Like or pertaining to the dragon flies.

Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet.

The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.

One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.

Same as liberalization.

Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.

A liberal.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.

The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity.

The act of liberalizing; the act of making less strict.

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices; to make less strict.

One who, or that which, liberalizes.

In a liberal manner.

To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

released from chemical combination, or as a consequence of chemical reaction; -- of a gas.

giving freedom from restriction or restraint.

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.

Tending, or serving, to liberate.

A native or inhabitant of Liberia.

One who holds to the doctrine of free will.

Libertarian principles or doctrines.

The destruction of civil liberty.

Libertinism; license.

Free from restraint; uncontrolled.

The state of a libertine or freedman.

The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.

A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.

Of or pertaining to the libido; caused by libido; as, libidinal gratification; libidinal impulses.

One given to lewdness.

The state or quality of being libidinous; libidinousness.

Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.

Sexual desire; the sexual instinct; the sex drive.

A house or lodging.

A genus of cedarlike cypresses.

The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc. A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.

Of a pound weight.

One who has the care or charge of a library.

The office of a librarian.

A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

To poise; to balance.

The act or state of librating.

any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body.

Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.

One who makes a libretto.

A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.

Having the form of liber, or resembling liber.

A country in Northern Africa, between Egypt and Tunisia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It also borders on Algeria, Chad, Niger, and Sudan. It is an Arabic-speaking country with over 97% of the population Sunni Moslem. The population in 1995 was about 5,248,000. The capital is Tripoli.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the country Libya or its inhabitants.

pl. of Louse.

That can be licensed.

To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.

Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic.

The person to whom a license is given.

One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.

A licensing.

To give a license to.

Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.

A dead body; a corpse.

A genus of boas of western North America.

One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.

Belonging to, or covered with, lichens.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens.

Having the form of a lichen.

A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.

Of or pertaining to lichenography.

One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.

A description of lichens; the science which illustrates the natural history of lichens.

One versed in lichenology.

The science which treats of lichens.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.

See Litchi.

The gromwell.

An herb, the wall pellitory. See Pellitory.

Lawful.

The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder.

A slap; a quick stroke.

A tapster.

An abject flatterer or parasite.

One who, or that which, licks.

Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Lickerish; eager; lustful.

A lapping with the tongue.

A devourer or absorber of money.

A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (Glycyrrhiza glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.

See Lickerish.

Liquor.

An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals.

Covered with a lid.

Same as Ledge.

Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful.

A recreational facility, especially one including a swimming pool for water sports.

The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.

A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector.

The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkuehn.

A white Rhenish-type wine produced especially in Hesse in western Germany.

a small principality in central Europe.

A native or inhabitant of Leichtenstein.

A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national.

Lit., wreath of songs; -- used as the title of a group of songs, and esp. as the common name for German vocal clubs of men.

A popular name for any society or club which meets for the practice of male part songs.

Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.

Pleasing; delightful.

Same as Ligeance.

A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.

Same as Liege, n., 2.

A resident ambassador.

See Ligeance.

A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.

One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.

Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog.

Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery. A lientery.

A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change.

One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.

In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.

Place; room; stead; -- used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of.

The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant.

An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.

An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.