link lak (2), *lick, 8. [A corruption of lint, as in lintstock or linstock (q. v.). A torch made of tow and pitch, or of combustible splinters, such as of pitch-pine. "Nymphidius supposing the soldiers had called him, went thither himselfe without torches and linckes."Savile: Tacitus; Hist., p. 10. link, v. t. & i. [LINK (1), 8.] A. Transitive: 2536 were founded on the number of pistils; hence the 1. To connect together, as with a link or chain; lieved their proper affinities. to couple. "With linked thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this gulph." Milton: P. L., i. 328. 2. To join together or unite in concord, confed eracy, or contract. "If with a lady of so high resolve, As is fair Margaret, he be link'd in love." Lin-næ-ite, s. [Named after Linnæus by Haidinger; suff. -ite (Min.); Ger. Linneit.] Min.: An isometric mineral, occurring in two varieties: (1) cupriferous, to which Haidinger's name was originally given; and (2) a nickeliferous variety. Cleavage, cubic. Found in octahedrons and also massive. Hardness, 5'5; specific gravity, 48-5; luster, metallic; color, steel-gray; streak, blackish-gray; fracture, uneven. Composition: 3. To connect as concomitant or mutually de- Variable, but represented by the formula 2COS+ pendent. CoS2, which equals sulphur 420, cobalt 580. The "God has linkt our hopes and our duties together."cobalt is frequently partly replaced by nickel or Decay of Piety. copper. Found in gneiss at Bastnaes, Sweden, and at Siegen, Prussia. 4. To connect in a regular series of consequences. B. Intrans.: To be joined or united; to be connected. "I were loth To link with him that were not lawful chosen." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. III., iii. 3. link-boy, link-man, s. [Eng. link (2), s., aud boy, or man. A boy or man who carries a link or torch to light foot passengers at night or in a fog. "Though thou art tempted by the linkman's call, Yet trust him not along the lonely wall." Gay: Trivia, iii. 139. links, s. pl. [A. S. hlinc=a ridge, a balk of land left unplowed; a linch.] Flat, sandy ground on the sea-shore, covered with bent, furze, &c., and frequently used for the game of golf. "Upon the links, or downs close to them, were seen four or five huts inhabited by fishers."-Scott: Antiquary, ch. xi. lin-næ-a, s. [Named by Dr. J. Gronovius after Linnæus, with the sanction of the great botanist himself, who preferred having his name attached not to a showy plant, but to this lowly Northern flower.] Bot.: A genus of Caprifoliaceae, tribe Loniceres. The calyx limb is five-cleft; the corolla campanulate, five-cleft, with equal segments; the stamens four, didynamous; the fruit a dry, three-celled berry, one cell only having a perfect seed. Only known species, Linnæa borealis. It is a small plant, with twisting, filiform-branched stems; opposite, broadly-ovate, stalked leaves; axillary peduncles of two, three, or four flowers, rarely fruit ing. It is a Northern plant, found wild in Europe, Asia, and North America. lin -nět (1), *lyne, s. [Fr. linotte a linnet, from lin, Lat. linum flax, so called from its feeding on the seed of flax and hemp; Ger. leinfinke=a flax finch.] [LINTWHITE.] Ornithology: 1. Sing.: Fringilla cannabina (Linn.), the Linota cannabina of more recent ornithologists, a very common and well-known song-bird, frequenting all Europe south of 64, and in Asia extending Turkestan It is a winter visitor to Egypt and Abyssinia, and is found in great numbers in Barbary, the Canaries, and Madeira. It frequents open places, preferring commons and fields of furze. In autumn and winter the plumage is brown; in the breeding season the breast and head of both sexes becomes a crimson-red, varying only in degree. The (later) generic and specific names have reference to the fondness of the bird for the seeds of flax and hemp. It is popularly known, according to its sex and the season of the year, as the Red, Gray, or Brown Linnet. linnet-hole, s. lint canescens, the Mealy Redpole; L. linaria, the Printing: A machine, operated by finger-keys, which automatically produces and assembles, ready for the press or stereotyping table, type metal bars, each bearing, properly justified, the type characters to print an entire line. *li-nous, a. [Eng.lin(e) (1), s.; -ous.] Pertain ing to or in a line. lin-sang, s. [Javanese.] Zool. A genus of Viverride. Linsang gracilis is found in Java. lin-seed, *lynne-seed, *lin-eed, s. [Mod. Eng. lin=flax, and Eng. seed. tissimum). It is grown in various countries, but Chem.: The seed of the flax-plant (Linum usitachiefly in the North of Europe. Its composition varies considerably, but the following is the average proportion in which the principal constituents are present: Albuminous substances, 30 per cent.; fat and oil, 32 per cent.; mineral matter, 4 per cent.; water, 10 per cent. It also contains a large quan tity of mucilage in the outer layers of the cells of the epidermis, which swells up when the seed is macerated in water. One part of linseed in sixteen parts boiling water yields a mucilage thick enough to be drawn into threads. The chief ash constituents are lime, potash, and iron, partly as phosphates and partly united in the ash with carbonic acid. The residue obtained after expressing the fixed oil forms the principal oil-cake of commerce. linseed-cake, s. The caked or solid mass left after the oil has been pressed out of flax-seed. It is largely used as food for cattle. Also called OILCAKE (q. v.). linseed-meal, s. Pulverized or ground linseed, used for poultices. linseed-mill, s. A mill for grinding flax-seed for oil. linseed-oil, s. Chem.: The fixed oil expressed from linseed. Linseed-oil consists of the glycerides of linoleic, pal"Perchance the patron of his vow mitic, and stearic acids, about nine-tenths of the Some artless linnet sings." Shenstone: Valentine's Day. whole being the glyceride of linoleic acid. It may be taken as the type of the class known as dry2. Pl.: The genus Linota (q. v.). ing oils, from their property of drying up into a lin'-nět (2), s. [A corrupt. of Fr. lunette.] (See transparent, tough, resinous mass when exposed to the compound.) the air. When the oil is boiled for some time, till it loses about one-sixth of its weight, it becomes thicker, tenacious, and viscid, and dries up, still more readily than in the fresh state, into a turpen tine-like mass, scarcely soluble in oils. It then forms the basis of printers' and painters' varnishes. The freshly pressed oil has a pale yellow color, and is without disagreeable taste; but the commercial oil has often a sharp. penetrating smell and taste. solid at 20° to 27. Linseed-oil, mixed with chloride It has a specific gravity of 9335 at 15, and becomes of sulphur, forms caoutchouc-like