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Lovingly
LOVINGLY, adverb With love; with affection; affectionately.
It is no great matter to live lovingly with meek persons.
Lovingness
LOVINGNESS, noun Affection; kind regard.
The only two bands of good will, loveliness and lovingness
Low
LOW, adjective
1. Not high or elevated; depressed below any given surface or place. low ground or land, is land below the common level. low is opposed to high, and both are relative terms. That which is low with respect to one thing, may be high with respect to another. A low house would be a high fence. A low flight for an eagle, would be a high flight for a partridge.
2. Not rising to the usual height; as a man of low stature.
3. Declining near the horizon. The sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and at six in summer.
4. Deep; descending far below the adjacent ground; as a low valley.
The lowest bottom shook of Erebus.
5. Sunk to the natural level of the ocean by the retiring of the tide; as low water.
6. Below the usual rate or amount, or below the ordinary value; as a low price of corn; low wages.
7. Not high or loud; as a low voice.
8. Grave; depressed in the scale of sounds; as a low note.
9. Near or not very distant from the equator; as a low latitude. We say, the low southern latitudes; the high northern latitudes.
10. Late in time; modern as the lower empire.
11. Dejected; depressed in vigor; wanting strength or animation; as low spirits; low in spirits. His courage is low
12. Depressed in condition; in a humble state.
Why but to keep you low and ignorant?
13. Humble in rank; in a mean condition; as men of high and low condition; the lower walks of life; a low class of people.
14. Mean; abject; groveling; base; as a person of low mind.
15. Dishonorable; mean; as a low trick or stratagem.
16. Not elevated or sublime; not exalted in thought or diction; as a low comparison; a low metaphor; low language.
In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull.
17. Vulgar; common; as a low education.
18. Submissive; humble; reverent.
And pay their fealty with low subjection.
But first low reverence done.
19. Weak; exhausted of vital energy. His disease has brought him very low
20. Feeble; weak; without force; as a low pulse.
21. Moderate; not inflammatory; as a low fever.
22. Moderate; not intense; as a low heat; a low temperature.
23. Impoverished; in reduced circumstances. The rich are often reduced to a low condition.
24. Moderate; as a low calculation or estimate.
25. Plain; simple; not rich, high seasoned or nourishing; as a low diet.
LOW, adverb
1. Not aloft; not on high; often in composition; as low-brow'd rocks.
2. Under the usual price; at a moderate price. He sold his wheat low
3. Near the ground; as, the bird flies very low
4. In a mean condition; in composition; as a low-born fellow; a low-born lass.
5. In time approaching our own.
In the part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds.
6. With a depressed voice; not loudly; as, speak low
7. In a state of subjection, poverty or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want or by vice.
LOW, verb transitive To sink; to depress. [Not used.]
LOW, verb intransitive [Latin lugeo, to weep, the sense of which is, to cry out.]
To bellow, as an ox or cow.
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
Low-Born
LOW-BORN, adjective Born in low life.
Low-Bred
LOW-BRED, adjective Bred in a low condition or manner; vulgar.
Low-Spirited
LOW-SPIR'ITED, adjective Not having animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not lively or sprightly. Losses of property often render men low-spirited Excessive severity breaks the mind, and renders the child or pupil low-spirited
Low-Spiritedness
LOW-SPIR'ITEDNESS, noun Dejection of mind or courage; a state of low spirits.
Low-Thoughted
LOW-THOUGHT'ED, adjective Having the thoughts employed on low subjects; not having sublime and elevated thoughts or contemplations; mean of sentiment; as low-thoughted care.
Low-Wines
LOW-WINES, noun [low and wine.] The liquor produced by the first distillation of molasses, or fermented liquors; the first run of the still.
Lowbell
LOWBELL, noun
A kind of fowling in the night, in which the birds are wakened by a bell, and blinded by light, so as to be easily taken.
LOWBELL, verb transitive To scare, as with a lowbell
Lowe
LOWE, A termination of names, as in Bed-low.
Lower
LOWER, verb transitive [from low.]
1. To cause to descend; to let down; to take or bring down; as, to lower the main-sail of a sloop.
2. To suffer to sink downwards.
3. To bring down; to reduce or humble; as, to lower the pride of man.
4. To lessen; to diminish; to reduce, as value or amount; as, to lower the price or value of goods, or the rate of interest.
LOWER, verb intransitive To fall; to sink; to grow less.
LOW'ER, verb intransitive
1. To appear dark or gloomy; to be clouded; to threaten a storm.
And all the clouds that lowered upon your house.
The lowering spring.
2. To frown; to look sullen.
But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.
LOW'ER, noun
1. Cloudiness; gloominess.
2. A frowning; sullenness.
LOWER, adjective [comparative of low.] Less high or elevated.
Loweringly
LOW'ERINGLY, adverb with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
Lowermost
LOWERMOST, adjective [from low.] Lowest.
Lowery
LOW'ERY, adjective cloudy; gloomy.
Lowest
LOWEST, adjective [superlative of low.] Most low; deepest; most depressed or degraded, etc.
Lowing
LOWING, participle present tense Bellowing, as an ox.
