Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.

One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.

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.

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.

Armed with light weapons or accouterments.

Light-ship.

having low color saturation; pale-colored.

not designed for heavy or demanding work; as, a light-duty detergent. Opposite of heavy-duty.

Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts.

Having a light, springy step; moving lightly and nimbly; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Opposite of heavy-footed.

Having a light green color, similar to the color of fresh grass.

being or having light colored skin and hair; as, a certain light-haired girl. Contrasted to brunet.

Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.

Disordered in the head; dizzy; feeling faint; delirious.

Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry.

Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.

A soldier who serves in the light horse. See under 5th Light.

Nimble; swift of foot.

Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.

An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.

Affected by light; as, the light-sensitive pigments in the retina.

A vessel equipped like a lighthouse, carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable, to serve as a guide for mariners; as, the Ambrose lightship off New York was rammed and damaged in 1950 by the Santa Monica.

having skin of a light colored hue.

Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films.

Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.

Such as can be lighted.

imp. of Light, to alight.

set afire or burning.

To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.

The process of changing to a lighter color.

To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.

The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.

A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.

Full of light; bright.

A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.

A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.

Destitute of light; dark.

total absence of light; blackness.

With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.

A man who carries or takes care of a light.

Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room.

Lightening.

A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.

The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.

a signal to turn the lights out.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.

Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.

Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

Illuminated.

Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum.

Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.

Yielding or producing wood.

A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.

Like wood.

To become wood.

A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.

Wood-destroying; -- said of certain insects.

See Lignin.

Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.

Containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay.

Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech.

See Lignin.