products. A drop of strong sulphuric acid forms a yellow-brown spot, quickly changing to black, with ropy con sistence. Linseed-oil yields, with alkalies, a very soft soap, and is acted on with facility by oxidizing agents generally. lin-o-le-ic, a. [Lat., &c., lin(um) (q. v.), and Eng. oleic.] (See the compound.) linoleic-acid, s. and poppy oils. It is obtained by saponifying the lin-o'-lě-um, s. [Lat. linum=flax, and oleum= oil.] 1. A preparation of linseed-oil, rendered solid by admixture with chloride of sulphur. It is rolled into sheets, and used as a substitute for india-rubber or gutta-percha. Vulcanized, it is carved into cork and pressed upon canvas, it forms a kind of moldings and polished; and, mixed with brown floor-cloth. Dissolved, it is used as a varnish for water-proof fabrics, or as a paint for iron or wood, ships' bottoms, &c. 2. The floor-cloth so prepared. li-no-syr-is (yr as ïr), s. [Latin linum; Greek linon, and Lat. syrus-a broom, a besom.] [LINUM.] Bot. Goldylocks; a genus of Composites, suborder Solidaginer. The achenes are compressed and silky, the pappus in a double row pilose, the involucre of one row of scales, surrounded by several long ones, or imbricated; the florets all perfect, deeply five-cleft, yellow. Ten species known from Europe and the West of Asia. li-no-ta, s. [Mod. Lat., from Fr. linot=a linnet (q. v.).] lin-şe-ite, s. [LINDSAYITE.] lin'-şey, s. [Mid. Eng. lin=linen; suff. -sey.] A country-made fabric of linen warp and worsted filling, undressed; linsey-woolsey. linsey-woolsey, a. & s. A. As adjective: 1. Lit.: Made of linen and wool mixed. 2. Fig. Made up of different materials; neither one thing nor the other; vile, mean. B. As substantive: 1. Lit.: A fabric made of linen and wool mixed; linsey. *lin-stock, *lint-stock, s. [Dut. lontstok, from lont a match, stok=a stick; cogn. with Dan. ¡untestok, from lunte = a match, stok=a stick; Sw. luntstake, from lunta a match; stake =a stick.] A gunner's forked staff to hold a match of lint dipped in saltpeter. Bot. The sexual system of botany introduced by Linnaeus, which, though unequaled for the aid it affords in finding the name of a flower, yet labors under the fatal defect that it is purely artificial. Previous to his time, Jung, rector of the gymnasium at Hamburgh, who died in 1657, had introduced the Latin botanical nomenclature. Tournefort, who died in 1708, had been the first to classify plants into strictly defined genera. It remained for Linnæus to arrange them, and define the several genera and species scientifically. He divided the vegetable kingdom into twenty-four classes. The first eleven were founded on the number of stamens. They were: Monandria, Diandria, Triandria, Tetrandria, Pentandria, Hexandria, Heptandria, Octandria, Enneandria, Decandria, and Dodecandria; the twelfth and thirteenth, Icosandria and Polyandria, on their number and insertion; the fourteenth and fifteenth, Didynamia and Tetradynamia, on their number and relative lengths; the sixteenth to the eighteenth, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, and Polyadelphia, on the way in which they are combined; the nineteenth Syngenesia, on the aggregation of the flowers; the twentieth, Gynandria, on the abnormal situation of the stamens; the twenty-first to the twenty-third, Monoecia, Diccia, and Polygamia, on the existence, more or less, of unisexual flowers; and the twenty-fourth, Cryptogamia, grouping to gether all plants of concealed nuptials, in other words, all flowerless plants. As a rule, the orders fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll, father; wē, wět, here, camel, her, thêre; pine, pit, sïre, sir, marîne; gỗ, põt, Ornith. Linnets. A term proposed by Prince Charles Bonaparte, in his Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America. By this classification, the Linnets are admitted to generic distinction among the finches. The bill is straight, conical, and pointed; the nostrils, basal, lateral, concealed by short feathers; wings long, somewhat pointed; the first, second, and third feathers nearly equal in length; the tarsi short; the lateral toes of equal length. Third toe and claw are long, as is that in the middle; claws slender, acute, and curved; tail forked. There are four British species: Linota cannabina, the Common Linnet; L. *lint-scraper, s. A young surgeon. lin-tel, *lyn-tel, *lin-tell, s. [O. Fr. lintel; Fr. linteau, from Low Lat. lintellus, from limitellus, dimin. of limes (genit. limitis) = a border.] Arch.: A piece of timber or stone laid horizontally over a doorway or window. "Take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two sideposts."-Exodus xii. 22. lin'-ton-ite, s. [Named after Miss L. A. Linton, who analyzed it; suff. -ite (Min.).] Min. A variety of Thomsonite (q. v.), having a fine granular structure and green color. It occurs as pebbles on the shores of Lake Superior. They are derived from the amygdaloidal diabase of Grand Marais. lint-seēd, s. [LINSEED.] lint-white, s. [A. S. linetwige.] A linnet. "Oh, sweet are Coila's haughs an' woods, When lintwhites chant among the buds." Burns: To William Simpson. lint-white, a. [Eng. lint, and white.] Flaxen; as white as lint. "Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks."-Burns. li-num, s. [Latin, from Greek linon=anything made of flax or the flax plant.] Bot. The typical genus of the order Linace (q.v.). It consists of herbs or small shrubs with alternate or rarely opposite entire leaves, the stipules wanting or glandular. Flowers in dichotomous panicled racemose or fascicled cymes: sepals five, persistent; petals five; stamens five; styles five: seeds ovate, compressed. Known species eighty. Three are British: Linum catharticum, L. perenne, and L. angustifolium. Flax, L. usitatissimum, is an escape in England. [FLAX.] The leaves of L. catharticum are purgative. L. selaginoides is considered in Peru as bitter and aperient. L. strictum, a small herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, wild in the Punjaub and Thibet, is cultivated in Afghanistan for its oil, which does not differ essentially from linseed oil. *lin -й, a. [Eng. lin(e) (1), s.; -y.] Full of lines. "Their eyes long and liny."-Hardy: Far from the Mad ding Crowd, ch. viii. li-on, *le-on, s. [O. Fr. leon, from Lat. leonem, accus. of leo a lion, from Gr. leon; Fr. lion; Sp. leom; Ital. leone; Ger. lowe; O. H. Ger. leo, lewo; Russ. lev; Lith. lēvas, lavas; Dut. leeuw.] 1. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit.: In the same sense as II. 3. 2. Fig.: An object of interest and curiosity; one who or that which excites curiosity. "He had suddenly risen to literary fame, and become one of the lions of the day."-Irving: Goldsmith, ch. xviii II. Technically: 1. Astron.: The constellation Leo (q. v.). 