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Longanimity – Loving-Kindness
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Longanimity
LONGANIM'ITY, noun [Latin longanimitas; longus, long, and animus, mind.]
Forbearance; patience; disposition to endure long under offenses.
Longboat
LONG'BOAT, noun The largest and strongest boat belonging to a ship.
Longer
LON'GER, adjective [comparative of long.] More long; of greater length; as a longer course.
LON'GER, adverb For a greater duration. This evil can be endured no longer
Longest
LON'GEST, adjective Of the greatest extent; as the longest line.
LON'GEST, adverb For the greatest continuance of time. They who live longest are most convinced of the vanity of life.
Longeval
LONGE'VAL, adjective [Latin longus and avum.] Long lived.
Longevity
LONGEV'ITY, noun [Latin longavitas; longus, long, and avum, age.]
Length or duration of life; more generally, great length of life.
The instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious.
Longevous
LONGE'VOUS, adjective [Latin longavus, supra.] Living a long time; of great age.
Longimanous
LONGIM'ANOUS, adjective [Latin longus, long, and manus, hand.] Having long hands.
Longimetry
LONGIM'ETRY, noun [Latin longus, long, and Gr. measure.]
The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths, whether accessible or inaccessible.
Longing
LONG'ING, participle present tense Earnestly desiring; having a craving or preternatural appetite.
LONG'ING, noun An eager desire; a craving or preternatural appetite.
Longingly
LONG'INGLY, adverb With eager wishes or appetite.
Longinquity
LONGIN'QUITY, noun [Latin longinquitas.] Great distance.
Longish
LONG'ISH, adjective Somewhat long; moderately long.
Longitude
LON'GITUDE, noun [Latin longitudo, from longus, long.]
1. Properly length; as the longitude of a room; but in this sense not now used. Appropriately, in geography,
2. The distance of any place on the globe from another place, eastward or westward; or the distance of any place from a given meridian. Boston, in Massachusetts, is situated in the 71st degree of longitude west from Greenwich. To be able to ascertain precisely the longitude of a ship at sea, is a great desideratum in navigation.
3. The longitude of a star, is its distance from the equinoctial points, or the beginning of Aries or Libra.
Longitudinal
LONGITU'DINAL, adjective
1. Pertaining to longitude or length; as longitudinal distance.
2. Extending in length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse or across; as the longitudinal diameter of a body. The longitudinal suture of the head runs between the coronal and lamdoidal sutures.
Longitudinally
LONGITU'DINALLY, adverb In the direction of length.
Some of the fibers of the human body are placed longitudinally others transversely.
Longlegged
LONG'LEGGED, adjective Having long legs.
Longlived
LONG'LIVED, adjective Having along life or existence; living long; lasting long.
Longly
LONG'LY, adverb With longing desire. [Not used.]
Longness
LONG'NESS, noun Length. [Little used.]
Longprimer
LONG'PRIM'ER, noun A printing type of a particular size, between small pica and bourgeois.
Longshanked
LONG'SHANKED, adjective Having long legs.
Longsome
LONG'SOME, adjective Extended in length; tiresome; tedious; as a longsome plain. obsolete
Longspun
LONG'SPUN, adjective Spun or extended to a great length.
Longsuffering
LONG'SUF'FERING, adjective Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.
The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness. .
Longways
LONGWAYS, a mistake for longwise.
Lonish
LO'NISH, adjective Somewhat solitary. [Not used and inelegant.]
Loo
LOO, noun A game at cards.
Loobily
LOOB'ILY, adverb [See Looby.] Like a looby; in an awkward, clumsy manner.
Looby
LOOB'Y, noun An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.
Who could give the looby such airs?
Loof
LOOF, noun The after part of a ship's bow, or the part where the planks begin to be incurvated, as they approach the stem.
LOOF. [See Luff, which is the word used.]
Loofed
LOOF'ED, adjective [See Aloof.] Gone to a distance. [Not used.]
Look
LOOK, verb intransitive [See Light. The primary sense is to stretch, to extend, to shoot, hence to direct the eye. We observe its primary sense is nearly the same as that of seek. Hence, to look for is to seek.]
1. To direct the eye towards an object, with the intention of seeing it.
When the object is within sight, look is usually followed by on or at. We look on or at a picture; we look on or at the moon; we cannot look on or at the unclouded sun, without pain.
At, after look is not used in our version of the Scriptures. In common usage, at or on is now used indifferently in many cases, and yet in other cases, usage has established a preference. In general, on is used in the more solemn forms of expression. Moses was afraid to look on God. The Lord look on you and judge. In these and similar phrases, the use of at would be condemned, as expressing too little solemnity.
