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To lick. [Obs.]

See water buck, under 3d Buck.

A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.

See Lecher, n. Marston.

Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust- provoking. "A lecherous thing is wine." Chaucer. -- Lech"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Lech"er*ous*ness, n.

Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.

See Calash.

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

See Cléché.

A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countris inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.

An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.

A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.

A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.

See Knowl, edge. We consider and knowleche that we have offended. Chaucer.

Knowledge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Malicho.

The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch. Lev. xviii. 21.

A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.

The act of riding steeple chases.

An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.