LOACH, LOCHE, l[=o]ch, _n._ a small river-fish.--Also _Beardie_. [Fr.
_loche_, Sp. _loja_.]
LOAD, l[=o]d, _v.t._ to lade or burden: to put on as much as can be
carried: to heap on: to put on overmuch: to confer or give in great
abundance: to weigh down, to oppress: to weight by something specially
added: to charge, as a gun: to make heavy, as a thin wine: to mix with
white: to lay on colour in masses.--_v.i._ to put or take on a load: to
charge a gun: to become loaded or burdened.--_n._ a lading or burden: as
much as can be carried at once: freight or cargo: a measure: any large
quantity borne: a quantity sustained with difficulty: that which burdens or
grieves: a weight or encumbrance.--LOAD'EN, old _pa.p._ of load.--_ns._
LOAD'ER, one who, or that which, loads; LOAD'ING, the act of lading: a
charge, cargo, or lading; LOAD'ING-MACHINE', a contrivance for loading
cartridge-shells; LOAD'ING-TRAY, an iron frame on which a shot or shell is
placed and brought forward into the opening in the breech of a gun;
LOAD'-LINE, a line along the ship's side to mark the depth to which her
proper cargo causes her to sink--also _Plimsoll's mark_.--LOAD A CANE,
WHIP, to weight it with lead, &c.; LOAD DICE, to make one side heavier than
the other, for purposes of cheating; LOAD WINE, to falsify by mixing it
with distilled liquor, sugar, &c. [A.S. _hladan_, pa.t. _hlód_, to load.]
LOADSTAR. Same as LODESTAR.
LOADSTONE. Same as LODESTONE.
LOAF, l[=o]f, _n._ a regularly shaped mass of bread: a mass of sugar: any
lump:--_pl._ LOAVES (l[=o]vz).--_n._ LOAF'-SUG'AR, refined sugar in the
form of a cone.--LOAVES AND FISHES, temporal benefits, the main chance for
one's self--from John, vi. 26. [A.S. _hláf_.]
LOAF, l[=o]f, _v.i._ to loiter, pass time idly.--_n._ LOAF'ER.--_adj._
LOAF'ERISH. [Prob. directly Ger. _läufer_, a runner, _laufen_, to run
about.]
LOAM, l[=o]m, _n._ a muddy soil, of clay, sand, and animal and vegetable
matter.--_v.t._ to cover with loam.--_adj._ LOAM'Y. [A.S. _lám_; Ger.
_lehm_; cf. _lime_.]
LOAN, l[=o]n, _n._ a lane: an open space for passage left between fields of
corn: a place for milking cows.--Also LOAN'ING. [_Lane_.]
LOAN, l[=o]n, _n._ anything lent: the act of lending: permission to use:
money lent for interest.--_v.t._ to lend.--_adj._ LOAN'ABLE.--_ns._
LOAN'-OFF'ICE, a public office at which loans are negotiated, a
pawnbroker's shop; LOAN'-SOC[=I]'ETY, a society organised to lend money to
be repaid with interest by instalments; LOAN'-WORD, one taken into one
language from another--like _Loafer_ above. [A.S. _l['æ]n_; Ice. _lán_,
Dan. _laan_, cf. Ger. _lehen_, a fief.]
LOATH, LOTH, l[=o]th, _adj._ disliking: reluctant, unwilling.--_adv._
LOATH'LY.--_n._ LOATH'NESS. [A.S. _láð_, hateful--_líðan_, to travel; Ger.
_leiden_, suffer.]
LOATHE, l[=o]_th_, _v.t._ to dislike greatly, to feel disgust at.--_adj._
LOATH'FUL, full of loathing, hate, or abhorrence: exciting loathing or
disgust.--_n._ LOATH'ING, extreme hate or disgust: abhorrence.--_adj._
hating.--_adv._ LOATH'INGLY.--_adjs._ LOATH'LY, LOATH'Y (_obs._),
loathsome; LOATH'SOME, exciting loathing or abhorrence: detestable.--_adv._
LOATH'SOMELY.--_n._ LOATH'SOMENESS. [A.S. _láðian_--_láð_; cf. _loath_.]
LOB, lob, _n._ a clumsy person, the last in a race: a lobworm: the
coal-fish: at cricket, a long slow ball: something thick and heavy.--_v.t._
to throw gently, slowly, or with underhand delivery: at lawn-tennis, to
strike the ball high over an opponent's head into the end of the court: to
hang wearily down.--_n._ LOBS'POUND, a prison.--LOB LIE BY THE FIRE,
Milton's _lubber-fiend_, a brownie who works by night for his bowl of
cream. [W. _llob_; cf. _Lubber_.]
LOBBY, lob'i, _n._ a small hall or waiting-room: a passage serving as a
common entrance to several apartments: the ante-chamber of a legislative
hall, frequented by outsiders for the purpose of influencing votes.--_ns._
LOBB'YING, frequenting the lobby to collect political intelligence, &c.;
LOBB'YIST, LOBB'Y-MEM'BER, a journalist, &c., who frequents a lobby in the
interest of some cause or of a newspaper. [Low L. _lobia_--Middle High Ger.
_loube_ (Ger. _laube_), a portico, arbour--_laub_, a leaf.]
LOBE, l[=o]b, _n._ the lower part of the ear: (_anat._) a division of the
lungs, brain, &c.: (_bot._) a division of a leaf.--_adjs._ LOB'AR,
LOB'[=A]TE, LOBED, LOB'OSE; LOBE'-FOOT'ED, L[=O]'BIPED, having lobate feet,
as a coot, grebe, or phalarope.--_ns._ LOBE'LET, LOB'ULE, a small
lobe.--_adjs._ LOB'ULAR, LOB'UL[=A]TED.--_ns._ LOB'ULUS, any small lobe or
lobe-like structure:--_pl._ LOB'UL[=I]; L[=O]'BUS, a lobe:--_pl._
L[=O]'B[=I].--LOBAR PNEUMONIA, inflammation of a whole lobe of the lungs,
as distinguished from LOBULAR PNEUMONIA, which attacks the lungs in
patches. [Fr., prob. through Low L. from Gr. _lobos_, lobe; cf. _lap_, to
fold.]
LOBELIA, lob-[=e]'li-a, _n._ an ornamental flower, its roots medicinal.
[_Lobel_, a Flemish botanist.]
LOBLOLLY, lob'lol-i, _n._ a loutish person: medicine.--_n._ LOB'LOLLY-BOY,
a ship-surgeon's attendant.
LOBSCOUSE, lob'skows, _n._ a stew or hash with vegetables, a dish used at
sea. [Origin dub.]
LOBSTER, lob'st[.e]r, _n._ a shellfish with large claws, used for food:
(_slang_) a British soldier. [A.S. _loppestre_, _lopust_--L. _locusta_, a
lobster.]
LOBWORM, lob'wurm, _n._ a large worm used as bait. [Perh. _lob_--W. _llob_,
a dull fellow, and worm.]
LOCAL, l[=o]'kal, _adj._ of or belonging to a place: confined to a spot or
district.--_ns._ LOCALE (l[=o]-käl'), a locality: the scene of some event;
LOCALIS[=A]'TION.--_v.t._ L[=O]'CALISE, to assign to a place: to refer a
sensation in perception to some part of the body.--_ns._ L[=O]'CALISM, the
state of being local: affection for a place: provincialism; LOCAL'ITY,
existence in a place: position: district.--_adv._ L[=O]'CALLY.--_v.t._
LOC[=A]TE', to place: to set in a particular position: to designate the
place of.--_n._ LOC[=A]'TION, act of locating or placing: situation:
(_law_) a leasing on rent.--_adj._ L[=O]'C[=A]TIVE (_gram._), indicating
place.--LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACTS, a series of enactments instituting local
self-government of the various counties of Great Britain and of a large
number of boroughs; LOCAL OPTION, a phrase first used by Mr Gladstone in a
letter in 1868 for the determination by vote of the people of a town or
district as to whether licenses to sell intoxicating liquors shall be
granted or not. [Fr.,--Low L. _localis_--_locus_, a place.]
LOCH, loh, _n._ a lake or arm of the sea.--_ns._ LOCHABER AXE (loh-ä'b[.e]r
aks), a battle-axe used by the Scottish Highlanders, having a narrow blade,
but very long towards the shaft, and generally with a hook at the end of
the staff; LOCH'AN (_Scot._), a pond. [Gael. _loch_; cf. _Lake_.]
LOCHE, _n._ See LOACH.
LOCHIA, l[=o]'ki-a, _n.pl._ the evacuations from the womb after
childbirth.--_adj._ L[=O]'CHIAL. [Gr.]
LOCK, lok, _n._ a device to fasten doors, &c.: an enclosure in a canal for
raising or lowering boats: the part of a firearm by which it is discharged:
a grapple in wrestling: a state of being immovable: any narrow, confined
place.--_v.t._ to fasten with a lock: to fasten so as to impede motion: to
shut up: to close fast: to embrace closely: to furnish with locks.--_v.i._
to become fast: to unite closely.--_ns._ LOCK'AGE, the locks of a canal:
the difference in their levels, the materials used for them, and the tolls
paid for passing through them; LOCK'-CHAIN, a chain for fastening the
wheels of a vehicle by tying the rims to some part which does not rotate;
LOCK'ER, any closed place that may be locked; LOCK'ET, a little ornamental
case of gold or silver, usually containing a miniature.--_adj._ LOCK'FAST,
firmly fastened by locks.--_ns._ LOCK'GATE, a gate for opening or closing a
lock in a canal or river; LOCK'-HOS'PITAL (see HOSPITAL); LOCK'HOUSE, the
lock-keeper's house; LOCK'-JAW, LOCKED'-JAW, a contraction of the muscles
of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; LOCK'-KEEP'ER, one who keeps
or attends the locks of a canal; LOCK'OUT, the act of locking out, esp.
used of the locking out of a teacher by the pupils or _vice versâ_, or of
the refusal of an employer to admit his workmen within the works as a means
of coercion; LOCKS'MAN, a turnkey; LOCK'SMITH, a smith who makes and mends
locks; LOCK'STITCH, a stitch formed by the locking of two threads together;
LOCK'UP, a place for locking up or confining persons for a short time.--NOT
A SHOT IN THE LOCKER (_naut._), not a penny in the pocket. [A.S. _loca_, a
lock; Ice. _loka_, a bolt, Ger. _loch_, a dungeon.]
LOCK, lok, _n._ a tuft or ringlet of hair: a small quantity, as of hay:
(_Scots law_) a quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant:
(_Shak._) a love-lock--_n._ LOCK'MAN, an officer in the Isle of Man who
acts as a kind of under-sheriff to the governor. [A.S. _locc_; Ice.
_lokkr_, Ger. _locke_, a lock.]
LOCKIAN, lok'i-an, _adj._ pertaining to the philosophy of John _Locke_
(1632-1704).--_ns._ LOCK'IAN, LOCK'IST.
LOCKRAM, lok'ram, _n._ a kind of coarse linen--from _Locrenan_, in
Brittany, where made.
LOCOFOCO, l[=o]-k[=o]-f[=o]'k[=o], _n._ (_U.S._) a friction match: the
extreme section of the Democratic party of 1835, known as the Equal Rights
Party, or any adherent of it. [L. _locus_, a place, _focus_, a hearth.]
LOCOMOTIVE, l[=o]-ko-m[=o]'tiv, _adj._ moving from place to place: capable
of, or assisting in, locomotion.--_n._ a locomotive machine: a railway
engine.--_ns._ LOCOM[=O]'TION; LOCOMOTIV'ITY; LOCOM[=O]'TOR.--_adj._
LOCOM[=O]'TORY.--LOCOMOTOR ATAXY (see ATAXIA). [L. _locus_, a place,
_mov[=e]re_, _motum_, to move.]
LOCORESTIVE, l[=o]-k[=o]-res'tiv, _adj._ staying in one place.
LOCULUS, lok'[=u]-lus, _n._ (_bot._, _anat._, _zool._) a small compartment
or cell: in ancient catacombs, a small recess for holding an urn:--_pl._
LOC'UL[=I].--_n._ LOC'ULAMENT (_bot._), loculus.--_adjs._ LOC'ULAR,
LOC'UL[=A]TE, LOC'ULOSE, LOC'ULOUS. [Dim. of L. _locus_, a place.]
LOCUM-TENENS, l[=o]'kum-t[=e]n'enz, _n._ a deputy or substitute.--_n._
L[=O]'CUM-T[=E]N'ENCY, the holding by a temporary substitute of a post. [L.
_locus_, a place, _ten[=e]re_, to hold.]
LOCUS, l[=o]'kus, _n._ (_math._) the curve described by a point, or the
surface generated by a line, moving in a given manner: a passage in a
writing:--_pl._ LOCI (l[=o]'s[=i]), a collection of passages, esp. from
sacred and ancient writings, arranged with special reference to some
particular theme.--LOCUS CLASSICUS (_pl._ LOCI CLASSICI), a standard
passage, esp. in an ancient author: that passage which is the accepted
authority for some particular subject or for the use of some special or
disputed word; LOCUS STANDI (_law_), right of place in court: recognised
place or position. [L.]
LOCUST, l[=o]'kust, _n._ a migratory winged insect, in shape like the
grasshopper, highly destructive to vegetation.--_v.i._ (_rare_) to lay
waste like locusts. [L. _locusta_.]
LOCUST, l[=o]'kust, _n._ a tree with thorny branches and dense clusters of
white, heavily-scented flowers, found in the U.S.: the carob-tree.--_ns._
LOCUS'TA, the spikelet of grasses:--_pl._ LOCUS'TÆ; L[=O]'CUST-BEAN, the
sweet pod of the carob-tree.
LOCUTION, l[=o]-k[=u]'shun, _n._ the act of speaking: form of speaking,
phraseology, a phrase.--_n._ LOC'UTORY, a room for conversation, esp. in
monastic establishments. [L. _locution-em_--_loqui_, _locutus_, to speak.]
LODE, l[=o]d, _n._ a vein containing metallic ore: a reach of water: an
open ditch.--_ns._ LODES'MAN, a pilot; LODE'STAR, the star that guides, the
pole-star--often used figuratively; LODE'STONE, a stone or ore of iron that
attracts other pieces of iron. [A.S. _lád_, a course--_líðan_, to travel.]
LODGE, loj, _n._ a small house in a park: a hut: the cottage of a
gatekeeper: a retreat: a secret association, also the place of
meeting.--_v.t._ to furnish with a temporary dwelling: place, deposit: to
infix, to settle: to drive to covert: to lay flat, as grain.--_v.i._ to
reside: to rest: to dwell for a time: to pass the night: to lie flat, as
grain.--_ns._ LODG'ER, one who lodges or lives at board or in a hired room;
LODG'ING, temporary habitation: a room or rooms hired in the house of
another (often in _pl._): harbour; LODG'ING-HOUSE, a house where lodgings
are let, a house other than a hotel where travellers lodge; LODG'MENT, act
of lodging, or state of being lodged: accumulation of something that
remains at rest: (_mil._) the occupation of a position by a besieging
party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.--LODGER FRANCHISE, a right
to vote conferred on persons occupying lodgings.--GRAND LODGE, the
principal lodge of Freemasons, presided over by the Grand-master. [O. Fr.
_loge_--Old High Ger. _loub[=a]_, an arbour.]
