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A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.

An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, L. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance.

upon the strobiles or fruit of hops, and containing this bitter principle. [Written also lupuline.]

An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid.

r obtained from, hops; specifically, designating an acid obtained by the decomposition of lupulin.

A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.

Gluttony; gormandizing. [Obs.]

up. [Obs.] Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.

One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.

The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.

Stupid; blockish. [Obs.]

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.

ys cæca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

To lie hid; to lie in wait. Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den. Spenser. Let us . . . lurk privily for the innocent. Prov. i. 11.

One who lurks.

ap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds. [Obs.] To turn prayer into a kind of lurry. Milton.

very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden.

A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.

Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak.