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The yard adjoining an inn.

Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. [R.] Woodward.

The quality or state of being isostemonous.

An onyx, part or all of whose layers consist of jasper.

A familiar name of the European wren. Jenny ass (Zoöl.), a female ass.

longing of the mediæval religious orders called Hermits of St. Jerome. [Written also Hieronymite.]

An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones. Knight.

A sculpin. [Local cant] Johny Crapaud (, a jocose designation of a Frenchman, or of the French people, collectively.

A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked. [U.S.] J. Barlow.

The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

thing was left but their tails. It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown, which impoverished both towns.

A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.

See Lanier.

l with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement. Grand larceny and Petit larceny are distinctions having reference to the nature or value of the property stolen. They are abolished in England. -- Mixed, or Compound, larceny, that which, under statute, includes in it the aggravation of a t…

The sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope when the latter is placed upon the larynx.

Theft; larceny. [Obs.]

Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. Musing through the lawny park. T. Warton.

Lean. [Obs.] Spenser.

A devourer or absorber of money. "Law is a lickpenny." Sir W. Scott.

A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character. Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies…