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.

To become liquid.

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.

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.

The state or quality of being literal.

The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.

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

A literalist.

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

The quality or state of being literal; literal import.

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

Learned or literary men. See Literatus.

Letter for letter.

The act or process of representing by letters.

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

Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

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

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

A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.

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

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.

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

A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.

To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.

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

Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.

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

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

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

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

Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.

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

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.

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.

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

See Lithochromics.

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

An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

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

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

Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous.

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.

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.

An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe.

Stone-producing; -- said of polyps which form coral.

An engraving on a gem.

One who curs or engraves precious stones.

Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.

The art of cutting and engraving gems.

A print made by lithography.

One who lithographs; one who practices lithography.

Of or pertaining to lithography; made by lithography; as, the lithographic art; a lithographic picture.

The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.

Like a stone; having a stony structure.

The worship of a stone or stones.

Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.