2. To grease. [Obs.] Bacon.

Liquor fishermen's boots.

Shak.

Liq"uor*ice (lk"r*s), n. See Licorice.

Liq"uor*ish, a. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Shak.

Liq"uor*ous (-s), a. Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Marston.

||Li"ra (l"r), n.; pl. Lire (-r). [It., fr. L. libra the Roman pound.

||Cf. Livre.] An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.

||

||Li*rel"la (l*rl"l), n. [NL., dim. of L. lira a furrow.] (Bot.) A

||linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain

||lichens.

||

Li*rel"li*form (-l*fôrm), a. [Lirella + -form.] (Bot.) Like a lirella.

[Written also lirellæform.]

||Lir`i*o*den"dron (lr`**dn"drn), n.; pl. Liriodendra (- dr). [NL., fr.

||Gr. lei`rion lily + de`ndron tree.] (Bot.) A genus of large and very

||beautiful trees of North America, having smooth, shining leaves, and

||handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also

||canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but

||there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.

||

Lir"i*pipe (lr"*pp), n. [Obs.] See Liripoop.

Lir"i*poop (lr"*pp), n. [OF. liripipion, liripion, LL. liripipium. Said

to be corrupted from L. cleri ephippium, lit., the clergy's caparison.]

1. A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a

scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc. [Obs.]

2. Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem. [Obs.]

Stanihurst.

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