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Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.

Same as Laumontite.

Lumpish. [Obs.] Spenser.

Land. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The capital city of England. London paste (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain. (b) A na…

optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.

The Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus).

A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.

A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.

A lane. See Loanin. [Prov. Eng.]

Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.

The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.

Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

Solitude; seclusion. [Obs.] Donne.

Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge .

Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.

Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.

Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long- winded.