AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
lithotrity: the operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.
lithotype: a kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. see lithotypy.-to prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. see lithotypy.
lithotypy: the art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.
lithuanian: of or pertaining to lithuania (formerly a principality united with poland, but now russian and prussian territory).-a native, or one of the people, of lithuania; also, the language of the lithuanian people.
litigant: disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.-a person engaged in a lawsuit.
litigate: to make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.-to carry on a suit by judicial process.
litigious: inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.-subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.-of or pertaining to legal disputes.
litigiousness: the state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.
litmus: a dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (roccella tinctoria, lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.
litotes: a diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city.
litre: a measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 american pints, or 1.76 english pints.-same as liter.
litter: a bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.-straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.-things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.-disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.-the young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. also fig.-to supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.-to put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.-to give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.-to be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.-to produce a litter.
little: small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.-short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.-small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.-small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible.-small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.-small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.-that which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.-a small degree or scale; miniature.-in a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.
little-ease: an old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.
littleness: the state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.
littoral: of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.-inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between high-water and low-water mark.
littorina: a genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. they feed on seaweeds. the common periwinkle is a well-known example. see periwinkle.
lituite: any species of ammonites of the genus lituites. they are found in the cretaceous formation.
liturate: having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.-spotted, as if from abrasions of the surface.
liturgical: pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship.
liturgiology: the science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies.
liturgy: an established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. in the roman catholic church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of mass.
lituus: a curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.-an instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.-a spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.
livable: such as can be lived.-such as in pleasant to live in; fit or suitable to live in.
live: to be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.-to pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.-to make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.-to be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.-to enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.-to feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.-to have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.-to be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.-to outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.-to spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.-to act habitually in conformity with; to practice.-having life; alive; living; not dead.-being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.-full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.-vivid; bright.-imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.-life.
live-forever: a plant (sedum telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
lived: of live-having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
livelihood: subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.-liveliness; appearance of life.
liveliness: the quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.-an appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.-briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
livelong: whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.-lasting; durable.
lively: endowed with or manifesting life; living.-brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth.-gay; airy; animated; spirited.-representing life; lifelike.-bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.-in a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.-with strong resemblance of life.
liver: one who, or that which, lives.-a resident; a dweller; as, a liver in brooklyn.-one whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.-a very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.-the glossy ibis (ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of liverpool.
livered: having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.
liverwort: a ranunculaceous plant (anemone hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.-a flowerless plant (marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
livery: the act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.-the writ by which possession is obtained.-release from wardship; deliverance.-that which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.-the uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.-the peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.-hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the london tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of london.-hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance.-an allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.-the feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.-the keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.-a low grade of wool.-to clothe in, or as in, livery.
livery stable: a stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. see livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).
liveryman: one who wears a livery, as a servant.-a freeman of the city, in london, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc.-one who keeps a livery stable.
livid: black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.
living: of live-the state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.-manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.-means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.-power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.-the benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.
livingness: the state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
livinian: a native or an inhabitant of livonia; the language (allied to the finnish) of the livonians.
livraison: a part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
livre: a french money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. it is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.
lixivial: impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium.-of the color of lye; resembling lye.-having the qualities of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes.
lixiviate: alt. of lixivited-to subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
lixiviation: lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.
lixivited: of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.-impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
lixivium: a solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.
lixt: 2d pers. sing. pres. of lige, to lie, to tell lies, -- contracted for ligest.
lizard: any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the hatteria.-a piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.-a piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.
lizard's tail: a perennial plant of the genus saururus (s. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name.
llama: a south american ruminant (auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. it is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. it was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the andes.
llandeilo group: a series of strata in the lower silurian formations of great britain; -- so named from llandeilo in southern wales. see chart of geology.
lloyd's: an association of underwriters and others in london, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.-a part of the royal exchange, in london, appropriated to the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also lloyd's rooms.
loach: any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera cobitis, nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. they are found in europe and asia. the common european species (n. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.
load: a burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.-the quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.-that which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.-a particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.-the charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.-weight or violence of blows.-the work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.-to lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.-to adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.-to magnetize.
loader: one who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.
loading: of load-the act of putting a load on or into.-a load; cargo; burden.
loaf: any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.-to spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.-to spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
loam: a kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.-a mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.-to cover, smear, or fill with loam.
loamy: consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
loan: a loanin.-the act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.-that which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.-to lend; -- sometimes with out.
loanable: such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.
loaning: of loan-an open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane.
loath: hateful; odious; disliked.-filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part.
loathe: to feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.-to dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate.-to feel disgust or nausea.
loathful: full of loathing; hating; abhorring.-causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.
loathing: of loathe-extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
loathly: loathsome.-unwillingly; reluctantly.-(/) so as to cause loathing.
lob: a dull, heavy person.-something thick and heavy.-to let fall heavily or lazily.-see cob, v. t.-the european pollock.
lobar: of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.
lobated: consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.-having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.-furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. see illust. (m) under aves.
lobately: as a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.
lobby: a passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. it differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.-that part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.-an apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.-a confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.-to address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.-to urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
lobbyist: a member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.
lobe: any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form-a rounded projection or division of a leaf.-a membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.-a round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. see illust. of brain.-the projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.
lobelia: 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.
lobeliaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus lobelia is the type.
lobelin: a yellowish green resin from lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.
lobeline: a poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of indian tobacco (lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.
lobosa: an order of rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the amoeba.
lobscouse: a combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.
lobster: 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.
lobulated: made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.
local: 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.-a train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.-on newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.
locale: a place, spot, or location.-a principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.
localism: the state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.-a method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.
locality: the state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.-position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.-limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.-the perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
locate: to place; to set in a particular spot or position.-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.-to place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.
location: the act or process of locating.-situation; place; locality.-that which is located; a tract of land designated in place.-a leasing on rent.-a contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.-the marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
locative: indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun.-the locative case.
locellate: divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.
loch: a lake; a bay or arm of the sea.-a kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.
lochaber axe: a weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the scotch highlanders.
lock: a tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.-anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.-a fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.-a place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.-the barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.-an inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.-that part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.-a device for keeping a wheel from turning.-a grapple in wrestling.-to fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.-to prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.-to fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.-to link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.-to furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.-to seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.-to become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.