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people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot. I, this winter, met with a very large lot of English heads, chiefly of the reign of James I. Walpole.

as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), 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.

en. -- Lubber's line, point, or mark, a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering.

To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind. To luff round, or To luff alee, to make the extreme of this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head into the wind.

Lug bolt (Mach.), a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt.

wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow.

ike the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

The name given in later times to the Asmonæans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel. Schaff-Herzog.

Having a large head.

Hot-headed; rash. Shak. -- n.

Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak.

Wild; crack-brained.

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

ak. - To make free with. See under Free, a. -- To make good. See under Good. -- To make head, to make headway. -- To make light of. See under Light, a. -- To make little of. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily. -- To make love to. See under Love, n. -- To make meat, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. We…

Malediction; curse; execration. [Poetic] God's malison on his head who this gainsays. Sir W. Scott.

A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.

A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor. Fairholt.

mmonly ending in two rings, through which the reins pass. It is intended to hold down the head of the horse, and prevent him from rearing.