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B. Transitive:

live

1. To pass, to spend, to continue in.

"I wish'd that thou shouldst live the life they lived." Wordsworth: Michael.

2. To act habitually in conformity to; to conform to; to practice.

To live down:

1. To live so as to prove false by one's life or conduct; to give the lie to; as, to live down a slander. 2. To obliterate the remembrance of. live, a. [A shortened form of alive (q. v.).] I. Ordinary Language:

1. Alive, living, quick; not dead; having life; having the organic functions in operation.

"When he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat."-Lev. xvi. 20.

2. Burning, ignited; containing fire; not extinguished.

"Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand."-Isaiah vi. 6.

3. Vivid, as color.

II. Engin., Mach., &c.: Under pressure, or imparting power, as steam; or motion, as the spindle of a lathe.

live-axle, s. One communicating power, as distinguished from a dead or blind axle.

live-box, s. A cell in which living microscopic objects are confined for observation. It has a tubular piece with a glass top, upon which slips an upper ring having likewise a glass top. The object is confined between the glasses. [LIVE-TRAP.]

live-feathers, s. pl. Feathers which have been plucked from a fowl while alive, and therefore stronger and more elastic than those from a dead bird.

live-gang, 8.

Sawing: A gang-saw mill, so arranged as to cut through and through the logs without previous slabbing. The bark and wany edge are afterward removed from each board by a double edger. The lumber goes to market of the full width. live-hair, s. Hair cut or taken from a living animal.

live-head, s.

Lathe: The head-stock of a lathe, which contains the live-spindle.

live-hole, s. A receptacle for fuel in a clamp of bricks.

"The clamp is lighted by means of a number of receptacles for fuel contrived in the outer walls, called live-holes."-Cassell's Technical Educator, pt. xii., p. 347. live-oak, s.

Bot.: Quercus virens. It has elliptic-oblong, coriaceous leaves. It grows in our Southern States, and is the most valuable of the American oaks for shipbuilding, the wood being heavy, compact, and fine-grained. Its specific gravity is greater than that of water.

live-salesman, s. A person whose occupation is to sell live-stock.

live-spindle, s.

Lathe: The rotating effective spindle in the headstock of a lathe.

live-steam, s.

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1. Human: The largest gland in the body, weighing about four pounds, and measuring in its greatest length nearly twelve inches. It is placed obliquely in the abdomen, on the right side, with ward. It is in relation as to its position with the its convex surface upward, and the concave downdiaphragm above, the stomach and intestines below, and the right kidney, sometimes extending almost over to the spleen on the left side. It corresponds by its free edge with the lower margin of the ribs. It is divided by fissures into five lobes, two on the

live-long, a. & s. [Eng. live, for life, and long.] upper surface, right and left lobes, and with them A. As adjective:

1. Long-lasting, durable, permanent.

"Thou, in our wonder and astonishment,
Hast built thyself alivelong monument."
Milton: On Shakespeare.

three minor lobes on the under surface. The liver consists of lobules, a connecting structure, Glisson's capsule, ramifications of the portal vein, hepatic duct, hepatic artery and veins, lymphatics, and nerves, and is inclosed and kept in situ by the peritoneum. The functions of the liver are twofold: of the chylo-poietic viscera previously to its return to the general venous circulation, and the secretion of bile, the fluid necessary to chylification; thence it passes into the duodenum and the gall bladder by means of the ducts of the liver, after mingling with the mucous secretion from the follicles in the

2. Throughout its whole duration or length; the The separation of impurities from the venous blood whole.

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live-ly, life-ly, *lyve-ly, *liyf-ly, a. & adv. ently no liver; in those somewhat higher the rudi[Eng. live-life; -ly.]

A. As adjective:

1. Like life; living.

"Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,
It would have maddened me. What shall I do
Now I behold thy lively body so."

Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, iii. 1.

2. Life-like; resembling or representing life.
"It tutors nature: artificial strife
Lives in these touches, livelier than life."
Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, i. 1.

3. Vivid, life-like, animated.
"Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a
lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce
a much greater."-Dryden: Dufresnoy.

4. Vigorous, lively; being generally attended by
rapid motion; brisk, active, sprightly.
"For they are lively, and are delivered ere the mid-
wives come in unto them."-Exodus i. 17.

5. Gay, animated, spirited, vivacious, airy.
"His polished manners and lively conversation were
the delight of aristocratical societies."-Macaulay: Hist.
Eng., ch. xviii.

6. Strong, keen, earnest.

"That which is immediately before the senses, impresses us always with the most lively conviction."Beddoes: Obs. on Math. Evidence.

7. Fresh, vivid; as color.

"I found, to my amazement, that they began to return, and by little and little to become as lively and vivid as when I had newly looked upon the sun."-Brewster: Natural Magic, let. ii., p. 24.

B. As adverb:

*1. With strong resemblance to life.
"Such spirits as can most lively resemble Alexander
and his paramour shall appear."-Marlowe: Doctor

Steam-engineer.: Steam taken directly from the Faustus, iv. 3.

boiler.

live-stock, s. The animals kept on a farm for breeding, fattening, or other purposes, as horses, cattle, sheep, &c.

live-trap, s. A device for imprisoning living microscopic objects. It consists of three parallel glass slips; the middle one has a circular perforation forming the cell, while the others constitute the sides. LIVE-BOX.]

*live, s. [LIVE, v.] Life.

2. Briskly, actively, vigorously.

"They brought their men to the slough, who discharg ing lively almost close to the face of the enemy, did much amaze them."-Hayward.

Liveliness is the property of childhood, youth, and even mature age; sprightliness is the peculiar property of youth; vivacity is a quality compatible with the sobriety of years. The imagination, the wit, the conception, the representation, and the like, are lively; the air, the manner, the look, the tune, the dance, are sprightly; the conversation, the turn of mind, the society, are vivacious; the muse, the pen, the imagination, are sportive; the meeting, the laugh, the song, the conceit, are merry;

"She was a worthy woman all hire live." Chaucer: C. T., 461. *On live, *On lyve: Alive. *live-a-ble, a. [Eng. live, v.; -able.] Fit or the train, the dance, are jocund. possible to be lived in.

lived, a. [English liv(e); ed.] Having a life; used in composition only, as short-lived, long-lived. *live-less, a. [Eng. live; -less.] Without life; lifeless.

live -11 hood (1), *live-lode, *lif-lode, *lyflode, lyve lode, *lif-lade, s. [Livelihood is a corrupt. of livelode, or liftade, from A. S. lif=life, and lád a leading, a way, a course.] [LODE.] Means of subsistence or maintaining life; the support or maintenance of life; means of living; subsistence.

