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Lacertian.

tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths. [Written also laurustine and laurestina.]

See Legatine.

Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power. Holinshed.

Of or pertaining to the Levant. J. Spencer.

fically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.

The state or quality of being lofty.

One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.…

State of being lusty; vigor; strength.

State of being maggoty.

The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]

A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest.

The principles or practices of a martinet; rigid adherence to discipline, etc.

A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirÉe.

Matutinal. [R.]

Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.

Quality of being meaty.

A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.…

y of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak.