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The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey. Listen to me, and by me be ruled. Tennyson. To listen after, to take an interest in. [Obs.] Soldiers note forts, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors. Fuller.

The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe.

ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

April's livery." Sir P. Sidney. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.

A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.

The globeflower (Trollius).

an Indian's lodge. Chaucer. Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. Robert of Brunne. O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! Cowper.

A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.

Furnished with lobes or flaps.

anner. "Lovely to look on." Piers Plowman. Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely. Robert of Brunne. If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers. Shak.

The ear, or its lobe. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm blood." Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." Addison. An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion. Dryden. -- Luce"warm`ly, adv. -- Luce"warm`ness, n.

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

Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

ime all the monarchs of Europe were satisfied with the appellation of Highness or Grace. Robertson.

A human being; -- opposed tobeast. These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. R. of Glouc. The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me. Shak.