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ft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

small; as, a nlarge horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city.

weariness. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

The state or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.

levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. If they do this . . . my ransom, then, Will soon be levied. Shak.

Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

pparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest. Libration of the moon, any one of those small periodical changes in the position of the moon's surface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which narrow portions at opposite limbs become visible or invisible alternately. It receives different…

. -- Lily hyacinth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hyacinthus. -- Lily iron, a kind of harpoon with a detachable head of peculiar shape, used in capturing swordfish. -- Lily of the valley (Bot.), a low perennial herb (Convallaria majalis), having a raceme of nodding, fragrant, white flowers. -- Lily pad, the large flo…

those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.

Tending to swoon; fainting. [Written also leipothymic.]

Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting.

A fainting; a swoon. Jer. Taylor.

See Moonfish (b).

See Loon, the bird.

s, to speak low. Addison. The . . . odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the moon. Tennyson.

The moon.

oken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.

An inhabitant of the moon.

The herb moonwort or "honesty".