In some cases, at seems to be more properly used before very distant objects; but the cases can hardly be defined.
The particular direction of the eye is expressed by various modifying words; as, to look down, to look up, to look back to look forward, to look from, to look round, to look out, to look under. When the object is not in sight, look is followed by after, or for. Hence, to look after, or look for, is equivalent to seek or search, or to expect.
2. To see; to have the sight or view of.
Fate sees thy life lodged in a brittle glass, and looks it through, but to it cannot pass.
3. To direct the intellectual eye; to apply the mind or understanding; to consider; to examine. look at the conduct of this man; view it in all its aspects. Let every man look into the state of his own heart. Let us look beyond the received notions of men on this subject.
4. To expect.
He must look to fight another battle, before he could reach Oxford. [Little used.
5. To take care; to watch.
LOOK that ye bind them fast.
6. To be directed.
Let thine eyes look right on. .
7. To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance. The patient looks better than he did. The clouds look rainy.
I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.
Observe how such a practice looks in another person.
So we say, to look stout or big; to look peevish; to look pleasant or graceful.
8. To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.
The gate that looketh toward the north. .
The east gate of the Lord's house, that looketh eastward. .
To look about, to look on all sides, or in different directions.
To look about one, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded.
1. To look after, to attend; to take care of; as, to look after children.
2. To expect; to be in a state of expectation.
Men's hearts falling them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. .
3. To seek; to search.
My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place whereunto it has now retreated.
1. To look for, to expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship.
LOOK now for no enchanting voice.
2. To seek; to search; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle.
To look into, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as, to look into the works of nature; to look into the conduct of another; to look into one's affairs.
Which things the angels desire to look into. .
1. To look on, to regard; to esteem.
Her friends would look on her the worse.
2. To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think.
I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer.
3. To be a mere spectator.
I'll be a candle-holder and look on.
To look over, to examine one by one; as, to look over a catalogue of books; to look over accounts.
To overlook, has a different sense, to pass over without seeing.
To look out, to be on the watch. The seaman looks out for breakers.
1. To look to, or unto, to watch; to take care of.
LOOK well to thy herds. .
2. To resort to with confidence or expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from. The creditor may look to the surety for payment.
LOOK to me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. .
To look through, to penetrate with the eye, or with the understanding; to see or understand perfectly.
LOOK, verb transitive
1. To seek; to search for.
LOOKing my love, I go from place to place. obsolete
2. To influence by looks or presence; as, to look down opposition.
A spirit fit to start into an empire, and look the world to law.
To look out, to search for and discover. look out associates of good reputation.
To look one another in the face, to meet for combat.
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LOOK, in the imperative, is used to excite attention or notice. look ye, look you; that is see, behold, observe, take notice.
LOOK, noun
1. Cast of countenance; air of the face; aspect; as, a high look is an index of pride; a downcast look is an index of pride; a downcast look indicates modesty, bashfulness, or depression of mind.
Pain, disgrace and poverty have frightful looks.
2. The act of looking or seeing. Every look filled him with anguish.
3. View; watch.
Look-Out
LOOK'-OUT, noun A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
Looker
LOOK'ER, noun One who looks.
A looker on, a mere spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or interest in the affair.
Looking-Glass
LOOK'ING-GLASS, noun A glass which reflects the form of the person who looks on it; a mirror.
There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass
Lool
LOOL, noun In metallurgy, a vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.
Loom
LOOM, noun
1. In composition, heir-loom, in law, is a personal chattel that by special custom descends to an heir with the inheritance, being such a thing as cannot be separated from the estate, without injury to it; such as jewels of the crown, charters, deeds, and the like.
2. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver works threads into cloth.
Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.
3. A fowl of the size of a goose.
4. That part of an oar which is within board.
LOOM, verb intransitive
To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear larger than the real dimensions and indistinctly; as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain. The ship looms large, or the land looms high.
Loom-Gale
LOOM'-GALE, noun A gentle gale of wind.
Looming
LOOM'ING, participle present tense Appearing above the surface, or indistinctly, at a distance.
Loon
LOON, noun
1. A sorry fellow; a rogue; a rascal.
2. A sea-fowl of the genus colymbus.
Loop
LOOP, noun
1. A folding or doubling of a string or a noose, through which a lace or cord may be run for fastening.
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop to hang a doubt on.
2. In iron-works, the part of a row or block of cast iron, melted off for the forge or hammer.
Looped
LOOP'ED, adjective Full of holes.
Loophole
LOOP'HOLE, noun
1. A small aperture in the bulk-head and other parts of a merchant ship, through which small arms are fired at an enemy.
2. A hole or aperture that gives a passage.
3. A passage for escape; means of escape.
Loopholed
LOOP'HOLED, adjective Full of holes or openings for escape.
Looping
LOOP'ING, noun In metallurgy, the running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.
Loord
LOORD, noun A dull stupid fellow; a drone. [Not in use.]
Loose
LOOSE, verb transitive loos. [Gr.; Heb.]
1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening.
Canst thou loose the bands of Orion? .
Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to me. .
2. To relax.
The joints of his loins were loosed. .
3. To release from imprisonment; to liberate; to set at liberty.
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed. .
4. To free from obligation.
Art thou loosed from a wife? see not a wife. .
5. To free from any thing that binds or shackles; as a man loosed from lust and pelf.
6. To relieve; to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive.
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. .
7. To disengage; to detach; as, to loose one's hold.
8. To put off.
LOOSE thy shoe from off thy foot. .
9. To open.
Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? .
10. To remit; to absolve.
Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. .
LOOSE, verb intransitive To set sail; to leave a port or harbor.
Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga, in Pamphylia. .
LOOSE, adjective
1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not fastened or confined; as the loose sheets of a book.
2. Not tight or close; as a loose garment.
3. Not crowded; not close or compact.
With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array.
4. Not dense, close or compact; as a cloth or fossil of loose texture.
5. Not close; not concise; lax; as a loose and diffuse style.
6. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose way of reasoning.
7. Not strict or rigid; as a loose observance of rites.
8. Unconnected; rambling; as a loose indigested play.
Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
9. Of lax bowels.
10. Unengaged; not attached or enslaved.
Their prevailing principle is, to sit as loose from pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can.
11. Disengaged; free from obligation; with from or of.
Now I stand loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thought? [Little used.]
12. Wanton; unrestrained in behavior; dissolute; unchaste; as a loose man or woman.
13. Containing unchaste language; as a loose epistle.
To break loose to escape from confinement; to gain liberty by violence.
To let loose to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.
LOOSE, noun Freedom from restraint; liberty.
Come, give thy soul a loose
Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
We use this word only in the phrase, give a loose The following use of it, 'he runs with an unbounded loose ' is obsolete.
Loosed
LOOS'ED, participle passive Untied; unbound; freed from restraint.
Loosely
LOOSELY, adverb loos'ly.
1. Not fast; not firmly; that may be easily disengaged; as things loosely tied or connected.
2. Without confinement.
Her golden locks for haste were loosely shed about her ears.
3. Without union or connection.
Part loosely wing the region.
4. Irregularly; not with the usual restraints.
A bishop living loosely was charged that his conversation was not according to the apostle's lives.
5. Negligently; carelessly; heedlessly; as a mind loosely employed.
6. Meanly; slightly.
A prince should not be so loosely studied, as to remember so weak a composition.
7. Wantonly; dissolutely; unchastely.
Loosen
LOOS'EN, verb transitive loos'n. [from loose.]
1. To free from tightness, tension, firmness or fixedness; as, to loosen a string when tied, or a knot; to loosen a joint; to loosen a rock in the earth.
2. To render less dense or compact; as, to loosen the earth about the roots of a tree.
3. To free from restraint.
It loosens his hands and assists his understanding.
4. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase alvine discharges.
Fear looseneth the belly.
LOOS'EN, verb intransitive To become loose; to become less tight, firm or compact.
Loosened
LOOS'ENED, participle passive Freed from tightness or fixedness; rendered loose.
Looseness
LOOSENESS, noun loos'ness.
1. The state of being loose or relaxed; a state opposite to that of being tight, fast, fixed or compact; as the looseness of a cord; the looseness of a robe; the looseness of the skin; the looseness of earth, or of the texture of cloth.
2. The state opposite to rigor or rigidness; laxity; levity; as looseness of morals or of principles.
3. Irregularity; habitual deviation from strict rules; as looseness of life.
4. Habitual lewdness; unchastity.
5. Flux from the bowels; diarrhaea.
Loosening
LOOS'ENING, participle present tense Freeing from tightness, tension or fixedness; rendering less compact.
Loosestrife
LOOSESTRIFE, noun loos'strife. In botany, the name of several species of plants, of the genera Lysimachia, Epilobium, Lythrum, and Gaura.
Loosing
LOOS'ING, participle present tense Setting free from confinement.
