LOACH,

LOAD, noun [See lade.]

1. A burden; that which is laid on or put in any thing for conveyance. Thus we lay a load on a beat or on a man's shoulders, or on a cart or wagon; and we say, a light load, heavy load. A load then is indefinite in quantity or weight. But by usage, in some cases, the word has a more definite signification, and expresses a certain quantity or weight, or as much as is usually carried, or as can be well sustained. Load is never used for the cargo of a ship; this is called loading, lading, freight, or cargo.

2. Any heavy burden; a large quantity borne or sustained. a tree may be said to have a load of fruit upon it.

3. That which is borne with pain or difficulty; a grievous weight; encumbrance; in a literal sense.

Jove lightened of its load th' enormous mass -

In a figurative sense, we say, a load of care or grief; a load of guilt or crimes.

4. Weight or violence of blows.

5. A quantity of food or drink that oppresses, or as much as can be borne.

6. Among miners, the quantity of nine dishes of ore, each dish being about half a hundred weight.

LOAD, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive loaded. [loaden, formerly used, is obsolete and laden belongs to lade. Load, from the noun, is a regular verb.]

1. To lay on a burden; to put on or in something to be carried, or as much as can be carried; as, to load a camel or a horse; to load a cart or wagon. To load a gun, is to charge, or to put in a sufficient quantity of powder, or powder and ball or shot.

2. To encumber; to lay on or put in that which is borne with pain or difficulty; in a literal sense, as to load the stomach with meat; or in a figurative sense, as to load the mind or memory.

3. To make heavy by something added or appended.

Thy dreadful vow, loaden with death -

So in a literal sense, to load a whip.

4. To bestow or confer on in great abundance; as, to load one with honors; to load with reproaches.

LOAD, n. [See lade.]

LOAD, v.t. pret. and pp. loaded. [loaden, formerly used, is obsolete and laden belongs to lade. Load, from the noun, is a regular verb.]

LOADED, participle passive

1. Charged with a load or cargo; having a burden; freighted, as a ship; having a charge of powder, or powder and shot, as a gun.

2. Burdened with any thing oppressive; as loaded with cares, with guilt or shame.

LOADER, noun One who put on a load.

LOADING, participle present tense Charging with a load; burdening; encumbering; charging, as a gun.

LOADING, noun A cargo; a burden; also, any thing that makes part of a load.

LOADMANAGE, noun Pilotage; skill of a pilot. [Not in use.]

LOADSMAN, noun [load and man.] A pilot. obsolete

LOADSTAR,

LOADSTONE, noun [from the verb lead and stone. The old orthography, lodestone, is most correct, as this word has no connection with the verb to load.]

The native magnet, an ore of iron in the lowest state of oxidation, which has the power of attracting metallic iron, as iron filings, and of communicating to masses of iron the same property of attraction, forming artificial magnets. [See Lodestone.]

LOADSTONE, n. [from the verb lead and stone. The old orthography, lodestone, is most correct, as this word has no connection with the verb to load.]

LOAF, noun plural loaves.

1. A mass of bread when baked. It is larger than a cake. The size and price of a loaf in large cities, are regulated by law.

2. A mass or lump, as of sugar.

3. Any thick mass.

LOAM, noun [Latin limus.]

A natural mixture of sand and clay with oxyd of iron; a species of earth or soil of different colors, whitish, brown or yellow, readily diffusible in water.

LOAM, verb transitive To cover with loam

LOAMY, adjective Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam, or resembling it.

LOAN, noun

1. The act of lending; a lending.

2. That which is lent; any thing furnished for temporary use to a person at his request, on the express or implied condition that the specific thing shall be returned, or its equivalent in kind, but without compensation for the use; as a loan of a book or of bread.

3. Something furnished for temporary use, on the condition that it shall be returned or its equivalent, but with a compensation for the use. In this sense, loan is generally applied to money. [See Lend.]

4. A furnishing; permission to use; grant of the use; as a loan of credit.

LOAN, verb transitive

To lend; to deliver to another for temporary use, on condition that the thing shall be returned, as a book; or to deliver for use, on condition that an equivalent in kind shall be returned, as bread; or to deliver for temporary use, on condition that an equivalent in kind shall be returned, with a compensation for the use, as in the case of money at interest. Bills of credit were issued, to be loaned on interest.

LOATH, LOATHE, LOATHER, noun One that lothes.

LOATHE,

LOATHER, n. One that lothes.

LOATHFUL, adjective

1. Hating; abhorring through disgust.

2. Abhorred; hated.

LOATHING, participle present tense Hating from disgust; abhorring.

LOATHINGLY, adverb In a fastidious manner.

LOATHLY, adjective Hateful; exciting hatred. obsolete

LOATHLY, adverb Unwillingly; reluctantly. [See Lothly.]

LOATHNESS, noun Unwillingness; reluctance. [See Lothness.]

LOATHSOME, adjective

1. Disgusting; exciting disgust.

2. Hateful; abhorred; detestable.

3. Causing fastidiousness. [See Lothesome.]

LOATHSOMENESS, noun The quality which excites disgust, hatred or abhorrence.

LOAVES, plu of loaf.

LOB, noun

1. A dull, heavy, sluggish person.

2. Something thick and heavy; as in lobworm.

LOB, verb transitive To let fall heavily or lazily.

And their poor jades lob down their heads.

LO'BATE,

LOB'BY, noun

1. An opening before a room, or an entrance into a principal apartment, where there is a considerable space between that and the portico or vestibule.

2. A small hall or waiting room.

3. A small apartment taken from a hall or entry.

4. In a ship, an apartment close before the captain's cabin.

5. In agriculture, a confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees or other fencing, near the farm-yard.

LOB'BY, n.

LOBE, noun [Latin lobus; Gr.]

1. A part or division of the lungs, liver, etc.

2. The lower soft part of the ear.

3. A division of a simple leaf.

4. The cotyledon or placenta of a seed.

LO'BED, adjective Lobate, which see.

LO'BED, adjective [from lobe.] Consisting of lobes. In botany, divided to the middle into parts distant from each other, with convex margins.

LOBSPOUND, noun A prison.

LOB'STER, noun

A crustaceous fish of the genus Cancer. Lobsters have large claws and fangs, and four pair of legs. They are said to change their crust annually, and to be frightened at thunder or other loud report. They constitute an article of food.

LOB'ULE, noun A small lobe.

LO'CAL, adjective [Latin localis; from locus, place, loco. See Lay.]

1. Pertaining to a place, or to a fixed or limited portion of space. We say, the local situation of the house is pleasant. We are often influenced in our opinions by local circumstances.

2. Limited or confined to a spot, place, or definite district; as a local custom. The yellow fever is local in its origin, and often continues for a time, to be a local disease.

3. In law, local actions are such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; distinguished from transitory actions.

LOCAL'ITY, noun

1. Existence in a place, or in a certain portion of space.

It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality

2. Limitation to a county, district or place; as locality of trial.

3. Position; situation; place; particularly; geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.

LO'CALLY, adverb With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

LO'CATE, verb transitive [Latin loco, locatus.]

1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

2. To select, survey and settle the bounds of a particular tract of land; or to designate a portion of land by limits; as, to locate a tract of a hundred acres in a particular township.

3. To designate and determine the place of; as, a committee was appointed to locate a church or a court house.

LO'CATED, participle passive Placed; situated; fixed in place.

LO'CATING, participle present tense Placing; designating the place of.

LOCA'TION, noun

1. The act of placing, or of designating the place of.

2. Situation with respect to place. The location of the city on a large river is favorable for commerce.

3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.

4. In the civil law, a leasing on rent.

LOCH, noun A lake; a bay or arm of the sea; used in Scotland.

LOCH, noun loch or lohoch, is an Arabian name for the forms of medicines called eclegmas, lambatives, linctures, and the like.

LOCH'AGE, noun [Gr. a body of soldiers, and to lead.]

In Greece, an officer who commanded a lochus or cohort, the number of men in which is not certainly known.

LOCHE. [See Loach.]

LOCHE, noun A small fish of the genus Cobitis, inhabiting small clear streams, and esteemed dainty food.

LO'CHIA, noun [Gr.] Evacuations which follow childbirth.

LO'CHIAL, adjective Pertaining to evacuations from the womb after childbirth.

LOCK, noun [Latin floccus, Eng. lock ]

1. lock in its primary sense, is any thing that fastens; but we now appropriate the word to an instrument composed of a spring, wards, and a bolt of iron or steel, used to fasten doors, chests and the like. The bolt is moved by a key.

2. The part of a musket or fowling-piece or other fire-arm, which contains the pan, trigger, etc.

3. The barrier or works of a canal, which confine the water, consisting of a dam, banks or walls, with two gates or pairs of gates, which may be opened or shut at pleasure.

4. A grapple in wrestling.

5. Any inclosure.

6. A tuft of hair; a plexus of wool, hay or other like substance; a flock; a ringlet of hair.

A lock of hair will draw more than a cable rope.

LOCK of water, is the measure equal to the contents of the chamber of the locks by which the consumption of water on a canal is estimated.

LOCK'-KEEPER, noun One who attends the locks of a canal.

LOCK'-PADDLE, noun A small sluse that serves to fill and empty a lock

LOCK'-SIL, noun An angular piece of timber at the bottom of a lock against which the gates shut.

LOCK'-WEIR, noun A paddle-weir, in canals, an over-fall behind the upper gates, by which the waste water of the upper pound is let down through the paddle-holes into the chamber of the lock

LOCK, verb transitive

1. To fasten with a particular instrument; as, to lock a door; to lock a trunk.

2. To shut up or confine, as with a lock; as, to be locked in a prison. lock the secret in your breast.

3. To close fast. The frost locks up our rivers.

4. To embrace closely; as, to lock one in the arms.

5. To furnish with locks, as a canal.

6. To confine; to restrain. Our shipping was locked up by the embargo.

7. In fencing, to seize the sword-arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, after closing the parade, shell to shell, in order to disarm him.

LOCK, verb intransitive

1. To become fast. The door locks close.

2. To unite closely by mutual insertion; as, they lock into each other.

LOCK'AGE, noun

1. Materials for locks in a canal.

2. Works which form a lock on a canal.

3. Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.

LOCK'ED, participle passive Made fast by a lock; furnished with a lock or locks; closely embraced.

LOCK'ER, noun A close place, as a drawer or an apartment in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.

A shot-locker is a strong frame of plank near the pump-well in the hold, where shot are deposited.

LOCK'ET, noun A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

LOCK'RAM, noun A sort of coarse linen.

LOCK'SMITH, noun An artificer whose occupation is to make locks.

LOCK'Y, adjective Having locks or tufts.

LOCOMO'TION, noun [Latin locus, place, and motio, motion.]

1. The act of moving from place to place.

2. The power of moving from place to place. Most animals possess locomotion; plants have life, but not locomotion

LOCOMO'TIVE, adjective Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as a locomotive animal. Most animals are distinguished from plants by their locomotive faculty.

Locomotive engine, a steam engine employed in land carriage; chiefly on railways.

LOCOMOTIV'ITY, noun The power of changing place.

LOC'ULAMENT, noun [Latin loculamentum, from locus, loculus.]

In botany, the cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged. A pericarp is unilocular, bilocular, etc.

LO'CUST, noun [Latin locusta.] An insect of the genus Gryllus. These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the S. of Asia as to devour every green thing, and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud.

LO'CUST, noun A name of several plants and trees; as a species of Melianthus, and of Ceratonia.

LODE, noun

1. Among miners, a metallic vein, or any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not, but commonly a metallic vein.

2. A cut or reach of water.

LODESTAR, noun [lead and star.] The star that leads; the polestar; the cynosure. obsolete

LODG'ABLE, adjective Capable of affording a temporary abode. [Not used.]

LODGE, verb transitive

1. To set, lay or deposit for keeping or preservation, for a longer or shorter time. The men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

2. To place; to plant; to infix.

He lodged an arrow in a tender breast.

3. To fix; to settle in the heart, mind or memory.

I can give no reason more than a lodged hate -

4. To furnish with a temporary habitation, or with an accommodation for a night. He lodged the prince a month, a week, or a night. [The word usually denotes a short residence, but for no definite time.]

5. To harbor; to cover. The deer is lodged.

6. To afford place to; to contain for keeping.

The memory can lodge a greater store of images, than the senses can present at one time.

7. To throw in or on; as, to lodge a ball or a bomb in a fort.

8. To throw down; to lay flat.

Our sighs, and they shall lodge the summer corn.

LODGE, verb intransitive

1. To reside; to dwell; to rest in a place.

And lodge such daring souls in little men.

2. To rest or dwell for a time, as for a night, a week, a month. We lodged a night at the Golden Ball. We lodged a week at the City Hotel. Soldiers lodge in tents in summer, and in huts in winter. Fowls lodge on trees or rocks.

3. To fall flat, as grain. Wheat and oats on strong land are apt to lodge

LODGE, noun

1. A small house in a park or forest, for a temporary place of rest at night; a temporary habitation; a hut.

2. A small house or tenement appended to a larger; as a porter's lodge

3. A den; a cave; any place where a wild beast dwells.

LODG'ED, participle passive Placed at rest; deposited; infixed; furnished with accommodations for a night or other short time; laid flat.

LODG'ER, noun

1. One who lives at board, or in a hired room, or who has a bed in another's house for a night.

2. One that resides in any place for a time.

LODG'ING, participle present tense

1. Placing at rest; depositing; furnishing lodgings.

2. Resting for a night; residing for a time.

LODG'ING, noun

1. A place of rest for a night, or of residence for a time; temporary habitation; apartment.

Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow.

2. Place of residence.

Fair bosom - the lodging of delight.

3. Harbor; cover; place of rest.

4. Convenience for repose at night.

LODG'MENT, noun

1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged; a being placed or deposited at rest for keeping for a time or for permanence.

2. Accumulation or collection of something deposited or remaining at rest.

3. In military affairs, an encampment made by an army.

4. A work cast up by besiegers, during their approaches, in some dangerous post which they have gained, and where it is necessary to secure themselves against the enemy's fire.

LOFFE, verb intransitive To laugh. [Not used.]

LOFT, noun

1. Properly, an elevation; hence, in a building, the elevation of one story or floor above another; hence, a floor above another; as the second loft; third loft; fourth loft Spenser seems to have used the word for the highest floor or top, and this may have been its original signification.

2. A high room or place.

LOFT'ILY, adverb [from lofty.]

1. On high; in an elevated place.

2. Proudly; haughtily.

They are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression; they speak loftily Psalms 73:8.

3. With elevation of language, diction or sentiment; sublimely.

My lowly verse may loftily arise.

4. In an elevated attitude. A horse carries his head loftily

LOFT'INESS, noun

1. Height; elevation in place or position; altitude; as the loftiness of a mountain.

2. Pride; haughtiness.

Augustus and Tiberius had loftiness enough in their tempers -

3. Elevation of attitude or mien; as loftiness of carriage.

4. Sublimity; elevation of diction or sentiment.

Three poets in three distant ages born; the first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; the next in majesty; in both the last.

First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Isaiah 2:17

LOFTY, adjective

1. Elevated in place; high; as a lofty tower; a lofty mountain. [But it expresses more than high, or at least is more emphatical, poetical and elegant.]

See lofty Lebanon his head advance.

2. Elevated in condition or character.

Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy - Isaiah 57:7.

3. Proud; haughty; as lofty looks. Isaiah 2:11.

4. Elevated in sentiment or diction; sublime; as lofty strains; lofty rhyme.

5. Stately; dignified; as lofty steps.

LOG, noun

1. A bulky piece or stick of timer unhewed. Pine logs are floated down rivers in America, and stopped at saw-mills. A piece of timber when hewed or squared, is not called a log unless perhaps in constructing log-huts.

2. In navigation, a machine for measuring the rate of a ship's velocity through the water. The common log is a piece of board, forming the quadrant of a circle of about six inches radius, balanced by a small plate of lead nailed on the circular part, so as to swim perpendicular.

3. [Heb.] A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing, according to some authors, three quarters of a pint; according to others, five sixths of a pint. According to Arbuthnot, it was the seventy second part of the bath or ephab, and the twelfth part of a hin.

LOG, verb intransitive To move to and fro. [Not used.]

LOG'ARITHM, noun [Gr. ratio, and number.]

Logarithms are the exponents of a series of powers and roots.

The logarithm of a number is that exponent of some other number, which renders the power of the latter, denoted by the exponent, equal to the former.

When the logarithms form a series in arithmetical progression, the corresponding natural numbers form a series in geometrical progression. Thus,

Logarithms

0 1 2 3 4 5

Natural numbers, 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000

The addition and subtraction of logarithms answer to the multiplication and division of their natural numbers. In like manner, involution is performed by multiplying the logarithm of any number by the number denoting the required power; and evolution, by dividing the logarithm by the number denoting the required root.

Logarithms are the invention of Baron Napier, lord of Marchiston in Scotland; but the kind now in use, were invented by Henry Briggs, professor of geometry in Gresham college at Oxford. They are extremely useful in abridging the labor of trigonometrical calculations.

LOGARITHMET'IC,

LOGARITHMET'ICAL,

LOGARITH'MIC, adjective Pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

LOGARITHMET'ICAL,

LOGARITH'MIC, a. Pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

LOG'GATS, noun The name of a play or game, the same as is now called kittle-pins. It was prohibited by Statute 33, Henry VIII. [Not in use.]

LOG'GERHEAD, noun [log and head.]

1. A blockhead; a dunce; a dolt; a thick-skull.

2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle; used to heat tar.

To fall to loggerheads,

To go to loggerheads, to come to blows; to fall to fighting without weapons.

LOG'GERHEADED, adjective Dull; stupid; doltish.

LOG'IC, noun [Latin id; Gr. from reason, to speak.]

The art of thinking and reasoning justly.

Logic is the art of using reason well in our inquiries after truth, and the communication of it to others.

Logic may be defined, the science or history of the human mind, as it traces the progress of our knowledge from our first conceptions through their different combinations, and the numerous deductions that result from comparing them with one another.

Correct reasoning implies correct thinking and legitimate inferences from premises, which are principles assumed or admitted to be just. logic then includes the art of thinking, as well as the art of reasoning.

The purpose of logic is to direct the intellectual powers in the investigation of truth, and in the communication of it to others.

LOG'ICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to logic; used in logic; as logical subtitles.

2. According to the rules of logic; as a logical argument or inference. This reasoning is strictly logical

3. Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; discriminating; as a logical head.

LOG'ICALLY, adverb According to the rules of logic; as, to argue logically

LOGI'CIAN, noun A person skilled in logic, or the art of reasoning.

Each fierce logician still expelling Locke.

LOGIS'TIC, adjective Relating to sexagesimal fractions.

LOG'MAN, noun

1. A man who carries logs.

2. One whose occupation is to cut and convey logs to a mill. [Local.]

LOGOGRAPH'IC,

LOGOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to logography.

LOGOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to logography.

LOGOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a word, and to write.]

A method of printing, in which a type represents a word, instead of forming a letter.

LOG'OGRIPHE, noun [Gr.] A sort of riddle. obsolete

LOGOM'ACHIST, noun One who contends about words.

LOGOM'ACHY, noun [Gr. word, and contest, altercation.]

Contention in words merely, or rather a contention about words; a war of words.

LOGOMET'RIC, adjective [Gr. ratio, and to measure.]

A logometric scale is intended to measure or ascertain chimical equivalents.

LOG'WOOD, noun A species of tree and wood, called also Campeachy-wood, from the bay of Campeachy in Spanish America, of the genus Haematoxylon, of which there is one species only. This tree has a crooked, deformed stem, growing to the height of 20 or 24 feet, with crooked irregular branches, armed with strong thorns. The wood is of a firm texture and a red color. It is much used in dyeing.

LO'HOCH,

LO'HOCK, noun A medicine of a middle consistence between a soft electuary and a syrup. [See Loch.]

LOIN, noun [Latin clumis.]

The loins are the space on each side of the vertebrae, between the lowest of the false ribs and the upper portion of the os ilium or haunch bone, or the lateral portions of the lumbar region; called also the reins.

LOIT'ER, verb intransitive

To linger; to be slow in moving; to delay; to be dilatory; to spend time idly.

If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.

LOIT'ERER, noun A lingerer; one that delays or is slow in motion; an idler; one that is sluggish or dilatory.

Ever listless loiterers, that attend no cause, no trust, no duty and no friend.

LOIT'ERING, participle present tense Lingering; delaying; moving slowly.

LOKE, noun [Gr. darkness.]

1. In the Scandinavian mythology, the evil deity, the author of all calamities; answering to the Arimanes of the Persians.

2. A close narrow lane. [Local.]

LOLL, verb intransitive [The sense of this word is to throw, to send. Hence it coincides with the Gr..]

1. To recline; to lean; properly, to throw one's self down; hence, to lie at ease.

Void of care he lolls supine in state.

2. To suffer the tongue to hang extended from the mouth, as an ox or a dog when heated with labor or exertion.

The triple porter of the Stygian seat, with lolling tongue lay fawning at his feet.

LOLL, verb transitive To thrust out, as the tongue.

Fierce tigers couched around, and lolled their tongues.

LOLL'ARD, noun

The Lollards were a sect of early reformers in Germany and England, the followers of Wickliffe.

LOLL'ARDY, noun The doctrines of the Lollards.

LOLL'ING, participle present tense Throwing down or out; reclining at ease; thrusting out the tongue.

LOMBARD'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Lombards; an epithet applied to one of the ancient alphabets derived from the Roman, and relating to the manuscripts of Italy.

LO'MENT, noun [Latin lomentum.] An elongated pericarp, which never bursts. It consists, like the legume, of two valves, with the seeds attached to the under suture, but is divided into small cells, each containing a single seed.

LOMENTA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin lomentum, bean meal, a color.]

Furnished with a loment. The lomentaceae are a natural order of plants, many of which furnish beautiful tinctures or dyes, and whose seeds are contained in a loment or legume.

LOM'ONITE, noun Laumonite, or di-prismatic zeolite.

LOMP, noun A kind of roundish fish.

LON'DONISM, noun A mode of speaking peculiar to London.

LONE, adjective

1. Solitary; retired; unfrequented; having no company.

And leave you in lone woods or empty walls.

2. Single; standing by itself; not having others in the neighborhood; as a lone house.

3. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

LONE, noun A lane. [Local.]

LO'NELINESS, noun

1. Solitude; retirement; seclusion from company. He was weary of the loneliness of his habitation.

2. Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.

I see the mystery of your loneliness

LO'NELY, adjective

1. Solitary; retired; sequestered from company or neighbors; as a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

2. Solitary; as the lonely traveler.

3. Addicted to solitude or seclusion from company.

LO'NENESS, noun Solitude; seclusion.

LO'NESOME, adjective Solitary; secluded from society.

How horrid will these lonesome seats appear!

LO'NESOMENESS, noun The state of being solitary; solitude.

LONG, adjective [Latin longus.]

1. Extended; drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; opposed to short, and contradistinguished from broad or wide. long is a relative term; for a thing may be long in respect to one thing, and short with respect to another. We apply long to things greatly extended, and to things which exceed the common measure. we say, a long way, a long distance, a long line, and long hair, long arms. By the latter terms, we mean hair and arms exceeding the usual length.

2. Drawn out or extended in time; as a long time; a long period of time; a long while; a long series of events; a long sickness or confinement; a long session; a long debate.

3. Extended to any certain measure expressed; as a span long; a yard long; a mile long that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.

4. Dilatory; continuing for an extended time.

5. Tedious; continued to a great length.

A tale should never be too long

6. Continued in a series to a great extent; as a long succession of princes; a long line of ancestors.

7. Continued in sound; protracted; as a long note; a long syllable.

8. Continued; lingering or longing.

Praying for him, and casting a long look that way, he saw the galley leave the pursuit.

9. Extensive; extending far in prospect or into futurity.

The perennial existence of bodies corporate and their fortunes, are things particularly suited to a man who has long views.

LONG home, the grave or death. Ecclesiastes 12:5.

LONG, noun Formerly, a musical note equal to two breves. obsolete

LONG, adverb

1. To a great extent in space; as a long extended line.

2. To a great extent in time; as, they that tarry long at the wine. Proverbs 23:17.

When the trumpet soundeth long Exodus 19:13.

So in composition we say, long-expected, long-forgot.

