AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
looking: of look-having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.-the act of one who looks; a glance.-the manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face.
looking-glass: a mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.
lookout: a careful looking or watching for any object or event.-the place from which such observation is made.-a person engaged in watching.-object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
loom: see loon, the bird.-a frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.-that part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.-to appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high.-to rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.-the state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.
looming: of loom-the indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. see mirage.
loon: a sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.-any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus urinator (formerly colymbus), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. the common loon, or great northern diver (urinator imber, or colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated loon or diver (u. septentrionalis), are the best known species. see diver.
loop: a mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.-a fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.-a small, narrow opening; a loophole.-a curve of any kind in the form of a loop.-a wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.-the portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.-to make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.
looped: of loop-bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.-full of holes.
looper: an instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.-the larva of any species of geometrid moths. see geometrid.
loophole: a small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.-a hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion.
looping: of loop-the running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.-of loop.
looplight: a small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
loose: unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.-free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.-not tight or close; as, a loose garment.-not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.-not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.-not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.-unconnected; rambling.-lax; not costive; having lax bowels.-dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.-containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.-freedom from restraint.-a letting go; discharge.-to untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.-to release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.-to relax; to loosen; to make less strict.-to solve; to interpret.-to set sail.
loosen: to make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.-to free from restraint; to set at liberty..-to remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.-to become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact.
looseness: the state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
loosestrife: the name of several species of plants of the genus lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.-any species of the genus lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers.
loot: the act of plundering.-plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.-to plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
lop: a flea.-to cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.-to cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.-that which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.-to hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.-to let hang down; as, to lop the head.-hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
lope: of leap.-to leap; to dance.-to move with a lope, as a horse.-a leap; a long step.-an easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
loper: one who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.-a swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.
lophine: a nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. it is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.
lophiomys: a very singular rodent (lophiomys imhausi) of northeastern africa. it is the only known representative of a special family (lophiomyidae), remarkable for the structure of the skull. it has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.
lophobranch: of or pertaining to the lophobranchii.-one of the lophobranchii.
lophobranchii: an order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the hippocampus and pipefishes.
lophophore: a disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the bryozoa. see phylactolemata.
lopper: one who lops or cuts off.-to turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
lopping: of lop-a cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.
lopseed: a perennial herb (phryma leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.
lopsided: leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.-unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies.
loquacious: given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.-speaking; expressive.-apt to blab and disclose secrets.
loquacity: the habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.
loquat: the fruit of the japanese medlar (photinia japonica). it is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. also, the tree itself.
loral: of or pertaining to the lores.-of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.
lorcha: a kind of light vessel used on the coast of china, having the hull built on a european model, and the rigging like that of a chinese junk.
lord: a hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.-one who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.-a titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the house of lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.-a title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.-a husband.-one of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.-the supreme being; jehovah.-the savior; jesus christ.-to invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.-to rule or preside over as a lord.-to play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.
lording: of lord-the son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.-a little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule.
lordlike: befitting or like a lord; lordly.-haughty; proud; insolent; arrogant.
lordly: suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.-proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.-in a lordly manner.
lordosis: a curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.-any abnormal curvature of the bones.
lords and ladies: the european wake-robin (arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.
lordship: the state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called grace) or a judge (in great britain), etc.-seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.-dominion; power; authority.
lore: the space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.-the anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.-lost.-that which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.-that which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.-workmanship.
lorette: in france, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of notre dame de lorette, in paris, near which many of them resided.
lorettine: one of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at loretto, in kentucky. the members of the order (called also sisters of loretto, or friends of mary at the foot of the cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the western united states.
lorica: a cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.-lute for protecting vessels from the fire.-the protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.
loricata: a suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.-the crocodilia.
loricate: to cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.-covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.-an animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
lorication: the act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.
lorikeet: any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in australia, new guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the east indies. they are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. they belong to trichoglossus, loriculus, and several allied genera.
loriner: a maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.
loris: any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus stenops. they have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. the slender loris (s. gracilis), of ceylon, in one of the best known species.
lorn: lost; undone; ruined.-forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft; as, a lone, lorn woman.
lorry: a small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
lory: any one of many species of small parrots of the family trichoglossidae, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. they are found in the east indies, australia, new guinea, and the adjacent islands.  they feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.
lose: to part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.-to cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.-not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.-to wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.-to ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.-to be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.-to fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, i lost a part of what he said.-to cause to part with; to deprive of.-to prevent from gaining or obtaining.-to suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
losel: one who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel.-wasteful; slothful.
losing: of lose-given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening.-causing or incurring loss; as, a losing game or business.
loss: the act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.-the state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.-that which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.-the state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.-failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.-failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.-killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.-destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars.
lost: parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.-parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.-not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.-having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in london.-ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.-hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.-not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.-occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.
lot: that which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.-anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.-the part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.-a separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.-a distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.-a large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so.-a prize in a lottery.-to allot; to sort; to portion.
lote: a large tree (celtis australis), found in the south of europe. it has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. called also nettle tree.-the european burbot.-to lurk; to lie hid.
lotion: a washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.-a liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.
lotophagi: a people visited by ulysses in his wanderings. they subsisted on the lotus. see lotus (b), and lotus-eater.
lotos-eater: one who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the lotophagi.
lottery: a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. fig. : an affair of chance.-allotment; thing allotted.
lotto: a game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. the player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. a variety of lotto is called keno.
lotus: a name of several kinds of water lilies; as nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in egypt, and to this day in asia; nelumbium luteum, the american lotus; and nymphaea lotus and n. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern egypt, which, with nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.-the lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in northern africa, sicily, portugal, and spain (zizyphus lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. it was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.-the lote, or nettle tree. see lote.-a genus (lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.-an ornament much used in egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the egyptian water lily.
louchettes: goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front.
loud: having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.-clamorous; boisterous.-emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.-ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.-with loudness; loudly.
loud-mouthed: having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
louis d'or: formerly, a gold coin of france nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.
lounge: to spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.-an idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.-a piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.
loups: the pawnees, a tribe of north american indians whose principal totem was the wolf.
lour: an asiatic sardine (clupea neohowii), valued for its oil.
louse: any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded hemiptera. to this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (pediculus capitis), the body louse (p. vestimenti), and the crab louse (phthirius pubis), and many others. see crab louse, dog louse, cattle louse, etc., under crab, dog, etc.-any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. they are known as mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. they are usually regarded as degraded pseudoneuroptera. see mallophaga.-any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. see aphid.-any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. see branchiura, and ichthvophthira.-to clean from lice.
lousewort: any species of pedicularis, a genus of perennial herbs. it was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy.
lousily: in a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily.
lousy: infested with lice.-mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave.
lout: to bend; to box; to stoop.-a clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.-to treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
loutou: a crested black monkey (semnopithecus maurus) of java.
lovable: having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.
lovage: an umbelliferous plant (levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.
love: a feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.-especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.-courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.-affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.-due gratitude and reverence to god.-the object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.-cupid, the god of love; sometimes, venus.-a thin silk stuff.-a climbing species of clematis (c. vitalba).-nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.-to have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's god.-to regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.-to take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.-to have the feeling of love; to be in love.
love-sick: languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid.-originating in, or expressive of, languishing love.
loveless: void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.-not attracting love; unattractive.
lovelock: a long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of elizabeth and james i.
lovely: having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.-lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.-loving; tender.-very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.-in a manner to please, or to excite love.
lover: one who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.-a friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.-one who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music.-alt. of lovery