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.

See Lignin.

A woody swelling on a tree or shrub, usually contained entirely below or just above the surface of the ground, and having buds which enable the plant to survive cutting or a fire that destroys the portion of the plant above ground. After such damage to the plant, sprouting commences from the lignotuber.

Ligneous.

A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.

A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170/ Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps.

Same as Ligan.

See Ligule.

Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.

The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass. A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Composit/.

Bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, lettuce, hawkweed, etc.

A kind of precious stone.

A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bitter taste; -- called also ligustron.

Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; easy to like; evoking sympathy; as, a likable person.

To be pleased; to choose.

Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind.

See Likable.

Likelihood.

Appearance; show; sign; expression.

Likelihood; probability.

In all probability; probably.

To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

See Lickerish, Lickerishness.

In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also.

A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.

The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.

See Syringin.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples. Like the blossom of a lily in general form.

Having a general resemblance to lilies or to liliaceous plants.

Covered with, or having many, lilies.

one of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones; it comprises 17 families including: Liliaceae; Alliaceae; Amaryllidaceae; Iridaceae; Orchidaceae; Trilliaceae.

A flowering plant.

A class comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves. It includes the grasses; lilies; palms; and orchids. It is divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae.

a female demon who attacks children.

The type genus of the Liliaceae.

To loll.

Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.

An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained.

Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.

having a light rhythmical cadence; as, an easy lilting stride; a lilting melody.

A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.

Having white, delicate hands.

White-livered; cowardly.

Asiatic perennial tufted herb (Liriope muscari) with grasslike evergreen foliage and clusters of dark mauve grapelike flowers; grown as ground cover.

Any plant of the Lily family or order.

A limb.

The capital city of Peru, in South America.

Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.

A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.

A curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is r = a cos / + b.

Filings of metal.

The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

The act of filing or polishing.

The act of filing.

A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.

A border or edge, in certain special uses. The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade. The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon. The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.

A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.

Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

To distill.

Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.

To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.

The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness.

of or pertaining to the limbic system; as, the limbic system.

A group of neural structures in the brain below the cerebral cortex, centered on the hypothalamus and including the hippocampus and amygdala, involved with control of emotion, motivation, memory, and some homeostatic regulatory processes.

Destitute of limbs.

Piecemeal.

A West Indian dance contest, in which participants must dance under a pole which is lowered successively until only one participant can successfully pass under, without falling. It is often performed at celebrations, such as weddings.

With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.

A soft cheese made in the Belgian province of Limburg (Limbourg), and usually not eaten until the curing has developed a peculiar and, to most people, unpleasant odor.

An spiritual region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the last judgment.

To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.

having a yellowish-green color like that of the lime (the fruit).

Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime.

A sweetened beverage of lime juice and water.

A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer.

A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.

That part of the stage upon which the limelight is cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. a conspicuous position before the public; the center of public attention; -- used mostly in the phrase in the limelight; as, politicians who are never happy except in the limelight.

a threshhold, especially the point where a psychological or physiological effect begins to occur.

Of or pertaining to Lima, or to the inhabitants of Lima, in Peru. A native or inhabitant of Lima.

A genus comprising mainly dark northern butterflies with white wing bars.

A limehound; a limmer.

A humorous, often nonsensical, and sometimes risq/ poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet, and rhyme, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rhyme.

A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.

Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.

A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc.; the Grall/.

Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicol/.