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LANATE; LANATED n.
Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.
LANCINATE v.
To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Quincey.
LANCINATING a.
Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).
LANCINATION n.
A tearing; laceration. "Lancinations of the spirit." Jer. Taylor.
LONGIPENNATE a.
Having long wings, or quills.
LUMINATE v.
To illuminate. [Obs.]
LUMINATION n.
Illumination. [Obs.]
LUNATE; LUNATED a.
Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross. Gray.
LUNATIC a. 3 definitions
Affected by lunacy; insane; mad. Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. Wyclif (Matt. xvii. 15).
LUNATION n.
The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29
LUSUS NATURAE n.
Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.
MACHINATE v. 2 definitions
me with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot. "How long will you machinate!" Sandys.
MACHINATION n. 2 definitions
The act of machinating. Shak.
MACHINATOR n.
One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.
MACROGNATHIC a.
Long-jawed. Huxley.
MAGNATE n. 2 definitions
e of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.
MALONATE a.
At salt of malonic acid.
MANATEE n.
Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow. [Written also manaty, manati.]
MANATION n.
The act of issuing or flowing out. [Obs.]
MANDARINATE n.
The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China. S. W. Williams.
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