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ing to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence. [R.] "Juristic ancestry." Lowell.

; stubborn in particulars. [Obs.] The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy. Howell.

welfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in…

Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as oo (food), o (old), etc., and as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German. See Guide to Pronunciation,

r authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord. "Lord or lady of high degree." Lowell. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, . . . We make thee lady. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity. "Laical literature." Lowell. An unprincipled, unedified, and laic rabble. Milton.

An occupier of land. Cowell.

A tax on wares sold by the last. [Obs.] Cowell.

atins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. "Latinized races." Lowell.

An arbitrator. [Obs.] Cowell.

Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. [Obs.] Cowell. Blackstone.

ragrant, white flowers. -- Lily pad, the large floating leaf of the water lily. [U. S.] Lowell. -- Tiger lily (Bot.), Lilium tigrinum, the sepals of which are blotched with black. -- Turk's-cap lily (Bot.) Lilium Martagon, a red lily with recurved sepals; also, the similar American lily, L. superbum. -- Water lily…

or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc. "In linen white as milk." Robert of Brunne.

kept. Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields. Lowell.

One who loafs; a lazy lounger. Lowell.

One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i. [U.S.] Lowell.

A pawnbroker. [Obs.] Howell.

Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30.

Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke.