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See 1st Loop.

The Canada lynx. See Lynx.

A werewolf; a lycanthrope.

The Pomeranian or Spitz dog.

omestic animals, of unknown cause. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.

An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.

See Lory.

Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthir…

cies of Pedicularis, a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy. Yellow lousewort , a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.

In a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily. [Vulgar]

The state or quality of being lousy.

Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar] Such lousy learning as this is. Bale.

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. Spenser.

Clownish; rude; awkward. "Loutish clown." Sir P. Sidney. -- Lout"ish*ly, adv. -- Lout"*ish*ness, n.

A crested black monkey (Semnopithecus maurus) of Java.

A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a) [Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer.] Louver boards or boarding, the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc. -- Louver work, slatted work.

Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love. Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat. Tennyson.

An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.

ds admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own. Keble.