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A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.

See Lopsided.

A prison. [Obs.] Hudibras.

large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging t…

Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.

Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.

A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.

A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.

The lugworm.

Having acute lobes, as some leaves.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

Divided into two lobes or segments.

Bilobate.

Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. Wright.

A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.

Having thick lips. "A blobber-lipped shell." Grew.

A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.

The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne.