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Let
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Let
  • (n.) A retarding
  • (v. i.) To be let or leased
  • (v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation

    Letch
  • (n.) Strong desire

    Lethal
  • (a.) Deadly
  • (n.) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid

    Lethargy
  • (n.) A state of inaction or indifference.
  • (v. t.) To lethargize.

    Lethe
  • (n.) A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.

    Letter
  • (n.) A letter
  • (v. t.) To impress with letters

    Lettish
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Letts.
  • (n.) The language spoken by the Letts.

    Lettuce
  • (n.) A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad

    Leucite
  • (n.) A leucoplast.

    Leucocyte
  • (n.) A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc

    Leucoma
  • (n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye

    Leukaemia
  • (n.) Leucocythaemia.

    Levant
  • (a.) Eastern.
  • (n.) A levanter (the wind so called).
  • (v. i.) To run away from one's debts

    Levator
  • (n.) A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.

    Levee
  • (n.) A morning assembly or reception of visitors
  • (v. t.) To attend the levee or levees of.

    Level
  • (a.) Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon
  • (n.) A horizontal line or plane
  • (v. i.) To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally
  • (v. t.) Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc

    Lever
  • (a.) More agreeable
  • (adv.) Rather.
  • (n.) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.

    Leviable
  • (a.) Fit to be levied

    Leviathan
  • (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture

    Levigate
  • (a.) Made less harsh or burdensome
  • (v. t.) Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments

    Levitate
  • (v. i.) To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium
  • (v. t.) To make buoyant

    Levitation
  • (n.) Lightness

    Levite
  • (n.) A priest

    Levitical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, the law contained in the book of Leviticus.

    Leviticus
  • (n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law

    Levity
  • (n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character

    Levorotation
  • (n.) Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw

    Levorotatory
  • (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left

    Levulose
  • (n.) A sirupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized, occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc

    Levy
  • (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s
  • (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution
  • (v. t.) To erect, build, or set up

    Lewd
  • (superl.) Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble

    Lewisson
  • (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.

    Lex
  • (n.) Law

    Lexical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words

    Lexicography
  • (n.) The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary

    Lexicology
  • (n.) The science of the derivation and signification of words

    Lexicon
  • (n.) A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each

    Lexigraphy
  • (n.) The art or practice of defining words

    Ley
  • (a.) Fallow
  • (n.) Grass or meadow land
  • (v. t. & i.) To lay

    Lherzolite
  • (n.) An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium)

    Li
  • (n.) A Chinese copper coin

    Liability
  • (n.) That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable.

    Liable
  • (v. t.) Bound or obliged in law or equity

    Liaison
  • (n.) A union, or bond of union

    Liana
  • (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane

    Liar
  • (n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood

    Liassic
  • (a.) Of the age of the Lias

    Lib
  • (v. t.) To castrate.

    Libation
  • (n.) The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity

    Libel
  • (n.) A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc
  • (v. i.) To spread defamation, written or printed
  • (v. t.) To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc

    Liberal
  • (a.) Bestowed in a large way
  • (n.) One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters

    Liberate
  • (a.) To release from restraint or bondage

    Liberation
  • (n.) The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

    Liberator
  • (n.) One who, or that which, liberates

    Libertarian
  • (a.) Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity
  • (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of free will.

    Libertine
  • (n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.

    Liberty
  • (n.) A certain amount of freedom

    Libidinous
  • (a.) Having lustful desires

    Libra
  • (n.) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.

    Librettist
  • (n.) One who makes a libretto.

    Libretto
  • (n.) A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music.

    Libyan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole

    Lice
  • (n.) pl. of Louse.

    Lichen
  • (n.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion

    Licit
  • (a.) Lawful.

    Lick
  • (n.) A slap
  • (v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up
  • (v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over

    Licorice
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions

    Lictor
  • (n.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals

    Lid
  • (n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti

    Lidless
  • (a.) Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes

    Lie
  • (adj.) To abide
  • (n.) A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception
  • (v. i.) To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive

    Lied
  • (n.) A lay

    Lief
  • (adv.) Gladly
  • (n.) A dear one

    Liege
  • (a.) Full
  • (n.) A free and independent person

    Lien
  • (n.) A legal claim
  • (obs. p. p.) of Lie.