Lop
LOP, verb transitive [Eng. flap. The primary sense is evidently to fall or fell, or to strike down, and I think it connected with flap.]
1. To cut off, as the top or extreme part of any thing; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
With branches lopp'd in wood, or mountain fell'd.
2. To cut off, as exuberances; to separate, as superfluous parts.
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
3. to cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop the trees or saplings of a hedge.
4. To let fall; to flap; as, a horse lops his ears.
LOP, noun that which is cut from trees.
Else both body and lop will be of little value.
LOP, noun a flea. [Local.]
Lope
LOPE, preterit tense of leap. obsolete
LOPE, noun [See leap.]
A leap; a long step. [A word in popular use in America.]
LOPE, verb intransitive To leap; to move or run with a long step, as a dog.
Loping
LO'PING, participle present tense Leaping; moving or running with a long step.
Lopped
LOP'PED, participle passive cut off; shortened by cutting off the top or end; bent down.
Lopper
LOP'PER, noun One that lops.
Lopping
LOP'PING, participle present tense Cutting off; shortening by cutting off the extremity; letting fall.
LOP'PING, noun that which is cut off.
Loquacious
LOQUA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin loquax, from loquor, to speak. Eng. to clack.]
1. Talkative; given to continual talking.
Loquacious, brawling ever in the wrong.
2. Speaking; noisy.
Bling British bards, with volant touch, traverse loquacious strings.
3. Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
Loquaciousness
LOQUA'CIOUSNESS,
LOQUAC'ITY, noun [Latin loquacitas.] Talkativeness; the habit or practice of talking continually or excessively.
Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits.
Loquacity
LOQUAC'ITY, n. [L. loquacitas.] Talkativeness; the habit or practice of talking continually or excessively. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits.
Lord
LORD, noun
1. A master; a person possessing supreme power and authority; a ruler; a governor.
Man over man he made not lord
But now I was the lord of this fair mansion.
2. A tyrant; an oppressive ruler.
3. A husband.
I oft in bitterness of soul deplores my absent daughter, and my dearer lord
My lord also being old. .
4. A baron; the proprietor of a manor; as the lord of the manor.
5. A nobleman; a title of honor in Great Britain given to those who are noble by birth or creation; a peer of the realm, including dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons. Archbishops and bishops also, as members of the house of lords, are lords of parliament. Thus we say, lords temporal and spiritual. By courtesy also the title is given to the sons of dukes and marquises, and to the eldest sons of earls.
6. An honorary title bestowed on certain official characters; as lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
7. In scripture, the Supreme Being; Jehovah. When lord in the Old Testament, is prints in capitals, it is the translation of JEHOVAH, and so might, with more propriety, be rendered. The word is applied to Christ, . . and to the Holy Spirit, . As a title of respect, it is applied to kings, . . to princes and nobles, . to a husband, . to a prophet, . . and to a respectable person, Christ is called the lord of glory, . and lord of lords, .
LORD, verb transitive To invest with the dignity and privileges of a lord
LORD, verb intransitive To domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; sometimes followed by over, and sometimes by it, in the manner of a transitive verb.
The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss.
I see them lording it in London streets.
They lorded over them whom now they serve.
Lording
LORD'ING, noun A little lord; a lord, in contempt or ridicule. [Little used.]
Lordlike
LORD'LIKE, adjective
1. Becoming a lord.
2. Haughty; proud; insolent.
Lordliness
LORD'LINESS, noun [from lordly.]
1. Dignity; high station.
2. Pride; haughtiness.
Lordling
LORD'LING, noun A little or diminutive lord.
Lordly
LORD'LY, adjective [lord and like.]
1. Becoming a lord; pertaining to a lord.
Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
Every rich and lordly swain, with pride would drag about her chain.
LORD'LY, adverb Proudly; imperiously; despotically.
A famished lion, issuing from the wood, roars lordly fierce.
Lordship
LORD'SHIP, noun
1. The state of quality of being a lord; hence, a title of honor given to noblemen, except to dukes, who have the title of grace.
2. A titulary compellation of judges and certain other persons in authority and office.
3. Dominion; power; authority.
They who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles, exercise lordship over them. .
4. Seigniory; domain; the territory of a lord over which he holds jurisdiction; a manor.
What lands and lordships for their owner know my quondam barber.
Lore
LORE, noun Learning; doctrine; lesson; instruction.
The law of nations, or the lore of war.
