To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.

a railway line that branches from the trunk line and then rejoins it at another point.

Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.

An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.

A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.

Provided with loopholes.

Deceitful; cunning; sly.

of Loop.

A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.

Praise; fame; reputation.

To set sail.

large enough to leave space for movement over the skin; not tight-fitting; -- of clothing. Opposite of close-fitting, tight, and tight-fitting.

having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw.

having rings that open and close permitting insertion and removal of pages; -- of notebooks and binders and the paper used in them; as, a looseleaf notebook; looseleaf paper.

A type of notebook with hard covers attached to metal rings which open, allowing sheets of writing paper to be conveniently inserted into it and removed from it.

Sheets of writing paper having holes at the edge permitting insertion into and removal from a looseleaf binder.

In a loose manner.

To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact.

having constraints removed.

One who, or that which, loosens.

The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.

The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers.

Somewhat loose.

To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; as, the robbers left the looted train.

A plunderer.

See Louver.

Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

Having ears which droop or hang down; as, a lop-eared hound.

A leap; a long step.

Leaper; ropedancer.

One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.

A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.

A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyid/), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.

Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii. One of the Lophobranchii.

Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.

An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.

A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.

Same as Phylactolemata.

The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.

A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.

To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.

A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.

Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.

A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.

Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.

A victory in a contest in which one side defeats the other overwhelmingly; -- in sports, meaning one side scores much more than the other; in war, meaning one side has many more casualties than the other.

Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.

In a loquacious manner.

Loquacity.

The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.

The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.

Of or pertaining to the lores.

Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

A system of electronic navigation in which a vessel or aircraft determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the time differences between low frequency radio transmissions from two stationary transmitters (slaves) and a stationary master transmitter. Contrary to the name, Loran is a medium range system, usually effective for no more than a few hundred miles from shore. The first commercial system was called Loran A; the latest (and final) development is Loran C.

Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.

To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb; as, rich students lording it over their classmates.

The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.

having no lord or master; as, the /ronin/ of Japan were lordless samurai.

The state or quality of being lordly.

A little or insignificant lord.

In a lordly manner.

Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such.

A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region. Any abnormal curvature of the bones.

The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.

The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.

That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.

A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond.

strong p. p. of Lose.

An instructor.

In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

One of an order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the western United States. A Loreto nun.

An opera glass elaborate double eyeglasses.

Same as Lory.

A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.

A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos. The crocodilia.

An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.

The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.

Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.

A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.

Instructive discourse.

The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole.

Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (Stenops gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species.

Lost; undone; ruined.

A small cart or wagon moving on rails, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossid/, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.

Praise. See Loos.

Such as can be lost.

See Lozenge.

To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

Wasteful; slothful.

A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.

Flattery; deceit; trickery.

One who loses; as, the loser pays for a round of beer.

Causing or likely to cause a loss; as, a losing game or business; a losing strategy.

In a manner to incur loss.

something lost, especially money lost at gambling. Inverse of winnings.

The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

an article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers.

something lost, especially money lost at gambling. Inverse of winnings.

Detrimental.

Free from loss.

The compression of binary data into a form which, when it is re-expanded, has most, but not all, of the original information. It is used primarily for compression of images and sounds, and is designed to provide a high degree of compression at the cost of a slight loss of data. It is expemplified by the JPEG compression standard. Images compressed by a lossy compression algorithm are re-expanded into an image close, but not identical to the original image; the difference between the original and the reconstructed image may be imperceptible to normal viewing by the eye.

Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

To allot; to sort; to portion.

To lurk; to lie hid.

strongly opposed.

A gay seducer of women; a libertine.

Lorraine, a French region rich in iron-ore deposits.

See Loath, Loathly, etc.

A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.

See Lotto.

An East Indian monkey (Semnopithecus femoralis).

A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.

See Lotus.

One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.

A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of the tickets are blanks. An affair of chance.

A game of chance, played with cards or tickets, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. In some systems, lesser prizes are awarded for having some but not all of the numbers selected, such as four or five numbers in a six-number drawing. A variety of lotto is called keno. In another variety, the player chooses the numbers for the card or ticket s/he holds. There may be from three to seven different numbers on a card or ticket. In a modern computerized lotto system conducted by state authorities, the player chooses numbers, or allows the computer to choose numbers at random, which are then printed on a ticket that the player holds until the winning number is selected.