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In a liquid manner; flowingly.

The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.

See Licorice.

See Lickerish. [Obs.] Shak.

Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Marston.

An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.

A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

Like a lirella. [Written also lirellæform.]

and very beautiful trees of North America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.

See Liripoop.

A silly person. [Obs.] A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard. Milles. MS. Devon Gloss.

A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.

A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.

A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures. Lisle glove, a fine summer glove, made of Lisle thread. -- Lisle lace, a fine handmade lace, made at Lisle. -- Lisle thread, a hard twisted cotton thread, originally produced at Lisle.

A cavity or hollow.[Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers came. Pope.

One who lisps.

With a lisp; in a lisping manner.

Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] "Of penance had a lisse." Chaucer.