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Rainfall 57 inches, chiefly in spring and summer. Summers long and occasionally hot. Health average. Actual death-rate lower than in many northern sections. Occasional yellow fever in the cities. lou-Is-ite, subst. [Named by Honeymann after H. Louis, who analyzed it; suff. -ite (Min.).] Min.: A mineral of leek-green color, transparent, glassy; streak, white; fracture, splintery. Hardness, 61; specific gravity, 2:41. Composition: Silica, 63 74; alumina, 057; protoxide of iron, 1.25;

lime, 17-27; magnesia, 038; potash, 338; soda, 0'08;

water, 12.96.

Louis Quatorze (as Lô -ě- ka-torz'), s. [Fr. =Louis XIV.] The name given to a meretricious style of architecture and internal decoration which prevailed in France in the reign of Louis XIV. It was marked by a deterioration of taste, the natural laws of architecture being more and more neglected, and replaced by certain conventional rules for the application of the Roman columnar orders. The principal architect of this style was Jules Hardouin Mansard, by whom were built the palaces of Versailles (1647-1708), Marly, the Grande Maison, and also the Invalides at Paris. The windows are larger, the rooms more lofty, than in the preceding period, and in everything there was a striving after pomp and sumptuousness. In internal decorations mirrors were freely introduced, and may be said to become a distinctive feature of interiors. Gilt stucco-work was largely used, the scroll and shell patterns being the characteristic features of ornamental decoration, the panels being formed by chains of scrolls, concave and convex alternately, but symmetry of arrangement was largely neglected. Louis Quinze (as Lô -ě kaǹz), s. [Fr. Louis XV.] The name sometimes given to the style of architecture and internal ornamentation prevailing in France during the reign of Louis XV. It is often known under the designation Rococo (q. v.). Internal arrangement and decoration are the main characteristics of the style of this period, and in this direction the best results were doubtless obtained. Large and lofty rooms, as well as scope for display, were indispensable; consequently this style of em bellishment was most happily carried out in state apartments, especially in princely castles and palaces, and the mansions of the aristocracy. There was the greatest freedom in the treatment of architectural forms, to the disregard of all laws, and free scope was given to the most fantastic combinations. Curved lines superseded all straight lines both in ground plans and in designs, while the most ordinary and characteristic embellishments were volutes, shell-fish and scrolls, groups of fruit, garlands of flowers, hangings, &c.

loun, lound, a. [Icel. logn; Sw. lugn.] Calm, low and sheltered, still, tranquil.

loun, s. [LOON.]

loun -děr, v. t. [Cf. Icel. hlaunn=the buttocks.] To beat severely, to flog.

loun -děr, s. [LOUNDER, v.] A severe, stunning blow.

*loun -der-er, s. [Etym. doubtful.] An idler, a vagabond.

loun -der-Ing, s. [LOUNDER, v.] A severe beating or flogging.

lounge, v. i. [A corrupt. of Mid. Eng. lungis=a drowsy or dreamy fellow (Kersey); from O. Fr. longis a drowsy, awkward fellow; from Lat. longus=long.]

1. To idle about, to loll or dawdle, to move lazily. "You who have lounged about to so good purpose."Lounger, No. viii.

2. To loll or recline lazily; as, to lounge on a sofa. lounge (1), s. [LOUNGE, v.]

1. The act of lounging, strolling, or idling about. 2. The act of lolling or reclining lazily. 3. A place where idlers or loungers resort. "Whose shop served as a fashionable lounge.”—Miss Edgeworth: Almería, p. 278.

4. A couch or sofa with a back and one end. "Clayton threw himself on a lounge by the open door." -Mrs. Beecher Stowe: Dred, ch. xii.

lounge (2), s. [LUNGE.]

loun -ger, s. [Eng. lounge, v.; -er.] One who lounges or idles about; an idler, a lazy fellow.

"They naturally became beggars and loungers."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiv.

loung -ing, a. [LOUNGE, v.]

1. Idling or dawdling about.

2. Pertaining to or characteristic of a lounger. "[He] threw himself on a sofa in the lounging manner of a man perfectly at home."-Irving: Goldsmith, ch. xxx. loup, v. i. [LEAP, LOPE, 8.]

1. To leap.

"But it's just the laird's command, and the loon maun loup."-Scott: Rob Roy, ch. xxvi.

2. To give way, to break. (Said of frost.)

boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus,

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loup-the-dyke, a. Giddy, unsettled, runaway. (Scotch.)

which the first 'element is repeated in the second; loup-ga-rôu', s. [Fr., a pleonastic form, in loup a wolf, and garou, from Low Lat. gerulphus =a werewolf. (Littré.)] A werewolf, a lycanthrope. (Tylor: Prim. Cult., i. 315.)

loup -ing, pr. par. or a. [Loup, v.] them to spring up and down when moving forward; louping-ill, s. A disease among sheep, causing the leaping-evil. (Scotch.)

of stone steps to assist one in getting on horseback; louping-on stane, s. A stepping-stone, or a flight a horse-block.

lour, v. i. [LOWER (2), v.]

*lôur-dane, *lôur-den, s. [LURDANE.] lôure, lôuvre, s. [Fr.]

Mus.: A dance adapted to an air called "L'aimable vainqueur," said to have been a favorite of Louis XIV. Some authors, however, consider it to have been a kind of jig, or a waltz. The name is, perhaps, derived from the word lourer, to bind notes together, to slide.

louse, s. [A. S. lús.]

1. Ord. Lang. & Zool.: The genus Pediculus. The sexes of lice are distinct. The female is oviparous, producing eggs, popularly called nits. The young are hatched in five or six days, and in eighteen these are capable of reproduction. Three species are parasitic in certain circumstances on man. The Body or Clothes Louse, Pediculus corporis or vestimentorum; the Head or Common Louse, P. capitis; and the Pubic or Crab Louse, P. pubis. The first species lives in the folds of the clothing in some elderly and uncleanly people. It has the abdomen three times as broad as the thorax. It is the insect which produces the disease called Phthiriasis (q.v.), unless the agent in this case be a fourth species P. tabescentium.

2. Script.: The third plague of Egypt was an immense multiplication of Heb. kinnim, kinnom, kinnam, in the Bible rendered "lice.' (Exod. viii. 16-18; Ps. cv. 31.) What insect is intended has been much debated, some pronouncing for the louse, others for the gnat.

Bird Lice constitute the order Mallophaga. Plant Lice is the ordinary English name for Aphides. louse-bur, s.

Bot.: Xanthium strumarium.

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lout -Ish, *lowt-Ish, a. [Eng. lout; -ish.] Like, a lout; clownish, awkward, rude. "This loutish clown is such that you never saw so ill

favored a visar."-Sidney: Arcadia, bk. i.

lout -Ish-ly, adv. [Eng. loutish; -ly.] In a loutish, awkward, or clownish manner; like a lout.

lout -Ish-ness, s. [English loutish; -ness.] The quality or state of being loutish; clownishness, awkwardness, rudeness.

louvert, for l'ouvert the open (space), from le (art.) lôu-ver, *lôuvre, *loô'-ver, *lov-er, s. [O. Fr.

the, and ouvert, pa. par. of auvrir to open.]

Architecture:

1. A turret on a roof for the escape of smoke or steam; a lantern.

2. Sloping boards overlapping each other, with a space between for ventilation; also called lufferboarding, louvre or luffer window or work.

"They were soon after found dead in the dove-cote, famished for want of food, and unable to fly up perpendicularly, and so out at the lover."—Fuller: Worthies; Northamptonshire.

The Louvre, in Paris, issaid to have been a royal residence in the reign of Dagobert, 628. It was a prison-tower constructed by Philippe Augustus in 1204. It afterwards became a library, and Charles VI. made it his palace (about 1364). The new buildings, begun by Francis I. in 1528, were enlarged and adorned by several successive kings, more particularly Louis XIV. Napoleon I. turned it into a museum, and deposited in it the finest collection of paintings, statues, and treasures of art known in the world. The chief of those brought from Italy have since been restored to the rightful possessors. The magnificent buildings of the new Louvre, begun by Napoleon I. and completed by Napoleon III., were inaugurated by the latter in great state, Aug. 14, 1857. The library was destroyed and other buildings much injured by the communists, May, 1871. louvre-boards, luffer-boards, lever-boards, subst. pl.

Arch. Sloping boards or bars placed across a window to exclude rain, while admitting the passage of sound; louvres.

louvre-window, s.

Arch. A window in a church tower or belfry, partially closed by louvreboards (q. v.).

lov'-a-ble, a. [English lov(e); -able.] Worthy or deserving of being loved;

louse-bĕr-ry, s. [Eng. louse, and berry.] (See amiable. the compound.)

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"You sat and lous'd him all the sunshine day." Swift: A Pastoral Dialogue. 16uş'-1-1, adv. [Eng. lousy; -ly.] In a lousy manner; meanly, paltrily, scurvily. louş'-1-ness, s. [Eng. lousy; -ness.] The quality or state of being lousy or abounding with lice.

"Trees (especially fruit-bearers) are infested with the measles-to this commonly succeeds lousiness."-Evelyn: Sylva, II. vii. 6.

louş -, *lowş -iě, a. [Eng. lous(e); -y.] 1. Over-run with lice; abounding or infested with lice. "Sweetbriar and gooseberry are only lousy in dry times or very hot places."-Mortimer: Husbandry.

2. Extremely low, mean, or contemptible. "I pray you now, remembrance to-morrow on the lousy knave, mine host."-Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 3.

lout, *lowt, s. [LOUT, v.] An awkward fellow, a clown, a bumpkin.

"This lout, as he exceeds our lords, the odds Is, that we scarce are men, and you are gods." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, v. 2. lout, *lowt, *lowte, v. i. & t. [A. S. lútan=to stoop; cogn. with Icel. lúta to bow down; lútr= bent, stooping; Sw. luta to lean; Dan. lude=to stoop.]

A. Intrans.: To bend, to bow, to stoop.

"True Thomas, he pulled off his cap,
And louted low down to his knee.'
Scott: Thomas the Rhymer, i.

*B. Trans.: To treat as a lout; to make a fool of.
"I am lowted by a traitor villain,
And cannot help the noble chevalier."
Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., iv. 3.
çhin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;

"And whiche been hool and sooth and chast & rightwys, and lovable to yhe."-Wycliffe: Laodisensis, p. 100.

lov -age, love'-age (age as ig), *love-ach, *liv-ish, s. By corrup. from 0. Fr. leveshe (Fr. livèche), liuv esche, luvesche, from Lat. levisticum, altered from Louvre-window. ligusticum (q. v.) a plant indigenous to Liguria, a country of Cisalpine Gaul; Ligusticus = pertaining to Liguria; Port. levistico; Ital. levistico, libistico.]

1. Ord. Lang.: An aromatic drink prepared from the plant.

II. Botany.

1. The genus Ligusticum (q. v.). Scottish lovage is Ligusticum scoticum. 2. Achillea ligustica.

love, lov-i-en, *luv-i-en, *lov-en, v. t. & i. [A. S. lufigan, lufian, from lufu-love (q. v.); O. H. Ger. liuban, liupan; Ger. lieben; Dut. lieven. A. Transitive:

1 To regard with strong feelings of affection, combined with gratitude; to feel devotion toward. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."-Matthew xxii. 37.

2. To regard with feelings of tender affection, as one sex toward the other; to be in love with. "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church." Ephesians v. 25.

3. To regard with the affection of a friend. 4. To be pleased with; to like; to delight in. "His rider loved not speed."-Shakesp.: Sonnet 8. *5. To treat well; to be kind to; to be favorable to.

"Kynewolf, of the kynred of Adelardes blode,

A while lufed the Inglis, & wele with tham stode."
Kobert de Brunne, p. 9.

B. Intransitive:

1. To entertain feelings of affection toward others; to be affectionate and kind.

sin,

"He that loveth not knoweth not God."-1 John iv. 8.

ag; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f.

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2. To be tenderly affected toward another of the ardor; friendship is remarkable for firmness and opposite sex; to be in love.

"She cannot choose but love." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 79.

constancy. Both love and friendship are gratified by seeking the good of the object; but love is more selfish in its nature than friendship. As love is a

3. To be tenderly attached to each other; to love passion it has all the errors attendant upon passion

each other.

"Never two ladies loved as they do."

Shakesp.: As You Like It, i. 1.

4. To be pleased; to feel pleasure. "He loved also to walk these meadows.”—Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, pt. ii.

love, s. [A. S. lufu; cogn. with Ger. liebe; O. H. Ger. liupa, liupi, Russ. liobov love; Sansc. lobha =covetousness. Allied to lief (q. v.).]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. A strong feeling of affection, combined with gratitude and reverence.

"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments."-1 John v. 3.

2. Devoted attachment to a person of the opposite

sex.

"Yes-it was love-if thoughts of tenderness,

Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet-oh, more than all !-untired by time;
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen, were she near to smile;
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent :

Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part, Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart; Which nought removed, nor menaced to removeIf there be love in mortals-this was love!" Byron: Corsair, i. 12. 3. Strong attachment, liking, or inclination; fondness of or for anything.

4. Courtship; in the phrase to make love to court, to woo.

"Demetrius

Made love to Nedar's daughter Helena,
And won her soul."

Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1.

5. Tenderness; parental care. "No religion that ever was, so fully represents the good. ness of God and His tender love to mankind."-Tillotson. 6. A person in love; a lover.

"Like true, inseparable, faithful loves."

Shakesp.: King John, iii. 4.

7. That which is loved; the object of one's affec tions; a sweetheart.

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"One way or other, she is for a king;
And she shall be my love, or else my queen."
Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II., iii. 2.

8. Used as a term of endearment.

"Farewell! I will omit no opportunity
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee."
Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5.

9. A kindness; a favor done.

"What good love may I perform to you?" Shakesp.: King John, iv. 1.

10. A state of favor, friendship, goodwill, or close intimacy.

"God brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the prince."-Daniel, i. 9.

11. A representation or personification of love; used

(1) Of Cupid, the god of love.

(2) Of Venus, the goddess of love.

"She's Love, she loves, and yet she is not loved." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 610. (3) A Cupid; a picture or statue representing Love.

"Such was his form, as painters, when they show
Their utmost art, on naked loves bestow."

Dryden: Cinyras and Myrrha,

*12. A kind of thin silk stuff.

"This leaf held near the eye, and obverted to the light, appeared so full of pores, with such a transparency as that of a sieve, a piece of cypress, or lo hood."-Boyle:

On Colors.

II. Technically:

1. Bot.: Clematis vitalba.

2. Games:

friendship, which is an affection tempered by reason, is exempt from every such exceptionable quality. Love is blind to the faults of the object of its devotion; it adores, it idolizes, it is fond, it is foolish: friendship sees faults, and strives to correct them; it aims to render the object more worthy of esteem and regard. (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)

(1) A labor of love: Any work or task done willingly and without expectation of reward, either from fondness for the work itself or from love for the person for whom it is done.

(2) To make love to: To court, to woo.
"Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,
Made love to Nedar's daughter Helena."

Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1. (3) To play for love: To play a game without any stake depending.

*(4) Of all loves: A kind of adjuration; by all

means.

"He desires you, of all loves, to make no more noise."Shakesp.: Othello, iii. 1.

Love forms the first element in many compounds, the meanings of which are generally obvious; as, love-darting, love-devouring, love-killing, love-kindling, love-language, love-linked, love-poem, love-sigh, love-song, love-tale, love-thought." lovewounded, &c.

love-apple, s.

Bot.: A popular English name for the tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum).

*love-bed, s. A bed for the indulgence of lust. love-birds, s. pl.

Ornith. The genus Agapornis (separated from Psittacula by Jardine and Selby), family Psittacidae, sub-family Androglossina. Habitat, the Melanesian and Australian provinces. Their popular name has reference to the affection the male displays toward the female, whether caged or wild. The furcula is wanting, and its place supplied by a ligament.

*love-book, s. A book treating of love.

"On a love-book pray for my success." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 1. *love-born, a. Born of or springing from love. "Let mutual joys our mutual trust combine, And love, and love-born confidence, be thine." Pope: Homer's Odyssey, x. 398. *love-broker, s. One who acts as an agent or go-between for lovers; a procurer.

love-charm, s. A charm by which love was supposed to be excited. [PHILTER.]

love-child, s. A euphemism common for a child born out of wedlock. *love-day, s.

love-spring

love-god, s. The god of love; Cupid. "The little love-god lying once asleep, Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand." Shakesp.: Sonnet 154 love-grass, 8.

Bot.: Megastachya eragrostis. It grows in Italy. love-in-a-mist, love-in-a-puzzle, 8.

Bot.: Nigella damascena.

¶ West Indian Love-in-a-Mist.
Bot.: Passiflora fætida.
love-in-idleness, 8.

Bot.: Viola tricolor.

"Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:

It fell upon a little western flower

Before, milk-white; now, purple with love's wound-
And maidens call it, love-in-idleness."

Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2. *love-juice, s. A juice producing or supposed to produce love.

"Hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?" Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2. love-knot, *love-knotte, 8. A knot or compli cated figure, supposed or intended to represent affection or mutual attachment.

*love-lass, 8. A sweetheart.

another; a letter professing love. love-letter, s. A letter written by one lover to

Have I escaped love-letters in the holyday time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?"-Shakesp. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. L. love-lies-a-bleeding, s.

Bot.: Amaranthus caudatus.

*love-line, s. A verse or letter of courtship; a love-letter.

men in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.; a lock *love-lock, 8. A curl or lock of hair worn by or curl hanging prominently.

"It was a sin to hang garlands on a Maypole, to drink a friend's health, to fly a hawk, to hunt a stag, to play at chess, to wear love-locks, to put starch into a ruff, to touch the virginals, to read the Fairy Queen."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. i.

love-lorn, a. Forsaken by one's love; jilted, deserted. "Some love-lorn Fay she might have been.” Scott: Marmion, vi. 3. love-lornness, s. The state of being love-lorn. "That fair Gostanza, who in her love-lornness desired to live no longer."-G. Eliot: Romola, ch. lxi.

love-making, s. Courtship, wooing; the paying of one's addresses to a lady.

"The laughter with which his love-making was re ceived."-Athenæum, Oct. 15, 1881, p. 490.

love-match, s. A match or marriage entered into for love alone.

*love-news, s. A communication from one be

1. A day appointed for the settlement of quarrels loved. and differences.

"Come, if the emperor's court can feast two brides,
You are my guest, Lavinia, and your friends:
This day shall be a love-day, Tamora."

Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, i. 2.

2. A day when one neighbor helps another without hire. (Wharton.)

love-ditty, s. A song of love.

"The stock-dove unalarm'd Sits cooing in the pine-tree, nor suspends His long love-ditty for my near approach." Cowper: Task, vi. 309. *love-drink, *love-drinke, s. A love-charm, a philter (q. v.).

love-favor, s. Something worn in token of love; a favor.

love-feasts, s. pl.

1. [AGAPE.]

2. Religious meetings held quarterly by the Wesleyan and other sects owing their origin directly or indirectly to the labors of Wesley. None but members of the church are admitted, except by the permission of the minister. Love-feasts are retained

(1) A term used to express that no points have in avowed imitation of the ancient Agapæ. been scored on one side.

"won the match by two sets to love."-Field, Oct. 27, 1883.

*(2) A kind of game in which one player holds up one or more fingers, and the other, without looking, guesses at the number.

Love subsists between members of the same family; it springs out of their natural relationship, and is kept alive by their close intercourse and constant interchange of kindnesses: friendship excludes the idea of any tender and natural relationship; nor is it, like love, to be found in children, but is confined to maturer years; it is formed by time, by circumstances, by congruity of character, and sympathy of sentiment. Love always operates with

*love-feat, s. A deed or feat prompted by love. love-flower, s.

Bot.: The genus Agapanthus.

love-game, s. A game in which one side scores no points. [LOVE, S., B.]