2. Her.: A frequent change in coat-armor in various attitudes, as passant, gardant, rampant, salient, couchant, &c. 2537 "maneless" lion, but a specimen in the London Zoological Gardens, "was as thoroughly maned as any African individual. In color lions vary from a deep chestnut-brown to gray, so silvery as to have given rise to the belief that a race of white lions exists in South Africa. The color of the mane varies equally. In the Nubian lion it is generally pale fulvous, and in Cape lions black, but all intermediate shades are found both in Nubia and the Cape country. (Sclater.) 4. Paleont.: Prof. Dawkins enumerated among the Mid Pleistocene, and again among Late Pleistocene Mammalia of Great Britain Felis leo. A Felis spelaa was once recognized; it is now deemed not specifically distinct from the common lion. In the Early Pleistocene, Prof. Dawkins has the Sabertoothed Lion, sometimes called the Sabertoothed Tiger. [MACHAIRODUS.] The Lesser Lion: lip 11-on-ěss, s. [Fr. lionnesse.] 1. The female of the lion kind; a she-lion. "The gaunt lioness, with hunger bold, Springs from the mountains tow'rd the guarded told." Pope: Homer's Iliau, x. 213. *2. A remarkable woman. "All the lions and lionesses."-Scott: St. Ronan's Well, ch. vii. li-on-ět, s. [Eng. lion; dimin. suff. -et.] The same as LIONEL. (Southey, in Annandale.) 11-on-işm, s. [Eng. lion; -ism.] The attracting of attention as a lion or object of interest and curiosity; the pursuit of curiosities. [LION, I. 2.] "The honors and humors of lionism."-Chorley: Memoirs of Mrs. Hemans, ii. 25. li-on-ite, s. [Named after the Mountain Lion mine; suff. ite (Min.).]. Astron. The constellation Leo minor (q. v.). lion-ant, s. Min.: A variety of Native Tellurium (q. v.), occurEntom.: The same as ANT-LION. [MYRMELEON.] ring in thin plates. Hardness, 3; specific gravity, 4005; color, dark gray. Appears homogeneous, but lion-dog, s. found to contain 36 per cent. of silica, and 6 per cent. of alumina or sesquioxide of iron. Zool. According to Vero Shaw (Book of the Dog, p. 191) Canis leoninus, "a degenerate scion of which exists in Malta." Youatt (p. 50) thinks it may be a cross between the Maltese and the hairless Turkish dog. Its hair on the head, neck, and forelegs is very long. flion-heart, s. One who is lion-hearted. lion-like, a. Strong and brave as a lion. Zool. A common name for Basilicus americanus or mitratus. [BASILISCUS.] *lion-mettled, a. Having the disposition of a lion. *lion-sick, a. Sick of a proud heart. flion-tiger, 8. Zool.: A real or supposed hybrid between the lion and the tiger. "Similar streaks were observed on the fur of the liontiger cubs."-Wood: Illus. Nat. Hist., i. 163. lion-toothed, a. Having teeth like those of a lion. lion's-ear, s. Bot.: (1) Leonotis; (2) Espeletia. lion's-foot, s. Botany: li-on-ize, *li'-dn-îşe, v. t. & i. [Eng. lion; -ize.) A. Transitive: 1. To visit as the lions or curiosities of a place. "We came on to Oxford, lionized it, and out to Cuddesdon."-Wilberforce: Life, ii. 12. 2. To treat as a lion or object of interest or curiosity. 3. To show the lions or curiosities of a place to. (Disraeli: Lothair, ch. xxiv.) B. Intrans. To visit the lions or objects of interest or curiosity in a place. "Rushing off from the splendor and lionising of a London season."-Literary World, Feb. 3, 1882. li-on-like, a. In the manner of a lion. *li ́-on-lỹ, a. [English lion; -ly.] Like a lion; fierce. "The church coveting to ride upon the lionly form of jurisdiction, makes a transformation of herself into an ass."-Milton: Reason of Church Govt., ii. *li'-on-ship, s. [Eng. lion ship.] The condition, state, or personality of a lion; a mode of address to a lion. "Strip but this visor off, and sure I am You'll find his lionship a very lamb." Goldsmith: Epilogue to The Sisters. 11-o-the -I-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. liothe(um); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ido.] Entomology: A family of Mallophaga. Antennae clubbed, and composed of four joints; maxillary palpi present. The Liotheida are parasites resem foot is L. vulgare, wild in Austria. 2. Alchemilla vulgaris. lion's-leaf, 8. A popular name for the Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus. [ANTIRRHINUM.] Bot.: Leontice leontopetalon. [LEONTICE.] lion's-mouth, s. Bot.: Aporum leonis, wild at Singapore. lion's-paw, s. Bot.: Alchemilla vulgaris. lion's-provider, subst. A popular but incorrect name for the jackal, and hence applied to any one who acts as a tool, sycophant, or foil to another. lion's-share, s. The greater or a disproportionate share, taken by one of the parties to a contract, and maintained by the right of might. The expression is taken from the fable of Esop in which the lion, fox, &c., are hunting together, and is applied to cases in which when two or more parties taken by the strongest. are acting together the greatest share or profit is lion's-tail, s. Botany: 1. The labiate genus Leonotis, various species of which grow in the East Indies, &c. 2. (Spec.): Leonotis leonurus, from the Cape of Good Hope. The resemblance to a lion's tail is in the inflorescence. 3. Zool.: Felis leo (formerly elevated into a distinct genus with a single species, Leo nobilis), one of the largest and the most important of the living carnivora. Its range in historical time is very wide. The Hebrew Scriptures abound with reference to it, and in the time of Darius, lions were employed to execute judicial sentences (Dan. vi. 16-24). It is mentioned by Homer (Il. xviii. 161); Herodotus mentions lions as found in Africa (iv. 191), and in Europe (vii. 126), and Theocritus (Id. x. 30); by Virgil (Ecl. ii. 65), by Ovid (Her. x. 85), by Martial in almost every book, and by Catullus in not the least dainty of his songs (Carm. Ixiii.). It played an important part in the sanguinary games of the Roman amphitheater, and the cry "Christianos ad leones had a terrible import for the early church. Its geographical range is now confined to Africa and the southwest of Asia, extending eastward as far as Gujerat. It existed in Europe down to historic times, and formerly ranged over Asia as far as the plains of Upper India. Though now driven from the Cape, the shores of the Mediterranean, and the populous parts of Egypt, it must have been at no distant date common all over Africa, for Murray says, "I am informed by Dr. Kirk that there is no nation or tribe which has not a name for the lion." It varies somewhat in size; but for an adult African ruale, from snout to tip of tail, ten feet, tail three feet, height at shoulder, three feet six inches, are average measurements. The Gujerat variety is somewhat smaller. It is usually known as the bới, by; pout, Jowl; cat, gell, chorus, lion's-tooth, s. Bot.: Leontodon. li-onçed, lē -ônçed, adj. [LION.] Her. Adorned with lions' heads, as a cross the ends of which terminate in lions' heads. li-on-çĕlle, s. [Fr.] Her.: A small lion; specific., one of several borne in the same coat of arms. Lionced. li-o-the-ăm, s. [Gr. leios smooth, and theos= a god. (Agassiz.)] Entom. The typical genus of Liotheide. Parasitic on birds. *lioun, s. [LION.] lip, *lippe, s. [A. S. lippa, lippe; cogn. with Dut lip; Dan. läbe; Sw. läpp; Ger. lippe, lefze; O. H. Ger. lefs, leffur; Lat. labrum, labium: Ir. lab; Gael. liob; Pers. lab.