LY, a termination of adjectives, is a contraction of Sax.lie, G.lich, D.lyk, Dan.lige, Sw.lik, Eng.like; as in lovely, manly, that is, love-like, man-like. As the termination of names, ly signifies field or plain, Sax. leag, Eng. lay, lea or ley, Latin locus.
LY'AM, noun A leash for holding a hound.
LYCAN'THROPY, noun [Gr. a wolf, and man.]
A kind of erratic melancholy.
LYCOS'TOM, noun A Baltic fish resembling a herring.
LYD'IAN, adjective [from Lydia.]
Noting a kind of soft slow music anciently in vogue.
Lydian stone, flinty slate.
LYE, noun [Latin lix, whence lixivium; Ant. Latin lixa, whence Lugdunum, Leyden, Lyons, that is Water-town.]
Water impregnated with alkaline salt imbibed from the ashes of wood.
LYE, noun A falsehod. [See Lie.]
LY'ING, participle present tense of lie. Being prostrate. [See Lie.]
LY'ING, participle present tense of lie. Telling falsehood.
Lying in, being in childbirth.
1. noun The act of bearing a child.
LYM'NITE, noun A kind of freshwater snail, found fossil.
LYMPH, noun [Latin lympha.] Water, or a colorless fluid in animal bodies, separated from the blood and contained in certain vessels called lymphatics.
LYMPH'ATE
LYMPH'ATED, adjective Frightened into madness; raving.
LYMPHAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to lymph.
1. Enthusiastic. [Not used.]
LYMPHAT'IC, noun A vessel of animal bodies which contains or conveys lymph.
The lymphatics seem to perform the whole business of absorption.
1. A mad enthusiast; a lunatic. [Not used.]
LYMPH'EDUCT, noun [Latin lympha, lymph, and ductus, a duct.]
A vessel of animal bodies which conveys the lymph.
LYMPHOG'RAPHY, noun [Latin lympha, lymph; Gr. to describe.]
A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.
LYNX, noun [Latin lynx ] A quadruped of the genus Felis, resembling the common cat, but his ears are longer and his tail shorter. His hair is streaked with yellow, white and black colors. His air is sprightly; he howls like the wolf, and walks and leaps like a cat. This animal is celebrated for the sharpness of his sight.
LY'RATE
LY'RATED, adjective [from lyre.] In botany, divided transversely into several jags, the lower ones smaller and more remote from each other than the upper ones; as a lyrate leaf.
LY'RATED, a. [from lyre.] In botany, divided transversely into several jags, the lower ones smaller and more remote from each other than the upper ones; as a lyrate leaf.
LYRE, noun [Latin lyra.] A stringed instrument of music, a kind of harp much used by the ancients.
LYR'IC
LYR'ICAL, adjective [Latin lyricus.] Pertaining to a lyre or harp. lyric poetry is such as is sung to the harp or lyre. This was much cultivated by the ancients, among whom Anacreon, Alcoeus, Stesichorus, Sappho and Horace are distinguished as lyric poets.
LYRIC, noun A composer of lyric poems.
LYR'ICISM, noun A lyric composition.
LY'RIST, noun A musician who plays on the harp or lyre.
LYS, noun A chinese measure of length, equal to 533 yards.
LYTE'RIAN, adjective [Gr. to loosen.] In medical science, terminating a disease; indicating the solution of a disease.
LYTH'RODE, noun A mineral found in Norway; its color, an aurora-red, passing into brownish red or brown. It appears to be allied to elaolite, or fettstein.
Lythrode is probably a variety of fettstein.