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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Lōan'a-ble, a. p. 782Capable of being loaned.Lōath, a. p. 782Filled with disgust or aversion; unwilling; backward; reluctant. See LOTH.Lōathe, v. t. p. 782To feel disgust at; especially, to have an extreme aversion of the appetite to food or drink. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I longed for bread. Cowley. 2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate. “Not to…Lōathe, v. i. p. 782To feel disgust or nausea. [Obs.]L'ōath'er, n. p. 782One who loathes or abhors.Lōath'ful, a. p. 782Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. “Loathful eyes.” Hubbard. 2. Awakening or exciting loathing or disgust; disgusting. “Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust.” Spenser.Lōath'ing, n. p. 782Extreme disgust; abhorrence; detestation. “The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races.” Macaulay.Lōath'ing-ly, adv. p. 782With extreme disgust or abhorrence; in a fastidious manner.Lōath'-li-ness, n. p. 782The state or quality of being loathly; loath-someness. [Obs.]Lōath'ly, a. p. 782Loathsome. “Some fast like loathly toads.” Spenser.Lōath'ly, adv. p. 782Unwillingly; reluctantly. This shows that you from nature loathly stray. Donne. 2. In a loathsome manner; filthily. With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight. Fairfax.Lōath'ness, n. p. 782Unwillingness; reluctance. There grew among them a general silence and loathness to speak. Bacon.Lōath’sōme, a. p. 782Causing to loathe; exciting disgust; disgusting. “In defiance of the most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.” Macaulay. 2. Exciting hatred or abhorrence; detestable; odious; as, loathsome sloth.Lōath'sōme-ly, adv. p. 782In a loathsome manner; offensively.Lōath'sōme-ness, n. p. 782The quality of exciting extreme disgust or abhorrence.Lōath’y, a. p. 782Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.Lōaves, n. p. 782pl. of loaf.Lōb, n. p. 782A dull, heavy, sluggish person. 2. Something thick and heavy. 3. A lob-worm. See LUG-WORM.Lŏb, v. t. p. 782To let fall heavily or lazily. And their poor jades Lob down their heads. Shak.Lō'bate or Lō'bā-ted, a. p. 783(Nat. Hist.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.Lōb'by, n. p. 783(Arch.) An inclosed place surrounding or communicating with one or more apartments; also, a small hall or waiting-room, or an entrance into a principal apartment when there is a considerable space…Lŏb'by, v. i. p. 783To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere away from the House, with a view to influence their votes. This is practiced by persons not belonging to the legislature.…Lōb'-cōck, n. p. 783A sluggish, stupid, inactive person; a lob.Lōbe, n. p. 783Any projection or division, especially of a somewhat rounded form; as, (a.) (Bot.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf. Gray. (b.) (Anat.) A round, projecting part of an organ, as of the…Lōbed, a. p. 783Having lobes; lobate.Lōbe'let, n. p. 783(Bot.) A small lobe; a lobule.Lo-bē'li-ā, n. p. 783(Bot.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. L. inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous, white, viscid juice, of an acrid…Lŏb'lol-ly, n. p. 783Water-gruel, or spoon-meat;—so called among seamen.Lōb'lol-ly-bāy, n. p. 783(Bot.) An elegant, ornamental, evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning.Lōb'lol-ly-boy, n. p. 783A surgeon’s attendant on shipboard.Lōb'lol-ly-tree, n. p. 783(Bot.) A West Indian tree of the genus Varronia (V. alba), growing to the height of about thirty feet, and producing a fruit which is sometimes eaten.Lŏb'scouse, n. p. 783(Naut.) A hash of meat with vegetables of various kinds; an olio.Lōp'sīd-ed, a. p. 783See LAPSĪDED.Lōb's-pound, n. p. 783A prison. Hudibras.Lōb'ster, n. p. 783(Zoöl.) A large, long tailed crustacean, used for food. The American lobster is a species of the genus Homarus; the European, of the genus Palinurus, have no large claws. The fresh-water lobsters are…Lŏb'ū-lā'ted, a. p. 783Having small lobed divisions.Lŏb'ūle, n. p. 783A small lobe.Lŏb'-worm, n. p. 783See LUG-WORM.Lō'cal, a. p. 783Pertaining to a particular place, or to a fixed or limited portion of space; as, local circumstances. 2. Limited or confined to a spot, place, or definite district; as, a local custom. — Gives to…Lo-cāle', n. p. 783A place, spot, or location. 2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.Lō'cal-ism, n. p. 783The state of being local; affection for a place. 2. A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.Lo-căl'i-ty, n. p. 783Existence in a place, or in a certain portion of space. It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanville.…Lō'cal-i-zā'tion, n. p. 783The act of localizing.]Lō'cal-īze, v. t. p. 783To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. “As Fancy localizes powers we love.” Wordsworth.Lō'cal-ly, adv. p. 783With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.Lō'cāte, v. t. p. 783To place; to set in a particular spot or position. 2. To designate the site or place of; as, to locate a public building, a church, &c. 3. To select or determine the bounds or place of; as, to locate…Lō-cā′tion, n. p. 783The act of placing, or of designating a place. 2. The place where something spoken of is located or permanently fixed. 3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. 4. (Law.) (a.)…Lō'ca-tive, a. p. 783(Gram.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun.Lŏch, n. p. 783A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.]Lōch, n. p. 783(Med.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture. [Written also loche, loboch, looch, and lough.]Lo-chā'ber-āx or Lo-chā'ber-āxe, n. p. 783A formidable weapon of war, consisting of a pole bearing an ax at its upper end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.Lōch'age, n. p. 783(Gr. Antiq.) An officer who commanded a cohort, the number of men in which is not certainly known. Mitford.Lŏch'an, n. p. 783A small lake; a pond. [Scot.] “A pond or lochan rather than a lake.” H. Miller.Lōche, n. p. 783See LOACH and LOCH.Lo-chi'ă or Lō'chi-ă, n. p. 783(Med.) The evacuations from the womb and vagina, which follow childbirth.Lō'chi-al, a. p. 783Pertaining to the lochia.Lŏck, n. p. 783Any thing that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, and the like, in which a movable bolt is projected by the action of a separate piece, called a key, but can not be…Lŏck, v. t. p. 783To fasten with a lock and key; as, to lock a door; to lock a trunk. 2. To fasten so as to impede motion; as, to lock a wheel. 3. To shut up or confine, as with a lock; as, to be locked in a prison.…Lŏck, v. i. p. 783To become fast; as, the door locks close. 2. To unite closely by mutual insertion; as, they lock into each other.Lŏck'age, n. p. 783Materials for locks in a canal. 2. Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal. 3. Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal. The entire lockage will be about fifty feet on each…