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A salt of lactic acid.

A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.

ng; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii. 18.

Broad-ribbed.

Broad-toothed.

A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding. Blackstone.

A lying in concealment; hiding. [Obs.]

A dancer of the lavolta.

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

Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light. Paley.

Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.

Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left handed quartz crystals, etc. [Written also lævorotatory.]

The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder. [R.]

Bounded by a distinct line.

The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible modes of existence in the universe. J. S. Mill.

Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.

See Lubricate.

Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor. [R.] Farindon.

Maine; -- a nickname.