To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.

Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic.

The person to whom a license is given.

One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.

A licensing.

To give a license to.

Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.

A dead body; a corpse.

A genus of boas of western North America.

A Chinese tree (Litchi chinensis) cultivated especially in the Philippines and India for its edible fruit, the litchi nut; sometimes placed in the genus Nephelium.

One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.

Belonging to, or covered with, lichens.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens.

Having the form of a lichen.

A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.

Of or pertaining to lichenography.

One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.

A description of lichens; the science which illustrates the natural history of lichens.

One versed in lichenology.

The science which treats of lichens.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.

See Litchi.

The gromwell.

An herb, the wall pellitory. See Pellitory.

Lawful.

The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder.

A slap; a quick stroke.

A tapster.

An abject flatterer or parasite.

One who, or that which, licks.

Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Lickerish; eager; lustful.

A lapping with the tongue.

A devourer or absorber of money.

A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (Glycyrrhiza glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.

See Lickerish.

Liquor.

An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals.

Covered with a lid.

Same as Ledge.

Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful.

A recreational facility, especially one including a swimming pool for water sports.

The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.

A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector.

The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkuehn.

A white Rhenish-type wine produced especially in Hesse in western Germany.

a small principality in central Europe.

A native or inhabitant of Leichtenstein.

A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national.

Lit., wreath of songs; -- used as the title of a group of songs, and esp. as the common name for German vocal clubs of men.

A popular name for any society or club which meets for the practice of male part songs.

Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.

Pleasing; delightful.

Same as Ligeance.

A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.

Same as Liege, n., 2.

A resident ambassador.

See Ligeance.

A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.

Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog.

Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery. A lientery.

A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change.

One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.

In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.

Place; room; stead; -- used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of.

The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant.

An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.

An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.

See Lieutenancy.

Same as Lieutenancy, 1.

Same as Lief.

The fiber by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.

Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating; as, life-giving love and praise.

An unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant (Aralia racemosa) distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; it grows from Southeastern North America to Mexico.

An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water.

That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station.

Of full size; of the natural size; of the same size as an original; as, a life-size sculpture; a life-size portrait of the general.

being the seat or source of life; performing a necessary function in the living body; as, the need for life-sustaining air and water.

Weary of living.

The blood necessary to life; vital blood.

A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.

Full of vitality.

Land held by a life estate.

Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.

not having life.

Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait.

The anem given to one of the creases on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long one will live.

Lasting or continuing through life.

In a lifelike manner.

Companion for life.

To enliven.

Animated; sprightly.

Spring or source of life.

A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life.

The time that life continues.

Livelihood.

Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

Such as can be lifted.

turned upward; as, she left the room with her face lifted.

One who, or that which, lifts.

Used in, or for, or by, lifting.

the initial ascent of a rocket from its launching pad.

To recline; to lie still.

Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.

Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.

Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam.

An enzyme which catalyzes creation of a covalent bond between two substrates, resulting in a larger product which is a combination of the two starting materials; especially, DNA ligase, an enzyme which creates a phosphate bond between 5/ and 3/ ends of a DNA chain, resulting in a longer chain of DNA. DNA ligase is important in normal biosynthesis of DNA in the replication cycle of cells.

To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

The act of binding, or the state of being bound.

An instrument for ligating, or for placing and fastening a ligature.

To ligate; to tie.

To lie; to tell lies.

The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance.

See Ledgment.

To lie or recline.

A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a.

To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in.

A glass bulb with metallic contacts on the outside connected to a wire filament (usually tungsten) inside that emits light when heated by passage of electricity through the filament; -- used as the replaceable light-emitting component of an electric lamp, flashlight, lighting fixture, etc.