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, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. Coleridge.

A sign and a constellation; Leo.

To make clear and intelligible. Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system. A. Hamilton.

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. Tell them how they litter their jades. Bp. Hacke For his ease, well littered was the floor. Dryden.

2d pers. sing. pres. of Lige, to lie, to tell lies, -- contracted for ligest. Chaucer.

iation of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

ut the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.

of Loop. Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." Macaulay. " A luminous statement." Brougham. Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.…

A little moon or satellite. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.

of Lie, to tell a falsehood.

One of the northern constellations.

A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyræ, or Vega.

One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra. Lyre bat (Zoöl.), a small bat (Megaderma lyra), inhabiting India and Ceylon. It is remarkable for the enormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears. -- Lyre turtle (Zoöl.), the leatherback.

ecause the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.

Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad. Shak.

Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity. [Written also mama.] Tell tales papa and mamma. Swift.

Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.