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as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove. Prior.

One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. [Archaic] Spenser. One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.

To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done. Holinshed.

Flattery; deceit; trickery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who loses. South.

Same as Acaulescent.

Being without joints; jointless.

To praise. [Obs.]

ne of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

te or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

Angulous. [R.]

Anhelous; panting. [R.]

Same as Anchylose.

Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.

Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

Having much hair; hairy. [R.]

y the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is removed by saliva or pepsin. Goodale.…

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

Closely united.