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.

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.

A victory in a contest in which one side defeats the other overwhelmingly; -- in sports, meaning one side scores much more than the other; in war, meaning one side has many more casualties than the other.

Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.

In a loquacious manner.

Loquacity.

The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.

The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.

Of or pertaining to the lores.

Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

A system of electronic navigation in which a vessel or aircraft determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the time differences between low frequency radio transmissions from two stationary transmitters (slaves) and a stationary master transmitter. Contrary to the name, Loran is a medium range system, usually effective for no more than a few hundred miles from shore. The first commercial system was called Loran A; the latest (and final) development is Loran C.

Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.

To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb; as, rich students lording it over their classmates.

The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.

A little lord.

having no lord or master; as, the /ronin/ of Japan were lordless samurai.

The state or quality of being lordly.

A little or insignificant lord.

In a lordly manner.

Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such.

A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region. Any abnormal curvature of the bones.

The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.

The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.

That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.

A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond.

strong p. p. of Lose.

An instructor.

In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

One of an order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the western United States. A Loreto nun.

An opera glass elaborate double eyeglasses.