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psules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

ow only in the plural. [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.] "The lees of wine." Holland. A thousand demons lurk within the lee. Young. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Shak.

Leprosy. [Obs.] Holland.

erly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eight of a dollar (or 12

ose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.

Libation. [Obs.] Holland.

A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books. Holland.

A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositæ.

Limber. [Obs.] Holland.

A limpet. [Obs.] Holland.

See Lineage. [Obs.] Holland.

ing in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant. The prime and ancient right of lineal succession. Locke.

Linear. Holland.

Anything having outline. [R.] Holland.

lluna vulgaris). Ling honey, a sort of wild honey, made from the flowers of the heather. Holland.

One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

ifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland.

A Lollard.

paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it. -- To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty.

See Lotion. [Obs.] Holland.