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A form of hydrometer, specially graduated, for finding the density of milk, and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed.

One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies.

Allied to, or resembling, Lepidodendron. -- n.

A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

Livelihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

es, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.

Course of life; means of support; livelihood. [Obs.]

Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A pilot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

r that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.

A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.

A water course or way; a reach of water. Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. C. Kingsley.

An old name for a pilot boat.

Pilotage. [Obs.]

Same as Loadsman. [Obs.]

Same as Loadstar.

Same as Loadstone.

Same as Lycopodium powder. See under Lycopodium.

A lymphatic gland.

One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.