Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 53

Lowliness (n.) Low condition, especially as to manner of life.

Low-lived (a.) Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.

Lowly (a.) Not high; not elevated in place; low.

Lowly (a.) Low in rank or social importance.

Lowly (a.) Not lofty or sublime; humble.

Lowly (a.) Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.

Lowly (adv.) In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.

Lowly (adv.) In a low condition; meanly.

Low-minded (a.) Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.

Low-mindedness (n.) The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.

Lown (n.) A low fellow.

Low-necked (a.) Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman's dress.

Lowness (n.) The state or quality of being low.

Low-pressure (a.) Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.

Lowry (n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

Low-spirited (a.) Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.

Low-studded (a.) Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.

Low-thoughted (a.) Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.

Loxodromic (a.) Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.

Loxodromics (n.) The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line.

Loxodremism (n.) The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.

Loxodromy (n.) The science of loxodromics.

Loy (n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands.

Loyal (a.) 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.

Loyal (a.) 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 (n.) 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.

Loyally (adv.) In a loyal manner; faithfully.

Loyalness (n.) Loyalty.

Loyalty (n.) The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.

Lozenge (n.) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

Lozenge (n.) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.

Lozenge (n.) A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.

Lozenge (n.) Anything in the form of lozenge.

Lozenge (n.) A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.

Lozenged (a.) Alt. of Lozenge-shaped

Lozenge-shaped (a.) Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb.

Lozengy (a.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.

Lu (n. & v. t.) See Loo.

Lubbard (n.) A lubber.

Lubbard (a.) Lubberly.

Lubber (n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.

Lubberly (a.) Like a lubber; clumsy.

Lubberly (adv.) Clumsily; awkwardly.

Lubric (a.) Alt. of Lubrical

Lubrical (a.) Having a smooth surface; slippery.

Lubrical (a.) Lascivious; wanton; lewd.

Lubricant (a.) Lubricating.

Lubricant (n.) That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.

Lubricate (v. t.) To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.

Lubricate (v. t.) To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.

Lubrication (n.) The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.

Lubricator (n.) One who, or that which, lubricates.

Lubricator (n.) A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.

Lubricitate (v. i.) See Lubricate.

Lubricity (n.) Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.

Lubricity (n.) Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune.

Lubricity (n.) Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency.

Lubricous (a.) Lubric.

Lubrification (n.) Alt. of Lubrifaction

Lubrifaction (n.) The act of lubricating, or making smooth.

Lucarne (n.) A dormer window.

Lucchese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.

Luce (n.) A pike when full grown.

Lucency (n.) The quality of being lucent.

Lucent (a.) Shining; bright; resplendent.

Lucern (n.) A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland.

Lucern (n.) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx).

Lucern (n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa.

Lucern (n.) A lamp.

Lucernal (a.) Of or pertaining to a lamp.

Lucernaria (n.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida.

Lucernarian (n.) One of the Lucernarida.

lucernarida (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa.

lucernarida (n. pl.) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.

Lucerne (n.) See Lucern, the plant.

Lucid (n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.

Lucid (n.) Clear; transparent.

Lucid (n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.

Lucid (n.) 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.

Lucidity (n.) The quality or state of being lucid.

Lucidly (adv.) In a lucid manner.

Lucidness (n.) The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

Lucifer (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.

Lucifer (n.) Hence, Satan.

Lucifer (n.) 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.

Lucifer (n.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.

Luciferian (a.) Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.

Luciferian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader.

Luciferian (n.) 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.

Luciferous (a.) Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.

Luciferously (adv.) In a luciferous manner.

Lucific (a.) Producing light.

Luciform (a.) Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light.

Lucifrian (a.) Luciferian; satanic.

Lucimeter (n.) an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.

Luck (n.) 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 (adv.) In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.

Luckiness (n.) The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.

Luckiness (n.) Good fortune; favorable issue or event.

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