Lobe (lb), n. [F. lobe, Gr. lobo`s.] Any projection or division,
especially one of a somewhat rounded form; as: (a) (Bot.) A rounded
projection or division of a leaf. Gray. (b)(Zoöl.) A membranous flap on
the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot. (c) (Anat.) A
round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc.
See Illust. of Brain. (b) (Mach.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or
of a non-circular gear wheel.
Lobe of the ear, the soft, fleshy prominence in which the human ear
terminates below. See. Illust. of Ear.
Lobed (?), a. Having lobes; lobate.
Lobe"foot` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A bird having lobate toes; esp., a
phalarope.
Lobe"-foot`ed, a. (Zoöl.) Lobiped.
Lobe"let (?), n. (Bot.) A small lobe; a lobule.
Lo*be"li*a (?; 106), n. [NL. So called from Lobel, botanist to King
James I.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, including a great number of
species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of
North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of
an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic,
expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for
the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.
Lo*be`li*a"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of
plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.
Lo*be"lin (?), n. (Med.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as
an emetic and diaphoretic.
Lo*be"line (?), n. (Chem.) A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from
the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having
a tobaccolike taste and odor.
Lo"bi*ped, a. [Lobe + L. pes, pedis, foot.] (Zoöl.) Having lobate toes,
as a coot.
Lob"lol`ly (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gruel; porridge; -- so called
among seamen.
Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small
tree, of the genus Gordonia (G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime
parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in
tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon). --
Loblolly boy, a surgeon's attendant on shipboard. Smollett. -- Loblolly
pine (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along
the coast; old field pine (Pinus Tæda). Also, P. Bahamensis, of the
West Indies. -- Loblolly tree (Bot.), a name of several West Indian
trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other
respect; as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.
||Lo*bo"sa (?), n. pl. [NL. See Lobe.] (Zoöl.) An order of Rhizopoda,
||in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the
||Amœba.
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Lob"scouse` (?), n. [Written also lobscourse from which lobscouse is
corrupted.] [Lob + course.] (Naut.) A combination of meat with
vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.
Lob"sid`ed (?), a. See Lopsided.
Lobs"pound` (?), n. [Lob + pound a prison.] A prison. [Obs.] Hudibras.
Lob"ster (?), n. [AS. loppestre, lopystre prob., corrupted fr. L.
locusta a marine shellfish, a kind of lobster, a locust. Cf. Locust.]
(Zoöl.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the
genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the
European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops
Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal
claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to
Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The
fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.
Lobster caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid
moth (Stauropus fagi); -- so called from its form. Lobster louse
(Zoöl.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoë astaci) parasitic on the gills
of the European lobster.
Lob"u*lar, a. [Cf. F. lobulaire.] Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule
or lobules.
{ Lob"u*late (?), Lob"u*la`ted (?), } a. Made up of, or divided into,
lobules; as, a lobulated gland.
Lob"ule, n. [Cf. F. lobule, dim. of lobe. See Lobe.] A small lobe; a
subdivision of a lobe.
Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.
Lob`u*lette" (?), n. [Dim. of lobule.] (Anat.) A little lobule, or
subdivision of a lobule.
Lob"worm` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The lugworm.
Lo"cal (?), a. [L. localis, fr. locus place: cf. F. local. See Lieu,
Locus.] Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region
or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local
custom.
Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Shak.
Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular
county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished from transitory
actions. -- Local affection (Med.), a disease or ailment confined to a
particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the system. --
Local attraction (Magnetism), an attraction near a compass, causing its
needle to deviate from its proper direction, especially on shipboard.
-- Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the recording
instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery
furnishing a current for the line. -- Local circuit (Teleg.), the
circuit of the local battery. -- Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color
which belongs to an object, and is not caused by accidental influences,
as of reflection, shadow, etc. (b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the
place and its inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is
laid. -- Local option, the right or obligation of determining by
popular vote within certain districts, as in each county, city, or
town, whether the sale of alcoholic beverages within the district shall
be allowed.
Lo"cal, n. 1. (Railroad) A train which receives and deposits passengers
or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of
a certain district. [U.S.]
2. On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the
paper is published. [U.S.]
||Lo`cale" (?), n. [F. local.] 1. A place, spot, or location.
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2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use,
or limited to a locality.
Lo"cal*ism (?), n. 1. The state or quality of being local; affection
for a particular place.
2. A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a
local idiom or phrase.
Lo*cal"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Localitiees (&?;). [L. localitas: cf. F.
localité.] 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite
place, or of being contained within definite limits.
It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and
dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.
Glanvill.
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2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or
situation, as of a mineral or plant.
3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.
Blackstone.
4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to
remember the relative positions of places.
Lo`cal*i*za"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. localisation.] Act of localizing, or
state of being localized.
Cerebral localization (Physiol.), the localization of the control of
special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body,
in special regions of the brain.
Lo"cal*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Localized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Localizing (?).] [Cf. F. localiser. See Local.] To make local; to fix
in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.
Lo"cal*ly, adv. With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally
separated or distant.
Lo"cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Located (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Locating.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus place. See
Local.] 1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in
the trans-Tiberine quarter.
B. F. Westcott.
2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to
locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land
granted by) a land warrant.
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
H. Spencer.
Lo"cate, v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to
settle. [Colloq.]