Louchettes
‖Lou‐chettes″ (?), n. pl. Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front. Knight.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Loud
Loud (loud), a. [Compar.Louder (loud″ẽr); superl.Loudest.] [OE. loud, lud, AS. hlūd; akin to OS. hlūd, D. luid, OHG. lūt, G. laut, L. -clutus, in inclutus, inclitus, celebrated,...
Loud (2)
Loud, adv. [AS. hlūde.] With loudness; loudly.To speak loud in public assemblies. Addison.
Loud-mouthed
Loud″–mouthed′ (?), a. Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
Loud-voiced
Loud″–voiced′ (?), a. Having a loud voice; noisy; clamorous. Byron.
Loudful
Loud″ful (?), a. Noisy. Marsion.
Loudly
Loud″ly, adv. In a loud manner. Denham.
Loudness
Loud″ness, n. The quality or state of being loud.
Lough
Lough (?), n. [See 1st Loch.] A loch or lake; — so spelt in Ireland.
Lough (2)
Lough (?), obs.strong imp. of Laugh. Chaucer.
Louis d'or
Lou″is d'or′ (?). Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; — first struck in 1640.
Louis quatorze
Lou″is qua‐torze″ (lo͞o″ĭ kȧ‐tôrz″). Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the art or style of the times of Louis XIV. of France; as, Louis quatorze architecture.
Louk
Louk (louk), n. An accomplice; a “pal.”There is no thief without a louk. Chaucer.
Lounge
Lounge (lounj), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Lounged (lounjd); p. pr. & vb. n.Lounging (loun″jĭng).] [OE. lungis a tall, slow, awkward fellow, OF. longis, longin, said to be fr. Longinus,...
Lounge (2)
Lounge, n. 1. An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop served as a fashionable lounge...
Lounger
Loun″ger (?), n. One who lounges; an idler.
Loup
Loup (lo͞op), n.(Iron Works) See 1st Loop.
Loup-cervier
‖Loup″–cer′vier″ (?), n. [F. Cf. Lusern.] (Zoöl.) The Canada lynx. See Lynx.
Loup-garou
‖Loup′–ga′rou″ (?), n.; pl. Loups-garous (#). [F., fr. loup wolf + a Teutonic word akin to E. werewolf.] A werewolf; a lycanthrope.The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewol...
Loup-loup
‖Loup′–loup″ (lo͞o′lo͞o″), n.(Zoöl.) The Pomeranian or Spitz dog.
Louping
Loup″ing (?). [From Loup to leap.] (Veter.) An enzoötic, often fatal, disease of sheep and other domestic animals, of unknown cause. It is characterized by muscular tremors and ...
Loups
Loups (?), n. pl.; sing. Loup. (Ethnol.) The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.
Lour
‖Lour (?), n.(Zoöl.) An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
Louri
Lou″ri (?), n.(Zoöl.) See Lory.
Louse
Louse (lous), n.; pl.Lice (līs). [OE. lous, AS. lūs, pl. lȳs; akin to D. luis, G. laus, OHG. lūs, Icel. lūs, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because it is destructive, and ak...
Louse (2)
Louse (louz), v. t. To clean from lice. “You sat and loused him.” Swift.
Lousewort
Louse″wort′ (?), n.(Bot.) Any species of Pedicularis, a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy.Yellow lousewort, a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.