Webster's Dictionary 1913

3565

Luxurist

Lux″u‐rist (?), n. One given to luxury. Sir W. Temple.

3566

Luxury

Lux″u‐ry (?), n.; pl.Luxuries (#). [L. luxuria, fr. luxus: cf. F. luxure.] 1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appet...

3567

Luz

Luz (?), n. A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute. Brande & C.

3568

Lyam

Ly″am (?), n. [See Leam.] A leash.

3569

Lycanthrope

Ly″can‐thrope (?), n. 1. A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.2. One affected with lycanthropy.

3570

Lycanthropia

‖Ly′can‐thro″pi‐a (?), n. See Lycanthropy, 2.

3571

Lycanthropic

Ly′can‐throp″ic (?), a. Pertaining to lycanthropy.

3572

Lycanthropist

Ly‐can″thro‐pist (?), n. One affected by the disease lycanthropy.

3573

Lycanthropous

Ly‐can″thro‐pous (?), a. Lycanthropic.

3574

Lycanthropy

Ly‐can″thro‐py (?), n. [Gr. �: cf. F. lycanthropie.] 1. The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf. Lowell.2. (Med.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in w...

3575

Lycée

‖Ly′cée″ (?), n. [F. Cf. Lyceum.] A French lyceum, or secondary school supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.

3576

Lyceum

Ly‐ce″um (?), n.; pl. E. Lyceums (#), L. Lycea (#). [L. lyceum, Gr. �, so named after the neighboring temple of � � Apollo the wolf slayer, prob. fr. � belonging to a wolf, fr �...

3577

Lych gate

Lych″ gate′ (?). See under Lich.

3578

Lyche

Lyche (?), a. Like. Chaucer.

3579

Lychee

Ly″chee′ (?), n.(Bot.) See Litchi.

3580

Lychnis

‖Lych″nis (?), n. [L., a kind of red flower, Gr. λυχνίσ; cf. λύχνοσ a lamp.] (Bot.) A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceæ). Most of the specie...

3581

Lychnobite

Lych″no‐bite (?), n. [Gr. λύχνοσ a lamp + βίοσ life.] One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

3582

Lychnoscope

Lych″no‐scope (?), n. [Gr. � + -scope.] (Arch.) Same as Low side window, under Low, a.

3583

Lycine

Lyc″ine (?), n.(Chem.) A weak base identical with betaine; — so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

3584

Lycoperdon

‖Ly′co‐per″don (?), n.(Bot.) A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or b...

3585

Lycopod

Ly″co‐pod (?), n. [Cf. F. lycopode.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Lycopodium.

3586

Lycopode

Ly″co‐pode (?), n. Same as Lycopodium powder. See under Lycopodium.

3587

Lycopodiaceous

Ly′co‐po′di‐a″ceous (?), a.(Bot.) Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded...

3588

Lycopodite

Ly‐cop″o‐dite (?), n.(Paleon.) An old name for a fossil club moss.

3589

Lycopodium

Ly′co‐po″di‐um (?), n.(Bot.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss.Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopod...

3590

Lycotropous

Ly‐cot″ro‐pous (?), a.(Bot.) Campylotropous.

3591

Lyddite

Lydd″ite (?), n.(Chem.) A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used as a shell explosive in the British service; — so named from the proving grounds at Lydd, En...