Liver – Long-Winded

Liver

LIV'ER, noun One who lives.

And try if life be worth the liver's care.

It is often used with a word of qualification; as a high liver; a loose liver etc.

LIV'ER, noun

A viscus or intestine of considerable size and of a reddish color, convex on the anterior and superior side, and of an unequal surface on the inferior and posterior side. It is situated under the false ribs, in the right hypochondrium. It consists of two lobes, of a glandular substance, and destined for the secretion of the bile.

Livercolor

LIV'ERCOLOR, adjective Dark red; of the color of the liver.

Livered

LIV'ERED, adjective Having a liver; as white-livered.

Livergrown

LIV'ERGROWN, adjective Having a large liver.

Liverstone

LIV'ERSTONE, noun A stone or species of earth of the barytic genus, of a gray or brown color, which, when rubbed or heated to redness, emits the smell of liver of sulphur, or alkaline sulphuret.

Liverwort

LIV'ERWORT, noun The name of many species of plants. Several of the lichens are so called. The liverworts (Hepaticae) are a natural order of cryptogamian plants whose herbage is generally frondose, and resembling the leafy lichens, but whose seeds are contained in a distinct capsule. The noble liverwort is the Anemone hepatica.

Livery

LIV'ERY, noun

1. The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements; a term of English law. It is usual to say, livery of seisin, which is feudal investiture, made by the delivery of a turf, of a rod or twig, from the feoffor to the feoffee. In America, no such ceremony is necessary to a conveyance of real estate, the delivery of a deed being sufficient.

2. Release from wardship; deliverance.

3. The writ by which possession os obtained.

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

5. A form of dress by which noblemen and gentlemen distinguish their servants. The Romish church has also liveries for confessors, virgins, apostles, martyrs, penitents, etc. Hence,

6. A particular dress or garb, appropriate or peculiar to particular times or things; as the livery of May; the livery of autumn.

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad.

7. The whole body of liverymen in London.

LIV'ERY, verb transitive To clothe in livery

Livery-Stable

LIV'ERY-STABLE, noun A stable where horses are kept for hire.

Liveryman

LIV'ERYMAN, noun

1. One who wears a livery; as a servant.

2. In London, a freeman of the city, of some distinction. the liverymen are chosen from among the freemen of each company, and from their number are elected the common council, sheriff and other superior officers of the city. They alone have the right of voting for members of parliament.

Lives

LIVES, noun plural of life.

Livestock

LI'VESTOCK, noun [live and stock.] Horses, cattle and smaller domestic animals; a term applied in America to such animals as may be exported alive for foreign market.

Livid

LIV'ID, adjective [Latin lividus; from liveo, to be black and blue.]

Black and blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

Upon my livid lips bestow a kiss.

Lividity

LIVID'ITY,

LIV'IDNESS, noun A dark color, like that of bruised flesh. [Lividness is the preferable word.]

Lividness

LIV'IDNESS, n. A dark color, like that of bruised flesh. [Lividness is the preferable word.]

Living

LIV'ING, participle present tense [from live.]

1. Dwelling; residing; existing; subsisting; having life or the vital functions in operation; not dead.

2. adjective Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as a living spring or fountain; opposed to stagnant.

3. adjective Producing action, animation and vigor; quickening; as a living principle; a living faith.

LIV'ING, noun He or those who are alive; usually with a plural signification; as in the land of the living

The living will lay it to his heart. Ecclesiastes 7:2.

LIV'ING, noun

1. Means of subsistence; estate.

He divided to them his living Luke 15:12.

She of her want, did cast in all that she had, even all her living Mark 12:44.

2. Power of continuing life. There is no living with a scold.

There is no living without trusting some body or other in some cases.

3. Livelihood. He made a living by his occupation. The woman spins for a living

4. The benefice of a clergyman. He lost his living by non-conformity.

Livingly

LIV'INGLY, adverb In a living state.

Livonica terra, a species of fine bole found in Livonia, brought to market in little cakes.

Livre

LI'VRE, noun [Latin libra.] A French money of account, equal to 20 sous, or ten pence sterling.

Lixivial

LIXIV'IAL,

LIXIV'IATE,

LIXIV'IATED, adjective

1. Pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.

2. Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.

LIXIV'IATE, verb transitive [Latin lixivia, lixivium, lye.] To form lye; to impregnate with lye; to impregnate with salts from wood ashes. Water is lixiviated by passing through ashes.

Lixiviation

LIXIVIA'TION, noun The operation or process of extracting alkaline salts from ashes by pouring water on them, the water passing through them imbibing the salts.

Lixivious

LIXIV'IOUS, adjective [Latin lixivius, from lix lye.]

1. Obtained by lixiviation; impregnated with alkaline salt extracted from wood ashes. Lixivial salts are those which are obtained by passing water through ashes, or by pouring it on them.

2. Containing salt extracted from the ashes of wood.

3. Of the color of lye; resembling lye.

4. Having the qualities of alkaline salts from wood ashes.

Lixivium

LIXIV'IUM, noun [Latin from lix, lye.]

Lye; water impregnated with alkaline salts imbibed from wood ashes. It is sometimes applied to other extracts.

Lizard

LIZ'ARD, noun [Latin lacertus, lacerta, there has been a change of c into z or s, which may be the fact.]

In zoology, a genus of amphibious animals, called Lacerta, and comprehending the crocodile, alligator, chameleon, salamander, etc. But the name, in common life, is applied to the smaller species of this genus, and of these there is a great variety. These animals are ranked in the order of reptiles. The body is naked, with four feet and a tail. The body is thicker and more tapering than that of the serpent.

Lizard-Tail

LIZ'ARD-TAIL, noun A plant of the genus Saururus, and another of the genus Piper.

LL.D. letters standing for Doctor of Laws, the title of an honorary degree.

Lo

LO, exclamation

Look; see; behold; observe. This word is used to excite particular attention in a hearer to some object of sight, or subject of discourse.

LO, here is Christ. Matthew 24:23.

LO, we turn to the Gentiles. Acts 13:46.

Loach

LOACH,

LOAD, noun [See lade.]

1. A burden; that which is laid on or put in any thing for conveyance. Thus we lay a load on a beat or on a man's shoulders, or on a cart or wagon; and we say, a light load, heavy load. A load then is indefinite in quantity or weight. But by usage, in some cases, the word has a more definite signification, and expresses a certain quantity or weight, or as much as is usually carried, or as can be well sustained. Load is never used for the cargo of a ship; this is called loading, lading, freight, or cargo.

2. Any heavy burden; a large quantity borne or sustained. a tree may be said to have a load of fruit upon it.

3. That which is borne with pain or difficulty; a grievous weight; encumbrance; in a literal sense.

Jove lightened of its load th' enormous mass -

In a figurative sense, we say, a load of care or grief; a load of guilt or crimes.

4. Weight or violence of blows.

5. A quantity of food or drink that oppresses, or as much as can be borne.

6. Among miners, the quantity of nine dishes of ore, each dish being about half a hundred weight.

LOAD, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive loaded. [loaden, formerly used, is obsolete and laden belongs to lade. Load, from the noun, is a regular verb.]

1. To lay on a burden; to put on or in something to be carried, or as much as can be carried; as, to load a camel or a horse; to load a cart or wagon. To load a gun, is to charge, or to put in a sufficient quantity of powder, or powder and ball or shot.

2. To encumber; to lay on or put in that which is borne with pain or difficulty; in a literal sense, as to load the stomach with meat; or in a figurative sense, as to load the mind or memory.

3. To make heavy by something added or appended.

Thy dreadful vow, loaden with death -

So in a literal sense, to load a whip.

4. To bestow or confer on in great abundance; as, to load one with honors; to load with reproaches.

Load

LOAD, n. [See lade.] 1. A burden; that which is laid on or put in any thing for conveyance. Thus we lay a load on a beat or on a man's shoulders, or on a cart or wagon; and we say, a light load, heavy load. A load then is indefinite in quantity or weight. But by usage, in some cases, the word has a more definite signification, and expresses a certain quantity or weight, or as much as is usually carried, or as can be well sustained. Load is never used for the cargo of a ship; this is called loading, lading, freight, or cargo.2. Any heavy burden; a large quantity borne or sustained. a tree may be said to have a load of fruit upon it.3. That which is borne with pain or difficulty; a grievous weight; encumbrance; in a literal sense.Jove lightened of its load th' enormous mass -In a figurative sense, we say, a load of care or grief; a load of guilt or crimes.4. Weight or violence of blows.5. A quantity of food or drink that oppresses, or as much as can be borne.6. Among miners, the quantity of nine dishes of ore, each dish being about half a hundred weight. LOAD, v.t. pret. and pp. loaded. [loaden, formerly used, is obsolete and laden belongs to lade. Load, from the noun, is a regular verb.] 1. To lay on a burden; to put on or in something to be carried, or as much as can be carried; as, to load a camel or a horse; to load a cart or wagon. To load a gun, is to charge, or to put in a sufficient quantity of powder, or powder and ball or shot.2. To encumber; to lay on or put in that which is borne with pain or difficulty; in a literal sense, as to load the stomach with meat; or in a figurative sense, as to load the mind or memory.3. To make heavy by something added or appended.Thy dreadful vow, loaden with death -So in a literal sense, to load a whip.4. To bestow or confer on in great abundance; as, to load one with honors; to load with reproaches.

Loaded

LOADED, participle passive

1. Charged with a load or cargo; having a burden; freighted, as a ship; having a charge of powder, or powder and shot, as a gun.

2. Burdened with any thing oppressive; as loaded with cares, with guilt or shame.

Loader

LOADER, noun One who put on a load.

Loading

LOADING, participle present tense Charging with a load; burdening; encumbering; charging, as a gun.

LOADING, noun A cargo; a burden; also, any thing that makes part of a load.

Loadmanage

LOADMANAGE, noun Pilotage; skill of a pilot. [Not in use.]

Loadsman

LOADSMAN, noun [load and man.] A pilot. obsolete

Loadstar

LOADSTAR,

LOADSTONE, noun [from the verb lead and stone. The old orthography, lodestone, is most correct, as this word has no connection with the verb to load.]

The native magnet, an ore of iron in the lowest state of oxidation, which has the power of attracting metallic iron, as iron filings, and of communicating to masses of iron the same property of attraction, forming artificial magnets. [See Lodestone.]

Loadstone

LOADSTONE, n. [from the verb lead and stone. The old orthography, lodestone, is most correct, as this word has no connection with the verb to load.] The native magnet, an ore of iron in the lowest state of oxidation, which has the power of attracting metallic iron, as iron filings, and of communicating to masses of iron the same property of attraction, forming artificial magnets. [See Lodestone.]

Loaf

LOAF, noun plural loaves.

1. A mass of bread when baked. It is larger than a cake. The size and price of a loaf in large cities, are regulated by law.

2. A mass or lump, as of sugar.

3. Any thick mass.

Loaf-Sugar

LOAF-SUGAR, noun Sugar refined and formed into a conical mass.

Loam

LOAM, noun [Latin limus.]

A natural mixture of sand and clay with oxyd of iron; a species of earth or soil of different colors, whitish, brown or yellow, readily diffusible in water.

LOAM, verb transitive To cover with loam

Loamy

LOAMY, adjective Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam, or resembling it.

Loan

LOAN, noun

1. The act of lending; a lending.

2. That which is lent; any thing furnished for temporary use to a person at his request, on the express or implied condition that the specific thing shall be returned, or its equivalent in kind, but without compensation for the use; as a loan of a book or of bread.

3. Something furnished for temporary use, on the condition that it shall be returned or its equivalent, but with a compensation for the use. In this sense, loan is generally applied to money. [See Lend.]

4. A furnishing; permission to use; grant of the use; as a loan of credit.

LOAN, verb transitive

To lend; to deliver to another for temporary use, on condition that the thing shall be returned, as a book; or to deliver for use, on condition that an equivalent in kind shall be returned, as bread; or to deliver for temporary use, on condition that an equivalent in kind shall be returned, with a compensation for the use, as in the case of money at interest. Bills of credit were issued, to be loaned on interest.

Loan-Office

LO'AN-OFFICE, noun In America, a public office in which loans of money are negotiated for the public, or in which the accounts of loans are kept and the interest paid to the lenders.

Loan-Officer

LO'AN-OFFICER, noun A public officer empowered to superintend and transact the business of a loan-office.

Loath

LOATH, LOATHE, LOATHER, noun One that lothes.

Loathe

LOATHE,

Loather

LOATHER, n. One that lothes.

Loathful

LOATHFUL, adjective

1. Hating; abhorring through disgust.

2. Abhorred; hated.

Loathing

LOATHING, participle present tense Hating from disgust; abhorring.

Loathingly

LOATHINGLY, adverb In a fastidious manner.

Loathly

LOATHLY, adjective Hateful; exciting hatred. obsolete

LOATHLY, adverb Unwillingly; reluctantly. [See Lothly.]

Loathness

LOATHNESS, noun Unwillingness; reluctance. [See Lothness.]

Loathsome

LOATHSOME, adjective

1. Disgusting; exciting disgust.

2. Hateful; abhorred; detestable.

3. Causing fastidiousness. [See Lothesome.]

Loathsomeness

LOATHSOMENESS, noun The quality which excites disgust, hatred or abhorrence.

Loaves

LOAVES, plu of loaf.

Lob

LOB, noun

1. A dull, heavy, sluggish person.

2. Something thick and heavy; as in lobworm.

LOB, verb transitive To let fall heavily or lazily.

And their poor jades lob down their heads.

Lobate

LO'BATE,

LOB'BY, noun

1. An opening before a room, or an entrance into a principal apartment, where there is a considerable space between that and the portico or vestibule.

2. A small hall or waiting room.

3. A small apartment taken from a hall or entry.

4. In a ship, an apartment close before the captain's cabin.

5. In agriculture, a confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees or other fencing, near the farm-yard.

Lobby

LOB'BY, n. 1. An opening before a room, or an entrance into a principal apartment, where there is a considerable space between that and the portico or vestibule.2. A small hall or waiting room.3. A small apartment taken from a hall or entry.4. In a ship, an apartment close before the captain's cabin.5. In agriculture, a confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees or other fencing, near the farm-yard.

Lobe

LOBE, noun [Latin lobus; Gr.]

1. A part or division of the lungs, liver, etc.

2. The lower soft part of the ear.

3. A division of a simple leaf.

4. The cotyledon or placenta of a seed.

LO'BED, adjective Lobate, which see.

Lobed

LO'BED, adjective [from lobe.] Consisting of lobes. In botany, divided to the middle into parts distant from each other, with convex margins.

Lobspound

LOBSPOUND, noun A prison.

Lobster

LOB'STER, noun

A crustaceous fish of the genus Cancer. Lobsters have large claws and fangs, and four pair of legs. They are said to change their crust annually, and to be frightened at thunder or other loud report. They constitute an article of food.

Lobule

LOB'ULE, noun A small lobe.

Local

LO'CAL, adjective [Latin localis; from locus, place, loco. See Lay.]

1. Pertaining to a place, or to a fixed or limited portion of space. We say, the local situation of the house is pleasant. We are often influenced in our opinions by local circumstances.

2. Limited or confined to a spot, place, or definite district; as a local custom. The yellow fever is local in its origin, and often continues for a time, to be a local disease.

3. In law, local actions are such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; distinguished from transitory actions.

Locality

LOCAL'ITY, noun

1. Existence in a place, or in a certain portion of space.

It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality

2. Limitation to a county, district or place; as locality of trial.

3. Position; situation; place; particularly; geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.

Locally

LO'CALLY, adverb With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

Locate

LO'CATE, verb transitive [Latin loco, locatus.]

1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

2. To select, survey and settle the bounds of a particular tract of land; or to designate a portion of land by limits; as, to locate a tract of a hundred acres in a particular township.

3. To designate and determine the place of; as, a committee was appointed to locate a church or a court house.

Located

LO'CATED, participle passive Placed; situated; fixed in place.

Locating

LO'CATING, participle present tense Placing; designating the place of.

Location

LOCA'TION, noun

1. The act of placing, or of designating the place of.

2. Situation with respect to place. The location of the city on a large river is favorable for commerce.

3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.

4. In the civil law, a leasing on rent.

Loch

LOCH, noun A lake; a bay or arm of the sea; used in Scotland.

LOCH, noun loch or lohoch, is an Arabian name for the forms of medicines called eclegmas, lambatives, linctures, and the like.

Lochage

LOCH'AGE, noun [Gr. a body of soldiers, and to lead.]

In Greece, an officer who commanded a lochus or cohort, the number of men in which is not certainly known.

LOCHE. [See Loach.]

Loche

LOCHE, noun A small fish of the genus Cobitis, inhabiting small clear streams, and esteemed dainty food.

Lochia

LO'CHIA, noun [Gr.] Evacuations which follow childbirth.

Lochial

LO'CHIAL, adjective Pertaining to evacuations from the womb after childbirth.

Lock

LOCK, noun [Latin floccus, Eng. lock ]

1. lock in its primary sense, is any thing that fastens; but we now appropriate the word to an instrument composed of a spring, wards, and a bolt of iron or steel, used to fasten doors, chests and the like. The bolt is moved by a key.

2. The part of a musket or fowling-piece or other fire-arm, which contains the pan, trigger, etc.

3. The barrier or works of a canal, which confine the water, consisting of a dam, banks or walls, with two gates or pairs of gates, which may be opened or shut at pleasure.

4. A grapple in wrestling.

5. Any inclosure.

6. A tuft of hair; a plexus of wool, hay or other like substance; a flock; a ringlet of hair.

A lock of hair will draw more than a cable rope.

LOCK of water, is the measure equal to the contents of the chamber of the locks by which the consumption of water on a canal is estimated.

LOCK'-KEEPER, noun One who attends the locks of a canal.

LOCK'-PADDLE, noun A small sluse that serves to fill and empty a lock

LOCK'-SIL, noun An angular piece of timber at the bottom of a lock against which the gates shut.

LOCK'-WEIR, noun A paddle-weir, in canals, an over-fall behind the upper gates, by which the waste water of the upper pound is let down through the paddle-holes into the chamber of the lock

LOCK, verb transitive

1. To fasten with a particular instrument; as, to lock a door; to lock a trunk.

2. To shut up or confine, as with a lock; as, to be locked in a prison. lock the secret in your breast.

3. To close fast. The frost locks up our rivers.

4. To embrace closely; as, to lock one in the arms.

5. To furnish with locks, as a canal.

6. To confine; to restrain. Our shipping was locked up by the embargo.

7. In fencing, to seize the sword-arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, after closing the parade, shell to shell, in order to disarm him.

LOCK, verb intransitive

1. To become fast. The door locks close.

2. To unite closely by mutual insertion; as, they lock into each other.

Lockage

LOCK'AGE, noun

1. Materials for locks in a canal.

2. Works which form a lock on a canal.

3. Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.

Locked

LOCK'ED, participle passive Made fast by a lock; furnished with a lock or locks; closely embraced.

Locker

LOCK'ER, noun A close place, as a drawer or an apartment in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.

A shot-locker is a strong frame of plank near the pump-well in the hold, where shot are deposited.

Locket

LOCK'ET, noun A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

Lockram

LOCK'RAM, noun A sort of coarse linen.

Locksmith

LOCK'SMITH, noun An artificer whose occupation is to make locks.

Locky

LOCK'Y, adjective Having locks or tufts.

Locomotion

LOCOMO'TION, noun [Latin locus, place, and motio, motion.]

1. The act of moving from place to place.

2. The power of moving from place to place. Most animals possess locomotion; plants have life, but not locomotion

Locomotive

LOCOMO'TIVE, adjective Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as a locomotive animal. Most animals are distinguished from plants by their locomotive faculty.

Locomotive engine, a steam engine employed in land carriage; chiefly on railways.

Locomotivity

LOCOMOTIV'ITY, noun The power of changing place.

Loculament

LOC'ULAMENT, noun [Latin loculamentum, from locus, loculus.]

In botany, the cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged. A pericarp is unilocular, bilocular, etc.

Locust

LO'CUST, noun [Latin locusta.] An insect of the genus Gryllus. These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the S. of Asia as to devour every green thing, and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud.

LO'CUST, noun A name of several plants and trees; as a species of Melianthus, and of Ceratonia.

Locust-Tree

LO'CUST-TREE, noun A tree of the genus Hymenaea, and another of the genus Robinia. The Honey-Locust-tree, is of the genus Gleditsia.

Lode

LODE, noun

1. Among miners, a metallic vein, or any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not, but commonly a metallic vein.

2. A cut or reach of water.

Lode-Stone

LO'DE-STONE, noun [from the verb to lead, and stone.]

1. A magnet, an ore of iron; a stone found in iron mines, of a dark or black lead color, and of considerable hardness and weight. It attracts iron filings, and communicates to iron the same property of attraction. But its peculiar value consists in its communicating to a needle the property of taking a direction to the north and south, a property of inestimable utility in navigation and surveying.

2. A name given by Cornish miners to a species of stones, called also tin-stones; a compound of stones and sand, of different kinds and colors.

Lodestar

LODESTAR, noun [lead and star.] The star that leads; the polestar; the cynosure. obsolete

Lodgable

LODG'ABLE, adjective Capable of affording a temporary abode. [Not used.]

Lodge

LODGE, verb transitive

1. To set, lay or deposit for keeping or preservation, for a longer or shorter time. The men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

2. To place; to plant; to infix.

He lodged an arrow in a tender breast.

3. To fix; to settle in the heart, mind or memory.

I can give no reason more than a lodged hate -

4. To furnish with a temporary habitation, or with an accommodation for a night. He lodged the prince a month, a week, or a night. [The word usually denotes a short residence, but for no definite time.]

5. To harbor; to cover. The deer is lodged.

6. To afford place to; to contain for keeping.

The memory can lodge a greater store of images, than the senses can present at one time.

7. To throw in or on; as, to lodge a ball or a bomb in a fort.

8. To throw down; to lay flat.

Our sighs, and they shall lodge the summer corn.

LODGE, verb intransitive

1. To reside; to dwell; to rest in a place.

And lodge such daring souls in little men.

2. To rest or dwell for a time, as for a night, a week, a month. We lodged a night at the Golden Ball. We lodged a week at the City Hotel. Soldiers lodge in tents in summer, and in huts in winter. Fowls lodge on trees or rocks.

3. To fall flat, as grain. Wheat and oats on strong land are apt to lodge

LODGE, noun

1. A small house in a park or forest, for a temporary place of rest at night; a temporary habitation; a hut.

2. A small house or tenement appended to a larger; as a porter's lodge

3. A den; a cave; any place where a wild beast dwells.

Lodged

LODG'ED, participle passive Placed at rest; deposited; infixed; furnished with accommodations for a night or other short time; laid flat.

Lodger

LODG'ER, noun

1. One who lives at board, or in a hired room, or who has a bed in another's house for a night.

2. One that resides in any place for a time.

Lodging

LODG'ING, participle present tense

1. Placing at rest; depositing; furnishing lodgings.

2. Resting for a night; residing for a time.

LODG'ING, noun

1. A place of rest for a night, or of residence for a time; temporary habitation; apartment.

Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow.

2. Place of residence.

Fair bosom - the lodging of delight.

3. Harbor; cover; place of rest.

4. Convenience for repose at night.

Lodgment

LODG'MENT, noun

1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged; a being placed or deposited at rest for keeping for a time or for permanence.

2. Accumulation or collection of something deposited or remaining at rest.

3. In military affairs, an encampment made by an army.

4. A work cast up by besiegers, during their approaches, in some dangerous post which they have gained, and where it is necessary to secure themselves against the enemy's fire.

Loffe

LOFFE, verb intransitive To laugh. [Not used.]

Loft

LOFT, noun

1. Properly, an elevation; hence, in a building, the elevation of one story or floor above another; hence, a floor above another; as the second loft; third loft; fourth loft Spenser seems to have used the word for the highest floor or top, and this may have been its original signification.

2. A high room or place.

Loftily

LOFT'ILY, adverb [from lofty.]

1. On high; in an elevated place.

2. Proudly; haughtily.

They are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression; they speak loftily Psalms 73:8.

3. With elevation of language, diction or sentiment; sublimely.

My lowly verse may loftily arise.

4. In an elevated attitude. A horse carries his head loftily

Loftiness

LOFT'INESS, noun

1. Height; elevation in place or position; altitude; as the loftiness of a mountain.

2. Pride; haughtiness.

Augustus and Tiberius had loftiness enough in their tempers -

3. Elevation of attitude or mien; as loftiness of carriage.

4. Sublimity; elevation of diction or sentiment.

Three poets in three distant ages born; the first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; the next in majesty; in both the last.

First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Isaiah 2:17

Lofty

LOFTY, adjective

1. Elevated in place; high; as a lofty tower; a lofty mountain. [But it expresses more than high, or at least is more emphatical, poetical and elegant.]

See lofty Lebanon his head advance.

2. Elevated in condition or character.

Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy - Isaiah 57:7.

3. Proud; haughty; as lofty looks. Isaiah 2:11.

4. Elevated in sentiment or diction; sublime; as lofty strains; lofty rhyme.

5. Stately; dignified; as lofty steps.

Log

LOG, noun

1. A bulky piece or stick of timer unhewed. Pine logs are floated down rivers in America, and stopped at saw-mills. A piece of timber when hewed or squared, is not called a log unless perhaps in constructing log-huts.

2. In navigation, a machine for measuring the rate of a ship's velocity through the water. The common log is a piece of board, forming the quadrant of a circle of about six inches radius, balanced by a small plate of lead nailed on the circular part, so as to swim perpendicular.

3. [Heb.] A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing, according to some authors, three quarters of a pint; according to others, five sixths of a pint. According to Arbuthnot, it was the seventy second part of the bath or ephab, and the twelfth part of a hin.

LOG, verb intransitive To move to and fro. [Not used.]

Log-Board

LOG'-BOARD, noun In navigation, two boards, shutting like a book, and divided into columns, containing the hours of the day and night, direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., from which is formed the log-book.

Log-Book

LOG'-BOOK, noun A book into which are transcribed the contents of the log-board.

LOG'-HOUSE,

LOG'-HUT, noun A house or hut whose walls are composed of logs laid on each other.

LOG'-LINE, noun A line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms in length, fastened to the log by means of two legs. This is wound on a reel, called the log-reel.

Log-Reel

LOG'-REEL, noun A reel in the gallery of a ship, on which the log line is wound.

Logarithm

LOG'ARITHM, noun [Gr. ratio, and number.]

Logarithms are the exponents of a series of powers and roots.

The logarithm of a number is that exponent of some other number, which renders the power of the latter, denoted by the exponent, equal to the former.

When the logarithms form a series in arithmetical progression, the corresponding natural numbers form a series in geometrical progression. Thus,

Logarithms

0 1 2 3 4 5

Natural numbers, 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000

The addition and subtraction of logarithms answer to the multiplication and division of their natural numbers. In like manner, involution is performed by multiplying the logarithm of any number by the number denoting the required power; and evolution, by dividing the logarithm by the number denoting the required root.

Logarithms are the invention of Baron Napier, lord of Marchiston in Scotland; but the kind now in use, were invented by Henry Briggs, professor of geometry in Gresham college at Oxford. They are extremely useful in abridging the labor of trigonometrical calculations.

Logarithmetic

LOGARITHMET'IC,

LOGARITHMET'ICAL,

LOGARITH'MIC, adjective Pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

Logarithmetical

LOGARITHMET'ICAL,

Logarithmic

LOGARITH'MIC, a. Pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

Loggats

LOG'GATS, noun The name of a play or game, the same as is now called kittle-pins. It was prohibited by Statute 33, Henry VIII. [Not in use.]

