Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 38
Lipped (a.) Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.
Lipped (a.) Labiate.
Lippitude (n.) Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyed; blearedness.
Lipse (v. i.) To lisp.
Lipyl (n.) A hypothetical radical of glycerin.
Liquable (v. i.) Capable of being melted.
Liquate (v. i.) To melt; to become liquid.
Liquate (v. t.) To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.
Liquation (n.) The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.
Liquation (n.) The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.
Liquefacient (n.) That which serves to liquefy.
Liquefacient (n.) An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.
Liquefaction (n.) The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.
Liquefaction (n.) The state of being liquid.
Liquefaction (n.) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
Liquefiable (a.) Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.
Liquefier (n.) That which liquefies.
Liquefied (imp. & p. p.) of Liquefy
Liquefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liquefy
Liquefy (v. t.) To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
Liquefy (v. i.) To become liquid.
Liquescency (n.) The quality or state of being liquescent.
Liquescent (a.) Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.
Liqueur (n.) An aromatic alcoholic cordial.
Liquid (a.) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
Liquid (a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.
Liquid (a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
Liquid (a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.
Liquid (a.) Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.
Liquid (a.) Clear; definite in terms or amount.
Liquid (n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.
Liquid (n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.
Liquidambar (n.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.
Liquidambar (n.) The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.
Liquidamber (n.) See Liquidambar.
Liquidated (imp. & p. p.) of Liquidate
Liquidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liquidate
Liquidate (v. t.) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.
Liquidate (v. t.) In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).
Liquidate (v. t.) To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.
Liquidate (v. t.) To make clear and intelligible.
Liquidate (v. t.) To make liquid.
Liquidation (n.) The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.
Liquidator (n.) One who, or that which, liquidates.
Liquidator (n.) An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company.
Liquidity (n.) The state or quality of being liquid.
Liquidized (imp. & p. p.) of Liquidize
Liquidizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liquidize
Liquidize (v. t.) To render liquid.
Liquidly (adv.) In a liquid manner; flowingly.
Liquidness (n.) The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.
Liquor (n.) Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
Liquor (n.) Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
Liquor (n.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
Liquored (imp. & p. p.) of Liquor
Liquoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liquor
Liquor (v. t.) To supply with liquor.
Liquor (v. t.) To grease.
Liquorice (n.) See Licorice.
Liquorish (a.) See Lickerish.
Liquorous (a.) Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish.
Lire (n. pl. ) of Lira
Lira (n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.
Lirella (n.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.
Lirelliform (a.) Like a lirella.
Liriodendra (n. pl. ) of Liriodendron
Liriodendron (n.) A genus of large and very beautiful trees of North America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.
Liripipe (n.) See Liripoop.
Liripoop (n.) A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc.
Liripoop (n.) Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem.
Liripoop (n.) A silly person.
Liroconite (n.) A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.
Lisbon (n.) A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.
Lisle (n.) A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.
Lisne (n.) A cavity or hollow.
Lisped (imp. & p. p.) of Lisp
Lisping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lisp
Lisp (v. i.) 咬舌；說話口齒不清 To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
Lisp (v. i.) To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. -- Pope.
Lisp (v. i.) To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt. -- Drayton.
Lisp (v. t.) 咬著舌說；口齒不清地說 To pronounce with a lisp.
Lisp (v. t.) To utter with
imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or
indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple,
childlike language.
To
speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp the words unto
them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them
again. -- Tyndale.
Lisp (v. t.) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
Lisp (n.) The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, "O! Strephon, you are a dangerous creature." -- Tatler.
LISP (n.) (Computers) [List Processing.] A high-level computer programming language in which statements and data are in the form of lists, enclosed in parentheses; -- used especially for rapid development of prototype programs in artificial intelligence applications.
Lisp (n.) A speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'.
Lisp (n.) A flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists [syn: LISP, list- processing language].
Lisp (v.) Speak with a lisp.
LISP, LISt Processor (LISP)
LISP, Lots of Isolated Silly Parentheses (LISP, slang).
LISP (n.) [from ?LISt Processing language?, but mythically from ?Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses?] AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa. Invented by John McCarthy at MIT in the late 1950s, it is actually older than any other HLL still in use except FORTRAN. Accordingly, it has undergone considerable adaptive radiation over the years; modern variants are quite different in detail from the original LISP 1.5. The dominant HLL among hackers until the early 1980s, LISP has since shared the throne with C. Its partisans claim it is the only language that is truly beautiful. See languages of choice.
All LISP functions and programs are expressions that return values; this, together with the high memory utilization of LISPs, gave rise to Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that ?LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing?.
One significant application for LISP has been as a proof by example that most newer languages, such as COBOL and Ada, are full of unnecessary { crocks. When the Right Thing has already been done once, there is no justification for bogosity in newer languages.
[lisp] We've got your numbers....
Lisp, LISt Processing language.
(Or mythically "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses").
Artificial Intelligence's mother tongue, a symbolic, functional, recursive language based on the ideas of lambda-calculus, variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types and the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa.
Data objects in Lisp are lists and atoms. Lists may contain lists and atoms. Atoms are either numbers or symbols. Programs in Lisp are themselves lists of symbols which can be treated as data. Most implementations of Lisp allow functions with side-effects but there is a core of Lisp which is purely functional.
All Lisp functions and programs are expressions that return values; this, together with the high memory use of Lisp, gave rise to Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that "Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing".
The original version was LISP 1, invented by John McCarthy at MIT in the late 1950s. Lisp is actually older than any other high level language still in use except Fortran. Accordingly, it has undergone considerable change over the years. Modern variants are quite different in detail. The dominant HLL among hackers until the early 1980s, Lisp now shares the throne with C. See languages of choice.
One significant application for Lisp has been as a proof by example that most newer languages, such as COBOL and Ada, are full of unnecessary crocks. When the Right Thing has already been done once, there is no justification for bogosity in newer languages.
See also Association of Lisp Users, Common Lisp, Franz Lisp, MacLisp, Portable Standard Lisp, Interlisp, Scheme, ELisp, Kamin's interpreters. [{Jargon File] (1995-04-16)
Lisper (n.) One who lisps.
Lispingly (adv.) With a lisp; in a lisping manner.
Liss (n.) Release; remission; ease; relief.
Liss (v. t.) To free, as from care or pain; to relieve.
Lissencephala (n. pl.) (Zool.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. Lissom
Lissom (a.) Alt. of Lissome
Lissome (a.) 柔軟的；敏捷的 Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. -- Tennyson.
Lissome (a.) Light; nimble; active. -- Halliwell. -- Lis"some*ness, n.
Lissome (a.) Moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike].
List (n.) A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
List (v. t.) To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
List (v. i.) To hearken; to attend; to listen.
List (v. t.) To listen or hearken to.
List (v. i.) To desire or choose; to please.
List (v. i.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.
List (n.) Inclination; desire.
List (n.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.