*live 11-hood (2), s. [Eng. lively; -hood.] Liveliness, cheerfulness, animation, spirit.

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll,

liv -ĕr (1), s. [Eng. live, v.; -er.]

1. One who lives; one who has life.

"In a great pool, a swan's nest: Prithee, think
There's livers out of Britain."
Shakesp.: Cymbeline, iii. 4.
2. One who resides or dwells; a resident, a dweller.
"Why was not I a liver in the woods,
Or citizen of Thetis' crystal floods."
Drummond: Sonnets, pt. i., son. 26.

3. One who lives or spends his life in a particular

manner.

ments of it appear, and it develops markedly the higher we ascend in the scale of animal life. Thus, in the Echinodermata it has been identified with two or more small glandular sacs of a yellowish color opening into the bottom of the stomach. The liver in Mollusks is always large. In the Cephalopoda it is a bulky gland divided into four lobes, and these are again subdivided into numerous angular lobules. In the Vertebrates it yet more nearly approaches the liver of man. In many fishes, the cells of the liver are loaded with fat, that which is a morbid state of the organ with man being normal with them.

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A. As subst. The color of the liver; a reddish. brown, or dull brown mingled with a little yellow. B. As adj.: Liver-colored.

liver-colored, a. Of the color of the liver; as, a liver-colored dog.

liver-complaint, s. Disease of the liver. liver-fluke, s.

Zool.: Distoma hepaticum, or Fasciola hepatica, a flat trematode helminth, about an inch in length by half an inch in breadth, found in the gall bladder and the biliary ducts of sheep when they are fed on wet pasture. The parasite produces the disease called rot (q. v.). Besides being parasitic in sheep, D. hepaticum occurs also in the horse, ass, ox, and deer; and in some rare cases it has been found in the human body.

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liver (3), s. [For etym. see def.] A fabulous bird, supposed to have given its name to Liverpool. and to be still commemorated in the arms of that town. "It has been variously called a dove, a shoveler duck, an eagle, and a hypothetical bird, the liver, to which the name of the town has been traditionally ascribed. In deriving the name of a town from an imaginary bird, which was unknown long after the town had a common seal, we have a remarkable instance of putting the cart before the horse." Attempts have also been made to identify the liver with the Cormorant or the Glossy Ibis.

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Liver.

marîne; gō, pòt,

livered

livered, a. [Eng. liver (2); -ed.] Having a liver: used in composition as white-livered, lily livered, &c.

liv-er-Ing, s. [Eng, liver (2); -ing.] A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or hog's flesh. Iv-er-er, s. [Eng. liver (y); -er.] A servant in livery.

lly-er-grown, a. [English liver, and grown.] Having a large liver.

liv-er-led, a. [Eng. livery; -ed.] Wearing or dressed in a livery.

liv-er-stone, s. [Eng. liver (2), and stone.] Min.: The same as HEPATITE (q. v.).

liv-er-wort, s. [Eng. liver (2), and wort; the name derives its significance from the appearance of the plants.]

Botany:

1. Sing.: Marchantia polymorpha.

2. Pl.: The order Marchantiaceae (q. v.).

(1) Ground liverwort:

Bot.: Peltidea canina.

(2) Noble liverwort:

Pharm. The name for Iceland Moss (Cetraria islandica.)

liver-, *livere, s. [Fr. livrée a delivery of that which is given, that which is given; prop. the fem. of the pa. par. of livrer to deliver, to give; Low Lat. libero to give freely; Lat. libero-to liberate; liber-free; Ital. livrea; Sp. librea.]

1. Ordinary Language:

1. In the same sense as II.

*2. Release or custody; deliverance.

3. That which is given; an allowance of food at a certain rate; a ration, an allowance, as for a family, servants, horses, &c.

4. The state of being kept at a certain rate and regularly fed and attended to; as, to keep horses at livery.

5. The badge or uniform clothing given by wealthy persons and others to their retainers when in military service, and hence, sometimes, a division of an army was distinguished from another division by such badge or uniform.

6. The particular dress or uniform worn by the servants of a nobleman or gentleman. 7. The peculiar dress adopted by any class or association; as, the livery of a charity-school, of a priest, &c.

8. The whole body or association wearing or entitled to wear such a garb; as, the Livery of the City of London, that is, freemen of the city. [LIVERYMAN.]

9. Any characteristic dress, garb, or appearance. 10. Outward appearance; aspect.

II. Law:

The beauteous livery that he wore."
Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 1,107.

1. The act of giving possession of property; chiefly used in the phrase livery of seisin, that is, the giving a person corporeal possession of a tenement orland, by delivery to him in the first case, the latch, key, or ring of the door; in the second, a turf or twig. [FEOFFMENT.] (Eng.)

"This livery of seisin is no other than the pure feodal investiture, or delivery of corporeal possession of the land er tenement, which was held absolutely necessary to complete the donation."-Blackstone: Comment., bk. ii., ch. 20. 2. The writ by which possession of land or a tenement is given.

livery-coat, s. A coat worn by a servant in livery.

livery-man, s. A person who keeps a livery stable.

livery-nag, s. A horse kept at livery; a horse let out for hire.

livery-office, s. An office appointed for the delivery of lands. (Eng.)

livery-servant, subst. A servant who wears a

ivery.

livery-stable, s. A stable where horses are kept at livery, or are let out for hire.

*livery-table, s. A side-table or cupboard. livery, v. t. [LIVERY, 8.] To dress or clothe in, or as in livery.

Hivery, a. [Eng. liver (2); y.] Like or resembling the liver.

Ilver-y-man, s. [Eng. livery, s., and man.] 1. One who wears a livery.

2. Spec.: A freeman of the City of London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and to vote in the election of Lord Mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, &c.

lives-man, s. [Eng. lives, adv., and man.] A live or living man.

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liv-id, a. [Fr. livide, from Lat. lividus, from
liveo-to be bluish; Sp. & Ital. livido.] Of a leaden
color, black and blue; discolored, as the flesh by a
blow; clouded with grayish, brownish, and blackish.
11-vid -I-ty, s. [Fr. lividité, from livide livid
(q. v.).] The quality or state of being livid.
liv-Id-ness, s. [Eng. livid; -ness.] The same
as LIVIDITY (q. v.).

liv-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [LIVE, v.]
A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.)
B. As adjective:

1. Alive, having life; live, not dead.

2. Having the appearance of animation or life; in motion, not still.

3. In a state of combustion; burning.

"Then on the living coal red wine they pour."
Dryden. (Todd.)
4. Producing life, animation, action, or vigor.
"Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?"
Shakesp.: Richard II., i. 2.
C. As substantive:
1. The state of being alive; life, existence.
"To spend her living in eternal love."
Shakesp.: Complaint of a Lover, 238.