LOESS, l[.e]s, or l[=o]'es, _n._ a loamy deposit of Pleistocene age, in the
valleys of the Rhine, Danube, and Rhone.--Also LÖSS. [Ger. _löss_.]
LOFT, loft, _n._ the room or space immediately under a roof: a gallery in a
hall or church: an upper room.--_v.t._ to furnish with a loft: (_golf_) to
strike the ball up by means of a club called the LOFT'ER.--_adv._
LOFT'ILY.--_n._ LOFT'INESS.--_adj._ LOFT'Y, high in position, character,
sentiment, or diction: stately: haughty.--LOFTED HOUSE (_Scot._), a house
of more than one story.--COCK OF THE LOFT, the head or chief of a set.
[Ice. _lopt_ (loft), the sky, an upper room; A.S. _lyft_, Ger. _luft_, the
air.]
LOG, log, _n._ a Hebrew liquid measure, believed to be very nearly an
English pint. [Heb. _l[=o]gh_.]
LOG, log, _n._ a bulky piece of wood: a heavy, stupid, or sluggish
person.--_adj._ consisting of logs.--_ns._ LOG'-CAB'IN, -HOUSE, -HUT, a
cabin or hut built of hewn or unhewn logs, common in new American
settlements; LOG'GAT, a small log or piece of wood: an old game somewhat
like nine-pins; LOG'GERHEAD, a blockhead: a dunce: (_naut._) a round piece
of timber, in a whale-boat, over which the line is passed: a species of
sea-turtle: a round mass of iron with a long handle, heated for various
purposes.--_adj._ LOG'GERHEADED.--_ns._ LOG'-HEAD, a blockhead; LOG'-MAN
(_Shak._), a man who carries logs: (_U.S._) one whose occupation is to cut
and remove logs--also LOG'GER.--_v.t._ LOG'-ROLL, to engage in
log-rolling.--_ns._ LOG'-ROLL'ER; LOG'-ROLL'ING, a combination for
facilitating the collection of logs after the clearing of a piece of land,
or for rolling logs into a stream: mutual aid given by politicians for
carrying out individual schemes: a system of literary criticism conducted
on the lines of mutual admiration or adulation; LOG'WOOD, the dark-red
heart-wood of _Hæmatoxylon campechianum_, a native of Mexico and Central
America, whence it is exported in logs.--AT LOGGERHEADS, at issue,
quarrelling about differences of opinion, &c. [Ice. _lág_, a felled tree,
_liggja_, to lie. Cf. _Lie_ and _Log_.]
LOG, log, _n._ a piece of wood with a line for measuring the speed of a
ship: the record of a ship's progress.--_v.t._ to exhibit by the indication
of the log: to enter in the logbook.--_ns._ LOG'BOARD; LOG'BOOK, the
official record of the proceedings on board ship: a book kept by the
head-master of a board-school for recording attendances and other matters
connected with the school; LOG'-CHIP, the board, in the form of a quadrant,
attached to a logline; LOG'-GLASS, a 14- or 28-second sand-glass, used with
the logline to ascertain the speed of a ship; LOG'LINE, the line fastened
to the log, and marked for finding the speed of a vessel; LOG'-REEL, a reel
on which the logline is wound; LOG'-SLATE, a double slate, marked and ruled
in the inside, for recording the log.--HEAVE THE LOG, to learn the speed of
a ship by logline and glass. [Sw. _logg_, a ship's log, a piece of wood
that lies in the water.]
LOGAN, log'an, _n._ a rocking-stone.--Also LOG'GING-ROCK. [Prob. cog. with
Dan. _logre_, to wag the tail.]
LOGAOEDIC, log-a-[=e]'dik, _adj._ (_ancient prosody_) pertaining to a
variety of trochaic or iambic verse, where dactyls are combined with
trochees or anapæsts with iambi. [Gr. _logos_, prose, _aoid[=e]_, song.]