LOWING, noun the bellowing or cry of cattle.
Lowland
LOWLAND, noun land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country. Thus the Belgic states are called Lowlands. The word is sometimes opposed to a mountainous country; as the Lowlands of Scotland. sometimes it denotes a marsh.
Lowlihood
LOWLIHOOD, noun a humble state. obsolete
Lowliness
LOWLINESS, noun [from lowly.]
1. Freedom from pride; humility; humbleness of mind.
Walk - with all lowliness and meekness. . .
2. Meanness; want of dignity; abject state. [In this sense little used.]
Lowly
LOWLY, adjective [low and like.]
1. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lovly in heart. .
He scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace to the lowly .
2. Mean; low; wanting dignity or rank.
One common right the great and lowly claim.
3. Not lofty or sublime; humble.
these rural poems, and their lowly strain.
4. Not high; not elevated in place.
LOWLY, adverb
1. Humbly; meekly; modestly.
Belowly wise.
2. Meanly; in a low condition; without grandeur or dignity.
I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught.
Lown
LOWN, noun [See Loon. a low fellow; a scoundrel.
Lowness
LOWNESS, noun
1. The state of being low or depressed; the state of being less elevated than something else; as the lowness of the ground, or of the water after the ebb-tide.
2. Meanness of condition. Men are not to be despised or oppressed on account of the lowness of their birth or condition.
3. Meanness of mind or character; want of dignity. haughtiness usually springs from lowness of mind; real dignity is distinguished by modesty.
4. Want of sublimity in style or sentiment; the contrary to loftiness.
5. Submissiveness; as the lowness of obedience.
6. Depression of mind; want of courage or fortitude; dejection; as lowness of spirits.
7. Depression in fortune; a state of poverty; as the lowness of circumstances.
8. Depression in strength or intensity; as the lowness of heat or temperature; lowness of zeal.
9. Depression in price or worth; as the lowness of price or value; the lowness of the funds or of the markets.
10. Graveness of sound; as the lowness of notes.
11. Softness of sound; as the lowness of the voice.
Loxodromic
LOXODROM'IC, adjective [Gr. oblique, and a course.]
Pertaining to oblique sailing by the rhomb; as loxodromic tables.
Loxodromics
LOXODROM'ICS, noun The art of oblique sailing by the rhomb, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; that is, when a ship sails neither directly under the equator, nor under the same meridian, but obliquely.
Loyal
LOY'AL, adjective [Latin lex, law.]
Faithful to a prince or superior; true to plighted faith, duty or love; not treacherous; used of subjects to their prince, and of husband, wife and lovers; as a loyal subject; a loyal wife.
There Laodamia with Evadne moves, unhappy both! but loyal in their loves.
Loyalist
LOY'ALIST, noun A person who adheres to his sovereign; particularly, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.
Loyally
LOY'ALLY, adverb With fidelity to a prince or sovereign, or to a husband or lover.
Loyalty
LOY'ALTY, noun Fidelity to a prince or sovereign, or to a husband or lover.
He had such loyalty to the king as the law requires.
Lozenge
LOZ'ENGE, noun [Gr. oblique, and a corner.]
1. Originally, a figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
2. In heraldry, a four-cornered figure, resembling a pane of glass in old casements.
3. Among jewelers, lozenges are common to brilliants and rose diamonds. In brilliants, they are formed by the meeting of the skill and the star facets on the bezil; in the latter, by the meeting of the facets in the horizontal ribs of the crown.
4. A form of medicine in small pieces, to be chewed or held in the mouth till melted.
5. In confectionary, a small cake of preserved fruit, or of sugar, etc.
Lozenged
LOZ'ENGED, adjective Made into the shape of lozenges.
Lozengy
LOZ'ENGY, adjective In heraldry, having the field or charge covered with lozenges.
Lp
LP, a contraction of lordship.
Lu
LU. [See Loo.]
Lubbard
LUBBARD. [Not used. See Lubber.]
Lubber
LUB'BER, noun
A heavy, clumsy fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
And lingering lubbers lose many a penny.
Lubberly
LUB'BERLY, adjective Properly, tall and lank without activity; hence, bulky and heavy; clumsy; lazy; as a lubberly fellow or boy.
LUB'BERLY, adverb Clumsily; awkwardly.
Lubric
LU'BRIC, adjective [Latin lubricus, slippery.]
1. Having a smooth surface; slippery; as a lubric throat.
2. Wavering; unsteady; as the lubric waves of state.
3. Lascivious; wanton; lewd.
This lubric and adulterate age.
[This word is now little used.]
Lubricant
LU'BRICANT, noun [See Lubricate.] That which lubricates.
Lubricate
LU'BRICATE, verb transitive [Latin lubrico, from lubricus, slippery; allied to labor, to slip or slide.]
To make smooth or slippery. Mucilaginous and saponaceous medicines lubricate the parts to which they are applied.
Lubricated
LU'BRICATED, participle passive Made smooth and slippery.
Lubricating
LU'BRICATING, participle present tense Rendering smooth and slippery.
Lubricator
LU'BRICATOR, noun That which lubricates.
Lubricous
LU'BRICOUS, adjective [Latin lubricus.]
1. Smooth; slippery.
2. Wavering; unstable; as lubricous opinions.
Lubrictiy
LUBRIC'TIY, noun
1. Smoothness of surface; slipperiness.
2. Smoothness; aptness to glide over any thing, or to facilitate the motion of bodies in contact by diminishing friction.
3. Slipperiness; instability; as the lubricity of fortune.
4. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency.
Lubrifaction
LUBRIFAC'TION, noun [infra.] The act of lubricating or making smooth.
Lubrification
LUBRIFICA'TION, noun [Latin lubricus and facio, to make.]
The act or operation of making smooth and slippery.
Luce
LUCE, noun A pike full grown.
Lucent
LU'CENT, adjective [Latin lucens, from luceo, to shine. See light.]
Shining; bright; resplendent; as the sun's lucent orb.
Lucern
LU'CERN, noun
A plant of the genus Medicago, cultivated for fodder.
Lucid
LU'CID, adjective [Latin lucidus, from luceo, to shine. See Light.]
1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as the lucid orbs of heaven.
2. Clear; transparent; pellucid; as a lucid stream.
3. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as the lucid intervals of a deranged man.
4. Clear; distinct; presenting a clear view; easily understood; as a lucid order or arrangement.
Lucidity
LUCID'ITY, noun Brightness. [Not used.]
Lucidness
LU'CIDNESS, noun Brightness; clearness.
Lucifer
LU'CIFER, noun [Latin lux, lucis, light, and fero, to bring.]
1. The planet Venus, so called from its brightness.
2. Satan.
And when he falls, he falls like lucifer never to hope again.
Luciferian
LUCIFE'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to Lucifer, or to the Luciferians.
Luciferians
LUCIFE'RIANS, noun A sect that followed Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century. They held to the carnal nature of the soul, and that there is no place for repentance for such as fall.
Luciferous
LUCIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lucifer, supra.] Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.
Lucific
LUCIF'IC, adjective [Latin lux, light, and facio, to make.]
Producing light.
Luciform
LU'CIFORM, adjective [Latin lux, light, and forma, form.]
Having the form of light; resembling light.
The water prepares us, and purifies our luciform spirit to receive the divinity.
Luck
LUCK, noun
That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting a man's interest or happiness, and which is deemed casual; fortune. luck respects persons and their proceedings. We never say, in a literal sense, that a plant has the luck to grow in a particular place; or a fossil has the luck to be of a particular form. We say, a person has the good luck to escape from danger; or the ill luck to be ensnared or to suffer loss. He has had good luck or bad luck in gaming, fishing or hunting. luck or what we call chance, accident, fortune, is an event which takes place without being intended or foreseen, or from some cause not under human control; that which cannot be previously known or determined with certainty by human skill or power.
Consider the gift of luck as below the care of a wise man.
Luckily
LUCK'ILY, adverb [from lucky.] Fortunately; by good fortune; with a favorable issue; in a good sense. luckily we escaped injury.
Luckiness
LUCK'INESS, noun
1. The state of being fortunate; as the luckiness of a man or of an event.
2. Good fortune; a favorable issue or event. [In this sense, luck is generally used.]
Luckless
LUCK'LESS, adjective
1. Unfortunate; meeting with ill success; as a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
2. Unfortunate; producing ill or no good.
Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour.
Lucky
LUCK'Y, adjective
1. Fortunate; meeting with good success; as a lucky adventurer.
2. Fortunate; producing good by chance; favorable; as a lucky adventure; a lucky time; a lucky cast.
Lucrative
LU'CRATIVE, adjective [Latin lucrativus, from lucror, to gain profit.]
Gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as a lucrative trade; lucrative business or office.
Lucre
LU'CRE, noun lu'ker. [Latin lucrum.] Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy.
The lust of lucre and the dread of death.
A bishop must be blameless - not given to filthy lucre .
Lucriferous
LUCRIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lucrum, gain, and fero, to produce.] Gainful; profitable. [Little used.]
Lucrific
LUCRIF'IC, adjective [Latin lucrum, gain, and facio to make.] Producing profit; gainful. [Not used.]
Luctation
LUCTA'TION, noun [Latin luctatio, from luctor, to wrestle or strive.]
Struggle; contest; effort to overcome in contest. [Little used.]
Luctual
LUC'TUAL, adjective [Latin luctus, grief.] Producing grief. [Not used.]
Lucubrate
LU'CUBRATE, verb intransitive [Latin lucubro, to study by candle-light, from lucubrum, from lux, light.]
To study by candle-light or a lamp; to study by night.
Lucubration
LUCUBRA'TION, noun
1. Study by a lamp or by candle-light; nocturnal study.
2. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement.
Lucubratory
LU'CUBRATORY, adjective Composed by candle-light or by night.
Luculent
LU'CULENT, adjective [Latin luculentus, from luceo, to shine.]
1. Lucid; clear; transparent; as luculent rivers.
2. Clear; evident; luminous.
The most luculent testimonies that the christian religion hath.
Lucullite
LU'CULLITE, noun A subspecies of carbonate of lime, of three kinds.
