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.

Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale.

A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, an/sthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.

Leprosy.

Having a form somewhat like leptus; -- said of active insect larvae having three pairs of legs. See Larva.

The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus.

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

A bird or other animal having slender toes.

A natural family of New World frogs; in some classifications it is essentially coextensive with the family Bufonidae.

Having slender toes.

The type genus of the Leptodactylidae; in some classifications it is placed in the family Bufonidae.

A genus of leaf-footed bugs.

A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.

Inflammation of the pia mater or of the arachnoid membrane.

an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions but does not participate in the strong interaction; it has a baryon number of 0. Some known leptons are the electron, the negative muon, the tau-minus particle, and the neutrinos associated with each of these particles.

A genus including some ferns sometimes placed in genus Todea.

A genus of birds including the adjutant bird (Leptoptilus dubius, also called adjutant stork) and marabous.

Having the nose narrow; -- said especially of the skull. Opposed to platyrhine.

An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms.

Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals.

The six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; -- sometimes used as a generic name. See Harvest mite, under Harvest.

See Granulite.

The type genus of the Leporidae, comprising the hares.

the sea personified; father of Manannan; corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.

Flesh; skin.

Learned.

A Linn/an genus of parasitic Entomostraca, -- the same as the family Lern/id/.

A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix.

One of a family (Lern/id/) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.

A small rodent (Eliomys nitela) of Europe and Northern Africa, allied to the dormouse.

A leash.

A female homosexual.

Homosexual relations between women.

To lose.

Any crime committed against the sovereign power, or against a ruler.

See Leze majesty.

A hurt; an injury. Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract. Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.

Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.

A genus of low-growing hairy herbs, comprising some of the bladderpods.

To make less; to lessen.

not visited by many travelers; as, the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries.

The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.

To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened.

One who, or that which, lessens.

a change downward; a decrease; a reduction.

Less.

The leavings or dung of beasts.

To teach; to instruct.

One who leases; the person who lets to farm, or gives a lease.

For fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not.

A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands.

To forbear.

Letting alone.

A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom.

Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.

Strong desire; passion; especially, lust.

See Leachy.

To let; to leave.

p. p. of Lete.

Deadly; mortal; fatal.

The quality of being lethal; mortality.

Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy.

To make lethargic.

To lethargize.

A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.

Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe.

Caused by Lethe.