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.

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.

The cicada.

A natural family comprising the lygaeid bugs.

An order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: the seed ferns.

A genus of fossil seed ferns of the Carboniferous.

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

A genus of plant-sucking bugs.

of Lie, to be supported horizontally.

The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement; as, a lying-in hospital.

In a lying manner; falsely.

To please; -- chiefly used impersonally.

See Limaille.

A dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees.

The natural family comprising the tussock moths.

A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. Elymus Canadensis, and the European Elymus arenarius.

A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound.

A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.

Inflammation of the lymphatic glands; -- called also lymphitis.

See Lymphoma.

Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.

Of or pertaining to the lymphatics, or lymphoid tissue; lymphatic.

Frightened into madness; raving.

One of the lymphatic or absorbent vessels, which carry lymph and discharge it into the veins; lymph duct; lymphatic duct.

See Lymphadenitis.

Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands.

A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.

Resembling lymph; also, resembling a lymphatic gland; adenoid; as, lymphoid tissue.

A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma.

Containing, or like, lymph.

A waterfall. See Lin.

Of or pertaining to the lynx.

To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.

One who assists in lynching.

See Linden.

Linen.

Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.

Having acute sight.

A genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of the U. S. to the Antilles and eastern Asia to Himalaya.

a former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes.

Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

same as lyophilize.

same as lyophilized.

to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.

dried by freezing and subsequent evaporation of the water in a high vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological or sensitive substances.

An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are not articulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and allied forms.

A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyr/, or Vega.

Same as Lyrid.

Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.

A garden plant (Dicentra spectabilis) having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers.

A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

the property of being suitable for singing.

In a lyrical manner.

A lyric composition.

One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars if traced backwards crosses the constellation Lyra.

A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.

Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.

The act of playing on a lyre or harp.