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Look; see; behold; observe. " Lo, here is Christ." Matt. xxiv.

Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.

r put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load. He might such a load To town with his ass carry. Gower.

One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

The act of putting a load on or into.

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

A pilot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ar 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.

especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. Bacon. Loaf sugar, refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.

One who loafs; a lazy lounger. Lowell.

ay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain. Hooker.

Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. Bacon.

A loanin. [Scot.]

Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.

An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans. The millions of the loanmonger. Beaconsfield.

Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. Full loth were him to curse for his tithes. Chaucer . Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content. Shak.

To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. Cowley.

One who loathes.