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   Lallans
         n 1: a dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland
               [syn: {Lallans}, {Scottish Lallans}]

English Dictionary: lowliness by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lilangeni
n
  1. the basic unit of money in Swaziland; equal to 100 cents
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lilium canadense
n
  1. common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown
    Synonym(s): Canada lily, wild yellow lily, meadow lily, wild meadow lily, Lilium canadense
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lilium candidum
n
  1. lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers
    Synonym(s): Madonna lily, white lily, Annunciation lily, Lent lily, Lilium candidum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lilium catesbaei
n
  1. lily of southeastern United States having cup-shaped flowers with deep yellow to scarlet recurved petals
    Synonym(s): tiger lily, leopard lily, pine lily, Lilium catesbaei
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lilium columbianum
n
  1. lily of western North America with showy orange-red purple- spotted flowers
    Synonym(s): Columbia tiger lily, Oregon lily, Lilium columbianum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lilium michiganense
n
  1. lily of central North America having recurved orange-red flowers with deep crimson spots
    Synonym(s): Michigan lily, Lilium michiganense
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lilium superbum
n
  1. lily of the eastern United States with orange to red maroon-spotted flowers
    Synonym(s): Turk's-cap, Turk's cap- lily, Lilium superbum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lillian Gish
n
  1. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
    Synonym(s): Gish, Lillian Gish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lilongwe
n
  1. the capital of Malawi; located in south central Malawi
    Synonym(s): Lilongwe, capital of Malawi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
low-lying
adj
  1. having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level; "low-lying clouds"
  2. lying below the normal level; "a low-lying desert"
    Synonym(s): low-lying, sea-level
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lowliness
n
  1. the state of being humble and unimportant [syn: humbleness, unimportance, obscureness, lowliness]
  2. a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation
    Synonym(s): low status, lowness, lowliness
    Antonym(s): high status
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Law \Law\ (l[add]), n. [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root
      of E. lie: akin to OS. lag, Icel. l[94]g, Sw. lag, Dan. lov;
      cf. L. lex, E. legal. A law is that which is laid, set, or
      fixed; like statute, fr. L. statuere to make to stand. See
      {Lie} to be prostrate.]
      1. In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by
            an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling
            regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent
            or a power acts.
  
      Note: A law may be universal or particular, written or
               unwritten, published or secret. From the nature of the
               highest laws a degree of permanency or stability is
               always implied; but the power which makes a law, or a
               superior power, may annul or change it.
  
                        These are the statutes and judgments and law,
                        which the Lord made.                     --Lev. xxvi.
                                                                              46.
  
                        The law of thy God, and the law of the King.
                                                                              --Ezra vii.
                                                                              26.
  
                        As if they would confine the Interminable . . .
                        Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                        His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
                                                                              --Cowper.
  
      2. In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition
            and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and
            toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to
            righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the
            conscience or moral nature.
  
      3. The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture
            where it is written, in distinction from the gospel;
            hence, also, the Old Testament.
  
                     What things soever the law saith, it saith to them
                     who are under the law . . . But now the
                     righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
                     being witnessed by the law and the prophets. --Rom.
                                                                              iii. 19, 21.
  
      4. In human government:
            (a) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter,
                  establishing and defining the conditions of the
                  existence of a state or other organized community.
            (b) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute,
                  resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or
                  recognized, and enforced, by the controlling
                  authority.
  
      5. In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or
            change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as
            imposed by the will of God or by some controlling
            authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion;
            the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause
            and effect; law of self-preservation.
  
      6. In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as
            the change of value of a variable, or the value of the
            terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
  
      7. In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or
            of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a
            principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of
            architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.
  
      8. Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one
            subject, or emanating from one source; -- including
            usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial
            proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman
            law; the law of real property; insurance law.
  
      9. Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity;
            applied justice.
  
                     Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law
                     itself is nothing else but reason.      --Coke.
  
                     Law is beneficence acting by rule.      --Burke.
  
                     And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er
                     thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning
                     good, repressing ill.                        --Sir W.
                                                                              Jones.
  
      10. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy;
            litigation; as, to go law.
  
                     When every case in law is right.      --Shak.
  
                     He found law dear and left it cheap. --Brougham.
  
      11. An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See {Wager
            of law}, under {Wager}.
  
      {Avogadro's law} (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according
            to which, under similar conditions of temperature and
            pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume
            the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after
            Avogadro, an Italian scientist. Sometimes called
            {Amp[8a]re's law}.
  
      {Bode's law} (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression
            of the distances of the planets from the sun, as follows:
            -- Mer. Ven. Earth. Mars. Aste. Jup. Sat. Uran. Nep. 4 4 4
            4 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 384 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
            --- --- 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 388 5.9 7.3 10 15.2 27.4
            52 95.4 192 300 where each distance (line third) is the
            sum of 4 and a multiple of 3 by the series 0, 1, 2, 4, 8,
            etc., the true distances being given in the lower line.
  
