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Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious. -- Li*bid"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Li*bid"i*nous*ness, n.

The act of putting a load on or into.

Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.

In the direction of length.

The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any one of several metameric alkaloids, C5H3N.(CH3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.

A violet dye derived from aniline.

Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic] Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. Milton.

; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.

An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.

per Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.

Same as Para.

A mendicant or begging friar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Midden.

Regard; mindfulness.

Misleading. -- Mis*guid"ing*ly, adv.

Leading astray; delusive.

Wrong ordination.

An error in pleading.

Wrong or irregular proceding.