accounting in which the most recently acquired items are assumed to be the first sold
    Synonym(s): last in first out, LIFO
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lip
n
  1. either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
  2. (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
  3. an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass"
    Synonym(s): sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouth
  4. the top edge of a vessel or other container
    Synonym(s): brim, rim, lip
  5. either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lippi
n
  1. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504)
    Synonym(s): Lippi, Filippino Lippi
  2. Italian painter whose works show a three-dimensional style (1406-1469)
    Synonym(s): Lippi, Fra Filippo Lippi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
liv
adj
  1. being four more than fifty [syn: fifty-four, 54, liv]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
live
adv
  1. not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live"
adj
  1. actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"
    Synonym(s): live, unrecorded
    Antonym(s): recorded
  2. exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"
    Antonym(s): dead
  3. possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary"
    Synonym(s): alive(p), live
    Antonym(s): dead
  4. highly reverberant; "a live concert hall"
  5. charged with an explosive; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb"
  6. elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"
    Synonym(s): bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy
  7. abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch"
  8. in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"
  9. of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option"
  10. charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire"
    Synonym(s): hot, live
  11. capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive"
    Synonym(s): alive, live
v
  1. inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
    Synonym(s): populate, dwell, live, inhabit
  2. lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"
  3. continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
    Synonym(s): survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
  4. support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
    Synonym(s): exist, survive, live, subsist
  5. have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
    Synonym(s): be, live
  6. have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
    Synonym(s): know, experience, live
  7. pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Livy
n
  1. Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)
    Synonym(s): Livy, Titus Livius
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
LLB
n
  1. a three-year law degree
    Synonym(s): Bachelor of Laws, LLB
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loaf
n
  1. a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
    Synonym(s): loaf of bread, loaf
  2. a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape; "meat loaf"; "sugar loaf"; "a loaf of cheese"
v
  1. be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
    Synonym(s): bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about
  2. be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
    Synonym(s): loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lob
n
  1. an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
  2. the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
v
  1. propel in a high arc; "lob the tennis ball"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lobby
n
  1. a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule]
  2. the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
  3. a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
    Synonym(s): lobby, pressure group, third house
v
  1. detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
    Synonym(s): lobby, buttonhole
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lobe
n
  1. (anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part; "ear lobe"
  2. (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided
  3. the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern
  4. a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Loeb
n
  1. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)
    Synonym(s): Loeb, Jacques Loeb
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loofa
n
  1. the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
    Synonym(s): loofa, loofah, luffa, loufah sponge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loofah
n
  1. the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
    Synonym(s): loofa, loofah, luffa, loufah sponge
  2. the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit
    Synonym(s): loofah, vegetable sponge, Luffa cylindrica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loop
n
  1. fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
    Synonym(s): cringle, eyelet, loop, grommet, grummet
  2. anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself)
  3. (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations"
    Synonym(s): iteration, loop
  4. an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan); "he's no longer in the loop"
  5. the basic pattern of the human fingerprint
  6. a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied
  7. the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component
    Synonym(s): loop topology, loop
  8. an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop
  9. a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates
    Synonym(s): closed circuit, loop
    Antonym(s): open circuit
  10. a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane
    Synonym(s): loop, loop-the-loop
v
  1. move in loops; "The bicycle looped around the tree"
  2. make a loop in; "loop a rope"
    Synonym(s): loop, intertwine
  3. fly loops, perform a loop; "the stunt pilot looped his plane"
  4. wind around something in coils or loops
    Synonym(s): coil, loop, curl
    Antonym(s): uncoil
  5. fasten or join with a loop; "He looped the watch through his belt"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loopy
adj
  1. consisting of or covered with or having loops
  2. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
    Synonym(s): balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lop
v
  1. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
    Synonym(s): discerp, sever, lop
  2. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
    Synonym(s): snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lope
n
  1. a slow pace of running
    Synonym(s): jog, trot, lope
  2. a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
    Synonym(s): canter, lope
v
  1. run easily
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loupe
n
  1. small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists
    Synonym(s): loupe, jeweler's loupe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
love
n
  1. a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love"
    Antonym(s): hate, hatred
  2. any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting";
    Synonym(s): love, passion
  3. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
    Synonym(s): beloved, dear, dearest, honey, love
  4. a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"
    Synonym(s): love, sexual love, erotic love
  5. a score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love"
  6. sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life"
    Synonym(s): sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life
v
  1. have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him"
    Antonym(s): detest, hate
  2. get pleasure from; "I love cooking"
    Synonym(s): love, enjoy
  3. be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply"
  4. have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
    Synonym(s): sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lovoa
n
  1. genus of African timber trees
    Synonym(s): Lovoa, genus Lovoa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lowboy
n
  1. a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
LP
n
  1. a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm
    Synonym(s): LP, L-P
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Luba
n
  1. a member of a Bantu people in southeastern Congo [syn: Luba, Chiluba]
  2. a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo
    Synonym(s): Luba, Tshiluba
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lube
n
  1. a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery
    Synonym(s): lubricant, lubricator, lubricating substance, lube
v
  1. apply a lubricant to; "lubricate my car" [syn: lubricate, lube]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
luff
n
  1. (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast
  2. the act of sailing close to the wind
v
  1. sail close to the wind
    Synonym(s): luff, point
  2. flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides; "the sails luffed"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
luffa
n
  1. the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
    Synonym(s): loofa, loofah, luffa, loufah sponge
  2. any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
    Synonym(s): luffa, dishcloth gourd, sponge gourd, rag gourd, strainer vine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lv
adj
  1. being five more than fifty [syn: fifty-five, 55, lv]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lvi
adj
  1. being six more than fifty
    Synonym(s): fifty-six, 56, lvi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lvii
adj
  1. being seven more than fifty [syn: fifty-seven, 57, lvii]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lviii
adj
  1. being eight more than fifty [syn: fifty-eight, 58, lviii]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   L91vo- \L[91]"vo-\
      A prefix. See {Levo}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Levo- \Le"vo-\ (l[emac]"v[osl]-).
      A prefix from L. laevus, meaning:
      (a) Pertaining to, or toward, the left; as, levorotatory.
      (b) (Chem. & Opt.) Turning the plane of polarized light to
            the left; as, levotartaric acid; levoracemic acid;
            levogyratory crystals, etc. [Written also {l[91]vo-}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   L91vo- \L[91]"vo-\
      A prefix. See {Levo}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Levo- \Le"vo-\ (l[emac]"v[osl]-).
      A prefix from L. laevus, meaning:
      (a) Pertaining to, or toward, the left; as, levorotatory.
      (b) (Chem. & Opt.) Turning the plane of polarized light to
            the left; as, levotartaric acid; levoracemic acid;
            levogyratory crystals, etc. [Written also {l[91]vo-}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lab \Lab\, v. i. [Cf. OD. labben to babble.]
      To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lab \Lab\, n.
      A telltale; a prater; a blabber. [Obs.] [bd]I am no lab.[b8]
      --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Labium \[d8]La"bi*um\, n.; pl. L. {Labia}, E. {Labiums}. [L.]
      1. A lip, or liplike organ.
  
      2. The lip of an organ pipe.
  
      3. pl. (Anat.) The folds of integument at the opening of the
            vulva.
  
      4. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath,
                  and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second
                  pair of maxill[91], usually closely united in the
                  middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most
                  insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part
                  (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate
                  (mentum).
            (b) Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, n. [OE. lappe, AS. l[91]ppa; akin to D. lap patch,
      piece, G. lappen, OHG. lappa, Dan. lap, Sw. lapp.]
      1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that
            plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. --Chaucer.
  
      2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. --Chaucer.
  
                     If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his
                     heart smites him.                              --Fuller.
  
      3. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs
            when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered;
            figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be
            reared in the lap of luxury.
  
                     Men expect that happiness should drop into their
                     laps.                                                --Tillotson.
  
      4. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over,
            or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as,
            the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension
            over or upon another thing.
  
      Note: The lap of shingles or slates in roofing is the
               distance one course extends over the second course
               below, the distance over the course immediately below
               being called the cover.
  
      5. (Steam Engine) The amount by which a slide valve at its
            half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to
            the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke
            position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone,
            lap refers to outside lap. See {Outside lap} (below).
  
      6. The state or condition of being in part extended over or
            by the side of something else; or the extent of the
            overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its
            length on the leader.
  
      7. One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is
            a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win
            by three laps. See {Lap}, to fold, 2.
  
      8. In card playing and other games, the points won in excess
            of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called
            when they are counted in the score of the following game.
  
      9. (Cotton Manuf.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber
            prepared for the carding machine.
  
      10. (Mach.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used
            to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass,
            gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is
            usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a
            vertical axis.
  
      {Lap joint}, a joint made by one layer, part, or piece,
            overlapping another, as in the scarfing of timbers.
  
      {Lap weld}, a lap joint made by welding together overlapping
            edges or ends.
  
      {Inside lap} (Steam Engine), lap of the valve with respect to
            the exhaust port.
  
      {Outside lap}, lap with respect to the admission, or steam,
            port.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, n.
      1. The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to
            take anything into the mouth with a lap.
  
      2. The sound of lapping.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. i.
      To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of
      something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the
      boats lap; the edges lap.
  
               The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends,
               where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a
               flay.                                                      --Grew.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Lapping}.]
      1. To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
  
                     To lap his head on lady's breast.      --Praed.
  
      2. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
            See 1st {Lap}, 10.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. i. [OE. lappen, lapen, AS. lapian; akin to LG.
      lappen, OHG. laffan, Icel. lepja, Dan. lade, Sw. l[84]ppja,
      L. lambere; cf. Gr. [?], W. llepio. Cf. {Lambent}.]
      1. To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed
            by licking up something.
  
                     The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty,
                     lap hastily as they run along the shore. --Sir K.
                                                                              Digby.
  
      2. To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with
            the tongue.
  
                     I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the
                     wild water lapping on the crag.         --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. t. [OE. lappen to fold (see {Lap}, n.); cf. also
      OE. wlappen, perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.]
      1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap
            a piece of cloth.
  
      2. To wrap or wind around something.
  
                     About the paper . . . I lapped several times a
                     slender thread of very black silk.      --Sir I.
                                                                              Newton.
  
      3. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
  
                     Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      4. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly
            cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay
            together one partly over another; as, to lap
            weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of
            (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
  
      5. (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as
            fleeces or slivers for further working.
  
      {To lap boards}, {shingles}, etc., to lay one partly over
            another.
  
      {To lap timbers}, to unite them in such a way as to preserve
            the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing.
            --Weale.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. t.
      To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a
      quick motion of the tongue.
  
               They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      9. (Chem.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two
            bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic
            formul[91] by a short line or dash. See Diagram of
            {Benzene nucleus}, and {Valence}.
  
      {Arbitration bond}. See under {Arbitration}.
  
      {Bond crediter} (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a
            bond. --Blackstone.
  
      {Bond debt} (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of
            a bond. --Burrows.
  
      {Bond} ([or] {lap}) {of a slate}, the distance between the
            top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second
            slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three
            thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the
            under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate.
  
      {Bond timber}, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen
            it longitudinally.
  
      Syn: Chains; fetters; captivity; imprisonment.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, n. [OE. lappe, AS. l[91]ppa; akin to D. lap patch,
      piece, G. lappen, OHG. lappa, Dan. lap, Sw. lapp.]
      1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that
            plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. --Chaucer.
  
      2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. --Chaucer.
  
                     If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his
                     heart smites him.                              --Fuller.
  
      3. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs
            when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered;
            figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be
            reared in the lap of luxury.
  
                     Men expect that happiness should drop into their
                     laps.                                                --Tillotson.
  
      4. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over,
            or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as,
            the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension
            over or upon another thing.
  
      Note: The lap of shingles or slates in roofing is the
               distance one course extends over the second course
               below, the distance over the course immediately below
               being called the cover.
  
      5. (Steam Engine) The amount by which a slide valve at its
            half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to
            the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke
            position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone,
            lap refers to outside lap. See {Outside lap} (below).
  
      6. The state or condition of being in part extended over or
            by the side of something else; or the extent of the
            overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its
            length on the leader.
  
      7. One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is
            a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win
            by three laps. See {Lap}, to fold, 2.
  
      8. In card playing and other games, the points won in excess
            of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called
            when they are counted in the score of the following game.
  
      9. (Cotton Manuf.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber
            prepared for the carding machine.
  
      10. (Mach.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used
            to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass,
            gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is
            usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a
            vertical axis.
  
      {Lap joint}, a joint made by one layer, part, or piece,
            overlapping another, as in the scarfing of timbers.
  
      {Lap weld}, a lap joint made by welding together overlapping
            edges or ends.
  
      {Inside lap} (Steam Engine), lap of the valve with respect to
            the exhaust port.
  
      {Outside lap}, lap with respect to the admission, or steam,
            port.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, n.
      1. The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to
            take anything into the mouth with a lap.
  
      2. The sound of lapping.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. i.
      To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of
      something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the
      boats lap; the edges lap.
  
               The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends,
               where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a
               flay.                                                      --Grew.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Lapping}.]
      1. To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
  
                     To lap his head on lady's breast.      --Praed.
  
      2. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
            See 1st {Lap}, 10.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. i. [OE. lappen, lapen, AS. lapian; akin to LG.
      lappen, OHG. laffan, Icel. lepja, Dan. lade, Sw. l[84]ppja,
      L. lambere; cf. Gr. [?], W. llepio. Cf. {Lambent}.]
      1. To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed
            by licking up something.
  
                     The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty,
                     lap hastily as they run along the shore. --Sir K.
                                                                              Digby.
  
      2. To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with
            the tongue.
  
                     I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the
                     wild water lapping on the crag.         --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. t. [OE. lappen to fold (see {Lap}, n.); cf. also
      OE. wlappen, perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.]
      1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap
            a piece of cloth.
  
      2. To wrap or wind around something.
  
                     About the paper . . . I lapped several times a
                     slender thread of very black silk.      --Sir I.
                                                                              Newton.
  
      3. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
  
                     Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      4. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly
            cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay
            together one partly over another; as, to lap
            weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of
            (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
  
      5. (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as
            fleeces or slivers for further working.
  
      {To lap boards}, {shingles}, etc., to lay one partly over
            another.
  
      {To lap timbers}, to unite them in such a way as to preserve
            the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing.
            --Weale.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lap \Lap\, v. t.
      To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a
      quick motion of the tongue.
  
               They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      9. (Chem.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two
            bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic
            formul[91] by a short line or dash. See Diagram of
            {Benzene nucleus}, and {Valence}.
  
      {Arbitration bond}. See under {Arbitration}.
  
      {Bond crediter} (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a
            bond. --Blackstone.
  
      {Bond debt} (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of
            a bond. --Burrows.
  
      {Bond} ([or] {lap}) {of a slate}, the distance between the
            top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second
            slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three
            thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the
            under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate.
  
      {Bond timber}, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen
            it longitudinally.
  
      Syn: Chains; fetters; captivity; imprisonment.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Laplander \Lap"land*er\, n.
      A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also {Lapp}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lapp \Lapp\, n.
      Same as {Laplander}. Cf. {Lapps}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lapps \Lapps\, n. pl.; sing. {Lapp}. (Ethnol.)
      A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern
      parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Burdock \Bur"dock\, n. [Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.)
      A genus of coarse biennial herbs ({Lappa}), bearing small
      burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or
      wool of animals.
  
      Note: The common burdock is the {Lappa officinalis}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lava \La"va\, n. [It. lava lava, orig. in Naples, a torrent of
      rain overflowing the streets, fr. It. & L. lavare to wash.
      See {Lave}.]
      The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured
      sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It
      also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms
      beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern
      United States.
  
      Note: Lavas are classed, according to their structure, as
               scoriaceous or cellular, glassy, stony, etc., and
               according to the material of which they consist, as
               doleritic, trachytic, etc.
  
      {Lava millstone}, a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from
            the neighborhood of the Rhine.
  
      {Lava ware}, a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast
            into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in
            appearance.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lave \Lave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Laving}.] [F. laver, L. lavare, akin to luere to wash, Gr.
      [?]. Cf. {Ablution}, {Deluge}, {Lavender}, {Lava}, {Lotion}.]
      To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.
  
               His feet the foremost breakers lave.      --Byron.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lave \Lave\, v. i.
      To bathe; to wash one's self.
  
               In her chaste current oft the goddess laves. --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lave \Lave\, v. t. [OE. laven. See {Lavish}.]
      To lade, dip, or pour out. [Obs.] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lave \Lave\, n. [AS. l[be]f the remainder, what is left. [?].
      See {Leave}.]
      The remainder; others. [Scot.] --Bp. Hall.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lary \La"ry\, n. [Cf. F. lare sea gull, L. larus a sort of sea
      bird, Gr. ([?]).]
      A guillemot; -- called also {lavy}. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Leaf \Leaf\, n.; pl. {Leaves}. [OE. leef, lef, leaf, AS.
      le[a0]f; akin to S. l[?]f, OFries. laf, D. loof foliage, G.
      laub,OHG. loub leaf, foliage, Icel. lauf, Sw. l[94]f, Dan.
      l[94]v, Goth. laufs; cf. Lith. lapas. Cf. {Lodge}.]
      1. (Bot.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from
            the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the
            use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of
            light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively
            constitute its foliage.
  
      Note: Such leaves usually consist of a blade, or lamina,
               supported upon a leafstalk or petiole, which, continued
               through the blade as the midrib, gives off woody ribs
               and veins that support the cellular texture. The
               petiole has usually some sort of an appendage on each
               side of its base, which is called the stipule. The
               green parenchyma of the leaf is covered with a thin
               epiderm pierced with closable microscopic openings,
               known as stomata.
  
      2. (Bot.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a
            lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a
            part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract,
            a spine, or a tendril.
  
      Note: In this view every part of a plant, except the root and
               the stem, is either a leaf, or is composed of leaves
               more or less modified and transformed.
  
      3. Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and
            having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger
            body by one edge or end; as :
            (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages
                  upon its opposite sides.
            (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged,
                  as of window shutters, folding doors, etc.
            (c) The movable side of a table.
            (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf.
            (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer.
            (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
  
      {Leaf beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any beetle which feeds upon leaves;
            esp., any species of the family {Chrysomelid[91]}, as the
            potato beetle and helmet beetle.
  
      {Leaf bridge}, a draw-bridge having a platform or leaf which
            swings vertically on hinges.
  
      {Leaf bud} (Bot.), a bud which develops into leaves or a
            leafy branch.
  
      {Leaf butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), any butterfly which, in the form
            and colors of its wings, resembles the leaves of plants
            upon which it rests; esp., butterflies of the genus
            {Kallima}, found in Southern Asia and the East Indies.
  
      {Leaf crumpler} (Zo[94]l.), a small moth ({Phycis
            indigenella}), the larva of which feeds upon leaves of the
            apple tree, and forms its nest by crumpling and fastening
            leaves together in clusters.
  
      {Leaf cutter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of various species of wild
            bees of the genus {Megachile}, which cut rounded pieces
            from the edges of leaves, or the petals of flowers, to be
            used in the construction of their nests, which are made in
            holes and crevices, or in a leaf rolled up for the
            purpose. Among the common American species are {M. brevis}
            and {M. centuncularis}. Called also {rose-cutting bee}.
  
      {Leaf fat}, the fat which lies in leaves or layers within the
            body of an animal.
  
      {Leaf flea} (Zo[94]l.), a jumping plant louse of the family
            {Psyllid[91]}.
  
      {Leaf frog} (Zo[94]l.), any tree frog of the genus
            {Phyllomedusa}.
  
      {Leaf green}.(Bot.) See {Chlorophyll}.
  
      {Leaf hopper} (Zo[94]l.), any small jumping hemipterous
            insect of the genus {Tettigonia}, and allied genera. They
            live upon the leaves and twigs of plants. See {Live
            hopper}.
  
      {Leaf insect} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several genera and
            species of orthopterous insects, esp. of the genus
            {Phyllium}, in which the wings, and sometimes the legs,
            resemble leaves in color and form. They are common in
            Southern Asia and the East Indies.
  
      {Leaf lard}, lard from leaf fat. See under {Lard}.
  
      {Leaf louse} (Zo[94]l.), an aphid.
  
      {Leaf metal}, metal in thin leaves, as gold, silver, or tin.
           
  
      {Leaf miner} (Zo[94]l.), any one of various small
            lepidopterous and dipterous insects, which, in the larval
            stages, burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as,
            the pear-tree leaf miner ({Lithocolletis geminatella}).
  
      {Leaf notcher} (Zo[94]l.), a pale bluish green beetle
            ({Artipus Floridanus}), which, in Florida, eats the edges
            of the leaves of orange trees.
  
      {Leaf roller} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of any tortricid moth
            which makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of plants. See
            {Tortrix}.
  
      {Leaf scar} (Bot.), the cicatrix on a stem whence a leaf has
            fallen.
  
      {Leaf sewer} (Zo[94]l.), a tortricid moth, whose caterpillar
            makes a nest by rolling up a leaf and fastening the edges
            together with silk, as if sewn; esp., {Phoxopteris
            nubeculana}, which feeds upon the apple tree.
  
      {Leaf sight}, a hinges sight on a firearm, which can be
            raised or folded down.
  
      {Leaf trace} (Bot.), one or more fibrovascular bundles, which
            may be traced down an endogenous stem from the base of a
            leaf.
  
      {Leaf tier} (Zo[94]l.), a tortricid moth whose larva makes a
            nest by fastening the edges of a leaf together with silk;
            esp., {Teras cinderella}, found on the apple tree.
  
      {Leaf valve}, a valve which moves on a hinge.
  
      {Leaf wasp} (Zo[94]l.), a sawfiy.
  
      {To turn over a new leaf}, to make a radical change for the
            better in one's way of living or doing. [Colloq.]
  
                     They were both determined to turn over a new leaf.
                                                                              --Richardson.

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   Leaf \Leaf\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leafed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Leafing}.]
      To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the
      trees leaf in May.

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   Leafy \Leaf"y\, a. [Compar. {Leafier}; superl. {Leafiest}.]
      1. Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.
            [bd]The leafy month of June.[b8] --Coleridge.
  
      2. Consisting of leaves. [bd]A leafy bed.[b8] --Byron.

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   Leap \Leap\, n. [AS. le[a0]p.]
      1. A basket. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
  
      2. A weel or wicker trap for fish. [Prov. Eng.]

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   Leap \Leap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaped}, rarely {Leapt}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Leaping}.] [OE. lepen, leapen, AS. hle[a0]pan
      to leap, jump, run; akin to OS. [be]hl[?]pan, OFries. hlapa,
      D. loopen, G. laufen, OHG. louffan, hlauffan, Icel. hlaupa,
      Sw. l[94]pa, Dan. l[94]be, Goth. ushlaupan. Cf. {Elope},
      {Lope}, {Lapwing}, {Loaf} to loiter.]
      1. To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to
            vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a
            horse. --Bacon.
  
                     Leap in with me into this angry flood. --Shak.
  
      2. To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to
            bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
  
                     My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the
                     sky.                                                   --Wordsworth.

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   Leap \Leap\, v. t.
      1. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a
            ditch.
  
      2. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
  
      3. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.

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   Leap \Leap\, n.
      1. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a
            jump; a spring; a bound.
  
                     Wickedness comes on by degrees, . . . and sudden
                     leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
                     Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or
                     glides.                                             --H. Sweet.
  
      2. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
  
      3. (Mining) A fault.
  
      4. (Mus.) A passing from one note to another by an interval,
            especially by a long one, or by one including several
            other and intermediate intervals.

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   Leave \Leave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Leaving}]
      To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. --G.
      Fletcher.

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   Leave \Leave\, v. t. [See {Levy}.]
      To raise; to levy. [Obs.]
  
               An army strong she leaved.                     --Spenser.

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   Leave \Leave\, n. [OE. leve, leave, AS. le[a0]f; akin to le[a2]f
      pleasing, dear, E. lief, D. oorlof leave, G. arlaub, and
      erlauben to permit, Icel. leyfi. [?] See {Lief}.]
      1. Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is
            removed; permission; allowance; license.
  
                     David earnestly asked leave of me.      --1 Sam. xx.
                                                                              6.
  
                     No friend has leave to bear away the dead. --Dryden.
  
      2. The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a
            leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase,
            to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
  
                     A double blessing is a'double grace; Occasion smiles
                     upon a second leave.                           --Shak.
  
                     And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while,
                     and then took his leave of the brethren. --Acts
                                                                              xviii. 18.
  
      {French leave}. See under {French}.
  
      Syn: See {Liberty}.

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   Leave \Leave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Left}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Leaving}.] [OE. leven, AS. l[?]fan, fr. l[be]f remnant,
      heritage; akin to lifian, libban, to live, orig., to remain;
      cf. bel[c6]fan to remain, G. bleiben, Goth. bileiban. [?].
      See {Live}, v.]
      1. To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart
            from; as, to leave the house.
  
                     Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
                     mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. --Gen. ii.
                                                                              24.
  
      2. To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or
            continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
  
                     If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not
                     leave some gleaning grapes ?               --Jer. xlix.
                                                                              9.
  
                     These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the
                     other undone.                                    --Matt. xxiii.
                                                                              23.
  
                     Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be
                     said than is expressed.                     --Bacon.
  
      3. To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
  
                     Now leave complaining and begin your tea. --Pope.
  
      4. To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to
            relinquish.
  
                     Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. --Mark
                                                                              x. 28.
  
                     The heresies that men do leave.         --Shak.
  
      5. To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to
            his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
  
                     I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      6. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to
            submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as,
            leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave
            the matter to arbitrators.
  
                     Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy
                     way.                                                   --Matt. v. 24.
  
                     The foot That leaves the print of blood where'er it
                     walks.                                                --Shak.
  
      7. To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he
            left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy
            to his niece.
  
      {To leave alone}.
            (a) To leave in solitude.
            (b) To desist or refrain from having to do with; as, to
                  leave dangerous chemicals alone.
  
      {To leave off}.
            (a) To desist from; to forbear; to stop; as, to leave off
                  work at six o'clock.
            (b) To cease wearing or using; to omit to put in the usual
                  position; as, to leave off a garment; to leave off the
                  tablecloth.
            (c) To forsake; as, to leave off a bad habit.
  
      {To leave out}, to omit; as, to leave out a word or name in
            writing.
  
      {To leave to one's self}, to let (one) be alone; to cease
            caring for (one).
  
      Syn: Syn>- To quit; depart from; forsake; abandon;
               relinquish; deliver; bequeath; give up; forego; resign;
               surrender; forbear. See {Quit}.

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   Leave \Leave\, v. i.
      1. To depart; to set out. [Colloq.]
  
                     By the time I left for Scotland.         --Carlyle.
  
      2. To cease; to desist; to leave off. [bd]He . . . began at
            the eldest, and left at the youngest.[b8] --Gen. xliv. 12.
  
      {To leave off}, to cease; to desist; to stop.
  
                     Leave off, and for another summons wait.
                                                                              --Roscommon.

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   Leavy \Leav"y\, a.
      Leafy. [Obs.] --Chapman.

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   Leef \Leef\ (l[emac]f), a. & adv.
      See {Lief}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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   Leep \Leep\ (l[emac]p), obs. strong imp. of {Leap}.
      Leaped.

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   Lep \Lep\ (l[ecr]p), obs. strong imp.
      of {Leap}. Leaped. --Chaucer.

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   Leve \Leve\ (l[emac]v), a.
      Dear. See {Lief}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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   Leve \Leve\, n. & v.
      Same as 3d & 4th {Leave}. [Obs.]

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   Leve \Leve\, v. t. [OE., fr. AS. l[emac]fan, abbrev. fr.
      gel[emac]fan. See {Believe}.]
      To believe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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   Leve \Leve\, v. i.
      To live. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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   Leve \Leve\, v. t. [OE. leven, AS. l[emac]fan, l[ymac]fan. See
      {Leave} permission.]
      To grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by
      a dependent clause. [Obs.]
  
               God leve all be well.                              --Chaucer.

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   Levee \Lev"ee\, v. t.
      To attend the levee or levees of.
  
               He levees all the great.                        --Young.

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   Levee \Lev"ee\, n. [F. lev[82]e, fr. lever to raise. See
      {Lever}, and cf. {Levy}.]
      An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the
      Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river. [U. S.]

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   Levee \Lev"ee\, v. t.
      To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a
      river. [U. S.]

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   Levee \Lev"ee\ (l[ecr]v"[esl]; often l[ecr]v*[emac]" in U. S.),
      n. [F. lever, fr. lever to raise, se lever to rise. See
      {Lever}, n.]
      1. The act of rising. [bd] The sun's levee.[b8] --Gray.
  
      2. A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in
            distinction from a {soir[82]e}, or evening assembly; a
            {matin[82]e}; hence, also, any general or somewhat
            miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime
            or evening; as, the president's levee.
  
      Note: In England a ceremonious day reception, when attended
               by both ladies and gentlemen, is called a
               {drawing-room}.

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   Levo- \Le"vo-\ (l[emac]"v[osl]-).
      A prefix from L. laevus, meaning:
      (a) Pertaining to, or toward, the left; as, levorotatory.
      (b) (Chem. & Opt.) Turning the plane of polarized light to
            the left; as, levotartaric acid; levoracemic acid;
            levogyratory crystals, etc. [Written also {l[91]vo-}.]

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   Levy \Lev"y\ (-[ycr]), n.; pl. {Levies} (-[icr]z). [A contr. of
      elevenpence or elevenpenny bit.]
      A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia
      to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12[frac12]
      cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at
      7s. 6d.

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   Levy \Lev"y\, n. [F. lev[82]e, fr. lever to raise. See {Lever},
      and cf. {Levee}.]
      1. The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the
            levy of troops, taxes, etc.
  
                     A levy of all the men left under sixty. --Thirlwall.
  
      2. That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.
            [bd] The Irish levies.[b8] --Macaulay.
  
      3. (Law) The taking or seizure of property on executions to
            satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of
            taxes; a collecting by execution.
  
      {Levy in mass} [F. lev[82]e en masse], a requisition of all
            able-bodied men for military service.

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   Levy \Lev"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Levied} (l[ecr]v"[icr]d); p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Levying}.]
      1. To raise, as a siege. [Obs.] --Holland.
  
      2. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army
            by enrollment, conscription, etc.
  
                     Augustine . . . inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to
                     levy his power, and to war against them. --Fuller.
  
      3. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority;
            as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
  
                     If they do this . . . my ransom, then, Will soon be
                     levied.                                             --Shak.
  
      4. (Law)
            (a) To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
            (b) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to
                  raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a
                  nuisance, etc. [Obs.] --Cowell. --Blackstone.
            (c) To take or seize on execution; to collect by
                  execution.
  
      {To levy a fine}, to commence and carry on a suit for
            assuring the title to lands or tenements. --Blackstone.
  
      {To levy war}, to make or begin war; to take arms for attack;
            to attack.

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   Levy \Lev"y\, v. i.
      To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the
      operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on
      property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by
      seizing the goods.
  
      {To levy on goods and chattels}, to take into custody or
            seize specific property in satisfaction of a writ.

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   Lib \Lib\ (l[icr]b), v. t. [Cf. {Glib} to geld.]
      To castrate. [Obs.]

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   Lief \Lief\, n.
      A dear one; a sweetheart. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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   Lief \Lief\, adv.
      Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases,
      had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief
      go as not.
  
               All women liefest would Be sovereign of man's love.
                                                                              --Gower.
  
               I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. --Shak.
  
               Far liefer by his dear hand had I die.   --Tennyson.
  
      Note: The comparative liefer with had or would, and followed
               by the infinitive, either with or without the sign to,
               signifies prefer, choose as preferable, would or had
               rather. In the 16th century rather was substituted for
               liefer in such constructions in literary English, and
               has continued to be generally so used. See {Had as
               lief}, {Had rather}, etc., under {Had}.

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   Lief \Lief\ (l[emac]f), n.
      Same as {Lif}.

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   Lief \Lief\ (l[emac]f), a. [Written also {lieve}.] [OE. leef,
      lef, leof, AS. le[a2]f; akin to OS. liof, OFries. liaf, D.
      lief, G. lieb, OHG. liob, Icel. lj[umac]fr, Sw. ljuf, Goth.
      liubs, and E. love. [root]124. See {Love}, and cf. {Believe},
      {Leave}, n., {Furlough}, {Libidinous}.]
      1. Dear; beloved. [Obs., except in poetry.] [bd]My liefe
            mother.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]My liefest liege.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     As thou art lief and dear.                  --Tennyson.
  
      2.
  
      Note: (Used with a form of the verb to be, and the dative of
               the personal pronoun.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable;
               preferable. [Obs.] See {Lief}, adv., and Had as lief,
               under {Had}.
  
                        Full lief me were this counsel for to hide.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                        Death me liefer were than such despite.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      3. Willing; disposed. [Obs.]
  
                     I am not lief to gab.                        --Chaucer.
  
                     He up arose, however lief or loth.      --Spenser.

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   Lief \Lief\ (l[emac]f), a. [Written also {lieve}.] [OE. leef,
      lef, leof, AS. le[a2]f; akin to OS. liof, OFries. liaf, D.
      lief, G. lieb, OHG. liob, Icel. lj[umac]fr, Sw. ljuf, Goth.
      liubs, and E. love. [root]124. See {Love}, and cf. {Believe},
      {Leave}, n., {Furlough}, {Libidinous}.]
      1. Dear; beloved. [Obs., except in poetry.] [bd]My liefe
            mother.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]My liefest liege.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     As thou art lief and dear.                  --Tennyson.
  
      2.
  
      Note: (Used with a form of the verb to be, and the dative of
               the personal pronoun.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable;
               preferable. [Obs.] See {Lief}, adv., and Had as lief,
               under {Had}.
  
                        Full lief me were this counsel for to hide.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                        Death me liefer were than such despite.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      3. Willing; disposed. [Obs.]
  
                     I am not lief to gab.                        --Chaucer.
  
                     He up arose, however lief or loth.      --Spenser.

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   Lieve \Lieve\ (l[emac]v), a.
      Same as {Lief}.

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   Lief \Lief\ (l[emac]f), a. [Written also {lieve}.] [OE. leef,
      lef, leof, AS. le[a2]f; akin to OS. liof, OFries. liaf, D.
      lief, G. lieb, OHG. liob, Icel. lj[umac]fr, Sw. ljuf, Goth.
      liubs, and E. love. [root]124. See {Love}, and cf. {Believe},
      {Leave}, n., {Furlough}, {Libidinous}.]
      1. Dear; beloved. [Obs., except in poetry.] [bd]My liefe
            mother.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]My liefest liege.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     As thou art lief and dear.                  --Tennyson.
  
      2.
  
      Note: (Used with a form of the verb to be, and the dative of
               the personal pronoun.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable;
               preferable. [Obs.] See {Lief}, adv., and Had as lief,
               under {Had}.
  
                        Full lief me were this counsel for to hide.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                        Death me liefer were than such despite.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      3. Willing; disposed. [Obs.]
  
                     I am not lief to gab.                        --Chaucer.
  
                     He up arose, however lief or loth.      --Spenser.

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   Lieve \Lieve\ (l[emac]v), a.
      Same as {Lief}.

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   Lif \Lif\ (l[icr]f), n. [Written also lief.]
      The fiber by which the petioles of the date palm are bound
      together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.

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   Life \Life\ (l[imac]f), n.; pl. {Lives} (l[imac]vz). [AS.
      l[imac]f; akin to D. lijf body, G. leib body, MHG. l[imac]p
      life, body, OHG. l[imac]b life, Icel. l[imac]f, life, body,
      Sw. lif, Dan. liv, and E. live, v. [root]119. See {Live}, and
      cf. {Alive}.]
      1. The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or
            germination, and ends with death; also, the time during
            which this state continues; that state of an animal or
            plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of
            performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all
            animal and vegetable organisms.
  
      2. Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the
            duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality
            or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an
            immortal life.
  
                     She shows a body rather than a life.   --Shak.
  
      3. (Philos) The potential principle, or force, by which the
            organs of animals and plants are started and continued in
            the performance of their several and co[94]perative
            functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical
            or spiritual.
  
      4. Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also,
            the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of
            as resembling a natural organism in structure or
            functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book;
            authority is the life of government.
  
      5. A certain way or manner of living with respect to
            conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation,
            etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered
            collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a
            good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.
  
                     That which before us lies in daily life. --Milton.
  
                     By experience of life abroad in the world. --Ascham.
  
                     Lives of great men all remind us We can make our
                     lives sublime.                                    --Longfellow.
  
                     'T is from high life high characters are drawn.
                                                                              --Pope
  
      6. Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
  
                     No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
                                                                              --Felton.
  
                     That gives thy gestures grace and life.
                                                                              --Wordsworth.
  
      7. That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon
            which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of
            the company, or of the enterprise.
  
      8. The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a
            picture or a description from the life.
  
      9. A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many
            lives were sacrificed.
  
      10. The system of animal nature; animals in general, or
            considered collectively.
  
                     Full nature swarms with life.            --Thomson.
  
      11. An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood.
  
                     The words that I speak unto you . . . they are
                     life.                                                --John vi. 63.
  
                     The warm life came issuing through the wound.
                                                                              --Pope
  
      12. A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography;
            as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
  
      13. Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a
            spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God;
            heavenly felicity.
  
      14. Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; --
            used as a term of endearment.
  
      Note: Life forms the first part of many compounds, for the
               most part of obvious meaning; as, life-giving,
               life-sustaining, etc.
  
      {Life annuity}, an annuity payable during one's life.
  
      {Life arrow}, {Life rocket}, {Life shot}, an arrow, rocket,
            or shot, for carrying an attached line to a vessel in
            distress in order to save life.
  
      {Life assurance}. See {Life insurance}, below.

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   Lip \Lip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lipped} (l[icr]pt); p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Lipping} (-p[icr]ng).]
      1. To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to
            kiss.
  
                     The bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip
                     the glass.                                          --Praed.
  
                     A hand that kings Have lipped and trembled kissing.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. To utter; to speak. [R.] --Keats.

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   Lip \Lip\, v. t.
      To clip; to trim. [Obs.] --Holland.

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   Lip \Lip\ (l[icr]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip,
      G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[91]be, Sw. l[84]pp, L.
      labium, labrum. Cf. {Labial}.]
      1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of
            the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips
            are organs of speech essential to certain articulations.
            Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the
            organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
  
                     Thine own lips testify against thee.   --Job xv. 6.
  
      2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything;
            a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
  
      3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
  
      4. (Bot.)
            (a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate
                  corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the
                  {Orchis} family. See {Orchidaceous}.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve
            shell.
  
      {Lip bit}, a pod auger. See {Auger}.
  
      {Lip comfort}, comfort that is given with words only.
  
      {Lip comforter}, one who comforts with words only.
  
      {Lip labor}, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. --Bale.
  
      {Lip reading}, the catching of the words or meaning of one
            speaking by watching the motion of his lips without
            hearing his voice. --Carpenter.
  
      {Lip salve}, a salve for sore lips.
  
      {Lip service}, expression by the lips of obedience and
            devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such
            sentiments.
  
      {Lip wisdom}, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by
            experience.
  
      {Lip work}.
            (a) Talk.
            (b) Kissing. [Humorous] --B. Jonson.
  
      {To make a lip}, to drop the under lip in sullenness or
            contempt. --Shak.
  
      {To shoot out the lip} (Script.), to show contempt by
            protruding the lip.

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   Live \Live\, v. t.
      1. To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue
            in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a
            useful life.
  
      2. To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
  
                     To live the Gospel.                           --Foxe.
  
      {To live down}, to live so as to subdue or refute; as, to
            live down slander.

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   Live \Live\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lived}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Living}.] [OE. liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to
      OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. leb[emac]n, Dan. leve,
      Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth.
      liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr.
      liparei^n to persist, liparo`s oily, shining, sleek, li`pos
      fat, lard, Skr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the first sense
      prob. was, to cleave to, stick to; hence, to remain, stay;
      and hence, to live.]
      1. To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a
            plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to
            be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of
            existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age
            are long in reaching maturity.
  
                     Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I
                     will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up
                     flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put
                     breath in you, and ye shall live.      --Ezek.
                                                                              xxxvii. 5, 6.
  
      2. To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain
            manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to
            live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
  
                     O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a
                     man that liveth at rest in his possessions!
                                                                              --Ecclus. xli.
                                                                              1.
  
      3. To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell;
            to reside.
  
                     Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.
                                                                              --Gen. xlvii.
                                                                              28.
  
      4. To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be
            permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas,
            etc.
  
                     Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We
                     write in water.                                 --Shak.
  
      5. To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of
            happiness.
  
                     What greater curse could envious fortune give Than
                     just to die when I began to live?      --Dryden.
  
      6. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with
            on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
  
      7. To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished,
            and actuated by divine influence or faith.
  
                     The just shall live by faith.            --Gal. iii.
                                                                              ll.
  
      8. To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to
            subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
  
                     Those who live by labor.                     --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
      9. To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat,
            etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
  
                     A strong mast that lived upon the sea. --Shak.
  
      {To live out}, to be at service; to live away from home as a
            servant. [U. S.]
  
      {To live with}.
            (a) To dwell or to be a lodger with.
            (b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male
                  with female.

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   Live \Live\, a. [Abbreviated from alive. See {Alive}, {Life}.]
      1. Having life; alive; living; not dead.
  
                     If one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then
                     they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of
                     it.                                                   --Ex. xxi. 35.
  
      2. Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active
            properties; as, a live coal; live embers. [bd] The live
            ether.[b8] --Thomson.
  
      3. Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a
            live man, or orator.
  
      4. Vivid; bright. [bd] The live carnation.[b8] --Thomson.
  
      5. (Engin.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live
            spindle of a lathe.

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   Live \Live\, n.
      Life. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      {On live}, in life; alive. [Obs.] See {Alive}. --Chaucer.

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   Loaf \Loaf\, v. t.
      To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

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   Loaf \Loaf\, n.; pl. {Loaves}. [OE. lof, laf, AS. hl[be]f; akin
      to G. laib, OHG. hleip, Icel. hleifr, Goth. hlaifs, Russ.
      khlieb', Lith. kl[89]pas. Cf. {Lady}, {Lammas}, {Lord}.]
      Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly
      shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. --Bacon.
  
      {Loaf sugar}, refined sugar that has been formed into a
            conical loaf in a mold.

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   Loaf \Loaf\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loafed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Loafing}.] [G. laufen to run, Prov. G. loofen. See {Leap}.]
      To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. [bd]
      Loafing vagabonds.[b8] --W. Black.