3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the conquest of Gaul by Julius Cesar.

4. Through the whole extent or duration of.

The God who fed me all my life long to this day. Genesis 48:15.

The bird of dawning singeth all night long

LONG, adverb

By means of; by the fault of; owing to. obsolete

Mistress, all this evil is long of you.

LONG, verb transitive To belong. [Not used.]

LONG, verb intransitive

1. To desire earnestly or eagerly.

I long to see you. Romans 1:11.

I have longed after thy precepts. Psalms 119:40.

I have longed for thy salvation. Psalms 119:40.

2. To have a preternatural craving appetite; as a longing woman.

3. To have an eager appetite; as, to long for fruit.

LONGANIM'ITY, noun [Latin longanimitas; longus, long, and animus, mind.]

Forbearance; patience; disposition to endure long under offenses.

LONG'BOAT, noun The largest and strongest boat belonging to a ship.

LON'GER, adjective [comparative of long.] More long; of greater length; as a longer course.

LON'GER, adverb For a greater duration. This evil can be endured no longer

LON'GEST, adjective Of the greatest extent; as the longest line.

LON'GEST, adverb For the greatest continuance of time. They who live longest are most convinced of the vanity of life.

LONGE'VAL, adjective [Latin longus and avum.] Long lived.

LONGEV'ITY, noun [Latin longavitas; longus, long, and avum, age.]

Length or duration of life; more generally, great length of life.

The instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious.

LONGE'VOUS, adjective [Latin longavus, supra.] Living a long time; of great age.

LONGIM'ANOUS, adjective [Latin longus, long, and manus, hand.] Having long hands.

LONGIM'ETRY, noun [Latin longus, long, and Gr. measure.]

The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths, whether accessible or inaccessible.

LONG'ING, participle present tense Earnestly desiring; having a craving or preternatural appetite.

LONG'ING, noun An eager desire; a craving or preternatural appetite.

LONG'INGLY, adverb With eager wishes or appetite.

LONGIN'QUITY, noun [Latin longinquitas.] Great distance.

LONG'ISH, adjective Somewhat long; moderately long.

LON'GITUDE, noun [Latin longitudo, from longus, long.]

1. Properly length; as the longitude of a room; but in this sense not now used. Appropriately, in geography,

2. The distance of any place on the globe from another place, eastward or westward; or the distance of any place from a given meridian. Boston, in Massachusetts, is situated in the 71st degree of longitude west from Greenwich. To be able to ascertain precisely the longitude of a ship at sea, is a great desideratum in navigation.

3. The longitude of a star, is its distance from the equinoctial points, or the beginning of Aries or Libra.

LONGITU'DINAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to longitude or length; as longitudinal distance.

2. Extending in length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse or across; as the longitudinal diameter of a body. The longitudinal suture of the head runs between the coronal and lamdoidal sutures.

LONGITU'DINALLY, adverb In the direction of length.

Some of the fibers of the human body are placed longitudinally others transversely.

LONG'LEGGED, adjective Having long legs.

LONG'LIVED, adjective Having along life or existence; living long; lasting long.

LONG'LY, adverb With longing desire. [Not used.]

LONG'NESS, noun Length. [Little used.]

LONG'PRIM'ER, noun A printing type of a particular size, between small pica and bourgeois.

LONG'SHANKED, adjective Having long legs.

LONG'SOME, adjective Extended in length; tiresome; tedious; as a longsome plain. obsolete

LONG'SPUN, adjective Spun or extended to a great length.

LONG'SUF'FERING, adjective Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.

The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness. Exodus 34:6.

LONGWAYS, a mistake for longwise.

LO'NISH, adjective Somewhat solitary. [Not used and inelegant.]

LOO, noun A game at cards.

LOOB'ILY, adverb [See Looby.] Like a looby; in an awkward, clumsy manner.

LOOB'Y, noun An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.

Who could give the looby such airs?

LOOF, noun The after part of a ship's bow, or the part where the planks begin to be incurvated, as they approach the stem.

LOOF. [See Luff, which is the word used.]

LOOF'ED, adjective [See Aloof.] Gone to a distance. [Not used.]

LOOK, verb intransitive [See Light. The primary sense is to stretch, to extend, to shoot, hence to direct the eye. We observe its primary sense is nearly the same as that of seek. Hence, to look for is to seek.]

1. To direct the eye towards an object, with the intention of seeing it.

When the object is within sight, look is usually followed by on or at. We look on or at a picture; we look on or at the moon; we cannot look on or at the unclouded sun, without pain.

At, after look is not used in our version of the Scriptures. In common usage, at or on is now used indifferently in many cases, and yet in other cases, usage has established a preference. In general, on is used in the more solemn forms of expression. Moses was afraid to look on God. The Lord look on you and judge. In these and similar phrases, the use of at would be condemned, as expressing too little solemnity.

In some cases, at seems to be more properly used before very distant objects; but the cases can hardly be defined.

The particular direction of the eye is expressed by various modifying words; as, to look down, to look up, to look back to look forward, to look from, to look round, to look out, to look under. When the object is not in sight, look is followed by after, or for. Hence, to look after, or look for, is equivalent to seek or search, or to expect.

2. To see; to have the sight or view of.

Fate sees thy life lodged in a brittle glass, and looks it through, but to it cannot pass.

3. To direct the intellectual eye; to apply the mind or understanding; to consider; to examine. look at the conduct of this man; view it in all its aspects. Let every man look into the state of his own heart. Let us look beyond the received notions of men on this subject.

4. To expect.

He must look to fight another battle, before he could reach Oxford. [Little used.

5. To take care; to watch.

LOOK that ye bind them fast.

6. To be directed.

Let thine eyes look right on. Proverbs 4:25.

7. To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance. The patient looks better than he did. The clouds look rainy.

I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.

Observe how such a practice looks in another person.

So we say, to look stout or big; to look peevish; to look pleasant or graceful.

8. To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.

The gate that looketh toward the north. Ezekiel 8:3.

The east gate of the Lord's house, that looketh eastward. Ezekiel 11:1.

To look about, to look on all sides, or in different directions.

To look about one, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded.

1. To look after, to attend; to take care of; as, to look after children.

2. To expect; to be in a state of expectation.

Men's hearts falling them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke 21:28.

3. To seek; to search.

My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place whereunto it has now retreated.

1. To look for, to expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship.

LOOK now for no enchanting voice.

2. To seek; to search; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle.

To look into, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as, to look into the works of nature; to look into the conduct of another; to look into one's affairs.

Which things the angels desire to look into. 1 Peter 1:12.

1. To look on, to regard; to esteem.

Her friends would look on her the worse.

2. To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think.

I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer.

3. To be a mere spectator.

I'll be a candle-holder and look on.

To look over, to examine one by one; as, to look over a catalogue of books; to look over accounts.

To overlook, has a different sense, to pass over without seeing.

To look out, to be on the watch. The seaman looks out for breakers.

1. To look to, or unto, to watch; to take care of.

LOOK well to thy herds. Proverbs 27:23.

2. To resort to with confidence or expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from. The creditor may look to the surety for payment.

LOOK to me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. Isaiah 45:22.

To look through, to penetrate with the eye, or with the understanding; to see or understand perfectly.

LOOK, verb transitive

1. To seek; to search for.

LOOKing my love, I go from place to place. obsolete

2. To influence by looks or presence; as, to look down opposition.

A spirit fit to start into an empire, and look the world to law.

To look out, to search for and discover. look out associates of good reputation.

To look one another in the face, to meet for combat.

2 Kings 14:8.

LOOK, in the imperative, is used to excite attention or notice. look ye, look you; that is see, behold, observe, take notice.

LOOK, noun

1. Cast of countenance; air of the face; aspect; as, a high look is an index of pride; a downcast look is an index of pride; a downcast look indicates modesty, bashfulness, or depression of mind.

Pain, disgrace and poverty have frightful looks.

2. The act of looking or seeing. Every look filled him with anguish.

3. View; watch.

LOOK'ER, noun One who looks.

A looker on, a mere spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or interest in the affair.

LOOL, noun In metallurgy, a vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.

LOOM, noun

1. In composition, heir-loom, in law, is a personal chattel that by special custom descends to an heir with the inheritance, being such a thing as cannot be separated from the estate, without injury to it; such as jewels of the crown, charters, deeds, and the like.

2. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver works threads into cloth.

Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.

3. A fowl of the size of a goose.

4. That part of an oar which is within board.

LOOM, verb intransitive

To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear larger than the real dimensions and indistinctly; as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain. The ship looms large, or the land looms high.

LOOM'ING, participle present tense Appearing above the surface, or indistinctly, at a distance.

LOON, noun

1. A sorry fellow; a rogue; a rascal.

2. A sea-fowl of the genus colymbus.

LOOP, noun

1. A folding or doubling of a string or a noose, through which a lace or cord may be run for fastening.

That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop to hang a doubt on.

2. In iron-works, the part of a row or block of cast iron, melted off for the forge or hammer.

LOOP'ED, adjective Full of holes.

LOOP'HOLE, noun

1. A small aperture in the bulk-head and other parts of a merchant ship, through which small arms are fired at an enemy.

2. A hole or aperture that gives a passage.

3. A passage for escape; means of escape.

LOOP'HOLED, adjective Full of holes or openings for escape.

LOOP'ING, noun In metallurgy, the running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

LOORD, noun A dull stupid fellow; a drone. [Not in use.]

LOOSE, verb transitive loos. [Gr.; Heb.]

1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening.

Canst thou loose the bands of Orion? Job 38:31.

Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to me. Matthew 21:2.

2. To relax.

The joints of his loins were loosed. Daniel 5:6.

3. To release from imprisonment; to liberate; to set at liberty.

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed. Isaiah 51:14.

4. To free from obligation.

Art thou loosed from a wife? see not a wife. 1 Corinthians 7:27.

5. To free from any thing that binds or shackles; as a man loosed from lust and pelf.

6. To relieve; to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive.

Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. Acts 13:13.

7. To disengage; to detach; as, to loose one's hold.

8. To put off.

LOOSE thy shoe from off thy foot. Joshua 5:15.

9. To open.

Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? Revelation 5:2.

10. To remit; to absolve.

Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:19.

LOOSE, verb intransitive To set sail; to leave a port or harbor.

Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga, in Pamphylia. Acts 13:13.

LOOSE, adjective

1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not fastened or confined; as the loose sheets of a book.

2. Not tight or close; as a loose garment.

3. Not crowded; not close or compact.

With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array.

4. Not dense, close or compact; as a cloth or fossil of loose texture.

5. Not close; not concise; lax; as a loose and diffuse style.

6. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose way of reasoning.

7. Not strict or rigid; as a loose observance of rites.

8. Unconnected; rambling; as a loose indigested play.

Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.

9. Of lax bowels.

10. Unengaged; not attached or enslaved.

Their prevailing principle is, to sit as loose from pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can.

11. Disengaged; free from obligation; with from or of.

Now I stand loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thought? [Little used.]

12. Wanton; unrestrained in behavior; dissolute; unchaste; as a loose man or woman.

13. Containing unchaste language; as a loose epistle.

To break loose to escape from confinement; to gain liberty by violence.

To let loose to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.

LOOSE, noun Freedom from restraint; liberty.

Come, give thy soul a loose

Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.

We use this word only in the phrase, give a loose The following use of it, 'he runs with an unbounded loose ' is obsolete.

LOOS'ED, participle passive Untied; unbound; freed from restraint.

LOOSELY, adverb loos'ly.

1. Not fast; not firmly; that may be easily disengaged; as things loosely tied or connected.

2. Without confinement.

Her golden locks for haste were loosely shed about her ears.

3. Without union or connection.

Part loosely wing the region.

4. Irregularly; not with the usual restraints.

A bishop living loosely was charged that his conversation was not according to the apostle's lives.

5. Negligently; carelessly; heedlessly; as a mind loosely employed.

6. Meanly; slightly.

A prince should not be so loosely studied, as to remember so weak a composition.

7. Wantonly; dissolutely; unchastely.

LOOS'EN, verb transitive loos'n. [from loose.]

1. To free from tightness, tension, firmness or fixedness; as, to loosen a string when tied, or a knot; to loosen a joint; to loosen a rock in the earth.

2. To render less dense or compact; as, to loosen the earth about the roots of a tree.

3. To free from restraint.

It loosens his hands and assists his understanding.

4. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase alvine discharges.

Fear looseneth the belly.

LOOS'EN, verb intransitive To become loose; to become less tight, firm or compact.

LOOS'ENED, participle passive Freed from tightness or fixedness; rendered loose.

LOOSENESS, noun loos'ness.

1. The state of being loose or relaxed; a state opposite to that of being tight, fast, fixed or compact; as the looseness of a cord; the looseness of a robe; the looseness of the skin; the looseness of earth, or of the texture of cloth.

2. The state opposite to rigor or rigidness; laxity; levity; as looseness of morals or of principles.

3. Irregularity; habitual deviation from strict rules; as looseness of life.

4. Habitual lewdness; unchastity.

5. Flux from the bowels; diarrhaea.

LOOS'ENING, participle present tense Freeing from tightness, tension or fixedness; rendering less compact.

LOOSESTRIFE, noun loos'strife. In botany, the name of several species of plants, of the genera Lysimachia, Epilobium, Lythrum, and Gaura.

LOOS'ING, participle present tense Setting free from confinement.

LOP, verb transitive [Eng. flap. The primary sense is evidently to fall or fell, or to strike down, and I think it connected with flap.]

1. To cut off, as the top or extreme part of any thing; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; as, to lop a tree or its branches.

With branches lopp'd in wood, or mountain fell'd.

2. To cut off, as exuberances; to separate, as superfluous parts.

Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.

3. to cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop the trees or saplings of a hedge.

4. To let fall; to flap; as, a horse lops his ears.

LOP, noun that which is cut from trees.

Else both body and lop will be of little value.

LOP, noun a flea. [Local.]

LOPE, preterit tense of leap. obsolete

LOPE, noun [See leap.]

A leap; a long step. [A word in popular use in America.]

LOPE, verb intransitive To leap; to move or run with a long step, as a dog.

LO'PING, participle present tense Leaping; moving or running with a long step.

LOP'PED, participle passive cut off; shortened by cutting off the top or end; bent down.

LOP'PER, noun One that lops.

LOP'PING, participle present tense Cutting off; shortening by cutting off the extremity; letting fall.

LOP'PING, noun that which is cut off.

LOQUA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin loquax, from loquor, to speak. Eng. to clack.]

1. Talkative; given to continual talking.

Loquacious, brawling ever in the wrong.

2. Speaking; noisy.

Bling British bards, with volant touch, traverse loquacious strings.

3. Apt to blab and disclose secrets.

LOQUA'CIOUSNESS,

LOQUAC'ITY, noun [Latin loquacitas.] Talkativeness; the habit or practice of talking continually or excessively.

Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits.

LOQUAC'ITY, n. [L. loquacitas.] Talkativeness; the habit or practice of talking continually or excessively.

LORD, noun

1. A master; a person possessing supreme power and authority; a ruler; a governor.

Man over man he made not lord

But now I was the lord of this fair mansion.

2. A tyrant; an oppressive ruler.

3. A husband.

I oft in bitterness of soul deplores my absent daughter, and my dearer lord

My lord also being old. Genesis 18:1.

4. A baron; the proprietor of a manor; as the lord of the manor.

5. A nobleman; a title of honor in Great Britain given to those who are noble by birth or creation; a peer of the realm, including dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons. Archbishops and bishops also, as members of the house of lords, are lords of parliament. Thus we say, lords temporal and spiritual. By courtesy also the title is given to the sons of dukes and marquises, and to the eldest sons of earls.

6. An honorary title bestowed on certain official characters; as lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.

7. In scripture, the Supreme Being; Jehovah. When lord in the Old Testament, is prints in capitals, it is the translation of JEHOVAH, and so might, with more propriety, be rendered. The word is applied to Christ, Psalms 110:1. Colossians 3:16. and to the Holy Spirit, 2 Thessalonians 3:1. As a title of respect, it is applied to kings, Genesis 40:1. 2 Samuel 19:7. to princes and nobles, Gen 42. Daniel 4:19. to a husband, Genesis 18:1. to a prophet, 1 Kings 18:1. 2 Kings 2:1. and to a respectable person, Gen 24. Christ is called the lord of glory, 1 Corinthians 2:8. and lord of lords, Revelation 19:1.

LORD, verb transitive To invest with the dignity and privileges of a lord

LORD, verb intransitive To domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; sometimes followed by over, and sometimes by it, in the manner of a transitive verb.

The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss.

I see them lording it in London streets.

They lorded over them whom now they serve.

LORD'ING, noun A little lord; a lord, in contempt or ridicule. [Little used.]

LORD'LIKE, adjective

1. Becoming a lord.

2. Haughty; proud; insolent.

LORD'LINESS, noun [from lordly.]

1. Dignity; high station.

2. Pride; haughtiness.

LORD'LING, noun A little or diminutive lord.

LORD'LY, adjective [lord and like.]

1. Becoming a lord; pertaining to a lord.

Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.

2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

Every rich and lordly swain, with pride would drag about her chain.

LORD'LY, adverb Proudly; imperiously; despotically.

A famished lion, issuing from the wood, roars lordly fierce.

LORD'SHIP, noun

1. The state of quality of being a lord; hence, a title of honor given to noblemen, except to dukes, who have the title of grace.

2. A titulary compellation of judges and certain other persons in authority and office.

3. Dominion; power; authority.

They who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles, exercise lordship over them. Mark 10:42.

4. Seigniory; domain; the territory of a lord over which he holds jurisdiction; a manor.

What lands and lordships for their owner know my quondam barber.

LORE, noun Learning; doctrine; lesson; instruction.

The law of nations, or the lore of war.

Lo! Rome herself, proud mistress now no more of arts, but thundering against heathen lore

LOR'EL, noun An abandoned scoundrel; a vagrant. obsolete

LO'RESMAN, noun [lore and man.] An instructor. obsolete

LOR'ICATE, verb transitive [Latin lorico, loricatus, from lorica, a coat of mail.]

1. To plate over; to spread over, as a plate for defense.

Nature hath loricated the sides of the tympanum in animals with ear-wax.

2. To cover with a crust, as a chimical vessel, for resisting fire.

LOR'ICATED, participle passive Covered or plated over; encrusted.

LOR'ICATING, participle present tense Covering over with a plate or crust.

LORICA'TION, noun The act or operation of covering any thing with a plate or crust for defense; as the lorication of a chimical vessel, to enable it to resist the action of fire, and sustain a high degree of heat.

LOR'IMER, noun [Latin lorum, a thong.]

A bridle-maker; one that makes bits for bridles, etc. [Not used.]

LO'RING, noun Instructive discourse. obsolete

LO'RIOT, noun A bird called witwal; the oriole.

LO'RIS, noun A small quadruped of Ceylon.

LORN, adjective [See Forlorn.] Lost; forsaken; lonely.

LO'RY, noun A subordinate genus of fowls of the parrot kind, forming the link between the parrot and parakeet.

LOSABLE, adjective That may be lost. [Little used.]

LOSE, verb transitive looz. preterit tense and participle passive lost.

1. To mislay; to part or be separated from a thing, so as to have no knowledge of the place where it is; as, to lose a book or a paper; to lose a record; to lose a dollar or a ducat.

2. To forfeit by unsuccessful contest; as, to lose money in gaming.

3. Not to gain or win; as, to lose a battle, that is, to be defeated.

4. To be deprived of; as, to lose men in battle; to lose an arm or leg by a shot or by amputation; to lose one's life or honor.

5. To forfeit, as a penalty. Our first parents lost the favor of God by their apostasy.

6. To suffer diminution or waste of.

If the salt hath lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? Matthew 5:1.

7. To ruin; to destroy.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

8. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; as, to lose the way.

9. To bewilder.

Lost in the maze of words.

10. To possess no longer; to be deprived of; contrary to keep; as, to lose a valuable trade.

11. Not to employ or enjoy; to waste. Titus sighed to lose a day.

Th' unhappy have but hours, but these they lose

12. To waste; to squander; to throw away; as, to lose a fortune by gaming, or by dissipation.

13. To suffer to vanish from view or perception. We lost sight of the land at noon. I lost my companion in the crowd.

Like following life in creatures we dissect, we lost it in the moment we detect.

14. To ruin; to destroy by shipwreck, etc. the albion was lost on the coast of Ireland, april 22, 1822. the admiral lost three ships in a tempest.

15. To cause to perish; as, to be lost at sea.

16. to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste. Instruction is often lost on the dull; admonition is lost on the profligate. It is often the fate of projectors to lose their labor.

17. to be freed from.

His scaly back the bunch has got which Edwin lost before.

18. to fail to obtain.

He shall in no wise lose his reward. Matthew 5:1.

to lose one's self, to be bewildered; also, to slumber; to have the memory and reason suspended.

LOSE, verb intransitive looz.

1. To forfeit any thing in contest; not to win.

We'll talk with them too, who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out.

2. To decline; to fail.

Wisdom in discourse with her loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.

LOS'EL, noun s as z. [from the root of loose.] a wasteful fellow, one who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person. obsolete

LOS'ENGER, noun a deceiver. obsolete

LOSER, noun looz'er. One that loses, or that is deprived of any thing by defeat, forfeiture or the like; the contrary to winner or gainer. A loser by trade may be honest and moral; this cannot be said of a loser by gaming.

LOS'ING, participle present tense looz'ing. Parting from; missing; forfeiting; wasting; employing to no good purpose.

LOSS, noun

1. privation, as the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. every loss is not a detriment. we cannot regret the loss of bad company or of evil habits.

2. Destruction; ruin; as the loss of a ship at sea; the loss of an army.

3. Defeat; as the loss of a battle.

4. Waste; useless application; as a loss of time or labor.

5. Waste by leakage or escape; as a loss of liquors in transportation.

To bear a loss to make good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it.

To be at a loss to be puzzled; to be unable to determine; to be in a state of uncertainty.

LOSS'FUL, adjective Detrimental. [Not used.

LOSS'LESS, adjective Free from loss. [Not used.]

LOST, participle passive [from lose.]

1. Mislaid or left in a place unknown or forgotten; that cannot be found; as a lost book.

2. Ruined; destroyed; wasted or squandered; employed to no good purpose; as lost money; lost time.

3. Forfeited; as a lost estate.

4. Not able to find the right way, or the place intended. A stranger is lost in London or Paris.

5. Bewildered; perplexed; being in a maze; as, a speaker may be lost in his argument.

6. Alienated; insensible; hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; as a profligate lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

7. Not perceptible to the senses; not visible; as an isle lost in fog; a person lost in a crowd.

8. Shipwrecked or foundered; sunk or destroyed; as a ship lost at sea, or on the rocks.

LOT, noun

1. That which, in human speech, is called chance, hazard, fortune; but in strictness of language, is the determination of Providence; as, the land shall be divided by lot Numbers 26:55.

2. That by which the fate or portion of one is determined; that by which an event is committed to chance, that is, to the determination of Providence; as, to cast lots; to draw lots.

The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Proverbs 16:33.

3. The part, division or fate which falls to one by chance, that is, by divine determination.

The second lot came forth to Simeon. Joshua 19:1.

He was but born to try the lot of man, to suffer and to die.

4. A distinct portion or parcel; as a lot of goods; a lot of boards.

5. Proportion or share of taxes; as, to pay scot and lot

6. In the United States, a piece or division of land; perhaps originally assigned by drawing lots, but now any portion, piece or division. So we say, a man has a lot of land in Broadway, or in the meadow; he has a lot in the plain, or on the mountain; he has a home-lot, a house-lot, a wood-lot.

The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York.

To cast lots, is to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined.

To draw lots, to determine an event by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer, and thus determining an event.

LOT, verb transitive To allot; to assign; to distribute; to sort; to catalogue; to portion.

LOTE, noun [Latin lotus, lotos.]

1. A plant of the genus Celtis, the lote-tree, of several species. The wood of one species is very durable, and is used for timber. In Italy, flutes and other wind-instruments are made of it, and in England it is used for the frames of coaches, etc.

2. A little fish.

LOTH, adjective

1. Literally, hating, detesting; hence,

2. Unwilling; disliking; not inclined; reluctant.

Long doth he stay, as loth to leave the land.

To pardon willing, and to punish loth.

LOTHE, verb transitive [See Lade.]

1. To feel disgust at any thing; properly, to have an extreme aversion of the appetite to food or drink.

Our soul lotheth this light bread. Numbers 21:1.

Lothing the honey'd cakes, I long'd for bread.

2. To hate; to dislike greatly; to abhor.

Ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils - Ezekiel 20:1.

Not to reveal the secret which I lothe.

LOTHE, verb intransitive To create disgust. obsolete

LOTH, adjective [In America, the primitive pronunciation of lath, that is, lawth, is retained in the adjective, which is written loth The verb would be better written lothe, in analogy with cloth, clothe. See loth ]

Disliking; unwilling; reluctant. He was loth to leave the company. [See loth ]

LOTHE, verb transitive To hate; to look on with hatred or abhorrence; particularly, to feel disgust at food or drink, either from natural antipathy, or a sickly appetite, or from satiety, or from its ill taste. [See lothe ]

LO'THED, participle passive Hatred; abhorred; turned from with disgust.

LO'THER, noun One that lothes or abhors.

LO'THFUL, adjective

1. Hating; abhorring.

Which he did with lothful eyes behold.

2. Disgusting; hated; exciting abhorrence.

Above the reach of lothful sinful lust.

LO'THING, participle present tense

1. Feeling disgust at; having extreme aversion to; as lothing food.

2. Hating; abhorring; as lothing sin.

LO'THING, noun Extreme disgust; abhorrence. Ezekiel 16:5.

LO'THINGLY, adverb With extreme disgust or abhorrence; in a fastidious manner.

LOTH'LY, adverb Unwillingly; reluctantly.

This shows that you from nature lothly stray.

LOTH'NESS, noun Unwillingness; reluctance.

There grew among them a general silence and lothness to speak.

LO'THSOME, adjective

1. Causing an extreme aversion of appetite; exciting fastidiousness. Numbers 11:1.

2. Exciting extreme disgust; offensive; as a lothsome disease. Psalms 38:1.

3. Odious; exciting hatred or abhorrence; detestable; as lothsome sloth.

LO'THSOMENESS, noun the quality of exciting extreme disgust or abhorrence.

LO'TION, noun [Latin lotio, from lavo, to wash.]

1. A washing; particularly, a washing of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.

2. A liquid preparation for washing some part of the body, to cleanse it of fourlness or deformity.

3. In pharmacy, a preparation of medicines, by washing them in some liquid, to remove foreign substances, impurities, etc.

LOT'TERY, noun [See Lot.]

1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance, or the distribution itself. Lotteries are often authorized by law, but many good men deem them immoral in principle, and almost all men concur in the opinion that their effects are pernicious.

2. Allotment. [Not used.]

LOUD, adjective [Latin laudo, to praise, and with a prefix, plaudo. Heb.]

1. Having a great sound; high sounding; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as a loud voice; a loud cry; loud thunder.

2. Uttering or making a great noise; as loud instruments. 2 Chronicles 30:21.

3. Clamorous; noisy.

She is loud and stubborn. Proverbs 7:11.

4. Emphatical; impressive; as a loud call to avoid danger.

LOUD'LY, adverb

1. With great sound or noise; noisily.

Who long and loudly in the schools declaimed.

2. Clamorously; with vehement complaints or importunity. He loudly complained of intolerance.

LOUD'NESS, noun

1. Great sound or noise; as the loudness of a voice or of thunder.

2. Clamor; clamorousness; turbulence; uproar.

LOUGH, noun lok. a lake; a different orthography of loch and lake.

LOUIS D'OR, noun [a Lewis of gold.] A gold coin of France, first struck in 1640, in the reign of Louis XIII., value, twenty shillings sterling, equal to $4, 4444.

LOUNGE, verb intransitive to live in idleness; to spend time lazily.

LOUNG'ER, noun An idler; one who loiters away his time in indolence.

LOUR. [See Lower.]

LOUSE, noun lous. plural lice.

A small insect of the genus Pediculus. It has six feet, two eyes, with long feelers and a sting in the mouth. It infests the bodies of men and other animals; but different animals are infested with different species.

LOUSE, verb transitive louz. To clean from lice.

LOUS'ILY, adverb s as z. [from lousy.] In a mean, paltry manner; scurvily.

LOUS'INESS, noun s as z. The state of abounding with lice.

LOUS'Y, adjective s as z. [louse.]

1. Swarming with lice; infested with lice.

2. Mean; low; contemptible; as a lousy knave.

LOUT, noun A mean awkward fellow; a bumpkin; a clown.

LOUT, verb intransitive To end; to bow; to stoop. [Obsolete or local.]

LOUT'ISH, adjective Clownish; rude; awkward.

LOUT'ISHLY, adverb Like a clown; in a rude, clumsy, awkward manner.

LOUVER, noun loo'ver. An opening in the roof of a cottage for the smoke to escape.

LOV'ABLE, adjective Worthy of love; amiable.

LOV'AGE, noun A plant of the genus Ligusticum.

LOVE, verb transitive luv. [Latin libeo, lubeo. See Lief. The sense is probably to be prompt, free, willing, from leaning, advancing, or drawing forward.]

1. In a general sense to be pleased with; to regard with affection, on account of some qualities which excite pleasing sensations or desire of gratification. We love a friend, on account of some qualities which give us pleasure in his society. We love a man who has done us a favor; in which case, gratitude enters into the composition of our affection. We love our parents and our children, on account of their connection with us, and on account of many qualities which please us. We love to retire to a cool shade in summer. We love a warm room in winter. we love to hear an eloquent advocate. The christian loves his Bible. In short, we love whatever gives us pleasure and delight, whether animal or intellectual; and if our hearts are right, we love God above all things, as the sum of all excellence and all the attributes which can communicate happiness to intelligent beings. In other words, the christian loves God with the love of complacency in his attributes, the love of benevolence towards the interest of his kingdom, and the love of gratitude for favors received.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind -

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Matthew 22:37.

2. To have benevolence or good will for. John 3:16.

LOVE, noun

1. An affection of the mind excited by beauty and worth of any kind, or by the qualities of an object which communicate pleasure, sensual or intellectual. It is opposed to hatred. love between the sexes, is a compound affection, consisting of esteem, benevolence, and animal desire. love is excited by pleasing qualities of any kind, as by kindness, benevolence, charity, and by the qualities which render social intercourse agreeable. In the latter case, love is ardent friendship, or a strong attachment springing from good will and esteem, and the pleasure derived from the company, civilities and kindness of others.

Between certain natural relatives, love seems to be in some cases instinctive. Such is the love of a mother for her child, which manifests itself toward an infant, before any particular qualities in the child are unfolded. This affection is apparently as strong in irrational animals as in human beings.

We speak of the love of amusements, the love of books, the love of money, and the love of whatever contributes to our pleasure or supposed profit.

The love of God is the first duty of man, and this springs from just views of his attributes or excellencies of character, which afford the highest delight to the sanctified heart. Esteem and reverence constitute ingredients in this affection, and a fear of offending him is its inseparable effect.

2. Courtship; chiefly in the phrase, to make love that is, to court; to woo; to solicit union in marriage.

3. Patriotism; the attachment one has to his native land; as the love of country.

4. Benevolence; good will.

God is love 1 John 4:7.

5. The object beloved.

The lover and the love of human kind.

6. A word of endearment.

Trust me, love

7. Picturesque representation of love

Such was his form as painters, when they show their utmost art, on naked loves bestow.

8. Lewdness.

He is not lolling on a lewd love-bed.

9. A thin silk stuff. obsolete

LOVE in idleness, a kind of violet.

Free of love a plant of the genus Cercis.

LOVE'APPLE, noun A plant of the genus Solanum.

LOVED, participle passive Having the affection of any one.

LOVELESS, adjective Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.

LOVELILY, adverb luv'lily. [from lovely.] Amiably; in a manner to excite love.

LOVELINESS, noun luv'liness. [from lovely.]

Amiableness; qualities of body or mind that may excite love.

If there is such a native loveliness in the sex, as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth.

LOVELY, adjective luv'ly. Amiable; that may excite love; possessing qualities which may invite affection.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives - 2 Samuel 1:23.

