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Loquacity.

inually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.

The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.

Of or pertaining to the lores.

Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. Admiral Foote.

; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion. Shak. Man over men He made not lord. Milton.

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

A little lord. Thackeray.

Befitting or like a lord; lordly.

The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.

A little or insignificant lord. Goldsmith.

Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judges v. 25. Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them. South. The maidens gathered strength and grace And presence, lordlier than before. Tennyson.…

Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such. [Jocose] But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed Thackeray.

A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.

The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies. Dr. Prior.

The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.

Lost. Neither of them she found where she them lore. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond. [Obs.] Chaucer.