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e and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long- horned.

ing a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennæ, as certain beetles (Longicornia).

A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennæ are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.…

One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.

A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

A tree, the top of which has been lopped off. [Eng.]

t of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno. [Often written loto.]

An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.

et high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. [U. S.]

iah in reference to the fall of Satan; in consequence of which the name Lucifer has since been applied to, Satan. Kitto.

meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition. Thy lucubrations have been perused by several of our friends. Tatler.

A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California.

A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. Walpole. To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behin…

One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.

A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.

; a magnanimous conqueror. Be magnanimous in the enterprise. Shak. To give a kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to law down Far more magnanimousan to assume. Milton.

A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.

" Glanvill. Animal magnetism, a force, more or less analogous to magnetism, which, it has been alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one body to another with or without actual contact. The existence of such a force, and its potentiality for the cure of disease, were asserted by Mesmer in…

of the magnitudes is quite arbitrary, but by means of photometers, the classification has been made to tenths of a magnitude.