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   Lob \Lob\, n. [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a
      blockhead. Cf. {Looby}, {Lubber}.]
      1. A dull, heavy person. [bd] Country lobs.[b8] --Gauden.
  
      2. Something thick and heavy.

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   Lob \Lob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Lobbing}.]
      To let fall heavily or lazily.
  
               And their poor jades Lob down their heads. --Shak.
  
      {To lob a ball} (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send
            it up into the air.

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   Lob \Lob\, v. t. (Mining)
      See {Cob}, v. t.

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   Lob \Lob\, n. [Dan. lubbe.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The European pollock.

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   Lob \Lob\, n.
      The act of lobbing; specif., an (often gentle) stroke which
      sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player
      at the net.

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   Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a
      little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius
            virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait},
            {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}.
      (b) The American pollock; the coalfish.

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   Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See {Pollack}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius}), native both
      of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod,
      and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called
      {coalfish}, {lob}, {podley}, {podling}, {pollack}, etc.

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   Lob \Lob\, n. [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a
      blockhead. Cf. {Looby}, {Lubber}.]
      1. A dull, heavy person. [bd] Country lobs.[b8] --Gauden.
  
      2. Something thick and heavy.

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   Lob \Lob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Lobbing}.]
      To let fall heavily or lazily.
  
               And their poor jades Lob down their heads. --Shak.
  
      {To lob a ball} (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send
            it up into the air.

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   Lob \Lob\, v. t. (Mining)
      See {Cob}, v. t.

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   Lob \Lob\, n. [Dan. lubbe.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The European pollock.

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   Lob \Lob\, n.
      The act of lobbing; specif., an (often gentle) stroke which
      sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player
      at the net.

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   Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a
      little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius
            virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait},
            {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}.
      (b) The American pollock; the coalfish.

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   Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See {Pollack}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius}), native both
      of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod,
      and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called
      {coalfish}, {lob}, {podley}, {podling}, {pollack}, etc.

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   Lobby \Lob"by\, v. t.
      To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a
      legislative body; as, to lobby a bill. [U.S.]

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   Lobby \Lob"by\, n.; pl. {Lobbies}. [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a
      covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube,
      arbor. See {Lodge}.]
      1. (Arch.) A passage or hall of communication, especially
            when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It
            differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates
            between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but
            this distinction is not carefully preserved.
  
      2. That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the
            official use of the assembly; hence, the persons,
            collectively, who frequent such a place to transact
            business with the legislators; any persons, not members of
            a legislative body, who strive to influence its
            proceedings by personal agency

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   Lobby \Lob"by\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lobbied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Lobbying}.]
      To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the
      lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their
      votes.[U.S.] --Bartlett.

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   Lobe \Lobe\, n. [F. lobe, Gr. [?].]
      Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat
      rounded form; as:
      (a) (Bot.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf.
            --Gray.
      (b) (Zo[94]l.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of
            certain birds, as the coot.
      (c) (Anat.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the
            liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of {Brain}.
      (b) (Mach.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a
            non-circular gear wheel.
  
      {Lobe of the ear}, the soft, fleshy prominence in which the
            human ear terminates below. See. Illust. of {Ear}.

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   Loffe \Loffe\, v. i.
      To laugh. [Obs.] --Shak.

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   Loob \Loob\, n. [Corn., slime, sludge.] (Mining)
      The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.

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   Looby \Loo"by\, n.; pl. {Loobies}. [Cf. {Lob}.]
      An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. --Swift.

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   Loof \Loof\, n. (Bot.)
      The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant
      ({Luffa [92]gyptiaca}); called also {vegetable sponge}.

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   Loof \Loof\, n. [See {Luff}.] [Also written {luff}.] (Naut.)
      (a) Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in
            changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over
            the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.
      (b) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to
            curve toward bow and stern.

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   Loof \Loof\, v. i. (Naut.)
      See {Luff}.

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   Luffa \Luf"fa\, n. [NL., fr. Ar. l[umac]fah.] (Bot.)
      (a) A small genus of tropical cucurbitaceous plants having
            white flowers, the staminate borne in racemes, and large
            fruits with a dry fibrous pericarp. The fruit of several
            species and the species themselves, esp. {L.
            [92]gyptiaca}, are called dishcloth gourds.
      (b) Any plant of this genus, or its fruit.
      (c) The fibrous skeleton of the fruit, used as a sponge and
            in the manufacture of caps and women's hats; -- written
            also {loofah}.

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   Loop \Loop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Looped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Looping}.]
      To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; --
      often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.

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   Loop \Loop\, n. [G. luppe an iron lump. Cf. {Looping}.] (Iron
      Works)
      A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for
      the tilt hammer or rolls. [Written also {loup}.]

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   Loop \Loop\, n. [Cf. Ir. & Gael. lub loop, noose, fold, thong,
      bend, lub to bend, incline.]
      1. A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through
            which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which
            a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple;
            a noose; a bight.
  
                     That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a
                     doubt on.                                          --Shak.
  
      2. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
  
                     And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence The
                     eye of Reason may pry in upon us.      --Shak.
  
      3. A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.
  
      4. (Telegraphy) A wire forming part of a main circuit and
            returning to the point from which it starts.
  
      5. (Acoustics) The portion of a vibrating string, air column,
            etc., between two nodes; -- called also {ventral segment}.
  
      {Loop knot}, a single knot tied in a doubled cord, etc. so as
            to leave a loop beyond the knot. See Illust. of {Knot}.

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   Loopie \Loop"ie\, a.
      Deceitful; cunning; sly. [Scot.]

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   Lop \Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.]
      A flea.[Obs.] --Cleveland.

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   Lop \Lop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Lopping}.] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD.
      luppen, D. lubben.]
      1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to
            sho[?] -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or
            remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its
            branches. [bd]With branches lopped, in wood or mountain
            felled.[b8] --Milton.
  
                     Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a
            hedge.

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   Lop \Lop\, n.
      That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
      --Shak. Mortimer.

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   Lop \Lop\, v. i.
      To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

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   Lop \Lop\, v. t.
      To let hang down; as, to lop the head.

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   Lop \Lop\, a.
      Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound
      adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

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   Lope \Lope\, n.
      1. A leap; a long step. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      2. An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
            [U.S.]
  
                     The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal
                     lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy
                     as the motions of a crade.                  --T. B.
                                                                              Thorpe.

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   Lope \Lope\, imp.
      of {Leap}. [Obs.]
  
               And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.

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   Lope \Lope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Loping}.] [See {Leap}.]
      1. To leap; to dance. [Prov. Eng.] [bd]He that lopes on the
            ropes.[b8] --Middleton.
  
      2. To move with a lope, as a horse. [U.S.]

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   Loppy \Lop"py\, a.
      Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.

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   Loop \Loop\, n. [G. luppe an iron lump. Cf. {Looping}.] (Iron
      Works)
      A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for
      the tilt hammer or rolls. [Written also {loup}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loup \Loup\, n. (Iron Works)
      See 1st {Loop}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loups \Loups\, n. pl.; sing. {Loup}. [F., prop., a wolf.]
      (Ethnol.)
      The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose
      principal totem was the wolf.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loop \Loop\, n. [G. luppe an iron lump. Cf. {Looping}.] (Iron
      Works)
      A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for
      the tilt hammer or rolls. [Written also {loup}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loup \Loup\, n. (Iron Works)
      See 1st {Loop}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loups \Loups\, n. pl.; sing. {Loup}. [F., prop., a wolf.]
      (Ethnol.)
      The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose
      principal totem was the wolf.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Love \Love\, n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E.
      lief, believe, L. lubet, libet,it pleases, Skr. lubh to be
      lustful. See {Lief}.]
      1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which
            delights or commands admiration; pre[89]minent kindness or
            devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love
            of brothers and sisters.
  
                     Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest
                     sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own.
                                                                              --Keble.
  
      2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate
            affection for, one of the opposite sex.
  
                     He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of
                     cordial love Hung over her enamored.   --Milton.
  
      3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e.,
            to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
  
                     Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter,
                     Helena, And won her soul.                  --Shak.
  
      4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or
            desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to {hate}; often
            with of and an object.
  
                     Love, and health to all.                     --Shak.
  
                     Smit with the love of sacred song.      --Milton.
  
                     The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
                                                                              --Fenton.
  
      5. Due gratitude and reverence to God.
  
                     Keep yourselves in the love of God.   --Jude 21.
  
      6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing
            address. [bd]Trust me, love.[b8] --Dryden.
  
                     Open the temple gates unto my love.   --Spenser.
  
      7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
  
                     Such was his form as painters, when they show Their
                     utmost art, on naked Lores bestow.      --Dryden.
  
                     Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.] --Boyle.
  
      9. (Bot.) A climbing species of Clematis ({C. Vitalba}).
  
      10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in
            counting score at tennis, etc.
  
                     He won the match by three sets to love. --The
                                                                              Field.
  
      Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in
               most of which the meaning is very obvious; as,
               love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked,
               love-taught, etc.
  
      {A labor of love}, a labor undertaken on account of regard
            for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself,
            without expectation of reward.
  
      {Free love}, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one
            of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See
            {Free love}.
  
      {Free lover}, one who avows or practices free love.
  
      {In love}, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of
            the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love.
  
      {Love apple} (Bot.), the tomato.
  
      {Love bird} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small,
            short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus
            {Agapornis}, and allied genera. They are mostly from
            Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are
            celebrated for the affection which they show for their
            mates.
  
      {Love broker}, a person who for pay acts as agent between
            lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak.
  
      {Love charm}, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton.
  
      {Love child}. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen.
  
      {Love day}, a day formerly appointed for an amicable
            adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
            --Chaucer.
  
      {Love drink}, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer.
  
      {Love favor}, something given to be worn in token of love.
  
      {Love feast}, a religious festival, held quarterly by some
            religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists,
            in imitation of the agap[91] of the early Christians.
  
      {Love feat}, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak.
  
      {Love game}, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished
            person or party does not score a point.
  
      {Love grass}. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus
            {Eragrostis}.
  
      {Love-in-a-mist}. (Bot.)
            (a) An herb of the Buttercup family ({Nigella Damascena})
                  having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut
                  bracts.
            (b) The West Indian {Passiflora f[d2]tida}, which has
                  similar bracts.
  
      {Love-in-idleness} (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy.
  
                     A little western flower, Before milk-white, now
                     purple with love's wound; And maidens call it
                     love-in-idleness.                              --Shak.
  
      {Love juice}, juice of a plant supposed to produce love.
            --Shak.
  
      {Love knot}, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from
            being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual
            affection. --Milman.
  
      {Love lass}, a sweetheart.
  
      {Love letter}, a letter of courtship. --Shak.
  
      {Love-lies-bleeding} (Bot.), a species of amaranth
            ({Amarantus melancholicus}).
  
