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A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style.

Lamarckism.

One who commits larceny.

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall.

r condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford.

One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.

One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.

Unnatural sexual relations between women.

A writer of a lexicon. [R.]

Libertarian principles or doctrines.

Licentiousness of principle or opinion. That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. Atterbury.

One given to lewdness.

An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.

A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

ing from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new…

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]

A person that plays on the lute. Johnson.