      {Boyle's law} (Physics), an expression of the fact, that when
            an elastic fluid is subjected to compression, and kept at
            a constant temperature, the product of the pressure and
            volume is a constant quantity, i. e., the volume is
            inversely proportioned to the pressure; -- known also as
            {Mariotte's law}, and the {law of Boyle and Mariotte}.
  
      {Brehon laws}. See under {Brehon}.
  
      {Canon law}, the body of ecclesiastical law adopted in the
            Christian Church, certain portions of which (for example,
            the law of marriage as existing before the Council of
            Tent) were brought to America by the English colonists as
            part of the common law of the land. --Wharton.
  
      {Civil law}, a term used by writers to designate Roman law,
            with modifications thereof which have been made in the
            different countries into which that law has been
            introduced. The civil law, instead of the common law,
            prevails in the State of Louisiana. --Wharton.
  
      {Commercial law}. See {Law merchant} (below).
  
      {Common law}. See under {Common}.
  
      {Criminal law}, that branch of jurisprudence which relates to
            crimes.
  
      {Ecclesiastical law}. See under {Ecclesiastical}.
  
      {Grimm's law} (Philol.), a statement (propounded by the
            German philologist Jacob Grimm) of certain regular changes
            which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants,
            so-called (most plainly seen in Sanskrit and, with some
            changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone in the
            Teutonic languages. Examples: Skr. bh[be]tr, L. frater, E.
            brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three, G. drei, Skr. go,
            E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dh[be] to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do,
            OHG, tuon, G. thun.
  
      {Kepler's laws} (Astron.), three important laws or
            expressions of the order of the planetary motions,
            discovered by John Kepler. They are these: (1) The orbit
            of a planet with respect to the sun is an ellipse, the sun
            being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a
            vector drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to
            the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times
            of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes
            of their mean distances.
  
      {Law binding}, a plain style of leather binding, used for law
            books; -- called also {law calf}.
  
      {Law book}, a book containing, or treating of, laws.
  
      {Law calf}. See {Law binding} (above).
  
      {Law day}.
            (a) Formerly, a day of holding court, esp. a court-leet.
            (b) The day named in a mortgage for the payment of the
                  money to secure which it was given. [U. S.]
  
      {Law French}, the dialect of Norman, which was used in
            judicial proceedings and law books in England from the
            days of William the Conqueror to the thirty-sixth year of
            Edward III.
  
      {Law language}, the language used in legal writings and
            forms.
  
      {Law Latin}. See under {Latin}.
  
      {Law lords}, peers in the British Parliament who have held
            high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal
            profession.
  
      {Law merchant}, or {Commercial law}, a system of rules by
            which trade and commerce are regulated; -- deduced from
            the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial
            decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lily \Lil"y\ (l[icr]l"[ycr]), n.; pl. {Lilies} (-[icr]z). [AS.
      lilie, L. lilium, Gr. lei`rion. Cf. {Flower-de-luce}.]
      1. (Bot.) A plant and flower of the genus {Lilium},
            endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of
            six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior
            three-celled ovary.
  
      Note: There are nearly fifty species, all found in the North
               Temperate zone. {Lilium candidum} and {L. longiflorum}
               are the common white lilies of gardens; {L.
               Philadelphicum} is the wild red lily of the Atlantic
               States; {L. Chalcedonicum} is supposed to be the
               [bd]lily of the field[b8] in our Lord's parable; {L.
               auratum} is the great gold-banded lily of Japan.
  
      2. (Bot.) A name given to handsome flowering plants of
            several genera, having some resemblance in color or form
            to a true lily, as {Pancratium}, {Crinum}, {Amaryllis},
            {Nerine}, etc.
  
      3. That end of a compass needle which should point to the
            north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of
            a lily or fleur-de-lis.
  
                     But sailing further, it veers its lily to the west.
                                                                              --Sir T.
                                                                              Browne.
  
      {African lily} (Bot.), the blue-flowered {Agapanthus
            umbellatus}.
  
      {Atamasco lily} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Zephyranthes}
            ({Z. Atamasco}), having a white and pink funnelform
            perianth, with six petal-like divisions resembling those
            of a lily. --Gray.
  
      {Blackberry lily} (Bot.), the {Pardanthus Chinensis}, the
            black seeds of which form a dense mass like a blackberry.
           
  
      {Bourbon lily} (Bot.), {Lilium candidum}. See Illust.
  
      {Butterfly lily}. (Bot.) Same as {Mariposa lily}, in the
            Vocabulary.
  
      {Lily beetle} (Zool.), a European beetle ({Crioceris
            merdigera}) which feeds upon the white lily.
  
      {Lily daffodil} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Narcissus}, and
            its flower.
  
      {Lily encrinite} (Paleon.), a fossil encrinite, esp.
            {Encrinus liliiformis}. See {Encrinite}.
  
      {Lily hyacinth} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Hyacinthus}.
  
      {Lily iron}, a kind of harpoon with a detachable head of
            peculiar shape, used in capturing swordfish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Annunciation lily \An*nun`ci*a"tion lil"y\ (Bot.)
      The common white lily ({Lilium candidum}). So called because
      it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the
      Annunciation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Easter lily \Eas"ter lil`y\ (Bot.)
      Any one of various lilies or lilylike flowers which bloom
      about Easter; specif.:
      (a) The common white lily ({Lilium candidum}), called also
            {Annunciation lily}.
      (b) The larger white lily ({Lilium longiflorum eximium}, syn.
            {L. Harrisii}) called also {Bermuda lily}.
      (c) The daffodil ({Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus}).
      (d) The Atamasco lily.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lily \Lil"y\ (l[icr]l"[ycr]), n.; pl. {Lilies} (-[icr]z). [AS.
      lilie, L. lilium, Gr. lei`rion. Cf. {Flower-de-luce}.]
      1. (Bot.) A plant and flower of the genus {Lilium},
            endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of
            six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior
            three-celled ovary.
  
      Note: There are nearly fifty species, all found in the North
               Temperate zone. {Lilium candidum} and {L. longiflorum}
               are the common white lilies of gardens; {L.
               Philadelphicum} is the wild red lily of the Atlantic
               States; {L. Chalcedonicum} is supposed to be the
               [bd]lily of the field[b8] in our Lord's parable; {L.
               auratum} is the great gold-banded lily of Japan.
  
      2. (Bot.) A name given to handsome flowering plants of
            several genera, having some resemblance in color or form
            to a true lily, as {Pancratium}, {Crinum}, {Amaryllis},
            {Nerine}, etc.
  
      3. That end of a compass needle which should point to the
            north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of
            a lily or fleur-de-lis.
  
                     But sailing further, it veers its lily to the west.
                                                                              --Sir T.
                                                                              Browne.
  
      {African lily} (Bot.), the blue-flowered {Agapanthus
            umbellatus}.
  
      {Atamasco lily} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Zephyranthes}
            ({Z. Atamasco}), having a white and pink funnelform
            perianth, with six petal-like divisions resembling those
            of a lily. --Gray.
  
      {Blackberry lily} (Bot.), the {Pardanthus Chinensis}, the
            black seeds of which form a dense mass like a blackberry.
           
  
      {Bourbon lily} (Bot.), {Lilium candidum}. See Illust.
  
      {Butterfly lily}. (Bot.) Same as {Mariposa lily}, in the
            Vocabulary.
  
      {Lily beetle} (Zool.), a European beetle ({Crioceris
            merdigera}) which feeds upon the white lily.
  
      {Lily daffodil} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Narcissus}, and
            its flower.
  
      {Lily encrinite} (Paleon.), a fossil encrinite, esp.
            {Encrinus liliiformis}. See {Encrinite}.
  
      {Lily hyacinth} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Hyacinthus}.
  
      {Lily iron}, a kind of harpoon with a detachable head of
            peculiar shape, used in capturing swordfish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loellingite \Loel"ling*ite\, n. [So called from L[94]lling, in
      Austria.] (Min.)
      A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loll \Loll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lolled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Lolling}.] [Cf. Icel. lolla to act lazily, loll, lolla,
      laziness, OD. lollen to sit over the fire, and E. lull. Cf.
      {Lill}, {Lull}.]
      1. To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw
            one's self down; to lie at ease.
  
                     Void of care, he lolls supine in state. --Dryden.
  
      2. To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or
            a log when heated with labor or exertion.
  
                     The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling
                     tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.         --Dryden.
  
      3. To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or
            other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood
            lolling in the furrow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lollingly \Loll"ing*ly\, adv.
      In a lolling manner. --Buckle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lowliness \Low"li*ness\, n. [From {Lowly}.]
      1. The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness
            of mind.
  
                     Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. --Eph.
                                                                              iv. 1, 2.
  
      2. Low condition, especially as to manner of life.
  
                     The lowliness of my fortune has not brought me to
                     flatter vice.                                    --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loyalness \Loy"al*ness\, n.
      Loyalty. [R.] --Stow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lull \Lull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lulled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Lulling}.] [Akin to OD. lullen to sing to sleep, G. lullen,
      Dan. lulle, Sw. lulla; all of imitative origin. Cf. {Loll},
      {Lollard}.]
      To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm;
      to soothe; to quiet. [bd] To lull him soft asleep.[b8]
      --Spenser.
  
               Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the
               daughters of necessity.                           --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lullingly \Lull"ing*ly\, adv.
      In a lulling manner; soothingly.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   La Alianza, PR (comunidad, FIPS 39875)
      Location: 18.40240 N, 66.60180 W
      Population (1990): 1901 (654 housing units)
      Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Leelanau County, MI (county, FIPS 89)
      Location: 45.13257 N, 86.02982 W
      Population (1990): 16527 (11171 housing units)
      Area: 902.6 sq km (land), 5658.8 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lillington, NC (town, FIPS 38220)
      Location: 35.39787 N, 78.81609 W
      Population (1990): 2048 (699 housing units)
      Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 27546

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Luling, LA (CDP, FIPS 46615)
      Location: 29.92384 N, 90.36691 W
      Population (1990): 2803 (1114 housing units)
      Area: 9.5 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 70070
   Luling, TX (city, FIPS 45096)
      Location: 29.68293 N, 97.64898 W
      Population (1990): 4661 (2042 housing units)
      Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 78648
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