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Having the sandy brown color of the European larks.

The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.

A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.

Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.

Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.

Lost. Neither of them she found where she them lore. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of Lose. Chaucer.

An instructor. [Obs.] Gower.

d over Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls.

s herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.…

One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.

A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algæ.

Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

reater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

A kind of four-stringed lute.