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   lallation
         n 1: defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme
               `r' is pronounced as `l'
         2: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: {babble},
            {babbling}, {lallation}]

English Dictionary: lilting by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
liliid monocot family
n
  1. family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
liliid monocot genus
n
  1. genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lilting
adj
  1. characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure"
    Synonym(s): lilting, swinging, swingy, tripping
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Low Latin
n
  1. any dialect of Latin other than the classical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lowell Thomas
n
  1. a radio broadcast journalist during World War I and World War II noted for his nightly new broadcast (1892-1981)
    Synonym(s): Thomas, Lowell Thomas, Lowell Jackson Thomas
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lallation \Lal*la"tion\, n. [L. lallare to sing lalla, or
      lullaby: cf. F. lallation.]
      An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds
      like l.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latin \Lat"in\, n.
      1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
  
      2. The language of the ancient Romans.
  
      3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into
            Latin. [Obs.] --Ascham.
  
      4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
  
      {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin;
            as, the log Latin of schoolboys.
  
      {Late Latin}, {Low Latin}, terms used indifferently to
            designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low
            Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the
            barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other
            languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had
            become a dead language for the people.
  
      {Law Latin}, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in
            statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.

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]:
   Latin \Lat"in\, n.
      1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
  
      2. The language of the ancient Romans.
  
      3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into
            Latin. [Obs.] --Ascham.
  
      4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
  
      {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin;
            as, the log Latin of schoolboys.
  
      {Late Latin}, {Low Latin}, terms used indifferently to
            designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low
            Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the
            barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other
            languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had
            become a dead language for the people.
  
      {Law Latin}, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in
            statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Low \Low\, a. [Compar. {Lower}; superl. {Lowest}.] [OE. low,
      louh, lah, Icel. l[be]gr; akin to Sw. l[86]g, Dan. lav, D.
      laag, and E. lie. See {Lie} to be prostrate.]
      1. Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or
            elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as,
            low ground; a low flight.
  
      2. Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature;
            a low fence.
  
      3. Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in
            winter, and six in summer.
  
      4. Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.
  
      5. Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the
            ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of
            corn; low wages.
  
      6. Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.
  
      7. (Mus.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low
            pitch; a low note.
  
      8. (Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of
            the tongue in relation to the palate; as, [?] ([?]m), [?]
            (all). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 10, 11.
  
      9. Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the
            low northern latitudes.
  
      10. Numerically small; as, a low number.
  
      11. Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as,
            low spirits; low in spirits.
  
      12. Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low
            condition; the lower classes.
  
                     Why but to keep ye low and ignorant ? --Milton.
  
      13. Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low
            mind; a low trick or stratagem.
  
      14. Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a
            low comparison.
  
                     In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest
                     wits of the heathen world are low and dull.
                                                                              --Felton.
  
      15. Submissive; humble. [bd]Low reverence.[b8] --Milton.
  
      16. Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse;
            made low by sickness.
  
      17. Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a
            low temperature; a low fever.
  
      18. Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low
            estimate.
  
      19. Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple;
            as, a low diet.
  
      Note: Low is often used in the formation of compounds which
               require no special explanation; as, low-arched, low-
               browed, low-crowned, low-heeled, low-lying, low-priced,
               low-roofed, low-toned, low-voiced, and the like.
  
      {Low Church}. See {High Church}, under {High}.
  
      {Low Countries}, the Netherlands.
  
      {Low German}, {Low Latin}, etc. See under {German}, {Latin},
            etc.
  
      {Low life}, humble life.
  
      {Low milling}, a process of making flour from grain by a
            single grinding and by siftings.
  
      {Low relief}. See {Bas-relief}.
  
      {Low side window} (Arch.), a peculiar form of window common
            in medi[91]val churches, and of uncertain use. Windows of
            this sort are narrow, near the ground, and out of the line
            of the windows, and in many different situations in the
            building.
  
      {Low spirits}, despondency.
  
      {Low steam}, steam having a low pressure.
  
      {Low steel}, steel which contains only a small proportion of
            carbon, and can not be hardened greatly by sudden cooling.
           
  
      {Low Sunday}, the Sunday next after Easter; -- popularly so
            called.
  
      {Low tide}, the farthest ebb of the tide; the tide at its
            lowest point; low water.
  
      {Low water}.
            (a) The lowest point of the ebb tide; a low stage of the
                  in a river, lake, etc.
            (b) (Steam Boiler) The condition of an insufficient
                  quantity of water in the boiler.
  
      {Low water} {alarm [or] indicator} (Steam Boiler), a
            contrivance of various forms attached to a boiler for
            giving warning when the water is low.
  
      {Low water mark}, that part of the shore to which the waters
            recede when the tide is the lowest. --Bouvier.
  
      {Low wine}, a liquor containing about 20 percent of alcohol,
            produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run
            of the still; -- often in the plural.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Loyalton, CA (city, FIPS 44364)
      Location: 39.67664 N, 120.24335 W
      Population (1990): 931 (398 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 96118
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