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Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. "Loathful eyes." Spenser.

e disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races. Macaulay.

With loathing.

Loathsomeness. [Obs.]

Loathsome. [Obs.] " Loathly mouth." Spenser.

Unwillingness; reluctance. A general silence and loathness to speak. Bacon.

Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.

Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

pl. of Loaf.

A dull, heavy person. " Country lobs." Gauden.

Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.

Like a lob; consisting of lobs. Sir. P. Sidney.

en large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.

A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. [U.S.]

A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. [Low]

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form; as:

Lobiped.

Having lobes; lobate.