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Lie
LIE, water impregnated with alkaline salt, is written lye, to distinguish it from lie a falsehood.
LIE, noun
1. A criminal falsehood; a falsehood uttered for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth. Fiction, or a false statement or representation, not intended to deceive, mislead or injure, as in fables, parables and the like, is not a lie
It is willful deceit that makes a lie A man may act a lie as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction, when a traveler inquires of him his road.
2. A fiction; in a ludicrous sense.
3. False doctrine. .
4. An idolatrous picture of God, or a false god. .
5. That which deceives and disappoints confidence.
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To give the lie to charge with falsehood. A man's actions may give the lie to his words.
LIE, verb intransitive
1. To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive, or with an immoral design.
Thou hast not lied to men, but to God. .
2. To exhibit a false representation; to say or do that which deceives another, when he has a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
LIE, verb intransitive preterit tense lay; participle passive lain, [lien, obsolete ] [The Gr. word usually signifies to speak, which is to utter or throw out sounds. Hence to lie down is to throw one's self down, and probably lie and lay are of one family, as are jacio and jacceo, in Latin.]
1. To be in a horizontal position, or nearly so, and to rest on any thing lengthwise, and not on the end. Thus a person lies on a bed, and a fallen tree on the ground. A cask stands on its end, but lies on its side.
2. To rest in an inclining posture; to lean; as, to lie on or against a column.
3. To rest; to press on.
4. To be reposited in the grave.
All the kings of the earth, even all of them, lie in glory.
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5. To rest on a bed or couch; to be prostrate; as, to lie sick.
My little daughter lieth at the point of death. .
6. To be situated. New Haven lies in the forty second degree of north latitude. Ireland lies west of England.
Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
7. To be; to rest; to abide; to remain; often followed by some word denoting a particular condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie pining or grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of a creditor, or at the mercy of the waves.
8. To consist.
He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising of the huntsman.
9. To be sustainable in law; to be capable of being maintained. An action lies against the tenant for waste.
An appeal lies in this case.
To lie at, to tease or importune. [Little used.]
To lie at the heart, to be fixed as an object of affection or anxious desire.
1. To lie by, to be reposited, or remaining with. He has the manuscript lying by him.
2. To rest; to intermit labor. We lay by during the heat of the day.
To lie in the way, to be an obstacle or impediment. Remove the objections that lie in the way of an amicable adjustment.
To lie hard or heavy, to press; to oppress; to burden.
To lie on hand, to be or remain in possession; to remain unsold or undisposed of.
Great quantities of wine lie on hand, or have lain long on hand.
To lie on the hands, to remain unoccupied or unemployed; to be tedious. Men are sometimes at a loss to know how to employ the time that lies on their hands.
To lie on the head, to be imputed.
What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head.
To lie in wait, to wait for in concealment; to lie in ambush; to watch for an opportunity to attack or seize.
To lie in one, to be in the power of; to belong to.
As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Rom 41.
To lie down, to lay the body on the ground or other level place; also, to go to rest.
To lie in, to be in childbed; to bring forth young.
To lie under, to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by.
To lie on or upon, to be a matter of obligation or duty. It lies on the plaintiff to maintain his action.
1. To lie with, to lodge or sleep with; also, to have carnal knowledge of.
2. To belong to. It lies with you to make amends.
To lie over, to remain unpaid, after the time when payment is due; as a note in bank.
To lie to, to be stationary, as a ship.
Lief
LIEF, adjective [See Love.] Dear; beloved. obsolete
LIEF, adverb [supra. This word coincides with love, Latin lubet, libet, and the primary sense is to be free, prompt, ready.]
Gladly; willingly; freely; used in familiar speech, in the phrase, I had as lief go as not. It has been supposed that had in this phrase is a corruption of would. At any rate it is anomalous.
Liege
LIEGE, adjective [Latin ligo, to bind; Gr. to bind, to bend; a withe.]
1. Bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; subject; faithful; as a liege man. By liege homage, a vassal was bound to serve his lord against all, without excepting his sovereign; or against all, excepting a former lord to whom he owed like service.
2. Sovereign; as a liege lord. [See the noun.]
LIEGE, noun [supra.]
1. A vassal holding a fee by which he is bound to perform certain services and duties to his lord.
2. A lord or superior; a sovereign.
[Note. This is a false application of the word, arising probably from transferring the word from the vassal to the lord; the lord of liege men, being called liege lord.
