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To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret i…

temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope.

branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy. H. L. Scott.

words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words. The discussion concerning the meaning of the word " justification" . . . has largely been a mere logomachy. L. Abbott.

wers of Wyclif in England. [Called also Loller.] By Lollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany. Fuller.

resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome. I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely. H. James.

By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See Along of, under 3d Along.

A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion.

In a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily. [Vulgar]

Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar] Such lousy learning as this is. Bale.

Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.

Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.

In a low condition; meanly. I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught. Shak.

The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.

Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.

lamp. Lucernal microscope, a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.

Giving light; affording light or means of discovery. Boyle.

contents. I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. Swift. What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage! Shak.

ethod, the method of finding a ship's longitude by comparing the local time of taking (by means of a sextant or circle) a given lunar distance, with the Greenwich time corresponding to the same distance as ascertained from a nautical almanac, the difference of these times being the longitude. -- Lunar month. See Month…

To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract. I am not lured with love. Piers Plowman. And various science lures the learned eye. Gay.