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, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors. Fuller.

abits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions! Ecclus. xli. 1.

Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous. The colors of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton. His faith must be not only living, but lively too. South. Lively stones (Script.), saints, as being quickened by the Spirit, and active in holiness.…

Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. Full loth were him to curse for his tithes. Chaucer . Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content. Shak.

Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. "Loathful eyes." Spenser.

Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.

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

Same as Lombard-house. A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. Fuller.

Extended in length; tiresome. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. [Obs.] Fuller.

An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.

Loobylike; awkward. Fuller.

Full of holes. [Obs.] Shak.

Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies. J. S. Mill.

rt, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Fratterer. Fuller.

Full of love. [Obs.] Sylvester.

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

A pike when full grown. Halliwell.

Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous. Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness. Longfellow.

Full of lumps, or small compact masses.

Lunar. [Obs.] Fuller.