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A nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. Cf. Quinoline.

The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad. Leveling instrument. See…

A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose. [Written also lævulin.]

obtained by the action of dilute acids on various sugars (as levulose). [Written also lævulinic.]

Likelihood; probability.

Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolæ.

The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age. B. Jonson.

Loathsomeness. [Obs.]

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

In a lolling manner. Buckle.

The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.

The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.

A little or insignificant lord. Goldsmith.

The state or quality of being lovely. If there is such a native loveliness in the sex as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! Spectator.

The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind. Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. Eph. iv. 1, 2.

In a lulling manner; soothingly.

n the strobiles or fruit of hops, and containing this bitter principle. [Written also lupuline.]