LOGARITHM, log'a-rithm, _n._ (of a number) the power to which another given
number must be raised in order that it may equal the former number: one of
a series of numbers having a certain relation to the series of natural
numbers by means of which many arithmetical operations are
simplified.--_adjs._ LOGARITH'MIC, -AL, pertaining to, or consisting of,
logarithms.--_adv._ LOGARITH'MICALLY. [Gr. _logos_, ratio, _arithmos_,
number.]
LOGGIA, loj'a, _n._ an open arcade enclosing a passage or open apartment,
common in Italy:--_pl._ LOGG'IE (-e). [It.; cf. _Lodge_.]
LOGIA, log'i-a, _n.pl._ oracles, sayings, a supposed primitive collection
of the sayings and discourses of Jesus, largely drawn upon by the writers
of the first and third gospels for much of what they have in common with
each other apart from Mark. [Gr.]
LOGIC, loj'ik, _n._ the science and art of reasoning correctly: the science
of the necessary laws of thought.--_adj._ LOG'ICAL, according to the rules
of logic: skilled in logic: discriminating.--_ns._ LOGICAL'ITY,
LOG'ICALNESS.--_adv._ LOG'ICALLY.--_n._ LOGIC'IAN, one skilled in
logic.--_v.i._ LOG'ICISE, to argue.--CHOP LOGIC (see CHOP); DEDUCTIVE
LOGIC, logic independent of probability or quantitative considerations;
FORMAL LOGIC, logic regarded as a distinct science, independent of matters
of fact; INDUCTIVE LOGIC, the logic of scientific reasoning; MATERIAL
LOGIC, logic which takes into account natural fact or phenomena, as
distinct from _formal logic_; NATURAL LOGIC, the natural faculty of
distinguishing the true from the false: the logical doctrine applicable to
natural things as opposed to the _logic of faith_; PURE LOGIC, the general
laws of thought. [Gr. _logik[=e]_, from _logos_, speech.]
LOGISTIC, -AL, loj-is'tik, -al, _adj._ skilled in calculating:
proportional.--_n._ LOGIS'TIC, the art of calculation, sexagesimal
arithmetic: (_pl._) that branch of military science relating to the
movement and supplying of armies. [Gr. _logist[=e]s_, a
calculator--_logizesthai_, to compute.]
LOGODÆDALY, log-o-d[=e]'da-li, _n._ verbal legerdemain.
LOGOGRAM, log'o-gram, _n._ a sign which represents a word: a puzzle in
which from an original word, by combinations of all or some of its letters,
other words are formed, which again are concealed under synonymous
expressions in a series of verses. [Gr. _logos_, word, _gramma_, letter.]
LOGOGRAPHER, lo-gog'ra-f[.e]r, _n._ in Greek literature, one of the
earliest annalists, esp. those before Herodotus.--_adjs._ LOGOGRAPH'IC,
-AL.--_adv._ LOGOGRAPH'ICALLY.--_ns._ LOGOG'RAPHY, a method of printing
with whole words cast in a single type; LOG'OTYPE, a type containing two or
more letters. [Gr.,--_logos_, word, _graphein_, to write.]
LOGOGRIPH, log'[=o]-grif, _n._ a riddle. [Gr. _logos_, word, _griphos_, a
riddle.]
LOGOMACHY, lo-gom'a-ki, _n._ contention about words or in words
merely.--_n._ LOGOM'ACHIST. [Gr. _logomachia_--_logos_, word, _mach[=e]_,
fight.]
LOGOMANIA, log-o-m[=a]'ni-a, _n._ disease of the faculty of language. [Gr.
_logos_, speech, and _mania_.]
LOGOMETER, l[=o]-gom'e-t[.e]r, _n._ a logarithmic scale: a scale for
measuring chemical equivalents.
LOGOS, log'os, _n._ in the Stoic philosophy, the active principle living in
and determining the world: (_theol._) the Word of God incarnate. [Gr.]
LOIMIC, loi'mik, _adj._ relating to the plague.--_ns._ LOIMOG'RAPHY;
LOIMOL'OGY.
