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A dull, heavy person. " Country lobs." Gauden.

Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.

Like a lob; consisting of lobs. Sir. P. Sidney.

en large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.

A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. [U.S.]

A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. [Low]

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form; as:

Lobiped.

Having lobes; lobate.

A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

A small lobe; a lobule.

A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for…

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

Having lobate toes, as a coot.

Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen. Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon). -…

An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.