someone who tries to attract social lions as guests.

A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States. The edelweiss.

A South European plant of the genus Leontice (Leontice leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.

A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. Leonurus Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Adorned with lions' heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross.

A small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.

The whelp of a lioness; a young lion.

A female lion.

A young or small lion.

State of being a lion.

An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.

To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest.

Like a lion; brave as a lion.

Like a lion; fierce.

The state of being a lion.

To clip; to trim.

any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; they are cosmopolitan in arid and semi-arid temperate or tropical regions.

A condition in which fat occurs in the blood.

A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting the northern part of Mexico. They belong to the Tinneh stock, and are closely related to the Apaches.

Any species of a family (Liparid/) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.

A natural family including the snailfishes.

an orchid of the genus Liparis having few leaves and usually fairly small yellow-green or dull purple flowers in terminal racemes.

A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.

The presence of an abnormally high concentration of lipid in the blood. Called also hyperlipemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipidemia, lipoidemia.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc.

Any of a variety of oily or greasy organic compounds found as major structural components of living cells; they are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents such as alcohol and ether, and include the common fats, cholesterol and other steroids, phospholipids, sphingolipids, waxes, and fatty acids; some of the lipids, together with proteins and carbohydrates, form an essential structural component of living cells, as in the cell walls and membranes. The term lipid refers to its solubility in nonpolar solvents, and has no significance with regard to chemical structure.

Serving to reduce the concentration of lipid, such as cholesterol, in the blood; -- of medications, such as Mevinolin, that are used especially to reduce blood cholesterol, as a preventive measure against heart disease.

Same as lipid.

Same as lipemia.

A disorder of lipid metabolism, whether congenital or acquired.

Lipic.

Having no lips.

A little lip.

Same as Lamellibranchia.

A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best obtained from the eyes of frogs.

A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.

Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.

One who makes a lipogram.

Same as lipemia.

A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.

having an affinity for lipids; -- of chemical substances or parts of molecules. Contrasted to lipophobic or polar.

Not soluble in lipids, or in non-polar solvents; -- of chemical substances or parts of molecules; as, the lipophobic end of a detergent is solvated in water. Contrasted to lipophilic or nonpolar.

Tending to swoon; fainting.

Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting.

A fainting; a swoon.

having an affinity for lipids.

A suborder of mammals including the moles; hedgehogs; and true shrews.

Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.

Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyed; blearedness.

To lisp.

A hypothetical radical of glycerin.

Capable of being melted.

To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.

That which serves to liquefy.

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.

converted to a liquid; as, liquified natural gas; liquified coal.

That which liquefies.

The quality or state of being liquescent.

Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.

An aromatic alcoholic cordial.

A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not gaseous and has a definite volume independent, of the container in which it is held. Liquids have a fixed volume at any given pressure, but their shape is determined by the container in which it is contained. Liquids, in contrast to gases, cannot expand indefinitely to fill an expanding container, and are only slightly compressible by application of pressure.

A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and Liquidambar Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.

See Liquidambar.

To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.

The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.

One who, or that which, liquidates.

Same as liquidize.

The state or quality of being liquid.

To render liquid.

In a liquid manner; flowingly.

The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

Same as liquefied.

Same as liquefy.

To supply with liquor.

See Licorice.

See Lickerish.

Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish.

An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.

A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

Like a lirella.

A genus of large and very beautiful trees of North America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.

See Liripoop.

A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc.

A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.

A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.

A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.

A cavity or hollow.

The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.

a high-level computer programming language in which statements and data are in the form of lists, enclosed in parentheses; -- used especially for rapid development of prototype programs in artificial intelligence applications .

One who lisps.

With a lisp; in a lisping manner.

To free, as from care or pain; to relieve.

A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.

To plow and plant with a lister.

placed on a list. Opposite of unlisted.

Same as List, n., 6.

To attend to.

One who listens; a hearkener.

the act of hearing attentively.

A double-moldboard plow which throws a deep furrow, and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.

A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.

Of or pertaining to listerism.

The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.

To make antiseptic.

Attentive.

The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.

Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.

a form of the imp. p. p. of Light.

A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character.

Litharge.

The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form.

Little.

State of being literate.

Literal meaning.

That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.

One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.