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   lace up
         v 1: draw through eyes or holes; "lace the shoelaces" [syn:
               {lace}, {lace up}]

English Dictionary: lxxxvi by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lash-up
n
  1. any improvised arrangement for temporary use [syn: {lash- up}, contrivance]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
laugh off
v
  1. deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it; "She laughs away all these problems"
    Synonym(s): laugh off, laugh away
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
LGB
n
  1. a smart bomb that seeks the laser light reflected off of the target and uses it to correct its descent; "laser- guided bombs cannot be used in cloudy weather"
    Synonym(s): laser-guided bomb, LGB
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
LGV
n
  1. infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium; transmitted by sexual contact; characterized by genital lesions and swelling of lymph nodes in the groin
    Synonym(s): lymphogranuloma venereum, LGV, lymphopathia venereum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
liquefy
v
  1. become liquid; "The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew"
  2. make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver"
    Synonym(s): liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
  3. become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied"
    Synonym(s): liquefy, flux, liquify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
liquify
v
  1. make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver"
    Synonym(s): liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
  2. become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied"
    Synonym(s): liquefy, flux, liquify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lisboa
n
  1. capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic
    Synonym(s): Lisbon, Lisboa, capital of Portugal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lisp
n
  1. a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
  2. a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
    Synonym(s): LISP, list- processing language
v
  1. speak with a lisp
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lock up
v
  1. secure by locking; "lock up the house before you go on vacation"
  2. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
    Synonym(s): lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lockup
n
  1. jail in a local police station
  2. the act of locking something up to protect it
    Synonym(s): locking, lockup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
log off
v
  1. exit a computer; "Please log off before you go home" [syn: log out, log off]
    Antonym(s): log in, log on, log-in
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
log up
v
  1. record a distance travelled; on planes and cars [syn: {log up}, clock up]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
look up
v
  1. seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes"
    Synonym(s): consult, refer, look up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lookup
n
  1. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"
    Synonym(s): search, lookup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loose off
v
  1. fire as from a gun; "The soldiers let drive their bullets"
    Synonym(s): loose off, let fly, let drive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Louis IV
n
  1. king of France (921-954) [syn: Louis IV, {Louis d'Outremer}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Louis V
n
  1. the last Carolingian king of France (967-987) [syn: {Louis V}, Louis le Faineant]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Louis VI
n
  1. king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137)
    Synonym(s): Louis VI, Louis the Far, Louis the Wideawake, Louis the Bruiser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Louis VII
n
  1. king of France who led the unsuccessful Second Crusade and fought frequent wars with Henry II of England (1120-1180)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Louis VIII
n
  1. king of France who increased the power of the Crown over the feudal lords (1187-1226)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Louis XIV
n
  1. king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
    Synonym(s): Louis XIV, Sun King, Louis the Great
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Louis XV
n
  1. grandson of Louis XIV and king of France from 1715 to 1774 who led France into the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1710-1774)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Louis XVI
n
  1. king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined (1754-1793)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
louse up
v
  1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    Synonym(s): botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxiv
adj
  1. being four more than sixty [syn: sixty-four, 64, lxiv]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxv
adj
  1. being five more than sixty [syn: sixty-five, 65, lxv]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxvi
adj
  1. being six more than sixty [syn: sixty-six, 66, lxvi]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxvii
adj
  1. being seven more than sixty [syn: sixty-seven, 67, lxvii]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxviii
adj
  1. being eight more than sixty [syn: sixty-eight, 68, lxviii]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxiv
adj
  1. being four more than seventy [syn: seventy-four, 74, lxxiv]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxv
adj
  1. being five more than seventy [syn: seventy-five, 75, lxxv]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxvi
adj
  1. being six more than seventy [syn: seventy-six, 76, lxxvi]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxvii
adj
  1. being seven more than seventy [syn: seventy-seven, 77, lxxvii]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxviii
adj
  1. being eight more than seventy [syn: seventy-eight, 78, lxxviii]
n
  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight
    Synonym(s): seventy-eight, 78, LXXVIII
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxxiv
adj
  1. being four more than eighty [syn: eighty-four, 84, lxxxiv]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxxv
adj
  1. being five more than eighty [syn: eighty-five, 85, lxxxv]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxxvi
adj
  1. being six more than eighty [syn: eighty-six, 86, lxxxvi]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxxvii
adj
  1. being seven more than eighty [syn: eighty-seven, 87, lxxxvii]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lxxxviii
adj
  1. being eight more than eighty [syn: eighty-eight, 88, lxxxviii]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Layship \Lay"ship\, n.
      The condition of being a layman. [Obs.] --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Liquefy \Liq"ue*fy\ (-f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liquefied}
      (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liquefying}
      (-f[imac]`[icr]ng).] [F. liqu[82]fier, L. liquere to be
      liquid + facere, -ficare (in comp.), to make. See {Liquid},
      and {-fy}.]
      To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to
      dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of
      heat.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Liquefy \Liq"ue*fy\, v. i.
      To become liquid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lisp \Lisp\, v. t.
      1. To pronounce with a lisp.
  
      2. To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with
            words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child
            speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike
            language.
  
                     To speak unto them after their own capacity, and to
                     lisp the words unto them according as the babes and
                     children of that age might sound them again.
                                                                              --Tyndale.
  
      3. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or
            confidentially; as, to lisp treason.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lisp \Lisp\, n.
      The habit or act of lisping. See {Lisp}, v. i., 1.
  
               I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, [bd]O!
               Strephon, you are a dangerous creature.[b8] --Tatler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lisp \Lisp\ (l[icr]sp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lisped}
      (l[icr]spt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lisping}.] [OE. lispen, lipsen,
      AS. wlisp stammering, lisping; akin to D. & OHG. lispen to
      lisp, G. lispeln, Sw. l[84]spa, Dan. lespe.]
      1. To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s
            and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
  
      2. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as
            a child learning to talk.
  
                     As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in
                     numbers, for the numbers came.            --Pope.
  
      3. To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
  
                     Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
                                                                              --Drayton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lock \Lock\, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the
      fastening of a door, fr. l[umac]can to lock, fasten; akin to
      OS. l[umac]kan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. l[umac]hhan, Icel.
      l[?]ka, Goth. l[umac]kan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break.
      Cf. {Locket}.]
      1. Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a
            door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a
            bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the
            thing fastened.
  
      2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one
            thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
  
                     Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. --De
                                                                              Quincey.
  
      3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
            --Dryden.
  
      4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream
            or canal.
  
      5. An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in
            raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to
            another; -- called also {lift lock}.
  
      6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is
            exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock,
            etc.
  
      7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  
      8. A grapple in wrestling. --Milton.
  
      {Detector lock}, a lock containing a contrivance for showing
            whether it as has been tampered with.
  
      {Lock bay} (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber.
  
      {Lock chamber}, the inclosed space between the gates of a
            canal lock.
  
      {Lock nut}. See {Check nut}, under {Check}.
  
      {Lock plate}, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is
            attached.
  
      {Lock rail} (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail
            nearest the lock.
  
      {Lock rand} (Masonry), a range of bond stone. --Knight.
  
      {Mortise lock}, a door lock inserted in a mortise.
  
      {Rim lock}, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus
            differing from a {mortise lock}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lockup \Lock"up`\, n.
      A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up;
      a watchhouse.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Log-chip \Log"-chip`\, n. (Naut.)
      A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a
      circle attached to the log line; -- called also {log-ship}.
      See 2d {Log}, n., 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Log-chip \Log"-chip`\, n. (Naut.)
      A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a
      circle attached to the log line; -- called also {log-ship}.
      See 2d {Log}, n., 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Log-ship \Log"-ship\, n. (Naut.)
      A part of the log. See {Log-chip}, and 2d {Log}, n., 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Log-chip \Log"-chip`\, n. (Naut.)
      A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a
      circle attached to the log line; -- called also {log-ship}.
      See 2d {Log}, n., 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Log-ship \Log"-ship\, n. (Naut.)
      A part of the log. See {Log-chip}, and 2d {Log}, n., 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Luxive \Lux"ive\, a.
      Given to luxury; voluptuous. [Obs.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lake View, AR (town, FIPS 38110)
      Location: 34.42315 N, 90.81028 W
      Population (1990): 526 (178 housing units)
      Area: 13.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Lake View, IA (city, FIPS 42690)
      Location: 42.30617 N, 95.04663 W
      Population (1990): 1303 (793 housing units)
      Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 51450
   Lake View, NY
      Zip code(s): 14085
   Lake View, SC (town, FIPS 39715)
      Location: 34.34022 N, 79.16688 W
      Population (1990): 872 (356 housing units)
      Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 29563