"Tompkins then secured a love-game; but Mr. Slack won the next, and games all' was again called, and vantage, which Tompkins won, and the other two games falling to him, he consequently won the match by three sets to love."-Field, October 27, 1883.

love-gift, s. Anything given as a pledge or token of love.

"Was not the mere sound of his name like a love-gift that bade me remember?"-Lytton: Rienzí, bk. i, ch. iv.

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll, father; wē, wět, here, camel, her, thêre;

love-passage, s. A flirtation.

"The stories represented were generally mythological, very usually love-passages of the gods and heroes."— Tylor: Early Hist. Mankind, ch. iii.

*love-prate, s. Idle talk about love. 'You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate." -Shakesp.: As You Like It, iv. 1.

*love-rhyme, s. Erotic poetry in rhymes. "Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, iii. L

*love-rite, s. The actions of marital love. "Then instant his fair spouse Ulysses led To the chaste love-rites of the nuptial bed." Pope: Homer's Odyssey, xxiii. 318. love-scene, s. A scene or passage in a novel or play, the subject of which is a meeting of lovers. "The love-scenes are frigid, tawdry, and disgusting.”— Goldsmith: On Polite Learning, ch. xii.

*love-secret, s. A secret between lovers. flove-shaft, s. A shaft of love; specif., Cupid's arrow.

"Some early love-shaft grazed his heart, And oft the scar will ache and smart." Scott: Rokeby, iii. 29. love-sick, a.

1. Languishing in love or amorous desire. "There might the love-sick maiden sit, and chide The insuperable rocks and severing tide." Wordsworth: Descriptive Sketches. 2. Composed by one languishing in love: expressive of languishing love; as, a love-sick ditty. love-sickness, s. Sickness or languishing arising from love or amorous desire.

love-spell, s. The same as LOVE-CHARM (q. v.). flove-spring, s. The beginnings of love. "Shall even in the spring of love thy love-springs rot." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, iii. 2. pine, pit, sïre, sir, Syrian. ∞, œ

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love-suit

flove-suit, s. Courtship; paying of addresses to a lady.

love-token, s. A present given in token of love. "Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes, And interchanged love-tokens with my child." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1. *love-toy, s. A small present from a lover. "Has this amorous gentleman presented himself with

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2. One who is in love with one of the opposite sex. (Used in the singular only of the man, but in the plural applied to both sexes.)

"Into a studie he fell sodenly,

As don these lovers in hire queinte geres." Chaucer: C. T., 1,536. 3. One who has a liking for anything; one who takes pleasure or delight in anything. "The Revolution showed them [the Tories] to have lovers of liberty, but greater lovers of mon

any love-toys, such as gold snuff-boxes ?"-Arbuthnot & been ;,Hume: Essays, pt. i., ess. 9.

Pope: Martin Scriblerus.

love-tree, s.

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loved, pa. par, or a. [LovE, v.] Beloved, dear. "Let me but stay to die with thee And I will bless thy loved name." Moore: Fire-Worshipers.

loved-one, s. A beloved or dear one. "Their parents' hope, and the loved-ones of heaven." Longfellow: Children of the Lord's Supper. *lov-ee, s. [Eng. lov(e); -ee.] The person loved. "The lover and lovee make generally the happiest couple."-Richardson: Sir C. Grandison, vi. 47. *love-full, a. [Eng. love; -full.] Full of love. "The lovefull choice

Of sacred wedlock's secret binding band."
Sylvester: The Colonies, 505.

love -less, a. [Eng. love; -less.]

1. Destitute or void of love, tenderness, affection, or kindness.

"For the loving worm within its clod
Were diviner than a loveless god."

R. Browning: Christmas Eve, v.

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love -11-1ỹ, adv. [Eng.lovely; -ly.]

1. In a lovely manner; in a manner to excite love; amiably.

2. In a manner to excite admiration.

"So lovelily the morning shone." Byron: Bride of Abydos, i. 3. love -li-ness, s. [Eng. lovely; -ness.]

1. The quality or state of being lovely, or exciting love; amiableness.

"Carrying thus in one person the only two bands of good-will, loveliness and lovingness."-Sidney.

2. Beauty, attractiveness.

"Yet takes he much delight

Her loveliness to view."

Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 29.

love-ling, s. [Eng. love; dimin. suff. -ling.] A little loved one. (Poetic.)

"These frolic lovelings fragile nests do make." Sylvester: The Magnificence, 692.

love-ly, *love-lich, love-liche, *luve-lich, a. & adv. Eng. love; -ly.]

A. As adjective:

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*lov -ĕred, a. [Eng. lover, a.; -ed.] Having a lover; beloved.

"Who, young and simple, would not be so lover'd?" Shakesp. Lover's Complaint, 320. *löv -ĕr-ỹ, s. [LOUVER.] A louver; a bell-tower. "Whose shrill saints' bell hangs on his lovery." Bp. Hall: Satires, bk. v., sat. 1. love-some, *luf-som, luf-sum, *love-som, a. [A. S. lufsum, from lufu=love.] Lovely, lovable. "The Springtime bubbled in his throat, The sweet sky seemed not far above, And young and lovesome came the noteAh, thine is Youth and Love!"

William Watson: The First Skylark of Spring (1894). lov -ing, pr. par., a. & s. [LOVE, v.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective:

1. Devotedly attached; entertaining strong feelings of affection; affectionate, devoted.

"His loving breast thy pillow."

Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, v. 3. 2. Expressive of love, affection, or kindness; as, a loving word.

C. As subst.: The act or state of entertaining strong feelings of affection; devotion, love, affec

tion.

"For she taught all the craft of trewe loving." Chaucer: Legend of Good Women. (Prol.) loving-cup, s. A large cup, usually with two or three handles, containing wine or other liquor, passed round from guest to guest at ceremonial banquets.

loving-kindness, s. Tender regard; tenderness, kindness, mercy.

"My loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him." -Psalms lxxxix. 33.

lov'-ing-ly, lov-inge-lye, adv. [English lovingly. With love, affection, or tenderness; kindly

"Twere vain to guess what shook the pious man,
Who look'd not lovingly on that Divan."
Byron: Corsair, ii. 4.

lov-Ing-ness, 8. [English loving: -ness.] The quality or state of being loving; affection.

"Justice of kings and lovingness of fathers." Lord Brooke: Mustapha. low, *lah, *louh, loogh, *lowe, a. & adv. [Icel. lagr-low; Sw. lag; Dan. lav; Dut. laag. From the same basis as to lie (2).] A. As adjective:

I. Ordinary Language:

1. Not high, not elevated; depressed below a given or imaginary surface or level. It is the opposite to high, and both are relative terms. That which is high with reference to one thing may be low to another; as, a low fence.

1. Attracting or exciting love or affection; lov- height; as, a man of low stature. able, attractive, amiable.

2. Below or not reaching to the ordinary or usual

"Nothing lovelier can be found

In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote." Milton: P. L., ix. 232. 2. Exciting or calling for admiration; beautiful. "Their deformity, he said, was such that the most sterile plains seemed lovely by comparison."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii.

*3. Loving, tender, affectionate.

"I should bid good-morrow to my bride, And seal the title with a lovely kiss." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, iii. 2. B. As adv.: So as to excite love, affection, or admiration.

"I framed to the harp Many an English ditty lovely well." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., iii. 1. love -măn, s. [Eng. love, and man.]

Bot.: Galium aparine.

*love -moi-ger, s. [Eng. love, and monger.] One who deals in affairs of love; a love-broker.

**Thou art an old lovemonger, and speakest skilfully." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, ii.

lov -ĕr, 8. [Eng. lov(e); -er.]

1. One who loves, or has a strong affection or attachment for another.

** Hiram was ever a lover of David.”—1 Kings v, 1.

3. Deep; descending far below the level of the adjacent ground.

"He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth."-Ephesians iv. 9.

4. Near the horizon.

"The sun, however, was low in the west before Dundee gave the order to prepare for action."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii.

5. At or near the furthest point to which the sea recedes by the fall of the tide; as, low tide, low water.

6. Not of a high price; moderate; below the usual degree, price, rate, or value; as, a low price of corn, a low heat.

7. Small in number; indicating a small number; as, a low throw with dice, a low score.

8. Near or approximating to the line or equator; as, a low latitude (latitudes near the equator being expressed in low numbers).

9. Not loud, not noisy, quiet, suppressed. "A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, iv. 3. 10. Of a deep or depressed sound. "From my lowest note to the top of my compass."— Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 2.

11. Dejected, depressed, cast down in spirit; having lost animation and spirit; low-spirited.

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"He grows dispirited and low,

He hates the fight and shuns the foe."

Prior.

chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;

Low-Churchman

12. Physically weak; as, He is in a very low condition. 13. Depressed in condition; in a state of humiliation and subjection.

"Misery is trodden on by many
And being low never relieved by any."
Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 708.

14. Humble, reverent.

"With a lour, submissive reverence." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew. (Induct.) 15. In a humble or mean rank or position. "Too low a minister for so high a servant." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4. 16. Humble, mean

"An unambitious mind, content

In the low vale of life." Cowper: Task, iv. 799. 17. Mean, base, abject, dishonorable, unprincipled; as, a low fellow.

18. Frequented by disreputable characters. "An absurd tragi-comedy

which was acted

at some tow theater."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng. ch. xii. 19. Characterized by meanness, baseness, or want of principle.

20. Not exalted in thought, sentiment, or diction; not sublime.

"He has not so many thoughts that are low and vulgar."-Addison.

21. Obscene, coarse, vulgar; as, low language. 22. Plain, simple, not rich; as, a low diet. 23. Feeble, weak, having little vital energy; as, He is in a low state of health.

24. Gentle; not strong or high; as, The wind is low.

25. Inclined to the Low Church.

26. Quiet; subdued in tone. (Said of a picture or color.)

II. Bot.: Small in stature when compared, not with plants in general, but with that particular genus. A tree twenty feet high may be low, if the rest of the genus be forty or fifty feet high. B. As adverb:

1. Not on high; not aloft; near the ground, as a bird; especially, in composition, as low-roofed, lowhung. 2. Deeply,

"The homely villain courtsies to her low." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 1,338. 3. Under the usual price or rate; at a low price; as, to sell corn low.

4. Not loudly or noisily; gently, quietly "Just as the god directs, now loud, now low, They raise a tempest, or they gently blow." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xviii. 543. 5. To a low condition; to a state of humility or abasement.

"A man's pride shall bring him low."-Prov. xxix. 23. 6. In a humble or mean condition, rank, or position.

"For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither, than that thou shouldst be put lower in the pres ence of the prince."-Prov. xxv. 7.

7. With a depressed, low, or subdued voice; as, to speak low. 8. In a low key; in low notes.

"That can sing both high and low." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, ii. 3. *9. In times approaching our own. Obvious compounds: Low-arched, low-bending, low-bent, low-hung, low-leveled, low-muttered, lowpriced, low-roofed, low-whispering.

low-blast, s. A blast which is delivered at moderate pressure.

Low-blast furnace: A metal furnace with a lowpressure blast.

low-born, a. Of low, mean, or poor extraction. "This is the prettiest low-born lass, that ever Ran on the greensward." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, iv. 3. low-bred, a. Low-born, low, vulgar. low-browed, a.

1. Lit.: Having a low forehead. 2. Fig.: Low-roofed, low.

"No porter, by the low-browed gate, Took in the wonted niche his seat." Scott: Rokeby, ii. 17. low-celebration, s.

Anglican Ritual. The name given by the Ritualists to an unornate celebration of Holy Communion. Shipley (while still an Anglican) defined it as "a name for low-mass."

Low-Church, Low-Church party, s. The same as EVANGELICAL PARTY (q. v.).

Low-Churchism, s. The principles of the LowChurch party.

Low-Churchman, s. One who professes or maintains Low-Church principles.

sin, aş; expect, Xenophon,

exist. ph = f.

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*low-crooked, a. Bending or bowing low; deep. low (2), *loow-en, *low-en, v. i. [A. S. hlówan
"Low-crooked curt'sies, and base spaniel fawning."
to bellow, to resound; cogn. with Dut. loeijen=to
Shakesp.: Julius Caesar, iii. 1.
low; M. H. Ger. luejen; O. H. Ger. hlójan to low.]
*low-day, s. An ordinary day, as distinguished To bellow; to make a noise as an ox or cow.
from a "high day" or festival.

Low-German, a. & s.

A. As adj.: Of or pertaining to the Low-German language; specif., in philol. applied to that group of Teutonic dialects which includes the Gothic, Frisian. Dutch, Flemish, English, and Old Saxon. [ENGLISH-LANGUAGE.]

B. As subst.: The language spoken by the inhabitants of the northern and flatter parts of Germany. Low-Latin, s. The Latin of the Middle Ages. low-laid, a. Struck to the ground. low-life, s. A mean, low, or vulgar state or condition of life; persons of a low, mean, or humble position in life.

low-lived, a. Leading a low, mean, or disreputable life.

low-mass, s.

1. Roman Ritual: A mass in which the celebrant is attended only by acolytes, usually but by one, not by deacon and sub-deacon. The mass is said, not sung. [MASS, 2.]

2. Anglican Ritual: The same as Low-CELEBRATION (q. v.).

*low-men, s. pl. Dice so loaded that the low numbers always came uppermost.

low-minded, a. Of low, mean, or base principles; low.

"Paid greedy and low-minded people not to ruin their country."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xv.

low-pressure, s. & a.