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. In the same sense as II. 1. "The honey-suckles would he often strip, And lay their sweetnesse on her sweeter lip." Browne: Britannia's Pastorals, bk. ii., § 4. 2. The border or edge of anything; as, the lip of a vessel, a projecting flange. 3. The mouth, as distinguished from the heart. "Hypocrisy, formality in prayer, And the dull service of the lip were there." 4. Speech, language. II. Technically: 1 Anat. (pl.): Two fleshy folds formed externally by common integument, and internally by mucous membrane, having between them the muscles of the lips, some fat, and the labial glands. They are attached to the upper and lower jaw, and connected to the gum in the mesial line by a fold of mucous membrane, the upper and larger being called the frænum labii superioris, the other the frænum labii inferioris. 2. Botany: (1) Sing.): The lower petal of any irregular flower. (2) (Pl.): The upper and lower projecting partsof a perforated, monopetalous corolla. 3. Zool. The portions of a univalve shell on the two sides of the aperture. The right side is formed by the outer lip (labrum), and the left one by the 11-on-ěl, s. [English lion; dimin. suff. -el.] A inner or columellar lip (labium), or by the body small or young lion. lip-bit 4 Music: In organ-pipes, the edge against which the sheet of air impinges. The vibration acquired thereby is communicated to the column of air in the pipe, and produces a musical note. 5. Vehicles: A cuttoo plate; a projecting part of the bolster. 6. Waterwheel: A rim closing the joint between the barrel and curb of a turbine. To make a lip: To drop the lip in sullenness or contempt; to mock; to make a grimace. "I will make a lip at the physician." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, ii. 1. lip-bit, s. A boring-tool adapted to be used in a brace, and having a cutting lip projecting beyond the end of the barrel. lip-born, a. Proceeding only from the lips; not hearty, not genuine. lip-comfort, s. Consolatory words. lip-comforter, s. One who consoles with words. lip-devotion, s. Prayers uttered by the lips, but not proceeding from the heart. "Lip-devotion will not serve the turn; it undervalues the very things it prays for."-South: Sermons, vol. vi., ser. 10. *lip-good, a. Good in profession only, not in practice; hypocritical. "When his grace is merely but lip-good." Ben Jonson: Sejanus, i. lip-head bolt, s. A bolt with a head projecting sideways. lip-laborious, a. Uttering words without sentiment; hypocritical. lip-labor, s. Action of the lips without concurrence of the heart; words without sentiment; hypocrisy. "Being but a little lip-labor."-Holinshed: Edw. I. (an. 1279). lip-language, s. Oral or articulate language, as distinguished from that of signs or the fingers. lip-reading, s. (See extract.) "It has long been known that individuals among the Deaf and Dumb have acquired the power of lip-reading; that is, of so interpreting the visible movements of the mouth and lips of a speaker, as to apprehend the words he utters, no less accurately than if they were heard."Carpenter: Mental Physiology (1876), 185a. *lip-reward, s. Empty promises. lip-salve, s. 1. Lit.: A salve or ointment for the lips. *2. Fig.: Flattering speech. 1. To touch as with the lips; to kiss. "Round him ladies thronged in warm pursuit Fingered and tipped and proffered the strange store." D. G. Rossetti: Love's Baubles. †2. To utter with the lips; to speak. "When I heard my name most fondly lipped." Keats: Endymion, bk. i. B. Intransitive: Music: To adjust the lips so as to produce the proper tone of wind-instruments played by the mouth. 11-pæ-mi-a, s. [Greek lipa=fat, and haima= blood.] Pathol.: Fatty matter in the blood. Li-pǎng, s. [Native name.] A tribe of North American Indians of Apache stock living in Northern Mexico. 11-pär-I-a, 8. [Apparently not from Gr. liparia perseverance; but from liparos=fatty, oily, shining with oil; unctuous; from the shining surface of the leaves.] Bot.: The typical genus of the tribe Lipariem. The tender stalks and leaves of Lippia nodiflora, wild in the Punjaub, is prescribed in infusion to children suffering from indigestion, and to women after delivery. 2538 11-păr -1-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lipar(is); Latin fem. pl. adj. suff.ide.] 1. Bot.: A family of Orchids, tribe Malaxes. 2. Entom.: A family of Moths, group Bombycina. Antennæ longer than the thorax, pectinated in the male; abdomen in the female often very thick; larva and pupa hairy. 11-păr-i-e-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lipari(a) (q. v.); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ec.] Bot.: A sub-tribe of Papilionaceous flowers, tribe Loter. lip-ar-is, s. [Probably from liparos=unctuous.] 1. Bot. The typical genus of the family Liparidæ (q. v.). The sepals and petals are spreading, with linear segments, the lip superior or inferior, the column elongated, the pollen masses four, waxy, with evanescent glands. Known species thirty-three. to the soft surface of the leaves in some species. The genus is named with allusion, Loudon thinks, 2. Entom.: The typical genus of the family Liparidæ (q. v.). Liparis dispur is the Gipsy-moth. 3. Ichthy. A genus of Discoboli. Liparis vulgaris is the Unctuous Lumpsucker, or Sea-snail. lip-ar-ite, s. [Gr. liparos=shining.] Min.: The same as FLUORITE (q. v.). 11-păr -o-çēle, s. [Gr. liparos fat, and kēlē=a tumor.] Med.: A tumor consisting wholly or in great part of fat. lip-ic, a. [Gr. lipos-fat, lard, tallow; vegetable oil; Eng. suff. -ic.] (See the compound.) lipic-acid, 8. Chem.: CHSO4(?). Supposed at one time to be a distinct acid of the oxalic series, but now believed to be an impure succinic acid obtained by the action of nitric acid upon oleic or stearic acids. lip-less, a. [Eng. lip; -less.] Having no lips. lip-lět, s. [English lip; dimin. suff. -let.] A little lip. lip-o-grăm, s. [Greek leipo to leave, and gramma a letter; grapho to write.] A writing in which a particular letter is omitted. Thus in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus, there is no A in the first book, no B in the second book, and so on. lip-o-gram-măt-Ic, a. [Fr. lipogrammatique, from Gr. Lipogrammatos=wanting a letter.] [LipoGRAM. Of or pertaining to lipograms; of the nature of a lipogram. *lip-ô-grăm ́-ma-tişm, s. [Gr. leipo-to leave; ism.] The art or act of writing lipograms. gramma (genit.grammatos) = a letter, and Eng. suff. lip-o-grăm-ma-tist, s. [Fr. lipogrammatiste.] A writer of lipograins. lip'-ô-ma, s. [Gr. lipos=fat.] liquescent lip'-ping, pr. par. & s. [LIP, v.