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Lurid

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

Lurk

To lie hidden; to lie in wait.

Lurry

A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.

Luscinia

A genus of birds including the nightingale Luscinia megarhyncos.

Lusern

A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.

Lush

Liquor, esp. intoxicating liquor; drink.

Lusitania

An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian peninsula, corresponding roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain.

Lusitanian

Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. One of the people of Lusitania.

Lusk

To be idle or unemployed.

Lussheburgh

A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called.

Lust

To list; to like.

Lustering

The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.

Lustful

Full of lust; excited by lust.

Lustihood

State of being lusty; vigor of body.

Lustily

In a lusty or vigorous manner.

Lustiness

State of being lusty; vigor; strength.

Lustless

Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.

Lustral

Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.

Lustrate

To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.

Lustrical

Pertaining to, or used for, purification.

Lustring

A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.

Lustrum

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.

Lusus naturae

Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.

Lutanist

A person that plays on the lute.

Lutarious

Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud.

Lutation

The act or method of luting vessels.

Lute

To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

Lutecium

same as Lutetium; -- an older spelling.

Luteic

Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola). Pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of Euphorbia cyparissias.

Lutein

A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yolk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

Luteo-

A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.

Luteocobaltic

Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic.

Luteolin

A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).

Luteous

Yellowish; more or less like buff.

Luter

One who applies lute.

Lutestring

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.

Lutetium

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.

Luth

The leatherback.

Lutheran

One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

Luthern

A dormer window. See Dormer.

luthier

One who makes wooden stringed instruments, such as violins, guitars, etc.

Lutidine

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.

Lutist

One who plays on a lute.

Lutose

Covered with clay; miry.

Lutra

A genus which in some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.

Lutrinae

A subdivision of mammals including the otters; it is not used in some classifications.

Lutulence

The state or quality of being lutulent.

Lutzen

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.

Luvaridae

A natural family including the louvars.

Luvarus

The type genus of the Luvaridae.

Lux

To put out of joint; to luxate.

Luxate

To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.

Luxation

The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.

Luxembourgian

of or pertaining to Luxembourg (definition 2); as, Luxembourgian food.

Luxemburger

of or pertaining to Luxemburg; as, Luxemburger streets.

Luxive

Given to luxury; voluptuous.

Luxullianite

A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.

luxuria

self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins).

Luxuriance

The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.

Luxuriancy

The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance.

Luxuriant

Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.

Luxurious

Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease.

Luxury

A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.

Luz

A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.

lx

the Roman numeral representation of sixty; six times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.

lxx

the Roman numeral representation of seventy; seven times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.

lxxx

the Roman numeral representation of eighty; eight times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.

Lybian

variant spelling of Libyan.

Lycaena

The type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper.

lycaenid

any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

Lycaenidae

A natural family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs.

Lycaeon

A genus of canids including the African hunting dog.

Lycanthrope

A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.

Lycanthropy

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.

Lycee lycee

A French lyceum, or secondary school for students intermediate between elementary school and college, supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.

Lyceum

A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.

Lychnis

A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllace/). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently served as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

Lychnobite

One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

Lycine

A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

Lycium

A genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions.

Lycoperdaceae

A natural family of fungi including the genus Lycoperdon, consisting of puffballs.

Lycoperdales

A small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies: puffpalls; earthstars.

Lycoperdon

A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.

Lycophyta

A term used in some classifications for the class Lycopsida: club mosses.

Lycopod

A plant of the genus Lycopodium.

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