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Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.

A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.

doa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa hæmatica). Hook-billed marlin, a curlew.

The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap.

the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. G. H. Lewes.

Lit., my lady; hence (as used on the Continent), an English noblewoman or gentlewoman.

Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment. G. H. Lewes.

thority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! Shak.

s of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman. Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife. Shak. The blushing beauties of a modest maid. Dryden.

that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes.

s of the nerves; that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves. G. H. Lewes.

ife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.

The stone curlew.

Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal. G. H. Lewes.

fensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. Mr.Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit. Dryden. No pardon vile obscenity should find. Pope.

Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

The mass; the common run. [Obs.] I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework. Shak.

To exceed in lewdness.

verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.