Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 28
Leyser (n.) Leisure. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Leze majesty.
Leze majesty (n.) (Law) Any crime committed against the sovereign power , or against a ruler.
Leze majesty (n.) Any affront to the dignity of an eminent or respected person.
Leze majesty (n.) An attack against an institution or custom revered by the majority in a society.
Lherzolite (n.) An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).
Li (n.) A Chinese measure of distance, being a little more than one third of a mile.
Li (n.) A Chinese copper coin; a cash. See Cash.
Liabilities (n. pl. ) of Liability.
Liability (n.) The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.
Liability (n.) That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable.
Liability (n.) the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets.
Liability (n.) (Responsibility) (C1) [ U ] （法律上對某事物的）責任，義務 The fact that someone is legally responsible for something.
// He denies any liability for the damage caused.
Liabilities (n. pl.) (Specialized) 債務，負債 Debts.
// The business has liabilities of 2 million euros.
Compare Asset
Asset (n.) (C1) [ C ] 優點，長處；有用的人 A useful or valuable quality, skill, or person.
// He'll be a great asset to the team.
// Her eyes are her best asset (= most attractive feature).
// Knowledge of languages is a real asset in this sort of work.
Asset (n.) (C1) [ C usually plural ] 資產；財產 Something valuable belonging to a person or organization that can be used for the payment of debts.
// A company's assets can consist of cash, investments, specialist knowledge, or copyright material.
// Liquid assets (= money or things that can easily be changed into money).
Liability (n.) (Risk) (C1) [ S ] 麻煩，累贅 Something or someone that causes you a lot of trouble, often when that thing or person should be helping you.
// After a certain age, a car's just a liability.
// Sue always manages to upset somebody when we go out - she's a real liability.
Liable (a.) 應負責任的，應受的；易於…的，有…傾向的 Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
Liable (a.) Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident.
Liable (a.) At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant; "he is apt to lose"; "she is liable to forget" [syn: {apt(p)}, {liable(p)}].
Liable (a.) Subject to legal action; "liable to criminal charges".
Liable (a.) (often followed by `to') Likely to be affected with; "liable to diabetes" [syn: {liable(p)}, {nonimmune}, {nonresistant}, {unresistant}].
Liable (a.) Held legally responsible; "men between the ages of 18 and 35 were liable for military service".
Liable (a.) [ After verb ] (Responsible) (C1) (Specialized) (Law) 承擔責任的；負有（法律）責任的 Having (legal) responsibility for something or someone.
// The law holds parents liable if a child does not attend school.
// If we lose the case we may be liable for (= have to pay) the costs of the whole trial.
Liable (a.) [ After verb ] (Likely) (C2) 很可能會發生的，可能性很大的 Very likely to do something.
// The areas of town near the river are liable to flooding (= are often flooded).
// [ + to infinitive ] He's liable to make a fuss if you wake him.
Liableness (n.) 有責任 Quality of being liable; liability.
Liage (n.) Union by league; alliance.
Liaison (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
Liane (n.) Alt. of Liana.
Liana (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.
Liar (n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.
Liard (a.) Gray.
Liard (n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.
Lias (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
Liassic (a.) Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation.
Liassic (n.) Same as Lias.
Lib (v. t.) To castrate.
Libament (n.) Libation.
Libant (a.) Sipping; touching lightly.
Libation (n.) The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out.
Libatory (a.) Pertaining to libation.
Libbard (n.) A leopard.
Libbard's bane () Leopard's bane.
Libel (n.) A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
Libel (n.) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
Libel (n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.
Libel (n.) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.
Libel (n.) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.
Libeled (imp. & p. p.) of Libel.
Libelled () of Libel.
Libeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Libel.
Libelling () of Libel.
Libel (v. t.) To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.
Libel (v. t.) To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.
Libel (v. i.) To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against.
Libelant (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.
Libeler (n.) One who libels.
Libelist (n.) A libeler.
Li bella (n.) A small balance.
Li bella (n.) A level, or leveling instrument.
Libellulid (n.) A dragon fly.
Libelluloid (a.) Like or pertaining to the dragon flies.
Libelous (a.) Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet.
Libelous (a.) Containing an untrue written statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone.
Libelous (a.) Constituting or including a libel : defamatory <a libelous statement>.
Liber (n.) (Bot.) 韌皮部 The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.
Liber cells, Elongated woody cells found in the liber.
LIBER. A book; a principal subdivision of a literary work: thus, the Pandects, or Digest of the Civil Law, is divided into fifty books.
Liberal (a.) 心胸寬闊的，開明的，公允的 [（+in/ to）]；自由主義的，允許變革的，不守舊的；通才教育的 Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies. " Liberal education." --Macaulay. " A liberal tongue." -- Shak.
Liberal (a.) Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver. " Liberal of praise." -- Bacon.
Infinitely good, and of his good As liberal and free as infinite. -- Milton.
Liberal (a.) Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water.
His wealth doth warrant a liberal dower. -- Shak.
Liberal (a.) Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.
Liberal (a.) Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic.
Liberal (a.) Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious. " Most like a liberal villain." -- Shak.
Liberal (a.) Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.
I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it. -- Hazlitt.
Note: Liberal has of, sometimes with, before the thing bestowed, in before a word signifying action, and to before a person or object on which anything is bestowed; as, to be liberal of praise or censure; liberal with money; liberal in giving; liberal to the poor.
The liberal arts. See under Art.
Liberal education, Education that enlarges and disciplines the mind and makes it master of its own powers, irrespective of the particular business or profession one may follow.
Syn: Generous; bountiful; munificent; beneficent; ample; large; profuse; free.
Usage: Liberal, Generous. Liberal is freeborn, and generous is highborn. The former is opposed to the ordinary feelings of a servile state, and implies largeness of spirit in giving, judging, acting, etc.
The latter expresses that nobleness of soul which is peculiarly appropriate to those of high rank, -- a spirit that goes out of self, and finds its enjoyment in consulting the feelings and happiness of others. Generosity is measured by the extent of the sacrifices it makes; liberality, by the warmth of feeling which it manifests.
Liberal (n.) 自由主義者 [C] One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.
Liberal (a.) Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant].
Liberal (a.) Having political or social views favoring reform and progress.
Liberal (a.) Tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition [ant: conservative].
Liberal (a.) Given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded].
Liberal (a.) Not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose, liberal].
Liberal (n.) A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: liberal, liberalist, progressive] [ant: conservative, conservativist].
Liberal (n.) A person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets.
Liberal, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 779
Housing Units (2000): 361
Land area (2000): 0.837014 sq. miles (2.167855 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006604 sq. miles (0.017103 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.843618 sq. miles (2.184958 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41906
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.558860 N, 94.520546 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64762
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Liberal, MO
Liberal
Liberal, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 19666
Housing Units (2000): 7014
Land area (2000): 11.058466 sq. miles (28.641294 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.138334 sq. miles (0.358283 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.196800 sq. miles (28.999577 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39825
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.043418 N, 100.928133 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67901
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Liberal
Liberalism (n.) 自由主義；寬容；開明 Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.
Liberalist (n.) 自由主義者 A liberal.
Liberalistic (a.) 自由主義的 Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
Liberalities (n. pl. ) of Liberality.
Liberality (n.) 慷慨；大方的贈物；心胸寬闊 The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity.
That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. -- Denham.
Liberality (n.) A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.
Liberality (n.) An inclination to favor progress and individual freedom [syn: liberality, liberalness]
Liberality (n.) The trait of being generous in behavior and temperament [syn: liberality, liberalness] [ant: illiberality].
Liberalization (n.) 慷慨；自由化；自由主義化 The act of liberalizing.
Liberalized (imp. & p. p.) of Liberalize.
Liberalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liberalize.
Liberalize (v. t.) 使自由化To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.
Liberalizer (n.) One who, or that which, liberalizes.
Liberally (adv.) 大方地，慷慨地；大量地；充足地；自由地；開通地 In a liberal manner.
Liberally (adv.) Freely in a nonliteral manner; "he embellished his stories liberally".
Liberally (adv.) In a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several charities" [syn: liberally, munificently, generously].
Liberated (imp. & p. p.) of Liberate.
Liberating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liberate.
Liberate (v. t.) 解放，使獲自由[（+from）]；【化】釋放；【俚】（尤指戰時）劫掠；偷 To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.
Syn: To deliver; free; release. See Deliver.
Liberate (v.) Give equal rights to; of women and minorities [syn: emancipate, liberate].
Liberate (v.) Grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine, detain].
Liberate (v.) Grant freedom to; "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university" [syn: liberate, set free].
Liberate (v.) Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition [syn: release, free, liberate].
LIBERATE, English practice. A writ which issues on lands, tenements, and chattels, being returned under an extent on a statute staple, commanding the sheriff to deliver them to the plaintiff, by the extent and appraisement mentioned in the writ of extent, and in the sheriff's return thereto. See Com dig. Statute Staple, D 6.
Liberation (n.) [U] 解放 [（+from）]；解放運動 The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
Liberation (n.) The act of liberating someone or something [syn: {liberation}, {release}, {freeing}].
Liberation (n.) The attempt to achieve equal rights or status; "she worked for women's liberation".
Liberation (n.) The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: {dismissal}, {dismission}, {discharge}, {firing}, {liberation}, {release}, {sack}, {sacking}].
Liberator (n.) （民族）解放者，解救者 [C] One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.
Liberator (n.) Someone who releases people from captivity or bondage [ant: captor, capturer].
Liberatory (a.) 釋放的；解放的 Tending, or serving, to liberate. [R.]
Liberatory [in British English] (a.) Tending to liberate.
Libertarian (a.) 自由意志主義支持者（的）；古典自由派（的） Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
Libertarian (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of free will.
Libertarianism (n.) 自由意志論 Libertarian principles or doctrines.
Libertarianism (n.) An ideological belief in freedom of thought and speech.
Liberticide (n.) 破壞自由；破壞自由者 The destruction of civil liberty.
Liberticide (n.) A destroyer of civil liberty. -- B. F. Wade.
Liberticide (a.) 破壞自由的 = Liberticidal.
Liberticidal (a.) Destructive of liberty.
Libertinage (n.) Libertinism; license.
Libertine (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) 放蕩者；玩樂者；【宗】持自由思想者 A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
Libertine (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
Libertine (n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.
Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. -- Shak.
Libertine (n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent]
Libertine (n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.]
You are too much libertine. -- Beau. & Fl.
Libertine (n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. -- Bacon.
Libertine (a.) Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast].
Libertine (n.) A dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained [syn: libertine, debauchee, rounder].
Libertine, () Found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been carried captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other Roman generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been liberated. In A.D. 19 these manumitted Jews were banished from Rome. Many of them found their way to Jerusalem, and there established a synagogue.
Libertinism (n.) 放蕩；放蕩行為；（對宗教事務的）自由觀點 The state of a libertine or freedman. [R.] -- Hammond.
Libertinism (n.) Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.
Libertinism (n.) Licentiousness of principle or opinion.
That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. -- Atterbury.
Liberties (n. pl. ) of Liberty.
Liberty (n.) 自由；自由權 [U] [C] [+to-v]；自由活動於（或使用）某地的權利 [U]；失禮，越軌；未經許可的行為 [C] The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.
But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. -- Jer. xxxiv. 16.
Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. -- Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21.
Liberty (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.
Being pent from liberty, as I am now. -- Shak.
Liberty (n.) A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.
Liberty (n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.
His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. -- Sir J. Davies.
Liberty (n.) The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.]
Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. -- Fuller.
Liberty (n.) A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.
Liberty (n.) A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.
He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. -- Macaulay.
Liberty (n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.
The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. -- Locke.
This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. -- J. A. Symonds.