    Lieu
  • (n.) Place

    Life
  • (n.) A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc

    Lift
  • (n.) Act of lifting
  • (v. i.) To rise
  • (v. t.) To bear

    Ligament
  • (n.) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place

    Ligan
  • (n.) Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again.

    Ligate
  • (v. t.) To tie with a ligature

    Ligation
  • (n.) That which binds

    Ligature
  • (n.) A curve or line connecting notes
  • (v. t.) To ligate

    Light
  • (adv.) Lightly
  • (n.) A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame
  • (superl) Having light
  • (superl.) Easily bestowed
  • (v. i.) To become ignited
  • (v. t.) To lighten

    Ligneous
  • (a.) Made of wood

    Lignify
  • (v. i.) To become wood.
  • (v. t.) To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.

    Lignin
  • (n.) A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents

    Lignite
  • (n.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor

    Ligroin
  • (n.) A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum

    Ligula
  • (n.) A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids.

    Ligule
  • (n.) A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.

    Likable
  • (a.) Such as can be liked

    Like
  • (a.) In a like or similar manner.
  • (n.) A liking
  • (superl.) Equal, or nearly equal
  • (v. i.) To be pleased

    Liking
  • (n.) Appearance
  • (p. a.) Looking

    Lilac
  • (n.) A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.

    Liliaceous
  • (a.) Like the blossom of a lily in general form.

    Lilliputian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants
  • (n.) A person or thing of very small size.

    Lilt
  • (n.) A lively song or dance
  • (v. i.) To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
  • (v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety

    Lily
  • (n.) A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc

    Lima
  • (n.) The capital city of Peru, in South America.

    Limb
  • (n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.
  • (v. t.) To dismember

    Lime
  • (n.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller
  • (v. t.) To cement.

    Limit
  • (v. i.) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region
  • (v. t.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent

    Limn
  • (v. t.) To draw or paint

    Limoges
  • (n.) A city of Southern France.

    Limonite
  • (n.) Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, and yellowish brown powder

    Limousine
  • (n.) An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front

    Limpet
  • (n.) A keyhole limpet.

    Limpid
  • (a.) Characterized by clearness or transparency

    Limpkin
  • (n.) Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails

    Limulus
  • (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America

    Limy
  • (a.) Containing lime

    Lin
  • (n.) A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.
  • (v. i.) To yield
  • (v. t.) To cease from.

    Linchpin
  • (n.) A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

    Linctus
  • (n.) Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

    Linden
  • (n.) A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves

    Line
  • (n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
  • (v. t.) To cover the inner surface of

    Ling
  • (a.) A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried
  • (n.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).

    Liniment
  • (n.) A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp

    Lining
  • (n.) That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box

    Link
  • (n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms
  • (v. i.) To be connected.
  • (v. t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link

    Linnet
  • (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp

    Linoleate
  • (n.) A salt of linoleic acid.

    Linoleum
  • (n.) A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing

    Linsang
  • (n.) Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia

    Linseed
  • (n.) The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.

    Linstock
  • (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon

    Lint
  • (n.) Flax.

    Lion
  • (n.) A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries

    Lip
  • (n.) An edge of an opening
  • (v. t.) To clip

    Lipoma
  • (n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.

    Liquate
  • (v. i.) To melt
  • (v. t.) To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.

    Liquefacient
  • (n.) An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions

    Liquefaction
  • (n.) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure

    Liquefy
  • (v. i.) To become liquid.
  • (v. t.) To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid

    Liquescent
  • (a.) Tending to become liquid

    Liqueur
  • (n.) An aromatic alcoholic cordial.

    Liquid
  • (a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do
  • (n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute

    Liquor
  • (n.) Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To grease.

    Lira
  • (n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.

    Lisle
  • (n.) A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.

    Lisp
  • (n.) The habit or act of lisping.
  • (v. i.) To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly
  • (v. t.) To pronounce with a lisp.

    Lissome
  • (a.) Light

    List
  • (n.) A limit or boundary
  • (v. i.) To desire or choose
  • (v. t.) In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe

    Litany
  • (n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences

    Litchi
  • (n.) A genus of East Indian sapindaceous trees consisting of a single species (Litchi Chinensis, syn

    Lite
  • (adv., & n.) Little.

    Lith
  • (n.) A joint or limb

    Litigable
  • (a.) Such as can be litigated.

    Litigant
  • (a.) Disposed to litigate
  • (n.) A person engaged in a lawsuit.

    Litigate
  • (v. i.) To carry on a suit by judicial process.
  • (v. t.) To make the subject of a lawsuit

    Litigation
  • (n.) The act or process of litigating

    Litigious
  • (a.) Inclined to judicial contest

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

    Litotes
  • (n.) A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression

    Litre
  • (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2

    Litter
  • (n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it
  • (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding
  • (v. t.) To give birth to

    Little
  • (a.) Short in duration
  • (adv.) In a small quantity or degree
  • (n.) A small degree or scale

    Littoral
  • (a.) Inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between high-water and low-water mark.

    Liturgics
  • (n.) The science of worship

    Liturgiology
  • (n.) The science treating of liturgical matters

    Liturgist
  • (n.) One who favors or adheres strictly to a liturgy.

    Liturgy
  • (a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms

    Livable
  • (a.) Such as can be lived.

    Live
  • (a.) Being in a state of ignition
  • (n.) Life.
  • (v. i.) To be alive
  • (v. t.) To act habitually in conformity with

    Livid
  • (a.) Black and blue

    Living
  • (n.) Manner of life

    Livre
  • (n.) A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc

    Lixiviate
  • (v. t.) To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble

    Lixivium
  • (n.) A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes

    Lizard
  • (n.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia

    Llama
  • (n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump

    Llano
  • (n.) An extensive plain with or without vegetation.

    Lo
  • (interj.) Look

    Loach
  • (n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth

    Load
  • (v.) A burden
  • (v. t.) To adulterate or drug

    Loaf
  • (n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake
  • (v. i.) To spend time in idleness
  • (v. t.) To spend in idleness

    Loam
  • (n.) A kind of soil
  • (v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

    Loan
  • (n.) A loanin.
  • (n. t.) To lend

    Loath
  • (a.) Filled with disgust or aversion

    Loaves
  • (n.) pl. of Loaf.

    Lob
  • (n.) A dull, heavy person.

    Lobar
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe

    Lobby
  • (n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
  • (v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes
  • (v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body

    Lobe
  • (n.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.

    Lobscouse
  • (n.) A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked

    Lobster
  • (n.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus

    Lobule
  • (n.) A small lobe

    Lobworm
  • (n.) The lugworm.

    Local
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space
  • (n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road

    Locate
  • (v. i.) To place one's self
  • (v. t.) To designate the site or place of

    Location
  • (n.) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

    Locative
  • (a.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein
  • (n.) The locative case.

    Locator
  • (n.) One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.

    Loch
  • (n.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue

    Lock
  • (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  • (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing
  • (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks

    Loco
  • (adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher
  • (n.) A locomotive.
  • (v. t.) To poison with loco

    Locular
  • (a.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.

    Locule
  • (n.) A little hollow

    Locus
  • (n.) A place

    Locution
  • (n.) Speech or discourse

    Lode
  • (n.) A metallic vein

    Lodge
  • (n.) A collection of objects lodged together.
  • (v. i.) To come to a rest

    Lodging
  • (n.) Abiding place

    Lodgment
  • (v.) A lodging place

    Lodicule
  • (n.) One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses

    Loess
  • (n.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers

    Loft
  • (a.) Lofty
  • (n.) A floor or room placed above another
  • (v. t.) To make or furnish with a loft
  • (v. t. & i.) To raise aloft

    Log
  • (n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
  • (v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber
  • (v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book

    Logaoedic
  • (a.) Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech

    Logarithm
  • (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division

    Loge
  • (n.) A lodge

    Logger
  • (n.) One engaged in logging.

