The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands.
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See Kimnel.
An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.
Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.
See Cymric, a. n.
See Cymry.
Kindred.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid.
See Kyrie eleison.
A litany beginning with the words, /Kyrie eleison./
Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic.
The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones.
To come into view; to appear.
See Karyomiton.
See Karyoplasma.
Having the general shape of the (capital) letter L; as, an L beam, or L-beam.
a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner.
A lunar excursion module, a spacecraft designed to transport people from a command module in orbit around the moon to the surface of the moon and back again.
One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry.
Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by you.
A neck ornament consisting of a chain and single jewelled pendant, or drop; also, the pendant itself.
A camp, especially one surrounded by a circular formation of travelers' wagons for temporary defense.
To form into, or camp in, a laager, or protected camp.
A lace. See Lace.
To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.
Of or pertaining to a laboratory; as, a lab bench.
A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.
An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite, extensively used as a disinfectant.
The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (//) (which appear like the English letters X and P), of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.
See Ladanum.
The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.
To weaken or impair.
To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.
One who labels.
The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
Slipping; sliding; gliding.
See Labium.
A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.
The quality of being labial; as, the labialism of an articulation; conversion into a labial, as of a sound which is different in another language.
The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.
To modify by contraction of the lip opening.
In a labial manner; with, or by means of, the lips.
A plant of the order Labiat/.
Same as Labiate, a. (a).
Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.
A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head.
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize.
See Labidometer.
Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v. A labiodental sound or letter.
Formed by the lips and the nose. A labionasal sound or letter.
A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.
Having the appearance of being labiate; -- said of certain polypetalous corollas.
A labial palp.
One of the labial palpi of an insect. See Illust. under Labium.
A lip, or liplike organ.
an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab).
To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; as, labor-saving machinery; labor-saving appliances{4}; labor-saving devices like washing machines.
A chemist.
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
In a labored manner; with labor.
One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.
Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.
Not involving labor; not laborious; easy.
Laborious.
Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence.
Same as labor; -- British spelling.
same as labored; -- British spelling
a laborer; someone who works with their hands.
characterized by toilsome effort; same as laborious; -- British spelling.
a member of the British Labour Party.
A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland.
A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.
Lips.
A piece of wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages.
Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labrid/, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples.
Having thick lips.
A lip or edge, as of a basin.
A genus of marine fishes, including the wrasses of Europe. See Wrasse.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the laburnum.
A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.
A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.
An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici. One of the Labyrinthici.
Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.
Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal; labyrinthian.
A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.
Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta. One of the Labyrinthodonta.
An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.
A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly Coccus lacca), a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.
Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.
A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.
A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.
To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.
To attack vigorously; -- used of physical or verbal attacks; as, the boss laced into him for coming to the meeting late.
A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.
Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies.
A small tree or shrub (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.
Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.
Of or pertaining to Laced/mon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. A Spartan.
A man who deals in lace.
That can be lacerated or torn.
To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
torn roughly; -- of skin.
Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound.
The act of lacerating.
Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors.
A muscle of the human body.
A genus of lizards. See Lizard.
Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia. One of the Lacertilia.
Any lizard of the family Lacertidae, a family of Old World terrestrial lizard.
A natural family of Old World lizards.
An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards.
Same as Lacertian.
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