Liege-Man
LIE'GE-MAN, noun A vassal; a subject. obsolete
Lien
LIEN, the obsolete participle of lie. [See Lain.]
LIEN, noun [supra.] A legal claim; as a lien upon land.
Lienteric
LIENTER'IC, adjective [from lientery.] Pertaining to a lientery.
Lientery
LI'ENTERY, noun [Latin ; Gr. smooth, and an intestine.]
A flux of the bowels, in which the aliments are discharged undigested, and with little alteration either in color or substance.
Lier
LIER, noun [from lie.] One who lies down; one who rests or remains; as a lier in wait or in ambush. .
Lieu
LIEU, noun [Latin locus, Eng. ley or lea. See Ley.]
Place; room; stead. It is used only with in. Let me have gold in lieu of silver. In lieu of fashionable honor, let justice by substituted.
Lieutenancy
LIEUTENANCY,
n. luten'ancy. [See Lieutenant.]
1. The office or commission of a lieutenant.
2. The body of lieutenants.
Lieutenant
LIEUTENANT, noun luten'ant. [Latin tenens, holding.]
1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence. Officers of this kind are civil, as the lord-lieutenant of a kingdom or county; or military, as a lieutenant general, a lieutenant colonel.
2. In military affairs, the second commissioned officer in a company of infantry cavalry or artillery.
3. In ships of war, the officer next in rank to the captain.
Lieutenantship
LIEUTENANTSHIP. [See Lieutenancy.]
Lieve
LIEVE, for lief, is vulgar. [See Lief.]
Lievrite
LIE'VRITE, noun A mineral, called also yenite, which see.
Life
LIFE, noun plu lives. [See Live.]
1. In a general sense, that state of animals and plants, or of an organized being, in which its natural functions and motions are performed, or in which its organs are capable of performing their functions. A tree is not destitute of life in winter, when the functions of its organs are suspended; nor man during a swoon or syncope; nor strictly birds, quadrupeds or serpents during their torpitude in winter. They are not strictly dead, till the functions of their organs are incapable of being renewed.
2. In animals, animation; vitality; and in man, that state of being in which the soul and body are united.
He entreated me not to take his life
3. In plants, the state in which they grow or are capable of growth, by means of the circulation of the sap. The life of an oak may be two, three, or four hundred years.
4. The present state of existence; the time from birth to death. The life of man seldom exceeds seventy years.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. .
5. Manner of living; conduct; deportment, in regard to morals.
I will teach my family to lead good lives.
6. Condition; course of living, in regard to happiness and misery. We say, a man's life has been a series of prosperity, or misfortune.
7. Blood, the supposed vehicle of animation.
And the warm life came issuing through the wound.
8. Animals in general; animal being.
Full nature swarms with life
9. System of animal nature.
Lives through all life
10. Spirit; animation; briskness; vivacity; resolution.
They have no notion of life and fire in fancy and words.
11. The living form; real person or state; in opposition to a copy; as, a picture is taken from the life; a description from the life
12. Exact resemblance; with to, before life
His portrait is draw to the life
13. General state of man, or of social manners; as the studies and arts that polish life
14. Condition; rank in society; as high life and low life
15.Common occurrences; course of things; human affairs.
But to know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.
16. A person; a living being; usually or always, a human being. How many lives were sacrificed during the revolution?
17. Narrative of a past life; history of the events of life; biographical narration. Johnson wrote the life of Milton, and the lives of other poets.
18. In Scripture, nourishment; support of life
For the tree of the field is man's life .
19. The stomach or appetite.
His life abhorreth bread. .
20. The enjoyments or blessings of the present life
Having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. .
21. Supreme felicity.
To be spiritually minded is life and peace. .
22. Eternal happiness in heaven. .
23. Restoration to life .
24. The author and giver of supreme felicity.
I am the way, the truth, and the life .
25. A quickening, animating and strengthening principle, in a moral sense. .
26. The state of being in force, or the term for which an instrument has legal operation; as the life of an execution.
Life-Blood
LI'FE-BLOOD, noun
1. The blood necessary to life; vital blood.
2. That which constitutes or gives strength and energy.
Money, the life-blood of the nation.
LI'FE-BLOOD, adjective Necessary as blood to life; essential.
Life-Estate
LIFE-ESTA'TE, noun An estate that continues during the life of the possessor.
Life-Everlasting
LIFE-EVERL'ASTING, noun A plant of the genus Gnaphalium.
Life-Giving
LI'FE-GIVING, adjective Having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.
