A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.

Of or pertaining to lithophytes.

Lithophytic.

Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosid/. Many of them are beautifully colored.

The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere. The outer part of the solid earth, the portion undergoing change through the gradual transfer of material by volcanic eruption, the circulation of underground water, and the process of erosion and deposition. It is, therefore, regarded as a third mobile envelope comparable with the hydrosphere and atmosphere.

A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.

A stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art.

Pertaining to, or performed by, lithotomy.

One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.

The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.

The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder or urethra to reduce it to particles small enough to be voided; lithotrity. It may be performed with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite (also called a lithoclast); or, more recently, may be accomplished by devices using ultrasonic waves to fragment the stones.

Same as Lithontriptic.

One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.

An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.

A lithotriptist.

The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder or urethrea into small pieces capable of being voided; lithotripsy.

To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy.

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy.

The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotype plate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shellac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.

Petrified wood.

A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people.

Easily bent; pliable.

Such as can be litigated.

A person engaged in a lawsuit.

To carry on a suit by judicial process.

The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.

of or pertaining to litigation.

One who litigates.

same as litigatious.

Inclined to initiate lawsuits; given to the practice of contending in law; fond of litigation.

In a litigious manner.

The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.

A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.

A genus of East African antelopes including the gerenuks.

See Littoral.

A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; a form of understatement; as, / a citizen of no mean city,/ that is, of an illustrious city; or, /not bad/, meaning /good/.

An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.

Same as Liter.

A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

one who helps carry a stretcher.

One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.

a bin (usually in or outside a public building) into which the public can put rubbish.

a person who litters public places with refuse.

having articles scattered about in a disorderly fashion.

a person who litters public places with refuse.

One of two or more animals born into the same litter.

Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.

In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.

a quahog when young and small; frequently eaten raw.

The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.

small or little relative to something else.

having or being distinguished by diminutive size.

Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.

A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.

A smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards.

Forked, with the points slightly curved outward.

Having the form of a lituus; like a lituite.

Any species of ammonites of the genus Lituites. They are found in the Cretaceous formation.

In the manner of a liturgy.

The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies.

One versed in liturgiology.

The science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies.

One who favors or adheres strictly to a liturgy.

An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.

A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

Such as can be lived.

Life.

Any fish of the family Poeciliiidae, small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters, often used in mosquito control.

A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.

Same as livable; as, liveable conditions. Opposite of unlivable.

Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.

having residents; as, a house with a lived-in look.

See Livelihood.

Liveliness; appearance of life.

In a lively manner.

The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.

Course of life; means of support; livelihood.

Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.

In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.

to make lively; -- sometimes used with up; as, to liven up the party with some music.

The quality of having animal life as distinguished from plant life.

The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.

Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.

Having an enlarged liver.

Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.

Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3.

A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork.

Same as Liverwort.

A resident of Liverpool.

A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

To clothe in, or as in, livery.

A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) (g).

One who wears a livery, as a servant.

Alive; living; with life.

Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh may be from a contusion.

The state or quality of being livid.

Lividity.

The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.

In a living state.

The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

A genus of fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia.

A native or an inhabitant of Livonia; the language (allied to the Finnish) of the Livonians.

Malignity.

A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.

A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.

Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium.

To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.

Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance from one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.

See Lixivial.

Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.

A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.

2d pers. sing. pres. of Lige, to lie, to tell lies, -- contracted for ligest.

The American white mullet (Mugil curema).

Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the family Synodontidae having large mouths in lizardlike heads, especially the inshore lizardfish (Synodus foetens syn. Synodus poeyi) of Mideastern and Southern United States and West Indies; -- sometimes called sand pike.

A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (Saururus cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name.

A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes, and is also kept on some ranches in the United States.

One of the inhabitants of the llanos of South America.

An extensive plain with or without vegetation.