AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
low: strong imp. of laugh.-to make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.-the calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.-a hill; a mound; a grave.-fire; a flame; a light.-to burn; to blaze.-occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.-not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.-near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.-sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.-beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.-not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.-depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.-made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, / (/m), / (all). see guide to pronunciation, // 5, 10, 11.-near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.-numerically small; as, a low number.-wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.-depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes.-mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.-not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison.-submissive; humble.-deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.-moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.-smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.-not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.-the lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.-in a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.-under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.-in a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.-in time approaching our own.-with a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.-with a low musical pitch or tone.-in subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice.-in a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.-to depress; to lower.
low-church: not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. see high church, under high.
low-lived: characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.
low-minded: inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.
low-necked: cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman's dress.
low-spirited: deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
low-studded: furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
lowbell: a bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.-a bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep.-to frighten, as with a lowbell.
lowbred: bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.
lower: compar. of low, a.-to let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.-to reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.-to depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.-to reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.-to bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.-to reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.-to fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.-to be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.-to frown; to look sullen.-cloudiness; gloominess.-a frowning; sullenness.
lower-case: pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. see the note under 1st case, n., 3.
lowering: of lower-of lower-dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
lowery: cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
lowland: land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.
lowlander: a native or inhabitant of the lowlands, especially of the lowlands of scotland, as distinguished from highlander.
lowliness: the state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind.-low condition, especially as to manner of life.
lowly: not high; not elevated in place; low.-low in rank or social importance.-not lofty or sublime; humble.-having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.-in a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.-in a low condition; meanly.
loxodremism: the act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.
loxodromic: pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.
loxodromics: the art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line.
loyal: faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.-true to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle.
loyalist: a person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.
loyalty: the state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.
lozenge: a diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon.  cf. fusil.-a form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.-a figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.-anything in the form of lozenge.-a small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
lozengy: divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.
lubber: a heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
lubberly: like a lubber; clumsy.-clumsily; awkwardly.
lubrical: having a smooth surface; slippery.-lascivious; wanton; lewd.
lubricant: lubricating.-that which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.
lubricate: to make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.-to apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.
lubricator: one who, or that which, lubricates.-a contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.
lubricity: smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.-slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune.-lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency.
lucchese: a native or inhabitant of lucca, in tuscany; in the plural, the people of lucca.
lucern: a sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from lucerne, in switzerland.-an animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx).-a leguminous plant (medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa.-a lamp.
lucernaria: a genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. it attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.
lucernarian: of or pertaining to the lucernarida.-one of the lucernarida.
lucernarida: a division of acalephs, including lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also calycozoa.-a more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the discophora.
lucid: shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.-clear; transparent.-presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.-bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
lucifer: the planet venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in isaiah by a metaphor to a king of babylon.-hence, satan.-a match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. see locofoco.-a genus of free-swimming macruran crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.
luciferian: of or pertaining to lucifer; having the pride of lucifer; satanic; devilish.-of or pertaining to the luciferians or their leader.-one of the followers of lucifer, bishop of cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the arians.
luck: that which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.
luckily: in a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.
luckiness: the state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.-good fortune; favorable issue or event.
luckless: being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
lucky: favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.-producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.
lucrative: yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.-greedy of gain.
lucre: gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
lucubrate: to study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.-to elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.
lucubration: the act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.-that which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.
lucubratory: composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking.
luculent: lucid; clear; transparent.-clear; evident; luminous.-bright; shining in beauty.
luddite: one of a number of riotous persons in england, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from ned lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
ludicrous: adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
ludlamite: a mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. it is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
ludlow group: a subdivision of the british upper silurian lying below the old red sandstone; -- so named from the ludlow, in western england. see the chart of geology.
ludwigite: a borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.
luff: the side of a ship toward the wind.-the act of sailing a ship close to the wind.-the roundest part of a ship's bow.-the forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.-to turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.
lug: the ear, or its lobe.-that which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.-a projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc.-the leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.-the lugworm.-to pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.-to move slowly and heavily.-the act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.-anything which moves slowly.-a rod or pole.-a measure of length, being 16/ feet; a rod, pole, or perch.
