Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.
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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.
A blockhead.
To recall a hawk or other animal.
A large marine annelid (Nephthys c/ca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.
Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
To lie hidden; to lie in wait.
One who lurks.
A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.
A genus of birds including the nightingale Luscinia megarhyncos.
A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.
Liquor, esp. intoxicating liquor; drink.
See Lussheburgh.
An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian peninsula, corresponding roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain.
Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. One of the people of Lusitania.
To be idle or unemployed.
Inclined to be lazy.
Used in play; sportive; playful.
A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called.
To list; to like.
One who lusts.
The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.
Full of lust; excited by lust.
Lusty; vigorous.
See Lustihood.
State of being lusty; vigor of body.
In a lusty or vigorous manner.
State of being lusty; vigor; strength.
Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.
Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.
To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
The act of lustrating or purifying.
Same as Luster.
To make lustrous.
Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.
Bright; shining; luminous.
A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. A period of five years.
See Sundew.
Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.
A person that plays on the lute.
Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud.
The act or method of luting vessels.
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Having a curved spine.
same as Lutetium; -- an older spelling.
Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola). Pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of Euphorbia cyparissias.
A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yolk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.
Same as Lutanist.
A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.
Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic.
A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).
Yellowish; more or less like buff.
One who applies lute.
Of a yellowish color.
A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
A metallic element separated from ytterbium in 1907, by Urbain in Paris and by von Welsbach in Vienna. It is a member of the Lanthanide rare earth group. Symbol, Lu; atomic number 71; atomic weight 174.967 [C=12.011]. Previously spelled Lutecium.
The leatherback.
One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.
The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
A dormer window. See Dormer.
One who makes wooden stringed instruments, such as violins, guitars, etc.
Any one of several metameric alkaloids, C5H3N.(CH3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.
See Lute, a cement.
One who plays on a lute.
Covered with clay; miry.
A genus which in some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
A subdivision of mammals including the otters; it is not used in some classifications.
The state or quality of being lutulent.
Muddy; turbid; thick.
A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632) at which the Swedes under King Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Imperialists under Wallenstein, and in which Adolphus was killed.
A natural family including the louvars.
The type genus of the Luvaridae.
See Paradoxure.
To put out of joint; to luxate.
To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.
The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
Luxury.
a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
of or pertaining to Luxembourg (definition 2); as, Luxembourgian food.
of or pertaining to Luxemburg; as, Luxemburger streets.
Given to luxury; voluptuous.
A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.
self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins).
The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.
The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance.
Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.
In a luxuriant manner.
The act or process of luxuriating.
Luxuriance.
Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease.
One given to luxury.
A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.
the Roman numeral representation of sixty; six times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.
the Roman numeral representation of seventy; seven times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.
the Roman numeral representation of eighty; eight times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.
A leash.
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