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.

Having a long slender tail.

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.

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.

Sulphuric ether used as an an/sthetic agent.

To subject to the influence of letheon.

Deadly; bringing death or destruction.

Lethean.

To let; to hinder. See Let, to hinder.

To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

to send a letter-bomb to.

A bomb disguised as a letter and sent through the mail, usually rigged to explode and kill or harm the recipient when opened.

correct to the last detail; especially being in or following the exact words; as, a letter-perfect rendition of the soliloquy.

a postcard that folds so that the message is inside.

Literate; educated; versed in literature.

One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.

See Letter{8}, above.

The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting.

Not having a letter.

See Lecturn.

Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.

Letters; literature.

The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (Brosimum Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.

Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish. Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. The language of the Letts; Lettish. The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.

Of or pertaining to the Letts. The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.

See Letterure.

An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.

A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (Lactuca sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is Lactuca Canadensis.

Electuary.

Same as Leuco-.

A combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (Chem.), denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc.

A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.

A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.

See Leukemia.

a naturally occurring alpha-amino acid ((CH3)2CH.CH2.CH(NH2)-COOH), one of the building units of almost all proteins of living organisms, both animal and vegetable. It is one of the essential amino acids (not synthesized by the human body, a required component for proper nutrition), and is hydrophobic in character when bound in proteins. In isolated form it is a white, crystalline, zwitterionic substance formed, e. g. by the decomposition of proteins by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute mineral acid, or by putrefaction. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid. It occurs as two optical isomers, the L- and D-forms. The L-form, L-leucine, is the natural form, present in most proteins.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from leucin, and called also oxycaproic acid.

A genus of freshwater fishes including the dace (Leuciscus leuciscus).

Containing leucite; as, leucitic rocks.

The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; -- so called as being the form of the mineral leucite.

A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc.

Same as leukemia.

The formation of leucocytes.

White and black; -- said of a white animal of a black species, or the albino of the negro race.