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Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.

he decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic ac…

noting, an acid (called also acetyl- propionic acid), C5H8O3, obtained by the action of dilute acids on various sugars (as levulose). [Written also lævulinic.]

Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous. Dryden.

Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon.

Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." Shak.

-- Line of beauty (Fine Arts),an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; -- differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth). -- Line of centers. (Mach.) (a) A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. (b) A line wh…

given to the pleasures of the table. -- Loose liver, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life.

Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. Loose ladies in delight. Spenser.

Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

sum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphæa Lotus and N. cærulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. Spenser.

An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, L. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance.

A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.

A person that plays on the lute. Johnson.

See Lute, a cement.

One who plays on a lute.

Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. "Maiden flowers.' Shak. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Shak.

Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer. [Obs.] "It's a man untruth." Sir W. Scott.