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labourer
a laborer; someone who works with their hands.
Lacewing
Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus and allied genera. They have delicate, lacelike wings and brilliant eyes. Their larv are useful in destroying aphids. Called also , and .
Lachrymose
Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
Ladanum
A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of . It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.
Ladkin
A little lad.
Lady's laces
A slender climbing plant; dodder.
Lamasery
A monastery or convent of lamas, in Tibet, Mongolia, etc.
Lambative
Taken by licking with the tongue.
Lametta
Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.
Landowner
An owner of land.
Languish
To cause to droop or pine.
Languorous
Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.
Lap
To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
Larum
See , and .
Latin
Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; .
Latitancy
Act or state of lying hid, or lurking.
Laura
A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.
Lavement
A washing or bathing; also, an enema.
Lavishness
The quality or state of being lavish.
Lawgiving
Enacting laws; legislative.
law-makers
Those persons who make or amend or repeal laws, collectively.
layabout
A person who does no work.
Lazzaroni
The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge.
Lead
The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction;
Leaper
A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
Lear
Lore; lesson.
Leasow
A pasture.
Leavings
Things left; remnants; relics.
Lectual
Confining to the bed; .
Leeboard
A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.
Legge
To lay.
Lemaireocereus
A genus of tropical American cacti, usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit.
Length
To lengthen.
Leniently
In a lenient manner.
Lepadidae
A natural family of crustaceans including the goose barnacles.
Lepidine
An organic base, , metameric with quinaldine, and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.
Lester
A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands.
Levee
To keep within a channel by means of levees; .
Lever
More agreeable; more pleasing.
Levogyrate
Turning or twisting the plane of polarization of light towards the left, as levulose, levotartaric acid, etc.; levorotatory.
Libral
Of a pound weight.
Lich
Like.
Lick-spittle
An abject flatterer or parasite.
Lief
Dear; beloved.
Lifestring
A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life.
Lighthouse
A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
Limonite
Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, and yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called .
Line
To cover the inner surface of;
Linger
To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
Linguist
A master of the use of language; a talker.
Lioness
A female lion.
Lirelliform
Like a lirella.
Lister
Same as .
Listful
Attentive.
Literality
The state or quality of being literal.
Litho
A combining form from Gr. , .
Lithofellic
Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.
litigatious
of or pertaining to litigation.
live-bearer
Any fish of the family , small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters, often used in mosquito control.
Lividness
Lividity.
Lock
To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of;
Lockjaw
A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus; trismus.
lodgepole pine
A tall, narrow 2-needled pine () of the coastal Northwestern U. S., having a red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares and bearing egg-shaped cones.
Loge
A lodge; a habitation.
Longevity
Long duration of life; length of life.
Looking-glass
A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.
loony
Crazy; insane; lunatic; mentally unsound.
loony
someone mentally deranged and possibly dangerous.
Loxodromic
Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; .
Lucchese
A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.
Lugubrious
Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; .
Lunary
The herb moonwort or honesty.
Lunatic
A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.
Lurry
A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.
Lusitanian
Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal.
Lustre
Same as .
Lutescent
Of a yellowish color.
Luz
A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.
Lycanthropist
One affected by the disease lycanthropy.
Lycopodium
A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order ; club moss.
Lyraid
Same as .