Lo! Rome herself, proud mistress now no more of arts, but thundering against heathen lore
Lorel
LOR'EL, noun An abandoned scoundrel; a vagrant. obsolete
Loresman
LO'RESMAN, noun [lore and man.] An instructor. obsolete
Loricate
LOR'ICATE, verb transitive [Latin lorico, loricatus, from lorica, a coat of mail.]
1. To plate over; to spread over, as a plate for defense.
Nature hath loricated the sides of the tympanum in animals with ear-wax.
2. To cover with a crust, as a chimical vessel, for resisting fire.
Loricated
LOR'ICATED, participle passive Covered or plated over; encrusted.
Loricating
LOR'ICATING, participle present tense Covering over with a plate or crust.
Lorication
LORICA'TION, noun The act or operation of covering any thing with a plate or crust for defense; as the lorication of a chimical vessel, to enable it to resist the action of fire, and sustain a high degree of heat.
Lorimer
LOR'IMER, noun [Latin lorum, a thong.]
A bridle-maker; one that makes bits for bridles, etc. [Not used.]
Loring
LO'RING, noun Instructive discourse. obsolete
Loriot
LO'RIOT, noun A bird called witwal; the oriole.
Loris
LO'RIS, noun A small quadruped of Ceylon.
Lorn
LORN, adjective [See Forlorn.] Lost; forsaken; lonely.
Lory
LO'RY, noun A subordinate genus of fowls of the parrot kind, forming the link between the parrot and parakeet.
Losable
LOSABLE, adjective That may be lost. [Little used.]
Lose
LOSE, verb transitive looz. preterit tense and participle passive lost.
1. To mislay; to part or be separated from a thing, so as to have no knowledge of the place where it is; as, to lose a book or a paper; to lose a record; to lose a dollar or a ducat.
2. To forfeit by unsuccessful contest; as, to lose money in gaming.
3. Not to gain or win; as, to lose a battle, that is, to be defeated.
4. To be deprived of; as, to lose men in battle; to lose an arm or leg by a shot or by amputation; to lose one's life or honor.
5. To forfeit, as a penalty. Our first parents lost the favor of God by their apostasy.
6. To suffer diminution or waste of.
If the salt hath lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? .
7. To ruin; to destroy.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
8. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; as, to lose the way.
9. To bewilder.
Lost in the maze of words.
10. To possess no longer; to be deprived of; contrary to keep; as, to lose a valuable trade.
11. Not to employ or enjoy; to waste. Titus sighed to lose a day.
Th' unhappy have but hours, but these they lose
12. To waste; to squander; to throw away; as, to lose a fortune by gaming, or by dissipation.
13. To suffer to vanish from view or perception. We lost sight of the land at noon. I lost my companion in the crowd.
Like following life in creatures we dissect, we lost it in the moment we detect.
14. To ruin; to destroy by shipwreck, etc. the albion was lost on the coast of Ireland, april 22, 1822. the admiral lost three ships in a tempest.
15. To cause to perish; as, to be lost at sea.
16. to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste. Instruction is often lost on the dull; admonition is lost on the profligate. It is often the fate of projectors to lose their labor.
17. to be freed from.
His scaly back the bunch has got which Edwin lost before.
18. to fail to obtain.
He shall in no wise lose his reward. .
to lose one's self, to be bewildered; also, to slumber; to have the memory and reason suspended.
LOSE, verb intransitive looz.
1. To forfeit any thing in contest; not to win.
We'll talk with them too, who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out.
2. To decline; to fail.
Wisdom in discourse with her loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.
Losel
LOS'EL, noun s as z. [from the root of loose.] a wasteful fellow, one who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person. obsolete
Losenger
LOS'ENGER, noun a deceiver. obsolete
Loser
LOSER, noun looz'er. One that loses, or that is deprived of any thing by defeat, forfeiture or the like; the contrary to winner or gainer. A loser by trade may be honest and moral; this cannot be said of a loser by gaming.
Losing
LOS'ING, participle present tense looz'ing. Parting from; missing; forfeiting; wasting; employing to no good purpose.
Loss
LOSS, noun
1. privation, as the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. every loss is not a detriment. we cannot regret the loss of bad company or of evil habits.
2. Destruction; ruin; as the loss of a ship at sea; the loss of an army.
3. Defeat; as the loss of a battle.
4. Waste; useless application; as a loss of time or labor.
5. Waste by leakage or escape; as a loss of liquors in transportation.
To bear a loss to make good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it.
To be at a loss to be puzzled; to be unable to determine; to be in a state of uncertainty.
Lossful
LOSS'FUL, adjective Detrimental. [Not used.
Lossless
LOSS'LESS, adjective Free from loss. [Not used.]
Lost
LOST, participle passive [from lose.]
1. Mislaid or left in a place unknown or forgotten; that cannot be found; as a lost book.
2. Ruined; destroyed; wasted or squandered; employed to no good purpose; as lost money; lost time.
3. Forfeited; as a lost estate.
4. Not able to find the right way, or the place intended. A stranger is lost in London or Paris.
5. Bewildered; perplexed; being in a maze; as, a speaker may be lost in his argument.
6. Alienated; insensible; hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; as a profligate lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
7. Not perceptible to the senses; not visible; as an isle lost in fog; a person lost in a crowd.
8. Shipwrecked or foundered; sunk or destroyed; as a ship lost at sea, or on the rocks.
Lot
LOT, noun
1. That which, in human speech, is called chance, hazard, fortune; but in strictness of language, is the determination of Providence; as, the land shall be divided by lot .
2. That by which the fate or portion of one is determined; that by which an event is committed to chance, that is, to the determination of Providence; as, to cast lots; to draw lots.
The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. .
3. The part, division or fate which falls to one by chance, that is, by divine determination.
The second lot came forth to Simeon. .
He was but born to try the lot of man, to suffer and to die.
4. A distinct portion or parcel; as a lot of goods; a lot of boards.
5. Proportion or share of taxes; as, to pay scot and lot
6. In the United States, a piece or division of land; perhaps originally assigned by drawing lots, but now any portion, piece or division. So we say, a man has a lot of land in Broadway, or in the meadow; he has a lot in the plain, or on the mountain; he has a home-lot, a house-lot, a wood-lot.
The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York.
To cast lots, is to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined.
To draw lots, to determine an event by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer, and thus determining an event.
LOT, verb transitive To allot; to assign; to distribute; to sort; to catalogue; to portion.
Lote
LOTE, noun [Latin lotus, lotos.]
1. A plant of the genus Celtis, the lote-tree, of several species. The wood of one species is very durable, and is used for timber. In Italy, flutes and other wind-instruments are made of it, and in England it is used for the frames of coaches, etc.
2. A little fish.
LOTH, adjective
1. Literally, hating, detesting; hence,
2. Unwilling; disliking; not inclined; reluctant.
Long doth he stay, as loth to leave the land.
To pardon willing, and to punish loth.
LOTHE, verb transitive [See Lade.]
1. To feel disgust at any thing; properly, to have an extreme aversion of the appetite to food or drink.
Our soul lotheth this light bread. .
Lothing the honey'd cakes, I long'd for bread.
2. To hate; to dislike greatly; to abhor.
Ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils - .
Not to reveal the secret which I lothe.
LOTHE, verb intransitive To create disgust. obsolete
Loth
LOTH, adjective [In America, the primitive pronunciation of lath, that is, lawth, is retained in the adjective, which is written loth The verb would be better written lothe, in analogy with cloth, clothe. See loth ]
Disliking; unwilling; reluctant. He was loth to leave the company. [See loth ]
Lothe
LOTHE, verb transitive To hate; to look on with hatred or abhorrence; particularly, to feel disgust at food or drink, either from natural antipathy, or a sickly appetite, or from satiety, or from its ill taste. [See lothe ]
Lothed
LO'THED, participle passive Hatred; abhorred; turned from with disgust.
Lother
LO'THER, noun One that lothes or abhors.
Lothful
LO'THFUL, adjective
1. Hating; abhorring.
Which he did with lothful eyes behold.
2. Disgusting; hated; exciting abhorrence.
Above the reach of lothful sinful lust.
Lothing
LO'THING, participle present tense
1. Feeling disgust at; having extreme aversion to; as lothing food.
2. Hating; abhorring; as lothing sin.
LO'THING, noun Extreme disgust; abhorrence. .
Lothingly
LO'THINGLY, adverb With extreme disgust or abhorrence; in a fastidious manner.
Lothly
LOTH'LY, adverb Unwillingly; reluctantly.
This shows that you from nature lothly stray.
Lothness
LOTH'NESS, noun Unwillingness; reluctance.
There grew among them a general silence and lothness to speak.
Lothsome
LO'THSOME, adjective
1. Causing an extreme aversion of appetite; exciting fastidiousness. .
2. Exciting extreme disgust; offensive; as a lothsome disease. .
3. Odious; exciting hatred or abhorrence; detestable; as lothsome sloth.
Lothsomeness
LO'THSOMENESS, noun the quality of exciting extreme disgust or abhorrence.
Lotion
LO'TION, noun [Latin lotio, from lavo, to wash.]