Lifeguard
LI'FEGUARD, noun A guard of the life or person; a guard that attends the person of a prince, or other person.
Lifeless
LI'FELESS, adjective
1. Dead; deprived of life; as a lifeless body.
2. Destitute of life; unanimated; as lifeless matter.
3. Destitute of power, force, vigor or spirit; dull; heavy; inactive.
4. Void of spirit; vapid; as liquor.
5. Torpid.
6. Wanting physical energy.
Lifelessly
LI'FELESSLY, adverb Without vigor; dully; frigidly; heavily.
Lifelessness
LI'FELESSNESS, noun Destitution of life, vigor and spirit; inactivity.
Lifelike
LI'FELIKE, adjective Like a living person.
Liferent
LI'FERENT, noun The rent of an estate that continues for life.
Lifestring
LI'FESTRING, noun a nerve or string that is imagined to be essential to life.
Lifetime
LI'FETIME, noun The time that life continues; duration of life.
Lifeweary
LI'FEWEARY, adjective Tired of life; weary of living.
Lift
LIFT, verb transitive [We retain this sense in shoplifter. Latin levo, elevo.]
1. To raise; to elevate; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift the head.
2. To raise; to elevate mentally.
To thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. .
3. To raise in fortune.
The eye of the Lord lifted up his head from misery.
4. To raise in estimation, dignity or rank. His fortune has lifted him into notice, or into office.
The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.
5. To elate; to cause to swell, as with pride. Up is often used after lift as a qualifying word; sometimes with effect or emphasis; very often, however, it is useless.
6. To bear; to support.
7. To steal, that is, to take and carry away. Hence we retain the use of shoplifter, although the verb in this sense is obsolete.
8. In Scripture, to crucify.
When ye have lifted up the Son of man. .
1. To lift up the eyes, to look; to fix the eyes on.
Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld Jordan. .
2. To direct the desires to God in prayer. .
1. To lift up the head, to raise from a low condition; to exalt. .
2. To rejoice. .
1. To lift up the hand, to swear, or to confirm by oath.
2. To raise the hands in prayer.
3. To rise in opposition to; to rebel; to assault.
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4. To injure or oppress. .
5. To shake off sloth and engage in duty. .
To lift up the face, to look to with confidence, cheerfulness and comfort. .
To lift up the face, to look to with confidence, cheerfulness and comfort. .
To lift up the heel against, to treat with insolence and contempt.
To lift up the horn, to behave arrogantly or scornfully.
To lift up the feet, to come speedily to one's relief.
To lift up the voice, to cry aloud; to call out, either in grief or joy. .
LIFT, verb intransitive
1. To try to raise; to exert the strength for the purpose of raising or bearing.
The body strained by lifting at a weight too heavy -
2. To practice theft. obsolete
LIFT, noun
1. The act of raising; a lifting; as the lift of the feet in walking or running.
The goat gives the fox a lift
2. An effort to raise; as, give us a lift [Popular use.]
3. That which is to be raised.
4. A dead lift an ineffectual effort to raise; or the thing which the strength is not sufficient to raise.
5. Any thing to be done which exceeds the strength; or a state of inability; as, to help one at a dead lift
6. A rise; a degree of elevation; as the lift of a lock in canals.
7. In Scottish, the sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
8. In seamen's language, a rope descending from the cap and mast-head to the extremity of a yard. Its use is to support the yard, keep it in equilibrio, and raise the end, when occasion requires.
Lifted
LIFT'ED, participle passive Raised; elevated; swelled with pride.
Lifter
LIFT'ER, noun One that lifts or raises.
Lifting
LIFT'ING, participle present tense Raising; swelling with pride.
LIFT'ING, noun The act of lifting; assistance.
Lig
LIG, verb intransitive to lie. [See Lie.] obsolete
Ligament
LIG'AMENT, noun [Latin ligamentum, from ligo, to bind, that is, to strain.]
1. Any thing that ties or unites one thing or part to another.
Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts.
2. In anatomy, a strong, compact substance, serving to bind one bone to another. It is a white, solid inelastic, tendinous substance, softer than cartilage, but harder than membrane.
3. Bond; chain; that which binds or restrains.
Ligamental
LIGAMENT'AL,
LIGAMENT'OUS, adjective Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as a strong ligamentous membrane.
Ligamentous
LIGAMENT'OUS, a. Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as a strong ligamentous membrane.
Ligation
LIGA'TION, noun [Latin ligatio.] The act of binding, or state of being bound.
Ligature
LIG'ATURE, noun [Latin ligatura.]
