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.) (Bot.) Labiate.
Lipped (a.) Having a lip or lips; "a lipped bowl"; "a virgin purest lipped" -- John Keats [ant: lipless, unlipped].
Lippitude (n.) Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyed; blearedness.
Lipse (v. i.) To lisp. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Lipyl (n.) (Chem.) A hypothetical radical of glycerin. [Obs.] -- Berzelius.
Liquable (v. i.) Capable of being melted.
Liquate (v. i.) To melt; to become liquid. [Obs.] -- Woodward.
Liquate (v. t.) (Metal.) 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.) (Metal.) The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.
Liquefacient (n.) That which serves to liquefy.
Liquefacient (n.) (Med.) 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.) (Chem. Physics) 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.
Liquefaction (n.) The conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid.
Liquefiable (a.) Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.
Liquefiable (a.) Capable of being liquefied [syn: liquefiable, liquifiable].
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. t.) To convert from a gaseous form into a liquid; as, to liquefy natural gas.
Liquefy (v. i.) To become liquid.
Liquefy (v.) Become liquid; "The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew."
Liquefy (v.) Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver" [syn: liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise].
Liquefy (v.) Become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied" [syn: liquefy, flux, liquify].
Liquescency (n.) The quality or state of being liquescent. -- Johnson.
Liquescent (a.) Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.
Liquescent (a.) Becoming liquid [syn: liquescent, melting].
Liqueur (n.) An aromatic alcoholic cordial.
Note: Some liqueurs are prepared by infusing certain woods, fruits, or flowers, in either water or alcohol, and adding sugar, etc. Others are distilled from aromatic or flavoring agents.
Liqueur (n.) Strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal [syn: liqueur, cordial].
Liquid (a.) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
Yea, though he go upon the plane and liquid water which will receive no step. -- Tyndale.
Liquid (a.) (Physics) 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.
Note: Liquid substances may form a definite interface with gases, whereas the molecules of different gases freely intermingle with each other.
Liquid (a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. "Liquid melody." -- Crashaw.
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. [Obs.] "Though the debt should be entirely liquid." -- Ayliffe.
Liquid (a.) (Finance) In cash or readily convertible into cash without loss of principle; -- said of assets, such as bank accounts, or short-term bonds tradable on a major stock exchange.
Liquid glass. See Soluble glass, under Glass.
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 gaseous and has a definite volume independent, of the container in which it is held. Liquids have a fixed volume at any given pressure, but their shape is determined by the container in which it is contained. Liquids, in contrast to gases, cannot expand indefinitely to fill an expanding container, and are only slightly compressible by application of pressure.
Note: Liquid and fluid are terms often used synonymously, but fluid has the broader signification. All liquids are fluids, but many fluids, as air and the gases, are not liquids.
Liquid (n.) (Phon.) 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.
Liquid measure, A measure, or system of measuring, for liquids, by the gallon, quart, pint, gill, etc.
Liquid (a.) Existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances" [ant: gaseous, solid].
Liquid (a.) Filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" [syn: liquid, swimming].
Liquid (a.) Clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes" [syn: liquid, limpid].
Liquid (a.) Changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow" [syn: melted, liquid, liquified] [ant: unmelted].
Liquid (a.) Smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness; "the liquid song of a robin."
Liquid (a.) Smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina" [syn: fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth].
Liquid (a.) In cash or easily convertible to cash; "liquid (or fluid) assets" [syn: fluid, liquid].
Liquid (n.) A substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure.
Liquid (n.) The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility [syn: liquid liquidness, liquidity, liquid state]. Liquid Liquid fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume.
Liquid (n.) A frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r').
Liquidambar (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Liquidambar (n.) Aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree [syn: sweet gum, liquidambar].
Liquidambar (n.) Any tree of the genus Liquidambar.
Liquidambar (n.) Sweet gum [syn: genus Liquidambar, Liquidambar].
Liquidamber (n.) See Liquidambar.
Liquidated (imp. & p. p.) of Liquidate.
Liquidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liquidate.
Liquidate (v. t.) (Law) 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.
A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law. -- 15 Ga. Rep. 321.
