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The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

See Lecturn.

A Linnæan genus of parasitic Entomostraca, -- the same as the family Lernæidæ.

A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix.

One of a family (Lernæidæ) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.

See Lecturn.

In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.

The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.

A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine. Chapman.

Of or pertaining to a lamp. Lucernal microscope, a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.

A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.

Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida. -- n.

A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa.

See Lucern, the plant.

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

A dormer window. See Dormer.

Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.

A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.

Same as Marten. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.