luggage: that which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.
lugger: a small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. see illustration in appendix.-an indian falcon (falco jugger), similar to the european lanner and the american prairie falcon.
lugsail: a square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.
lugubrious: mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
lugworm: a large marine annelid (arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. it is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in america and europe, and is used for bait by european fishermen. called also lobworm, and baitworm.
lukewarm: moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent.
lull: to cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.-to become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.-the power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby.-a temporary cessation of storm or confusion.
lullaby: a song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.-hence: good night; good-by.
lum: a chimney.-a ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.-a woody valley; also, a deep pool.
lumachella: a grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. it is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.
lumbal: of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries.
lumber: a pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.-old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.-timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.-to heap together in disorder.-to fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.-to move heavily, as if burdened.-to make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.-to cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
lumberer: one employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman.
lumbering: of lumber-the business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
lumbosacral: of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.
lumbrical: resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet.-a lumbrical muscle.
lumbricoid: like an earthworm; belonging to the genus lumbricus, or family lumbricidae.
lumbricus: a genus of annelids, belonging to the oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. see earthworm.
luminary: any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.-one who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, newton was a distinguished luminary.
luminiferous: producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.
luminous: shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.-illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.-enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind.
lump: a small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.-a mass or aggregation of things.-a projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.-to throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.-to take in the gross; to speak of collectively.-to get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.
lumper: the european eelpout; -- called also lumpen.-one who lumps.-a laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
lumpfish: a large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (cyclopterus lumpus) of europe and america. the color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. it has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. the ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.
lumpish: like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless.
lunacy: insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation.-a morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism.
lunar: of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.-resembling the moon; orbed.-measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.-influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.-a lunar distance.-the middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
lunary: lunar.-the herb moonwort or "honesty".-a low fleshy fern (botrychium lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.
lunated: crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross.
lunatic: affected by lunacy; insane; mad.-of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.-a person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.
lunation: the period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29/ to 29/ days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s.
lunch: a luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.-to take luncheon.
luncheon: a lump of food.-a portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.-to take luncheon.
lune: anything in the shape of a half moon.-a figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.-a fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
lunette: a fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. see bastion.-a half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.-a kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.-a piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.-any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.-an iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
lunge: a sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.-to make a lunge.-to cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.-same as namaycush.
lungfish: any fish belonging to the dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.
lungoor: a long-tailed monkey (semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of india.
lungworm: any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. the lungworm of cattle (strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (s. filaria) are the best known.
lungwort: an herb of the genus pulmonaria (p. officinalis), of europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung.-any plant of the genus mertensia (esp. m. virginica and m. sibirica) plants nearly related to pulmonaria. the american lungwort is mertensia virginica, virginia cowslip.
lunisolar: resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.
lunistice: the farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution.
lunule: anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.-a lune. see lune.-a small or narrow crescent.-a special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. it sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shaped. see illust. of bivalve.
lunulet: a small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.
lunulite: any bryozoan of the genus lunulites, having a more or less circular form.
lupercal: of or pertaining to the lupercalia.-a grotto on the palatine hill sacred to lupercus, the lycean pan.
lupine: a leguminous plant of the genus lupinus, especially l. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. the common species of the eastern united states is l. perennis. there are many species in california.-wolfish; ravenous.
lupinin: a glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.
lupinine: an alkaloid found in several species of lupine (lupinus luteus, l. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance.
lupulin: a bitter principle extracted from hops.-the fine yellow resinous powder found upon the strobiles or fruit of hops, and containing this bitter principle.
lupulinic: pertaining to, or obtained from, hops; specifically, designating an acid obtained by the decomposition of lupulin.
lupus: a cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.-the wolf, a constellation situated south of scorpio.
lurch: to swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.-an old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.-a double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.-to leave in the lurch; to cheat.-to steal; to rob.-a sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. fig.: a sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.-to roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.-to withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.-to dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
lurcher: one that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.-one of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. it hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.-a glutton; a gormandizer.
lurchline: the line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.
lure: a contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.-any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.-a velvet smoothing brush.-to draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.-to recall a hawk or other animal.