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.

Having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.

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.

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.

An association of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

A mountain in Argentina and Chile, 22,057 feet high.

the sea personified, father of Manawydan; corresponds to the Irish Ler.

Look; see; behold; observe.

Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (Nemachilus barbatulus) is used as a food fish.

To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.

Supporting a load{10} from parts of a structure above; as, a load-bearing wall.

The act or process of disconnecting the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply.

containing as much or as many as is possible; -- of containers, vehicles, trays, etc.; as, a tray loaded with dishes

One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

The act of putting a load on or into.

A large quantity; a lot; as, loads of fun.

To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

having no employment; being idle intentionally.

To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

having no loam; -- of soil; as, a stony loamless yard. Contrasted with loamy.

Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.

To lend; -- sometimes with out.

Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.

a word that is composed of parts from different languages; e.g. monolingual has a Greek prefix and a Latin root.

someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters.

An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane.

A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.

a word borrowed from another language; e.g. blitz is a German word borrowed into modern English.

any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.

A natural family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and Southern Arabia.

Hateful; odious; disliked.

To feel disgust or nausea.

One who loathes.

Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.

Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.

With loathing.

Loathsomeness.