1. Any thing that binds; a band or bandage.
2. The act of binding; as, by a strict ligature of the parts.
3. Impotence induced by magic.
4. In music, a band or line connecting notes.
5. Among printers, a double character, or a type consisting of two letters or characters united; as fl, fi, in English. The old editions of Greek authors abound with ligatures.
6. The state of being bound.
7. In medicine, stiffness of a joint.
8. In surgery, a cord or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage.
Light
LIGHT, noun lite. [Latin lux, light and luceo, to shine. Eng. luck, both in elements and radical sense.]
1. That ethereal agent or matter which makes objects perceptible to the sense of seeing, but the particles of which are separately invisible. It is now generally believed that light is a fluid, or real matter, existing independent of other substances, with properties peculiar to itself. Its velocity is astonishing, as it passes through a space of nearly twelve millions of miles in a minute. light when decomposed, is found to consist of rays differently colored; as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The sun is the principal source of light in the solar system; but light is also emitted from bodies ignited, or in combustion, and is reflected from enlightened bodies, as the moon. light is also emitted from certain putrefying substances. It is usually united with heat, but it exists also independent of it.
2. That flood of luminous rays which flows from the sun and constitutes day.
God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. .
3. Day; the dawn of day.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy. .
4. Life.
O, spring to light auspicious babe, be born!
5. Any thing that gives light; as a lamp, candle, taper, lighted tower, star, etc.
Then he called for a light and sprang in - .
I have set thee to be a light to the Gentiles. .
And God made two great lights. .
6. The illuminated part of a picture; the part which lies open to the luminary by which the piece is supposed to be enlightened, and is painted in vivid colors; opposed to shade.
7. Illumination of mind; instruction; knowledge.
I opened Ariosto in Italian, and the very first two lines gave me light to all I could desire.
LIGHT, understanding and wisdom - was found in him. .
8. Means of knowing. By using such lights as we have, we may arrive at probability, if not at certainty.
9. Open view; a visible state; a state of being seen by the eye, or perceived, understood or known. Further researches will doubtless bring to light many isles yet undiscovered; further experiments will bring to light properties of matter yet unknown.
10. Public view or notice.
Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light?
11. Explanation; illustration; means of understanding. One part of Scripture throws light on another.
12. Point of view; situation to be seen or viewed; a use of the word taken from painting. It is useful to exhibit a subject in a variety of lights. Let every thought be presented in a strong light In whatever light we view this event, it must be considered an evil.
13. A window; a place that admits light to enter.
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14. A pane of glass; as a window with twelve lights.
15. In Scripture, God, the source of knowledge.
God is light .
16. Christ.
That was the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. .
17. Joy; comfort; felicity.
LIGHT is sown for the righteous. .
18. Saving knowledge.
It is because there is no light in them. .
19. Prosperity; happiness.
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning. .
20. Support; comfort; deliverance. .
21. The gospel. .
22. The understanding or judgment. .
23. The gifts and graces of christians.
24. A moral instructor, as John the Baptist. .
25. A true christian, a person enlightened. .
26. A good king, the guide of his people. Sam. 21.
The light of the countenance, favor; smiles. .
To stand in one's own light to be the means of preventing good, or frustrating one's own purposes.
To come to light to be detected; to be discovered or found.
LIGHT, adjective lite.
1. Bright; clear; not dark or obscure; as, the morning is light; the apartment is light
2. In colors, white or whitish; as a light color; a light brown; a light complexion.
LIGHT, adjective lite.
1. Having little weight; not tending to the center of gravity with force; not heavy. A feather is light compared with lead or silver; but a thing is light only comparatively. That which is light to a man, may be heavy to a child. A light burden for a camel, may be insupportable to a horse.
2. Not burdensome; easy to be lifted, borne or carried by physical strength; as a light burden, weight or load.
3. Not oppressive; easy to be suffered or endured; as a light affliction. .
4. Easy to be performed; not difficult; not requiring great strength or exertion. The task is light; the work is light
5. Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as light food. It may signify also, contained little nutriment.
6. Not heavily armed, or armed with light weapons; as light troops; a troop of light horse.
7. Active; swift; nimble.
Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe. Sam. 2.
8. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments.
Unmarried men are best masters, but not best subjects; for they are light to run away.