2. Means of subsistence; livelihood, sustenance.
"Get your living by reckoning."-Shakesp.: Love's
Labor's Lost, v. 2.

3. The power of continuing life.
4. The benefice of a clergyman; the cure of souls.

"Mrs. Bull told her husband that they would join to
have him turned out of his living for using personal
reflections."-Arbuthnot: Hist. of John Bull.
5. Manner of life.

6. Property, possessions.

"Where my life and living lies."
Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, iv. 3.
liv-Ing-ly, adv. [Eng. living; -ly.] In a living
state.

"In vain do they scruple to approach the dead, who
livingly are cadaverous, or fear any outward pollution."-
Browne: Vulgar Errors.

liv-ing-ness, s. [Eng. living; -ness.] The quality or state of being living; quickness, animation, spirit, briskness.

liv-ing-ston-ite, s. [Named after the great African traveler, Livingstone; suff. -ite (Min.).]

Min.: A mineral occurring in prisms and columnar groups resembling, and apparently isomorphous with, stibnite (q. v.). Hardness, 2; specific gravity, 4:81; color, bright lead-gray; streak, red. Composi tion: A sulphide of antimony and mercury. Found at Guadalcazar, Mexico.

*liv -Ish, *liv-isshe, a. [English liv(e); -ish.]
Living, alive. (Gower: C. A., vii.)

liv-i-sto-ni-a, s. [Named from an estate near
Edinburgh, belonging to Patrick Murray.]
Bot.: A genus of Palms, family Sabalida. Livi-
stonia inermis and L. humilis are from Australia.
where Palms are rare. The leaves of L.jenkinsiana,
an Assam species, are used for making hats and for
thatching houses.

LI-vō'-ni-an, a. & s. [See def.]

llama

lix-Iv-I-a-tion, s. [Fr., from Lat. lixivium.] The process of separating a soluble from an insoluble material by a washing or filtering action; leaching. Lixiviation removes a soluble material, which is the valuable portion, as in discharging a certain amount of syrup from a bone-black filter, by passing water through it. The leaching of ashes is a familiar instance of lixiviation.

lix-Iv-l-ous, a. [Fr. lixivieux, from Lat. lixiv ium.] The same as LIXIVIAL (q. v.).

lix-Iv-I-um, s. [Latin, from lix-wood-ashes, lye.] Water impregnated with alkaline salts extracted from wood-ashes.

liz-ard, *les-arde, *lus-arde, *lic-erte, *lyzard, s. [0. Fr. lesard (Fr. lézard), from Latin lacerta a lizard; Spanish & Port. lagarto; Italian lacerta.]

1. Zoology:

(1) Sing.: The popular name for any member of the Lacertidae, the family of Lacertilia, which contains the typical Lizards, having four well-developed limbs, each terminated by five toes of unequal length. [LACERTA.]

(2) Pl.: The family Lacertidae (q. v.), and, in a wider sense, the order Lacertilia.

2. Palæont.: [LACERTILIA, MOSOSAURIA, PROTOSAURIA, &c.].

3. Agric.: A crotch of timber or a forked limb, used as a sled to support a stone being hauled off a field; a stone boat.

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Lizard-shaped amphibia:

Zool. The sub-order Salamandrine (q. v.).
lizard-tailed, a. Having a tail like a lizard.
Lizard-tailed birds:
Ornith.: [SAURURE].
lizard's-herb, s.

Bot.: Goniophlebium trilobum.
lizard's-tail, s.

Bot.: The genus Saururus (q. v.).
lizard's-tongue, s.

Bot.: The genus Sauroglossum (q. v.).
Lizard (2), s. [See def.]

Geog.: A bold headland in Cornwall, England,
twenty-three miles E. S. E. of Land's End.
Lizard-stone, s.

Petrol. & Comm.: A kind of serpentine found used for chimney-pieces, &c. (Simmonds.) near the Lizard Point, in Cornwall, England. It is

lla-ma(or lya-ma), la'-ma, s. [The Peruvian name.]

Zool.: Auchenia glama, or Lama peruavina. An even-toed ungulate of the family Camelide. Habitat, the southern parts of Peru. It is larger than the guanaco, of which Burmeister considers it to be a de

A. As adj.: Of or pertaining to Livonia; Lettish. scendant; usu-
B. As substantive:

1. An inhabitant or native of Livonia.

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ally white,
sometimes

2. The language spoken by the inhabitants of spotted with
Livonia.

*li-vor, s. [Lat.] Malignity, malice.
11-vrai-şon, s. [Fr., from livrer to deliver.] A
part of a book or other literary composition printed
and delivered before the work is completed.
old French money of account, now superseded by
livre, s. [Fr., from Lat. libra a pound.] An
the franc, to which it was about equal in value.
lix-iv-I-al, a. [Lat. lixivius, from lixivium,
from lix-wood-ashes; Fr. lixiviel; Sp. lexivial.]
1. Obtained by lixiviation (q. v.).

2. Impregnated with alkaline salt extracted from
wood-ashes.

3. Containing or consisting of alkaline salt ex-
tracted from wood-ashes.
4. Having the qualities or properties of alkaline
salts extracted from wood-ashes.

5. Of the color of lye; resembling lye.
lix-iv-I-ate, lix-Iv'-I-at-ěd, a. [Lat. lixivium.]
alkaline salts.
1. Of or pertaining to lye; having the qualities of
2. Impregnated with salts extracted from wood-
ashes; obtained by lixiviation.

lix-iv-I-ate, v. t. [LIXIVIATE, a.] To treat by
the process of lixiviation; to form into lye; to im-
pregnate with alkaline salts extracted from wood-
ashes.

live-tide, s. [Eng. live, v., and tide.] Fortune,
property.
boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, çhin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;

brown or
black and
sometimes en-

tirely black.
In size it is
smaller, and
in general form
the camels,
lighter than
standing about
three feet at
the shoulder;
no dorsal
hump. Feet
narrow, toes
widely separ-
ated, each with

Llama.

The earliest account of this animal is that of De a distinct pad; hairy covering long and woolly. Zarate, treasurer-general of Peru, in 1544, who calls it the "sheep of Peru," but notices its general resemblance to the camel. The llama is only known in a domesticated state. It is still used as a beast of burden, but since the introduction of horses, mules, and asses, its importance in that respect has greatly diminished.

2. Palæont.: Remains of llamas have been found in the Pleistocene deposits of the Rocky Mountains and in Central America. Gradual changes have been traced from the differentiated species now existing down through the Pliocene to the early Miocene. sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f.