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lakeview, AL (town, FIPS 40888)
      Location: 34.39221 N, 85.97327 W
      Population (1990): 166 (66 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Lakeview, AR (town, FIPS 38050)
      Location: 36.37517 N, 92.53916 W
      Population (1990): 485 (283 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 72642
   Lakeview, CA (CDP, FIPS 39836)
      Location: 33.82809 N, 117.12382 W
      Population (1990): 1448 (451 housing units)
      Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 92567
   Lakeview, GA (CDP, FIPS 44900)
      Location: 34.97701 N, 85.25365 W
      Population (1990): 5237 (2185 housing units)
      Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Lakeview, MI (village, FIPS 45240)
      Location: 43.44649 N, 85.27546 W
      Population (1990): 1108 (440 housing units)
      Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 48850
   Lakeview, MO (city, FIPS 40250)
      Location: 36.69771 N, 93.36631 W
      Population (1990): 37 (17 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Lakeview, MO (village, FIPS 40232)
      Location: 38.21383 N, 92.62709 W
      Population (1990): 110 (60 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Lakeview, NY (CDP, FIPS 41003)
      Location: 40.67520 N, 73.65143 W
      Population (1990): 5476 (1559 housing units)
      Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
   Lakeview, OH (village, FIPS 41608)
      Location: 40.48778 N, 83.92572 W
      Population (1990): 1056 (574 housing units)
      Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 43331
   Lakeview, OR (town, FIPS 40700)
      Location: 42.18917 N, 120.34544 W
      Population (1990): 2526 (1145 housing units)
      Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 97630
   Lakeview, TX (town, FIPS 40888)
      Location: 34.67283 N, 100.69723 W
      Population (1990): 202 (85 housing units)
      Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 79239

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lochbui, CO
      Zip code(s): 80601

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lochbuie, CO (town, FIPS 45530)
      Location: 40.00770 N, 104.72010 W
      Population (1990): 1168 (434 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lookeba, OK (town, FIPS 44000)
      Location: 35.36476 N, 98.36540 W
      Population (1990): 141 (62 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 73053

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lowgap, NC
      Zip code(s): 27024

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lugoff, SC (CDP, FIPS 43000)
      Location: 34.22574 N, 80.68060 W
      Population (1990): 3211 (1252 housing units)
      Area: 19.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 29078

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Luke AFB, AZ (CDP, FIPS 42800)
      Location: 33.53313 N, 112.37067 W
      Population (1990): 4371 (1192 housing units)
      Area: 9.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Luke Afb, AZ
      Zip code(s): 85307, 85309

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Luke AFB, AZ (CDP, FIPS 42800)
      Location: 33.53313 N, 112.37067 W
      Population (1990): 4371 (1192 housing units)
      Area: 9.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Luke Afb, AZ
      Zip code(s): 85307, 85309

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Lusby, MD
      Zip code(s): 20657

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   leaky heap n.   [Cambridge] An {arena} with a {memory leak}.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   LISP n.   [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from
   `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue, a
   language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees
   as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as
   data and vice-versa.   Invented by John McCarthy at MIT in the late
   1950s, it is actually older than any other {HLL} still in use except
   FORTRAN.   Accordingly, it has undergone considerable adaptive
   radiation over the years; modern variants are quite different in
   detail from the original LISP 1.5.   The dominant HLL among hackers
   until the early 1980s, LISP now shares the throne with {C}.   Its
   partisans claim it is the only language that is truly beautiful.
   See {languages of choice}.
  
      All LISP functions and programs are expressions that return
   values; this, together with the high memory utilization of LISPs,
   gave rise to Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar
   Wilde quote) that "LISP programmers know the value of everything and
   the cost of nothing".
  
      One significant application for LISP has been as a proof by example
   that most newer languages, such as {COBOL} and {Ada}, are full of
   unnecessary {crock}s.   When the {Right Thing} has already been done
   once, there is no justification for {bogosity} in newer languages.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   L2CAP
  
      {Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LCF
  
      {Logic for Computable Functions}
  
  

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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   leaky heap
  
      {memory leak}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Lisp
  
      LISt Processing language.
  
      (Or mythically "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses").
      {Artificial Intelligence}'s mother tongue, a symbolic,
      {functional}, {recursive} language based on the ideas of
      {lambda-calculus}, variable-length lists and trees as
      fundamental data types and the interpretation of code as data
      and vice-versa.
  
      Data objects in Lisp are lists and {atom}s.   Lists may contain
      lists and atoms.   Atoms are either numbers or symbols.
      Programs in Lisp are themselves lists of symbols which can be
      treated as data.   Most implementations of Lisp allow functions
      with {side-effect}s but there is a core of Lisp which is
      {purely functional}.
  
      All Lisp functions and programs are expressions that return
      values; this, together with the high memory use of Lisp, gave
      rise to {Alan Perlis}'s famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar
      Wilde quote) that "Lisp programmers know the value of
      everything and the cost of nothing".
  
      The original version was {LISP 1}, invented by {John McCarthy}
      at {MIT} in the late 1950s.   Lisp is
      actually older than any other {high level language} still in
      use except {Fortran}.   Accordingly, it has undergone
      considerable change over the years.   Modern variants are quite
      different in detail.   The dominant {HLL} among hackers until
      the early 1980s, Lisp now shares the throne with {C}.   See
      {languages of choice}.
  
      One significant application for Lisp has been as a proof by
      example that most newer languages, such as {COBOL} and {Ada},
      are full of unnecessary {crock}s.   When the {Right Thing} has
      already been done once, there is no justification for
      {bogosity} in newer languages.
  
      See also {Association of Lisp Users}, {Common Lisp}, {Franz
      Lisp}, {MacLisp}, {Portable Standard Lisp}, {Interlisp},
      {Scheme}, {ELisp}, {Kamin's interpreters}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-04-16)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   *LISP
  
      (StarLISP) A {data-parallel} extension of {Common LISP} for
      the {Connection Machine}, uses "{pvars}".
  
      {A *LISP simulator
      (ftp://think.com/public/starsim-f19-sharfile)}.
  
      E-mail: ,
      .
  
      [Cliff Lasser, Jeff Mincy, J.P. Massar, Thinking Machines
      Corporation   "The Essential *LISP Manual", TM Corp 1986].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Lisp
  
      LISt Processing language.
  
      (Or mythically "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses").
      {Artificial Intelligence}'s mother tongue, a symbolic,
      {functional}, {recursive} language based on the ideas of
      {lambda-calculus}, variable-length lists and trees as
      fundamental data types and the interpretation of code as data
      and vice-versa.
  
      Data objects in Lisp are lists and {atom}s.   Lists may contain
      lists and atoms.   Atoms are either numbers or symbols.
      Programs in Lisp are themselves lists of symbols which can be
      treated as data.   Most implementations of Lisp allow functions
      with {side-effect}s but there is a core of Lisp which is
      {purely functional}.
  
      All Lisp functions and programs are expressions that return
      values; this, together with the high memory use of Lisp, gave
      rise to {Alan Perlis}'s famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar
      Wilde quote) that "Lisp programmers know the value of
      everything and the cost of nothing".
  
      The original version was {LISP 1}, invented by {John McCarthy}
      at {MIT} in the late 1950s.   Lisp is
      actually older than any other {high level language} still in
      use except {Fortran}.   Accordingly, it has undergone
      considerable change over the years.   Modern variants are quite
      different in detail.   The dominant {HLL} among hackers until
      the early 1980s, Lisp now shares the throne with {C}.   See
      {languages of choice}.
  
      One significant application for Lisp has been as a proof by
      example that most newer languages, such as {COBOL} and {Ada},
      are full of unnecessary {crock}s.   When the {Right Thing} has
      already been done once, there is no justification for
      {bogosity} in newer languages.
  
      See also {Association of Lisp Users}, {Common Lisp}, {Franz
      Lisp}, {MacLisp}, {Portable Standard Lisp}, {Interlisp},
      {Scheme}, {ELisp}, {Kamin's interpreters}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-04-16)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   *LISP
  
      (StarLISP) A {data-parallel} extension of {Common LISP} for
      the {Connection Machine}, uses "{pvars}".
  
      {A *LISP simulator
      (ftp://think.com/public/starsim-f19-sharfile)}.
  
      E-mail: ,
      .
  
      [Cliff Lasser, Jeff Mincy, J.P. Massar, Thinking Machines
      Corporation   "The Essential *LISP Manual", TM Corp 1986].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LISP 1
  
      The original {Lisp}.   Invented by John McCarthy et al at {MIT}
      in the late 50's.   Followed by {LISP 1.5}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LISP 1.5
  
      The second version of {Lisp}, successor to {LISP 1}.
      Developed at {MIT} in 1959.   Followed by LISP 1.75, LISP 1.9,
      {Lisp 2} and many other versions.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LISP 2
  
      {LISP 1.5} with an {ALGOL 60}-like surface syntax.   Also
      optional type declarations, new data types including
      integer-indexed {array}s and character strings, partial-word
      extraction/insertion operators and {macro}s.   A
      {pattern-matching} facility similar to {COMIT} was proposed.
      Implemented for the {Q-32} computer.
  
      ["The LISP 2 Programming Language and System", P.W.   Abrahams
      et al, Proc FJCC 29:661-676, AFIPS (Fall 1966).]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LISP A
  
      "LISP A: A LISP-like System for Incremental Computing", E.J.
      Sandewall, Proc SJCC 32 (1968).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LISP70
  
      A {Lisp} dialect descended from {MLISP} and {MLISP2}.   Also
      known as PLISP and VEL.   Useful for parsing.   Only the
      pattern-matching system was published and fully implemented.
      According to Alan Kay, LISP70 had an influence on
      {Smalltalk-72}.   "The LISP70 Pattern Matching System, Larry
      Tesler et al, IJCAI 73.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LispView
  
      CLOS based windowing system on OpenWindows.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LSB
  
      1. {Least Significant Bit}.
  
      2. (Rarely) Least Significant Byte.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LSP
  
      {Label Switched Path}
  
  
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