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Yielding or producing wood.

Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.

One who loafs; a lazy lounger. Lowell.

Forbearance to punish or resent.

r a long time; patient; not easily provoked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv. 6.

lied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations ! Is. xiv. 12. Tertullian and Gregory the Great understood this passage of Isaiah in reference to the fall of Satan; in consequence of wh…

Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.

Giving light; affording light or means of discovery. Boyle.

In a luciferous manner.

Gainful; profitable. [Obs.] Boyle.

See Louver.

Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.

Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.

Producing or conducting magnetism.

Containing mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata.

A mammal. See Mammalia.

Having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the Mammalia.

Containing manganese.

Producing pearls.

A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor. Fairholt.