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Prof. Flower, remarking on the fact that none of these annectant forms have been found in the fossiliferous strata of the Old World, says: "It may fairly be surmised.. that America was the original home of the Tylopoda, and that the camels passed over into the Old World, probably by way of the north of Asia, where we have every reason to believe there was formerly a free way of communication between the continents."

11ăn-, pref. [Wel.=an inclosure, a church.] A common prefix in place-names in Wales; as, Llangollen, Llandudno, &c.

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Geol.: Dark-colored micaceous flags, found in the Lower Silurian formations of Great Britain, frequently calcareous, resting on a great thickness of shales, generally of a black color below them, and these again on black carbonaceous shale of great thickness, frequently containing sulphate of alumina, and sometimes beds of anthracite, resulting probably from the decomposition, not of plants, but of graptolites, about forty species of which have been found in the Llandeilo-flags and the Arenig beds. [LLANDEILO-FORMATION.] Among these, graptolites with two rows of cells (Diplograpsus, &c.) are conspicuous. About forty-seven Brachiopoda are found, and of other mollusks Orthoceras, Cyrtaceras, and Bellerophon. Trilobites abound.

Llandeilo-formation, s.

Geol.: A formation of Lower Silurian age. As originally marked out by Sir Roderick Murchison, it fell naturally under two divisions, an Upper, containing the Llandeilo-flags (q. v.), and a Lower, now called the Arenig or Stiperstone group. According to Prof. Ramsay, the two together are 3,300 feet thick in North Wales, and the lavas (which are felspathic and porphyritic), 2,500.

Llăn-dov-er-y, s. [See def.]

Geog.: A town in South Wales, county of Carmarthen.

Llandovery-group, s.

Geol.: A group of rocks found in the hill of Noeth Grug, near Llandovery. Sir Roderick Murchison divided it into an Upper and a Lower Llandovery, the first sometimes called the May Hill group. Sir Charles Lyell believes that they constitute the base of the Upper Silurian, being at the same time beds of passage to the Lower. The beds of conglomerate, &c., constituting the greater part of the Lower Llandovery Rocks, are from 600 to 1,000 feet thick.

llan-er-ō (11 as ly), s. [Sp., from llanos.] One who lives on the llanos of South America. The llaneros are principally the descendants of whites and Indians, and are distinguished for their activity, ferocity, and semi-barbarous habits.

lla-nog (11 as ly), s. pl. [Sp., from Lat. planus -level.] The level steppes or plains in the northern part of South America. Some are barren wastes, others furnish pasture, and others again are covered with forest.

116yd -I-a, s. [Named after Edward Lloyd, an antiquary, who discovered the species, in the eighteenth century, in Wales.]

Bot.: A genus of Liliacea, tribe Tulipes. It has a scaly bulb; leaves, filiform; stem, leafy; one or two flowers. Lloydia serotina is found on the Snowdon range of hills, but is very rare.

Lloyd's, s. [See def.] A name given to the place of general insurance business, from that of the proprietor of a coffee-house, formerly used for a similar purpose in Lombard-street, London. The concern was afterward removed to Pope's Head Alley, where it was called New Lloyd's, and subsequently, in 1773, to some rooms in the upper part of the Royal Exchange, and the interest of it having Long been purchased of the then, proprietor, it has from that time been placed under the management of a committee of the members. This institution, now known simply as Lloyd's, is devoted entirely to marine insurance, and to such business as is subsidiary thereto, as the classification and registration of vessels, &c.

Lloyd's-bond, s.

1. A form of security devised by John Horatio Lloyd, for enabling corporate bodies, whose powers of borrowing money are regulated and limited by

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statute. to incur greater pecuniary liabilities than they are authorized to do under their borrowing powers. It consists of an acknowledgment of debt under the company's seal, with a promise to pay at a certain date, and bears a certain rate of interest. (Eng.)

2. A form of agreement authorized by the Committee of Lloyd's. It differs from a policy, inasmuch as a policy is issued before a ship sails, and contains a promise contingent on certain eventualities. But a Lloyd's Bond supposes a ship to have returned, and to have already suffered damage; and the object of the bond is to protect shipowners from losses, as specified in the bond. (Eng.)

loadstone

load water-line, s. Naut.: The line of flotation of a ship when she has her full cargo on board.

load (2), s. [LODE.]

load, lode, v. t. [A. S. hladan-to lade, to load;
cogn. with Dut. laden to lade, to load; Icel.
hladha; Dan. lade; Sw. ladda; Goth. hlathan; Ger.
be-laden; O. H. Ger. hladan. Load and lade are
doublets.]
I. Literally:

with a load; to supply with a load or cargo.
1. To place or set a load upon or in; to charge

Lloyd's-list, s. A newspaper published daily in
London, containing the latest information on ship-Gascoigne: To Lord Gray of Wilton.
ping matters.

nations, published annually. It contains the names Lloyd's-register, s. A register of ships, of all of all ships, arranged alphabetically, and classed according to their qualifications, as A1, &c., such class being determined by the report of surveyors and the construction, materials, and state of repair of the vessels.

18, interj. [A. S. lá.] An exclamation to direct attention; see! behold! observe!

loach, löche, s. [Fr. loche.] Ichthyology:

Loche, or Beardie, a malacopterygious fish of the 1. Sing. Cobitis barbatula, the Common Loach, family Acanthopside. It is found all over Europe, except in Denmark and Scandinavia. It delights in small, shallow, clear streams, and swims rapidly

Loach.

when disturbed by the moving of the stone under which it secretes itself. The Loach is an animal feeder; it seldom exceeds four inches in length, but, spite of its small size, it is highly prized for food. Dr Günther refers the Loach to the genus Nemachilus (q. v.).

2. Plural:

(1) The genus Cobitis (q. v.).

(2) The group or sub-family Cobitidina. Mouth surrounded by six or more barbels; dorsal fin short or of moderate length: anal fin short; scales small, rudimentary, or entirely absent; pharyngeal teeth in a single series, in moderate number; air-bladder partly or entirely inclosed in a bony capsule; pseudo-branchiæ, none. (Günther.)

load (1), *lode, s. [LOAD, v.]
I. Ordinary Language:
1. Literally:

(1) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or carried.

(2) The amount, weight, or quantity which a person or animal can carry; as much as can be carried at a time by a person or animal, or in a ship, vehicle, or other mode of conveyance.

(3) That which is borne with difficulty; a heavy weight; a burden.

(4) The charge of a firearm. 2. Figuratively:

(1) That which oppresses, hinders or grieves; a burden, an incumbrance, a weight.

(2) A quantity of food or drink as much as can be borne.

