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.

Loins.

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.

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.

A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard.

A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana (Arnica acaulis syn. Doronicum acaule), Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.

Any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum (as Doronicum acaule syn. Arnica acaulis) having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads. See leopard's bane.

A female leopard.

See Letterwood.

Leaped.

A natural family of crustaceans including the goose barnacles.

Same as Lepadoid.

A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadid/; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively.

A sterile transformed stamen.

The name of a battle in which Turkish seapower was destroyed by the Christian League in 1571.

Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.

A person affected with leprosy.

Affected or tainted with leprosy.

To affect with leprosy.

Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous.

Pleasant; jocose.

An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine, and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.

An order of fossil arborescent plants arising during the Lower Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous.

One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies.

Allied to, or resembling, Lepidodendron. A lepidodendrid.

A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.

A species of mica, of a lilac or rose-violet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica.

An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica.

One of the Lepidoptera.

An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.

An insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales; a lepidopterous insect.

One who studies the Lepidoptera.

An insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales.

See lepidopteral.

Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.

A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata.

An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko.

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

any fungus of the genus Lepiota.

A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture; it feeds on starch and eats sized paper and starched clothes. Called also shiner, silverfish, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.

Like or pertaining to the Lepisma.

A genus of freshwater sunfishes, inclding some of the breams.

A mammal of the family Leporidae, including the rabbits and hares.

A natural family of mammals comprising the hares and rabbits.

red breed of domestic rabbits, also called Belgian hare.

Of or pertaining to a hare; like or characteristic of, a hare.

A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.

Leprosy.

Leprosy.

A small mischevous elf or spirit in Irish folklore; it is often depicted in literature as a dwarfish bearded old man; -- legend tells that if a leprechaun is captured, he will reveal the location of his hidden pot of gold.