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luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles. [Written also laumonite.]

ng; -- usually with in or out. To leak out, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, the facts leaked out.

To become longer. Locke.

To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened. The objection lessens much, and comes to no more than this: there was one witness of no good reputation. Atterbury.

r Left, v. i. To let on, to tell; to tattle; to divulge something. [Low] -- To let up, to become less severe; to diminish; to cease; as, when the storm lets up. [Colloq.]

To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate. Sir. J. Herschel.

urface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which narrow portions at opposite limbs become visible or invisible alternately. It receives different names according to the manner in which it takes place; as: (a) Libration in longitude, that which, depending on the place of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes sma…

To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

To become ignited; to take fire; as, the match will not light.

To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.

A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.

To become wood.

To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant. Richardson.

an any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent. Elastic limit. See under Elastic. -- Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.

To melt; to become liquid. [Obs.] Woodward.

To become liquid.

Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt to melt; melting.

A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat.

To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close. When it locked none might through it pass. Spenser. To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. Boyle.

To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact. S. Sharp.