LICENTIATE
LICEN'TIATE, noun [from Latin licentia.]1. One who has a license; as a licentiate in physic or medicine.2. In Spain, one who has a degree; as a licentiate in law or divinity. Th...
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LICENTIOUS
LICEN'TIOUS, adjective [Latin licentiosus.]1. Using license; indulging freedom to excess; unrestrained by law or morality; loose; dissolute; as a licentious man.2. Exceeding the...
LICENTIOUSLY
LICEN'TIOUSLY, adverb With excess of liberty; in contempt of law and morality.
LICENTIOUSNESS
LICEN'TIOUSNESS, noun Excessive indulgence of liberty; contempt of the just restraints of law, morality and decorum. The licentiousness of authors is justly condemned; the licen...
LICH
LICH, adjective [See Like.] Like; even; equal. obsoleteLICH, noun [Heb. chalak, smooth. We have here an instance of the radical sense of man and body, almost exactly analogous t...
LICHEN
LICH'EN, noun [Latin from Gr.]1. In botany, the name for an extensive division of cryptogamian plants, constituting a genus in the order of Algae, in the Linnean system, but now...
LICHENOGRAPHIC
LICHENOGRAPH'IC,LICHENOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to lichenography.
LICHENOGRAPHICAL
LICHENOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to lichenography.
LICHENOGRAPHIST
LICHENOG'RAPHIST, noun One who describes the lichens.
LICHENOGRAPHY
LICHENOG'RAPHY, noun [lichen and to write.]A description of the vegetables called lichens; the science which illustrates the natural history of the lichens.
LICIT
LIC'IT, adjective [Latin licitus.] Lawful.
LICITLY
LIC'ITLY, adverb Lawfully.
LICITNESS
LIC'ITNESS, noun Lawfulness.
LICK
LICK, verb transitive [Latin lingo; Gr. See Like and Sleek.]1. To pass or draw the tongue over the surface; as, a dog licks a wound.2. To lap; to take in by the tongue; as, a do...
LICKER
LICK'ER, noun One that licks.
LICKERISH
LICK'ERISH, adjective [Gr. sweet. The sense of watery, smooth, sweet, are allied; likeness is often connected with smoothness in radical sense, and sleek is probably from the ro...
LICKERISHLY
LICK'ERISHLY, adverb Daintly.
LICKERISHNESS
LICK'ERISHNESS, noun Niceness of palate; daintiness.
LICORICE
LIC'ORICE, noun [Latin glycyrrhiza; Gr. sweet, and root.]A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza. The root of this plant abounds with a sweet balsamic juice, much used in pectoral comp...
LICOROUS
LICOROUS, LICOROUSNESS, for lickerish, etc. not used.
LICOROUSNESS
LICOROUS, LICOROUSNESS for lickerish, etc. not used.
LICTOR
LIC'TOR, noun [Latin lick, to strike.] An officer among the Romans, who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. The duty of a lictor was to attend the chief mag...
LID
LID. noun [Latin claudo, cludo; Gr.; Heb.]A cover; that which shuts the opening of a vessel or box; as the lid of a chest or trunk; also, the cover of the eye, the membrane whic...
LIE
LIE, water impregnated with alkaline salt, is written lye, to distinguish it from lie a falsehood.LIE, noun1. A criminal falsehood; a falsehood uttered for the purpose of decept...
LIEF
LIEF, adjective [See Love.] Dear; beloved. obsoleteLIEF, adverb [supra. This word coincides with love, Latin lubet, libet, and the primary sense is to be free, prompt, ready.]Gl...
LIEGE
LIEGE, adjective [Latin ligo, to bind; Gr. to bind, to bend; a withe.]1. Bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; subje...
LIEGE-MAN
LIE'GE-MAN, noun A vassal; a subject. obsolete