A tree (Dimocarpus longan) of Southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet translucent-fleshed edible fruit (the longan) resembling litchi nuts; -- it is sometimes placed in genera Euphoria or Nephelium.
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Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.
The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.
a fat-bellied stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century).
Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.
The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one.
Same as 4th Lunge.
One who longs for anything.
Long-loved; longevous.
Long duration of life; length of life.
Living a long time; of great age.
The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand; as, took it down in longhand.
Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned.
Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia. One of the Longicornia.
A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antenn/ are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.
Having long sides; especially, having the form of a long parallelogram.
Long-windedness.
Having long hands.
The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths.
An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
With longing.
Greatness of distance; remoteness.
One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
Having long wings, or quills.
A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.
Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.
One of the Longirostres.
Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.
A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.
Somewhat long; moderately long.
Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.
A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
In the direction of length.
A daddy longlegs.
With longing desire.
The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and slates of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.
Length.
The European garfish.
The stilt.
Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.
One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
Extended in length; tiresome.
Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (Calcarius Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (Calcarius ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.
An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog.
A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.
Lengthwise.
Lengthwise.
A genus of vines including the woodbine, Lonicera periclymenum.
A tall fan palm (Borassus flabellifer) of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; the palmyra; -- its leaves are used for thatching and weaving.
To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.
The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.
Awkwardly.
An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.
See 2d Loch.
See Luff.
The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.
A fish (Selene vomer) similar to the moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead; it was also called moonfish at one time.
a swift cursory examination or inspection; as, I gave the car a quick look-over.
same as anticipated, 2; as, his looked-for advancement.
One who looks.
The act of one who looks; a glance.
A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.
A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; as, they wrote a program to do a table lookup.
A vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.
The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.
A gentle gale of wind.
The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.
Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus Urinator (formerly Colymbus), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern diver (Urinator imber, or Colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated loon or diver (Urinator septentrionalis), are the best known species. See Diver.
someone deranged and possibly dangerous.
someone mentally deranged and possibly dangerous.
An institution for the confinement or treatment of insane persons, such as an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.
a railway line that branches from the trunk line and then rejoins it at another point.
Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.
An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.
A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.
Provided with loopholes.
Deceitful; cunning; sly.
of Loop.
A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.
Praise; fame; reputation.
To set sail.
large enough to leave space for movement over the skin; not tight-fitting; -- of clothing. Opposite of close-fitting, tight, and tight-fitting.
having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw.
having rings that open and close permitting insertion and removal of pages; -- of notebooks and binders and the paper used in them; as, a looseleaf notebook; looseleaf paper.
A type of notebook with hard covers attached to metal rings which open, allowing sheets of writing paper to be conveniently inserted into it and removed from it.
Sheets of writing paper having holes at the edge permitting insertion into and removal from a looseleaf binder.
In a loose manner.
To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact.
having constraints removed.
One who, or that which, loosens.
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers.
Somewhat loose.
To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; as, the robbers left the looted train.
A plunderer.
See Louver.
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Having ears which droop or hang down; as, a lop-eared hound.
A leap; a long step.
Leaper; ropedancer.
One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.
A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.
A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyid/), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.
Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii. One of the Lophobranchii.
Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.
A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.
Same as Phylactolemata.
The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.
A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.
To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.
Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.
A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.
Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.
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