LEXICOGRAPHIC
LEXICOGRAPH'IC, adjective Pertaining to the writing or compilation of a dictionary.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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LEXICOGRAPHY
LEXICOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a dictionary, and to write.]1. The act of writing a lexicon or dictionary, or the art of composing dictionaries.2. The composition or compilation of a d...
LEXICOLOGY
LEXICOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a dictionary, and discourse.]The science of words; that branch of learning which treats of the proper signification and just application of words.
LEXICON
LEX'ICON, noun [Gr. a dictionary, from to speak.]A dictionary; a vocabulary or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language, with the definition of eac...
LEXICONIST
LEX'ICONIST, noun A writer of a lexicon. [Little used.]
LEXIGRAPHY
LEX'IGRAPHY, noun [Gr. a word, and to write.] The art or practice of defining words.LEY, a different orthography of lay and lea, a meadow or field.
LEY
LEY, noun [See Lay.] A meadow or plain. The Welsh write lle, but as this word is from the root of lay, the latter is the more correct orthography.
LHERZOLITE
LHER'ZOLITE, noun [from Lherz, in the Pyrenees.]A mineral, a variety of pyroxene. When crystallized, its crystals are brilliant, translucid, very small, and of an emerald green.
LIABILITY
LIABIL'ITY, noun1. The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice; responsibility. The officer wishes to discharge himself from his liability2. Exposedness; tendency; a s...
LIABLE
LI'ABLE, adjective [Latin ligo. See Liege.]1. Bound; obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable. The surety is liable for the debt of his principal. The parent is not lia...
LIABLENESS
LI'ABLENESS,LIA'R, noun [from lie.]1. A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who declares to another as a fact what he knows to be not true, and with an intention to decei...
LIAR
LIA'R, n. [from lie.]1. A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who declares to another as a fact what he knows to be not true, and with an intention to deceive him. The ut...
LIARD
LI'ARD, adjective Gray. obsolete
LIAS
LI'AS, noun A species of limestone, occurring in flat, horizontal strata, and supposed to be of recent formation.
LIB
LIB, verb transitive To castrate. [Not in use.]
LIBATION
LIBA'TION, noun [Latin libatio, from libo, to pour out, to taste.]1. The act of pouring a liquor, usually wine, either on the ground, or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of so...
LIBBARD
LIBBARD, an obsolete spelling of leopard.
LIBBARDS-BANE
LIB'BARD'S-BANE, noun A poisonous plant.
LIBEL
LI'BEL, noun [Latin libellus, a little book, from liber, a book, from the sense of bark, and this from stripping separating. Hence liber, a book, and liber, free, are the same w...
LIBELANT
LI'BELANT, noun One who libels; one who brings a libel or institutes a suit in an admiralty court.The counsel for the libelant contended they had a right to read the instructions.
LIBELED
LI'BELED, participle passive1. Defamed by a writing or picture made public.2. Charged or declared against in an admiralty court.
LIBELER
LI'BELER, noun One who libels or defames by writing or pictures; a lampooner.It is ignorance of ourselves which makes us the libelers of others.
LIBELING
LI'BELING, participle present tense1. Defaming by a published writing or picture.2. Exhibiting charges against in court.
LIBELOUS
LI'BELOUS, adjective Defamatory; containing that which exposes a person to public hatred, contempt and ridicule; as a libelous pamphlet or picture.
LIBERAL
LIB'ERAL, adjective [Latin liberalis, from liber, free. See Libe.]1. Of a free heart; free to give or bestow; not close or contracted; munificent; bountiful; generous; giving la...
LIBERALITY
LIBERAL'ITY, noun [Latin liberalitas. See Liberal.]1. Munificence; bounty.That liberality is but cast away, which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.2. A particular act of gener...
LIBERALIZE
LIB'ERALIZE, verb transitive To render liberal or catholic; to enlarge; to free from narrow views or prejudices; as, to liberalize the mind.