A. As subst.: A small degree of pressure or expansive force.

B. As adj.: Having only a small degree of expansive force, and therefore exerting a low degree of

pressure.

Low-pressure Engine: Steam-engin.: An engine in which a condenser is used, and whose safety-valve is loaded at from four to six pounds to the square inch. The terms high and low-pressure steam were formerly held to mean saturated steam at a pressure above or below that which will sustain a column of thirty inches of mercury, at the boiling heat of water, 212° F. The term low-pressure signifies in this country a pressure of not over thirty-five pounds to the square inch.

low-rated, a. Despised.

"The confident and over-lusty French Do the low-rated English play at dice." Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. (Chorus.) low-relief, s. The same as BAS-RELIEF. (q. v.). low-spirited, adj. Dejected or depressed in spirit; destitute of spirit or animation; cast-down, dispirited.

low-spiritedness, subst. The quality or state of being low-spirited; dejection, depression, low spirits.

low-spirits, s. pl.

Pathol.: A popular name for morbid depression of spirits.

low-steam, 8. Steam having a low expansive

force.

low-studded, a. Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house.

Low Sunday, s.

Eccles. The Sunday next after Easter; so called because it was the custom to repeat some parts of the solemnity of that great festival on this day, which was thus celebrated as a feast, though of a lower degree than Easter-day itself.

low-voiced, a. Having a soft, gentle voice. "I heard her speak; she is low-voiced." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 3. low-water, s. & a.

A. As subst.: The lowest point of the ebb or receding tide.

B. As adj.: Pertaining or relating to the lowest point of the ebb or receding tide.

Low-water alarm:

Steam-engin.: A device for showing when the water in the boiler has sunk to a certain depth. Low-water mark: The mark or line along a beach or coast to which the tide recedes at low water. low-wines, s. pl. A liquor produced by the first distillation of alcohol; the first run of the still. low-worm, 8.

Farriery: A disease in horses like the shingles. *lōw (1), v. t. [Low, a.]

1. To lower, to depress, to sink; to debase.

2. To make low in position or condition; to degrade.

fate, făt, färe,

"Already at the gates the bullock lowed."
Pope: Homer's Odyssey, iii. 547.

lohen.] To flame, to blaze. [Low (2), 8.]
*low (3), *low-in, v. t. [Icel. loga; M. H. Ger.
uttered by an ox or cow; a bellow.
*low (1), s. [Low (2), v.] The noise or sound

"Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low." Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing, v. 4. Dan. lue; Ger. tohe; allied to Lat. lux-light.] A 16w (2), *16we, *loghe, s. [Icel. log=a flame; flame, a fire.

"The kiln's on fire-the kiln's on fireThe kiln's on fire-she's a' in a lowe." Scott: Rob Roy, ch. xxxvii. low (3), s. [A. S. hláw=a hill; cogn. with Goth. hlaiw a grave, a tomb.] A hill; found in place names, as Ludlow.

low-běll, s. [Eng. low (1), v., and bell.]

1. A bell used in fowling to slightly alarm birds and cause them to lie quiet, until they are flushed by a sudden noise.

2. A bell hung on the neck of sheep and cattle. low-běll, v. t. [LOWBELL, s.] To scare, as with a lowbell.

*lowe, s. [Low (2), s.]

low -ĕr (1), v. t. & i. [LowER, a.] A. Transitive:

1. To bring low; to bring down from a higher to a lower place or position; as, to lower a mast, to lower a boat, &c.

2. To bring down from higher position, rank, or condition to a lower; to humble, to abase, to degrade, to make less proud or haughty.

"Turn thy wheel, and lower the proud." Tennyson: Enid and Geraint, 347. 3. To reduce in price; to lessen, to diminish; as, to lower the price of goods.

B. Intrans.: To become lower; to sink, to fall, to become less.

low-er (2), *lour, *lour-en, *lur-en, v. i. [Old Dut. loeren; Ger, luren.]

1. To appear dark or gloomy; to be cloudy, to look threatening.

"The day is lowering-stilly black Sleeps the grim wave." Moore: Fire-Worshipers. "The sage replies, With disappointment lowering in his eyes." Cowper: Hope, 2.

2. To appear gloomily.

3. To frown, to look sullen.
*low -er, s. (LOWER (2), v.]
1. Cloudiness, gloominess.
2. A frown; sullenness.

low -ěr, comp. of a. [Low, a.] unless the strata have been reversed after deposiGeol.: Inferior in stratigraphical position, and tion, which rarely occurs; the older in date. Most formations have an upper and lower series of beds; as, Upper and Lower Carboniferous, or an upper, middle, and lower, as Upper, Middle, and Lower Devonian. [GEOLOGY.]

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Hist. The Roman Empire, according to some, from the time that the seat of it was removed to Constantinople in 330 (or, according to others, from the time that the Eastern and Western Empires were separated in 395) to 1453, when that city was captured by the Turks.

lower-lip, s. [LABELLUM, 2.]

low -ĕred, pa. par. & a. [LOWER (1), v.]
A As pa. par.: (See the verb.)
B. As adjective:

1. Ord. Lang.: Brought down; reduced, abased, humiliated, diminished in intensity.

2. Her.: Applied to ordinaries abated from their common position.

lowly

lōw -ĕr-låg (1), pr. par., a. & 8. [LOWER (1), e.] verb.) A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the C. As substantive:

1. Ord. Lang.: The act of bringing down, reducing, abasing, or diminishing.

2. Print.: A depression of the face of a type or of the thickness of the tympan-sheet in the appro woodcut to cause it to print lighter. The reduction priate spots assists in producing the required effect. low -er-ing (2), pr. par. & a. [LOWER (2), v.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.)

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löw ĕr-most, adj. [English lower, a.; -most.} Lowest.

"Plants have their seminal parts uppermost, living creatures have them lowermost."-Bacon: Nat. Hist.

lower-y, a. [Eng, lower (2), v.; -y.] Lowering, cloudy, gloomy, sullen.

low -ěst, super. of a. [Low, a.] low-ing, s. [Low (2), v.] The low or noise of

cattle.

low -ish, a. [Eng. low; -ish.] Rather low. "Money runs a little lowish."-Richardson: Pamela, i. 82.

lów -land, s. & a. [Eng. low, a., and land.] A. As subst.: Land which lies low with respect to the neighboring ground; low or level country. lands. B. As adj.: Of or pertaining to a lowland or low

The Lowlands: A name applied to Belgium and Holland, and to the southern part of Scotland. inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the LowLow-land-er, subst. [Eng. lowland; er. AD lands of Scotland, as distinguished from a Highlander.

*low-11-hood, *low-ly-hede, *low-li-head, & [Eng, lowly; hood.] A humble state; meekness, humility.

*low-11-1ỹ, adv. [Eng. lowly; -ly.]
1. In a lowly manner; humbly.
2. Meanly, basely.

low-11-ness, s. [Eng. lowly; -ness.]

1. The quality or state of being lowly; humility; freedom from or absence of pride.

"With as humble lowliness of mind She is content to be at your command." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., v. 5. *2. Meanness, want of dignity; abject state. "They continued in that lowliness until the division

between the two houses of Lancaster and York arose."

Spenser: State of Ireland.

low-ly, a. & adv. [Eng. low, a.; -ly.] A. As adjective:

*1. Low-lying; not high, not elevated.

2. Free from pride, humble; having a humble opinion of one's self; not proud, modest.

"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart."-Matthew xi. 29.

3. Characterized by humility, humble. "We of our parts saluted him in a very lowly and submissive manner."-Bacon: New Atlantis.

4. Mean, wanting in dignity or sublimity. "For all who read, and reading not disdain, These rural poems, and their lowly strain, The name of Varus oft inscribed shall see.' Dryden: Virgil, Ecl. vi. 12. 5. Mean, low; not high in dignity, condition, or rank. 6. Low in size, not great or tall.

"As lofty pines o'ertop the lowly reed, So did her graceful height all nymphs exceed " Congreve: Mourning Muse of Aleris. *B. As adverb:

1. In a lowly or humbled manner or state; humbly "Tis better to be lowly born, Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow."

Shakesp.: Henry VIII., ii. 3.

2. Humbly, meekly, modestly.

"Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there: be lowly wise."

amidst, what, fâll,

father; wē, wět, here, camel, her, thêre; pine, pit, sire, sir,

Milton: P. L., viii. 173. marîne; gō, pòt,

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"From the hyghest pole of heaven to the lowmost."Tdall: Mark xiii.

lownd, a. [LOUN, a.] Sheltered, calm.

lów -ness, *low-nesse, s. [Eng. low, a.; -ness.] 1. The quality or state of being low in height; want or absence of height with respect to something else.

"Among the ignorant and simpler sort the lowness of the water was helde for a prodigious matter."-Savile: Tacitus; Historie, p. 152.

2. Depression in price, strength, force, or intensity; as, lowness of the funds, the lowness of the temperature.

3. Depression in fortune; a low condition or state; a state of reduced fortunes.

"Nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness but his unkind daughters." Shakesp.: Lear, iii. 4. 4. Depression or dejection of mind; the state of being low-spirited; loss or absence of animation or spirit.

"Hence that poverty and lowness of spirit to which a kingdom may be subject."—Swift.

5. Meanness of condition or rank; humbleness of birth.

6. Meanness of mind, character, or conduct; want of dignity or principle; baseness.

"Dodge and palter in the shifts of lowness." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 11.

7. Want of sublimity, diguity, or loftiness of style, sentiment, or diction.

The more he was forced upon figures and metaphors to avoid that lowness, the more the image would be broken."-Pope: On the Odyssey. (Postscript.)

8. Humility, meekness, modesty, submissiveness. 9. Softness or gentleness of sound; absence of noise; mildness of voice or utterance.

10. Depression of sound; as, the lowness of notes. low-ry, s. [A corruption of Eng. laurel (?).] Bot.: Daphne luureola, the Spurge Laurel. lowt, s. [LOUT, 8.]

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Pharmacy; One of the three varieties of pale cinchona-bark (q. v.). Loxa-bark is derived exclusively from Cinchona condaminea, or from it and C. serobiculata. The former tree is cultivated in India at high elevations in the Nilgiri Hills, in Ceylon and in Sikkim.

lox ar thrus, s. [Gr. loxos=oblique, and arthron a joint.]

Surg. A term applied to the abnormal direction of a joint, caused neither by spasm nor luxation, as in the varieties of talipes, or club-foot, which Sauvage constituted a genus of the order Ectopia. (Mayne.)

lox -I-a, s. [Gr. loxos oblique, crooke 1.] Ornith.: Crossbill; the typical genus of the subfam Loxinæ, or the family Loxiadæ. [CROSS

BILL.

lox-i-1-dæ, lox-i-a-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat., &c., lari(a): Lat. pl. adj. suff. -idæ, -ada.]

Ornith. The name given by Vigors, &c., to a family of Conirostres. The two mandibles cross at the tip, enabling the bird to crush hard fir cones and obtain the seeds. Generally reduced to Loxinæ, a sub-family of Fringillida. [CROSSBILL.]

lox-i-næ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat., &c., lox(ia); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ina.]

Ornith.: Crossbills (q. v.).

lox-o-clăşe, 8. [Gr. loxos=transverse, and klað to cleave; Ger. loxoklas.]

Min.: A variety of orthoclase (q. v.), in yellowish or grayish-white crystals, somewhat greasy in luster, occurring in large crystals at Hammond, St. Lawrence Co., New York. Named under the supposition that the crystals were peculiar in their direction of cleavage.

lox - don, 8. [Gr. loros slanting, crosswise, and odous (genit. odontos)=a tooth.] 1. Ichthy. A genus of sharks, family Carcharide. Locality, the Indian Ocean.

2. Zool.: A sub-genus of Elephas, established by Dr. Falconer. The dental lamella, lozenge or diamond-shaped, do not greatly differ in number in the three true molars. It contains the African Elephant, Elephas (Loxodon) africanus.

3. Palmont.: Elephas planifrons of the Siwalik formation [Upper Miocene (?)] in India. E. meridionalis, of the European Pliocene, and the pigmy E. melitensis, of the Post Pliocene, are of this type. boll, boy; pout, jowl; cat,

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lox -o-dŏnt, a. & s. [LOXODON.]

A. As adj.: Having teeth as in the sub-genus Loxodon (q. v.).

B. As subst.: An elephant, recent or fossil, of the sub-genus Loxodon (q. v.).

lox-o-drom -ic, a. [Greek loxos oblique, and dromos a course; Fr. loxodromique.] Pertaining to oblique sailing, or sailing by the rhumb. loxodromic-curve, s.

Math.: A curve bearing a strong resemblance to the logarithmic spiral. It is traced upon the surface of a sphere by a point moving in such a manner that its path cuts all the meridians at the same angle. In navigation the loxodromic curve is the same as the rhumb line, and is the path of a ship sailing always in the same tack. The loxodromic curve turns continually about the pole, but does not reach it till after an infinite number of turns. lox-o-drom -ics, s. [LOXODROMIC.] The art of oblique sailing by the loxodromic curve or rhumb. lox-od-rom-işm, s. [LOXODROMIC.] The art or process of tracing a loxodromic-curve or line; the act or state of moving as in a loxodromic-curve.

lěx-ěd-rơ-mỹ,s. [LoxODROMIC.] The same as LOXODROMICS (q. v.).

lox-ŏm'-ma, s. [Gr. loxos=oblique, and omma= the eye.]

