Lynx"-eyed` (?), a. Having acute sight.
Ly`on`naise" (?), a. [F. lyonnaise, fem. of lyonnais of Lyons.]
(Cookery) Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated
in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
||Ly`o*po"ma*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to loose + &?;, &?;, a
||lid.] (Zoöl.) An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell
||are not articulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and
||allied forms. [Written also Lyopoma.]
||
||Ly"ra (?), n. [L. lyra, Gr. &?;. See Lyre.] 1. (Astron.) A northern
||constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first
||magnitude, called Alpha Lyræ, or Vega.
||
2. (Anat.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of
the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it
is marked in the human brain.
Ly"ra*id (?), n. (Astron.) Same as Lyrid.
{ Ly"rate (?), Ly"ra*ted (?), } a. [NL. lyratus. See Lyre.] 1. (Bot.)
Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base;
as, a lyrate leaf.
2. (Zoöl.) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of
the lyre bird.
Lyre (?), n. [OE. lire, OF. lyre, L. lyra, Gr. &?;. Cf. Lyra.] 1.
(Mus.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the
ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
The lyre was the peculiar instrument of Apollo, the tutelary god of
music and poetry. It gave name to the species of verse called lyric, to
which it originally furnished an accompaniment.