LOIN, loin, _n._ the back of a beast cut for food: (_pl._) the reins, or
the lower part of the back.--_n._ LOIN'-CLOTH, a piece of cloth for wearing
round the loins.--GIRD UP THE LOINS, to prepare for energetic action--the
clothes tucked up before running, &c. [O. Fr. _logne_--L. _lumbus_, loin.]
LOITER, loi't[.e]r, _v.i._ to delay: to be slow in moving: to linger.--_n._
LOI'TERER.--_adv._ LOI'TERINGLY. [Dut. _leuteren_, to trifle; Ger. prov.
_lottern_, to waver.]
LOKI, l[=o]'ki, _n._ an evil giant-god in Norse mythology.
LOLIGO, l[=o]-l[=i]'go, _n._ the typical genus of _Loliginidæ_, embracing
the common European squid. [L.]
LOLIUM, l[=o]'li-um, _n._ a genus of grasses of the tribe Hordeeæ. [L.,
darnel, 'tares.']
LOLL, lol, _v.i._ to lie lazily about, to lounge: to hang out from the
mouth.--_v.t._ to thrust out (the tongue).--_n._ LOLL'ER.--_adv._
LOLL'INGLY.--_v.i._ LOLL'OP, to lounge, idle: (_coll._) to be moved heavily
about. [Old Dut. _lollen_, to sit over the fire; cf. _Lull_.]
LOLLARDS, lol'ards, _n.pl._ the followers of Wycliffe in England: a society
founded in Antwerp (1300 A.D.) for the burial of the dead and the care of
the sick.--_ns._ LOLL'ARDY, LOLL'ARDISM, the doctrines of the Lollards.
[Old Dut. _Lollaerd_, from their peculiar hum in singing--_lollen_, to sing
softly; but confused with M. E. _loller_, an idler; cf. _Loll_.]
LOLLY, lol'i, _n._ a lump.--_n._ LOLL'YPOP, a sweetmeat made with sugar and
treacle: (_pl._) sweets.
LOMA, l[=o]'ma, _n._ a lobe, flap, or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.
LOMBARD, lom'bard, _n._ an inhabitant of _Lombardy_ in Italy: one of the
Lombards or Langobardi, a Germanic tribe, which founded a kingdom in
Lombardy (568), overthrown by Charlemagne (774): (_obs._) a banker or
money-lender, so called from the number of Lombard bankers in
London.--_adjs._ LOM'BARD, LOMBAR'DIC.--LOMBARD ARCHITECTURE, the style
used by the Lombards, derived from the base Roman style they found in the
country, superseded by the Pointed Style imported from France (13th
century); LOMBARD STREET, the chief centre of the banking interest in
London. [O. Fr.,--L. _Langobardus_, from Old Teut. _lang_, long, _bart_,
beard.]
LOMENT, l[=o]'ment, _n._ (_bot._) an indehiscent legume, with constrictions
or transverse articulations between the seeds--also LOMEN'TUM.--_adj._
LOMENT[=A]'CEOUS.
LONDONER, lun'dun-[.e]r, _n._ a native or citizen of London.--_adj._
LONDONESE', pertaining to London: cockney.--_n._ English as spoken in
London: cockney speech.--_v.t._ and _v.i._ LON'DONISE.--_n._ LON'DONISM, a
mode of speech, &c., peculiar to London.--LONDON CLAY, a geological
formation in south-eastern England, belonging to the lower division of the
Eocene Tertiary; LONDON PRIDE, a hardy perennial cultivated in
cottage-gardens--also _None-so-pretty_ and _St Patrick's cabbage_.
LONE, l[=o]n, LONELY, l[=o]n'li, _adj._ alone: solitary: retired: standing
by itself.--_ns._ LONE'LINESS, LONE'NESS.--_adj._ LONE'SOME, solitary:
dismal.--_adv._ LONE'SOMELY.--_n._ LONE'SOMENESS. [_Alone_.]