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.

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.

variant spelling of Libyan.

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

any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

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

A genus of canids including the African hunting dog.

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

See Lycanthropy, 2.

Pertaining to lycanthropy.

One affected by the disease lycanthropy.

Lycanthropic.

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

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.

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

See under Lich.

Like.

See Litchi.

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.

One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

Same as Low side window, under Low, a.

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

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

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

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

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.

The genus including tomatoes.

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

A plant of the genus Lycopodium.

Same as Lycopodium powder. See under Lycopodium.

Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiace/, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

An alternative designation for the class Lycopsida.

An old name for a fossil club moss.

A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiace/; club moss.

The class including club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta.

A small genus of nonaromatic herbs of the mint family.

The type genus of the family Lycosidae.

The natural family of arachnids including the wolf spiders.

Campylotropous.

A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used as a shell explosive in the British service; -- so named from the proving grounds at Lydd, England.

See Leden.

Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character.

A violet dye derived from aniline.

A falsehood.

A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.