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See Lazzaroni.

Laserwort.

ers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge. [Written also, but improperly, lazaroni.]

The act of making legal.

The act of liberalizing.

The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.

The American white mullet (Mugil curema).

er with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field. Lizard fish (Zoöl.), a marine scopeloid fish of the genus Synodus, or Saurus, esp. S. foetens of the Southern United States and West Indies; -- called also sand pike. -- Lizard snake (Zoöl.), the garter snake (Eutænia sirtalis). -…

having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray.

Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization (Physiol.), the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.

The process or act of macadamizing.

Capable of magnetized.

The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized.

The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.

undish olive with a small freestone pit, a fine skin, and a peculiar bitterish flavor. Manzanillas are commonly pitted and stuffed with Spanish pimientos.

A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.

Act of martyrizing, or state of being martyrized; torture. B. Jonson.

A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. [Western U. S.]

The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

The act or process of increasing to the highest degree. Bentham.