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As substantive: Music: The adjusting the lips so as to produce the proper tone of wind-instruments played by the mouth. *lip -pit, a. [LIPPED.] lip'-pl-tüde, s. [Fr., from Lat. lippitudo, from lippus-blear-eyed.] The quality or state of being blear-eyed; blearedness of eyes. *lip -py, a. [Eng. lip; y.] Having large lips. lip-1, s. (Gr. lipos=fat; -yl (Chem.).] Chem.: C3H4. The hypothetical radicle of glycerine. 11-qua-ble, a. [Lat. liquabilis, from liquo=to melt; Ital. liquabile.] Capable of being liquated or melted. *li'-quate, v. i. & t. [Lat. liquatus, pa. par. of liquo to melt; Ital. liquare.] *A. Intrans.: To melt, to liquefy; to become dissolved. B. Trans. To melt, to liquefy; specif., in metallurgy, to separate one metal from another less fusible by exposing the mass to a heat sufficiently great to melt the more easily fused metal, and cause it to run off. li-qua-tion, 8. [Lat. liquatio, from liquatus, pa. par. of liquo; Fr. liquation; Sp. licuacion; Ital. liquazione.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of liquefying or melting; the state of being liquefied or melted. 2. Capacity of being melted. "The common opinion hath been, that crystal is nothing but ice and snow concreted, and, by duration of time, congealed beyond liquation."-Browne: Vulgar Errors. II. Metall. The act or operation of separating one metal from another less fusible by exposing the alloy to a heat sufficiently great to cause the more fusible metal to melt and run off. Thus silver is separated from copper by melting the alloy with the addition of lead, and cooling the triple alloy suddenly in the form of cakes. These cakes are heated to such a degree on an inclined hearth as to cause the alloy of lead and silver to run off, and allow the copper to remain. A liquation-hearth, liquation-furnace, s. hearth or furnace in which metals are separated by exposure to a heat which melts one or more of them, but leaves the other or others unmelted. 11-que-fā'-ci-ant (cas sh), s. [Lat. liquefaciens, pr. par. of liquefacio to make liquid; liquidus= liquid, and facio=to make.], 1. Ord. Lang. That which liquefies or tends to liquefy other things. 2. Med.: An agent which augments the secretions and promotes the liquefying processes of the animal 11-que-făc-tion, subst. [Lat. liquefactio, from liquefactus, pa. par. of liquefacio to liquefy (q. v.); Fr. liquefaction; Ital. liquefazione; Sp. leciafaccion. which, when once extirpated, never returns. faint. *li-po-type, s. [Gr. leipō to leave, and Eng. type (q. v.). (See extract.) "Mr. Sclater on lipotypes, a new term which he considered convenient in order to designate types of life, the absence of which is characteristic of a particular district or region."-Athenæum, March 1, 1882. lipped, a. [Eng. lip, s.; -ed.] 1. Ord. Lang. Having lips; having an edge or border resembling a lip.. 2. Bot. Having a distinct lip or labellum, as the genus Roscoea. Lipped and harled: A term applied to a wall built of stones without mortar, but which has the joints afterward filled with mortar, and the whole plastered over with rough-cast or harling. lip'-pen, v. i. [Cf. Goth. laubjan=to trust; Ger. glauben.] To depend on, to trust to, to place confidence in, to rely upon. 1. The act or operation of liquefying, melting, or dissolving; the operation of converting a solid into a liquid by the agency of heat or caloric. 2. The state of being liquefied, melted, or dissolved. li-que-fi-a-ble, a. [Eng. liquefy: -able] That may or can be liquefied, melted, or dissolved"; capable of liquefaction. 11-que-fied, pa. par. or a. [LIQUEFY.] 11-que-fi er, s. [Eng. liquefy; er.] One who or that which liquefies, melts, or dissolves. 11-que-fy, *11-qui-fy, v. t. & i. [Fr. liquéfier, from Lat. liquefacio to make liquid, to dissolve: liquefio to become liquid, to be dissolved: liquidus liquid, and facio (pass. fio)=to make.] A. Trans.: To melt, to dissolve; to convert from a solid form into that of a liquid, by the agency of heat. "Mineral bowels, liquified by fire, O'erwhelm the fields, by Nature left unblessed." B. Intrans.: To become liquefied; to melt, to dis lip-per, s. [Eng. lip; -er.] Short waves, rough solve, to become liquid. water. raised a troublesome lipper on the water, he sculled down lip'-pl-a, subst. [Named after Augustus Lippi, lip'-piě, lip-py, subst. [A. S. leap a bucket.] [LEAP,8.] The fourth part of a peck. (Scotch.) "The blood of St. Januarius liquefied at the approach of the saint's head."-Addison: On Italy. *11-ques'-çen-çỹ, s. [Eng. liquescent; -cy.] The quality or state of being liquescent; aptness to melt. *11-ques-çent, adj. [Lat. liquescens, pr. par. of liquid.] Melting; becoming liquid; liquefying, liquesco = to become liquid; from liqueo = to be liquid. "A liquescent And nebulous luster was born." fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll, father; we, wět, here, camel, her, thêre; pine, pit, sïre, sir, 2. Wet. "Ye now with liquid arms embrace the wandering shore." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 6. 3. Flowing smoothly and easily; soft; free from harshness or roughness. "Liquid, low, silvery, streamed the tones beneath the enchanted bow."-Lytton: Zanoni, bk. i., ch. ii. 4. Dissolved, so as not to be obtainable by law. +II. Gram.: Smooth, easy; pronounced easily, and with a slight contact of the organs of articulation; as, a liquid letter. B. As substantive: Phar. The resinous drug obtained from Liquidambar orientale and other species of the genus. It is imported into Bombay from Asia Minor, and thence again exported to China. The Mohammedans regard it as tonic, resolvent, suppurative, and astringent. It is applied in swellings, in orchitis, &c. Mixed with linseed oil, it has been successfully used in itch. (Prof. Watt, in Calcutta Exhib. Report) Formerly liquid storax was supposed to come from the Dammar pinc. *11'-quid-a-ble, a [Eng. liquid; -able.] Capable of being liquidated. liquid-ăm-băr, 11-quid-ăm-ber, s. [English liquid, and ambar, a corruption of amber (q. v.).] 1. Botany: (1) (Sing.): The typical and only genus of the order Altingiace (q. v.). Several species of Liquidambar yield a fragrant resin-like storax. Liquidambar orientale grows in the southwest part of Asia Minor, and in Cyprus. It is a handsome tree like a plane, forty feet high. That of this country is L. styraciflua, and contains much benzoic acid. [STORAX.] (2) (Pl.): The name given by Lindley to the order Altingiaceæ (q. v.). 2. Palarobot.: According to M. Gaudin and the Marquis Strozzi, Liquidambar europæum has been found in the Older Pliocene beds at Montajone in Tuscany. 3. Phar.: The drug obtained from the Liquidambar trees. [LIQUID STORAX.] 11-qui-date, v. t. & i. [Low Lat. liquidatus, pa. par. of liquido to clarify, to make clear; liquidus clear, liquid.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To make liquid; to liquefy. 2. To clear from obscurity; to make clear or plain. Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system."-Hamilton, in Annandale. 3. To reduce to precision; to ascertain the exact amount of. "Their demands were liquidated, and should be provided for in the next tax-bill."-Ramsay, in Annandale. 4. To pay off, to clear off, as a debt. tance. 5. To lessen; to diminish in gravity or impor"A senseless jumble, soon liquidated by a more egregious act of folly."-Walpole: Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i., ch. iii. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, 2539 *6. To make less harsh or grating; as, to liquidate a sound. II. Comm.: To wind up, as a firm or company, by arranging with its debtors and creditors, and apportioning the loss or profit of each partner or shareholder. B. Intrans.: To wind up, as a firm or company, by arrangement with the debtors and creditors; to go into liquidation. ll-qui-dă-těd, pa. par. & a. [LIQUIDATE.] liquidated damages, s. pl. Law: A certain fixed and ascertained sum, in contradistinction to a penalty, which is both uncertain and unascertained. (Wharton.) 11-qui-da-tion, s. [Fr.] [LIQUIDATE.] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of liquidating, settling, or paying off; as, the liquidation of a debt; the state of being liquidated or paid off. 2. Comm.: The act of winding up, as a firm or company, by arrangement with the several debtors and creditors, and an apportionment of the profit or loss of each partner or shareholder. 11-qui-da-tor, s. [Eng. liquidat(e); -or.] 1. Ord. Lang. One who liquidates, settles, or pays off, as a debt. 2. Comm.: An official appointed to conduct the liquidation or winding up of a firm or company; to bring or defend actions, and generally to do all necessary business on its behalf. 11 quid i-ty, s. [Lat. liquiditas, from liquidus liquid, clear; Fr. liquidité; Ital. liquidità. 1. The quality or state of being liquid; that state or condition of a material substance in which the themselves on the least pressure; fluidity. component particles are free to move about among "The spirits, for their liquidity, are more uncapable than the fluid medium ..to persevere in the continued repetition of vocal airs."-Glanvill: Vanity of Dogmatizing, ch. iv. 2. The quality or state of being smooth, flowing, melodious, or agreeable; as, the liquidity of sound, music, &c. 11-quid-ize, v. t. [Eng. liquid; -ize.] To make liquid; to liquefy. 11-quid-lỹ, adv. [Eng. liquid; -ly.] In a liquid flowing manner; smoothly, flowingly." 11-quid něss, s. [English liquid; -ness.] The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity. "Oil of anniseeds, in a cool place, thickened into the consistence of white butter, which, with the least heat, resumed its former liquidness."--Boyle: Works, i. 536. liqeur; Fr. liqueur, from Lat. liquorem, accus. of II-quor (qu as k), *lic-our, *lic-ur, s. [O. Fr. Port, liquor; Ital. liquore.] liquor=moisture, from liqueo to be liquid; Sp. & 1. A liquid or fluid substance; anything liquid, as water, milk, &c. "A liquor well known to the diplomatists of that age was applied to the paper."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xv. 2. Especially applied to alcoholic or spirituous liquids, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, beer, &c. "A fermented liquor, for example, which is called beer makes a considerable part of the common drink of the people in America."-Smith: Wealth of Na tions, bk. v., ch. iii. 3. A term applied to prepared solution, as(1) Dyeing: A dye or mordant in solution, as tinliquor. (2) Liquor of Libavius: Bichloride of tin. (3) Sugar: A solution of sugar, used in claying the loaves. 4. Pharm., &c.: A watery solution, either of inorganic substances or of certain definite active organic principles. They differ, both from plant juices and from extracts. Garrod enumerates thirty-five liquors used by medical practitioners; as, liquor ammonia, liquor ferri perchloridi, &c. In liquor: Intoxicated. liquor amnios, s. Bot.: The fluid matter contained within the nucleus of an ovule, and supposed to nourish the embryo during its growth. liquor-constable, s. An officer appointed under the laws of South Carolina to aid in the enforcement of a statute to prevent the storage and sale of intoxicating liquors. "South Carolina seems to have been on the verge of civil war. The opposition to the Dispensary Law in Dar. lington, which had been very strong from the beginning, culminated last week in a conflict between citizens and liquor-constables, or "whisky spies," as they are called, in which two citizens were killed and several wounded." The Literary Digest (N. Y.), April 14, 1894. liquor-gauge, s. A measuring-rod for determining the depth of the liquid in a cask or tank; a part of the gauger's equipment. çhin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; lish liquor-pump, s. A portable pump for emptying casks, &c. liquor sanguinis, s. [PLASMA.] liquor silicum, s. Liquor of flints, soluble glass. the bung-hole of a cask and then closed, so as to liquor-thief, s. A tube which is let down through withdraw liquid therefrom. It is usually closed at the top by the finger, but sometimes by a plug. A sampling-tube; a velinche. *11-quor (qu as k), v. t. [LIQUOR, 8.] 1. To moisten, to wet, to fill with liquor. "Round as a globe, and liquor'd every chink. Goodly and great he sails behind his link" Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, ii. 461. 2. To grease, as with tallow or oil. Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 117. "And cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored." 11-quor-içe, s. [LICORICE.] li-ra, s. [Lat. libra a pound, whence also Fr. livre. The unit of vaine and of account in Italy. Both the gold and silver lira are identical in weight and fineness with the French franc. [FRANC.] The lira is divided into 100 centesimi. l-rel-la, s. [Lat. a furrow.] the middle. It occurs in the lichens of the genus Botany: A linear shield with a channel along Opegrapha. *1r-Y-còn-făn-cỹ, *lr căm-phăn-sỹ, 8. [Etym. doubtful, but apparently a corruption of lily convallis.] The lily of the valley. lir-1-o-děn -drin, s. [LIRIODENDRONIN.] lir-i-o-den-dron, s. [Gr. leirion=a lily, and dendron a tree.] 1. Bot. A genus of Magnoliace, tribe Magnoliem. Liriodendron tulipifera is the Tulip-tree, Whitewood, Candle-wood, Tulip-bearing Lily tree, Virginian Poplar or Poplar of America. It is a tall tree, with fiddle-shaped leaves, tulip or lily-like flowers with six petals in two rows. The bark has properties like that of Cinchona. 2. Palæobot.: The genus is believed to have been found in the Pliocene of Europe. lir-1-o-dĕn'-dron-in, lir-i-d-děn -drin, subst. [Eng. liriodendron; -in.] Chem.: A neutral, bitter, and partly volatile substance from the tulip-tree. It crystallizes from alcohol in scales or needles, and melts at 83°. *lir-1-pip'-i-on-at-ĕd, a. [LIRIPOOP.] Hooded; wearing a liripoop. "Master Janotus liri pipionated with a graduate's hood." -Urquhart: Rabelais, bk. i., ch. xviii. *lir-1-poôp, *lyr-i-poop.*lyrri-pup, lir-ry-poop, ler-ripippes, *lir-i-píp, s. [O. Fr. liripepion, from Low Lat. liriof Latin cleri ephippium=the pipium, said to be a corruption caparison of a cleric Liripoop. 1. The ancient dress of a clergyman; in early times, probably a hood or tippet; later, a scarf or an appendage to the ancient hood, consisting of long tails or tippets, passing round the neck (From a fifteenth-cenand hanging down to the feet, tury MS. in Strutt.) and often jagged. This ornament was not always confined to the clergy, for Peck, speaking of the extravagance of dress used by the commons in the time of Edward III., says: "Their lerripippes reach to their heels all jagged." (Nares.) 2. Acuteness; smartness or learning fit for a cler gyman; a smart trick. "And where as thou takest the matter so far in snuffe, 1 will teach thee thy lyrripups after another fashion."— Holinshed: Description of Ireland, ch. vi. 3. A silly person. lir-o-cone, s. [LIROCONITE.] and konia=powder: Ger. lirokon, lirokonit.] 11-roc-o-nite, lir-o-cône, s. [Gr. leiros pale, Min.: A monoclinic mineral, found only in crystals or (very rarely) granular. Hardness, 2-2.5; specific gravity, 2-882-2-985; luster, vitreous; color, sky-blue and verdigris-green; streak, the same; fracture, imperfectly conchoidal; composition, a hydrated phospho-arsenate of copper and alumina Found formerly in various mines in Cornwall. Liş-bon, s. [See def.] 1. A kind of white wine, so called from being shipped from Lisbon. It is produced in the prov ince of Estremadura. *2. A kind of soft sugar. lish, leesh, leish, a. [Etym. doubtful.] Stout, active. (Provincial.) sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. lisk *lisk, *lesk, *leske, s. [Dan. lyske.] The groin the flank. lis-keard -ite (ea as a), s. [Named by Maskelyne after Liskeard, where found; suff. -ite (Min.).] Min.: A mineral occurring in thin, fibrous crusts or as minute capillary crystals. Color, white, sometimes with a greenish tint. Composition: Sesquioxide of iron, 7640; alumina, 28-229; arsenic acid, 26.962; sulphuric acid, 1'111; oxide of copper, 1'027; lime, 0719; water, 34'053. Found, associated with scorodite (q. v.), at the Marke Valley mine, near Liskeard, Cornwall. Lisle (s silent), s. [See def.] Lisle-lace, 8. A light, fine, transparent, whitethread, hand-made lace, so called from Lisle, in France. It has a diamond-shaped mesh, formed by two threads plaited to a perpendicular line. Also known as clear-foundation. *lisne, *lis-sen, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A cavity, a hollow, a hole. lisp, *lisp-en, *lip-sen, v. i. & t. [A S. *wlispian, from wlisp=imperfect in utterance, lisping; cogn. with Dut. lispen to lisp; Dan. læspe; Sw. läspa; Ger. lispeln to lisp, to whisper.] 2540 list (1), s. [Fr. liste a list, a roll, a selvage from O. H. Ger. lista; Ger. leiste a border; cogn. with A. S. list a border; Dut. lijst; Icel. lista, listi list, selvage; Dan. liste; Sw. list; Sp. & Ital. lista.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The border, edge or selvage of cloth; a strip of cloth forming the border or edge of broadcloth, and intended to strengthen it; a strip cf cloth, a fillet. *2. A border. *3. A stripe. *4. A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground or field of combat. *5. A boundary, a bound, a limit. The ocean, overpeering of his list, 6. A roll, a catalogue; as, a list of names. 1. Arch. A little square molding, a fillet, a listel. 2. Carpentry: (1) The upper member of a railing. (2) A narrow strip from the edge of a plank. (3) A small, square molding; a fillet. 3. Rope-making: A woolen flap in the hands of a rope-maker, through which the yarn goes. 4. Tin-working: (1) A thin coat of tin preparatory to the thicker coat, in tinning iron plates. (2) A selvage of wire or tin formed on the under edge of plates in tinning. list-pan, s. A perforated skimmer. list-pot; s. A heated pan with a small quantity of tin at the bottom, and the last of the series of tion. five pans used in the manufacture of tin-plate list (2), s. [A. S. lust pleasure, desire.] [LUST, 8.] *1. Ord. Lang.: Desire, pleasure, wish, inclina2. Naut.: An inclination of a ship to one side; a list (1), v. t. & i. [LIST (1), 8.] A. Transitive: lisp -er, s. [Eng. lisp; -er.] One who lisps; one heel. who speaks with a lisp or affectedly. lisp'-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [LISP, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act or habit of speaking with a lisp or affectedly. lisp -ing-ly, adv. [Eng. lisping; -ly.] In a lisping manner; with a lisp. lis-pund, s. [Dan. &. Sw. lispund; Icel. lippund. A weight in use in Denmark, Sweden, &c., and varying in different countries from 14 lbs. to 18 lbs. avoirdupois. *liss, s. [A. S. liss forgiveness.] Forgiveness, remission, abatement. liss-ǎn-the, s. [Gr. lissos-smooth, and anthos a flower. From the segments of the small white flowers being smooth instead of bearded.] Bot.: A genus of Epacridaceae, tribe Styphelier. They are found in Australia and Tasmania. The fruits of Lissanthe sapida are eaten, but are not pulpy enough to be worth much. *11sse, v. t. & i. [A. S. lissian, lidhsiàn.] A. Trans.: To lessen, to relieve, to abate. B. Intrans.: To grow easy, to obtain relief, to be relieved. liss-en-çeph-a-la, s. pl. [Gr. lissos=smooth, and engkephalos=the brain.] Zool. The second group or sub-class of mammals in Owen's classification, based on brain modifications. The corpus callosum is present, but connects cerebral hemispheres as little advanced in bulk or outward character as in the Lyencephala (q. v.); the cerebrum leaves the olfactory lobes and the cerebellum exposed, and is commonly smooth, or with few and simple convolutions in a very small proportion, composed of the largest membranes of the group. Under this sub-class are grouped the orders Bruta (Bradypodidae, Dasypodidae, and Edentula), Chiroptera (Frugivora and Insectivora), Insectivora (Talpida, Erinaceida, and Soricidae), and Rodentia (Non-claviculata and Claviculata). liss-en-çeph'-a-lous, a. [Mod. Lat., &c., lissencephal(a); Eng. adj. suff. -ous.] Belonging to or characteristic of the Lissencephala (q. v.). lis -som, lis-some, a. [For lithesome (q. v.).] Lithe, lithesome, supple, nimble, active, flexible, pliant. lis-so-tri-ton, s. [Gr. lissos=smooth, and Triton =Triton.] Zool.: A genus of Salamandrida instituted by Mr. Bell. It has a smooth skin, no pores on the sides, and the crest of the back continuous with that of the tail. It is very common and likes clean water; it is carnivorous, and, in its turn, often falls a prey to larger newts and fish. I. Ordinary Language: listness lis-tel, s. [Fr. listel, listeau, from liste a list, a roll, a fillet.] 