Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 28

Leyser (n.) Leisure.

Leze majesty () Any crime committed against the sovereign power.

Lherzolite (n.) An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).

Li (n.) A Chinese measure of distance, being a little more than one third of a mile.

Li (n.) A Chinese copper coin; a cash. See Cash.

Liabilities (pl. ) of Liability

Liability (n.) The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.

Liability (n.) That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable.

Liability (n.) the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets.

Liable (v. t.) Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.

Liable (v. t.) Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident.

Liableness (n.) Quality of being liable; liability.

Liage (n.) Union by league; alliance.

Liaison (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

Liane (n.) Alt. of Liana

Liana (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.

Liar (n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

Liard (a.) Gray.

Liard (n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.

Lias (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.

Liassic (a.) Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation.

Liassic (n.) Same as Lias.

Lib (v. t.) To castrate.

Libament (n.) Libation.

Libant (a.) Sipping; touching lightly.

Libation (n.) The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out.

Libatory (a.) Pertaining to libation.

Libbard (n.) A leopard.

Libbard's bane () Leopard's bane.

Libel (n.) A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.

Libel (n.) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

Libel (n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.

Libel (n.) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.

Libel (n.) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.

Libeled (imp. & p. p.) of Libel

Libelled () of Libel

Libeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Libel

Libelling () of Libel

Libel (v. t.) To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.

Libel (v. t.) To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.

Libel (v. i.) To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against.

Libelant (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.

Libeler (n.) One who libels.

Libelist (n.) A libeler.

Li bella (n.) A small balance.

Li bella (n.) A level, or leveling instrument.

Libellulid (n.) A dragon fly.

Libelluloid (a.) Like or pertaining to the dragon flies.

Libelous (a.) Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet.

Liber (n.) The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.

Liberal (a.) Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.

Liberal (a.) Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver.

Liberal (a.) Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water.

Liberal (a.) Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.

Liberal (a.) Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic.

Liberal (a.) Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.

Liberal (a.) Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.

Liberal (n.) One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.

Liberalism (n.) Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.

Liberalist (n.) A liberal.

Liberalistic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.

Liberalities (pl. ) of Liberality

Liberality (n.) The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity.

Liberality (n.) A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.

Liberalization (n.) The act of liberalizing.

Liberalized (imp. & p. p.) of Liberalize

Liberalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liberalize

Liberalize (v. t.) To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

Liberalizer (n.) One who, or that which, liberalizes.

Liberally (adv.) In a liberal manner.

Liberated (imp. & p. p.) of Liberate

Liberating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liberate

Liberate (a.) To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

Liberation (n.) The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

Liberator (n.) One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.

Liberatory (a.) Tending, or serving, to liberate.

Libertarian (a.) Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Libertarian (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of free will.

Libertarianism (n.) Libertarian principles or doctrines.

Liberticide (n.) The destruction of civil liberty.

Liberticide (n.) A destroyer of civil liberty.

Libertinage (n.) Libertinism; license.

Libertine (n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

Libertine (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.

Libertine (n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.

Libertine (n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.

Libertine (n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.

Libertine (n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

Libertinism (n.) The state of a libertine or freedman.

Libertinism (n.) Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.

Libertinism (n.) Licentiousness of principle or opinion.

Liberties (pl. ) of Liberty

Liberty (n.) The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.

Liberty (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.

Liberty (n.) A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.

Liberty (n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.

Liberty (n.) The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised.

Liberty (n.) A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.

Liberty (n.) A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.

Liberty (n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.

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