9. Not laden; not deeply laden; not sufficiently ballasted. The ship returned light
10. Slight; trifling; not important; as a light error.
11. Not dense; not gross; as light vapors; light fumes.
12. Small; inconsiderable; not copious or vehement; as a light rain; a light snow.
13. Not strong; not violent; moderate; as a light wind.
14. Easy to admit influence; inconsiderate; easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile; as a light vain person; a light mind.
There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person, than profanely to scoff at religion.
15. Gay; airy; indulging levity; wanting dignity or solidity; trifling.
Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light
We may neither be light in prayer, now wrathful in debate.
16. Wanton; unchaste; as a woman of light carriage.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
17. Not of legal weight; clipped; diminished; as light coin.
To set light by, to undervalue; to slight; to treat as of no importance; to despise.
To make light of, to treat as of little consequence; to slight; to disregard.
LIGHT, verb transitive lite.
1. To kindle; to inflame; to set fire to; as, to light a candle or lamp; sometimes with up; as, to light up an inextinguishable flame. We often hear lit used for lighted as, he lit a candle; but this is inelegant.
2. To give light to.
Ah hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn to light the dead -
3. To illuminate; to fill or spread over with light; as, to light a room; to light the streets of a city.
4. To lighten; to ease of a burden. [Not in use. See Lighten.]
LIGHT, verb intransitive lite.
1. To fall on; to come to by chance; to happen to find; with on.
A weaker man may sometimes light on notions which had escaped a wiser.
2. To fall on; to strike.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. .
3. To descend, as from a horse or carriage; with down, off, or from.
He lighten down from his chariot. .
She lighted off the camel. .
To settle; to rest; to stoop from flight. The bee lights on this flower and that.
Light-Armed
LI'GHT-ARMED, adjective Armed with light weapons.
Light-Bearer
LI'GHT-BEARER, noun A torch-bearer.
Light-Brain
LI'GHT-BRAIN, noun An empty headed person.
Light-Horse
LI'GHT-HORSE, noun Light armed cavalry.
Light-House
LI'GHT-HOUSE, noun A pharos; a tower or building erected on a rock or point of land, or on an isle in the sea, with a light or number of lamps on the top, intended to direct seamen in navigating ships at night.
Lighted
LIGHTED, participle passive li'ted. Kindled; set on fire; caused to burn. [Lit, for lighted is inelegant.]
Lighten
LIGHTEN, verb intransitive li'tn. [from light, the fluid.]
1. To flash; to burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with an instantaneous illumination.
This dreadful night that thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars as doth the lion.
2. To shine like lightning.
3. To fall; to light. obsolete
LIGHTEN, verb transitive li'tn.
1. To dissipate darkness; to fill with light; to spread over with light; to illuminate; to enlighten; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.
A key of fire ran all along the shore, and lightened all the river with a blaze.
2. To illuminate with knowledge; in a moral sense.
A light to lighten the Gentiles. .
3. To free from trouble and fill with joy.
They looked to him and were lightened. .
LIGHTEN, verb transitive li'tn. [from light, not heavy.]
1. To make lighter; to reduce in weight; to make less heavy; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.
2. To alleviate; to make less burdensome or afflictive; as, to lighten the cares of life; to lighten the burden of grief.
3. To cheer; to exhilarate.
He lightens my humor with his merry jest.
Lighter
LIGHTER, noun li'ter.
1. One that lights; as a lighter of lamps.
2. A large open flat-bottomed boat, used in loading and unloading ships.
Lighterman
LIGHTERMAN, noun li'terman. A man who manages a lighter; a boatman.
Lightfingered
LIGHTFINGERED, adjective li'tefingered. Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; addicted to petty thefts.
Lightfooted
LIGHTFOOTED, li'tefooted. adjective Nimble in running or dancing; active. [Little used.]
Lightheaded
LI'GHTHEADED, adjective [See head.]
1. Thoughtless; heedless; weak; volatile; unsteady.
2. Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
Lightheadedness
LI'GHTHEADEDNESS, noun Disorder of the head; dizziness; deliriousness.
Lighthearted
LI'GHTHE'ARTED, adjective Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry.
Lightlegged
LI'GHTLEGGED, adjective Nimble; swift of foot.
Lightless
LIGHTLESS, li'teless. Destitute of light; dark.
Lightly
LIGHTLY, adverb li'tely.
1. With little weight; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly
2. Without deep impression.
The soft ideas of the cheerful note, lightly received, were easily forgot.
3. Easily; readily; without difficulty; of course.
4. Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.
Flatter not the rich, neither do thou willingly or lightly appear before great personages.
5. Without dejection; cheerfully.
Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly
6. Not chastely; wantonly.
7. Nimbly; with agility; not heavily or tardily.
He led me lightly o'er the stream.
8. Gaily; airily; with levity; without heed or care.
Lightminded
LIGHTMINDED, adjective Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
He that is hasty to give credit, is lightminded
Lightness
LIGHTNESS, noun li'teness.
1. Want of weight; levity; the contrary to heaviness; as the lightness of air, compared with water.
2. Inconstancy; unsteadiness; the quality of mind which disposes it to be influenced by trifling considerations.
- Such is the lightness of you common men.
3. Levity; wantonness; lewdness; unchastity.
4. Agility; nimbleness.
Lightning
LIGHTNING, noun li'tening. [that is, lightening, the participle present of lighten.]
1. A sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, or from one cloud to another, that is, from a body positively charged to one negatively charged, producing a vivid flash of light, and usually a loud report, called thunder. Sometimes lightning is a mere instantaneous flash of light without thunder, as heat-lightning, lightning seen by reflection, the flash being beyond the limits of our horizon.
2. [from lighten, to diminish weight.] Abatement; alleviation; mitigation.
Lightroom
LI'GHTROOM, noun In a ship of war, a small apartment, having double glass windows towards the magazine, and containing lights by which the gunner fills cartridges.
Lights
LIGHTS, noun lites. plural [so called from their lightness.]
The lungs; the organs of breathing in animals. These organs in man we call lungs; in other animals, lights
Lightsome
LIGHTSOME, adjective li'tesome.
1. Luminous; not dark; not obscure.
White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. [Little used.]
The lightsome realms of love.
[In the latter passage, the word is elegant.]
2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating.
That lightsome affection of joy.
Lightsomeness
LI'GHTSOMENESS, noun
1. Luminousness; the quality of being light; opposed to darkness or darksomeness.
2. Cheerfulness; merriment; levity. [This word is little used.]
Lign-Aloes
LIGN-AL'OES, noun [Latin lignum, wood, and aloes.] Aloes-wood. .
Ligneous
LIG'NEOUS, adjective [Latin ligneus.] Wooden; made of wood; consisting of wood; resembling wood. The harder part of a plant is ligneous
Lignification
LIGNIFICA'TION, noun The process of becoming or of converting into wood, or the hard substance of a vegetable.
Ligniform
LIG'NIFORM adjective [Latin lignum, wood, and form.] Like wood; resembling wood.
Lignify
LIG'NIFY, verb transitive [Latin lignum, wood, and facio, to make.] To convert into wood.
LIG'NIFY, verb intransitive To become wood.
Lignite
LIG'NITE, noun [Latin lignum.] Fossil or bituminous wood, a mineral combustible substance.
Lignous
LIG'NOUS, adjective Ligneous. [Little used.]
Lignum-Vitae
LIGNUM-VIT'AE, noun [Latin] Guaiacum or pockwood, a genus of plants, natives of warm climates. The common Lignumvitae is a native of the warm latitudes of America. If becomes a large tree, having a hard, brownish, brittle bark, and its wood firm, solid, ponderous, very resinous, of a blackish yellow color in the middle, and of a hot aromatic taste. It is of considerable use in medicine and the mechanical arts, being wrought into utensils, wheels, cogs, and various articles of turnery.
Ligulate
LIG'ULATE,
LIG'ULATED, adjective [Latin ligula, a strap.] Like a bandage or strap; as a ligulate flower, a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out towards the end, with the base only tubular. This is the semi-floscular flower of Tournefort.
Ligure
LIG'URE, noun A kind of precious stone.
Ligurite
LIG'URITE, noun [from Liguria.] A mineral occurring in oblique rhombic prisms, of an apple green color, occasionally speckled.
Like
LIKE, adjective [Latin , Heb., Gr. See Lick and Lickerish.]
1. Equal in quantity, quality or degree; as a territory of like extent with another; men of like excellence.
More clergymen were impoverished by the late war, than ever in the like space before.
2. Similar; resembling; having resemblance.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are.
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Why might not other planets have been created for like uses with the earth, each for its own inhabitants?
LIKE is usually followed by to or unto, but it is often omitted.
What city is like unto this great city? .
I saw three unclean spirits like frogs. .
Among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. .
3. Probably; likely, that is, having the resemblance or appearance of an event; giving reason to expect or believe.
He is like to die of hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread. .
Many were not easy to be governed, not like to conform themselves to strict rules.
LIKE, noun [elliptically, for like thing, like event, like person.]
1. some person or thing resembling another; an equal. The like lmay never happen again.
He was a man, take him for all and all, I shall not look upon his like again.
2. had like in the phrase, 'he had like to be defeated, ' seems to be a corruption; but perhaps like here is used for resemblance or probability, and has the character of a noun. At any rate, as a phrase, it is authorized by good usage.
LIKE, adverb
1. In the same manner.
- Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. . .
LIKE as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. .
2. In a manner becoming.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. .
3. Likely; probably; as like enough it will.
LIKE, verb transitive [Latin placeo and delecto, with prefixes.]
1. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve. it expresses less than love and delight. We like a plan or design, when we approve of it as correct or beneficial. We like the character or conduct of a man when it comports with our view of rectitude. We like food that the taste relishes. We like whatever gives us pleasure.
He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving.
2. to please; to be agreeable to.
This desire being recommended to her majesty, it like her to include the same within one entire lease. obsolete
3. To liken. obsolete
LIKE, verb intransitive
1. To be pleased; to choose.
He may go or stay, as he likes.
2. To like of, to be pleased. obsolete
Like-Minded
LIKE-MINDED, adjective Having a like disposition or purpose. .
Likelihood
LI'KELIHOOD, noun [likely and hod.]
1. Probability; verisimilitude; appearance of truth or reality. There is little likelihood that an habitual drunkard will become temperate. There is little likelihood that an old offender will be reformed. Prudence directs us not to undertake a design, when there is little or no likelihood of success.
2. Appearance; show; resemblance. obsolete
Likeliness
LI'KELINESS, noun [from likely.]
1. Probability.
2. The qualities that please. [See Likely.]
Likely
LI'KELY, adjective [that is, like-like.]
1. Probable; that may be rationally though or believed to have taken place in time past, or to be true now or hereafter; such as is more reasonable than the contrary. A likely story, is one which evidence, or the circumstances of the case render probable, and therefore credible.
2. Such as may be liked; pleasing; as a likely man or woman.
[This use of likely is not obsolete, as Johnson affirms, nor is it vulgar. But the English and their descendants in America differ in the application. The English apply the word to external appearance, and with them, likely is equivalent to handsome, well formed; as a likely man, a likely horse. In America, the word is usually applied to the endowments of the mind, or to pleasing accomplishments. With us, a likely man, is a man of good character and talents, or of good dispositions or accomplishments, that render him pleasing or respectable.]
LI'KELY, adverb Probably.
While man was innocent, he was likely ignorant of nothing important for him to know.
Liken
LIKEN, verb transitive li'kn.
To compare; to represent as resembling or similar.
Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, that built his house on a rock. .
Likened
LI'KENED, participle passive Compared.
Likeness
LI'KENESS, noun
1. Resemblance in form; similitude. The picture is a good likeness of the original.
2. Resemblance; form; external appearance. Guard against an enemy in the likeness of a friend.
3. One that resembles another; a copy; a counterpart.
I took you for your likeness Chloe.
4. An image, picture or statue, resembling a person or thing. .
Likening
LI'KENING, participle present tense Comparing; representing as similar.
Likewise
LI'KEWISE, adverb [like and wise.] In like manner; also; moreover; too.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. .
Liking
LI'KING, participle present tense of like.
1. Approving; being pleased with.
2. adjective Plump; full; of a good appearance. . obsolete
LI'KING, noun
1. A good state of body; healthful appearance; plumpness.
Their young ones are in good liking - .
2. State of trial. [Not used.]
3. Inclination; pleasure; as, this is an amusement to your liking
4. Delight in; pleasure in; with to.
He who has no liking to the whole, ought not to censure the parts.
Lilac
LI'LAC, noun A plant or shrub of the genus syringa, a native of Persia. The common lilac is cultivated for its flowers, which are purple or white.
Lilalite
LIL'ALITE, noun A species of earth of the argillaceous kind; called also lepidolite, which see.
Liliaceous
LILIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin liliaceus, from lilium, a lily.]
Pertaining to lilies; lily-like. A liliaceous corol is one that has six regular petals.
Lilied
LIL'IED, adjective Embellished with lilies.
By sandy Ladon's lilied banks.
Lill
LILL, verb transitive [See Loll. But lill is used in New England.]
Lilt
LILT, verb intransitive
1. To do any thing with dexterity or quickness. [Local.]
2. To sing or play on the bagpipe.
Lily
LIL'Y, noun [Latin lilium; Gr.] A genus of plants of many species, which are all bulbous-rooted, herbaceous perennials, producing bell-shaped, hexapetalous flowers of great beauty and variety of colors.
