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The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.

Malignity. [P.] Burton.

A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.

A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.

Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. Boyle.

l from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.

Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.

Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.

See Lixivial.

A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.

2d pers. sing. pres. of Lige, to lie, to tell lies, -- contracted for ligest. Chaucer.

The American white mullet (Mugil curema).

Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.

in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray.

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

culating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.

to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. (b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.