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A dead body; a corpse. [Obs.] Lich fowl (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker; -- called also lich owl. -- Lich gate, a covered gate through which the corpse was carried to the church or burial place, and where the bier was placed to await clergyman; a corpse gate. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- Lich wake, the wake, or watchi…

One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very w…

Belonging to, or covered with, lichens. Tennyson.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens. Lichenic acid.

Having the form of a lichen.

A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.

Of or pertaining to lichenography.

One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.

A description of lichens; the science which illustrates the natural history of lichens.

One versed in lichenology.

The science which treats of lichens.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens. G. Eliot.

See Litchi.

The gromwell.

An herb, the wall pellitory. See Pellitory.

A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century.

A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief. Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.

Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic. -- Dol`i*cho*ceph"al, a. & n.

The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.

Stately; dignified. [Obs.] Chaucer.