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(Elec.), a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc is used as the source of light. -- Dëbereiner's lamp, an apparatus for the instantaneous production of a flame by the spontaneous ignition of a jet of hydrogen on being led over platinum sponge; -- named after the German chemist Döbereiner, who invented it. Called also…

A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.

rom the outside of the neck, for assisting respiration when obstructed, or for removing foreign bodies.

To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.

a lattice; as, to lattice a window. To lattice up, to cover or inclose with a lattice. Therein it seemeth he [Alexander] hath latticed up Cæsar. Sir T. North.

tself is nothing else but reason. Coke. Law is beneficence acting by rule. Burke. And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

making (Scots Law), the uttering of lies or libels upon the personal character of the sovereign, his court, or his family. Bp. Burnet.

The place of business or official residence of a diplomatic minister at a foreign court or seat of government.

Any crime committed against the sovereign power.

int; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.

and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not. All women liefest would Be sovereign of man's love. Gower. I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Shak. Far liefer by his dear hand had I die. Tennyson.

Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord. Chaucer. She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; And he, he reverenced his liege lady there. Tennyson.

The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance. [Written also ligeancy and liegance.] Chaucer.

The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver. [U. S.]

al language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the language of the people of the region and foreign traders.

il officers. More recently, the civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the reigning monarch's household. Free list. (a) A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty. (b) A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a periodical, or the like,…

A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]

Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n.

mn between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

ot; a bad lot. I, this winter, met with a very large lot of English heads, chiefly of the reign of James I. Walpole.