Loggerhead

LOG'GERHEAD, noun [log and head.]

1. A blockhead; a dunce; a dolt; a thick-skull.

2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle; used to heat tar.

To fall to loggerheads,

To go to loggerheads, to come to blows; to fall to fighting without weapons.

Loggerheaded

LOG'GERHEADED, adjective Dull; stupid; doltish.

Logic

LOG'IC, noun [Latin id; Gr. from reason, to speak.]

The art of thinking and reasoning justly.

Logic is the art of using reason well in our inquiries after truth, and the communication of it to others.

Logic may be defined, the science or history of the human mind, as it traces the progress of our knowledge from our first conceptions through their different combinations, and the numerous deductions that result from comparing them with one another.

Correct reasoning implies correct thinking and legitimate inferences from premises, which are principles assumed or admitted to be just. logic then includes the art of thinking, as well as the art of reasoning.

The purpose of logic is to direct the intellectual powers in the investigation of truth, and in the communication of it to others.

Logical

LOG'ICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to logic; used in logic; as logical subtitles.

2. According to the rules of logic; as a logical argument or inference. This reasoning is strictly logical

3. Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; discriminating; as a logical head.

Logically

LOG'ICALLY, adverb According to the rules of logic; as, to argue logically

Logician

LOGI'CIAN, noun A person skilled in logic, or the art of reasoning.

Each fierce logician still expelling Locke.

Logistic

LOGIS'TIC, adjective Relating to sexagesimal fractions.

Logman

LOG'MAN, noun

1. A man who carries logs.

2. One whose occupation is to cut and convey logs to a mill. [Local.]

Logographic

LOGOGRAPH'IC,

LOGOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to logography.

Logographical

LOGOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to logography.

Logography

LOGOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a word, and to write.]

A method of printing, in which a type represents a word, instead of forming a letter.

Logogriphe

LOG'OGRIPHE, noun [Gr.] A sort of riddle. obsolete

Logomachist

LOGOM'ACHIST, noun One who contends about words.

Logomachy

LOGOM'ACHY, noun [Gr. word, and contest, altercation.]

Contention in words merely, or rather a contention about words; a war of words.

Logometric

LOGOMET'RIC, adjective [Gr. ratio, and to measure.]

A logometric scale is intended to measure or ascertain chimical equivalents.

Logwood

LOG'WOOD, noun A species of tree and wood, called also Campeachy-wood, from the bay of Campeachy in Spanish America, of the genus Haematoxylon, of which there is one species only. This tree has a crooked, deformed stem, growing to the height of 20 or 24 feet, with crooked irregular branches, armed with strong thorns. The wood is of a firm texture and a red color. It is much used in dyeing.

Lohoch

LO'HOCH,

LO'HOCK, noun A medicine of a middle consistence between a soft electuary and a syrup. [See Loch.]

Loin

LOIN, noun [Latin clumis.]

The loins are the space on each side of the vertebrae, between the lowest of the false ribs and the upper portion of the os ilium or haunch bone, or the lateral portions of the lumbar region; called also the reins.

Loiter

LOIT'ER, verb intransitive

To linger; to be slow in moving; to delay; to be dilatory; to spend time idly.

If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.

Loiterer

LOIT'ERER, noun A lingerer; one that delays or is slow in motion; an idler; one that is sluggish or dilatory.

Ever listless loiterers, that attend no cause, no trust, no duty and no friend.

Loitering

LOIT'ERING, participle present tense Lingering; delaying; moving slowly.

Loke

LOKE, noun [Gr. darkness.]

1. In the Scandinavian mythology, the evil deity, the author of all calamities; answering to the Arimanes of the Persians.

2. A close narrow lane. [Local.]

Loll

LOLL, verb intransitive [The sense of this word is to throw, to send. Hence it coincides with the Gr..]

1. To recline; to lean; properly, to throw one's self down; hence, to lie at ease.

Void of care he lolls supine in state.

2. To suffer the tongue to hang extended from the mouth, as an ox or a dog when heated with labor or exertion.

The triple porter of the Stygian seat, with lolling tongue lay fawning at his feet.

LOLL, verb transitive To thrust out, as the tongue.

Fierce tigers couched around, and lolled their tongues.

Lollard

LOLL'ARD, noun

The Lollards were a sect of early reformers in Germany and England, the followers of Wickliffe.

Lollardy

LOLL'ARDY, noun The doctrines of the Lollards.

Lolling

LOLL'ING, participle present tense Throwing down or out; reclining at ease; thrusting out the tongue.

Lombardic

LOMBARD'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Lombards; an epithet applied to one of the ancient alphabets derived from the Roman, and relating to the manuscripts of Italy.

