Loach (loch), n. [OE. loche, F. loche.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species ( N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.

Load, n. [OE. lode load, way; properly the same word as lode, but confused with lade, load, v. See Lade, Lead, v. , Lode.]
1. A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as a heavy load.
"He might such a load To town with his ass carry." Gower.
2. The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.
3. That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as a load of care. " A … load of guilt." Ray. " Our life’s a load." Dryden.
4. A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.
5. The charge of a firearm; as a load of powder.
6. Weight or violence of blows. [Obs.] Milton.
7. (Mach.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. Load line, or Load water line (Naut.), the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded.
Syn. — Burden; lading; weight; cargo. See Burden.

Load, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Loaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Loading. Loaden is obsolete, and laden belongs to lade.]
1. To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.
"I strive all in vain to load the cart." Gascoigne.
"I have loaden me with many spoils." Shak.
"Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house." Shak.
2. To adulterate or drug; as to load wine. [Cant]
3. To magnetize.[Obs.] Prior. Loaded dice, dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest.

Loading
Load´ing, n.
1. The act of putting a load on or into.
2. A load; cargo; burden. Shak. { Load´man•age, Lode´man•age }, n. Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [Obs.] Chaucer. { Loads´man, Lodes´man }, n. [ Load, lode + man. See Lode.] A pilot. [Obs.] Chaucer. { Load´star•, Lode´star• }, n. [ Load, lode + star. See Lode.] A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak.
"The pilot can no loadstar see." Spenser. { Load´stone•, Lode´stone }, n. [ Load, lode + stone.] (Min.) A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.

Loafer
Loaf´er, n. [G. läufer a runner, Prov. G. laufer, lofer, fr. laufen to run. See Leap.] One who loafs; a lazy lounger. Lowell.

Loan (lon), n. [See Lawn.] A loanin. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]

Loan, n. [OE. lone, lane, AS. lan, laen, fr. león to lend; akin to D. leen loan, fief, G. lehen fief, Icel. lan, G. leihen to lend, OHG. lihan, Icel. lji, Goth. leihwan, L. linquere to leave, Gr. lei•pein, Skr. ric. rad.119. Cf. Delinquent, Eclipse, Eleven, Ellipse, Lend, License, Relic.]
1. The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as the loan of a book, money, services.
2. That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as he repaid the loan. Loan office. (a) An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker’s shop.

Loan, n. t. [ imp. & p. p. Loaned p. pr. & vb. n. Loaning.] To lend; — sometimes with out. Kent.
"By way of location or loaning them out." J. Langley (1644).

Loanmonger
Loan´mon•ger, n. A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
"The millions of the loanmonger." Beaconsfield.

Loath (loth), a. [OE. looth, loth, AS. lað hostile, odious; akin to OS. lað, G. leid, Icel. leiðr, Sw. led, G. leiden to suffer, OHG. lidan to suffer, go, cf. AS. liðan to go, Goth. leipan, and E. lead to guide.]
1. Hateful; odious; disliked. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as loath to part.
"Full loth were him to curse for his tithes." Chaucer.
"Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content." Shak.

Loathe (loth), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Loathed (lothd); p. pr. & vb. n. Loathing.] [AS. laðian to hate. See Loath.]
1. To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
"Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread." Cowley.
2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate.
"The secret which I loathe." Waller.
"She loathes the vital sir." Dryden.
Syn. — To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.

Loathe, v. i. To feel disgust or nausea. [Obs.]

Loather
Loath´er, n. One who loathes.

Loathful
Loath´ful, a.
1. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. "Loathful eyes." Spenser.
2. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.
"Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust." Spenser.

Loathing
Loath´ing, n. Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
"The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races." Macaulay.

Loathingly
Loath´ing•ly, adv. With loathing.

Loathliness
Loath´li•ness, n. Loathsomeness. [Obs.]

Loathly
Loath´ly (loth"ly), a. [AS. laðlic.] Loathsome. [Obs.] " Loathly mouth." Spenser.

Loathly
Loath´ly (loth"ly), adv.
1. Unwillingly; reluctantly.
"This shows that you from nature loathly stray." Donne.
2. (loth"ly) So as to cause loathing. [Obs.]
"With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight." Fairfax.

Loathness
Loath´ness, n. Unwillingness; reluctance.
"A general silence and loathness to speak." Bacon.

Loathsome
Loath´some, a. Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
"The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection." Macaulay. — Loath´some•ly. adv. — Loath´some•ness, n.

Loathy
Loath´y, a. Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

Loaves, n. ; pl. of Loaf.

Lobar
Lo´bar, a. Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes. { Lo´bate, Lo´ba•ted } a. [See Lobe.]
1. (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as a lobate leaf.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) Having lobes; — said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. (b) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.

Lobbish
Lob´bish, a. Like a lob; consisting of lobs. Sir. P. Sidney.

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. [U.S.]
3. (Naut.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter- deck.
4. (Agric.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. Lobby member, a lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.]

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.

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.]

Lobbyist
Lob´by•ist, n. A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. [U.S.]

Lobcock
Lob´cock, n. A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. [Low]

Lobe (lob), n. [F. lobe, Gr. lobo•s.] Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form; as: (a) (Bot.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf. Gray. (b) (Zoöl.) 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.

Lobefoot
Lobe´foot, n. (Zoöl.) A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

Lobe-footed
Lobe´-foot•ed, a. (Zoöl.) Lobiped.

Lobelet
Lobe´let, n. (Bot.) A small lobe; a lobule.

Lobelia
Lo•be´li•a ( 106), n. [NL. So called from Lobel, botanist to King James I.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.

Lobeliaceous
Lo•be•li•a´ceous, a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

Lobelin
Lo•be´lin, n. (Med.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

Lobeline
Lo•be´line, n. (Chem.) A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco ( Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

Lobiped
Lo´bi•ped, a. [ Lobe + L. pes, pedis, foot.] (Zoöl.) Having lobate toes, as a coot.

Loblolly
Lob´lol•ly, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gruel; porridge; — so called among seamen. Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia ( G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. also a similar West Indian tree ( Laplacea haematoxylon). — Loblolly boy, a surgeon’s attendant on shipboard. Smollett. — Loblolly pine (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine ( Pinus Taeda). also P. Bahamensis, of the West Indies. — Loblolly tree (Bot.), a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.

Lobosa
Lo•bo´sa, n. pl. [NL. See Lobe.] (Zoöl.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amœba.

Lobsided
Lob´sid•ed, a. See Lopsided.

Lobster
Lob´ster, n. [AS. loppestre, lopystre prob., corrupted fr. L. locusta a marine shellfish, a kind of lobster, a locust. Cf. Locust.] (Zoöl.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster ( H. Americanus), and the European lobster ( H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster ( Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters. Lobster caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth ( Stauropus fagi); — so called from its form. Lobster louse (Zoöl.), a copepod crustacean ( Nicothoë astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.

Lobster
Lob´ster, n. As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person. [Slang]

Lobular
Lob´u•lar, a. [Cf. F. lobulaire.] Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules. { Lob´u•late, Lob´u•la•ted } a. Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as a lobulated gland.

Lobule
Lob´ule, n. [Cf. F. lobule, dim. of lobe. See Lobe.] A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.

Lobworm
Lob´worm, n. (Zoöl.) The lugworm.

Local
Lo´cal, a. [L. localis, fr. locus place: cf. F. local. See Lieu, Locus.] Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as a local custom.
"Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." Shak. Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; — distinguished from transitory actions. — Local affection (Med.), a disease or ailment confined to a particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the system. — Local attraction (Magnetism), an attraction near a compass, causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction, especially on shipboard. — Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for the line. — Local circuit (Teleg.), the circuit of the local battery. — Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not caused by accidental influences, as of reflection, shadow, etc. (b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is laid. — Local option, the right or obligation of determining by popular vote within certain districts, as in each county, city, or town, whether the sale of alcoholic beverages within the district shall be allowed.

Local
Lo´cal, n.
1. (Railroad) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]
2. On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [U.S.]

Locale
Lo•cale´, n. [F. local.]
1. A place, spot, or location.
2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

Localism
Lo´cal•ism, n.
1. The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.
2. A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.

Locality
Lo•cal´i•ty, n. ; pl. Localitiees . [L. localitas: cf. F. localite.]
1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
"It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality." Glanvill.
2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as locality of trial. Blackstone.
4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Localization
Lo•cal•i•za´tion, n. [Cf. F. localisation.] Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization (Physiol.), the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.

Localize
Lo´cal•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Localized p. pr. & vb. n. Localizing ] [Cf. F. localiser. See Local.] To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.

Locate
Lo´cate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Located p. pr. & vb. n. Locating.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus place. See Local.]
1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
"The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter." B. F. Westcott.
2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
"That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located." H. Spencer.

Locate
Lo´cate, v. i. To place one’s self; to take up one’s residence; to settle. [Colloq.]

Location
Lo•ca´tion, n. [L. locatio, fr. locare.]
1. The act or process of locating.
2. Situation; place; locality. Locke.
3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. [U.S.]
4. (Law) (a) (Civil Law) A leasing on rent. (b) (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. Wharton. (c) (Amer. Law) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier.

Locative
Loc´a•tive, a. (Gram.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. — n. The locative case.

Locator
Lo´ca•tor, n. One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. [U.S.]

Locellate
Lo•cel´late, a. [L. locellus a compartment, dim. of locus a place.] (Bot.) Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.

Loch (lok), n. [Gael. & Olr. loch. See Lake of water.] A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.]

Loch (lok), n. [F. looch, Ar. la’ug, an electuary, or any medicine which may be licked or sucked, fr. la’uq to lick.] (Med.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture. { Loch•a"ber ax", Loch•a"ber axe" } [So called from Lochaber, in Scotland.] A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.

Lochage
Loch´age, n. [Gr..] (Gr. Antiq.) An officer who commanded a company; a captain. Mitford.

Lochan
Loch´an, n. [Gael. See 1st Loch.] A small lake; a pond. [Scot.]
"A pond or lochan rather than a lake." H. Miller.

Lochial
Lo´chi•al, a. [Cf. F. lochial.] Of or pertaining to the lochia.

Lock, n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr. to bend, twist.] A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
"These gray locks, the pursuivants of death." Shak.

Lock, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. lucan to lock, fasten; akin to OS. lukan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. luhhan, Icel. lka, Goth. lukan (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 match lock, flint lock, 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.

Lock, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Locked p. pr. & vb. n. Locking.]
1. To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
2. To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; — often with up; as to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
3. To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out — often with up; as to lock one’s self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one’s silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one’s arms; to lock a secret in one’s breast.
4. To link together; to clasp closely; as to lock arms. " Lock hand in hand." Shak.
5. (Canals) To furnish with locks; also to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

Lock, v. i. To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as the door locks close.
"When it locked none might through it pass." Spenser. To lock into, to fit or slide into; as they lock into each other. Boyle.

Lock hospital
Lock" hos"pi•tal A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. [Eng.]

Lock step
Lock" step A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.

Lock stitch
Lock" stitch A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

Lock-down
Lock´-down, n. A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; — used by lumbermen. [U.S.]

Locked-jaw
Locked´-jaw, n. See Lockjaw.

Locker
Lock´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, locks.
2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker (Naut.), a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. — Davy Jones’s locker, or Davy’s locker. See Davy Jones. — Shot locker, a compartment where shot are deposited. Totten.

Lockless
Lock´less, a. Destitute of a lock.

Lockman
Lock´man, n. A public executioner. [Scot.]

Lockout
Lock´out, n. The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

Lockram
Lock´ram, n. [F. locrenan, locronan; from Locronan, in Brittany, where it is said to have been made.] A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany. Shak.

Locksmith
Lock´smith, n. An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.

Lockup
Lock´up, n. A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.

Lock-weir
Lock´-weir, n. A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.

Locky
Lock´y, a. Having locks or tufts. [R.] Sherwood.

Loco
Lo´co, adv. [It.] (Mus.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.

Loco
Lo´co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] (Bot.) A plant ( Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.

Loco
Lo´co, n. (Bot.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis Lambertii.

Loco
Lo´co, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Locoed p. pr. & vb. n. Locoing.] To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. "The locoed novelist." W. D. Howells.

Loco
Lo´co, n. A locomotive. [Colloq.] Kipling.

Loco disease. (Veter.) A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.

Locofoco
Lo•co•fo´co, n. [Of uncertain etymol.; perh. for L. loco foci instead of fire; or, according to Bartlett, it was called so from a self-lighting cigar, with a match composition at the end, invented in 1834 by John Marck of New York, and called by him locofoco cigar, in imitation of the word locomotive, which by the uneducated was supposed to mean, self-moving.]
1. A friction match. [U.S.]
2. A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party. [U.S.] The name was first applied, in 1834, to a portion of the Democratic party, because, at a meeting in Tammany Hall, New York, in which there was great diversity of sentiment, the chairman left his seat, and the lights were extinguished, for the purpose of dissolving the meeting; when those who were opposed to an adjournment produced locofoco matches, rekindled the lights, continued the meeting, and accomplished their object.

Locomotion
Lo•co•mo´tion, n. [L. locus place + motio motion: cf. F. locomotion. See Local, and Motion.]
1. The act of moving from place to place. " Animal locomotion." Milton.
2. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.

Locular
Loc´u•lar, a. [L. locularis.] (Bot.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as tri locular. Gray.

Loculate
Loc´u•late, a. [L. loculatus.] (Bot.) Divided into compartments.

Locule
Loc´ule, n. [Cf. F. locule. See Loculus.] (Zoöl.) A little hollow; a loculus.

Locum tenens
Lo"cum te"nens [L., holding the place; locus place + tenens, p. pr. of tenere to hold. Cf. Lieutenant.] A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.

Locusta
Lo•cus´ta, n. [NL.: cf. locuste.] (Bot.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. Gray.

Locustella
Lo•cus•tel´la, n. [NL., fr. L. locusta a locust.] (Zoöl.) The European cricket warbler.

Locustic
Lo•cus´tic, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; — formerly used to designate a supposed acid.

Locusting
Lo´cust•ing, p. a. Swarming and devastating like locusts. [R.] Tennyson.

Locution
Lo•cu´tion (lo•ku"shun), n. [L. locutio, fr. loqui to speak: cf. F. locution. ] Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. " Stumbling locutions." G. Eliot.
"I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases forced by ceremony." Marston.

Locutory
Loc´u•to•ry (lok"u•to•ry), n. A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

Lodde
Lod´de (lod’de), n. (Zoöl.) The capelin.

Lode, n. [AS. lad way, journey, fr. liðan to go. See Lead to guide, and cf. Load a burden.]
1. A water course or way; a reach of water.
"Down that long, dark lode … he and his brother skated home in triumph." C. Kingsley.
2. (Mining) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

Lode-ship
Lode´-ship, n. An old name for a pilot boat.

Lodesman
Lodes´man, n. Same as Loadsman. [Obs.]

Lodged, a. (Her.) Lying down; — used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

Lodgement
Lodge´ment, n. See Lodgment.

Lodging
Lodg´ing, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges.
2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; — often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower.
"Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow." Pope.
3. Abiding place; harbor; cover.
"Fair bosom … the lodging of delight." Spenser. Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. — Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

Lodgment
Lodg´ment, n. [Written also lodgement.] [Cf. F. logement. See Lodge, v. ]
1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.
"Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries." Paley.
2. A lodging place; a room. [Obs.]
3. An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
4. (Mil.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as to effect a lodgment.

Loellingite
Loel´ling•ite, n. [So called from Lölling, in Austria.] (Min.) A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

Loess, n. [G. löss.] (Geol.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

Loeven’s larva
Loev"en’s lar"va [Named after the Swedish zoölogist, S. F. Löven, who discovered it.] (Zoöl.) The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.

Loft, n. [Icel. lopt air, heaven, loft, upper room; akin to AS. lyft air, G. luft, Dan. loft loft, Goth. luftus air. Cf. Lift, v. & n. ] That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially: (a) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story. (b) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as an organ loft. (c) A floor or room placed above another; a story.
"Eutychus … fell down from the third loft." Acts xx. 9.On loft, aloft; on high. Cf. Onloft. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Loft, a. Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] Surrey.

Loft, n. (Golf) Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).

Loft, v. t. To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft; as a lofted house; a lofted golf-club head.
"A wooden club with a lofted face." Encyc. of Sport.

Loft, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Lofted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lofting.] To raise aloft; to send into the air; esp. (Golf), to strike (the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.

Loftily
Loft´i•ly, adv. [From Lofty.] In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

Lofting iron
Loft"ing iron. (Golf) Same as Lofter.

Logan
Log´an, n. A rocking or balanced stone. Gwill.

Logaœdic
Log•a•œd"ic (log•a•ed"ik), a. [Gr. logaoidiko•s; lo•gos discourse, prose + ’aoidh• song.] (Gr. Pros.) Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

Logarithm
Log´a•rithm (log"a•rith’m), n. [Gr. lo•gos word, account, proportion + ’ariqmo•s number: cf. F. logarithme.] (Math.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus, 0 1 2 3 4 Indices or logarithms 1 10 100 1000 10,000 Numbers in geometrical progression Hence, the logarithm of any given number is the exponent of a power to which another given invariable number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce that given number. Thus, let 10 be the base, then 2 is the logarithm of 100, because 10² = 100, and 3 is the logarithm of 1,000, because 10³ = 1,000. Arithmetical complement of a logarithm, the difference between a logarithm and the number ten. — Binary logarithms. See under Binary. — Common logarithms, orBrigg’s logarithms, logarithms of which the base is 10; — so called from Henry Briggs, who invented them. — Gauss’s logarithms, tables of logarithms constructed for facilitating the operation of finding the logarithm of the sum of difference of two quantities from the logarithms of the quantities, one entry of those tables and two additions or subtractions answering the purpose of three entries of the common tables and one addition or subtraction. They were suggested by the celebrated German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (died in 1855), and are of great service in many astronomical computations. — Hyperbolic, or Napierian, logarithms, those logarithms (devised by John Speidell, 1619) of which the base is 2.7182818; — so called from Napier, the inventor of logarithms. — Logistic or Proportionallogarithms., See under Logistic. { Log•a•rith•met´ic, Log´a•rith•met´ic•al } a. See Logarithmic.

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.

Loge, n. [F. See Lodge.] A lodge; a habitation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Logge, n. & v. See Lodge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Logger
Log´ger, n. One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i. [U.S.] Lowell.

Loggerheads
Log´ger•heads, n. (Bot.) The knapweed.

Loggia
Log´gia, n. [It. See Lodge.] (Arch.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.

Logic
Log´ic, n. [OE. logike, F. logique, L. logica, logice, Gr. logikh• (sc. te•chnh), fr. logiko•s belonging to speaking or reason, fr. lo•gos speech, reason, le•gein to say, speak. See Legend.]
1. The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.
"Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought; that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject." Sir W. Hamilton. Logic is distinguished as pure and applied. "Pure logic is a science of the form, or of the formal laws, of thinking, and not of the matter. Applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those objects about which men do think." Abp. Thomson.
2. A treatise on logic; as Mill’s Logic.

Logicality
Log•i•cal´i•ty, n. Logicalness.

Logically
Log´ic•al•ly, adv. In a logical manner; as to argue logically.

Logicalness
Log´ic•al•ness, n. The quality of being logical.

Logician
Lo•gi´cian, n. [Cf. F. logicien.] A person skilled in logic. Bacon.
"Each fierce logician still expelling Locke." Pope.

Logics
Log´ics, n. See Logic. { Lo•gis´tic, Lo•gis´tic•al } a. [Gr. skilled in calculating, to calculate, fr. lo•gos word, number, reckoning: cf. F. logistique.]
1. Logical. [Obs.] Berkeley.
2. (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic. Logistic, or Proportional, logarithms, certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are expressed in minutes and seconds; — not now used.

Logman
Log´man, n. ; pl. Logmen . A man who carries logs. Shak.

Logodaedaly
Log•o•daed´a•ly, n. [Gr. . See Logos, and Daedal.] Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] Coleridge.

Logography
Lo•gog´ra•phy, n. [Gr. a writing of speeches; lo•gos word, speech + to write: cf. F. logographie.]
1. A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.
2. A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, — a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words. Brande & C.

Logogriph
Log´o•griph, n. [Gr. lo•gos word + gri^fos a fishing net, a dark saying, a riddle: F. logogriphe.] A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; — thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B. Jonson.

Logomachist
Lo•gom´a•chist, n. [See Logomachy.] One who contends about words.

Logometric
Log•o•met´ric, a. [Gr. lo•gos word, ratio + measure.] (Chem.) Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric. [R.]

Logos
Log´os, n. [NL., fr. Gr. the word or form which expresses a thought, also the thought, fr. to speak.]
1. A word; reason; speech. H. Bushell.
2. The divine Word; Christ.

Logothete
Log´o•thete, [LL. logotheta, fr. Gr. ; lo•gos word, account + to put.] An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.

