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The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles. Bastian.

Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinæsthesis.

south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths. [Written also laurustine and laurestina.]

Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long. Chaucer.

See Leze majesty.

For Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Prov. xx. 18. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth he standeth take heed lest he fall. I Cor. x. 12.

A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands.

Any crime committed against the sovereign power.

Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno- intestinal vein of the frog.

A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life. Daniel.

sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.

A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.

A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.

Same as Loadstar.

Same as Loadstone.

The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.

A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.