See Legitimist.

To legitimate.

The principles or plans of legitimists.

One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.

To legitimate.

Not having a leg.

Pertaining to the literature of law.

Lawyerlike; legal. A lawyer.

A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

Same as Legume.

An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.

Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.

See Leger, n., 2.

The type and sole genus of the family Leiopelmatidae.

A natural family of primitive New Zealand frogs.

A genus having only one species, the sand myrtle.

Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi. One of the Leiotrichi.

The division of mankind which embraces the smooth-haired races.

Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.

A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.

See Lipothymic.

At leisure.

Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

Having leisure.

In a leisurely manner.

a guiding theme; in Wagnerian opera, a marked melodic phrase or short musical passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. Also called Leading motive.

A genus of trees or shrubs coextensive with the family Leitneriaceae, and including the corkwood (Leitneria floridana).

A natural family of trees coextensive with the genus Leitneria; commonly isolated in a distinct order.

A genus of tropical American cacti, usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit.

A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense.

A fruit tree (Citrus limonia) which is a hybrid between the mandarin orange and the lemon, having a very acid fruit with an orange peel; also, the fruit of this tree, the rangpur.

To shine.

A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

A leman.

The act or process of lemmatizing; conversion into a lemma{2}.

To convert into a lemma{2}; to normalize the form of (a word) to that form used as the headword in a dictionary, glossary, or index; as, /ride/ is the lemmatized form for /riding/ and /ridden/.

Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.

A genus of minute acquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.

A natural family of small free-floating thalloid plants.

Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.

A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.

One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.

A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.

hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods.

tasting like lemons.

One of a family (Lemurid/) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.

Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.

A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant.

Same as Lemuroid.

Lemuroid.

Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea. One of the Lemuroidea.

A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species.

A procuress.

Rays emanating from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays, as aluminium, which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode. Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays. So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard (b. 1862), who first described them.

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

the temporary transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause; as, lend-lease during World War II was extremely generous.

Such as can be lent.

One who lends.

See Lends.

The act of one who lends.

The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis). Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or t (or Gr. /, /, /).

Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long.

To lengthen.

To become longer.

Long.

In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.

The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.

In the direction of the length; running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; in a longitudinal direction. Contrasted with crosswise.

Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.

The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.

A lenitive; an emollient.

In a lenient manner.

To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.

An assuasive.

A city in the European part of Soviet Russia; the former capital of Russia. The name was formerly St. Petersburg and Petrograd, and was changed back to Saint Petersburg (Sankt Peterburg in Russian) in 1992.

a form of communism based on the writings of Marx and Lenin; called also Marxism-Leninism.

A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants. A mild purgative; a laxative.

The quality of being lenitive.

The quality or habit of being lenient; lenity.

The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.

A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.

A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

Given to lewdness.

A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.

Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

Slowly; in slow time.

Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.

Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.

The season of Lenten or Lent.

One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth. A small, lens-shaped gland on the under side of some leaves.

Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.

Lenticel.

A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.

Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.

In the manner of a lens; with a curve.

Lenticular.

Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.

Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

A leguminous plant of the genus Ervum (Ervum Lens), of small size, common in the fields in Europe. Also, its seed, which is used for food on the continent.

The most important genus of mushrooms in the Far East.

A tree; the mastic. See Mastic.

very slow; very slowly; -- of music tempo.

Slowness; sluggishness.

Slow; in slow time; slowly; -- rarely written lente.

Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.

Tenacity; viscidity, as of fluids.

Viscid; viscous; tenacious.

The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus [/] in almanacs.

People; a nation; a man.

A lion.

See Lionced.

Of or pertaining to Leon, in Spain. A native or natives of Leon.

One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.

A small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of S Africa.

A genus of marmosets including some of the tamarins. Called also Leontopithecus and Leontideus.

A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion's tooth.

A genus of plants including the edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum).

A genus of stout Old World herbs having cut-lobed leaves and flowers in whorls.