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to toss the weighty lance. Pope. To enter the lists, to accept a challenge, or engage in contest.

he character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.

Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant. Ayliffe.

To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.

The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.

Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, who guarrels move. Donne.

those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt. We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us. Sir T. Browne. The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. Shak.

Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible. When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes I Sam. xv. 17.

The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.

l loth were him to curse for his tithes. Chaucer . Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content. Shak.

sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board. Log cabin, Log house, a cabin or house made of logs. -- Log canoe, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log. -- Log glass (Naut.), a small sandglass used to time the running out of the lo…

One who contends about words.

Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words. The discussion concerning the meaning of the word " justification" . . . has largely been a mere logomachy. L. Abbott.

d, and looked black. Holinshed. -- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. -- To look for. (a) To expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship. "Look now for no enchanting voice." Milton. (b) To seek for; to search for; as, to look for lost money,…

ral sense. On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context. J. M. Mason.

A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule. [Obs.] Swift.

suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest. We 'll . . . hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out. Shak.

Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar] Such lousy learning as this is. Bale.

cteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.

To frown; to look sullen. But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. Dryden.