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Limewater
LI'MEWATER, noun Water impregnated with lime.
Liming
LI'MING, participle present tense Daubing with viscous matter; entangling; manuring with lime.
Limit
LIM'IT, noun [Latin limes. See Limb.]
1. Bound; border; utmost extent; the part that terminates a thing; as the limit of a town, city or empire; the limits of human knowledge.
2. The thing which bounds; restraint.
3. Limits, plural , the extent of the liberties of a prison.
LIM'IT, verb transitive
1. To bound; to set bounds to.
2. To confine within certain bounds; to circumscribe; to restrain. The government of England is a limited monarchy.
They tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel. .
3. To restrain from a lax or general signification. World sometimes signifies the universe, and sometimes its signification is limited to this earth.
Limitable
LIM'ITABLE, adjective That may be limited, circumscribed, bounded or restrained.
Limitaneous
LIM'ITANEOUS, adjective Pertaining to bounds.
Limitarian
LIMITA'RIAN, adjective That limits or circumscribes.
LIMITA'RIAN, noun One that limits; one who holds the doctrine that a part of the human race only are to be saved; opposed to universalist.
Limitary
LIM'ITARY, adjective Placed at the limit, as a guard.
- Proud limitary cherub.
Limitation
LIMITA'TION, noun [Latin limitatio.]
1. The act of bounding or circumscribing.
2. Restriction; restraint; circumscription. The king consented to a limitation of his prerogatives. Government by the limitation of natural rights secures civil liberty.
3. Restriction; confinement from a lax indeterminate import. Words of general import are often to be understood with limitations.
4. A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg or exercise their functions.
Limited
LIM'ITED, participle passive
1. Bounded; circumscribed; restrained.
2. adjective Narrow; circumscribed. Our views of nature are very limited
Limitedly
LIM'ITEDLY, adverb With limitation.
Limitedness
LIM'ITEDNESS, noun State of being limited.
Limiter
LIM'ITER, noun
1. He or that which limits or confines.
2. A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district.
Limitless
LIM'ITLESS, adjective Having no limits; unbounded.
Limmer
LIM'MER, noun
1. A limehound; a mongrel.
2. A dog engendered between a hound and a mastiff.
3. A thill or shaft. [Local. See Limber.]
4. A thill-horse. [Local.]
Limn
LIMN, verb transitive lim. [Latin lumino.] To draw or paint; or to paint in water colors.
Limned
LIM'NED, participle passive lim'med. Painted.
Limner
LIM'NER, noun [Latin illuminator, in the middle ages, alluminor.]
1. One that colors or paints on paper or parchment; one who decorates books with initial pictures.
2. A portrait painter.
Limning
LIMN'ING, participle present tense Drawing; painting; painting in water colors.
LIM'NING, noun The act or art of drawing or painting in water colors.
Limous
LI'MOUS, adjective [Latin limosus, from limus, slime.] Muddy; slimy; thick.
Limp
LIMP, verb intransitive To halt; to walk lamely.
LIMP, noun A halt; act of limping.
LIMP, adjective Vapid; weak. [Not used.]
Limper
LIMP'ER, noun One that limps.
Limpet
LIM'PET, noun [Latin lepas; Gr. from to peel or strip off bark.]
A univalve shell of the genus Patella, adhering to rocks.
Limpid
LIM'PID, adjective [Latin limpidus.] Pure; clear; transparent; as a limpid stream.
Limpidness
LIM'PIDNESS, noun Clearness; purity.
Limping
LIM'PING, participle present tense Halting; walking lamely.
Limpingly
LIM'PINGLY, adverb Lamely; in a halting manner.
Limsy
LIM'SY, adjective Weak; flexible.
Limy
LI'MY, adjective [See lime.]
1. Viscous; glutinous; as limy snares.
2. Containing lime; as a limy soil.
3. Resembling lime; having the qualities of lime.
Lin
LIN, verb intransitive To yield. obsolete
LIN, noun A pool or mere. [Not used.]
Linchpin
LINCH'PIN, noun
A pin used to prevent the wheel of a carriage from sliding off the axle-tree.
Lincture
LINC'TURE, noun [Latin lingo, linctus.] Medicine taken by licking.
Linden
LIN'DEN, noun
The lime-tree, or teil-tree, of the genus Tilia.
Line
LINE, noun [Latin linea, linum; Gr. flax.]
1. In geometry, a quantity extended in length, without breadth or thickness; or a limit terminating a surface.
2. A slender string; a small cord or rope. The angler uses a line and hook. The seaman uses a hand line a hauling line spilling lines, etc.
3. A thread, string or cord extended to direct any operation.
We as by line upon the ocean go.
4. Lineament; a mark in the hand or face.
He tipples palmistry, and dines on all her fortune-telling lines.
5. Delineation; sketch; as the lines of a building.
6. Contour; outline; exterior limit of a figure.
Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line
7. In writing, printing and engraving, the words and letters which stand on a level in one row, between one margin and another; as a page of thirty lines.
8. In poetry, a verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
9. A short letter; a note. I received a line from my friend by the last mail.
10. A rank or row of soldiers, or the disposition of an army drawn up with an extended front; or the like disposition of a fleet prepared for engagement.
11. A trench or rampart; an extended work in fortification.
Unite thy forces and attack their lines.
12. Method; disposition; as line of order.
13. Extension; limit; border.
Eden stretched her line from Auran eastward to the royal towers of great Seleucia.
14. Equator; equinoctial circle.
When the sun below the line descends -
15. A series or succession of progeny or relations, descending from a common progenitor. We speak of the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
16. The twelfth part of an inch.
17. A straight extended mark.
18. A straight or parallel direction. The houses must all stand in a line Every new building must be set in a line with other on the same street.
19. Occupation; employment; department or course of business. We speak of men in the same line of business.
20. Course; direction.
What general line of conduct ought to be pursued?
21. Lint or flax. [Seldom used.]
22. In heraldry, lines are the figures used in armories to divide the shield into different parts, and to compose different figures.
23. In Scripture, line signifies a cord for measuring; also, instruction, doctrine. . .
A right line a straight or direct line; the shortest line that can be drawn between two points.
Horizontal line a line drawn parallel to the horizon.
Equinoctial line in geography, a great circle on the earth's surface, at 90 degrees distance from each pole, and bisecting the earth at that part. In astronomy, the circle which the sun seems to describe, in March and September, when the days and nights are of equal length.
Meridian line an imaginary circle drawn through the two poles of the earth, and any part of its surface.
A ship of the line a ship of war large enough to have a place in the line of battle. All ships carrying seventy four or more large guns, are ships of the line Smaller ships may sometimes be so called.
LINE, verb transitive [supposed to be from Latin linum, flax, whence linen, which is often used for linings.]
1. To cover on the inside; as a garment lined with linen, fur or silk; a box lined with paper or tin.
2. To put in the inside.
- What if I do line one of their hands?
3. To place along by the side of any thing for guarding; as, to line a hedge with riflemen; to line works with soldiers.
4. To strengthen by additional works or men.
LINE and new repair your towns of war with men of courage.
5. To cover; to add a covering; as, to line a crutch.
6. To strengthen with any thing added.
Who lined himself with hope.
7. To impregnate; applied to irrational animals.
Lineage
LIN'EAGE, noun
Race; progeny; descendants in a line from a common progenitor.
Lineal
LIN'EAL, adjective [Latin linealis, from linea, line.]
1. Composed of lines; delineated; as lineal designs.
2. In a direct line from an ancestor; as lineal descent; lineal succession.
3. Hereditary; derived from ancestors.
4. Allied by direct descent.
For only you are lineal to the throne.
5. In the direction of a line; as lineal measure.
Lineal measure, the measure of length.
Lineality
LINEAL'ITY, noun The state of being in the form of a line.
Lineally
LIN'EALLY, adverb In a direct line; as, the prince is lineally descended from the conqueror.
Lineament
LIN'EAMENT, noun [Latin lineamentum.]
Feature; form; make; the outline or exterior of a body or figure, particularly of the face.
Man he seems in all his lineaments.
- The lineaments of the body.
- Lineaments of a character.
Linear
LIN'EAR, adjective [Latin linearis.]
1. Pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction.
2. In botany, like a line; slender; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as linear leaf.
Linear numbers, in mathematics, such as have relation to length only; such is a number which represents one side of a plane figure. If the plane figure is a square, the linear figure is called a root.
Linear problem, that which may be solved geometrically by the intersection of two right lines.
Lineate
LIN'EATE, adjective In botany, marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as a lineate leaf.
Lineation
LINEA'TION, noun Draught; delineation, which see.
Lined
LI'NED, participle passive Covered on the inside.
Linen
LIN'EN, noun [Latin linun, flax, Gr. The sense is probably long, extended or smooth. In the latter sense, it would accord with Latin linio, lenio.]
1. Cloth made of flax or hemp.
2. An under garment.
LIN'EN, adjective [Latin lineus.]
1. Made of flax or hemp; as linen cloth; a linen stocking.
2. Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
Fossil-linen, a kind of amianth, with soft, parallel, flexible fibers.
Linen-Draper
LIN'EN-DRAPER, noun A person who deals in linens.
Linener and linen-man, in a like sense, are obsolete.
Ling
LING, noun
A fish of the genus Gadus, or cod kind, which grows to the length of four feet or more, is very slender, with a flat head. This fish abounds on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland, and forms a considerable article of commerce.
LING, noun A species of long grass; heath.
Linger
LIN'GER, verb intransitive
1. To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow.
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind.
Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not. .
2. To hesitate; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense.
Perhaps thou lingerest, in deep thought detained.
3. To remain long in any state. The patient lingers on a bed of sickness.
LIN'GER, verb transitive To protract.
