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.

Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.

The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.

the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light.

A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.

To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

To combine (various items) and treat them as a unit. See lump, v. i.

the removal of a cyst or tumor from the breast by surgery. This is one method of treating breast tumors when in an early stage, and is preferred for cosmetic reasons, when medically feasible, to radical mastectomy, the removal of the entire breast along with nearby muscles.

mentally sluggish.

same as lumpenproletariat.

the lowest level of the proletariat, comprising unskilled workers, the unemployed, and the dispossessed, alienated from the class with with they would normally identify and having little or no class solidarity; -- an important element in Marxist theory.

One who lumps.

A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

Bulky; heavy.

Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless.

Full of lumps, or small compact masses; as, a lumpy bed; a lumpy batch of dough.

The moon.

Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation.

A lunar distance.

A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family, including the herb honesty (Lunaria annua), which is also called moonwort and lunary.

An inhabitant of the moon.

The herb moonwort or /honesty/. A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.

Crescent-shaped; resembling the crescent moon; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross.

A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.

the members of a political or social group espousing extreme, fanatical, or seemingly irrational views.

The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29/ to 29/ days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s.

To take luncheon.

To take luncheon.

someone who is eating lunch.

the act of eating lunch.

a dining room (in a school, business, or other non-domestic facility) where lunch can be purchased.

the time for eating lunch; as, he observed a regular lunchtime.

A genus of birds including some of the puffins.

Anything in the shape of a half moon.

A little moon or satellite.

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

An organ for a/rial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.

Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

the ability to speak loudly.

Same as Namaycush.

Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.

a person with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.

A guillemot.

A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow.

Being without lungs.

A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India.

Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (Strongylus filaria) are the best known.

An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (Pulmonaria officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung. Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. Mertensia Virginica and Mertensia Sibirica), plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip.

Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases.

Resembling the moon in shape.

Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution.

Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon.

The match cord formerly used in firing cannon.

Same as Lunule.

Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent; lunate.

Resembling a small crescent.

Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula; a lune.

A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.

Any bryozoan of the genus Lunulites, having a more or less circular form.

Crazy; insane; mentally unsound.

A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.

A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.

Wolfish; ravenous.

A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.

An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, Lupinus albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance, having a formula C10H19NO. Called also l-lupinine

A bitter principle extracted from hops.

An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, hops; specifically, designating an acid obtained by the decomposition of lupulin.

originally, a cutaneous disease with the appearance of the skin having been gnawed, and occurring under two distinct forms. Now used as a generic term for over ten distinguishable diseases having visible cutaneous symptoms.

Gluttony; gormandizing.

To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.

A glutton; a gormandizer.

The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.