Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 37

Link (n.) A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

Link (n.) A single ring or division of a chain.

Link (n.) Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.

Link (n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.

Link (n.) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

Link (n.) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

Link (n.) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4.

Link (n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

Link (n.) Sausages; -- because linked together.

Linked (imp. & p. p.) of Link

Linking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Link

Link (v. t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.

Link (v. i.) To be connected.

Linkage (n.) The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.

Linkage (n.) Manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union of atoms or radicals in the molecule.

Linkage (n.) A system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used to describe straight lines and curves in the plane.

Linkboy (n.) Alt. of Linkman

Linkman (n.) A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.

Link motion () A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.

Linkwork (n.) A fabric consisting of links made of metal or other material fastened together; also, a chain.

Linkwork (n.) Mechanism in which links, or intermediate connecting pieces, are employed to transmit motion from one part to another.

Linnaea borealis () The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.

Linnaean (a.) Alt. of Linnean

Linnean (a.) Of or pertaining to Linnaeus, the celebrated Swedish botanist.

Linnaeite (n.) A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper.

Linne (n.) Flax. See Linen.

Linnet (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.

Linoleate (n.) A salt of linoleic acid.

Linoleic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.

Linoleum (n.) Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.

Linoleum (n.) A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.

Linoxin (n.) A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid.

Linsang (n.) Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.

Linseed (n.) The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.

Linsey (n.) Linsey-woolsey.

Linsey-woolsey (n.) Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.

Linsey-woolsey (n.) Jargon.

Linsey-woolsey (a.) Made of linen and wool; hence, of different and unsuitable parts; mean.

Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

Lint (n.) Flax.

Lint (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.

Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

Lintie (n.) Alt. of Lintwhite

Lintwhite (n.) See Linnet.

Lintseed (n.) See Linseed.

Linum (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).

Lion (n.) A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.

Lion (n.) A sign and a constellation; Leo.

Lion (n.) An object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in London at that time.

Lionced (a.) Adorned with lions' heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross.

Lioncel (n.) A small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.

Lionel (n.) The whelp of a lioness; a young lion.

Lioness (n.) A female lion.

Lionet (n.) A young or small lion.

Lion-heart (n.) A very brave person.

Lion-hearted (a.) Very brave; brave and magnanimous.

Lionhood (n.) State of being a lion.

Lionism (n.) An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.

Lionized (imp. & p. p.) of Lionize

Lionizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lionize

Lionize (v. t.) To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest.

Lionize (v. t.) To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest.

Lionlike (a.) Like a lion; brave as a lion.

Lionly (a.) Like a lion; fierce.

Lion's ear () A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

Lion's foot () A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States.

Lion's foot () The edelweiss.

Lionship (n.) The state of being a lion.

Lion's leaf () A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.

Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Lions' teeth (pl. ) of Lion's tooth

Lion's tooth () See Leontodon.

Lip (n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

Lip (n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

Lip (n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

Lip (n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

Lip (n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

Lip (n.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

Lipped (imp. & p. p.) of Lip

Lipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lip

Lip (v. t.) To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

Lip (v. t.) To utter; to speak.

Lip (v. t.) To clip; to trim.

Lipaemia (n.) A condition in which fat occurs in the blood.

Lipans (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting the northern part of Mexico. They belong to the Tinneh stock, and are closely related to the Apaches.

Liparian (n.) Any species of a family (Liparidae) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.

Liparite (n.) A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.

Lipic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc.

Lipinic (a.) Lipic.

Lipless (a.) Having no lips.

Liplet (n.) A little lip.

Lipocephala (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia.

Lipochrin (n.) A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best obtained from the eyes of frogs.

Lipogram (n.) A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.

Lipogrammatic (a.) Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.

Lipogrammatist (n.) One who makes a lipogram.

Lipoma (n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue.

Lipothymic (a.) Tending to swoon; fainting.

Lipothymous (a.) Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting.

Lipothymy (n.) A fainting; a swoon.

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