      {Love match}, a marriage brought about by love alone.
  
      {Love potion}, a compounded draught intended to excite love,
            or venereal desire.
  
      {Love rites}, sexual intercourse. --Pope
  
      {Love scene}, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the
            stage.
  
      {Love suit}, courtship. --Shak.
  
      {Of all loves}, for the sake of all love; by all means.
            [Obs.] [bd]Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come
            back again.[b8] --Holinshed.
  
      {The god of love}, [or] {Love god}, Cupid.
  
      {To make love to}, to express affection for; to woo. [bd]If
            you will marry, make your loves to me.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {To play for love}, to play a game, as at cards, without
            stakes. [bd]A game at piquet for love.[b8] --Lamb.
  
      Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness;
               delight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Love \Love\, v. i.
      To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Love \Love\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Loving}.] [AS. lufian. [?]. See {Love}, n.]
      1. To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or
            good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love
            one's country; to love one's God.
  
                     Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
                     and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
                                                                              --Matt. xxii.
                                                                              37.
  
                     Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. --Matt.
                                                                              xxii. 39.
  
      2. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that
            of one sex for the other.
  
      3. To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or
            desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like;
            as, to love books; to love adventures.
  
                     Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved.
                                                                              --Cowley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lovee \Lov*ee"\, n.
      One who is loved. [Humorous] [bd]The lover and lovee.[b8]
      --Richardson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lowboy \Low"boy`\, n.
      A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied
      commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper
      half has been removed. [U. S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loof \Loof\, n. [See {Luff}.] [Also written {luff}.] (Naut.)
      (a) Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in
            changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over
            the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.
      (b) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to
            curve toward bow and stern.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Luff \Luff\, n. [OE. lof, prob. a sort of timber by which the
      course of a ship was directed, perh. a sort of paddle; cf. D.
      loef luff, loeven to luff. The word is perh. akin to E.
      glove. Cf. {Aloof}.] (Naut.)
      (a) The side of a ship toward the wind.
      (b) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
      (c) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
      (d) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the
            jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
  
      {Luff tackle}, a purchase composed of a double and single
            block and fall, used for various purposes. --Totten.
  
      {Luff upon luff}, a luff tackle attached to the fall of
            another luff tackle. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Luff \Luff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Luffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Luffing}.] (Naut.)
      To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer
      the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail
      nearer the wind.
  
      {To luff round}, [or] {To luff alee}, to make the extreme of
            this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head
            into the wind.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loof \Loof\, n. [See {Luff}.] [Also written {luff}.] (Naut.)
      (a) Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in
            changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over
            the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.
      (b) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to
            curve toward bow and stern.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Luff \Luff\, n. [OE. lof, prob. a sort of timber by which the
      course of a ship was directed, perh. a sort of paddle; cf. D.
      loef luff, loeven to luff. The word is perh. akin to E.
      glove. Cf. {Aloof}.] (Naut.)
      (a) The side of a ship toward the wind.
      (b) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
      (c) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
      (d) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the
            jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
  
      {Luff tackle}, a purchase composed of a double and single
            block and fall, used for various purposes. --Totten.
  
      {Luff upon luff}, a luff tackle attached to the fall of
            another luff tackle. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Luff \Luff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Luffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Luffing}.] (Naut.)
      To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer
      the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail
      nearer the wind.
  
      {To luff round}, [or] {To luff alee}, to make the extreme of
            this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head
            into the wind.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Luffa \Luf"fa\, n. [NL., fr. Ar. l[umac]fah.] (Bot.)
      (a) A small genus of tropical cucurbitaceous plants having
            white flowers, the staminate borne in racemes, and large
            fruits with a dry fibrous pericarp. The fruit of several
            species and the species themselves, esp. {L.
            [92]gyptiaca}, are called dishcloth gourds.
      (b) Any plant of this genus, or its fruit.
      (c) The fibrous skeleton of the fruit, used as a sponge and
            in the manufacture of caps and women's hats; -- written
            also {loofah}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lafe, AR (town, FIPS 37660)
      Location: 36.20708 N, 90.50312 W
      Population (1990): 315 (118 housing units)
      Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 72436

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lapwai, ID (city, FIPS 45370)
      Location: 46.40472 N, 116.80339 W
      Population (1990): 932 (319 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 83540

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Laupahoehoe, HI (CDP, FIPS 44150)
      Location: 19.97853 N, 155.24008 W
      Population (1990): 508 (182 housing units)
      Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 96764

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Leaf, MS
      Zip code(s): 39456

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lebo, KS (city, FIPS 39125)
      Location: 38.41384 N, 95.85637 W
      Population (1990): 835 (373 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 66856

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Leupp, AZ (CDP, FIPS 40630)
      Location: 35.29539 N, 111.00057 W
      Population (1990): 857 (227 housing units)
      Area: 34.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 86035

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Libby, MT (city, FIPS 43450)
      Location: 48.38903 N, 115.55706 W
      Population (1990): 2532 (1141 housing units)
      Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 59923

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Loop, TX
      Zip code(s): 79342

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   life n.   1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton
   Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner ("Scientific
   American", October 1970); the game's popularity had to wait a few
   years for computers on which it could reasonably be played, as it's
   no fun to simulate the cells by hand.   Many hackers pass through a
   stage of fascination with it, and hackers at various places
   contributed heavily to the mathematical analysis of this game (most
   notably Bill Gosper at MIT, who even implemented life in {TECO}!;
   see {Gosperism}).   When a hacker mentions `life', he is much more
   likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, or
   the human state of existence.   2. The opposite of {Usenet}.   As in
   "{Get a life!}"
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   live /li:v/ adj.,adv.   [common] Opposite of `test'.   Refers to
   actual real-world data or a program working with it.   For example,
   the response to "I think the record deleter is finished" might be
   "Is it live yet?" or "Have you tried it out on live data?"   This
   usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile
   and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen.   So a more
   appropriate response might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly
   before we throw live data at it."   The implication here is that
   record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire
   record-deleter running amok live would probably cause great harm.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LabVIEW
  
      {Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LAP
  
      LISP Assembly Program.   The {assembly language} embedded into
      early {Lisp}.   LAP was also used by the {Liar} compiler for
      {MIT Scheme} and {MACLISP}.
  
      [Sammet 1969, p. 597].
  
      (1994-11-01)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LAP4
  
      Early assembly language for Linc-8 machine.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LAPB
  
      {Link Access Protocol Balanced}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LAVA
  
      A language for {VLSI} that deals with "sticks", i.e. wires
      represented as lines with thickness.
  
      ["A Target Language for Silicon Compilers", R.J. Matthews et
      al, IEEE COMPCON, 1982, pp. 349-353].
  
      (1994-12-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   lb
  
      The {country code} for Lebanon.
  
      (1999-01-27)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LBA
  
      {Logical Block Addressing}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LBE
  
      {Language-Based Editor}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LEAF
  
      1. {LISP Extended Algebraic Facility}.
  
      2. "LEAF: A Language which Integrates Logic, Equations and
      Functions", R.   Barbuti et al in Logic Programming, Functions
      Relations and Equations, D.   DeGroot et al eds, P-H 1986,
      pp.201-238.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   leaf
  
      (Or "terminal node") In a {tree}, a node
      which has no {daughter}.
  
      (1998-11-14)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LEAF
  
      1. {LISP Extended Algebraic Facility}.
  
      2. "LEAF: A Language which Integrates Logic, Equations and
      Functions", R.   Barbuti et al in Logic Programming, Functions
      Relations and Equations, D.   DeGroot et al eds, P-H 1986,
      pp.201-238.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   leaf
  
      (Or "terminal node") In a {tree}, a node
      which has no {daughter}.
  
      (1998-11-14)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LEAP
  
      Language for the Expression of Associative Procedures.
  
      ALGOL-based formalism for sets and associative retrieval, for
      TX-2.   Became part of SAIL.
  
      "An ALGOL-based Associative Language", J.A. Feldman et al,
      CACM 12(8):439-449 (Aug 1969).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LF
  
      {Line Feed}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LIF
  
      1. {Low Insertion Force}.
  
      2. {Logical Interchange Format}.
  
      (2003-10-15)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LIFE
  
      Logic of Inheritance, Functions and Equations.
  
      An {object-oriented}, {functional}, {constraint}-based
      language by Hassan Ait-Kacy et al of {MCC},
      Austin TX, 1987.   LIFE integrates ideas from {LOGIN} and
      {LeFun}.
  
      Mailing list: life-users@prl.dec.com.
  
      See also {Wild_LIFE}.
  
      ["Is There a Meaning to LIFE?", H. Ait-Kacy et al, Intl Conf
      on Logic Prog, 1991].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-04-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Life
  
      The first popular {cellular automata} based
      {artificial life} "game".   Life was invented by British
      mathematician {John Horton Conway} in 1970 and was first
      introduced publicly in "Scientific American" later that year.
  
      Conway first devised what he called "The Game of Life" and
      "ran" it using plates placed on floor tiles in his house.
      Because of he ran out of floor space and kept stepping on the
      plates, he later moved to doing it on paper or on a
      checkerboard, and then moved to running Life as a computer
      program on a {PDP-7}.   That first implementation of Life as a
      computer program was written by M. J. T. Guy and
      {S. R. Bourne} (the author of {Unix}'s {Bourne shell}).
  
      Life uses a rectangular grid of binary (live or dead) cells
      each of which is updated at each step according to the
      previous state of its eight neighbours as follows: a live cell
      with less than two, or more than three, live neighbours dies.
      A dead cell with exactly three neighbours becomes alive.
      Other cells do not change.
  
      While the rules are fairly simple, the patterns that can arise
      are of a complexity resembling that of organic systems -- hence
      the name "Life".
  
      Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with Life,
      and hackers at various places contributed heavily to the
      mathematical analysis of this game (most notably {Bill Gosper}
      at {MIT}, who even implemented Life in {TECO}!; see
      {Gosperism}).   When a hacker mentions "life", he is more
      likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast
      cereal, the 1950s-era board game or the human state of
      existence.
  
      {Yahoo!
      (http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life/Conway_s_Game_of_Life/)}.
  
      {Demonstration
      (http://www.research.digital.com/nsl/projects/life/)}.
  
      ["Scientific American" 223, October 1970, p120-123, 224;
      February 1971 p121-117, Martin Gardner].
  
      ["The Garden in The Machine: the Emerging Science of
      Artificial Life", Claus Emmeche, 1994].
  
      ["Winning Ways, For Your Mathematical Plays", Elwyn
      R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy, 1982].
  
      ["The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of
      Scientific Knowledge", William Poundstone, 1985].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1997-09-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   life
  
      The opposite of {Usenet}.   As in "{Get a life!}"
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-04-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LIFE
  
      Logic of Inheritance, Functions and Equations.
  
      An {object-oriented}, {functional}, {constraint}-based
      language by Hassan Ait-Kacy et al of {MCC},
      Austin TX, 1987.   LIFE integrates ideas from {LOGIN} and
      {LeFun}.
  