1. Arch. A list, a fillet. 2. Joinery: A narrow, slightly projecting ledge; a reglet. lis-ten (t silent), *lust-nen, v. i. & t. [Mid. Eng. lusten, from A. S. hlystan, hlistan=to listen.] [LIST (3), v.] A. Intrans,: To give ear or attention; to attend, to hearken. "I know that he lies and listens mute." Tennyson: Maud, II. v. 60, *B. Trans.: To hearken to; to give ear or atten. tion to. "And now, Octavius, Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius Are levying powers." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, iv. L To listen after: To enquire eagerly after; to seek for information about. lis -ten-ēr (t silent), s. [Eng. listen; -er.] One who listens; a hearer, a hearkener. "He ended: and a kind of spell Upon the silent listeners fell." Longfellow: Wayside Inn. (Inter.) flist -ĕr (1), s. [Eng. list (1), v.; -er.] One who compiles a list, roll, or catalogue. lis -ter (2), s. [LEISTER.] A three-pronged fishspear. 11s-ter-a, s. [Named after Dr. Martin Lister, a British naturalist.] Bot.: Bird's Nest or Twayblade, the typical genus of the family Listeride. The root is of fleshy fibers; the leaves two or none; the flowers are in green or brown racemes, the sepals and petals spreading and incurved, the lip deflexed, two-cleft, the spur none, the pollen masses two, powdery, the glands connate. Lis-tër-1-an, a. [Lister; -ian.] Pertaining to, characteristic of, or in any way connected with the antiseptic surgery introduced by Sir Joseph Lister. [LISTERISM.] "The results of the Listerian system in surgery are proved to be decidedly successful."-Journ, of Science. lls-těr -I-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lister(a); Lat. Bot.: A family of Orchids, tribe Neotteæ. 1. To insert in a list or catalogue. "Coupons must be listed on the company's printed fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.] form."-London Telegraph. 2. Spec.: To enrol or engage for the public service, as soldiers; to enlist. "He entertained and listed all such soldiers as offered themselves."-Clarendon. 3. To enrol, or attach one's self as a supporter of a cause; to enlist. *4. To enclose or shut off for combat. "What matters where we fall to fill the maws list a door. 6. To mark with a stripe or streak. lis -ter-îne, s. A much used and very valuable antiseptic medicine, manufactured in this country as a proprietary article, the exclusive right to make and sell the same being protected by the label and trade-mark laws of the United States. Lis-ter-işm, s. [Eng., &c., Lister(ian); -ism.] Surg. The name given to a system of operative surgery and conservative dressing introduced by Sir Joseph (then Mr.) Lister, of King's College Hospital. It consists of the free employment of carbolic acid-preferably in the form of absolute phenol. The instruments to be used are dipped in a solution of it; during the operation the solution in the form of spray is widely diffused, and the 7. To sew together as strips of cloth, so as to dressings are carbolized. (For details see Braithmake a particolored show or to form a border. "A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow Conspicuous, with three listed colors gay." Milton: P. L., xi. 860. II. Carp.: To chop a block or stave to an ap proximate shape-e. g., the balk or codling from which staves are to be riven is chopped to give a taper toward each end, before being cleft into staves by the froe and mallet. B. Intrans.: To enlist in the public service; as, a soldier. (Vulgar.) off the sapwood from the edge. To list a board: To reduce in breadth by cutting *list (2), *lyst, *list-en, *lust, *lust-en (1), v. i. [A. S. lystan, from lust pleasure; cogn, with Dut. lusten to like, from lust delight; Icel. lysta, from losti=lust; Dan. lyste, from lyst; Sw. lysta, from lust; Goth. luston, from lustus; Ger. gelusten, from lust.] To desire, to choose, to prefer, to please, to be disposed. " "The wind Blew where it listed, laying all things prone." Byron: Childe Harold, iii. 106. It was frequently used by old authors impersonally. *list (3), *lust-en (2), v. i. & t. [A. S. hlystan, hlistan, gehlystan, from hlyst hearing; cogn, with Icel. hlusta to listen; hlust, the ear.] [LISTEN.] A. Intrans.: To listen, to hearken, to attend. "The bold youth who led the chase, Who paused to list for every sound." Scott: Rokeby, iii. 5. B. Trans. To listen to, to hearken to. "Words wild as these, accusers like to thee, I list no further." Byron, Lara, i. 23 wē, wět, hëre, camei, her, thêre; waite: Retrospect of Medicine, lxxx. 99-107.) "On the battle-field, in the hospital, and the homes of the sick, Listerism is a household word."-Brit. Med. Journ., Dec. 15, 1885. *list-ful, a. [Eng. list (3), v.; -ful(l).] Attentive, listening, heedful. "To his doom with listful ears attend." Spenser: F. Q., V. i. 25. list-ing, pr. par. & s. [LIST (1), v.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of enrolling or inserting in a list. 2. The act of enlisting for public service, as a soldier. II. Carpentry: 1. Cutting away the sappy edge of a board. 2. The narrow edge of a board. list-less, a. [Eng. list (3), v. ; -less.] Careless, heedless, indifferent, inattentive, languid, weary. "Hence an unfurnished and a listless mind. Though busy, trifling; empty, though refined." Cowper: Progress of Error, 426. list-less-ly, adv. [Eng. listless; -ly.] In a listless, indifferent, or languid manner; with indiffer ence. "See whether he be stirring and active, or whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time."-Locke: Of Education, § 123. list-less-ness, s. [Eng. listless; -ness.] The quality or state of being listless; indifference, languidness. *list -ness, *liste-nes, subst. [Eng. list (3), v.; -ness.] Listening, attention. (Stänyhurst.) pine, pit, sïre, sir, marîne; gō, pot, fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll, father; |