Lingerer
LIN'GERER, noun One who lingers.
Lingering
LIN'GERING, participle present tense
1. Delaying; loitering.
2. adjective Drawing out in time; remaining long; protracted; as a lingering disease.
To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
LIN'GERING, noun A delaying; a remaining long; tardiness; protraction.
The lingerings of holyday customs.
Lingeringly
LIN'GERINGLY, adverb With delay; slowly; tediously.
Linget
LIN'GET, noun A small mass of metal.
Lingle
LIN'GLE, noun Shoemaker's thread. [Not in use or local.]
Lingo
LIN'GO, noun [Latin lingua.] Language; speech. [Vulgar.]
Linguadental
LINGUADENT'AL, adjective [Latin lingua, tongue, and dens, a tooth.]
Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth; as the letters d and t.
LINGUADENT'AL, noun An articulation formed by the tongue and teeth.
Linguaform
LIN'GUAFORM adjective [lingua and form.] Having the form or shape of the tongue.
Lingual
LIN'GUAL, adjective [Latin lingua, the tongue.] Pertaining to the tongue; as the lingual nerves, the ninth pair, which go to the tongue; the lingual muscle, or muscle of the tongue.
Linguist
LIN'GUIST, noun [Latin lingua, tongue.] A person skilled in languages; usually applied to a person well versed in the languages taught in colleges, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
Lingulate
LIN'GULATE, adjective [Latin lingulatus, from lingua, tongue.]
Shaped like the tongue or a strap. [But ligulate is more generally used.]
Lingwort
LINGWORT, noun An herb.
Liniment
LIN'IMENT, noun [Latin linimentum. from linio, lino, to anoint.]
A species of soft ointment; a composition of a consistence somewhat thinner than an unguent, but thicker than oil
Lining
LI'NING, participle present tense [See Line.] Covering on the inside, as a garment.
LI'NING, noun
1. The inner covering of any thing, as of a garment or a box. The pleura is called the lining of the thorax.
2. That which is within.
Link
LINK, noun
1. A single ring or division of a chain.
2. Any thing doubled and closed like a link; as a link of horse hair.
3. A chain; any thing connecting.
- And love, the common link the new creation crowned.
4. Any single constituent part of a connected series. This argument is a link in the chain of reasoning.
5. A series; a chain.
LINK, noun [Gr.; Latin lychnus, a lamp or candle, coinciding in elements with light.]
A torch made of tow or hards, etc., and pitch.
LINK, verb transitive
1. To complicate.
2. To unite or connect by something intervening or in other manner.
- link towns to towns by avenues of oak.
- And creature link'd to creature, man to man.
LINK, verb intransitive To be connected.
Linkboy
LINK'BOY,
LINK'ED, participle passive United; connected.
Linked
LINK'ED, pp. United; connected.
Linking
LINK'ING, participle present tense Uniting; connecting.
Linkman
LINK'MAN, noun A boy or man that carries a link or torch to light passengers.
Linnet
LIN'NET, noun [Latin carduelis, from carduus, a thistle.]
A small singing bird of the genus Fingilla.
Linseed
LINSEED. [See Lintseed.]
Linsey-Woolsey
LIN'SEY-WOOLSEY, adjective Made of linen and wool; hence, vile; mean; of different and unsuitable parts.
Linstock
LIN'STOCK, noun [lint and stock.] A pointed staff with a crotch or fork at one end, to hold a lighted match; used in firing cannon. It may be stuck in the ground or in the deck of a ship.
Lint
LINT, noun [Latin linteum, linteus, from linium, flax.]
Flax; but more generally, linen scraped into a soft substance, and used for dressing wounds and sores.
Lintel
LINT'EL, noun
The head-piece of a door-frame or window-frame; the part of the frame that lies on the side-pieces. .
Lintseed
LINT'SEED, noun Flaxseed.
Lion
LI'ON, noun [Latin leo, leonis, Gr.]
1. A quadruped of the genus Felis, very strong, fierce and rapacious. The largest lions are eight or nine feet in length. The male has a thick head, beset with long bushy hair of a yellowish color. The lion is a native of Africa and the warm climates of Asia. His aspect is noble, his gait stately, and his roar tremendous.
2. A sign in the zodiac.
Lion-Mettled
LI'ON-METTLED, adjective Having the courage and spirit of a lion.
LION'S FOOT, noun A plant of the genus Catananche.
LION'S LEAF, noun A plant of the genus Leontice.
LION'S TAIL, noun A plant of the genus Leonurus.
Lioness
LI'ONESS, noun The female of the lion kind.
Lionlike
LI'ONLIKE, adjective Like a lion; fierce.
Lip
LIP, noun [Latin labium, labrum.]
1. The edge or border of the mouth. The lips are two fleshy or muscular parts, composing the exterior of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man, the lips, which may be opened or closed at pleasure, form the covering of the teeth, and are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence the lips, by a figure, denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. .
