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A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character. Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies…

Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus.

Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosidæ. Many of them are beautifully colored.

assification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

n (Physiol.), the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.

A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B. Jonson.

the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.

he parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

t sails. Luff tackle, a purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes. Totten. -- Luff upon luff, a luff tackle attached to the fall of another luff tackle. R. H. Dana, Jr.

Shining with a light due to any of the various causes which produce luminescence.

leasure or advantage; to entice; to attract. I am not lured with love. Piers Plowman. And various science lures the learned eye. Gay.

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

ssels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.

also lymphadenoma. Malignant lymphoma, a fatal disease characterized by the formation in various parts of the body of new growths resembling lymphatic glands in structure.

he inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.

ist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications:

The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.

Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12.