The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil. A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.

Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb.

Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.

a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm.

The chemical symbol for lawrencium, a transuranic element of atomic number 103.

lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful hallucinogenic drug.

A term attached to the name of a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability; it corresponds to Inc. in the United States.

long-term memory, the term for the set of neurons and neural processes responsible for the general store of information remembered for more than a day.

The chemical symbol for lutetium.

Lubberly.

A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.

Clumsily; awkwardly.

Having a smooth surface; slippery.

That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, graphite, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.

To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.

smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction.

The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.

One who, or that which, lubricates.

See Lubricate.

Lubric.

The act of lubricating, or making smooth.

A dormer window.

A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.

A pike when full grown.

The quality of being lucent.

Shining; bright; resplendent.

A lamp.

Of or pertaining to a lamp.

A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.

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

A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa. A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true Lucernarida and the Discophora.

See Lucern, the plant.

Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.

The quality or state of being lucid.

In a lucid manner.

The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

an enzyme which catalyzes the oxidation of luciferin, thereby producing bioluminescence.

One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.

any of several substances found in luminescent organisms (such as the firefly, Photinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferin

Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.

In a luciferous manner.

Producing light.

Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light.

Luciferian; satanic.

an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.

A brand name for a transparent plastic based on methyl methacrylate esters; the term is often used generically to refer to any similar transparent plastic. It is sold in various forms, including rigid sheets which may be used as a substitute for glass in windows.

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck; as, luck is better than skill; a stroke of luck.

In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.

The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.

Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.

A city in India, the site of the Indian Mutiny (1857) when the British were beseiged.

Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.

See Fatherlasher.

In a lucrative manner.

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

Gainful; profitable.

Producing profit; gainful.

Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor.

Producing grief; saddening.

The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.

One who studies by night; also, one who produces lucubrations.

Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking.

A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.

Lucid; clear; transparent.

In a luculent manner; clearly.

A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.

An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.

One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.

Sportive; ridiculous; wanton.

Sportive.

Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.

The act of deriding.

Making sport; tending to excite derision.

A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.

A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.

Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.

See Louver.

A rod or pole.

the language of the Buganda; spoken in Uganda.

a racing sled for one or two people; it is raced down a chute of packed snow or ice, and the occupant(s) lie down on it with feet in the direction of motion.

someone who races the luge.

That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.

An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.

A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.

Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.

excessive sadness and mournfulness.

A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm.

Moderately warm; not hot; tepid; lukewarm.

Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.

The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby.

A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.

One who, or that which, lulls.

In a lulling manner; soothingly.

A chimney.

A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.

Of or pertaining to lumbago.

A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries.

To move heavily, as if burdened.

One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman.

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.

a person who works at lumbering; a lumberman.

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.

Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.

An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.

Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet. A lumbrical muscle.

Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.

Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricid/.

A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligoch/ta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm.

A unit of illumination, being the amount of illumination of a unit area of spherical surface, due to a light of unit intensity placed at the center of the sphere. A unit of light flux, being the flux through one square meter of surface the illumination of which is uniform and of unit brightness.

Luminous.

To illuminate.

Illumination.

To illumine.

Any emission of light not ascribable directly to incandescence, and therefore occurring at low temperatures, as in phosphorescence and fluorescence or other luminous radiation resulting from vital processes, chemical action, friction, solution, or the influence of light or of ultraviolet or cathode rays, etc.

Shining with a light due to any of the various causes which produce luminescence.