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Chinese measure of distance, being a little more that one third of a mile.

A level, or leveling instrument.

The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.

Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.

Quality of being liable; liability.

Union by league; alliance. [Obs.]

A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.

A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

Gray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ivisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oölite. See the Chart of Geology.

Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias Formation. -- n.

To castrate. [Obs.]

Libation. [Obs.] Holland.

Sipping; touching lightly. [R.] Landor.

The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out. Dryden. A heathen sacrifice or libation to the earth. Bacon.

Pertaining to libation.

A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Keats.

. Leopard's bane. [Obs.]

A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer. A libel of forsaking [divorcement]. Wyclif (Matt. v. 31).