LOV'ER, noun

1. One who loves; one who has a tender affection, particularly for a female.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see -

2. A friend; one who regards with kindness.

Your brother and his lover have embraced.

3. One who likes or is pleased with any thing; as a lover of books or of science; a lover of wine; a lover of religion.

Lover and loover. [See Louver.]

LOVESOME, adjective Lovely. [Not used.]

LOVING, participle present tense

1. Entertaining a strong affection for; having tender regard for.

2. adjective Fond; affectionate; as a loving friend.

3. Expressing love or kindness; as loving words.

LOVINGLY, adverb With love; with affection; affectionately.

It is no great matter to live lovingly with meek persons.

LOVINGNESS, noun Affection; kind regard.

The only two bands of good will, loveliness and lovingness

LOW, adjective

1. Not high or elevated; depressed below any given surface or place. low ground or land, is land below the common level. low is opposed to high, and both are relative terms. That which is low with respect to one thing, may be high with respect to another. A low house would be a high fence. A low flight for an eagle, would be a high flight for a partridge.

2. Not rising to the usual height; as a man of low stature.

3. Declining near the horizon. The sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and at six in summer.

4. Deep; descending far below the adjacent ground; as a low valley.

The lowest bottom shook of Erebus.

5. Sunk to the natural level of the ocean by the retiring of the tide; as low water.

6. Below the usual rate or amount, or below the ordinary value; as a low price of corn; low wages.

7. Not high or loud; as a low voice.

8. Grave; depressed in the scale of sounds; as a low note.

9. Near or not very distant from the equator; as a low latitude. We say, the low southern latitudes; the high northern latitudes.

10. Late in time; modern as the lower empire.

11. Dejected; depressed in vigor; wanting strength or animation; as low spirits; low in spirits. His courage is low

12. Depressed in condition; in a humble state.

Why but to keep you low and ignorant?

13. Humble in rank; in a mean condition; as men of high and low condition; the lower walks of life; a low class of people.

14. Mean; abject; groveling; base; as a person of low mind.

15. Dishonorable; mean; as a low trick or stratagem.

16. Not elevated or sublime; not exalted in thought or diction; as a low comparison; a low metaphor; low language.

In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull.

17. Vulgar; common; as a low education.

18. Submissive; humble; reverent.

And pay their fealty with low subjection.

But first low reverence done.

19. Weak; exhausted of vital energy. His disease has brought him very low

20. Feeble; weak; without force; as a low pulse.

21. Moderate; not inflammatory; as a low fever.

22. Moderate; not intense; as a low heat; a low temperature.

23. Impoverished; in reduced circumstances. The rich are often reduced to a low condition.

24. Moderate; as a low calculation or estimate.

25. Plain; simple; not rich, high seasoned or nourishing; as a low diet.

LOW, adverb

1. Not aloft; not on high; often in composition; as low-brow'd rocks.

2. Under the usual price; at a moderate price. He sold his wheat low

3. Near the ground; as, the bird flies very low

4. In a mean condition; in composition; as a low-born fellow; a low-born lass.

5. In time approaching our own.

In the part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds.

6. With a depressed voice; not loudly; as, speak low

7. In a state of subjection, poverty or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want or by vice.

LOW, verb transitive To sink; to depress. [Not used.]

LOW, verb intransitive [Latin lugeo, to weep, the sense of which is, to cry out.]

To bellow, as an ox or cow.

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.

LOWBELL, noun

A kind of fowling in the night, in which the birds are wakened by a bell, and blinded by light, so as to be easily taken.

LOWBELL, verb transitive To scare, as with a lowbell

LOWE, A termination of names, as in Bed-low.

LOWER, verb transitive [from low.]

1. To cause to descend; to let down; to take or bring down; as, to lower the main-sail of a sloop.

2. To suffer to sink downwards.

3. To bring down; to reduce or humble; as, to lower the pride of man.

4. To lessen; to diminish; to reduce, as value or amount; as, to lower the price or value of goods, or the rate of interest.

LOWER, verb intransitive To fall; to sink; to grow less.

LOW'ER, verb intransitive

1. To appear dark or gloomy; to be clouded; to threaten a storm.

And all the clouds that lowered upon your house.

The lowering spring.

2. To frown; to look sullen.

But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.

LOW'ER, noun

1. Cloudiness; gloominess.

2. A frowning; sullenness.

LOWER, adjective [comparative of low.] Less high or elevated.

LOW'ERINGLY, adverb with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

LOWERMOST, adjective [from low.] Lowest.

LOW'ERY, adjective cloudy; gloomy.

LOWEST, adjective [superlative of low.] Most low; deepest; most depressed or degraded, etc.

LOWING, participle present tense Bellowing, as an ox.

LOWING, noun the bellowing or cry of cattle.

LOWLAND, noun land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country. Thus the Belgic states are called Lowlands. The word is sometimes opposed to a mountainous country; as the Lowlands of Scotland. sometimes it denotes a marsh.

LOWLIHOOD, noun a humble state. obsolete

LOWLINESS, noun [from lowly.]

1. Freedom from pride; humility; humbleness of mind.

Walk - with all lowliness and meekness. Ephesians 4:2. Philippians 2:3.

2. Meanness; want of dignity; abject state. [In this sense little used.]

LOWLY, adjective [low and like.]

1. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lovly in heart. Matthew 11:29.

He scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace to the lowly Proverbs 3:34.

2. Mean; low; wanting dignity or rank.

One common right the great and lowly claim.

3. Not lofty or sublime; humble.

these rural poems, and their lowly strain.

4. Not high; not elevated in place.

LOWLY, adverb

1. Humbly; meekly; modestly.

Belowly wise.

2. Meanly; in a low condition; without grandeur or dignity.

I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught.

LOWN, noun [See Loon. a low fellow; a scoundrel.

LOWNESS, noun

1. The state of being low or depressed; the state of being less elevated than something else; as the lowness of the ground, or of the water after the ebb-tide.

2. Meanness of condition. Men are not to be despised or oppressed on account of the lowness of their birth or condition.

3. Meanness of mind or character; want of dignity. haughtiness usually springs from lowness of mind; real dignity is distinguished by modesty.

4. Want of sublimity in style or sentiment; the contrary to loftiness.

5. Submissiveness; as the lowness of obedience.

6. Depression of mind; want of courage or fortitude; dejection; as lowness of spirits.

7. Depression in fortune; a state of poverty; as the lowness of circumstances.

8. Depression in strength or intensity; as the lowness of heat or temperature; lowness of zeal.

9. Depression in price or worth; as the lowness of price or value; the lowness of the funds or of the markets.

10. Graveness of sound; as the lowness of notes.

11. Softness of sound; as the lowness of the voice.

LOXODROM'IC, adjective [Gr. oblique, and a course.]

Pertaining to oblique sailing by the rhomb; as loxodromic tables.

LOXODROM'ICS, noun The art of oblique sailing by the rhomb, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; that is, when a ship sails neither directly under the equator, nor under the same meridian, but obliquely.

LOY'AL, adjective [Latin lex, law.]

Faithful to a prince or superior; true to plighted faith, duty or love; not treacherous; used of subjects to their prince, and of husband, wife and lovers; as a loyal subject; a loyal wife.

There Laodamia with Evadne moves, unhappy both! but loyal in their loves.

LOY'ALIST, noun A person who adheres to his sovereign; particularly, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.

LOY'ALLY, adverb With fidelity to a prince or sovereign, or to a husband or lover.

LOY'ALTY, noun Fidelity to a prince or sovereign, or to a husband or lover.

He had such loyalty to the king as the law requires.

LOZ'ENGE, noun [Gr. oblique, and a corner.]

1. Originally, a figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.

2. In heraldry, a four-cornered figure, resembling a pane of glass in old casements.

3. Among jewelers, lozenges are common to brilliants and rose diamonds. In brilliants, they are formed by the meeting of the skill and the star facets on the bezil; in the latter, by the meeting of the facets in the horizontal ribs of the crown.

4. A form of medicine in small pieces, to be chewed or held in the mouth till melted.

5. In confectionary, a small cake of preserved fruit, or of sugar, etc.

LOZ'ENGED, adjective Made into the shape of lozenges.

LOZ'ENGY, adjective In heraldry, having the field or charge covered with lozenges.