"There are those who can never sleep without their load, nor enjoy one easy thought, till they have laid all their cares to rest with a bottle."-L'Estrange. *(3) Weight or violence, as of blows. "Like lion mov'd they laid on load, And made a cruel fight." Chevy Chase.

II. Technically:

1. Mach.: The amount of work done by an engine working up to its capacity. Not to be confounded with duty.

2. Min.: The quantity of nine dishes of ore, each dish being about half a cwt.

load-line, s.

Naut.: The same as LOAD WATER-LINE (q. v.).

"I strive all in vaine to lode the cart when it raineth." 2. To weigh down; to be a burden, load, or weight upon; to oppress. "Its ebb he measured by a book, Whose iron volume loaded his huge hand." Scott: Vision of Don Roderick, IV. 3. To encumber; to bestow or provide for in great abundance.

"The army which beseiged it (consisting of Catti Vsipij and Matiaci) was alreadie departed away loaden with spoiles."-Savile: Tacitus; Hist., p. 158. 4. To make heavy.

"In autumn, Jove his fury pours, And earth is loaden with incessant showers." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xvi. 476. pended; as, to load a ship. 5. To make heavy by something added or ap

6. To place a charge in; to charge, as a gun. "His musketeers had still to learn how to load their pieces."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiv.

7. To crowd, to fill to overflowing. "When loaded cribs their evening banquet yield." Pope: Homer's Odyssey, 1. 486. *8. To magnetize, by bringing into contact with loadstone.

"Great kings to wars are pointed forth,
Like loaded needles, to the north."

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"Yes! 'twas sublime, but sad. The loneliness Loaded thy heart; the desert tired thine eye." Scott: Lord of the Isles, iv. 1.

2. To heap; to abuse in excess; as, to load a man with insults.

1. To load dice: To make one side heavier than the other, so as to cause the die to fall with that side downward.

*2. To load wine: To drug, adulterate, or hocus wine.

load-er, s. [Eng. load; -er.] One who or that which loads; specif., a machine attached to a wagon, as a hay-loader or stone-loader. In the former case, it is an endless traveling apron on a truck, trailing behind the wagon and carrying up the hay collected by a rake.

"The Frenchman did it out of covetousness, that so two loaders might bring double grist to his mill."-Fuller: Worthies; Cornwall.

load-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [LOAD, t.]

A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.)

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*loads -man, *lodes-man, s. [A. S. ládman=a leader, from lád=course.] One who leads the way; a pilot.

load-star, lode-star, *lode-sterre, s. [Icel. leidhar-stjerna, from leidhar (genit. of leidh)=a way, and stjarna a star; Sw. led-stjerna; Ger. leit-stern.] 1. Lit.: A star which serves to lead or guide; specif., the pole-star.

2. Fig.: Anything which guides or attracts. "Your eyes are lodestars."

Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1. load-stone, lõde-stone, s. [A. S. ladu, lâd= course, conduct, and Eng. stone.]

Min.: Magnetic oxide of iron, Fe3O4. It is very abundant in nature. It constitutes a natural mag

net.

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; we, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre;

"The power to draw to itself, like the loadstone, Whatsoever it touches." Longfellow: Miles Standish, vi. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot,

loaf

loaf, *101, *loof, s. [A. S. hláƒ: cogn, with lcel. hleifr Goth. hiaifs, hlaibs; Ger. laib; M. H. Ger. leip: Russ. khlieb = bread; Lith. klepas; Lett. klaipas.]

1. A mass or lump; specif., a shaped mass of bread in the dough shape or baked.

2. A conical mass of molded sugar. loaf-sugar, 8. Sugar refined and molded into a loaf or conical shape.

loaf, v. i. & t. [Etym. doubtful.]

A. Intrans.: To lounge or idle about; to idle one's time away.

B. Trans.: To spend or pass idly; as, to loaf one's time away.

loafer, s. [Eng. loaf, v.; -er.] One who lounges or idles about; one who is too lazy to work for a livelihood, but lives by sponging on others, or similar lazy practices; an idler, a lazy fellow.

"The loafer in moleskin stood at some little distance." -Black: Adventures of a Phaeton, ch. xviii.

loam, s. [A.S. lâm; Dut. leem; H. Ger. lehm; L. Ger. lein, cogn. with Eng. lime and Lat. limus= mud.]

1. Ord. Lang.: Alluvial soil, consisting of sand and clay soil in considerable quantity. If one or the other largely preponderates, the soil ceases to be loam.

"If thy strong loam superfluous wet retain, Lead through thy fields the subterraneous drain." Scott: Amabæan Eclogues, 2. 2. Founding: A mixture which essentially consists of sand and clay, the former largely predominating, with a certain quantity of horse-dung added, or some equivalent for the same, such as chopped straw, saw-dust, cow-hair, &c. Beds of loam are sometimes found of nearly suitable composition, but it is more commonly made up by blending different sorts of sand, clay, &c., in a mill resembling a pug-mill. In molding, it is always used quite wet, like plaster, but is dried perfectly before pouring. Its characteristics must be plasticity while wet, strength and solidity when dry, perviousness to the air from the mold, and the power to resist the high temperature of the metal. It is employed for large work in both brass and iron, obviating the use of a pattern. [MOLD, LOAMWORK.]

Fluviatile-loam: [LOESS.] (Lyell.) loam-beater, s.

Founding: The rammer of a molder, used in compacting the loam around the pattern.

loam-cake, s. A disc of loam which covers in the mold in loam-work casting, and which is perforated with holes for the entry of the metal and the escape of the air.

loam-molding, s. Making a mold by templets. loam-plate, s.

Founding: One of the flat cast-iron rings or plates used in loam-molding, upon which the nowel or the cope rests, as the case may be. loam-work, 8. A method of making molds for large hollow castings, such as cisterns, tanks, steam-engine cylinders, and kettles of large size, &c. Instead of making a pattern of the object, the nowel and cope are built up of bricks and covered with loam, which is shaped by a templet. The parts are afterward brought into the required juxtaposition in a pit, surrounded by packed sand, and then the metal is run in.

loam, v. t. [LOAM, 8.] To cover over with loam; to clay.

loam -ỹ, adj. [Eng. loam; y.] Consisting of loam; of the nature of loam; resembling loam

marly.

"Plashed neatly, and secured with driven stakes

Deep in the loamy bank." Cowper: Task, iv. 438. 16an, *lone, s. [A. S. *lán, læn; cogn. with Dut. leen a grant, a fief; Icel. lán=a loan; lén=a fief; Dan. laan a loan; Sw. lån; Goth. lehn, lehen=a fief; O. H. Ger, léhan something granted.]