      Mailing list: life-users@prl.dec.com.
  
      See also {Wild_LIFE}.
  
      ["Is There a Meaning to LIFE?", H. Ait-Kacy et al, Intl Conf
      on Logic Prog, 1991].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-04-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Life
  
      The first popular {cellular automata} based
      {artificial life} "game".   Life was invented by British
      mathematician {John Horton Conway} in 1970 and was first
      introduced publicly in "Scientific American" later that year.
  
      Conway first devised what he called "The Game of Life" and
      "ran" it using plates placed on floor tiles in his house.
      Because of he ran out of floor space and kept stepping on the
      plates, he later moved to doing it on paper or on a
      checkerboard, and then moved to running Life as a computer
      program on a {PDP-7}.   That first implementation of Life as a
      computer program was written by M. J. T. Guy and
      {S. R. Bourne} (the author of {Unix}'s {Bourne shell}).
  
      Life uses a rectangular grid of binary (live or dead) cells
      each of which is updated at each step according to the
      previous state of its eight neighbours as follows: a live cell
      with less than two, or more than three, live neighbours dies.
      A dead cell with exactly three neighbours becomes alive.
      Other cells do not change.
  
      While the rules are fairly simple, the patterns that can arise
      are of a complexity resembling that of organic systems -- hence
      the name "Life".
  
      Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with Life,
      and hackers at various places contributed heavily to the
      mathematical analysis of this game (most notably {Bill Gosper}
      at {MIT}, who even implemented Life in {TECO}!; see
      {Gosperism}).   When a hacker mentions "life", he is more
      likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast
      cereal, the 1950s-era board game or the human state of
      existence.
  
      {Yahoo!
      (http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life/Conway_s_Game_of_Life/)}.
  
      {Demonstration
      (http://www.research.digital.com/nsl/projects/life/)}.
  
      ["Scientific American" 223, October 1970, p120-123, 224;
      February 1971 p121-117, Martin Gardner].
  
      ["The Garden in The Machine: the Emerging Science of
      Artificial Life", Claus Emmeche, 1994].
  
      ["Winning Ways, For Your Mathematical Plays", Elwyn
      R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy, 1982].
  
      ["The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of
      Scientific Knowledge", William Poundstone, 1985].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1997-09-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   life
  
      The opposite of {Usenet}.   As in "{Get a life!}"
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-04-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LIFE
  
      Logic of Inheritance, Functions and Equations.
  
      An {object-oriented}, {functional}, {constraint}-based
      language by Hassan Ait-Kacy et al of {MCC},
      Austin TX, 1987.   LIFE integrates ideas from {LOGIN} and
      {LeFun}.
  
      Mailing list: life-users@prl.dec.com.
  
      See also {Wild_LIFE}.
  
      ["Is There a Meaning to LIFE?", H. Ait-Kacy et al, Intl Conf
      on Logic Prog, 1991].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-04-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Life
  
      The first popular {cellular automata} based
      {artificial life} "game".   Life was invented by British
      mathematician {John Horton Conway} in 1970 and was first
      introduced publicly in "Scientific American" later that year.
  
      Conway first devised what he called "The Game of Life" and
      "ran" it using plates placed on floor tiles in his house.
      Because of he ran out of floor space and kept stepping on the
      plates, he later moved to doing it on paper or on a
      checkerboard, and then moved to running Life as a computer
      program on a {PDP-7}.   That first implementation of Life as a
      computer program was written by M. J. T. Guy and
      {S. R. Bourne} (the author of {Unix}'s {Bourne shell}).
  
      Life uses a rectangular grid of binary (live or dead) cells
      each of which is updated at each step according to the
      previous state of its eight neighbours as follows: a live cell
      with less than two, or more than three, live neighbours dies.
      A dead cell with exactly three neighbours becomes alive.
      Other cells do not change.
  
      While the rules are fairly simple, the patterns that can arise
      are of a complexity resembling that of organic systems -- hence
      the name "Life".
  
      Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with Life,
      and hackers at various places contributed heavily to the
      mathematical analysis of this game (most notably {Bill Gosper}
      at {MIT}, who even implemented Life in {TECO}!; see
      {Gosperism}).   When a hacker mentions "life", he is more
      likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast
      cereal, the 1950s-era board game or the human state of
      existence.
  
      {Yahoo!
      (http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life/Conway_s_Game_of_Life/)}.
  
      {Demonstration
      (http://www.research.digital.com/nsl/projects/life/)}.
  
      ["Scientific American" 223, October 1970, p120-123, 224;
      February 1971 p121-117, Martin Gardner].
  
      ["The Garden in The Machine: the Emerging Science of
      Artificial Life", Claus Emmeche, 1994].
  
      ["Winning Ways, For Your Mathematical Plays", Elwyn
      R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy, 1982].
  
      ["The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of
      Scientific Knowledge", William Poundstone, 1985].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1997-09-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   life
  
      The opposite of {Usenet}.   As in "{Get a life!}"
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-04-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LIFIA
  
      Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence
      Artificielle.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LIFO
  
      {stack}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LLP
  
      {Lower Layer Protocol}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   loop
  
      A sequence of {instructions} that the
      {processor} repeats, either until some condition is met, or
      indefinitely.
  
      In an {structured language} (e.g. {C}, {Pascal}, {BASIC}, or
      {Fortran}), a loop is usually achieved with {for loop}, {while
      loop} or {repeat loop} constructs.
  
      In other languages these constructs may be synthesised with a
      {jump} ({assembly language}) or a {GOTO} (early Fortran or
      BASIC).
  
      (1999-05-06)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LOP
  
      A language based on {first-order logic}.
  
      ["SETHEO - A High-Perormance Theorem Prover for First-Order
      Logic", Reinhold Letz et al, J Automated Reasoning
      8(2):183-212 (1992)].
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   love
  
      What many users feel for computers.
  
      "I don't really love computers, I just say that to get them
      into bed with me". (Terry Pratchet)
  
      [What did you expect in a computing dictionary?]
  
      (1995-05-10)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LPF
  
      {League for Programming Freedom}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LPI
  
      A {PL/I} {interpreter} for {IBM PC}s and
      {workstations}.
  
      {(ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/pli/runpli1a.arc)}.
  
      E-mail: .
  
      (1999-09-03)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   lub
  
      {least upper bound}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   lv
  
      The {country code} for Latvia.
  
      (1999-01-27)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LWP
  
      {light-weight process}.
  
      (1996-02-22)
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Leaf
      of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren
      fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:19; Mark 11:13). The
      oak-leaf is mentioned Isa. 1:30; 6:13. There are numerous
      allusions to leaves, their flourishing, their decay, and their
      restoration (Lev. 26:36; Isa. 34:4; Jer. 8:13; Dan. 4:12, 14,
      21; Mark 11:13; 13:28). The fresh leaf is a symbol of prosperity
      (Ps. 1:3; Jer. 17:8; Ezek. 47:12); the faded, of decay (Job
      13:25; Isa. 1:30; 64:6; Jer. 8:13).
     
         Leaf of a door (1 Kings 6:34), the valve of a folding door.
     
         Leaf of a book (Jer. 36:23), perhaps a fold of a roll.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Levi
      adhesion. (1.) The third son of Jacob by Leah. The origin of the
      name is found in Leah's words (Gen. 29:34), "This time will my
      husband be joined [Heb. yillaveh] unto me." He is mentioned as
      taking a prominent part in avenging his sister Dinah (Gen.
      34:25-31). He and his three sons went down with Jacob (46:11)
      into Egypt, where he died at the age of one hundred and
      thirty-seven years (Ex. 6:16).
     
         (2.) The father of Matthat, and son of Simeon, of the
      ancestors of Christ (Luke 3:29).
     
         (3.) Luke 3:24.
     
         (4.) One of the apostles, the son of Alphaeus (Mark 2:14; Luke
      5:27, 29), called also Matthew (Matt. 9:9).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Levy
      (1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of
      tributaries was often thus exacted by kings. Solomon raised a
      "great levy" of 30,000 men, about two per cent. of the
      population, to work for him by courses on Lebanon. Adoram
      (12:18) presided over this forced labour service (Ger.
      Frohndienst; Fr. corvee).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Libya
      the country of the Ludim (Gen. 10:13), Northern Africa, a large
      tract lying along the Mediterranean, to the west of Egypt (Acts
      2:10). Cyrene was one of its five cities.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Life
      generally of physical life (Gen. 2:7; Luke 16:25, etc.); also
      used figuratively (1) for immortality (Heb. 7:16); (2) conduct
      or manner of life (Rom. 6:4); (3) spiritual life or salvation
      (John 3:16, 17, 18, 36); (4) eternal life (Matt. 19:16, 17; John
      3:15); of God and Christ as the absolute source and cause of all
      life (John 1:4; 5:26, 39; 11:25; 12:50).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Lip
      besides its literal sense (Isa. 37:29, etc.), is used in the
      original (saphah) metaphorically for an edge or border, as of a
      cup (1 Kings 7:26), a garment (Ex. 28:32), a curtain (26:4), the
      sea (Gen. 22:17), the Jordan (2 Kings 2:13). To "open the lips"
      is to begin to speak (Job 11:5); to "refrain the lips" is to
      keep silence (Ps. 40:9; 1 Pet. 3:10). The "fruit of the lips"
      (Heb. 13:15) is praise, and the "calves of the lips"
      thank-offerings (Hos. 14:2). To "shoot out the lip" is to
      manifest scorn and defiance (Ps. 22:7). Many similar forms of
      expression are found in Scripture.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Loop
      a knotted "eye" of cord, corresponding to the "taches" or knobs
      in the edges of the curtains of the tabernacle, for joining them
      into a continuous circuit, fifty to a curtain (Ex. 26:4, 5, 10,
      11).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Love
      This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its
      use by our Lord in his interview with "Simon, the son of Jonas,"
      after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says,
      "Lovest thou me?" he uses the Greek word _agapas_; and when
      Simon answers, he uses the Greek word _philo_, i.e., "I love."
      This is the usage in the first and second questions put by our
      Lord; but in the third our Lord uses Simon's word. The
      distinction between these two Greek words is thus fitly
      described by Trench:, "_Agapan_ has more of judgment and
      deliberate choice; _philein_ has more of attachment and peculiar
      personal affection. Thus the 'Lovest thou' (Gr. agapas) on the
      lips of the Lord seems to Peter at this moment too cold a word,
      as though his Lord were keeping him at a distance, or at least
      not inviting him to draw near, as in the passionate yearning of
      his heart he desired now to do. Therefore he puts by the word
      and substitutes his own stronger 'I love' (Gr. philo) in its
      room. A second time he does the same. And now he has conquered;
      for when the Lord demands a third time whether he loves him, he
      does it in the word which alone will satisfy Peter ('Lovest
      thou,' Gr. phileis), which alone claims from him that personal
      attachment and affection with which indeed he knows that his
      heart is full."
     