Lily of the valley, a plant of the genus convallaria, with a monopetalous, bell-shaped corol, divided at the top into six segments.
Lily-Daffodil
LILY-DAF'FODIL, noun A plant and flower.
Lily-Handed
LIL'Y-HANDED, adjective Having white delicate hands.
Lily-Hyacinth
LIL'Y-HYACINTH, noun A plant.
Lily-Livered
LILY-LIV'ERED, adjective White-livered; cowardly. [Not used.]
Limation
LIMA'TION, noun [Latin limo, to file.] The act of filing or polishing.
Limature
LI'MATURE, noun [Latin limo, to file.]
1. A filing.
2. Filings; particles rubbed off by filing.
Limb
LIMB, noun lim. [Latin limbus, edge or border, extremity; limes, limit. The sense of limb is from shooting or extending.]
1. Edge or border. This is the proper signification of the word; but in this sense it is limited chiefly to technical use, and applied to the sun, moon, or a star, to a leaf, to a quadrant, etc. We say, the sun or moon is eclipsed on its northern limb But we never say, the limb of a board, of a tract of land or water, etc.
2. In anatomy, and in common use, an extremity of the human body; a member; a projecting part; as the arm or leg; that is, a shoot.
3. The branch of a tree; applied only to a branch of some size, and not to a small twig.
4. In botany, the border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corol.
LIMB, verb transitive lim.
1. To supply with limbs.
2. To dismember; to tear off the limbs.
Limbat
LIM'BAT, noun A cooling periodical wind in the isle of Cyprus, blowing from the north west from eight o'clock, adjective M. to the middle of the day or later.
Limbec
LIM'BEC, noun [contracted from alembic.] A still; a word not now used.
LIM'BEC, verb transitive To strain or pass through a still. obsolete
Limbed
LIMB'ED, adjective In composition, formed with regard to limbs; as well-limbed; large-limbed; short-limbed.
Limber
LIM'BER, adjective Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. In America, it is applied to material things; as a limber rod; a limber joint.
LIM'BER, noun In a ship, a square hole cut through the floor timbers, as a passage for water to the pump-well.
Limberness
LIM'BERNESS, noun The quality of being easily bent; flexibleness; pliancy.
Limbers
LIM'BERS, noun
1. A two-wheeled carriage, having boxes for ammunition.
2. Thills; shafts of a carriage. [Local.]
Limbilite
LIM'BILITE, noun A mineral from Limbourg, in Swabia, of a honey yellow color, and compact texture.
Limbless
LIMB'LESS, adjective Destitute of limbs.
LIMB'-MEAL, adjective Piece-meal.
Limbo
LIM'BO,
LIM'BUS, noun [Latin limbus.]
1. A region bordering on hell, or hell itself.
Among catholics, a place where the souls of persons are lodged after death.
2. A place of restraint.
Limbus
LIM'BUS, n. [L. limbus.] 1. A region bordering on hell, or hell itself.Among catholics, a place where the souls of persons are lodged after death.2. A place of restraint.
Lime
LIME, noun [Latin limus; Gr. and allied to clammy. On this word is formed slime.]
1. A viscous substance, sometimes laid on twigs for catching birds.
2. Calcarious earth, oxyd of calcium, procured from chalk and certain stones and shells, by expelling from them the carbonic acid, by means of a strong heat in a furnace. The best lime for mortar or cement is obtained from limestone, or carbonate of lime of which marble is a fine species.
3. The linden tree.
4. [See Lemon.] A species of acid fruit, smaller than the lemon.
LIME, verb transitive
1. To smear with a viscous substance.
2. To entangle; to ensnare.
3. To manure with lime
Land may be improved by draining, marling and liming.
4. To cement.
Lime-Burner
LI'ME-BURNER, noun One who burns stones to lime.
Limed
LI'MED, participle passive Smeared with lime; entangled; manured with lime.
Limehound
LI'MEHOUND, noun A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a limer.
Limekiln
LIMEKILN, noun li'mekil. A kiln or furnace in which stones or shells are exposed to a strong heat and reduced to lime.
Limestone
LI'MESTONE, noun Stone of which lime is made by the expulsion of its carbonic acid, or fixed air. It is called carbonate of lime. Of this there are several species.
Limetwig
LI'METWIG, noun A twig smeared with lime.
Limetwigged
LI'METWIGGED, adjective Smeared with lime.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.