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Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. Bacon.

Unwillingness; reluctance. A general silence and loathness to speak. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. Bacon.

A person skilled in logic. Bacon. Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.

earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth. Bacon.

Courtship. Bacon.

The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray. Bacon.

office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon.

s, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow.

Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs. Bacon. Lunar caustic (Med. Chem.), silver nitrate prepared to be used as a cautery; -- so named because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists. -- Lunar cycle. Same as Metonic cycle. See under Cycle. -- Lunar distance, the angu…

inder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.

Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] Bacon.

Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] Bacon.

by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup. "Some magistral opiate." Bacon.

Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism. Bacon.

pon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two . . . but as supporters. Bacon.

Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree. [Obs.] Bacon. Shak.

A mayor. [Obs.] Bacon.

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] Bacon.