Lemon grass (Bot.), a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon
Shœnanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass
oil used in perfumery. - - Lemon sole (Zoöl.), a yellow European sole
(Solea aurantiaca). -- Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline
substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium
oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid
of lemon; -- called also salts of sorrel. It is used in removing ink
stains. See Oxalic acid, under Oxalic. [Colloq.]
Lem`on*ade" (lm`n*d"), n. [F. limonade; cf. Sp. limonada, It. limonata.
See Lemon.] A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and
sweetened.
Le"mur (l"mr), n. [L., a ghost, specter. So called on account of its
habit of going abroad by night.] (Zoöl.) One of a family (Lemuridæ) of
nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having
a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds,
insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the
neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow
lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See
Galago, Indris, and Colugo.
||Lem"u*res (lm"*rz; E. l"mrz), n. pl. [L. See Lemur.] Spirits or
||ghosts of the departed; specters.
||
The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.
Milton.
Le*mu"ri*a (l*m"r*), n. [So named from the supposition that it was the
original home of the lemurs.] A hypothetical land, or continent,
supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which
Madagascar is a remnant. Herschel.
Lem"u*rid (lm"*rd), a. & n. (Zoöl.) Same as Lemuroid.
{ Le*mu"ri*dous (l*m"r*ds), Lem"u*rine (lm"*rn or *rn), } a. (Zoöl.)
Lemuroid.
Lem"u*roid (lm"*roid), a. [Lemur + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to
the lemurs or the Lemuroidea. -- n. One of the Lemuroidea.
||Lem`u*roi"de*a (lm`*roi"d*), n. pl. [NL. See Lemur, and -oid.]
||(Zoöl.) A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye,
||and allied species. [Written also Lemuroida.]
||
||Le"na (l"n), n. [L.] A procuress. J. Webster.
||
Lend (lnd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lent (lnt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lending.]
[OE. lenen, AS. lnan, fr. ln loan; akin to G. lehnen to lend. See
Loan.] 1. To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return
of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; --
opposed to borrow.
Give me that ring. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To
give it from me.
Shak.
2. To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an
equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food.
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy
victuals for increase.
Levit. xxv. 37.
3. To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance;
to lend one's name or influence.
Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.
Addison.
Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his
compositions.
J. A. Symonds.