If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor. -- Chesterfield.
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). -- Abbott.
Liquidate (v. t.) To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.
Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins. -- W. Coxe.
Liquidate (v. t.) To make clear and intelligible.
Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system. -- A. Hamilton.
Liquidate (v. t.) To make liquid. [Obs.]
Liquidate (v. t.) To convert (assets) into cash.
Liquidate (v. t.) To kill; -- used mostly of governments or organizations killing their enemies; as, Stalin liquidated many of the Kulaks.
Liquidate (v. t.) To dissolve (an organization); to terminate (an activity).
Liquidated damages (Law), Damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained. -- Abbott.
Liquidate (v.) Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in].
Liquidate (v.) Eliminate by paying off (debts) [syn: liquidate, pay off].
Liquidate (v.) Convert into cash; "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband."
Liquidate (v.) Settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off; "liquidate a company."
Liquidation (n.) The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.
To go into liquidation (Law), To turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness may be authoritatively ascertained, and that the assets may be applied toward their discharge.
Liquidation (n.) Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities [syn: liquidation, settlement].
Liquidation (n.) The act of exterminating [syn: extermination, liquidation].
Liquidation (n.) The murder of a competitor [syn: elimination, liquidation].
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. [Eng.] -- Mozley & W.
Liquidator (n.) A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) [syn: murderer, liquidator, manslayer].
Liquidator (n.) (Law) A person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties [syn: liquidator, receiver].
Liquidity (n.) The state or quality of being liquid.
Liquidity (n.) The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility [syn: liquid, liquidness, liquidity, liquid state].
Liquidity (n.) The property of flowing easily; "adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased"; "they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer" [syn: fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness].
Liquidity (n.) Being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability.
Liquidized (imp. & p. p.) of Liquidize.
Liquidizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liquidize.
Liquidize (v. t.) To render liquid.
Liquidize (v.) Get rid of all one's merchandise [syn: sell out, sell up, liquidize].
Liquidize (v.) Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver" [syn: liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise].
Liquidly (adv.) In a liquid manner; flowingly.
Liquidness (n.) The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency. liquidness
Liquidness (n.) The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility [syn: liquid, liquidness, liquidity, liquid state].
Liquidness (n.) The property of flowing easily; "adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased"; "they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer" [syn: fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness].
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.) (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
Note: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia includes, in this class of preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aqu[ae] or waters. -- U. S. Disp.
Labarraque's liquor (Old Chem.), A solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching
and as a disinfectant.
Liquor of flints, or Liquor silicum (Old Chem.), Soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass.
Liquor of Libavius. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming.
Liquor sanguinis (Physiol.), The blood plasma.
Liquor thief, A tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole.
To be in liquor, To be intoxicated.
Liquored (imp. & p. p.) of Liquor.
Liquoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liquor.
Liquor (v. t.) To supply with liquor. [R.]
Liquor (v. t.) To grease. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Liquor fishermen's boots. -- Shak.
Liquor (n.) An alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented [syn: liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink].
Liquor (n.) A liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; "waste liquors."
Liquor (n.) The liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked [syn: liquor, pot liquor, pot likker].
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.
Lisper (n.) A speaker who lisps.
Lispingly (adv.) With a lisp; in a lisping manner.
Lispingly (adv.) With a lisp; "she spoke lispingly."
Liss (n.) Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] "Of penance had a lisse." -- Chaucer.
Liss (v. t.) To free, as from care or pain; to relieve. [Obs.] "Lissed of his care." -- Chaucer.
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 (v. t.) To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
List (v. i.) To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.]
Stand close, and list to him. -- Shak.
List (v. t.) To listen or hearken to.
Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs. -- Shak.
List (v. i.) To desire or choose;
to please.
The wind bloweth
where it listeth. -- John iii. 8.
Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth. -- Hooker.
Let other men think of your devices as they list. -- Whitgift.
List (v. i.) (Naut.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.
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. -- Chaucer.
In measured lists to toss the weighty lance. -- Pope.
To enter the lists, To accept a challenge, or engage in contest.
List (n.) Inclination; desire. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
List (n.) (Naut.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.