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From a lithological point of view; as, to consider a stratum lithologically.

Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous. The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, Because their natures are little. Tennyson. Little chief. (Zoöl.) See Chief hare. -- Little finger, the fourth and smallest finger of the hand. -- Littl…

To magnetize.[Obs.] Prior. Loaded dice, dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest.

iece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier.

Far-reaching; extensive. " Long views." Burke.

To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think of. I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer. Dryden.

To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd. Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope .

; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody. Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns. Tennyson.

Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear. A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate. Macaulay.

A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.

allic element separated from ytterbium in 1907, by Urbain in Paris and by von Welsbach in Vienna. Symbol, Lu; at. wt. 174.0.

of his designs. Bp. Horsley. Apparent magnitude (Opt.), the angular breadth of an object viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the observer; - - called also apparent diameter. -- Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a star with respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are…

aintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.

a poem.[Obs.] Sir J. Davies.

arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. Bouvier.

To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.

Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.

ce: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans. It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. Addison . It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant. Bp. Hurd.…

Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.

The person who employs another to perform a mandate. Bouvier.