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Lactucone
A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium.
Lafayette
The dollar fish.
Laggard
Slow; sluggish; backward.
Landfall
A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
Landleaper
See .
Landstorm
See .
Lang
Long.
Langsyne
Long since; long ago.
Laryngograph
An instrument for recording the larynx movements in speech.
Last
A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.
Lavatic
Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.
Lawny
Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn.
Lay
A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
Lay
To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit;
Lazar
A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Leanness
The condition or quality of being lean.
Leash
To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Leave
To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; .
Leer
To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc.; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
Legumen
Same as .
Leiotrichan
Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi.
Lemming
Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera and , resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.
Leptodactylous
Having slender toes.
lessening
becoming less in dimension or degree; .
Leucophane
A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also .
Leucophlegmacy
A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.
Leucophyllous
Having white or silvery foliage.
Levant
Eastern.
Leve
Dear. See .
Lexicologist
One versed in lexicology.
Leze majesty
Any crime committed against the sovereign power.
Libbard's bane
Leopard's bane.
Libellee
The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to in a common law action.
Libelous
Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; .
Lick
A stroke of the tongue in licking.
Lie
To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with , when predicated of living creatures;
Liefsome
Pleasing; delightful.
liliopsid
A flowering plant.
Linchpin
A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.
Lionly
Like a lion; fierce.
Liparian
Any species of a family () of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.
Liquid
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
Lithotypy
The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotype plate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shellac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.
liveness
The quality of having animal life as distinguished from plant life.
Livor
Malignity.
localized
confined or restricted to a particular location; . Contrasted with or .
Lockout
The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.
Loco disease
A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.
Lohock
See , a medicine.
Longbeak
The American redbellied snipe (); -- called also .
Longboat
Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.
Longbow
The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one.
Longly
With longing desire.
Loon
Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus (formerly ), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern diver (, or ), and the red-throated loon or diver (), are the best known species. See .
looney
someone deranged and possibly dangerous.
Loquat
The fruit of the Japanese medlar (). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.
Loup-cervier
The Canada lynx. See .
Loutish
Clownish; rude; awkward.
Low
A hill; a mound; a grave.
Lowermost
Lowest.
Luckless
Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune;
Luffer
See .
Lunary
The herb moonwort or honesty.
Lurcher
A glutton; a gormandizer.
Lute
To sound, as a lute.
Luxuriancy
The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance.
lx
the Roman numeral representation of ; six times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.
Lycoperdaceae
A natural family of fungi including the genus , consisting of puffballs.
Lymphadenoma
See .