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An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent color or their relative whiteness.

Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa.

The inner corona. [R.]

ining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin. See Oxalantin.

White; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.

A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.

Leucocythæmia.

See Luke, etc.

See Leucoplast.

Place; room; stead; -- used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of. The plan of extortion had been adopted in lieu of the scheme of confiscation. Burke.

The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant.

another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the vicegerent or lieutenant of God. Abp. Bramhall.

. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.

See Lieutenancy. [Obs.]

Same as Lieutenancy, 1.

The formation of football players before the start or a restart of play; hence (Colloq.),

Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.

An aromatic alcoholic cordial.

An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

lf with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.