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See Loo.

A lubber. [Obs.] Swift.

A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romal…

Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.

Lascivious; wanton; lewd. [R.] This lubric and adulterate age. Dryden.

Lubricating.

To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.

One who, or that which, lubricates. " Lubricator of the fibers." Burke.

See Lubricate.

Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray.

Lubric.

The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray. Bacon.

A dormer window.

A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.

A pike when full grown. Halliwell.

The quality of being lucent.

Shining; bright; resplendent. " The sun's lucent orb." Milton.

A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine. Chapman.

Of or pertaining to a lamp. Lucernal microscope, a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.