1. The act of lending or granting the use of anything temporarily to another, on the express or implied condition that it or its equivalent in kind

shall be returned.

2. That which is lent; especially, a sum of money lent at interest.

"The Lord give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the Lord."-1 Samuel, ii. 20.

3. Permission to make use of; as, a loan of credit. Gratuitous loan or commodate:

Law: The gratuitous loan of an article to a borrower for his own use, to be used according to the lender's intention, and returned at the proper time and in proper condition.

loan-office, s.

1. A public office where loans are arranged for the public, the accounts of the lenders kept, and the interest paid to them.

2. An office where money is lent on goods or other security; a pawnbroker's office.

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loan-society, s. A society or association established for the purpose of advancing money on loan to the working classes, to be repaid with interest by instalments.

loan-word, s. (For definition, see extract.) "Loan-words are common to all dialects. No people can have near neighbors without receiving something from them in the shape of inventions, products, or social institutions, and these, almost inevitably, are adopted under their foreign names. The French have taken which they denote. We have had in return 'naive' and 'meeting' and 'turf' from us, together with the ideas 'verve.'"-Sayce: Comparative Philology, ch. v.

lōan (2), lōne (2), lõan'-Ing, s. [LANE.]

8.

to the homestead, and left uncultivated for the 1. An opening between fields of grain, or leading purpose of driving cattle out and home.

2. A lane; a narrow road between hedges or walls.

"The mason-lads that built the lang dike that gaes down the loaning."-Scott; Antiquary, ch. iv.

3. A green sward on which cows are milked.
loan, v. t. & i. [LOAN, 8.]

A. Trans. To lend.
B. Intrans.: To lend money.
loan-a-ble, a.

[Eng. loan, v.; -aole.] That

may or can be lent. loan-mon-ger, s. [Eng. loan, and monger.] A dealer in loans; one who arranges or negotiates loans.

lō-a-sa, s. [Named by Adanson, who did not explain the reason why.]

The stigma is trifid, the capsules open by three Bot. The typical genus of the order Loasacea. valves at their summits.. The species are found in Chili and Peru.

lō-a-sa-çĕ-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. loas(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.]

Bot.: Loasads. An order of epigynous exogens, alliance Cactales. It consists of herbaceous, hispid plants, with pungent hairs, leaves opposite or alternate, without stipules, often divided; peduncles axillary, one-flowered; calyx superior, four to five-partite, persistent; petals five or ten in two rows, often hooded; stamens indefinite in number, in several rows; ovary, inferior, one-celled, with several parietal placenta, or with one in the center; succulent; inferior, one-celled. Fifteen genera are style, one; stigmas, one or more; fruit, capsular or known, and about seventy species, all American. (Lindley.)

lō-a-sădş, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. loas(a): Eng. pl. suff. -ads.]

Loasacea (q. v.).
Bot. The name given by Lindley to the order

lō-ā -sě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. loas(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ec.]

Bot.: The typical tribe of Loasaces.

loath, *lōth, a. [A. S. ládh=hateful; cogn. with Icel. leidhr-loathed, disliked; Dan. led-loathsome; Sw. led; O. H. 'Ger. leit.]

*1. Odious, loathsome, unpleasant, disgusting.

"Ich was him loth."-Owl and Nightingale, 1,088. 2. Unwilling, averse, reluctant; filled with aversion.

"The day, as thou seest, is very far spent, and we are Progress, pt. ii. loath to-night to go any farther."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's

lōathe, *lōṭhe, v. t. & i. [A. S. ládhian; Icel. leidha; O. H. Ger. leiden.]

A. Transitive:

1. To feel disgust at; to be disgusted at or with; to abhor; especially to feel nausea or an extreme aversion to food.

"My idle greyhound loathes his food."
Scott: Lady of the Lake, vi, 24.

2. To dislike greatly; to hate.
"The Whigs loathed it as servile; the Jacobites loathed

it as revolutionary."-Macaulay: Eng. Hist., ch. xix. 3. To cause to feel disgust; to disgust. "It may loathe the sense of every man." Peele: David and Bethsabe.

B. Intransitive:

*1. To create disgust; to disgust.
*2. To feel nausea, disgust, or abhorrence; to
hate, to abhor.

"The Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water."-
Exodus vii. 18.

loath -er, s. [English loath(e); -er.] One who loathes.

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1. Full of loathing; abhorring, hating. "Which when he did with lothfull eyes behold." Spenser: Mother Hubberds Tale. çhin, hench; go, gem; thin, this;

lobar

2. Abominable, loathsome, hateful, disgusting. "And lothefull idleness he doth detest." Spenser: Mother Hubberds Tale. loath -ing, *loth-inge, pres. par., adj., & subst. [LOATHE.]

verb.) A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the

C. As subst.: The act or state of feeling disgust, aversion, or abhorrence; disgust, detestation. "The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races."— Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xii.

lōath'-Ing-lỹ, adv. [Eng. loathing; -ly.] With loathing, disgust, or abhorrence.

*lōath'-li-ness, *lothe-ly-nes, s. [Eng. loathly; -ness.] The quality or state of being loathly; loath

someness.

"The deformytie and lothelynes of vice."-Sir T. Elyot: Governour, bk. iii., ch. xxiv.

lõath-ly, *loth-lich, *lod-11, *loth-11, *ladhliche, a. & adv. [A. S. ládhlic; O. H. Ger. leidlicher.]

*A. As adj.: Creating or causing loathing or disgust; loathsome, disgusting.

"In chamber brooding like a loathly toad." Thomson: Castle of Indolence, i. 61. B. As adverb:

1. Unwillingly; with loathness. *2. In a loathsome manner; filthily, disgustingly. *3. With abhorrence.

"If she lost it,

Or made a gift of it, my father's eye
Should hold her loathly.'

Shakesp.: Othello, iii. 4. The quality or state of being loath; unwillingness, lõath -ness, *loth-nes, s. [Eng. loath; -ness.] reluctance.

"The loathness to depart would grow." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, i. 2. loath -some, *loth-some, *loth-sum, *wlothsome, a. [Eng. loath(e); -some.] 1. Causing loathing or disgust; disgusting, abominable. "As loathsome to thyself as to mankind." Byron: A Sketch. 2. Odious, detestable. "Modre is so wlothsome and abhominable." Chaucer: C. T., 15,060. 3. Causing nausea. -Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 44. "Rhubarb being not flatuous nor loathsome."

*4. Feeling nausea; affected with nausea. loath -some-ness, *loth-sum-nesse, *lothsom-nes, s. [Eng. loathsome; -ness.] The quality or state of being loathsome.

"Wearied with the loathsomeness of the present government."-Holinshed: Hist. Scotland (an. 1422).

loath -some-ly, *loth-som-ly, adv. [English loathsome; -ly.] In a loathsome manner; so as to excite loathing or disgust.

"The bloudie gore and poison dropping lothsomly." Spenser: F. Q., V. xii. 80. [English loath(e); -y.]

*loath -, *loth-y, a. Loathsome.

"With lothy chere lord Phebus gan behold." Uncertaine Authors: M. T. Cicero's Death, loaves, s. pl. [LOAF, 8.]

lob, s. [Wel. llob-a dolt, a blockhead.] [LUB

BER.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. A heavy, dull, stupid fellow; a blockhead.
"Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll begone."
Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1.

2. Anything thick and heavy.
3. A lobworm.

"For the trout, the dew worm, which some also call the lob worm, and the brandling, are the chief."-Walton: Angler.

II. Cricket: A slow ball, sent in with a low delivery bowled underhand, and falling heavily after a much curved trajectory. It is more successful upon soft than upon hard wickets. [FLOP.] *lob-dotterel, s. A loutish fool. *lob-like, a. Clumsy, loutish.

*lob, v. t. [LOB, 8.]

1. Ord. Lang.: To droop; to let fall in a slovenly or lazy manner; to hang down.

"The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,
With torch-staves in their hands: and their poor jades
Lob down their heads." Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. 2.

2. Cricket: To bowl a ball like a lob; as, to lob a ball into the air.

lō-bar, a. [Mod. Lat. lobaris, from lobus.] [LOBE.] Of or belonging to a lobe of any organ of the body. (Used chiefly of man, but also of the inferior animals.)

sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = £

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lobaric-acid, s.

Chem.: C17H1605, a colorless resinoid acid extracted from the lichen, Lobaria adusta. It crystallizes in thin plates, and resembles a crystalline resin in many of its properties, and in its degree of solubility in different menstrua. Its ammoniacal solution is colorless, but on exposure to the air it becomes rose-red, and dries up to an amorphous violet brown mass, resembling in tint the thallus of the lichen which yields it.

lō-bā -ta, s. pl. [Neut. pl. of Mod. Lat. lobatus= lobed.]

Zool.: A sub-order of Hydrozoa, order Ctenophora. 10-bāte, lo-bāt-ěd, lõbed, a. [Mod. Lat. lobatus divided into segments.]

Bot.: Partly divided into a determinate number of segments. Thus, a leaf may be bilobate twolobed, trilobed three-lobed, and palmate-lobed five-lobed, like the human hand.

1ō-bate-ly, adv. [Eng. lobate; -ly.] Bot.: So as to form lobes.

lobately-crenated, a.

Bot.: Having crenatures, or indentations, so deep as to constitute a series of small lobes. lob'-bing, s. [Etym. doubtful.]

Metall.: [COBBING, C. 2.]

*lob'-bish, a. [Eng. lob; -ish.] Loutish.

"Their lobbish guard."-Sidney: Arcadia, p. 430.

lob-by, s. [Low Lat. lobia, lobium-a portico, a gallery, from M. H. Ger. loube=an arbor; Ger. laube a bower, from M. H. Ger. loub, loup; O. H. Ger. laup; Ger. laub=a leaf.]

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II. Technically:

1. Agric. A space for cattle, inclosed by hedges, trees, or other fencing.

2. Naut.: A name sometimes given to an apartment close before the captain's cabin. lobby-member, 8. A person who frequents the lobbies of a legislative assembly; a lobbyist. lob-by, v. i. & t. [LOBBY, 8.]

A. Intrans.: To frequent the lobby of a legislative assembly for the purpose of addressing members with a view to influence their votes; to solicit the votes of members.

B. Transitive:

1. To address or solicit, as the members of a legislative assembly, for the purpose of influencing their votes in favor of or against some measure.

2. To carry through a house of legislation, as a measure or bill, by addressing or soliciting the votes of members in favor of such measure or bill. lob'-by-ist, s. [Eng. lobby; -ist.] One who frequents the lobbies of a legislative assembly for the purpose of soliciting or influencing the votes of members; a lobby-member.

lob-cock, 8. [LOB, 8.] A stupid, dull, sluggish person; a lob, a lubber.

lōbe, s. [Fr., from Mod. Lat. lobus, from Gr. lobos a lobe of the ear or liver; cogn. with Eng. lap (q. v.).]

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2. Bot.: A division more or less rounded. "When these parts are touched by the legs of flies, the two lobes of the leaf instantly spring up."-Smellie: Philosophy of Nat. Hist., i. 5. 3. Mach. The larger and most prominent or projecting part of a cam-wheel.

lobe-berry, 8.

Bot.: The genus Coccolaba.

lobe-foot, s. A lobe-footed bird; a lobiped. lobe-footed, adj. Having the toes lobate, or bordered with membranes, as in the case of the grebes.

lobe-plate, s. A strong piece of cast-iron laid upon the keelson, &c., to support the parts of a marine steam-engine. A sole-plate; a foundationplate.

lobed, adj. [English lob(e); ed.] The same as LOBATE (q. v.).

lō-běl-a-crin, s. [Mod. Lat. lobel(ia); Lat. acer, (gen. acris)=sharp, and Eng. suff. -in (Chem.).] Chem. An acrid substance found in Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco), and to which the herb owes its taste. It crystallizes in warty tufts of a brownish color, slightly soluble in water, but very soluble in alcohol, ether, and chloroform. It is decomposed by boiling with water, and, when treated with alkalies or acids, is converted into sugar and lobelic acid.

lo-be-le-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lobel(ia); Latin fem. pl. adj. suff. eo.] Bot.: The typical tribe of the order Lobeliacea (q. v.).

lōbe -lět, s. [Eng. lobe; dimin. suff. -let.] Bot.: A little lobe.

lõ-be-li-a, s. [Named after Matthias Lobel, physician and botanist, who died in London, A. D. 1616.]

1. Bot.: The typical genus of the order Lobeliaces (q. v.). The calyx is irregular, two-lipped, cleft longitudinally on the upper sides, the upper

lip smaller and erect, the lower spreading; three cleft; the anthers united, the two lower ones bearded at the apex; capsule two- or three-celled, the upper part free, two-valved loculicidal. Many species are very beautiful.

