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entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn.

Envious; malignant. [Obs.] Evelyn.

ticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]

A lackey. [Obs.] Evelyn.

uildings . . . was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed. Evelyn.

ep. Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. Evelyn. Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. Dickens.

Ligneous. [R.] Evelyn.

ouch in litter of your stable planks. Shak. Take off the litter from your kernel beds. Evelyn.

A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

A prize in a lottery. [Obs.] Evelyn. To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast lots, to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforeseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined. -- To draw lots, to determine an event, or make a decision, by drawing…

The Canada lynx. See Lynx.

A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.

Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant. [Obs. or Prov.]

One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.

oriole (Oriolus kundoo), native of India. -- Mango fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Ganges (Polynemus risua), highly esteemed for food. It has several long, slender filaments below the pectoral fins. It appears about the same time with the mango fruit, in April and May, whence the name. -- Mango tree (Bot.), an East India…

n married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry. Evelyn.

mixture of different sorts of grain, as wheat and rye. [Written also meslin, mislin, maselyn, mastlin.]

To cover or lay with mats. Evelyn.

ot be dispensed with; important. Discourse, which was always material, never trifling. Evelyn. I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose. Locke.

Memory; remembrance. [Obs.] Precious is the memorial of the just. Evelyn.