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A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

A small lobe; a lobule.

A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for…

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

Having lobate toes, as a coot.

Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen. Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon). -…

An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.

A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.

See Lopsided.

A prison. [Obs.] Hudibras.

large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging t…

Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.

Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.

A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.

A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.

The lugworm.

ce, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom. Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shak. Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished from transitory actions. -- Local affe…

A place, spot, or location.