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Lipoma

A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.

lipophilic

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

lipophobic

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.

Lipothymous

Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting.

Lipotyphla

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

Lipped

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

Lippitude

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

Lipyl

A hypothetical radical of glycerin.

Liquate

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

Liquation

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

Liquefaction

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

Liquefiable

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

liquefied

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

Liquescent

Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.

Liqueur

An aromatic alcoholic cordial.

Liquid

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.

Liquidambar

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.

Liquidate

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.

Liquidation

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

Liquidity

The state or quality of being liquid.

Liquidness

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

Lira

An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.

Lirella

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

Liriodendron

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.

Liripoop

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

Liroconite

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

Lisbon

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

Lisle

A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.

Lisp

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

LISP

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 .

Liss

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

Lissencephala

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

List

To plow and plant with a lister.

listed

placed on a list. Opposite of unlisted.

Lister

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

Lister Leister

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

Listerism

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

Listing

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.

Listless

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

Lit

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

Litany

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.

Litchi

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.

Literalism

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

Literalist

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

Literalization

The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.

Literalize

To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.

Literally

According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.

Literalness

The quality or state of being literal; literal import.

Literate

One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.

Literati

Learned or literary men. See Literatus.

Literation

The act or process of representing by letters.

Literator

One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.

Literature

Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

Literatus

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Lith

A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.

Lithagogue

A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine.

Litharge

Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead or minium, etc. Called also massicot.

Lithargyrum

Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.

Lithate

A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.

Lithe

To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

Lithely

In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.

Litheness

The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.

Lither

Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.

Litherly

Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.

Lithesome

Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.

Lithia

The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium.

Lithiasis

The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.

Lithic

Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.

Lithiophilite

A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.

Lithium

A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.

Lithobilic

Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.

Lithocarp

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

Lithochromics

The art of printing colored pictures on canvas from oil paintings on stone.

Lithoclast

An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

Lithocyst

A sac containing small, calcareous concretions (otoliths). They are found in many Medus/, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs.

Lithodome

Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus.

Lithodomous

Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous.

Lithodomus

A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.

Lithofellic

Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.

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