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Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence. G. West.

Of or pertaining to jurisprudence. Stewart.

vil law; a writer on civil and international law. It has ever been the method of public jurists to Burke.

Of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence. [R.] "Juristic ancestry." Lowell.

A Malay dagger. See Creese.

The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.

A rich, sweet, red Neapolitan wine.

A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.

ssion, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.

One who studies the Lepidoptera.

Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy. "The lickerish palate of the glutton." Bp. Hall.

See Lickerish. [Obs.] Shak.

The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.

have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. [Written also lori.]

The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.

One given to luxury. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

The act of playing on a lyre or harp. G. Eliot.

A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.

A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.

it directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete. Wharton.