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Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.

Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate. Lowell.

Absence of virility or manhood; effeminacy. Prynne.

A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.

A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.

A small, two-wheeled, hooded vehicle drawn by one more men. [Japan]

ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about. Judge not according to the appearance. John vii. 24. She is wise if I can judge of her. Shak.

Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief. Milton.

One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John. [Eng.] Hence:

A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. C. Kingsley.

The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies. [Archaic] Spenser. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing. Ps. v. 6. Blessed be the lips that such a leasing told. Fairfax. Leasing making (Scots Law), the uttering of lies or libels upon the personal character of the sovereign, his court, or his family. Bp. Burnet.…

A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive. It is willful deceit that makes a lie. A man may act a lie, as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction when a traveler inquires of him his road. Paley.

t, i. e., legal, power; specif., having health requisite to do legal acts. -- Liege widowhood, perfect, i. e., pure, widowhood. [Obs.]

One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.

Livelihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Likelihood; probability.

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out By violet-hooded doctors. Tennyson.

To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils. Those who live by labor. Sir W. Temple.

See Livelihood. [Obs.]