Logotype
Log´o•type, n. [Gr. lo•gos word + -type.] (Print.) A single type, containing two or more letters; as a. , AE, fi, fl, ffl, etc.; — called also ligature.

Logroll
Log´roll, v. i. & t. To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]

Logroller
Log´roll•er, n. One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
"The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it." The. Nation.

Logrolling
Log´roll•ing, n.
1. (Logging) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]
2. Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; — sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [Cant, U.S.]

Log-ship
Log´-ship, n. (Naut.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n. , 2.

Logy
Lo´gy, a. [From D. log.] Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as a logy horse. [U.S.]
"Porcupines are … logy, sluggish creatures." C. H. Merriam.

Lohock
Lo´hock, n. (Med.) See Loch, a medicine.

Loin, n. [OE. loine, OF. logne, F. longe, from (assumed) LL. lumbea, L. lumbus join. Cf. Lends, Lumbar, Nombles.] That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

Loiter
Loi´ter, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Loitered p. pr. & vb. n. Loitering.] [D. leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. G. lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, OHG. lotar.]
1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
"Sir John, you loiter here too long." Shak.
"If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace." Rogers.
2. To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obs.] Spenser.
Syn. — To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.

Loiteringly
Loi´ter•ing•ly, adv. In a loitering manner. { Lok (lok), Lo´ki (lo"k), } n. [Icel. Loki, perh. akin to lokka, locka to allure, entice.] (Scandinavian Myth.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the Ahriman of the Persians.

Lokao
Lo•ka´o, n. A green vegetable dye imported from China.

Loke (lok), n. [See Lock a fastening.] A private path or road; also the wicket or hatch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

Loligo
Lo•li´go, n. [L., cuttle fish.] (Zoöl.) A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.

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.

Loll, v. t. To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.
"Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues." Dryden.

Lollard
Lol´lard, n. [LL. Lollardi, Lullardi, from Walter Lolhardus, a German; cf. LG. & D. lollen to mumble, to hum, sing in a murmuring strain; hence, OD. lollaerd a mumbler, i. e., of prayers or psalms, which was prob. the origin of the name. See Loll, Lull.] (Eccl. Hist.) (a) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany. (b) One of the followers of Wyclif in England. [Called also Loller.]
"By Lollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany." Fuller. { Lol´lard•ism, Lol´lard•y } n. The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.

Lollipop
Lol´li•pop, n. [Perhaps fr. Prov. E. loll to soothe + pope a mixed liquor.] A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth. Thackeray.

Lollop
Lol´lop, v. i. [From Loll.] To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll. [Low.] Charles Reade.

Lomatinous
Lo•mat´i•nous, a. [See Loma.] (Zoöl.) Furnished with lobes or flaps.

Lomentaceous
Lo•men•ta´ceous, a. [From Loment.] (Bot.) Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.

Lond, n. Land. [Obs.] Chaucer.

London
Lon´don, n. The capital city of England. London paste (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; — used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. — London pride. (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain. (b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. Dr. Prior. — London rocket (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ( Sisymbrium Irio) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins of the great fire of 1667.

London smoke
Lon"don smoke. A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.

London tuft. (Bot.) The Sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus).

Londoner
Lon´don•er (-er), n. A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.

Londonism
Lon´don•ism, n. A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

Londonize
Lon´don•ize, v. i. To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.

Londonize
Lon´don•ize, v. i. To imitate the manner of the people of London.

Lone, n. A lane. See Loanin. [Prov. Eng.]

Lone, a. [Abbrev. fr. alone.]
1. Being without a companion; being by one’s self; also sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as a lone traveler or watcher.
"When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered." Shenstone.
2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic]
"Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman." Collection of Records (1642).
"A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear." Shak.
3. Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also apart from human dwellings and resort; as a lone house. " A lone isle." Pope.
"By a lone well a lonelier column rears." Byron.
4. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
"Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls." Pope.

Loneliness
Lone´li•ness, n.
1. The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
2. The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as the loneliness of a road.
3. Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
"I see The mystery of your loneliness." Shak.
4. A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
Syn. — Solitude; seclusion. See Solitude.

Lonesome
Lone´some, a. [ Compar. Lonesomer superl. Lonesomest.]
1. Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.
"Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread." Coleridge.
2. Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as to feel lonesome. — Lone´some•ly, adv. — Lone´some•ness, n.

Long, a. [ Compar. Longer superl. Longest ] [AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. lång, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus. rad.125. Cf. Length, Ling a fish, Linger, Lunge, Purloin.]
1. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as a long line; — opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.
2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.
3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as long hours of watching.
4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
"The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long." Spenser.
5. Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.
6. Far-reaching; extensive. " Long views." Burke.
7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; — said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a. , 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30. Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as long- armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long- horned, long-necked, long-sleeved, long- tailed, long- worded, etc. In the long run, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually. — Long clam (Zoöl.), the common clam ( Mya arenaria) of the Northern United States and Canada; — called also soft-shell clam and long-neck clam. See Mya. — Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality. — Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending below the feet. — Long division. (Math.) See Division. — Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen. — Long home, the grave. — Long measure, Long meter. See under Measure, Meter. — Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653. — Long price, the full retail price. — Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the Orchis mascula. Dr. Prior. — Long suit (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. R. A. Proctor. — Long tom. (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel. (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western U.S.] (c) (Zoöl.) The long-tailed titmouse. — Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed. — Of long, a long time. [Obs.] Fairfax. — To be, or go, long of the market, To be on the long side of the market, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated price; — opposed to short in such phrases as to be short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See Short. — To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.

Long, n.
1. (Mus.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
2. (Phonetics) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
3. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; — in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it. Addison.

Long, adv. [AS. lance.]
1. To a great extent in space; as a long drawn out line.
2. To a great extent in time; during a long time.
"They that tarry long at the wine." Prov. xxiii. 30.
"When the trumpet soundeth long." Ex. xix. 13.
3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.
4. Through the whole extent or duration.
"The bird of dawning singeth all night long." Shak.
5. Through an extent of time, more or less; - - only in question; as how long will you be gone?

Long, prep. [Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d Along.] By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See Along of, under 3d Along.

Long, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Longed p. pr. & vb. n. Longing.] [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang long. See Long, a. ]
1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; — followed by an infinitive, or by after or for.
"I long to see you." Rom. i. 11.
"I have longed after thy precepts." Ps. cxix. 40.
"I have longed for thy salvation." Ps. cxix. 174.
"Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones … at a great distance from the sea." Arbuthnot.
2. To belong; — used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.]
"The labor which that longeth unto me." Chaucer.

Long, a. (Finance & Com.) Having a supply of stocks or goods; prepared for, or depending for a profit upon, advance in prices; as long of cotton. Hence, the phrases: to be, or go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the market, to hold products or securities for a rise in price, esp. when bought on a margin. { Lo•ret´o, or Lo•ret´to,nuns }. [From Loreto, a city in Italy famous for its Holy House, said to be that in which Jesus lived, brought by angels from Nazareth.] (R. C. Ch.) Members of a congregation of nuns founded by Mrs. Mary Teresa Ball, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1822, and now spread over Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls.

Long primer
Long" prim"er (Print.) A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois. This line is printed in long primer.

Longan
Lon´gan, n. (Bot.) A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree ( Nephelium Longan).

Longanimity
Lon•ga•nim´i•ty, n. [L. longanimitas; longus long + animus mind: cf. F. longanimite.] Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience. Jer. Taylor.

Long-armed
Long´-armed, a. Having long arms; as the long-armed ape or gibbon.

Longbeak
Long´beak, n. (Zoöl.) The American redbellied snipe ( Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); — called also long-billed dowitcher.

Longboat
Long´boat, n. (Naut.) Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.

Longbow
Long´bow, n. The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; — so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. also sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.

Long-breathed
Long´-breathed, a. Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.

Long-drawn
Long´-drawn, a. Extended to a great length.
"The cicadae hushed their long-drawn, ear- splitting strains." G. W. Cable.

Longe, n. [Abbrev. fr. allonge. See Lunge.]
1. A thrust. See Lunge. Smollett.
2. The training ground for a horse. Farrow.

Longe, n. (Zoöl.) Same as 4th Lunge.

Longeval
Lon•ge´val, a. Long-loved; longevous.[R.] Pope.

Longevity
Lon•gev´i•ty, n. [L. longaevitas. See Longevous.] Long duration of life; length of life.
"The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious." Arbuthnot.

Longheaded
Long´head´ed, a. Having unusual foresight or sagacity. — Long´-head•ed•ness, n.

Longhorn
Long´horn, n. (Zoöl.) A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long- horned.

Longicorn
Lon´gi•corn, a. [L. longus long + cornu horn: cf. F. longicorne.] (Zoöl.) Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia. — n. One of the Longicornia.

Longicornia
Lon•gi•cor´ni•a, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. longus long + cornu horn.] (Zoöl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.

Longiloquence
Lon•gil´o•quence, n. [L. langus long + loquentia a talking.] Long- windedness.
"American longiloquence in oratory." Fitzed. Hall.

Longimanous
Lon•gim´a•nous, a. [L. longus long + manus hand.] Having long hands. Sir T. Browne.

Longimetry
Lon•gim´e•try, n. [L. longus long + -metry: cf. F. longimetrie.] The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.

Longing
Long´ing, n. An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
"Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me." Shak.

Longingly
Long´ing•ly, adv. With longing. Dryden.

Longinquity
Lon•gin´qui•ty, n. [L. longinquitas, fr. longinquus extensive, remote, fr. longus long.] Greatness of distance; remoteness. [R.] Barrow.

Longipalp
Lon´gi•palp, n. [F. longipalpe, fr. L. longus long + F. palpe a feeler, a palp.] (Zoöl.) One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.

Longipennate
Lon´gi•pen´nate, a. [L. longus long + E. pennate.] (Zoöl.) Having long wings, or quills.

Longipennes
Lon•gi•pen´nes, n. pl. [NL., from L. longus long + penna wing.] (Zoöl.) A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.

Longipennine
Lon•gi•pen´nine, a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.

Longiroster
Lon•gi•ros´ter, n. ; pl. L. Longirostres (#), E. Longirosters (#). [L. longus long + rostrum beak: cf. F. longirostre.] (Zoöl.) One of the Longirostres.

Longirostral
Lon•gi•ros´tral, a. (Zoöl.) Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.

Longirostres
Lon•gi•ros´tres, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. longus long + rostrum beak.] (Zoöl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.

Longish
Long´ish, a. Somewhat long; moderately long.

Longitude
Lon´gi•tude, n. [F., fr. L. longitudo, fr. longus long.]
1. Length; measure or distance along the longest line; — distinguished from breadth or thickness; as the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense. Sir H. Wotton.
"The longitude of their cloaks." Sir. W. Scott.
"Mine [shadow] spindling into longitude immense." Cowper.
2. (Geog.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as that of New York is 74° or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.
3. (Astron.) The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as the longitude of Capella is 79°. Geocentric longitude (Astron.), the longitude of a heavenly body as seen from the earth. — Heliocentric longitude, the longitude of a heavenly body, as seen from the sun’s center. — Longitude stars, certain stars whose position is known, and the data in regard to which are used in observations for finding the longitude, as by lunar distances.

Longitudinal
Lon•gi•tu´di•nal, a. [Cf. F. longitudinal.]
1. Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as longitudinal distance.
2. Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as the longitudinal diameter of a body. Cheyne.

Longitudinal
Lon•gi•tu´di•nal, n. A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Longitudinally
Lon•gi•tu´di•nal•ly, adv. In the direction of length.

Longlegs
Long´legs, n. (Zoöl.) A daddy longlegs.

Long-lived
Long´-lived, a. Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.

Longly
Long´ly, adv.
1. With longing desire. [Obs.] Shak.
2. For a long time; hence, wearisomely.

Longmynd rocks
Long"mynd rocks" (Geol.) The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and slates of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; — so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.

Longness
Long´ness, n. Length.

Longnose
Long´nose, n. (Zoöl.) The European garfish.

Longshanks
Long´shanks, n. (Zoöl.) The stilt.

Longshore
Long´shore, a. [Abbrev. from alongshore.] Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.

Longshoreman
Long´shore•man, n. ; pl. Longshoremen (#). [Abbrev. fr. alongshoreman.] One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

Long-sight
Long´-sight, n. Long- sightedness. Good.

Long-sighted
Long´-sight•ed, a.
1. Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.
2. Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand; hypermetropic.

Long-sightedness
Long´-sight•ed•ness, n.
1. The state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness.
2. (Med.) See Hypermetropia.

Longspun
Long´spun, a. Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.
"The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below." Addison.

Longspur
Long´spur, n. [So called from the length of the hind claw.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur ( C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur ( C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.

Long-stop
Long´-stop, n. (Cricket) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.

Long-sufferance
Long´-suf•fer•ance, n. Forbearance to punish or resent.

Long-suffering
Long´-suf•fer•ing, n. Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.
"The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long- suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth." Ex. xxxiv. 6.

Long-suffering
Long´-suf•fer•ing, n. Long patience of offense.
"Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering?" Rom. ii. 4.

Longtail
Long´tail, n. An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog. A longtail was a gentleman’s dog, or the dog of one qualified to bunt, other dogs being required to have their tails cut. Cut and longtail, all, gentlefolks and others, as they might come. Shak.

Long-tongued
Long´-tongued, a.
1. Having a long tongue.
2. Talkative; babbling; loquacious. Shak.

Longulite
Lon´gu•lite, n. [L. longus long + -lie.] (Min.) A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.

Long-waisted
Long´-waist•ed, a.
1. Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the bottom of the waist; — said of persons.
2. Long from the part about the neck or shoulder, or from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; — said of garments; as a long-waisted coat.

Longways
Long´ways, adv. Lengthwise. Addison.

Long-winded
Long´-wind´ed, a. Long- breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as a long-winded talker. — Long´-wind´ed•ness, n.
"A tedious, long-winded harangue." South.

Longwise
Long´wise, adv. Lengthwise.