1. A washing; particularly, a washing of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.
2. A liquid preparation for washing some part of the body, to cleanse it of fourlness or deformity.
3. In pharmacy, a preparation of medicines, by washing them in some liquid, to remove foreign substances, impurities, etc.
Lottery
LOT'TERY, noun [See Lot.]
1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance, or the distribution itself. Lotteries are often authorized by law, but many good men deem them immoral in principle, and almost all men concur in the opinion that their effects are pernicious.
2. Allotment. [Not used.]
Loud
LOUD, adjective [Latin laudo, to praise, and with a prefix, plaudo. Heb.]
1. Having a great sound; high sounding; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as a loud voice; a loud cry; loud thunder.
2. Uttering or making a great noise; as loud instruments. .
3. Clamorous; noisy.
She is loud and stubborn. .
4. Emphatical; impressive; as a loud call to avoid danger.
Loudly
LOUD'LY, adverb
1. With great sound or noise; noisily.
Who long and loudly in the schools declaimed.
2. Clamorously; with vehement complaints or importunity. He loudly complained of intolerance.
Loudness
LOUD'NESS, noun
1. Great sound or noise; as the loudness of a voice or of thunder.
2. Clamor; clamorousness; turbulence; uproar.
Lough
LOUGH, noun lok. a lake; a different orthography of loch and lake.
LOUIS D'OR, noun [a Lewis of gold.] A gold coin of France, first struck in 1640, in the reign of Louis XIII., value, twenty shillings sterling, equal to $4, 4444.
Lounge
LOUNGE, verb intransitive to live in idleness; to spend time lazily.
Lounger
LOUNG'ER, noun An idler; one who loiters away his time in indolence.
Lour
LOUR. [See Lower.]
Louse
LOUSE, noun lous. plural lice.
A small insect of the genus Pediculus. It has six feet, two eyes, with long feelers and a sting in the mouth. It infests the bodies of men and other animals; but different animals are infested with different species.
LOUSE, verb transitive louz. To clean from lice.
Louse-Wort
LOUSE-WORT, noun lous'-wort. A plant of the genus Pedicularis. The yellow louse-wort is of the genus Rhinanthus.
Lousily
LOUS'ILY, adverb s as z. [from lousy.] In a mean, paltry manner; scurvily.
Lousiness
LOUS'INESS, noun s as z. The state of abounding with lice.
Lousy
LOUS'Y, adjective s as z. [louse.]
1. Swarming with lice; infested with lice.
2. Mean; low; contemptible; as a lousy knave.
Lout
LOUT, noun A mean awkward fellow; a bumpkin; a clown.
LOUT, verb intransitive To end; to bow; to stoop. [Obsolete or local.]
Loutish
LOUT'ISH, adjective Clownish; rude; awkward.
Loutishly
LOUT'ISHLY, adverb Like a clown; in a rude, clumsy, awkward manner.
Louver
LOUVER, noun loo'ver. An opening in the roof of a cottage for the smoke to escape.
Lovable
LOV'ABLE, adjective Worthy of love; amiable.
Lovage
LOV'AGE, noun A plant of the genus Ligusticum.
Love
LOVE, verb transitive luv. [Latin libeo, lubeo. See Lief. The sense is probably to be prompt, free, willing, from leaning, advancing, or drawing forward.]
1. In a general sense to be pleased with; to regard with affection, on account of some qualities which excite pleasing sensations or desire of gratification. We love a friend, on account of some qualities which give us pleasure in his society. We love a man who has done us a favor; in which case, gratitude enters into the composition of our affection. We love our parents and our children, on account of their connection with us, and on account of many qualities which please us. We love to retire to a cool shade in summer. We love a warm room in winter. we love to hear an eloquent advocate. The christian loves his Bible. In short, we love whatever gives us pleasure and delight, whether animal or intellectual; and if our hearts are right, we love God above all things, as the sum of all excellence and all the attributes which can communicate happiness to intelligent beings. In other words, the christian loves God with the love of complacency in his attributes, the love of benevolence towards the interest of his kingdom, and the love of gratitude for favors received.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind -
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. .
2. To have benevolence or good will for. .
LOVE, noun
1. An affection of the mind excited by beauty and worth of any kind, or by the qualities of an object which communicate pleasure, sensual or intellectual. It is opposed to hatred. love between the sexes, is a compound affection, consisting of esteem, benevolence, and animal desire. love is excited by pleasing qualities of any kind, as by kindness, benevolence, charity, and by the qualities which render social intercourse agreeable. In the latter case, love is ardent friendship, or a strong attachment springing from good will and esteem, and the pleasure derived from the company, civilities and kindness of others.
Between certain natural relatives, love seems to be in some cases instinctive. Such is the love of a mother for her child, which manifests itself toward an infant, before any particular qualities in the child are unfolded. This affection is apparently as strong in irrational animals as in human beings.
We speak of the love of amusements, the love of books, the love of money, and the love of whatever contributes to our pleasure or supposed profit.
The love of God is the first duty of man, and this springs from just views of his attributes or excellencies of character, which afford the highest delight to the sanctified heart. Esteem and reverence constitute ingredients in this affection, and a fear of offending him is its inseparable effect.
2. Courtship; chiefly in the phrase, to make love that is, to court; to woo; to solicit union in marriage.
3. Patriotism; the attachment one has to his native land; as the love of country.
4. Benevolence; good will.
God is love .
5. The object beloved.
The lover and the love of human kind.
6. A word of endearment.
Trust me, love
7. Picturesque representation of love
Such was his form as painters, when they show their utmost art, on naked loves bestow.
8. Lewdness.
He is not lolling on a lewd love-bed.
9. A thin silk stuff. obsolete
LOVE in idleness, a kind of violet.
Free of love a plant of the genus Cercis.
Love-Broker
LOVE-BROKER, noun A third person who acts as agent between lovers.
Love-Darting
LOVE-DARTING, adjective Darting love.
Love-Day
LOVE-DAY, noun A day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences.
Love-Favor
LOVE-FAVOR, noun Something given to be worn in token of love.
Love-Knot
LOVE-KNOT, noun luv'-not. A knot so called, used as a token of love or representing mutual affection.
Love-Labored
LOVE-LABORED, adjective Labored by love.
Love-Lass
LOVE-LASS, noun A sweetheart.
Love-Letter
LOVE-LETTER, noun A letter professing love; a letter of courtship.
Love-Lock
LOVE-LOCK, noun A curl or lock of hair so called; worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
Love-Lorn
LOVE-LORN, adjective [love and lorn.] Forsaken by one's love; as the love-lorn nightingale.
Love-Monger
LOVE-MONGER, noun [love and monger.] One who deals in affairs of love. [Not used.]
Love-Pined
LOVE-PINED, adjective Wasted by love.
Love-Secret
LOVE-SECRET, noun A secret between lovers.
Love-Shaft
LOVE-SHAFT, noun Cupid's arrow.
Love-Sick
LOVE-SICK, adjective
1. Sick or languishing with love or amorous desire; as a love-sick maid.
To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind.
2. Dictated by a languishing lover, or expressive of languishing love.
Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing.
Love-Song
LOVE-SONG, noun A song expressing love.
Love-Suit
LOVE-SUIT, n Courtship; solicitation of union in marriage.
Love-Tale
LOVE-TALE, noun A narrative of love.
Cato's proper person to entrust a love-tale with.
Love-Thought
LOVE-THOUGHT, noun Amorous fancy. [Not used.]
Love-Token
LOVE-TOKEN, noun A present in token of love.
Love-Toy
LOVE-TOY, noun A small present from a lover.
Love-Trick
LOVE-TRICK, noun Art or artifice expressive of love.
Other love-tricks than glancing with the eyes.
Loveapple
LOVE'APPLE, noun A plant of the genus Solanum.
Loved
LOVED, participle passive Having the affection of any one.
Loveless
LOVELESS, adjective Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.
Lovelily
LOVELILY, adverb luv'lily. [from lovely.] Amiably; in a manner to excite love.
Loveliness
LOVELINESS, noun luv'liness. [from lovely.]
Amiableness; qualities of body or mind that may excite love.
If there is such a native loveliness in the sex, as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth.
Lovely
LOVELY, adjective luv'ly. Amiable; that may excite love; possessing qualities which may invite affection.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives - .
Lover
LOV'ER, noun
1. One who loves; one who has a tender affection, particularly for a female.
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see -
2. A friend; one who regards with kindness.
Your brother and his lover have embraced.
3. One who likes or is pleased with any thing; as a lover of books or of science; a lover of wine; a lover of religion.
Lover and loover. [See Louver.]
Lovesome
LOVESOME, adjective Lovely. [Not used.]
Loving
LOVING, participle present tense
1. Entertaining a strong affection for; having tender regard for.
2. adjective Fond; affectionate; as a loving friend.
3. Expressing love or kindness; as loving words.
Loving-Kindness
LOVING-KINDNESS, noun Tender regard; mercy; favor; a scriptural word.
My loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him.
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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.