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Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.

Madly enthusiastic; frantic. [Obs.] " Lymphatic rapture. " Sir T. Herbert. Etym: [See Lymphate.] Lymphatic gland (Anat.), one of the solid glandlike bodies connected with the lymphatics or the lacteals; -- called also lymphatic ganglion, and conglobate gland. -- Lymphatic temperament (Old Physiol.), a temperament in w…

Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten. [R.] Any manducable creature. Sir T. Herbert.

See Manilla, 1. Sir T. Herbert.

A metropolis. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

A writer of mimes. Sir T. Herbert.

A hotchpotch. Sir T. Herbert.

xcept in the form moth-eaten, p.p. or a.] Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. Sir T. Herbert.

eated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties. [Obs.] Shak. Sir T. Herbert.

Of the color of the olive; tawny. Sir T. Herbert.

Open. [Poetic] Spenser. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope. Herbert.

Opposition. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

An eyeglass. [Obs.] Herbert.

The countries of Asia or the East. Chaucer. Best built city throughout the Orient. Sir T. Herbert.

The state of being overthwart; perverseness. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.

ntle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.

To long for; to be eager after. [R.] Then shall our hearts pant thee. Herbert.

er, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. R. L. Stevenson.

to imitate. Milton. [A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise. Sir T. Herbert.

Discernible. [Obs.] Herbert.