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chaic.) Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others. De Quincey.

clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.

A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms.

lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate. Sir. J. Herschel.

One who libels. [Written also libeller.] " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.

row. Sir W. Raleigh Ramona had like to have said the literal truth, . . . but recollected herself in time. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. Like figures (Geom.), similar figures.

ll summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis l…

o canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.

pressed by, letters. The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. Johnson.

Of or pertaining to legal disputes. Nor brothers cite to the litigious bar. Young.

ell for holding living objects under microscopical examination. P. H. Gosse. -- Live feathers, feathers which have been plucked from the living bird, and are therefore stronger and more elastic. -- Live gang. (Sawing) See under Gang. -- Live grass (Bot.), a grass of the genus Eragrostis. -- Live load (Engin.), a su…

An association of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

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.

rds all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany. Fuller.

Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

apitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.

n; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own. Keble.

bert of Brunne. If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers. Shak.

To take in the gross; to speak of collectively. Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment you, I lump all together. Sterne.