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The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

tly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language. To speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lispe words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again. Tyndale.

A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people.

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

rayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.

A native or an inhabitant of Livonia; the language (allied to the Finnish) of the Livonians.

To lend; -- sometimes with out. Kent. By way of location or loaning them out. J. Langley (1644).

Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. Lofty and sour to them that loved him not. Shak. Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Milton.

Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. Dryden. At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. -- Fast and loose. See under Fast. -- To break loose. See under Break. -- Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. -- To let loose, to free from…

tentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang]

Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden.

. " Lukewarm blood." Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." Addison. An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion. Dryden. -- Luce"warm`ly, adv. -- Luce"warm`ness, n.

A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.

part of the machinery of state. Macaulay. The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

A native or inhabitant of Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar. See Malagasy.

The language of the Magyars.

der the table. [Eng.] -- To put one's legs under some one's mahogany, to dine with him. [Slang]

The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in the Deccan and Concan. [Written also Marathi.]

One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. -- a.

Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language. Payne.