The act of lobbing; an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net.
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Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.
Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.
As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.
Like a lob; consisting of lobs.
To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill; -- also used with the legislators as object; as, to lobby the state legislatuire for protection.
A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.
A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob.
Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form A rounded projection or division of a leaf. A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot. A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain. The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.
Lobiped.
surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (such as the lung or brain).
Having lobes; lobate.
A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.
A small lobe; a lobule.
A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. Lobelia cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.
A natural family of plants not recognized in all classification systems; in some classifications lobeliaceous plants are included in family Campanulaceae.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.
A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.
A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.
Having lobate toes, as a coot.
Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.
An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Am/ba.
The type genus of the Lobotidae.
A natural family of fishes including the tripletails.
The surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain, by cutting into the brain.
A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.
See Lopsided.
A prison.
Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (Homarus Americanus), and the European lobster (Homarus vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.
a device used to trap lobsters, consisting of a semi-cylindrical structure made of wooden slats, with openings formed of funnel-shaped nets allowing lobsters to enter, but impeding their exit. It is also called a lobster trap.
same as lobster pot.
Of or pertaining to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War in America; -- so called because of their red coats.
A British soldier in the 1700's; -- so-called because of his red coat, esp. during the American Revolutionary War.
a dish of lobster meat cooked with a rich creamy wine sauce, stuffed back into the lobster shell, sprinkled with grated cheese, and browned.
Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.
the property of having lobules.
Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.
A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.
The lugworm.
A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.
A place, spot, or location.
Same as localization.
Same as localize.
The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.
The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
Act of localizing, or state of being localized.
To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
confined or restricted to a particular location; as, the localized infection formed a definite abscess. Contrasted with disseminated or systemic.
With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.
To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle.
situated in a particular spot or position; as, valuable centrally located urban land.
the act of putting something in a certain place or location.
The act or process of locating.
Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. The locative case.
One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.
A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.
A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.
An officer who commanded a company; a captain.
A small lake; a pond.
See Loach.
The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.
Of or pertaining to the lochia.
To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
a supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening; a check nut.
A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.
A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.
A washer that is not completely smooth or flat, designed to prevent a nut from loosening, placed under the nut on a screw or bolt.
A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.
a gate that can be locked.
A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.
A box of strong and durable construction, fitted with a lock, used for the purpose of protecting valuable items, such as money or jewelry; a strongbox.
See Lockjaw.
The globeflower (Trollius).
One who, or that which, locks.
A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus; trismus.
Destitute of a lock.
A public executioner.
a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal).
The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.
A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany.
A person whose occupation is to make, mend, or install locks, or to make keys for locks.
A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse; a jail.
Having locks or tufts.
A locomotive.
Insane; crazy.
A friction match.
a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis.
To change location; move, travel, or proceed.
The act of moving from place to place.
A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
The power of changing place.
Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
Divided into compartments.
A little hollow; a loculus.
Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.
Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.
One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.
A place; a locality.
Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acridid/, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda migratoria, syn. Pachytylus migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.
A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (Robinia Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.
The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.
The European cricket warbler.
Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
Swarming and devastating like locusts.
Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
The capelin.
A water course or way; a reach of water.
An old name for a pilot boat.
Pilotage.
Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman.
Same as Loadsman.
A pilot.
Same as Loadstar.
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