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.
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.
A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.
A genus of plants including one of the skunk cabbages.
A small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods.
a cosmopolitan genus of plants, including some of the loosestrifes, found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; they are inclined to be invasive.
An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.
The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.
Hydrophobia.
Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.
Soft; flexible.
See Lithontriptic.
A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.
A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.
A semiautomatic rifle which was standard issue to infantrymen in the United States Army in the mid-20th century.
To increase the power of (a single-cylinder beam engine) by adding a small high-pressure cylinder with a piston acting on the beam between the center and the flywheel end, using high-pressure steam and working as a compound engine, -- a plan introduced by M'Naught, a Scottish engineer, in 1845.
The narrowest measure of the money supply, comprising the currency in circulation plus demand deposits or checking account balances.
A measure of the money supply broader than M1 but narrower than M3, comprising M1 plus net time deposits (other than large certificates of deposit).
A broad measure of the money supply, comprising M2 plus deposits at nonbanks such as savings and loan associations.
But; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, /Vivace, ma non troppo presto/ (i. e., lively, but not too quick).
Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.
The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull.
Made.
The sparrow hawk. The kestrel.
A trademark for an antacid.
An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee.