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Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.

Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom. Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shak. Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished fro…

A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.

Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. Blackstone.

Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. The loose morality which he had learned. Sir W. Scott.

of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. [Eng.]

A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India.

ly used in dressing the hair; -- so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil.

A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. Malacca cane (Bot.), a cane obtained from a species of palm of the genus Calamus (C. Scipionum), and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.

To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]

Native sulphate of ammonia, found in volcanic districts; -- so named from Mascagni, who discovered it.

, the mat of a daguerreotype. Mat grass. (Bot.) (a) A low, tufted, European grass (Nardus stricta). (b) Same as Matweed. -- Mat rush (Bot.), a kind of rush (Scirpus lacustris) used in England for making mats.

the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible. [Now commonly used in this restricted sense.]

n. -- Mechanical solution (Math.), a solution of a problem by any art or contrivance not strictly geometrical, as by means of the ruler and compasses, or other instruments.

A class of claret wines, including several varieties, from the district of Médoc in the department of Gironde.

Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens. [Eng.]

any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. The only strict antithesis to prose is meter. Wordsworth.

Proceeding with regard to method; systematic. "Aristotle, strict, methodic, and orderly." Harris.