2. Pharm.: Lobelia urens blisters the skin, L. cardinalis is acrid, and is considered anthelmintic, L. inflata is a powerful emetic, sudorific, and expectorant. The infusion of the leaves of L. nicotinafolia, an Indian species, is used by the natives as an antispasmodic, the dry herb when handled irritates the throat and nostrils like tobacco. The flowering herb of L. inflata (Indian tobacco), indig enous to the United States, is used in British practice. The medicinal preparations of it are two-the Tincture and the Ethereal Tincture of Lobelia. In small doses Lobelia is expectorant and diaphoretic; in large ones, emetic or cathartic. It has been used in spasmodic asthma, and in dyspnea, &c., as a diuretic. [1.]

lō-bē-11-ā-çe-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat., &c., lobeli (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.]

Bot.: Lobeliads; an order of epigynous exogens, alliance Campanales. It consists of herbs or shrubs, with milky juice, alternate leaves without stipules; the calyx five-lobed or entire; corolla monopetalous, irregular, five-lobed or deeply five-cleft; stamens five, anthers cohering in a tube; ovary, inferior, one to three-celled; seeds, very numerous, parietal or attached to the axis; style, simple; stigma, surrounded by a cup-like fringe; fruit, capsular, one to three-celled; many-seeded, dehiscing at the apex. Found in semitropical and temperate climates. The acridity of their milk makes them suspicious. About 275 species are known. Sir Joseph Hooker makes the Lobeliace a sub-order of Campanu

lace. The order is divided into three tribes, Clin

toneæ, Lobeleæ, and Delissen.

lō-běl -I-ǎdş, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lobeli(a); Eng. pl. suff. -ads.]

Bot.: The name given by Lindley to the order Lobeliaceae (q. v.).

lō-be-lic, a. [Mod. Lat. lobel(ia); Eng. suff. ic.] Derived from or characteristic of the genus Lobelia (q. v.).

lobelic-acid, s.

1. Ord. Lang.: A projection or division, especially tion of Lobelia inflata. It is soluble in water and

one of a rounded form.

II. Technically:

1. Anat. Any rounded and pjecting part of an organ; thus, the liver is divided into two unequal lobes, a right and a left, and on the under surface of the right lobe are three secondary lobes or lobules namely, the lobe of Spigelius, the caudate or tailed lobe, and the square lobe. There are five lobes in the cerebrum-viz., the frontal, the parietal, the occipital, the tempero-sphenoidal, and the central lobes. Others are in the cerebellum. There are lobes also of the lungs. (Quain.) [LOBULE.]

Chem.: A non-volatile acid existing in the decocalcohol, and in many of its reactions resembles gallic acid. It yields a soluble salt with barium oxide, but its lead salt is insoluble in water. 1ō-be-lin, lo-be-line, subst. [Mod. Lat., &c., lobel (ia); -in, -ine (Chem.).]

Chem. An oily alkaloid obtained from Lobelia inflata. It is soluble in alcohol and ether, and acts as a narcotic when taken internally.

lobster

lōb-I-pěd, s. [LOBIPES.]

Zool.: A bird belonging to the family Lobipedida (q. v.); a lobe-foot.

genit. lobiped(is); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ido.]
*lob-1-pěd -I-dæ, s. pl. [Modern Latin lobipes

Ornith. A family of wading birds, having the enterior toes lobed or semi-palmated. By many naturalists this family is merged in Scolopacida. lob'-I-pêş, s. [Mod. Lat. lobus (genit. lobi)=a lobe, and Lat. pes=foot.]

Ornith.: Cuvier's name for a genus of waders. It is the same as Phalaropus of Vieillot. [PHALAROPUS.]

lěb -101-lý, s. [LOLLIPOP.]
1. Water-gruel or spoon-meat.
2. A sweet.

loblolly-bay, s.

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lõb ́-ð-dŏn, s. [Greek_lobos=a lobe, and odous

(genit. odontos) = a tooth.]

Zool. A genus of Phocida. Lobodon carcinophaga is the Crab-eating Seal, or Saw-tooth Sterrinck, of Owen. It inhabits the Antarctic Ocean.

lō-bō-ite, s. [Named after Chevalier Lobo da Silveira; suff. -ite (Min.): Ger. loboit.] Min.: The same as VESUVIANITE (q. v.). lŏ-bō-sa, s. pl. [Neut. pl. of Mod. Lat. lobosus= lobed.]

Zool.: A division of Rhizopoda, consisting of genera with a lobe or pseudopod. They are divided into Naked (i. e., shell-less) and Shelled Lobosa. lob-os-to-mą, s. [Gr. lobos=a lobe, and stoma= a mouth.]

Zool. The typical genus of the sub-family Lobos. tominæ.

lob-os-to-mi-næ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lobostom(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -inc.1

Zool. The name given by Dobson to a sub-family of Bats, family Phyllostomidae. They have terminal nostrils, and cutaneous folds or ridges on the chin. lõb ́-o-tēş, s. [Mod. Lat., from Gr. lobos=a lobe.] Ichthy. A genus of Acanthopterygians, family Percidae (q. v.). Body rather elevated, compressed, with ctenoid scales of moderate size. Snout obtuse, teeth villiform; no canines or palatal teeth. One dorsal fin, with twelve spines; anal with three. Præoperculum denticulated. Branchiostegals six. L. auctorum is remarkable for its extraordinary range. It occurs in the East Indies and on the Atlantic coast of America, and has been met with in the Mediterranean. It lives in salt and brackish water. Length about two feet.

lob-scouse, *lobs-course, *laps-course, subst. [Eng. lob, and course.]

Naut.: A hash of meat with vegetables of various kinds; an olio.

"That savory composition known by the name of lobs. course."-Smollett: Peregrine Pickle, ch. ix. lob'-sid-ěd, a. [Eng. lob, and sided.] Heaving over to one side; lopsided.

*lobs -pound, s. [Eng. lob, s., and pound.] A pound, a prison.

lob-ster, *lop-ster, *lop-stere, *lop-pe-ster, *lop-pi-ster, *lop-py-ster, *lop-stere, *lobstar, s. [A. S. loppestre, lopystr, a corrupt. of Lat. locusta (1) a lobster, (2) a locust.]

1. Lit. & Zool.: Homarus vulgaris, the Common Lobster, a well-known decapod, macrurous, marine It has five pairs of ambulatory legs, the first pair being the crustacean, of the family Astacidæ. chele or great claws, the next two pairs also chelate but smaller, the last two pairs monodactyle. The segments of the abdomen carry each a pair of swimmerets the last pair greatly expanded, and lō-bi-ōle, s. [Dimin. of Eng. lobe.] constituting with the telson (q. v.) a powerful cauBot.: One of the small lobes into which the thal- dal fin. The nervous system is homogangliate the lus of some lichens is divided. organs of sense consist of the two compound eyes, pine, pit, sïre, sir, marîne; gō, pot, try, Syrian.

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; wē,

wět, here, camẹl, hẽr, thêre;

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