the act of hearing attentively.

A double-moldboard plow which throws a deep furrow, and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.

A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.

Of or pertaining to listerism.

The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.

To make antiseptic.

Attentive.

The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.

Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.

a form of the imp. p. p. of Light.

A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character.

Litharge.

The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form.

Little.

State of being literate.

Literal meaning.

That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.

One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

The state or quality of being literal.

The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.

To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.

A literalist.

According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.

The quality or state of being literal; literal import.

One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.

Learned or literary men. See Literatus.

Letter for letter.

The act or process of representing by letters.

One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.

Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.

A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.

A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.

A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine.

Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead or minium, etc. Called also massicot.

Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.

A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.

To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.

The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.

Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.

Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.

Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.

The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium.

The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.

Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.

A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.

A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.

Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

See Lithochromics.

The art of printing colored pictures on canvas from oil paintings on stone.

An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

A sac containing small, calcareous concretions (otoliths). They are found in many Medus/, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs.

Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus.

Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous.

A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.

Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.

An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe.

An engraving on a gem.

One who curs or engraves precious stones.

Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.

The art of cutting and engraving gems.

A print made by lithography.

One who lithographs; one who practices lithography.

Of or pertaining to lithography; made by lithography; as, the lithographic art; a lithographic picture.

The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.

Like a stone; having a stony structure.

The worship of a stone or stones.

Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.

From a lithological point of view; as, to consider a stratum lithologically.

One who is skilled in lithology.

The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.

Divination by means of stones.

A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile.

Same as Lithontriptic.

Having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forc/ps. A lithontriptic remedy or agent, as distilled water.

Same as Lithotriptist.

See Lithotriptor.

Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich. Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus.

Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as in a lamp shade or when hung in a window.

A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat.

Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.

Same as Photolithography.

A fossil leaf or impression of a leaf.

A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name.

A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.

Of or pertaining to lithophytes.

Lithophytic.

Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosid/. Many of them are beautifully colored.

The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere. The outer part of the solid earth, the portion undergoing change through the gradual transfer of material by volcanic eruption, the circulation of underground water, and the process of erosion and deposition. It is, therefore, regarded as a third mobile envelope comparable with the hydrosphere and atmosphere.

A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.

A stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art.

Pertaining to, or performed by, lithotomy.

One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.

The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.

The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder or urethra to reduce it to particles small enough to be voided; lithotrity. It may be performed with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite (also called a lithoclast); or, more recently, may be accomplished by devices using ultrasonic waves to fragment the stones.

Same as Lithontriptic.

One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.

An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.

A lithotriptist.

The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder or urethrea into small pieces capable of being voided; lithotripsy.

To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy.

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy.

The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotype plate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shellac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.

Petrified wood.

A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people.

Easily bent; pliable.

Such as can be litigated.

A person engaged in a lawsuit.

To carry on a suit by judicial process.

The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.

of or pertaining to litigation.

One who litigates.

same as litigatious.

Inclined to initiate lawsuits; given to the practice of contending in law; fond of litigation.

In a litigious manner.

The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.

A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.