2. The edge of any thing; as the lip of a vessel.
3. In botany, one of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corol. The upper is called the helmet, and the lower the beard. Also, an appendage to the flowers of the orchises, considered by Linne as a nectary.
To make a lip to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt.
LIP, verb transitive To kiss.
Lip-Devotion
LIP-DEVO'TION, noun Prayers uttered by the lips without the desires of the heart.
LIP'-GOOD, adjective Good in profession only.
Liplabor
LIP'LABOR, noun Labor or action of the lips without concurrence of the mind; words without sentiments.
Lipogram
LIP'OGRAM, noun [Gr. to leave, and a letter.]
A writing in which a single letter is wholly omitted.
Lipogrammatist
LIPOGRAM'MATIST, noun One who writes any thing, dropping a single letter.
Lipothymous
LIPOTH'YMOUS, adjective [See Lipothymy.] Swooning; fainting.
Lipothymy
LIPOTH'YMY, noun [Gr. to fail, and soul.]
A fainting; a swoon.
Lipped
LIP'PED, adjective
1. Having lips.
2. In botany, labiate.
Lippitude
LIP'PITUDE, noun [Latin lippitudo, from lippus, blear-eyed.]
Soreness of eyes; blearedness.
Lipwisdom
LIP'WISDOM, noun Wisdom in talk without practice; wisdom in words not supported by experience.
Liquable
LIQ'UABLE, adjective [See Liquate.] That may be melted.
Liquate
LI'QUATE, verb intransitive [Latin liquo.] To melt; to liquefy; to be dissolved. [Little used.]
Liquation
LIQUA'TION, noun [Latin liquatio. See Liquate.]
1. The act or operation of melting.
2. The capacity of being melted; as a substance congealed beyond liquation
Liquefaction
LIQUEFAC'TION, noun [Latin liquefactio, from liquefacio.]
1. The act or operation of melting or dissolving; the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat or caloric. liquefaction in common usage, signifies the melting of any substance, but by some authors it is applied to the melting of substances, which pass through intermediate states of softness before they become fluid, as tallow, was, resin, etc.
2. The state of being melted.
Liquefiable
LIQ'UEFIABLE, adjective That may be melted, or changed from a solid to a liquid state.
Liquefier
LIQ'UEFIER, noun That which melts any solid substance.
Liquefy
LIQ'UEFY, verb transitive [Latin liquefacio. See Liquid.]
To melt; to dissolve; to convert from a fixed or solid form to that of a liquid, and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat or caloric.
LIQ'UEFY, verb intransitive To be melted; to become liquid.
Liquefying
LIQ'UEFYING, participle present tense Melting; becoming liquid.
Liquescency
LIQUES'CENCY, noun [Latin liquescentia.] Aptness to melt.
Liquescent
LIQUES'CENT, adjective Melting; becoming fluid.
Liqueur
LIQUEUR, noun A spirituous cordial.
Liquid
LIQ'UID, adjective [Latin liquidus, from liquo, to melt; lix and lug.]
1. Fluid; flowing or capable of flowing; not fixed or solid. But liquid is not precisely synonymous with fluid. Mercury and air are fluid, but not liquid
2. Soft; clear; flowing; smooth; as liquid melody.
3. Pronounced without any jar; smooth; as a liquid letter.
4. Dissolved; not obtainable by law; as a liquid debt. obsolete
LIQ'UID, noun
1. A fluid or flowing substance; a substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and which flows on an inclined plane; as water, wine, milk, etc.
2. In grammar, a letter which has a smooth flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as l and r, in bla, bra. M and n are also called liquids.
Liquidate
LIQ'UIDATE, verb transitive [Latin liquido.]
1. To clear from all obscurity.
Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
2. To settle; to adjust; to ascertain or reduce to precision in amount.
Which method of liquidating the amercement to a precise sum, was usually performed in the superior courts.
The clerk of the commons' house of assembly in 1774, gave certificates to the public creditors that their demands were liquidated, and should be provided for in the next tax bill.
The domestic debt may be subdivided into liquidated and unliquidated.
3. To pay; to settle, adjust and satisfy; as a debt.
Kyburgh was ceded to Zuric by Sigismond, to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
Liquidated
LIQ'UIDATED, participle passive Settled; adjusted; reduced to certainty; paid.
Liquidating
LIQ'UIDATING, participle present tense Adjusting; ascertaining; paying.
Liquidation
LIQUIDA'TION, noun The act of settling and adjusting debts, or ascertaining their amount or balance due.
Liquidator
LIQ'UIDATOR, noun He or that which liquidates or settles.
Liquidity
LIQUID'ITY, noun
1. The quality of being fluid or liquid.
2. Thinness.
Liquidness
LIQ'UIDNESS, noun The quality of being liquid; fluency.
Liquor
LIQ'UOR, noun lik'or [Latin liquor ]
A liquid or fluid substance. [See Liquid.] liquor is a word of general signification, extending to water, milk, blood, say, juice, etc.; but its most common application is to spirituous fluids, whether distilled or fermented, to decoctions, solutions, tinctures.
LIQ'UOR, verb transitive To moisten; to drench. [Little used.]
Liquorice
LIQUORICE. [See Licorice.]
Lisbon
LIS'BON, noun A species of wine exported from lisbon in Portugal.
Lisne
LISNE, noun A cavity or hollow. [Not in use.]
Lisp
LISP, verb intransitive
To speak with a particular articulation of the tongue and teeth, nearly as in pronouncing th. Lisping is particularly noticed in uttering th for s, as yeth for yes. It is most common in children.
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
LISP, verb transitive To pronounce with a lisp; as, she lisped a few words.
LISP, noun The act of lisping, as in uttering an aspirated th for s.
Lisper
LISP'ER, noun One that lisps.
Lisping
LISP'ING, participle present tense Uttering with a lisp.
Lispingly
LISP'INGLY, adverb With a lisp.
List
LIST, noun [Latin licium.]
1. In commerce, the border, edge or selvage of cloth; a strip of cloth forming the border, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it.
2. A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. Hence, to enter the lists, is to accept a challenge or engage in contest. Hence,
3. A limit or boundary; a border.
4. In architecture, a little square molding; a fillet; called also a listel.
5. A roll or catalogue, that is, a row or line; as a list of names; a list of books; a list of articles; a list of ratable estate.
6. A strip of cloth; a fillet.
Civil list in Great Britain and the United States, the civil officers of government, as judges, embassadors, secretaries, etc. Hence it is used for the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers.
LIST, verb transitive [from list a roll.]
1. To enroll; to register in a list or catalogue; to enlist. The latter is the more elegant word. Hence,
2. To engage in the public service, as soldiers.
They in my name are listed.
3. To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
4. To sew together, as strips of cloth; or to form a border.
5. To cover with a list or with strips of cloth; as, to list a door.
6. To hearken; to attend; a contraction of listen, which see.
LIST, verb intransitive To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist. [The latter is the more elegant word. See Enlist.]
LIST, verb intransitive [See the noun.]
Properly, to lean or incline; to be propense; hence, to desire or choose.
Let other men think of your devices as they list
The wind bloweth where it listeth. .
LIST, noun In the language of seamen, an inclination to one side. The ship has a list to port.
Listed
LIST'ED, participle passive
1. Striped; particolored in stripes.
2. Covered with list.
3. Inclosed for combat.
4. Engaged in public service; enrolled.
Listel
LIST'EL, noun A list in architecture; a fillet.
Listen
LIST'EN, verb intransitive lis'n.
1. To hearken; to give ear; to attend closely with a view to hear.
On the green bank I sat, and listened long.
2. To obey; to yield to advice; to follow admonition.
LIS'TEN, verb transitive lis'n. To hear; to attend.
Listener
LIST'ENER, noun One who listens; a hearkener.
Lister
LIST'ER, noun One who makes a list or roll.
Listful
LIST'FUL, adjective Attentive. obsolete
Listing
LIST'ING, participle present tense Inclosing for combat; covering with list; enlisting.
Listless
LIST'LESS, adjective Not listening; not attending; indifferent to what is passing; heedless; inattentive; thoughtless; careless; as a listless hearer or spectator.
Listlessly
LIST'LESSLY, adverb Without attention; heedlessly.
Listlessness
LIST'LESSNESS, noun Inattention; heedlessness; indifference to what is passing and may be interesting.
Lit
LIT, preterit tense of light. The bird lit on a tree before me.
I lit my pipe with the paper.
[This word, though used by some good writers, is very inelegant.]
Litany
LIT'ANY, noun [Gr. supplication, to pray.]
A solemn form of supplication, used in public worship.
Supplications for the appeasing of God's wrath, were by the Greek church termed litanies, by the Latin, rogations.
Lite
LITE, adjective Little. [Not in use.]
Liter
LITER, noun [Gr.] A French measure of capacity, being a cubic decimeter, containing, according to Lunier, about a pint and a half old French measure. The liter is equal to 60, 02800 cubic inches, or nearly 2 1/8 wine pints.
Literal
LIT'ERAL, adjective [Latin litera, a letter.]
1. According to the letter; primitive; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as the literal meaning of a phrase.
2. Following the letter or exact words; not free; as a literal translation.
3. Consisting of letters.
The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers.
LIT'ERAL, noun literal meaning. [Not used.]
Literalism
LIT'ERALISM, noun That which accords with the letter.
Literality
LITERAL'ITY, noun Original or literal meaning.
Literally
LIT'ERALLY, adverb
1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively. A man and his wife cannot be literally one flesh.
2. With close adherence to words; word by word.
So wild and ungovernable a poet cannot be translated literally
Literary
LIT'ERARY, adjective [Latin literarius.]
1. Pertaining to letters or literature; respecting learning or learned men; as a literary history; literary conversation.
2. Derived from erudition; as literary fame.
3. Furnished with erudition; versed in letters; as a literary man.
4. Consisting in letters, or written or printed compositions; as literary property.
Literate
LIT'ERATE, adjective [Latin literatus.] Learned; lettered; instructed in learning and science.
Literati
LITERA'TI, noun plural [Latin literatus.] The learned; men of erudition.
Literator
LIT'ERATOR, noun [Latin] A petty schoolmaster.
Literature
LIT'ERATURE, noun [Latin literatura.] Learning; acquaintance with letters or books. literature comprehends a knowledge of the ancient languages, denominated classical, history, grammar, rhetoric, logic, geography, etc. as well as of the sciences. A knowledge of the world and good breeding give luster to literature
Lith
LITH, noun A joint or limb. obsolete
Lithanthrax
LITHAN'THRAX, noun [Gr. a stone, and a coal.]
Stone-coal, a black, compact, brittle, inflammable substance, of laminated texture, more or less shining.
Litharge
LITH'ARGE, noun [Latin lithargyros, Gr. the spume or scum of silver.
A semi-vitreous oxyd of lead, produced in refining silver by cupellation with lead. It appears in the form of soft flakes, or semi-transparent shining plates.
Lithe
LITHE, adjective That may be easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as the elephant's lithe proboscis.
LITHE, verb transitive
1. To smooth; to soften; to palliate. obsolete
2. To listen. obsolete
Litheness
LI'THENESS, noun Flexibility; limberness.
Lither
LI'THER, adjective
1. Soft; pliant. obsolete
2. Bad; corrupt. obsolete
Litherly
LI'THERLY, adverb Slowly; lazily. obsolete
Litherness
LI'THERNESS, noun Idleness; laziness. obsolete
Lithia
LITH'IA, noun A new alkali, found in a mineral called petalite, of which the basis is a metal called lithium.
Lithiate
LITH'IATE, noun [Gr. a stone.] A salt or compound formed by the lithic acid combined with a base.
Lithic
LITH'IC, adjective [supra.] Pertaining to the stone in the bladder. The lithic acid is obtained from a calculus in the bladder.
Lithobiblion
LITHOBIBLION. [See Lithophyl.]
Lithocarp
LITH'OCARP, noun [Gr. a stone, and fruit.] Fossil fruit; fruit petrified.
Lithocolla
LITH'OCOLLA, noun [Gr. a stone, and glue.] A cement that unites stones.
Lithodendron
LITHODEN'DRON, noun [Gr. stone, and tree.] Coral; so called from its resembling a petrified branch.
Lithogenesy
LITHOGEN'ESY, noun [Gr. stone, and generation.]
The doctrine or science of the origin of minerals composing the globe, and of the causes which have produced their form and disposition.
Lithoglyphite
LITHOGLYPH'ITE, noun [Gr. stone, and to engrave.]
A fossil that presents the appearance of being engraved or shaped by art.
Lithographer
LITHOG'RAPHER, noun [See Lithography.] One who practices lithography.
Lithographic
LITHOGRAPH'IC,
LITHOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to lithography.
Lithographical
LITHOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to lithography.
Lithographically
LITHOGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb By the lithographic art.
Lithography
LITHOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. stone, and to engrave or write.]
The art of engraving, or of tracing letters, figures or other designs on stone, and of transferring them to paper by impression; an art recently invented by Mr. Sennefelder of Munich, in Bavaria.
Lithologic
LITHOLOG'IC,
LITHOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Lithology.]
Pertaining to the science of stones.
Lithological
LITHOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Lithology.] Pertaining to the science of stones.
Lithologist
LITHOL'OGIST, noun A person skilled in the science of stones.
Lithology
LITHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. stone, and discourse.]
1. The science or natural history of stones.
2. A treatise on stones found in the body.
Lithomancy
LITH'OMANCY, noun [Gr. stone, and divination.]
Divination or prediction of events by means of stones.
Lithomarga
LITHOMAR'GA,
LITH'OMARGE, noun [Gr. stone, and Latin marga, marl.]
An earth of two species, friable and indurated, more siliceous than aluminous, distinguished by its great fineness and its fusibility into a soft slag.
Lithontriptic
LITHONTRIP'TIC, adjective [Gr. stone, and to wear or break.]
Having the quality of dissolving the stone in the bladder or kidneys.
LITHONTRIP'TIC, noun A medicine which has the power of dissolving the stone in the bladder or kidneys; a solvent of stone in the human urinary passage.
Lithontriptor
LITH'ONTRIPTOR,
LITH'ONTRIPTY,
LITHOPH'AGOUS, adjective [Gr. stone, and to eat.]
Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
Lithontripty
LITH'ONTRIPTY,
Lithophosphor
LITH'OPHOSPHOR, noun [Gr. stone.]
