Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 41
Litmus (n.) 【化】石蕊 A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.
Note: Litmus is used as a dye, and being turned red by acids and restored to its blue color by alkalies, is a common indicator or test for acidity and alkalinity.
Litmus paper (Chem.), Unsized paper saturated with blue or red litmus, -- used in testing for acids or alkalies.
Litmus (n.) A coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions; used as a very rough acid-base indicator [syn: litmus, litmus test].
Litotes (n.) (Rhet.) 【語】反敘法，曲言法（指用反語的否定來表示肯定的一種修辭法） A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; a form of understatement; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city; or, "not bad", meaning "good".
Compare: Meiosis
Meiosis (n.) (Rhet.) 【生】減數分裂；【醫】瞳孔縮小 Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is; understatement; see also litotes.
Meiosis (n.) (Cell Biology) The cellular process by which a diploid progenitor cell forms haploid gametes, including a division of one diploid cell into two cells, each with one of the homologous sets of chromosomes.
Litotes (n.) Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes" [syn: litotes, meiosis].
Litotes (n.) plural Litotes : Understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in “not a bad singer” or “not unhappy”).
Litotes (n.) [ U ] (Specialized) The use of a negative statement in order to emphasize a positive meaning, for example "a not inconsiderable amount of money (= a considerable amount of money)".
Litraneter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.
Liter, Litre (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.
Litre (n.) Same as Liter. [Chiefly Brit.]
Litre (n.) A metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) [syn: liter, litre, l, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre].
Litre. () A French measure of capacity. It is of the size of a decimetre, or one-tenth part of a cubic metre. It is equal to 61.028 cubic inches. Vide Measure.
Litter (n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
There is a litter ready; lay him in 't. -- Shak.
Litter (n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
To crouch in litter of your stable planks. -- Shak.
Take off the litter from your kernel beds. -- Evelyn.
Litter (n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
Strephon, who found the room was void.
Stole in, and took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay. -- Swift.
Litter (n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
Litter (n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter. -- D. Estrange.
Reflect upon that numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world. -- South.
Littered (imp. & p. p.) of Litter.
Littering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Litter.
Litter (v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
Tell them how they litter their jades. -- Bp. Hackett.
For his ease, well littered was the floor. -- Dryden.
Litter (v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
The room with volumes littered round. -- Swift.
Litter (v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us. -- Sir T. Browne.
The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. -- Shak.
Litter (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. [R.]
The inn Where he and his horse littered. -- Habington.
Litter (v. i.) To produce a litter.
A desert . . . where the she-wolf still littered. -- Macaulay.
Litter (n.) The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal.
Litter (n.) Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places).
Litter (n.) Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers.
Litter (n.) Material used to provide a bed for animals [syn: bedding material, bedding, litter].
Litter (v.) Strew; "Cigar butts littered the ground".
Litter (v.) Make a place messy by strewing garbage around.
Litter (v.) Give birth to a litter of animals.
Litter, () (Heb. tsab, as being lightly and gently borne), a sedan or palanquin for the conveyance of persons of rank (Isa. 66:20). In Num. 7:3, the words "covered wagons" are more literally "carts of the litter kind." There they denote large and commodious vehicles drawn by oxen, and fitted for transporting the furniture of the temple.
Litterateur (n.) One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.
Littery (a.) Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.
Little (a.) Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
He sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. -- Luke xix. 3.
Little (a.) Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.
Best him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too. -- Shak.
Little (a.) Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.
Conceited of their little wisdoms, and doting upon their own fancies. -- Barrow.
Little (a.) Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible.
When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes? -- I Sam. xv. 17.
Little (a.) Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.
By sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find. -- Milton.
Little (a.) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, Because their natures are little. -- Tennyson.
Little chief. (Zool.) See Chief hare.
Little Englander, An Englishman opposed to territorial expansion of the British Empire. See Antiimperialism, above. Hence:
Little Englandism.
Little finger, The fourth and smallest finger of the hand.
Little go (Eng. Universities), A public examination about the middle of the course, which is less strict and important than the final one; -- called also smalls. Cf. Great go, under Great. -- Thackeray.
Little hours (R. C. Ch.), The offices of prime, tierce, sext, and nones. Vespers and compline are sometimes included.
Little-neck clam, or Little neck (Zool.), The quahog, or round clam.
Little ones, Young children.
The men, and the women, and the little ones. -- Deut. ii. 34.
Little peach, A disease of peaches in which the fruit is much dwarfed, and the leaves grow small and thin. The cause is not known.
Little Rhod"y, Rhode Island; -- A nickname alluding to its small size. It is the smallest State of the United States.
Little Sisters of the Poor (R. C. Ch.), An order of women who care for old men and women and infirm poor, for whom special houses are built. It was established at St. Servan, Britany, France, in 1840, by the Abb['e] Le Pailleur.
Little slam (Bridge Whist), The winning of 12 out of the 13 tricks. It counts 20 points on the honor score. Contrasted with grand slam.
Little (n.) That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.
Much was in little writ. -- Dryden.
There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. -- Locke.
Little (n.) A small degree or scale; miniature. " His picture in little." -- Shak.
A little, to or in a small degree; to a limited extent; somewhat; for a short time. " Stay a little." -- Shak.
The painter flattered her a little. -- Shak.
By little and little, or Little by little, By slow degrees; piecemeal; gradually.
Little (adv.) In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it. " The poor sleep little." -- Otway.
Little (adv.) Not much; "he talked little about his family."
Little (a.) Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn: small, little] [ant: big, large].
Little (a.) (Quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" [syn: little(a), slight] [ant: much(a)].
Little (a.) (Of children and animals) Young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small].
Little (a.) (Informal) Small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are Lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial].
Little (a.) (Of a voice) Faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: little, small].
Little (a.) Low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" [syn: short, little] [ant: tall].
Little (a.) Lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little,
minuscule, small]
Little (a.) Small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation."
Little (n.) A small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him."
LITTLE, () A typeless language used to produce machine-independent software. LITTLE has been used to implement SETL. "Guide to the LITTLE Language", D. Shields, LITTLE Newsletter 33, Courant Inst (Aug 1977).
Little-ease (n.) An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.
Littleness (n.) The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.
Littoral (a.) Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.
Littoral (a.) (Biol.) Inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between high-water and low-water mark.
Littoral (a.) Of or relating to a coastal or shore region
Littoral (n.) The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean [syn: littoral, litoral, littoral zone, sands].
Littoral (a.) Of, relating to, or having a coast.
Littoral (a.) Of, relating to, or situated or growing on or near a shore especially of the sea.
Littoral (n.) A coastal region; especially : the shore zone between high tide and low tide points.
Littoral (a.) Of, relating to, or being property abutting an ocean, sea, lake, or pond -- compare Riparian.
Littorina (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.
Littress (n.) A smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards.
Litate (a.) Forked, with the points slightly curved outward.
Lituiform (a.) Having the form of a lituus; like a lituite.
Lituite (n.) Any species of ammonites of the genus Lituites. They are found in the Cretaceous formation.
Liturate (a.) Having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.
Liturate (a.) Spotted, as if from abrasions of the surface.
Liturgic (a.) Alt. of Liturgical.
Liturgical (a.)【宗】禮拜儀式的；聖餐儀式的 Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship. -- T. Warton.
Liturgical (a.) Of or relating to or in accord with liturgy.
Liturgically (adv.) 【宗】禮拜儀式地，聖餐儀式地 In the manner of a liturgy.
Liturgics (n.) （用作單數）禮拜學；祭典學 The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies.
Liturgics (n.) The study of liturgies [syn: {liturgics}, {liturgiology}].
Liturgiologist (n.) [宗] 禮拜儀式學家 One versed in liturgiology.
Liturgiology (n.) （用作單數）禮拜學；祭典學 The science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies. -- Shipley. (Another term for liturgics.)
Liturgiology (n.) The study of liturgies [syn: {liturgics}, {liturgiology}].
Liturgist (n.) One who favors or adheres strictly to a liturgy.
Liturgies (n. pl. ) of Liturgy
Liturgy (n.) 【宗】聖餐禮儀（尤其在東正教會）；禮拜儀式 An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.
Liturgy (n.) A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine [syn: {Holy Eucharist}, {Eucharist}, {sacrament of the Eucharist}, {Holy Sacrament}, {Liturgy}, {Eucharistic liturgy}, {Lord's Supper}].
Liturgy (n.) A rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship.
Liturgy (n.) [ C or U ] (A particular set of) （尤指基督教等宗教的）禮拜儀式 The words, music, and actions used in ceremonies in some religions, especially Christianity.
Liturgy of the Eucharist (n.) 聖祭禮儀 The Liturgy of the Eucharist begins with the preparation of the gifts and the altar. As the ministers prepare the altar, representatives of the people bring forward the bread and wine that will become the Body and Blood of Christ. The celebrant blesses and praises God for these gifts and places them on the altar, the place of the Eucharistic sacrifice. In addition to the bread and wine, monetary gifts for the support of the Church and the care of the poor may be brought forward. The Prayer over the Offerings concludes this preparation and disposes all for the Eucharistic Prayer.
Liturgy of The Word (n.) 聖道禮儀 Most of the Liturgy of the Word is made up of readings from Scripture. On Sundays and solemnities, there are three Scripture readings. During most of the year, the first reading is from the Old Testament and the second reading is from one of the New Testament letters. During Easter Time, the first reading is taken from the Acts of the Apostles which tells the story of the Church in its earliest days. The last reading is always taken from one of the four Gospels.
Litui (n. pl. ) of Lituus.
Lituus (n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
Lituus (n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
Lituus (n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.
Livable (a.) Such as can be lived.
Livable (a.) Such as in pleasant to live in; fit or suitable to live in.
Lived (imp. & p. p.) of Live.
Living (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Live.
Live (v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.
Live (v. i.) To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
Live (v. i.) To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.
Live (v. i.) To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
Live (v. i.) To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.
Live (v. i.) To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
Live (v. i.) To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
Live (v. i.) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
Live (v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
Live (v. t.) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.
Live (v. t.) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
Live (a.) Having life; alive; living; not dead.
Live (a.) Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.
Live (a.) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.
Live (a.) Vivid; bright.
Live (a.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.
Live (n.) Life.
Lived (a.) Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
Livedo (n.) 青斑 Skin disorder characterized by patchy bluish discolorations on the skin.
Live-forever (n.) A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
Livelihed (n.) See Livelihood.
Livelihood (n.) Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.
Livelihood (n.) Liveliness; appearance of life.
Livelily (adv.) In a lively manner.
Liveliness (n.) The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
Liveliness (n.) An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
Liveliness (n.) Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Livelode (n.) Course of life; means of support; livelihood.
Livelong (a.) Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
Livelong (a.) Lasting; durable.
Lively (a.) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
Lively (a.) Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth.
Lively (a.) Gay; airy; animated; spirited.
Lively (a.) Representing life; lifelike.
Lively (a.) Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.
Lively (adv.) In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.
Lively (adv.) With strong resemblance of life. [Obs.]
Liver (n.) One who, or that which, lives.
Liver (n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
Liver (n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
Liver (n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
Liver (n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
Liver-colored (a.) Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.
Livered (a.) Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.
Liver-grown (a.) Having an enlarged liver.
Liveried (a.) Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3.