Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 57

Lustreless (a.) Destitute of luster; dim; dull.

Lustful (a.) Full of lust; excited by lust.

Lustful (a.) Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality.

Lustful (a.) Strong; lusty.

Lustic (a.) Lusty; vigorous.

Lustihead (n.) See Lustihood.

Lustihood (n.) State of being lusty; vigor of body.

Lustily (adv.) In a lusty or vigorous manner.

Lustiness (n.) State of being lusty; vigor; strength.

Lustless (a.) Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.

Lustless (a.) Free from sexual lust.

Lustral (a.) Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.

Lustral (a.) Of or pertaining to a lustrum.

Lustrated (imp. & p. p.) of Lustrate

Lustrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lustrate

Lustrate (v. t.) To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.

Lustration (n.) The act of lustrating or purifying.

Lustration (n.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.

Lustre (n.) Same as Luster.

Lustrical (a.) Pertaining to, or used for, purification.

Lustring (n.) A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.

Lustrous (a.) Bright; shining; luminous.

Lustrums (pl. ) of Lustrum

Lustra (pl. ) of Lustrum

Lustrum (n.) A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.

Lustwort (n.) See Sundew.

Lusty (superl.) Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.

Lusty (superl.) Beautiful; handsome; pleasant.

Lusty (superl.) Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant.

Lusty (superl.) Lustful; lascivious.

Lusus naturae () Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.

Lutanist (n.) A person that plays on the lute.

Lutarious (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud.

Lutation (n.) The act or method of luting vessels.

Lute (n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

Lute (n.) A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

Lute (n.) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

Luted (imp. & p. p.) of Lute

Luting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lute

Lute (v. t.) To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

Lute (v. i.) To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

Lute (v. t.) To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

Lute-backed (a.) Having a curved spine.

Luteic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola).

Luteic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of Euphorbia cyparissias.

Lutein (n.) A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

Lutenist (n.) Same as Lutanist.

Luteo- () A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.

Luteocobaltic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic.

Luteolin (n.) A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).

Luteous (a.) Yellowish; more or less like buff.

Luter (n.) One who plays on a lute.

Luter (n.) One who applies lute.

Lutescent (a.) Of a yellowish color.

Lutestring (n.) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.

Luth (n.) The leatherback.

Lutheran (a.) Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

Lutheran (n.) One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

Lutheranism (n.) Alt. of Lutherism

Lutherism (n.) The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.

Luthern (n.) A dormer window. See Dormer.

Lutidine (n.) Any one of several metameric alkaloids, C5H3N.(CH3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.

Luting (n.) See Lute, a cement.

Lutist (n.) One who plays on a lute.

Lutose (a.) Covered with clay; miry.

Lutulence (n.) The state or quality of being lutulent.

Lutulent (a.) Muddy; turbid; thick.

Luwack (n.) See Paradoxure.

Lux (v. t.) To put out of joint; to luxate.

Luxate (a.) Luxated.

Luxated (imp. & p. p.) of Luxate

Luxating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Luxate

Luxate (v. t.) To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.

Luxation (n.) The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.

Luxe (n.) Luxury.

Luxive (a.) Given to luxury; voluptuous.

Luxullianite (n.) A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.

Luxuriance (n.) The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.

Luxuriancy (n.) The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance.

Luxuriant (a.) Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.

Luxuriantly (adv.) In a luxuriant manner.

Luxuriated (imp. & p. p.) of Luxuriate

Luxuriating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Luxuriate

Luxuriate (v. i.) To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

Luxuriate (v. i.) To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures.

Luxuriate (v. i.) To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.

Luxuriation (n.) The act or process luxuriating.

Luxuriety (n.) Luxuriance.

Luxurious (a.) Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease.

Luxurist (n.) One given to luxury.

Luxuries (pl. ) of Luxury

Luxury (n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.

Luxury (n.) Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.

Luxury (n.) Lechery; lust.

Luxury (n.) Luxuriance; exuberance.

Luz (n.) A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.

-ly (a.) A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance.

Lyam (n.) A leash.

Lycanthrope (n.) A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.

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