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unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery. Lighter screw (Mach.), a screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.

state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace.

Having white, delicate hands.

To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray. [R.] "Pictures fairest lined." Shak.

Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.

Delineation; a line or lines.

To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind. Gray. Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained. Milton.

Delaying.

With delay; slowly; tediously.

Such as in pleasant to live in; fit or suitable to live in. [Colloq.] A more delightful or livable region is not easily to be found. T. Arnold.

The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

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

tendant on shipboard. Smollett. -- Loblolly pine (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine (Pinus Tæda). Also, P. Bahamensis, of the West Indies. -- Loblolly tree (Bot.), a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other r…

and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.

Abiding place; harbor; cover. Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. Spenser. Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. -- Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.

To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak. If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers.

Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. Loose ladies in delight. Spenser.

To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge. The woman that deliberates is lost. Addison.

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; 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.