Loo, n. [For older lanterloo, F. lanturelu, lanturlu, name of the game; orig., the refrain of a vaudeville.] (a) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; — formerly called lanterloo. (b) A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack. Loo table, a round table adapted for a circle of persons playing loo.

Loo, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Looed p. pr. & vb. n. Looing.] To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick. [Written also lu.] Goldsmith.

Loobily
Loo´bi•ly, a. [From Looby.] Loobylike; awkward. Fuller.

Loobily
Loo´bi•ly, adv. Awkwardly. L’Estrange.

Looby
Loo´by, n. ; pl. Loobies (#). [Cf. Lob.] An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.

Lookdown
Look´down, n. (Zoöl.) See Moonfish (b).

Looking
Look´ing, a. Having a certain look or appearance; — often compounded with adjectives; as good - looking, grand -looking, etc.

Looking
Look´ing, n.
1. The act of one who looks; a glance.
2. The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face. [Obs.]
"All dreary was his cheer and his looking." Chaucer. Looking for, anticipation; expectation. "A certain fearful looking for of judgment." Heb. x. 27.

Looking-glass
Look´ing-glass, n. A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.
"There is none so homely but loves a looking- glass." South.

Lookout
Look´out, n.
1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
2. The place from which such observation is made.
3. A person engaged in watching.
4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility. [Colloq.]

Lool, n. (Metal.) A vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.

Loom, n. (Zoöl.) See Loon, the bird.

Loom, n. [OE. lome, AS. geloma utensil, implement.]
1. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
"Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff." Rambler.
2. (Naut.) That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock. Totten.

Loom, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Loomed p. pr. & vb. n. Looming.] [OE. lumen to shine, Icel. ljoma; akin to AS. leóma light, and E. light; or cf. OF. lumer to shine, L. luminare to illumine, lumen light; akin to E. light. rad.122. See Light not dark.]
1. To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as the ship looms large; the land looms high.
"Awful she looms, the terror of the main." H. J. Pye.
2. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
"On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context." J. M. Mason.

Loom, n. The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.

Loom-gale
Loom´-gale, n. A gentle gale of wind.

Looming
Loom´ing, n. The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.

Looper
Loop´er (loop"er), n.
1. An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.
2. (Zoöl.) The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.

Loopholed
Loop´holed, a. Provided with loopholes.

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

Looping
Loop´ing, n. [Cf. D. loopen to run. Cf. Loop a mass of iron, Leap.] (Metal.) The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

Looping
Loop´ing, p. pr. & vb. n. of Loop. Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; — so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

Loord, n. [F. lourd heavy, dull.] A dull, stupid fellow; a drone. [Obs.] Spenser.

Loos, n. [OE. los, fr. OF. los, laus.] Praise; fame; reputation. [Obs.] Spenser.
"Good conscience and good loos." Chaucer.

Loose (loos), a. [ Compar. Looser superl. Loosest.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. rad.127. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.]
1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as the loose sheets of a book.
"Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat." Shak.
2. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; — with from or of.
"Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato’s thoughts ?" Addison.
3. Not tight or close; as a loose garment.
4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as a cloth of loose texture.
"With horse and chariots ranked in loose array." Milton.
5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose style, or way of reasoning.
"The comparison employed … must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation." Whewel.
6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
"The loose morality which he had learned." Sir W. Scott.
7. Unconnected; rambling.
"Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages." I. Watts.
8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke.
9. Dissolute; unchaste; as a loose man or woman.
"Loose ladies in delight." Spenser.
10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as a loose epistle. Dryden. At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. — Fast and loose. See under Fast. — To break loose. See under Break. — Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. — To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.

Loose, n.
1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.] Prior.
2. A letting go; discharge. B. Jonson.To give a loose, to give freedom.
"Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow." Addison.

Loose (loos), v. n. [ imp. & p. p. Loosed (loost); p. pr. & vb. n. Loosing.] [From Loose, a. ]
1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
"Canst thou … loose the bands of Orion ?" Job. xxxviii. 31.
"Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me." Matt. xxi. 2.
2. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
"Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife." 1 Cor. vii. 27.
"Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." Matt. xvi. 19.
3. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
"The joints of his loins were loosed." Dan. v. 6.
4. To solve; to interpret. [Obs.] Spenser.

Loose, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.] Acts xiii. 13.

Loosely
Loose´ly, adv. In a loose manner.

Loosen
Loos´en (loos"’n), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Loosened (loos"’nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Loosening.] [See Loose, v. t.]
1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.
"After a year’s rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth." Bacon.
2. To free from restraint; to set at liberty..
"It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding." Dryden.
3. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. Bacon.

Loosen
Loos´en, v. i. To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact. S. Sharp.

Loosener
Loos´en•er, n. One who, or that which, loosens.

Looseness
Loose´ness, n. The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.

Loosestrife
Loose´strife (-strif•), n. (Bot.) (a) The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. (b) Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant of the genus Ludwigia, which includes several species, most of which are found in the United States. — Tufted loosestrife, the plant Lysimachia thyrsiflora, found in the northern parts of the United States and in Europe. Gray.

Loosish
Loos´ish (loos"ish), a. Somewhat loose. [1913 Webster]

Loot (loot), n. [Hind. lut, Skr. lotra, loptra, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.]
1. The act of plundering.
2. Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city.

Loot, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Looted; p. pr. & vb. n. Looting.] To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
"Looting parties … ransacking the houses." L. Oliphant.

Loover
Loo´ver (loo"ver), n. See Louver.

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

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

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 cradle." T. B. Thorpe.

Lopeared
Lop´eared, a. Having ears which lop or hang down.

Lopeman
Lope´man, n. Leaper; ropedancer. [Obs.]

Loper
Lop´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes. [U.S.]
2. (Rope Making) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.

Lophine
Loph´ine, n. [Gr. a tuft or crest of feathers.] (Chem.) A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, — whence its name.

Lophiomys
Lo•phi´o•mys, n. [NL., fr. Gr. lofia• a mane, bristly ridge + my^s a mouse.] (Zoöl.) A very singular rodent ( Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family ( Lophiomyidae), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.

Lophobranch
Loph´o•branch, a. [Gr. lofia• crest or tuft + bra•gchion gill.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii. — n. One of the Lophobranchii.

Lophobranchiate
Loph•o•bran´chi•ate, a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.

Lophobranchii
Loph•o•bran´chi•i, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. lo•fos a crest or tuft + bra•gchion gill.] (Zoöl.) An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.

Lophophore
Loph´o•phore, n. [Gr. lo•fos a crest or tuft + fe•rein to bear.] (Zoöl.) A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.

Loppard
Lop´pard, n. [ Lop + - ard.] A tree, the top of which has been lopped off. [Eng.]

Lopper
Lop´per, n. One who lops or cuts off.

Lopper
Lop´per, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Loppered p. pr. & vb. n. Loppering.] [Cf. Prov. G. lübbern, levern, OHG. gilibern, G. luppe, lab, rennet.] To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.

Loppy
Lop´py, a. Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.

Lopseed
Lop´seed, n. (Bot.) A perennial herb ( Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.

Lopsided
Lop´sid•ed, a. [ Lop + side. Cf. Lobsided.]
1. Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as a lopsided ship. Marryat.
2. Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies. J. S. Mill.

Loquaciousness
Lo•qua´cious•ness, n. Loquacity.

Loquacity
Lo•quac´i•ty, n. [L. loquacitas: cf. F. loquacite.] The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.
"Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits." Arbuthnot.

Loquat
Lo´quat, n. [Chinese name.] (Bot.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar ( Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. also the tree itself.

Loral
Lo´ral, n. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the lores.

Lorate
Lo´rate, a. [L. loratus, fr. lorum thong.] (Bot.) Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

Lorcha
Lor´cha, n. [Pg.] (Naut.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. Admiral Foote.

Lord, n. [Cf. Gr. bent so as to be convex in front.] A hump-backed person; — so called sportively. [Eng.] Richardson (Dict.).

Lord, n. [OE. lord, laverd, loverd, AS. hlaford, for hlafweard, i. e., bread keeper; hlaf bread, loaf + weardian to look after, to take care of, to ward. See Loaf, and Ward to guard, and cf. Laird, Lady.]
1. One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
"But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion." Shak.
"Man over men He made not lord." Milton.
2. A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a baron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. [Eng.]
3. A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also for honor, on certain official persons; as lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. [Eng.]
4. A husband. "My lord being old also." Gen. xviii. 12.
"Thou worthy lord Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee." Shak.
5. (Feudal Law) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
6. The Supreme Being; Jehovah. When Lord, in the Old Testament, is printed in small capitals, it is usually equivalent to Jehovah, and might, with more propriety, be so rendered.
7. The Savior; Jesus Christ. House of Lords, one of the constituent parts of the British Parliament, consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal. — Lord high chancellor, Lord high constable, etc. See Chancellor, Constable, etc. — Lord justice clerk, the second in rank of the two highest judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. — Lord justice general, or Lord president, the highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. — Lord keeper, an ancient officer of the English crown, who had the custody of the king’s great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents. The office is now merged in that of the chancellor. — Lord lieutenant, a representative of British royalty: the lord lieutenant of Ireland being the representative of royalty there, and exercising supreme administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county. — Lord of misrule, the master of the revels at Christmas in a nobleman’s or other great house. Eng. Cyc. — Lords spiritual, the archbishops and bishops who have seats in the House of Lords. — Lords temporal, the peers of England; also sixteen representative peers of Scotland, and twenty-eight representatives of the Irish peerage. — Our lord, Jesus Christ; the Savior. — The Lord’s Day, Sunday; the Christian Sabbath, on which the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. — The Lord’s Prayer, the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples. Matt. vi. 9-13. — The Lord’s Supper. (a) The paschal supper partaken of by Jesus the night before his crucifixion. (b) The sacrament of the eucharist; the holy communion. — The Lord’s Table. (a) The altar or table from which the sacrament is dispensed. (b) The sacrament itself.

Lord, v. t.
1. To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord. [R.] Shak.
2. To rule or preside over as a lord. [R.]

Lord, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Lorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Lording.] To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; — sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.
"The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss." Spenser.
"I see them lording it in London streets." Shak.
"And lorded over them whom now they serve." Milton.

Lordkin
Lord´kin, n. A little lord. Thackeray.

Lordlike
Lord´like, a. [2d lord + like. Cf. Lordly.]
1. Befitting or like a lord; lordly.
2. Haughty; proud; insolent; arrogant.

Lordly
Lord´ly, a. [ Compar. Lordlier superl. Lordliest.] [ Lord + -ly. Cf. Lordlike.]
1. Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.
"She brought forth butter in a lordly dish." Judges v. 25.
"Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them." South.
"The maidens gathered strength and grace And presence, lordlier than before." Tennyson.
2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
"Lords are lordliest in their wine." Milton.
Syn. — Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic; domineering; arrogant. See Imperious.

Lordly
Lord´ly, adv. In a lordly manner.

Lordolatry
Lord•ol´a•try, n. [ Lord + -olatry, as in idolatry.] Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such. [Jocose]
"But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed ?" Thackeray.

Lordosis
Lor•do´sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr., fr. bent so as to be convex in front.] (Med.) (a) A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region. (b) Any abnormal curvature of the bones.

Lords and Ladies
Lords" and La"dies (Bot.) The European wake-robin ( Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies. Dr. Prior.

Lordship
Lord´ship, n.
1. The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.
2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
"What lands and lordships for their owner know My quondam barber." Dryden.
3. Dominion; power; authority.
"They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them." Mark x. 42.

Lore (lor), n. [F. lore, L. lorum thong.] (Zoöl.) (a) The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes. (b) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

Lore, obs. imp. & p. p. of Lose.. [See Lose.] Lost.
"Neither of them she found where she them lore." Spenser.

Lore, n. [OE. lore, lare, AS. lar, fr. laeran to teach; akin to D. leer teaching, doctrine, G. lehre, Dan. laere, Sw. lära. See Learn, and cf. Lere, v. t.]
1. That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folk lore. "The lore of war." Fairfax.
"His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore." Milton.
2. That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel. Chaucer.
"If please ye, listen to my lore." Spenser.
3. Workmanship. [Obs.] Spenser. { Lor´e•al, Lor´al } a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the lore; — said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

Lorette
Lo•rette´, n. [F.] In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; — so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

Lorettine
Lo•ret•tine´, n. (R. C. Ch.) One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.

Lorettine
Lo•ret•tine´, n. [From Loreto in Italy.] (R. C. Ch.) (a) One of an order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the western United States. (b) A Loreto nun.

Lorgnette
Lor•gnette´ n. [F.] An opera glass; pl. elaborate double eyeglasses.

Lori
Lo´ri, n. (Zoöl.) Same as Lory.

Loricata
Lor•i•ca´ta (lor•i•ka"t&asot;), n. pl. [NL. See Loricate.] (Zoöl.) (a) A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos. (b) The crocodilia.

Lorication
Lor•i•ca´tion, n. [L. loricatio.] The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.

Lorikeet
Lor´i•keet, n. (Zoöl.) Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera. { Lor´i•mer, Lor´i•ner } n. [OF. lormier, loremier, fr. LL. loranum bridle, L. lorum thong, the rein of a bridle.] A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Loring
Lor´ing, n. [See 3d Lore.] Instructive discourse. [Obs.] Spenser.

Lorn, a. [Strong p. p. of Lose. See Lose, Forlorn.]
1. Lost; undone; ruined. [Archaic]
"If thou readest, thou art lorn." Sir W. Scott.
2. Forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft; as a lone, lorn woman. { Lor´rie, Lor´ry }, n. ; pl. Lorries (#). [Prob. from lurry to pull or lug.] A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

Losange
Los´ange, n. See Lozenge.

Losel
Los´el, n. [From the root of lose, loss. rad.127. Cf. Lorel.] One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. [Archaic] Spenser.
"One sad losel soils a name for aye." Byron.

Losel
Los´el, a. Wasteful; slothful.

Losenger
Los´en•ger, n. [OF. losengier, losengeor, fr. losengier to deceive, flatter, losenge, flattery, Pr. lauzenga, fr. L. laus praise. Cf. Lozenge.] A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done." Holinshed.