Paleont.: A genus of Labyrinthodonts, sub-order Chauliodonta. The orbits are very large, irregularly oval, with cusps proceeding from the posterior part of outer and inner margins, narrowed in front, slightly oblique, the long axis diverging forward; the teeth with large anterior and posterior cutting edges. Loxomma allmanni (Huxley) is from the Giliverton Ironstone of the Edinburgh coal field. Quar. Journ. Geol. Soc. xviii. 291; Brit. Assoc. Rep. (1874), 150, 162.)

lŏx-ō-nē-mạ, s. [Gr. loxos=oblique, and nema = a thread.]

Paleont.: A genus of holostomatous gasteropods, family Pyramidellida. It extends from the Silurian to the Trias, but is most abundant in the Carboniferous. Known species seventy-five. The generic name has reference to the striae, with which many of the species are marked. Loxonema elegans is a fine shell, two inches long, frequent both in the Wenlock and Ludlow shales.

lŏx-o-sõ ́-mą, s. =the body.]

[Gr. loxos oblique, and sōma

Zool.: A marine genus of Bryozoa, or Moss-animals. It lives, fixed by a pedal gland, on the tails of worms. The tentacles are obliquely developed, and the body cavity is attached to a contractile stem. There is no stolon. (A. Crane.) 16y, s. [Etym. doubtful.]

Agric.: A long, narrow spade, used in stony lands. loyal, a. [Fr., from Lat. legalis=legal (q. v.); Sp. & Port. leal; Ital. leale.]

1. True or faithful to one's sovereign; true in allegiance; devoted to the maintenance of law and order.

"No English legislature, however loyal, would now consent to be merely what the legislature had been under the Tudors."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. ii.

2. Faithful in love or duty; true to one's word. "And faithful, loyal in her innocence, Like the brave lion slain in her defense." Wordsworth: White Doe of Rylstone. 3. Characterized by or indicative of loyalty. "The people were mad with loyal enthusiasm."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. ii.

loyal-hearted, a. The same as LOYAL, 2 (q. v.). "On thee the loyal-hearted hung." Tennyson: In Memoriam, cix. *16y‍-al-işm, s. [Eng. loyal; -ism.] Loyalty. 16y-al-ist, 8. [Eng. loyal; -ist.] One who is loyal to his sovereign or government; one who in time of revolt or revolution remains faithful to his allegiance to his country.

loy'-al-ly, adv. [Eng. loyal; -ly.] In a loyal manner; faithfully.

"Cambridge was not less loyally disposed."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. viii.

loy -al-ness, s. [Eng. loyal; -ness.] The quality or state of being loyal; loyalty.

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"So honorably and ioyfully receiued, as eytheir their did reloyalnesse toward the Queen's Majesty quire."-Stow: Queen Elizabeth (an. 1563). 16y-al-ty, s. [O. Fr. loialteit; Fr. loyauté: Sp、 lealtad, Ital. lealta, legalita.] The quality or state of being loyal; faithful adherence to allegiance; faithfulness, devotion, constancy.

"The loyalty of Lochiel is almost proverbial: but it was very unlike what was called loyalty in England."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii.

chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; -şion

çell, chorus,

lubber's point

loz -ĕnge, *lõş ́-enge, s. [O. Fr. losenge, lozenge (Fr. losange), a word of doubtful origin; Sp. loz anje, prob. from losa a flagstone, a marble-slab, a square-stone used for paving.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. A confection, a sweetmeat, so called from being originally made of the shape of a lozenge. 2. A small rhomb-shaped pane of glass set in a leaden frame for a church window or lattice. II. Technically:

1. Geometry: An equilateral rhomboid or rhom bus; an oblique-angled parallelogram or diamond. [RHOMB.]

2. Her. A bearing of the shape of a lozenge appropriate to the arms of spinsters and widows. *3. Pharm.: A form of medicine made in small pieces, to be held or chewed in the mouth till dissolved.

*lozenge-coach, s. A dowager's carriage. [LOZENGE, 8., II. 2.]

lozenge-graver. s.

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Lozenge.

Engrav.: A graving-tool the cross section of which is of a rhomb or diamond shape. The two faces which meet to form the belly of the graver have an angle less than 90°. lozenge-mail, s. [MASCLED-MAIL.] lozenge-molding, s.

Arch. An ornament inclosing diamond-shaped panels. It is frequently found in Norman archi

tecture.

lozengeshaped, adj. Diamondshaped; rhom boidal.

loz-ĕnged, a. [Eng. loz Made into the engle); ed.] shape of a lozenge or lozenges.

Lozenge-molding.

"The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window."C. Bronte: Jane Eyre, ch. xxviii.

loz ́-en-gỹ, lõz -en-geě, a. [Eng. lozeng(e); -y,

-ee.] Her.: A term used to express the field or any armorial charge which is divided by diagonal lines transversely into equal parts or lozenges of different tinctures.

lō-zop-ĕr-a, s. [Gr. loxos oblique, and peras= an end. (Agassiz.)]

Entom. The typical genus of the family Lozoperida (q. v.).

lō-zo-pĕr-1-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lozoper(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.]

The anterior wings are of variable length, the costa Entom. A family of Moths, group Tortricina. generally regularly arched, the hind margin often oblique, the color generally yellow, often with a cen tral fascia. Larva generally feeding on seeds. *lû, s. [Loo.]

*lub -bard, s. & a. [LUBBER.] A. As subst.: A lazy fellow, a lubber. "Their victuals those curmudgeon lubbards Lock up from my sight.' Swift: Apollo to the Dean.

B. As adj.: Lubberly.

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"Conscious how much the hand Of lubbard labor needs his watchful eye." Cowper: Task, iji 400. lub-ber, *lobre, *lob-ur, s. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Wel. llob=a_dolt, a blockhead; labi=a stripling, a looby; Sw. dial. lubber a thick, clumsy, lazy man.] A lazy, clumsy fellow; a dolt; an awkward lout; specif., applied by sailors to one who does not know seamanship; a land-lubber.

"If you will measure your lubber's length again, tarry, but away."-Shakesp.: Lear, i. 4.

lubber's-hole, s.

Naut.: An opening in the floor of the top for those to crawl through who are afraid to climb up by the futtock-shrouds.

"He proposed that I should go through lubber's-hole." -Marryat: Peter Simple, ch. vii.

lubber's-point, s.

Naut.: A black vertical line drawn on the inside of the case of the mariner's compass. This line, and the pin on which the card turns, are in the same vertical line with the keel of the ship, and hence the rhumb opposite to the lubber's point shows the course of the ship at any time. The lubber's-point, however, deviates from its proper position when the ship is heeled over; hence, seamen do not implicitly depend on it, as indeed its name implies.

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