Ludibrious
LUDIB'RIOUS, adjective [Latin ludibriosus, from ludo, to sport.] Sportive; wanton.
Ludicrous
LU'DICROUS, adjective [Latin ludicer, from ludo, to sport.]
Sportive; burlesque; adapted to raise laughter, without scorn or contempt. ludicrous differs from ridiculous; the latter implying contempt or derision.
Plutarch quotes this instance of Homer's judgment, in closing a ludicrous scene with decency and instruction.
Ludicrously
LU'DICROUSLY, adverb Sportively; in burlesque; in a manner to raise laughter without contempt.
Ludicrousness
LU'DICROUSNESS, noun Sportiveness; the quality of exciting laughter without contempt; merry cast.
Ludification
LUDIFICA'TION, noun [Latin ludificor.] The act of deriding.
Ludificatory
LUDIF'ICATORY, adjective Making sport; tending to excite derision.
Luff
LUFF, noun The palm of the hand.
LUFF, noun
Weather-gage, or part towards the wind; or the sailing of a ship close to the wind.
LUFF, verb intransitive To turn the head of a ship towards the wind; to sail nearer the wind. Hence, in the imperative, luff is an order to put the tiller on the lee-side, in order to make the ship sail nearer the wind. luff round, or luff a-lee, is the extreme of this movement, intended to throw the ship's head into the wind. A ship is said to spring her luff when she yields to the helm by sailing nearer the wind.
LUFF'-TACKLE, noun A large tackle not destined for any particular place in the ship, but movable at pleasure.
Lug
LUG, verb transitive [See Pluck.]
1. To haul; to drag; to pull with force, as something heavy and moved with difficulty.
Howler lugs him still through hedges.
2. To carry or convey with labor.
They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
To lug out, to draw a sword, in burlesque.
LUG, verb intransitive To drag; to move heavily.
LUG, noun
1. A small fish.
2. In Scotland, an ear. obsolete
3. A pole or perch, a land-measure. obsolete
4. Something heavy to be drawn or carried. [Vulgar.]
Luggage
LUG'GAGE, noun [from lug.]
1. Any thing cumbersome and heavy to be carried; traveling baggage.
I am gathering up my luggage and preparing for my journey.
2. Something of more weight than value.
What do you mean to dote on such luggage?
Lugger
LUG'GER, noun A vessel carrying three masts with a running bowsprit and lug-sails.
Luggs
LUGGS, noun An insect like an earth-worm, but having legs.
LUG'-SAIL, noun A square sail bent upon a yard that hands obliquely to the mast at one third of its length.
Lugubrious
LUGU'BRIOUS, adjective [Latin lugubris, from lugeo, to weep.]
Mournful; indicating sorrow; as a lugubrious look.
Lukewarm
LU'KEWARM, adjective
1. Moderately warm; tepid; as lukewarm water; lukewarm heat.
2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent; as lukewarm obedience; lukewarm patriots. .
Lukewarmly
LU'KEWARMLY, adverb
1. With moderate warmth.
2. With indifference; coolly.
Lukewarmness
LU'KEWARMNESS, noun
1. A mild or moderate heat.
2. Indifference; want of zeal or ardor; coldness.
The defect of zeal is lukewarmness or coldness in religion.
Lull
LULL, verb transitive [Latin lallo. The sense is to throw down, to still, to appease. Seamen say, the wind lulls, when it subsides.]
To quiet; to compose; to cause to rest. The nation may be lulled into security.
- To lull him soft asleep.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, to lull the daughters of necessity.
LULL, verb intransitive To subside; to cease; to become calm; as, the wind lulls.
LULL, noun Power or quality of soothing.
Lullaby
LULL'ABY, noun [lull and by. See By.]
A song to quiet babes; that which quiets.
Lulled
LULL'ED, participle passive Quieted; appeased; composed to rest.
Luller
LULL'ER, noun One that lulls; one that fondles.
Lulling
LULL'ING, participle present tense Stilling; composing to rest.
Lum
LUM, noun The chimney of a cottage.
Lumachel
LUM'ACHEL,
LUMACHEL'LA, noun A calcarious stone composed of shells and coral conglutinated, but so far retaining their organization as to exhibit different colors, and so hard as to admit of polish.
Lumbaginous
LUMBAG'INOUS, adjective Pertaining to lumbago.
Lumbago
LUMBA'GO, noun [Latin lumbus, loins.] A pain in the loins and small of the back, such as precedes certain fevers.
A rheumatic affection of the muscles about the loins.
Lumbar
LUM'BAR, adjective [Latin lumbus, loins.] Pertaining to the loins. The lumbar region is the posterior portion of the body between the false ribs and the upper edge of the haunch bone.
Lumber
LUM'BER, noun
1. Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky and thrown aside as of no use.
The very bed was violated - and thrown among the common lumber
2. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.
3. Harm; mischief. [Local.]
LUM'BER, verb transitive
1. To heap together in disorder.
2. To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.
Lumber-Room
LUM'BER-ROOM, noun A place for the reception of lumber or useless things.
Lumbric
LUM'BRIC, noun [Latin lumbricus, a worm.] A worm.
Lumbrical
LUM'BRICAL, adjective [Latin lumbricus, a worm.] Resembling a worm; as the lumbrical muscles.
LUM'BRICAL, adjective Pertaining to the loins.
LUM'BRICAL, noun A muscle of the fingers and toes, so named from its resembling a worm. Of these muscles, there are four of the fingers and as many of the toes.
Lumbriciform
LUMBRIC'IFORM, noun [Latin lumbricus, a worm, and form.] Resembling a worm in shape.
Luminary
LU'MINARY, noun [Latin luminare, from lumen, light.]
1. Any body that gives light, but chiefly one of the celestial orbs. The sun is the principal luminary in our system. the stars are inferior luminaries.
2. One that illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Bacon and Newton were distinguished luminaries.
Lumination
LUMINATION. [See Illumination.]
Lumine
LU'MINE, verb transitive To enlighten. [Not used. See Illumine.]
Luminiferous
LUMINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lumen, light, and fero, to produce.]
Producing light.
Luminous
LU'MINOUS, adjective [Latin luminosus.]
1. Shining; emitting light. The sun is a most luminous body.
2. Light; illuminated. The moon is rendered luminous by the rays of the sun.
3. Bright; shining; as a luminous color.
4. Clear; as a luminous essay or argument.
Luminously
LU'MINOUSLY, adverb With brightness or clearness.
Luminousness
LU'MINOUSNESS, noun
1. The quality of being bright or shining; brightness; as the luminousness of the sea.
2. Clearness; perspicuity; as the luminousness of ideas, arguments or method.
Lump
LUMP, noun
1. A small mass of matter of no definite shape; as a lump of earth; a lump of butter; a lump of sugar.
2. A mass of things blended or thrown together without order or distinction; as copper, iron, gold, silver, lead, tin, promiscuously in one lump
3. A cluster; as a lump of figs. .
In the lump the whole together; in gross.
They may buy my papers in the lump
LUMP, verb transitive
1. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
The expenses ought to be lumped.
2. To take in the gross.
Lumpen
LUMP'EN, noun A long fish of a greenish color, and marked with lines.
Lumpfish
LUMP'FISH, noun A thick fish of the genus Cyclopterus. The back is sharp and elevated; the belly flat, and of a crimson color. along the body run five rows of sharp bony tubercles. It swims edgewise; called also a sea-owl.
Lumping
LUMP'ING, participle present tense
1. Throwing into a mass or sum.
2. adjective Bulky; heavy. [A low word.]
Lumpish
LUMP'ISH, adjective
1. Like a lump; heavy; gross; bulky.
2. Dull; inactive.
Lumpishly
LUMP'ISHLY, adverb Heavily; with dullness or stupidity.
Lumpishness
LUMP'ISHNESS, noun Heaviness; dullness; stupidity.
Lumpy
LUMP'Y, adjective Full of lumps or small compact masses.
Luna cornea, muriate of silver.
Lunacy
LU'NACY, noun [from Latin luna, the moon.]
1. A species of insanity of madness, supposed to be influenced by the moon, or periodical in the month.
2. Madness in general.
Lunar
LU'NAR,
LUNA'RIAN, noun An inhabitant of the moon.
LU'NARY, noun Moonwort, a plant of the genus Lunaria.
Lunary
LU'NARY, adjective [Latin lunaris.
1. Pertaining to the moon; as lunar observations.
2. Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as lunar days or years.
3. Resembling the moon; orbed.
4. Under the influence of the moon. obsolete
Lunar caustic, nitrate of silver, fused in a low heat.
Lunated
LU'NATED, adjective Formed like a half-moon.
Lunatic
LU'NATIC, adjective Affected by a species of madness, supposed to be influenced by the moon.
LU'NATIC, noun A person affected by insanity, supposed to be influenced or produced by the moon, or by its position in its orbit; a madman.
Lunation
LUNA'TION, noun [Latin lunatio.] A revolution of the moon.
Lunch
LUNCH,
LUNCH'EON, noun
Literally, a swallow; but in usage, a portion of food taken at any time, except at a regular meal. It is not unusual to take a luncheon before dinner. The passengers in the line-ships regularly have their lunch
I sliced the luncheon from the barley loaf.
Luncheon
LUNCH'EON, n. Literally, a swallow; but in usage, a portion of food taken at any time, except at a regular meal. It is not unusual to take a luncheon before dinner. The passengers in the line-ships regularly have their lunch.I sliced the luncheon from the barley loaf.
Lune
LUNE, noun [Latin luna, the moon.]
1. Any thing in the shape of a half-moon. [Little used.]
2. A fit of lunacy or madness, or a freak. [Not used.]
3. A leash; as the lune of a hawk.
Lunet
LU'NET,
LUNETTE, noun
1. In fortification, an enveloped counterguard, or elevation of earth made beyond the second ditch, opposite to the places of arms; or a covered place before the courtine, consisting of two faces that form an angle inward. It is commonly raised in ditches full of water, to serve instead of fausse brays, to dispute the enemy's passage of the ditch.
2. In the manege, a half horse-shoe, which wants the spunge, or that part of the branch which runs towards the quarters of the foot.
3. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
LU'NET, noun A little moon
Lunette
LUNETTE, n. 1. In fortification, an enveloped counterguard, or elevation of earth made beyond the second ditch, opposite to the places of arms; or a covered place before the courtine, consisting of two faces that form an angle inward. It is commonly raised in ditches full of water, to serve instead of fausse brays, to dispute the enemy's passage of the ditch.2. In the manege, a half horse-shoe, which wants the spunge, or that part of the branch which runs towards the quarters of the foot.3. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
Lung
LUNG, noun
1. The lungs are the organs of respiration in man and many other animals. There are two of these organs, each of which occupies its cavity in the thorax. They alternately inhale and expel the air, by means of which the necessary function of respiration is carried on.
Each lung fills completely the cavity in which it is placed.
2. Formerly, a person having a strong voice, and a sort of servant.
Lunge
LUNGE, noun [See Allonge.] A sudden push or thrust.
Lunged
LUNG'ED, adjective Having lungs, or the nature or resemblance of lunged; drawing in and expelling air.
LUNG'-GROWN, adjective Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.
Lungis
LUN'GIS, noun A lingerer; a dull drowsy fellow.
Lungwort
LUNG'WORT, noun A plant of the genus Pulmonaria.
Luniform
LU'NIFORM adjective [Latin luna, the moon, and form.] Resembling the moon.
Lunisolar
LUNISO'LAR, adjective [Latin luna, moon, and solaris, sol, sun.]
Compounded of the revolutions of the sun and moon.
The lunisolar year consists of 532 common years; found by multiplying the cycle of the sun by that of the moon.
Lunistice
LU'NISTICE, noun [Latin luna, the moon, and sto, steti, or sisto, to stand.]
The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution.
Lunt
LUNT, noun The match-cord used for firing cannon.
Lunular
LU'NULAR, adjective [from Latin luna, the moon.] In botany, like the new moon; shaped like a small crescent.
Lunulate
LU'NULATE, adjective [from Latin luna, the moon.] In botany, resembling a small crescent.
Lupercal
LU'PERCAL, adjective Pertaining to the Lupercalia, or feasts of the Romans in honor of Pan; as a noun, the feast itself.
Lupine
LU'PINE, noun [Latin lupinus.] A kind of pulse. The genus Lupinus contains several species, mostly annual plants, bearing digitate leaves, and papilionaceous flowers. The seeds of the white lupine have a leguminous taste, accompanied with a disagreeable bitterness, and are said to be anthelmintic.
Lupulin
LU'PULIN, noun [Latin lupulus, hops.] The fine yellow powder of hops.
Lurch
LURCH, noun [This is the same word radically as lurk. The primary sense is to run, start, leap or frisk about, as a man or beast that flies from one tree or other object to another to conceal himself. Hence we see the peculiar applicability of this word in seamen's language.]
In seamen's language, a sudden roll of a ship. A lee-lurch is a sudden roll to the leeward, as when a heavy sea strikes the ship on the weather side.
To leave in the lurch to leave in a difficult situation, or in embarrassment; to leave in a forlorn state or without help.
LURCH, verb intransitive
1. To roll or pass suddenly to one side, as a ship in a heavy sea.
2. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lie in ambush or in secret; to lie close. [For this, lurk is now used.]
3. To shift; to play tricks.
I am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch
LURCH, verb transitive
1. To defeat; to disappoint, that is, to evade; as, to lurch the expectation. [Little used.]
2. To steal; to filch; to pilfer. [Little used.]
LURCH, verb transitive [Latin lurco, a glutton.] To swallow or eat greedily; to devour. [Not used.]
Lurcher
LURCH'ER, noun
1. One that lies in wait or lurks; one that watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.
Swift from the play the scudding lurcher flies.
2. A dog that watches for his game.
3. [Latin lurco, a glutton.] A glutton; a gormandizer.
Lurdan
LUR'DAN, adjective Blockish. [Not used.]
LUR'DAN, noun A clown; a blockhead. [Not used.]
Lure
LURE, noun
1. Something held out to call a hawk; hence,
2. Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; as the lures of beauty or of gain.
LURE, verb intransitive To call hawks.
Standing by one that lured loud and shrill.
LURE, verb transitive To entice; to attract; to invite by any thing that promises pleasure or advantage.
LUREd on by the pleasure of the bait.
And various science lures the learned eye.
Lured
LU'RED, participle passive Enticed; attracted; invited by the hope of pleasure or advantage.
Lurid
LU'RID, adjective [Latin luridus.] Gloomy; dismal.
Luring
LU'RING, participle present tense Enticing; calling.
Lurk
LURK, verb intransitive
1. To lie hid; to lie in wait.
Let us lay wait for blood; let us lurk privily for the innocent. .
2. To lie concealed or unperceived. See that no selfish motive lurks in the heart.
See the lurking gold upon the fatal tree.
3. To retire from public observation; to keep out of sight.
The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks.
Lurker
LURK'ER, noun One that lurks or keeps out of sight.
Lurking
LURK'ING, participle present tense Lying concealed; keeping out of sight.
Lurking-Place
LURK'ING-PLACE, noun A place in which one lies concealed; a secret place; a hiding place; a den. .
Luscious
LUS'CIOUS, adjective [I know not the origin and affinities of this word.]
1. Sweet or rich so as to cloy or nauseate; sweet to excess; as luscious food.
2. Very sweet; delicious; grateful to the taste.
And raisins keep their luscious native taste.
3. Pleasing; delightful.
He will bait him in with the luscious proposal of some gainful purchase.
4. Fullsome; as luscious flattery.
5. Smutty; obscene. [Unusual.]
Lusciously
LUS'CIOUSLY, adverb
1. With sweetness or richness that cloys or nauseates.
2. Obscenely.
Lusciousness
LUS'CIOUSNESS, noun Immoderate richness or sweetness that cloys or offends.
Lusern
LU'SERN, noun A lynx.
Lush
LUSH, adjective Of a dark, keep, full color.
How lush and lusty the grass looks; how green! obsolete
Lusk
LUSK, adjective Lazy; slothful. [Not in use.]
LUSK, noun A lazy fellow; a lubber. [Not in use.]
Luskish
LUSK'ISH, adjective Inclined to be lazy.
Luskishly
LUSK'ISHLY, adverb Lazily.
Luskishness
LUSK'ISHNESS, noun Disposition to indolence; laziness. obsolete
Lusorious
LUSO'RIOUS, adjective [Latin lusorius, from ludo, lusi, to sport.]
Used in play; sportive. [Little used.]
Lusory
LU'SORY, adjective [Latin lusorius, as above.] Used in play; playful; as lusory methods of instructing children.
Lust
LUST, noun
1. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; as the lust of gain.
My lust shall be satisfied upon them. .
2. Concupiscence; carnal appetite; unlawful desire of carnal pleasure. . .
3. Evil propensity; depraved affections and desires. . .
4. Vigor; active power. [Not used.]
LUST, verb intransitive
1. To desire eagerly; to long; with after.
Thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. .
2. To have carnal desire; to desire eagerly the gratification of carnal appetite.
LUST not after her beauty in thy heart. .
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. .
3. To have irregular or inordinate desires.
The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. .
LUST not after evil things as they also lusted. .
4. To list; to like.
Luster
LUS'TER, noun [Latin lustrum, lustro to purify.]
1. Brightness; splendor; gloss; as the luster of the sun or stars; the luster of silk.
The sun's mild luster warms the vital air.
2. The splendor of birth, of deeds or of fame; renown; distinction.
His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great share of luster
3. A sconce with lights; a branched candlestick of glass.
4. The space of five years. [Latin lustrum.]
Lustful
LUST'FUL, adjective
1. Having lust, or eager desire of carnal gratification; libidinous; as an intemperate and lustful man.
2. Provoking to sensuality; inciting to lust or exciting carnal desire.
Thence his lustful orgies he enlarged.
3. Vigorous; robust; stout.
Lustfully
LUST'FULLY, ad. With concupiscence or carnal desire.
Lustfulness
LUST'FULNESS, noun The state of having carnal desires; libidinousness.
Lustihood
LUST'IHOOD, noun [lusty and hood.] Vigor of body. obsolete
Lustily
LUST'ILY, adverb With vigor of body; stoutly; with vigorous exertion.
I determine to fight lustily for him.
Lustiness
LUST'INESS, noun Vigor of body; stoutness; strength; robustness; sturdiness.
Cappadocian slaves were famous for their lustiness
Lusting
LUST'ING, participle present tense Having eager desire; having carnal appetite.
LUST'ING, noun Eager desire; inordinate desire; desire of carnal gratification.
Lustless
LUST'LESS, adjective
1. Listless; not willing. obsolete
2. Not vigorous.
Lustral
LUS'TRAL, adjective [Latin lustralis, from lustro, to purify.]
1. Used in purification; as lustral water; lustral waves.
2. Pertaining to purification; as lustral days.
Lustrate
LUS'TRATE, verb transitive [Latin lustro, to cleanse. See Luster.]
1. To make clear or pure; to purify. [See Illustrate.]
2. To view; to survey.
Lustration
LUSTRA'TION, noun
1. The act or operation of making clear or pure; a cleansing or purifying by water.
And holy water for lustration bring.
2. In antiquity, the sacrifices or ceremonies by which cities, fields, armies or people defiled by crimes, were purified.
Lustrical
LUS'TRICAL, adjective Pertaining to purification.
Lustring
LUS'TRING, noun A species of glossy silk cloth. [Corruptly written and pronounced lutestring.]
Lustrous
LUS'TROUS, adjective Bright; shining; luminous.
Good sparks and lustrous
Lustrum
LUS'TRUM, noun In ancient Rome, the space of five years.
LUST'-STAINED, adjective Defiled by lust.
Lustwort
LUST'WORT, noun [lust and wort.] A plant of the genus Drosera.
Lusty
LUST'Y, adjective [from lust.]
1. Stout; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body. this is the correct sense of the word, comprehending full health and strength; as a lusty youth. But it is now used in the sense of,
2. Bulky; large; of great size. This sense does not always include that of vigor.
3. Handsome; pleasant; saucy. obsolete
4. Copious; plentiful; as a lusty draught.
5. Pregnant; a colloquial use.
Lutanist
LU'TANIST, noun [from lute.] A person that plays on the lute.
A celebrated lutanist was playing to a large company.
Lutarious
LUTA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin lutarius, from lutum, mud.]
1. Pertaining to mud; living in mud.
2. Of the color of mud.
Lutation
LUTA'TION, noun [See Lute.] The act or method of luting vessels.
Lute
LUTE, noun [Latin laudo.]
An instrument of music with strings. It consists of four parts, viz; the table, the body or belly which has nine or ten sides, the neck, which has nine or ten stops or divisions marked with strings, and the head or cross. In the middle of the table there is a passage for the sound. There is also a bridge to which the strings are fastened. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
Lute-Case
LU'TE-CASE, noun A case for a lute.
Lute-String
LU'TE-STRING, noun The string of a lute.
Luted
LU'TED, participle passive Closed with lute.
Lutenist
LU'TENIST, noun A performer on the lute.
Luter
LU'TER,
LU'THERAN, adjective Pertaining to Luther, the reformer; as the Lutheran church.
LU'THERAN, noun A disciple or follower of Luther; one who adheres to the doctrines of Luther.
Lutheran
LU'THERAN, a. Pertaining to Luther, the reformer; as the Lutheran church.
LU'THERAN, n. A disciple or follower of Luther; one who adheres to the doctrines of Luther.
Lutheranism
LU'THERANISM, noun The doctrines of religion as taught by Luther.
Luthern
LU'THERN, noun In architecture, a kind of window over the cornice, in the roof of a building, to admit light into the upper story.
LU'TING, participle present tense Closing with lute.
Luting
LU'TING, noun [Latin lutum, mud, clay.] Among chimists, a composition of clay or other tenacious substance used for stopping the juncture of vessels so closely as to prevent the escape or entrance of air.
LUTE, verb transitive To close or coat with lute.
Lutist
LU'TIST, noun One who plays on a lute.
Lutulent
LU'TULENT, adjective [Latin lutulentus, from lutum, mud.] Muddy; turbid; thick.
Luxate
LUX'ATE, verb transitive [Latin luxo, laxo, laxus.]
To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate. Lux, in a like sense, is, I believe, now used.
Luxated
LUX'ATED, participle passive Put out of joint; dislocated.
Luxating
LUX'ATING, participle present tense Removing or forcing out of its place, as a joint; dislocating.
Luxation
LUXA'TION, noun
1. That act of moving or forcing a joint from its proper place or articulation; or the state of being thus put out of joint.
2. A dislocation; that which is dislocated.
Luxe
LUXE, noun Luxury. [Not used.]
Luxuriance
LUXU'RIANCE,
LUXU'RIANCY, noun [Latin luxurians, luxurio, to grow rank, or to wanton.]
1. Rank growth; strong, vigorous growth; exuberance.
Flowers grow up in the garden with the greatest luxuriancy and profusion.
2. Excessive or superfluous growth.
A fungus prevents healing only by its luxuriancy.
Luxuriancy
LUXU'RIANCY, n. [L. luxurians, luxurio, to grow rank, or to wanton.] 1. Rank growth; strong, vigorous growth; exuberance.Flowers grow up in the garden with the greatest luxuriancy and profusion.2. Excessive or superfluous growth.A fungus prevents healing only by its luxuriancy.
Luxuriant
LUXU'RIANT, adjective
1. Exuberant in growth; abundant; as a luxuriant growth of grass.
2. Exuberant in plenty; superfluous in abundance.
Prune the luxuriant the uncouth refine.
3. A luxuriant flower multiplies the covers of the fructification so as to destroy the essential parts.
Luxuriantly
LUXU'RIANTLY, adverb With exuberant growth.
Luxuriate
LUXU'RIATE, verb intransitive To grow exuberantly, or to grow to superfluous abundance.
Luxuriation
LUXURIA'TION, noun The process of growing exuberantly, or beyond the natural growth.
Luxurious
LUXU'RIOUS, adjective [Latin luxuriosus, from luxo, to loosen; luxor, to riot.]
1. Voluptuous; indulging freely or excessively in the pleasures of the table, the gratification of appetite, or in rich and expensive dress and equipage; as a luxurious life; luxurious cities.
2. Administering to luxury; contributing to free or extravagant indulgence in diet, dress and equipage; as luxurious wealth.
3. Furnished with luxuries; as a luxurious table.
4. Softening by pleasure, or free indulgence in luxury; as luxurious ease.
5. Lustful; libidinous; given to the gratification of lust; as a luxurious bed.
6. Luxuriant; exuberant.
The work under our labor grows
Luxurious by restraint. [Not used.]
Luxuriously
LUXU'RIOUSLY, adverb In abundance of rich diet, dress or equipage; deliciously; voluptuously.
Luxurist
LUX'URIST, noun One given to luxury.
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.