Loser
Los´er, n. One who loses. South.

Losing
Lo´sing, a. [See Losenger.] Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. [Obs.]
"Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Flatterer." Fuller.

Losing
Los´ing, a. [See Lose, v. t.] Causing or incurring loss; as a losing game or business.
"Who strive to sit out losing hands are lost." Herbert.

Loss (los; 115), n. [AS. los loss, losing, fr. leósan to lose. rad.127. See Lose, v. t.]
1. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
"Assured loss before the match be played." Shak.
2. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.
"Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss." Shak.
3. That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; — opposed to gain or increase; as the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.
4. The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
5. Failure to gain or win; as loss of a race or battle.
6. Failure to use advantageously; as loss of time.
7. (Mil.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.
8. (Insurance) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also the sum paid or payable therefor; as the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also to sustain a loss without sinking under it. — To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty.
Syn. — Privation; detriment; injury; damage.

Lossless
Loss´less, a. Free from loss. [Obs.] Milton.

Lost, a. [Prop. p. p. of OE. losien. See Lose, v. t.]
1. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as a lost book or sheep.
2. Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as a lost limb; lost honor.
3. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.
5. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.
6. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.
7. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
8. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.
9. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as to be lost in thought. Lost motion (Mach.), the difference between the motion of a driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of parts or looseness of joints.

Loth, a. , Loth´ly, a. & adv., Loth´some, a. , See Loath, Loathly, etc.

Lotion
Lo´tion, n. [L. lotio, fr. lavare, lotum, to wash: cf. F. lotion. See Lave to wash.]
1. A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.
2. A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.

Lotophagi
Lo•toph´a•gi, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ; the lotus + to eat.] (Class. Myth.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus- eater.

Lotto
Lot´to, n. [F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of German origin. See Lot.] A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno. [Often written loto.]

Loud (loud), a. [ Compar. Louder (loud"er); superl. Loudest.] [OE. loud, lud, AS. hlud; akin to OS. hlud, D. luid, OHG. lut, G. laut, L. - clutus, in in clutus, in clitus, celebrated, renowned, cluere to be called, Gr. klyto•s heard, loud, famous, kly•ein to hear, Skr. çru. rad.41. Cf. Client, Listen, Slave a serf.]
1. Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as a loud cry; loud thunder.
"They were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified." Luke xxiii. 23.
2. Clamorous; boisterous.
"She is loud and stubborn." Prov. vii. 11.
3. Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as a loud call for united effort. [Colloq.]
4. Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as a loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang]
Syn. — Noisy; boisterous; vociferous; clamorous; obstreperous; turbulent; blustering; vehement.

Loud, adv. [AS. hlude.] With loudness; loudly.
"To speak loud in public assemblies." Addison.

Loudful
Loud´ful, a. Noisy. [Obs.] Marsion.

Loudly
Loud´ly, adv. In a loud manner. Denham.

Loud-mouthed
Loud´-mouthed, a. Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.

Loudness
Loud´ness, n. The quality or state of being loud.

Loud-voiced
Loud´-voiced, a. Having a loud voice; noisy; clamorous. Byron.

Lough, n. [See 1st Loch.] A loch or lake; — so spelt in Ireland.

Lough, obs. strong imp. of Laugh. Chaucer.

Louis quatorze
Lou"is qua•torze" (loo"i ka•tôrz"). [F., Louis fourteenth.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the art or style of the times of Louis XIV. of France; as Louis quatorze architecture.

Louk (louk), n. An accomplice; a "pal." [Obs.]
"There is no thief without a louk." Chaucer.

Lounge (lounj), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Lounged (lounjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lounging (loun"jing).] [OE. lungis a tall, slow, awkward fellow, OF. longis, longin, said to be fr. Longinus, the name of the centurion who pierced the body of Christ, but with reference also to L. longus long. Cf. Long, a. ] To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
"We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics." J. Hannay.

Lounge, n.
1. An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.
"She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller’s whose shop served as a fashionable lounge." Miss Edgeworth.
2. A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.

Lounger
Loun´ger, n. One who lounges; an idler.

Loup (loop), n. (Iron Works) See 1st Loop.

Louping
Loup´ing [From Loup to leap.] (Veter.) An enzoötic, often fatal, disease of sheep and other domestic animals, of unknown cause. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

Loups, n. pl.; sing. Loup. [F., prop., a wolf.] (Ethnol.) The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.

Lour, n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) An Asiatic sardine ( Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.

Louri
Lou´ri, n. (Zoöl.) See Lory.

Lousewort
Louse´wort, n. (Bot.) Any species of Pedicularis, a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy. Yellow lousewort, a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.

Lousily
Lous´i•ly, adv. [From Lousy.] In a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily. [Vulgar]

Lousy
Lous´y, a.
1. Infested with lice.
2. Mean; contemptible; as lousy knave. [Vulgar]
"Such lousy learning as this is." Bale.

Lout (lout), v. i. [OE. louten, luten, AS. lutan; akin to Icel. luta, Dan. lude, OHG. luzen to lie hid.] To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow.
"He fair the knight saluted, louting low." Spenser.

Lout, n. [Formerly also written lowt.] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. Sir P. Sidney.

Lout, v. t. To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.] Shak.

Loutish
Lout´ish, a. Clownish; rude; awkward. "Loutish clown." Sir P. Sidney. — Lout´ish•ly, adv. — Lout´ish•ness, n.

Loutou
Lou•tou´, n. [Native names.] (Zoöl.) A crested black monkey ( Semnopithecus maurus) of Java. { Lou´ver, Lou´vre }, n. [OE. lover, OF. lover, lovier; or l’ouvert the opening, fr. overt, ouvert, p. p. of ovrir, ouvrir, to open, F. ouvrir. Cf. Overt.] (Arch.) A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a). [Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer.] Louverboards or boarding, the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc. — Louver work, slatted work.

Lovage
Lov´age, n. [F. livèche, fr. L. levisticum, ligusticum, a plant indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian, Liguria a country of Cisalpine Gaul.] (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant ( Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.

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; preëminent 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. "Trust me, love." 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. 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 (Zoöl.), 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 agapae 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 fœtida, 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.] "Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again." Holinshed. — The god of love, or Love god, Cupid. — To make love to, to express affection for; to woo. "If you will marry, make your loves to me." Shak. — To play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes. "A game at piquet for love." Lamb.
Syn. — Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight.

Love (luv), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Loved (luvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Loving.] [AS. lufian. rad.124. 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.

Love, v. i. To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

Loveable
Love´a•ble, a. See Lovable.

Loveful
Love´ful, a. Full of love. [Obs.] Sylvester.

Loveless
Love´less, a.
1. Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness. Milton. Shelton.
2. Not attracting love; unattractive.
"These are ill-favored to see to; and yet, as loveless as they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues." Holland.

Lovelily
Love´li•ly, adv. [From Lovely.] In manner to excite love; amiably. [R.] Otway.

Lovelorn
Love´lorn, a. Forsaken by one’s love.
"The lovelorn nightingale." Milton.