Luxury – Lythrode

Luxury

LUX'URY, noun [Latin luxuria, from luxo, to loosen.]

1. A free or extravagant indulgence in the pleasures of the table, as in rich and expensive diet, or delicious food and liquors; voluptuousness in the gratification of appetite; or the free indulgence in costly dress and equipage.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury

2. That which gratifies a nice and fastidious appetite; a dainty; any delicious food or drink. The canvas-back duck is a luxury for an epicure.

3. Any thing delightful to the senses.

He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and by laying on it earth, furnished a king of luxury for a hermit.

4. Lust; lewd desire. [Not now used.]

5. Luxuriance; exuberance of growth. [Not now used.]

Lvelihood

L'VELIHOOD, noun [lively and hood, or lifelode, from lead.

Means of living; support of life; maintenance. Trade furnishes many people with an honest livelihood. Men of enterprise seek a livelihood where they can find it.

Ly

LY, a termination of adjectives, is a contraction of Sax.lie, G.lich, D.lyk, Dan.lige, Sw.lik, Eng.like; as in lovely, manly, that is, love-like, man-like. As the termination of names, ly signifies field or plain, Sax. leag, Eng. lay, lea or ley, Latin locus.

Lyam

LY'AM, noun A leash for holding a hound.

Lycanthropy

LYCAN'THROPY, noun [Gr. a wolf, and man.]

A kind of erratic melancholy.

Lycostom

LYCOS'TOM, noun A Baltic fish resembling a herring.

Lydian

LYD'IAN, adjective [from Lydia.]

Noting a kind of soft slow music anciently in vogue.

Lydian stone, flinty slate.

Lye

LYE, noun [Latin lix, whence lixivium; Ant. Latin lixa, whence Lugdunum, Leyden, Lyons, that is Water-town.]

Water impregnated with alkaline salt imbibed from the ashes of wood.

LYE, noun A falsehod. [See Lie.]

Lying

LY'ING, participle present tense of lie. Being prostrate. [See Lie.]

LY'ING, participle present tense of lie. Telling falsehood.

Lying in, being in childbirth.

1. noun The act of bearing a child.

Lymnite

LYM'NITE, noun A kind of freshwater snail, found fossil.

Lymph

LYMPH, noun [Latin lympha.] Water, or a colorless fluid in animal bodies, separated from the blood and contained in certain vessels called lymphatics.

Lymphate

LYMPH'ATE

LYMPH'ATED, adjective Frightened into madness; raving.

Lymphatic

LYMPHAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to lymph.

1. Enthusiastic. [Not used.]

LYMPHAT'IC, noun A vessel of animal bodies which contains or conveys lymph.

The lymphatics seem to perform the whole business of absorption.

1. A mad enthusiast; a lunatic. [Not used.]

Lympheduct

LYMPH'EDUCT, noun [Latin lympha, lymph, and ductus, a duct.]

A vessel of animal bodies which conveys the lymph.

Lymphography

LYMPHOG'RAPHY, noun [Latin lympha, lymph; Gr. to describe.]

A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.

Lynx

LYNX, noun [Latin lynx ] A quadruped of the genus Felis, resembling the common cat, but his ears are longer and his tail shorter. His hair is streaked with yellow, white and black colors. His air is sprightly; he howls like the wolf, and walks and leaps like a cat. This animal is celebrated for the sharpness of his sight.

Lyrate

LY'RATE

LY'RATED, adjective [from lyre.] In botany, divided transversely into several jags, the lower ones smaller and more remote from each other than the upper ones; as a lyrate leaf.

Lyrated

LY'RATED, a. [from lyre.] In botany, divided transversely into several jags, the lower ones smaller and more remote from each other than the upper ones; as a lyrate leaf.

Lyre

LYRE, noun [Latin lyra.] A stringed instrument of music, a kind of harp much used by the ancients.

Lyric

LYR'IC

LYR'ICAL, adjective [Latin lyricus.] Pertaining to a lyre or harp. lyric poetry is such as is sung to the harp or lyre. This was much cultivated by the ancients, among whom Anacreon, Alcoeus, Stesichorus, Sappho and Horace are distinguished as lyric poets.

LYRIC, noun A composer of lyric poems.

Lyricism

LYR'ICISM, noun A lyric composition.

Lyrist

LY'RIST, noun A musician who plays on the harp or lyre.

Lys

LYS, noun A chinese measure of length, equal to 533 yards.

Lyterian

LYTE'RIAN, adjective [Gr. to loosen.] In medical science, terminating a disease; indicating the solution of a disease.

Lythrode

LYTH'RODE, noun A mineral found in Norway; its color, an aurora-red, passing into brownish red or brown. It appears to be allied to elaolite, or fettstein.

Lythrode is probably a variety of fettstein.