         In 1 Cor. 13 the apostle sets forth the excellency of love, as
      the word "charity" there is rendered in the Revised Version.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Levi, associated with him
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Libya, the heart of the sea; fat
  

From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]:
   Libya
  
   Libya:Geography
  
   Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between
   Egypt and Tunisia
  
   Map references: Africa
  
   Area:
   total area: 1,759,540 sq km
   land area: 1,759,540 sq km
   comparative area: slightly larger than Alaska
  
   Land boundaries: total 4,383 km, Algeria 982 km, Chad 1,055 km, Egypt
   1,150 km, Niger 354 km, Sudan 383 km, Tunisia 459 km
  
   Coastline: 1,770 km
  
   Maritime claims:
   territorial sea: 12 nm
   Gulf of Sidra closing line: 32 degrees 30 minutes north
  
   International disputes: the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled
   in February 1994 that the 100,000 sq km Aozou Strip between Chad and
   Libya belongs to Chad, and that Libya must withdraw from it by 31 May
   1994; Libya has withdrawn some its forces in response to the ICJ
   ruling, but still maintains an airfield in the disputed area; maritime
   boundary dispute with Tunisia; claims part of northern Niger and part
   of southeastern Algeria
  
   Climate: Mediterranean along coast; dry, extreme desert interior
  
   Terrain: mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus,
   depressions
  
   Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, gypsum
  
   Land use:
   arable land: 2%
   permanent crops: 0%
   meadows and pastures: 8%
   forest and woodland: 0%
   other: 90%
  
   Irrigated land: 2,420 sq km (1989 est.)
  
   Environment:
   current issues: desertification; very limited natural fresh water
   resources; the Great Manmade River Project, the largest water
   development scheme in the world, is being built to bring water from
   large aquifers under the Sahara to coastal cities
   natural hazards: hot, dry, dust-laden ghibli is a southern wind
   lasting one to four days in spring and fall; duststorms, sandstorms
   international agreements: party to - Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban,
   Ozone Layer Protection; signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity,
   Climate Change, Desertification, Law of the Sea
  
   Libya:People
  
   Population: 5,248,401 (July 1995 est.)
  
   Age structure:
   0-14 years: 48% (female 1,226,851; male 1,269,813)
   15-64 years: 49% (female 1,261,424; male 1,331,093)
   65 years and over: 3% (female 76,017; male 83,203) (July 1995 est.)
  
   Population growth rate: 3.7% (1995 est.)
  
   Birth rate: 44.89 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Death rate: 7.91 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Infant mortality rate: 61.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
  
   Life expectancy at birth:
   total population: 64.29 years
   male: 62.12 years
   female: 66.57 years (1995 est.)
  
   Total fertility rate: 6.32 children born/woman (1995 est.)
  
   Nationality:
   noun: Libyan(s)
   adjective: Libyan
  
   Ethnic divisions: Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians,
   Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians
  
   Religions: Sunni Muslim 97%
  
   Languages: Arabic, Italian, English, all are widely understood in the
   major cities
  
   Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1984)
   total population: 60%
   male: 77%
   female: 42%
  
   Labor force: 1 million (includes about 280,000 resident foreigners)
   by occupation: industry 31%, services 27%, government 24%, agriculture
   18%
  
   Libya:Government
  
   Names:
   conventional long form: Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
   conventional short form: Libya
   local long form: Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al
   Ishirakiyah
   local short form: none
  
   Digraph: LY
  
   Type: Jamahiriya (a state of the masses) in theory, governed by the
   populace through local councils; in fact, a military dictatorship
  
   Capital: Tripoli
  
   Administrative divisions: 25 municipalities (baladiyah, singular -
   baladiyat); Ajdabiya, Al 'Aziziyah, Al Fatih, Al Jabal al Akhdar, Al
   Jufrah, Al Khums, Al Kufrah, An Nuqat al Khams, Ash Shati', Awbari, Az
   Zawiyah, Banghazi, Darnah, Ghadamis, Gharyan, Misratah, Murzuq, Sabha,
   Sawfajjin, Surt, Tarabulus, Tarhunah, Tubruq, Yafran, Zlitan
  
   Independence: 24 December 1951 (from Italy)
  
   National holiday: Revolution Day, 1 September (1969)
  
   Constitution: 11 December 1969, amended 2 March 1977
  
   Legal system: based on Italian civil law system and Islamic law;
   separate religious courts; no constitutional provision for judicial
   review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ
   jurisdiction
  
   Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory
  
   Executive branch:
   chief of state: Revolutionary Leader Col. Mu'ammar Abu Minyar
   al-QADHAFI (since 1 September 1969)
   head of government: Chairman of the General People's Committee
   (Premier) Abd al Majid al-Qa'ud (since 29 January 1994)
   cabinet: General People's Committee; established by the General
   People's Congress
   note: national elections are indirect through a hierarchy of peoples'
   committees
  
   Legislative branch: unicameral
   General People's Congress: national elections are indirect through a
   hierarchy of peoples' committees
  
   Judicial branch: Supreme Court
  
   Political parties and leaders: none
  
   Other political or pressure groups: various Arab nationalist movements
   with almost negligible memberships may be functioning clandestinely,
   as well as some Islamic elements
  
   Member of: ABEDA, AfDB, AFESD, AL, AMF, AMU, CAEU, CCC, ECA, FAO,
   G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF,
   IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ISO, ITU, NAM, OAPEC, OAU, OIC, OPEC,
   UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNITAR, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
  
   Diplomatic representation in US: none
  
   US diplomatic representation: none
  
   Flag: plain green; green is the traditional color of Islam (the state
   religion)
  
   Economy
  
   Overview: The socialist-oriented economy depends primarily upon
   revenues from the oil sector, which contributes practically all export
   earnings and about one-third of GDP. In 1990 per capita GDP was the
   highest in Africa at $5,410, but GDP growth rates have slowed and
   fluctuated sharply in response to changes in the world oil market.
   Import restrictions and inefficient resource allocations have led to
   periodic shortages of basic goods and foodstuffs. Windfall revenues
   from the hike in world oil prices in late 1990 improved the foreign
   payments position and resulted in a current account surplus through
   1992. The nonoil manufacturing and construction sectors, which account
   for about 20% of GDP, have expanded from processing mostly
   agricultural products to include petrochemicals, iron, steel, and
   aluminum. Although agriculture accounts for only 5% of GDP, it employs
   18% of the labor force. Climatic conditions and poor soils severely
   limit farm output, and Libya imports about 75% of its food
   requirements. The UN sanctions imposed in April 1992 have not yet had
   a major impact on the economy because Libya's oil revenues generate
   sufficient foreign exchange which sustains imports of food, consumer
   goods, and equipment for the oil industry and ongoing development
   projects.
  
   National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $32.9 billion (1994
   est.)
  
   National product real growth rate: -0.9% (1994 est.)
  
   National product per capita: $6,510 (1994 est.)
  
   Inflation rate (consumer prices): 25% (1993 est.)
  
   Unemployment rate: NA%
  
   Budget:
   revenues: $8.1 billion
   expenditures: $9.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $3.1
   billion (1989 est.)
  
   Exports: $7.2 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
   commodities: crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas
   partners: Italy, Germany, Spain, France, UK, Turkey, Greece, Egypt
  
   Imports: $6.9 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
   commodities: machinery, transport equipment, food, manufactured goods
   partners: Italy, Germany, UK, France, Spain, Turkey, Tunisia, Eastern
   Europe
  
   External debt: $3.5 billion excluding military debt (1991 est.)
  
   Industrial production: growth rate 10.5% (1990)
  
   Electricity:
   capacity: 4,600,000 kW
   production: 16.1 billion kWh
   consumption per capita: 3,078 kWh (1993)
  
   Industries: petroleum, food processing, textiles, handicrafts, cement
  
   Agriculture: 5% of GDP; cash crops - wheat, barley, olives, dates,
   citrus fruits, peanuts; 75% of food is imported
  
   Economic aid:
   recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
   commitments (1970-87), $242 million
   note: no longer a recipient
  
   Currency: 1 Libyan dinar (LD) = 1,000 dirhams
  
   Exchange rates: Libyan dinars (LD) per US$1 - 0.3555 (January 1995),
   0.3596 (1994), 0.3250 (1993), 0.3013 (1992), 0.2684 (1991), 0.2699
   (1990)
  
   Fiscal year: calendar year
  
   Libya:Transportation
  
   Railroads:
   note: Libya has had no railroad in operation since 1965, all previous
   systems having been dismantled; current plans are to construct a
   1.435-m standard gauge line from the Tunisian frontier to Tripoli and
   Misratah, then inland to Sabha, center of a mineral-rich area, but
   there has been no progress; other plans made jointly with Egypt would
   establish a rail line from As Sallum, Egypt, to Tobruk with completion
   set for mid-1994; no progress has been reported
  
   Highways:
   total: 19,300 km
   paved: bituminous 10,800 km
   unpaved: gravel, earth 8,500 km
  
   Inland waterways: none
  
   Pipelines: crude oil 4,383 km; petroleum products 443 km (includes
   liquified petroleum gas 256 km); natural gas 1,947 km
  
   Ports: Al Khums, Banghazi, Darnah, Marsa al Burayqah, Misratah, Ra's
   Lanuf, Tobruk, Tripoli, Zuwarah
  
   Merchant marine:
   total: 30 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 686,136 GRT/1,208,194 DWT
  
   ships by type: cargo 10, chemical tanker 1, liquefied gas tanker 2,
   oil tanker 10, roll-on/roll-off cargo 3, short-sea passenger 4
  
   Airports:
   total: 146
   with paved runways over 3,047 m: 24
   with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
   with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 22
   with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 6
   with paved runways under 914 m: 21
   with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 4
   with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
   with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 17
   with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 44
  
   Libya:Communications
  
   Telephone system: 370,000 telephones; modern telecommunications system
  
   local: NA
   intercity: microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, tropospheric scatter,
   and 14 domestic satellites
   international: 2 INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean)
   satellite earth stations; submarine cables to France and Italy;
   microwave radio relay to Tunisia and Egypt; tropospheric scatter to
   Greece; planned ARABSAT and Intersputnik satellite earth stations
  
   Radio:
   broadcast stations: AM 17, FM 3, shortwave 0
   radios: NA
  
   Television:
   broadcast stations: 12
   televisions: NA
  
   Libya:Defense Forces
  
   Branches: Armed Peoples of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah (includes Army,
   Navy, and Air and Air Defense Command), Police
  
   Manpower availability: males age 15-49 1,131,175; males fit for
   military service 672,571; males reach military age (17) annually
   54,676 (1995 est.)
  
   Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $1.4 billion, 6.1% of
   GDP (1994 est.)
  
  
  
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