Lithophosphoric
LITHOPHOSPHOR'IC, adjective Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.
Lithophyl
LITH'OPHYL, noun [Gr. stone, and a leaf.
Bibliolite or lithobiblion, fossil leaves, or the figures of leaves on fossils.
Lithophyte
LITH'OPHYTE, noun [Gr. stone, and a plant; literally, stone-plant.]
Stone-coral; a name given to those species of polypiers, whose substance is stony. The older naturalists classed them with vegetables.
Lithophytic
LITHOPHYT'IC, adjective Pertaining to lithophytes.
Lithophytous
LITH'OPHYTOUS, adjective Pertaining to or consisting of lithophytes.
Lithotome
LITH'OTOME, noun [Gr. stone, and to cut.]
A stone so formed naturally as to appear as if cut artificially.
Lithotomic
LITHOTOM'IC, adjective Pertaining to or performed by lithotomy.
Lithotomist
LITHOT'OMIST, noun [See Lithotomy.] One who performs the operation of cutting for the stone in the bladder; or one who is skilled in the operation.
Lithotomy
LITHOT'OMY, noun [Gr. stone, and to cut.]
The operation, art or practice of cutting for the stone in the bladder.
Lithotritor
LITH'OTRITOR, noun An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder, so that it may be extracted without cutting; recently invented by Dr. Civiale.
Lithotrity
LITH'OTRITY, noun The operation of triturating the stone in the bladder, by means of an instrument called lithotritor.
Lithoxyle
LITHOX'YLE, noun [Gr. stone, and wood.]
Petrified wood. It differs from lignite, being really changed into stone; such as silicified woods, which are changed into varieties of silex, etc.
Lithy
LITH'Y, adjective [See Lithe.] Easily bent; pliable. [This is probably the word which, in our popular use, is pronounced lathy.]
Litigant
LIT'IGANT, adjective [See Litigate.] Contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as the parties litigant
LIT'IGANT, noun A person engaged in a lawsuit.
Litigate
LIT'IGATE, verb transitive [Latin litigo, from lis, litis, a contest or debate.]
To contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate; as, to litigate a cause or a question.
LIT'IGATE, verb intransitive To dispute in law; to carry on a suit by judicial process.
Litigated
LIT'IGATED, participle passive Contested judicially.
Litigating
LIT'IGATING, participle present tense Contesting in law.
Litigation
LITIGA'TION, noun The act or process of carrying on a suit in a court of law or equity for the recovery of a right or claim; a judicial contest.
Litigious
LITIG'IOUS, adjective [Latin litigiosus.]
1. Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; quarrelsome; contentious; applied to persons. a litigious man is a bad neighbor and a bad citizen.
2. Disputable; controvertible; subject to contention; as litigious right.
No fences, parted fields, nor marks nor bounds, distinguish'd acres of litigious grounds.
Litigiously
LITIG'IOUSLY, adverb In a contentious manner.
Litigiousness
LITIG'IOUSNESS, noun A disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits; inclination to judicial contests.
Litmus
LIT'MUS,
LIT'ORN, noun A bird, a species of thrush, in size and shape resembling the hen-blackbird.
Litorn
LIT'ORN, n. A bird, a species of thrush, in size and shape resembling the hen-blackbird.
Litote
LIT'OTE, noun [Gr. slender. diminution; extenuation.
Litter
LIT'TER, noun [Latin lectus, from the root of lego, Eng. lay.]
1. A vehicle formed with shafts supporting a bed between them, in which a person may be borne by men or by a horse. If by the latter, it is called a horse-litter. A similar vehicle in India is called a palanquin.
2. Straw, hay or other soft substance, used as a bed for horses and for other purposes.
3. A brood of young pigs, kittens, puppies or other quadrupeds. The word is applied only to certain quadrupeds of the smaller kinds.
4. A birth of pigs or other small animals.
5. Waste matters, shreds, fragments and the like, scattered on a floor or other clean place.
LIT'TER, verb transitive
1. To bring forth young, as swine and other small quadrupeds. It is sometimes applied to human beings in contempt.
2. To scatter over carelessly with shreds, fragments and the like; as, to litter a room or a carpet.
3. To cover with straw or hay; as, to litter a stable.
4. To supply with litter; as to litter cattle.
Littered
LIT'TERED, participle passive
1. Furnished with straw.
2. adjective Covered or overspread with litter, pieces, shreds, etc.
Little
LIT'TLE, adjective
1. Small in size or extent; not great or large; as a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little table; a little book; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
2. Short in duration; as a little time or season; a little sleep.
3. Small in quantity or amount; as a little hay or grass; a little food; a little sum; a little light; a little air or water.
4. Of small dignity, power or importance.
When thou wast little in thy own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes? .
5. Of small force or effect; slight; inconsiderable; as little attention or exertions; little effort; little care or diligence, little weight.
