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To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness. A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out By violet-hooded doctors. Tennyson.

A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.

Having white, delicate hands.

White-livered; cowardly.

Any plant of the Lily family or order. Lindley.

A limb. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail. [Written also Lymnæa.]

The capital city of Peru, in South America. Lima bean. (Bot.)

Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.

A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.

A curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is r = a cos + b.

Filings of metal. [Obs.] "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

The act of filing or polishing.

The act of filing.

A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.

f an animal. A second Hector for his grim aspect, And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. Shak.

A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.

Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

An alembic; a still. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.