Luckless (a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
Lucky (superl.) Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
Lucky (superl.) Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.
Lucky proach () See Fatherlasher.
Lucrative (a.) Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
Lucrative (a.) Greedy of gain.
Lucratively (adv.) In a lucrative manner.
Lucre (n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
Lucriferous (a.) Gainful; profitable.
Lucrific (a.) Producing profit; gainful.
Luctation (n.) Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor.
Luctual (a.) Producing grief; saddening.
Lucubrated (imp. & p. p.) of Lucubrate
Lucubrated (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lucubrate
Lucubrate (n.) To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.
Lucubrate (v. t.) To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.
Lucubration (n.) The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.
Lucubration (n.) That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.
Lucubrator (n.) One who studies by night; also, one who produces lucubrations.
Lucubratory (a.) Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking.
Lucule (n.) A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.
Luculent (a.) Lucid; clear; transparent.
Luculent (a.) Clear; evident; luminous.
Luculent (a.) Bright; shining in beauty.
Luculently (adv.) In a luculent manner; clearly.
Lucullite (n.) A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.
Lucuma (n.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.
Luddite (n.) 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.
Ludibrious (a.) Sportive; ridiculous; wanton.
Ludibund (a.) Sportive.
Ludicrous (a.) Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
Ludification (n.) The act of deriding.
Ludificatory (a.) Making sport; tending to excite derision.
Ludlamite (n.) 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 (n.) A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.
Lues (n.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind.
Luff (n.) The side of a ship toward the wind.
Luff (n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
Luff (n.) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
Luff (n.) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
Luffed (imp. & p. p.) of Luff
Luffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Luff
Luff (v. i.) 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.
Luffer (n.) See Louver.
Lug (n.) The ear, or its lobe.
Lug (n.) 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.
Lug (n.) 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.
Lug (n.) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
Lug (n.) The lugworm.
Lugged (imp. & p. p.) of Lug
Lugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lug
Lug (v. i.) To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.
Lug (v. i.) To move slowly and heavily.
Lug (n.) The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.
Lug (n.) Anything which moves slowly.
Lug (n.) A rod or pole.
Lug (n.) A measure of length, being 16/ feet; a rod, pole, or perch.
Luggage (n.) That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.
Lugger (n.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix.
Lugger (n.) An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
Lugmark (n.) A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.
Lugsail (n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.
Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Lugworm (n.) 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.
Luke (a.) Moderately warm; not hot; tepid.
Lukewarm (a.) Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent.
Lulled (imp. & p. p.) of Lull
Lulling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lull
Lull (v. t.) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.
Lull (v. i.) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.
Lull (n.) The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby.
Lull (n.) A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.
lullaby (v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.
lullaby (v. t.) Hence: Good night; good-by.
Luller (n.) One who, or that which, lulls.
Lullingly (adv.) In a lulling manner; soothingly.
Lum (n.) A chimney.
Lum (n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
Lum (n.) A woody valley; also, a deep pool.
Lumachel (n.) Alt. of Lumachella
Lumachella (n.) A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.
Lumbaginous (a.) Of or pertaining to lumbago.
Lumbago (n.) A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.
Lumbar (a.) Alt. of Lumbal
Lumbal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries.
Lumber (n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
Lumber (n.) Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
Lumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Lumber
Lumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lumber
Lumber (b. t.) To heap together in disorder.
Lumber (b. t.) To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
Lumber (v. i.) To move heavily, as if burdened.
Lumber (v. i.) To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
Lumber (v. i.) To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
Lumberer (n.) One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman.
Lumbering (n.) The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
Lumbermen (pl. ) of Lumberman
Lumberman (n.) One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.