Loment

LO'MENT, noun [Latin lomentum.] An elongated pericarp, which never bursts. It consists, like the legume, of two valves, with the seeds attached to the under suture, but is divided into small cells, each containing a single seed.

Lomentaceous

LOMENTA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin lomentum, bean meal, a color.]

Furnished with a loment. The lomentaceae are a natural order of plants, many of which furnish beautiful tinctures or dyes, and whose seeds are contained in a loment or legume.

Lomonite

LOM'ONITE, noun Laumonite, or di-prismatic zeolite.

Lomp

LOMP, noun A kind of roundish fish.

Londonism

LON'DONISM, noun A mode of speaking peculiar to London.

Lone

LONE, adjective

1. Solitary; retired; unfrequented; having no company.

And leave you in lone woods or empty walls.

2. Single; standing by itself; not having others in the neighborhood; as a lone house.

3. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

LONE, noun A lane. [Local.]

Loneliness

LO'NELINESS, noun

1. Solitude; retirement; seclusion from company. He was weary of the loneliness of his habitation.

2. Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.

I see the mystery of your loneliness

Lonely

LO'NELY, adjective

1. Solitary; retired; sequestered from company or neighbors; as a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

2. Solitary; as the lonely traveler.

3. Addicted to solitude or seclusion from company.

Loneness

LO'NENESS, noun Solitude; seclusion.

Lonesome

LO'NESOME, adjective Solitary; secluded from society.

How horrid will these lonesome seats appear!

Lonesomeness

LO'NESOMENESS, noun The state of being solitary; solitude.

Long

LONG, adjective [Latin longus.]

1. Extended; drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; opposed to short, and contradistinguished from broad or wide. long is a relative term; for a thing may be long in respect to one thing, and short with respect to another. We apply long to things greatly extended, and to things which exceed the common measure. we say, a long way, a long distance, a long line, and long hair, long arms. By the latter terms, we mean hair and arms exceeding the usual length.

2. Drawn out or extended in time; as a long time; a long period of time; a long while; a long series of events; a long sickness or confinement; a long session; a long debate.

3. Extended to any certain measure expressed; as a span long; a yard long; a mile long that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.

4. Dilatory; continuing for an extended time.

5. Tedious; continued to a great length.

A tale should never be too long

6. Continued in a series to a great extent; as a long succession of princes; a long line of ancestors.

7. Continued in sound; protracted; as a long note; a long syllable.

8. Continued; lingering or longing.

Praying for him, and casting a long look that way, he saw the galley leave the pursuit.

9. Extensive; extending far in prospect or into futurity.

The perennial existence of bodies corporate and their fortunes, are things particularly suited to a man who has long views.

LONG home, the grave or death. Ecclesiastes 12:5.

LONG, noun Formerly, a musical note equal to two breves. obsolete

LONG, adverb

1. To a great extent in space; as a long extended line.

2. To a great extent in time; as, they that tarry long at the wine. Proverbs 23:17.

When the trumpet soundeth long Exodus 19:13.

So in composition we say, long-expected, long-forgot.

3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the conquest of Gaul by Julius Cesar.

4. Through the whole extent or duration of.

The God who fed me all my life long to this day. Genesis 48:15.

The bird of dawning singeth all night long

LONG, adverb

By means of; by the fault of; owing to. obsolete

Mistress, all this evil is long of you.

LONG, verb transitive To belong. [Not used.]

LONG, verb intransitive

1. To desire earnestly or eagerly.

I long to see you. Romans 1:11.

I have longed after thy precepts. Psalms 119:40.

I have longed for thy salvation. Psalms 119:40.

2. To have a preternatural craving appetite; as a longing woman.

3. To have an eager appetite; as, to long for fruit.

Long-Headed

LONG'-HEADED, adjective Having a great extent of thought.

Long-Measure

LONG-MEASURE, noun Lineal measure; the measure of length.

Long-Sight

LONG-SIGHT, noun Long-sightedness.

Long-Sighted

LONG-SIGHTED, adjective Able to see at a great distance; used literally of the eyes, and figuratively of the mind or intellect.

Long-Sightedness

LONG-SIGHTEDNESS, noun

1. The faculty of seeing objects at a great distance.

2. In medicine, presbyopy; that defect of sight by which objects near at hand are seen confusedly, but at remoter distances distinctly.

Long-Sufferance

LONG-SUF'FERANCE, noun Forbearance to punish; clemency; patience.

Long-Suffering

LONG-SUF'FERING, noun Long endurance; patience of offense.

Despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering? Romans 2:1.

aLONG'-TONGUED, adjective Rating; babbling.

Long-Winded

LONG-WIND'ED, adjective Long breathed; tedious in speaking, argument or narration; as a long-winded advocate.

LONG'-WISE, adverb In the direction of length; lengthwise. [Little used.]