LIT'TLE, noun
1. A small quantity or amount. He demanded much and obtained little He had little of his father's liberality.
2. A small space.
Much was in little writ -
3. Any thing small, slight or of inconsiderable importance.
I view with anger and disdain.
How little gives thee joy and pain.
4. Not much.
These they are fitted for, and little else.
LIT'TLE, adverb
1. In a small degree; slightly; as, he is little changed. It is a little discolored.
2. Not much; in a small quantity or space of time. He sleeps little
3. In some degree; slightly; sometimes preceded by adjective The liquor is a little sour or astringent.
Littleness
LIT'TLENESS, noun
1. Smallness of size or bulk; as the littleness of the body or of an animal.
2. Meanness; want of grandeur; as littleness of conception.
3. Want of dignity. Contemplations on the majesty of God displayed in his works, may awaken in us a sense of our own littleness
4. Meanness; penuriousness.
Littoral
LIT'TORAL, adjective [Latin littoralis, from litus, shore.] Belonging to a shore. [Little used.]
Lituite
LIT'UITE, noun A fossil shell.
Liturgical
LITUR'GICAL, adjective [See Liturgy.] Pertaining to a liturgy.
Liturgy
LIT'URGY, noun [Gr. public, and work.
In a general sense, all public ceremonies that belong to divine service; hence, in a restricted sense, among the Romanists, the mass; and among protestants, the common prayer, or the formulary of public prayers.
Live
LIVE, verb intransitive liv.
1. To abide; to dwell; to have settled residence in any place. Where do you live? I live in London. He lives in Philadelphia. He lives in a large house on Second street. The Swiss live on mountains. The Bedouin Arabs live in the dessert.
2. To continue; to be permanent; not to perish.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
3. To be animated; to have the vital principle; to have the bodily functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate, as respiration, circulation of blood, secretions, etc.; applied to animals.
I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? .
4. To have the principles of vegetable life; to be in a state in which the organs do or may perform their functions in the circulation of sap and in growth; applied to plants. This tree will not live unless watered; it will not live through the winter.
5. To pass life or time in a particular manner, with regard to habits or condition. In what manner does your son live? Does he live according to the dictates of reason and the precepts of religion?
If we act by several broken views, we shall live and die in misery.
6. To continue in life. The way to live long is to be temperate.
7. To live emphatically; to enjoy life; to be in a state of happiness.
What greater curse could envious fortune give, than just to die, when I began to live?
8. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished and supported in life; as, horses live on grass or grain; fowls live on seeds or insects; some kinds of fish live on others; carnivorous animals live on flesh.
9. To subsist; to be maintained in life; to be supported. Many of the clergy are obliged to live on small salaries. All men in health may live by industry with economy, yet some men live by robbery.
10. To remain undestroyed; to float; not to sink or founder. It must be a good ship that lives at sea in a hurricane.
Nor can our shaken vessels live at sea.
11. To exist; to have being.
As I live saith the Lord - .
12. In Scripture, to be exempt from death, temporal or spiritual.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. .
13. To recover from sickness; to have life prolonged.
Thy son liveth. .
14. To be inwardly quickened, nourished and actuated by divine influence or faith. .
15. To be greatly refreshed, comforted and animated.
For now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord. .
16. To appear as in life or reality; to be manifest in real character.
And all the writer lives in every line.
1. To live with, to dwell or to be a lodger with.
2. To cohabit; to have intercourse, as male and female.
LIVE, verb transitive liv.
1. To continue in constantly or habitually; as, to live a life of ease.
2. To act habitually in conformity to.
It is not enough to say prayers, unless they live them too.
LIVE, adjective
1. Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; as a live ox.
2. Having vegetable life; as a live plant.
3. Containing fire; ignited; not extinct; as a live coal.
4. Vivid, as color.
Liveless
LIVELESS, not used. [See Lifeless.]
Liveliness
LI'VELINESS, noun [from lively.]
1. The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
2. An appearance of life, animation or spirit; as the liveliness of the eye or countenance in a portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Livelode
LIVELODE, for livelihood, not used.
Livelong
LIVELONG, adjective liv'long. [live and long.]
1. Long in passing.
How could she sit the livelong day, yet never ask us once to play?
2. Lasting; durable; as a livelong monument. [Not used.]
3. A plant of the genus Sedum.
Lively
LI'VELY, adjective
1. Brisk; vigorous; vivacious; active; as a lively youth.
2. Gay; airy.
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
3. Representing life; as a lively imitation of nature.
4. Animated; spirited; as a lively strain of eloquence; a lively description.
5. Strong; energetic; as a lively faith or hope; a lively persuasion.
Lively stones, in scripture. Saints are called lively stones, as being quickened by the Spirit and active in holiness.
LI'VELY, adverb
1. Briskly; vigorously. [Little used.]
2. With strong resemblance of life.
That part of poetry must needs be best, which describes most lively our actions and passions. [Little used.]
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.