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To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag. Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave. Tennyson.

ported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.

To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]

at cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.

ness; -- often with after. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. James iv. 5.

To please; -- chiefly used impersonally. [Obs.] " Sith it lyketh you." Chaucer.

, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.

A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.

e, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. Dryden.

d luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

f, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.

A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.

-- Manual exercise (Mil.) the exercise by which soldiers are taught the use of their muskets and other arms. -- Seal manual, the impression of a seal worn on the hand as a ring. -- Sign manual. See under Sign.

, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business. I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. Shak.

The ketone of margaric acid.

ice; to observe critically; to note; to remark. Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh maschief. 1 Kings xx. 7.

A market. Where has commerce such a mart . . . as London Cowper.

masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.