LITERALITY
LITERAL'ITY, noun Original or literal meaning.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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LITERALLY
LIT'ERALLY, adverb1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively. A man and his wife cannot be literally one flesh.2. With close adherence to words; w...
LITERARY
LIT'ERARY, adjective [Latin literarius.]1. Pertaining to letters or literature; respecting learning or learned men; as a literary history; literary conversation.2. Derived from ...
LITERATE
LIT'ERATE, adjective [Latin literatus.] Learned; lettered; instructed in learning and science.
LITERATI
LITERA'TI, nounplural [Latin literatus.] The learned; men of erudition.
LITERATOR
LIT'ERATOR, noun [Latin] A petty schoolmaster.
LITERATURE
LIT'ERATURE, noun [Latin literatura.] Learning; acquaintance with letters or books. literature comprehends a knowledge of the ancient languages, denominated classical, history, ...
LITH
LITH, noun A joint or limb. obsolete
LITHANTHRAX
LITHAN'THRAX, noun [Gr. a stone, and a coal.]Stone-coal, a black, compact, brittle, inflammable substance, of laminated texture, more or less shining.
LITHARGE
LITH'ARGE, noun [Latin lithargyros, Gr. the spume or scum of silver.A semi-vitreous oxyd of lead, produced in refining silver by cupellation with lead. It appears in the form of...
LITHE
LITHE, adjective That may be easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as the elephant's lithe proboscis.LITHE, verb transitive1. To smooth; to soften; to palliate. obsolete2. To l...
LITHENESS
LI'THENESS, noun Flexibility; limberness.
LITHER
LI'THER, adjective1. Soft; pliant. obsolete2. Bad; corrupt. obsolete
LITHERLY
LI'THERLY, adverb Slowly; lazily. obsolete
LITHERNESS
LI'THERNESS, noun Idleness; laziness. obsolete
LITHIA
LITH'IA, noun A new alkali, found in a mineral called petalite, of which the basis is a metal called lithium.
LITHIATE
LITH'IATE, noun [Gr. a stone.] A salt or compound formed by the lithic acid combined with a base.
LITHIC
LITH'IC, adjective [supra.] Pertaining to the stone in the bladder. The lithic acid is obtained from a calculus in the bladder.
LITHOBIBLION
LITHOBIBLION. [See Lithophyl.]
LITHOCARP
LITH'OCARP, noun [Gr. a stone, and fruit.] Fossil fruit; fruit petrified.
LITHOCOLLA
LITH'OCOLLA, noun [Gr. a stone, and glue.] A cement that unites stones.
LITHODENDRON
LITHODEN'DRON, noun [Gr. stone, and tree.] Coral; so called from its resembling a petrified branch.
LITHOGENESY
LITHOGEN'ESY, noun [Gr. stone, and generation.]The doctrine or science of the origin of minerals composing the globe, and of the causes which have produced their form and dispos...
LITHOGLYPHITE
LITHOGLYPH'ITE, noun [Gr. stone, and to engrave.]A fossil that presents the appearance of being engraved or shaped by art.
LITHOGRAPHER
LITHOG'RAPHER, noun [See Lithography.] One who practices lithography.
LITHOGRAPHIC
LITHOGRAPH'IC,LITHOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to lithography.
LITHOGRAPHICAL
LITHOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to lithography.