    Loggia
  • (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached

    Logging
  • (n.) The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market

    Logic
  • (n.) A treatise on logic

    Logistics
  • (n.) A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60

    Logogram
  • (n.) A word letter

    Logogriph
  • (n.) A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words

    Logomachy
  • (n.) A game of word making.

    Logos
  • (n.) A word

    Logotype
  • (n.) A single type, containing two or more letters

    Logroll
  • (v. i. & t.) To engage in logrolling

    Logwood
  • (n.) The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing

    Logy
  • (a.) Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought

    Loin
  • (n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs

    Loiter
  • (v. i.) To be slow in moving

    Loki
  • (n.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians

    Loll
  • (v. i.) To act lazily or indolently
  • (v. t.) To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.

    Loma
  • (n.) A lobe

    Lombard
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
  • (n.) A form of cannon formerly in use.

    Loment
  • (n.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed

    Lone
  • (a.) Being apart from other things of the kind
  • (n.) A lane.

    Long
  • (a.) Having a supply of stocks or goods
  • (adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior
  • (n.) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
  • (prep.) By means of
  • (superl.) Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length

    Loo
  • (n.) A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack
  • (v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

    Look
  • (n.) Expression of the eyes and face
  • (v. i.) In the imperative: see
  • (v. t.) To expect.

    Loom
  • (n.) A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread
  • (v. i.) To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp

    Loon
  • (n.) 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

    Loop
  • (n.) A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.
  • (v. t.) To make a loop of or in

    Loose
  • (a.) To relax
  • (n.) A letting go
  • (superl.) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language
  • (v. i.) To set sail.

    Loot
  • (n.) Plunder
  • (v. t. & i.) To plunder

    Lop
  • (a.) Hanging down
  • (n.) A flea.
  • (v. i.) To hang downward
  • (v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything

    Lope
  • (imp.) of Leap.
  • (n.) A leap
  • (v. i.) To leap

    Lophophore
  • (n.) A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa.

    Lopper
  • (n.) One who lops or cuts off.
  • (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.

    Lopsided
  • (a.) Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure

    Loquacious
  • (a.) Apt to blab and disclose secrets.

    Loquat
  • (n.) 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

    Lord
  • (n.) A hump-backed person
  • (v. i.) To play the lord
  • (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.

    Lore
  • (n.) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
  • (obs. imp. & p. p.) Lost.
  • (v. t.) That which is or may be learned or known

    Lorgnette
  • (n.) An opera glass

    Lorica
  • (n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like

    Lorikeet
  • (n.) Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies

    Loris
  • (n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits

    Lorn
  • (a.) Forsaken

    Lorry
  • (n.) A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish

    Lory
  • (n.) Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidae, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots

    Los
  • (n.) Praise.

    Lose
  • (v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat
  • (v. t.) Not to employ

    Loss
  • (v. t.) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person

    Lost
  • (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery

    Lot
  • (n.) A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field
  • (v. t.) To allot

    Lothario
  • (n.) A gay seducer of women

    Lotion
  • (n.) A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance

    Lottery
  • (n.) Allotment

    Lotto
  • (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance

    Lotus
  • (n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.

    Loud
  • (adv.) With loudness
  • (superl.) Clamorous

    Lough
  • (n.) A loch or lake
  • (obs. strong imp.) of Laugh.

    Lounge
  • (a.) To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering
  • (n.) An idle gait or stroll

    Louse
  • (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers
  • (v. t.) To clean from lice.

    Lousy
  • (a.) Infested with lice.

    Lout
  • (n.) A clownish, awkward fellow
  • (v. i.) To bend
  • (v. t.) To treat as a lout or fool

    Louvre
  • (n.) A small lantern.


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