Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 49
Loose (n.) A letting go; discharge. -- B. Jonson.
To give a loose, To give freedom.
Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. -- Addison.
Loosed (imp. & p. p.) of Loose
Loosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loose
Loose (v.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion ? -- Job. xxxviii. 31.
Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me. -- Matt. xxi. 2.
Loose (v.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife. -- 1 Cor. vii. 27.
Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. -- Matt. xvi. 19.
Loose (v.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
The joints of his loins were loosed. -- Dan. v. 6.
Loose (v.) To solve; to interpret. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Loose (v. i.) To set sail. [Obs.] -- Acts xiii. 13.
Loose (adv.) Without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" [syn: loose, free].
Loose (a.) Not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel" [ant: compact].
Loose (a.) (Of a ball in sport) Not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball".
Loose (a.) Not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose" [ant: tight].
Loose (a.) Not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" [syn: informal, loose].
Loose (a.) Not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose, liberal].
Loose (a.) Emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" [syn: lax, loose].
Loose (a.) Not affixed; "the stamp came loose" [syn: unaffixed, loose] [ant: affixed].
Loose (a.) Not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" [syn: loose, slack].
Loose (a.) (Of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" [syn: loose, open].
Loose (a.) Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" [syn: idle, loose].
Loose (a.) Not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails".
Loose (a.) Having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood" [syn: at large(p), escaped, loose, on the loose(p)].
Loose (a.) Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" [syn: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton].
Loose (v.) Grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine, detain].
Loose (v.) Turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity" [syn: unleash, let loose, loose].
Loose (v.) Make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope" [syn: loosen, loose] [ant: stiffen].
Loose (v.) Become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" [syn: loosen, relax, loose] [ant: stiffen].
Loosely (adv.) In a loose manner.
Loosely (adv.) In a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely" [syn: loosely, slackly].
Loosely (adv.) In a loose manner; "a union of loosely federated states".
Loosely (adv.) Without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he. interprets the law broadly" [syn: broadly, loosely, broadly speaking, generally] [ant: narrowly].
Loosely (adv.) Knitted in a loose manner; "loosely knit".
Loosened (a.) Having constraints removed.
Syn: freed.
Loosened (a.) Straightened out; untangled.
Syn: disentangled, unsnarled.
Loosen (v. i.) To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact. -- S. Sharp.
Loosened (imp. & p. p.) of Loosen
Loosening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loosen
Loosen (v. t.) To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.
After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth. -- Bacon.
Loosen (v. t.) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding. -- Dryden.
Loosen (v. t.) To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. -- Bacon.
Loosen (v.) Make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope" [syn: loosen, loose] [ant: stiffen].
Loosen (v.) Make less severe or strict; "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught" [syn: relax, loosen].
Loosen (v.) Become less severe or strict; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived" [syn: relax, loosen].
Loosen (v.) Disentangle and raise the fibers of; "tease wool" [syn: tease, tease apart, loosen].
Loosen (v.) Cause to become loose; "undo the shoelace"; "untie the knot"; "loosen the necktie" [syn: untie, undo, loosen].
Loosen (v.) Make less dense; "loosen the soil".
Loosen (v.) Become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" [syn: loosen, relax, loose] [ant: stiffen].
Loosener (n.) One who, or that which, loosens.
Looseness (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
Looseness (n.) Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor [syn: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness].
Looseness (n.) Freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made".
Looseness (n.) A lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression".
Looseness (n.) The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints [ant: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness].
Looseness (n.) Movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel" [syn: looseness, play] [ant: tautness, tightness].
Looseness (n.) Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [syn: profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness].
Loosestrife (n.) The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.
Loosestrife (n.) Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. -- Gray.
False loosestrife, A plant of the genus Ludwigia, which includes several species, most of which are found in the United States.
Tufted loosestrife, The plant Lysimachia thyrsiflora, found in the northern parts of the United States and in Europe. -- Gray.
Loosestrife (n.) Any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum.
Loosestrife (n.) Any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia.
Loosish (a.) Somewhat loose.
Loot (n.) The act of plundering.
Loot (n.) Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city.
Loot (n.) Hence: Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty.
Loot (n.) Broadly: Valuable objects; as, the child was delighted with all the loot he got for his birthday.
Loot (n.) Money; as, you shouldn't carry all that loot around with you in the city; she made a pile of loot from trading in cattle futures. [slang]
Looted (imp. & p. p.) of Loot
Looting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loot
Loot (v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
Looting
parties . . . ransacking the houses. -- L. Oliphant.
Loot (n.) Goods or money obtained illegally [syn:
loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money].
Loot (n.) Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum].
Loot (v.) Take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder].
Loot (v.) Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray].
Looter (n.) A plunderer.
Looter (n.) Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) [syn: plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter].
Loover (n.) See Louver.
Louver, Louvre (n.) (Arch.) A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a) . [Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer.]
Louver, Louvre (n.) (Arch.) Same as louver boards, below.
Louver, Louvre (n.) A set of slats resembling louver boards, arranged in a vertical row and attached at each slat end to a frame inserted in or part of a door or window; the slats may be made of wood, plastic, or metal, and the angle of inclination of the slats may be adjustable simultaneously, to allow more or less light or air into the enclosure.
Louver boards or Louver boarding, The sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc.
Louver work, Slatted work.
Louver (n.) To supply with louvers.
Louver (n.) One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain [syn: louver, louvre, fin].
Lop (a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Lop (n.) A flea. [Obs.] -- Cleveland.
Lopped (imp. & p. p.) of Lop
Lopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lop
Lop (v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled." -- Milton.
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. -- Pope.
Lop (v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
Lop (n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. -- Shak. Mortimer.
Lop (v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop (v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
Lop (v.) Cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: discerp, sever, lop].
Lop (v.) Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back].
LOP, () Language Orientated Programming
LOP, () Loss of Pointer (UNI)
LOP, () A language based on first-order logic.
Lope (imp.) of Leap. [Obs.]
And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.
Loped (imp. & p. p.) of Lope
Loping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lope
Lope (v. i.) To leap; to dance. [Prov. Eng.] "He that lopes on the ropes." -- Middleton.
Lope (v. i.) To move with a lope, as a horse. [U.S.]
Lope (v. i.) To run with an easy, bounding stride; -- of people.
Lope (n.) A leap; a long step. [Prov. Eng.]
Lope (n.) An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. [U.S.]
The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle. -- T. B. Thorpe. Lopeared
Lope (n.) A slow pace of running [syn: jog, trot, lope].
Lope (n.) A smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop [syn: canter, lope].
Lope (v.) Run easily.
Lopeared (a.) Having ears which droop or hang down; as, a lop-eared hound.
Lopeman (n.) Leaper; ropedancer. [Obs.]
Loper (n.) One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes. [U.S.]
Loper (n.) (Rope Making) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.
Lophine (n.) (Chem.) A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.
Lophiomys (n.) (Zool.) A very singular rodent ({Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family ({Lophiomyid[ae]), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.
Lophobranch (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
Lophobranch (n.) One of the Lophobranchii.
Lophobranchiate (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
Lophobranchii (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.
Lophophore (n.) (Zool.) A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.
Compare: Phylactolaema
Phylactolaema, Phylactolaemata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is {Lophopoda">covered by an epistome. Called also {Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.
Lophopoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Phylactolemata.
Lophostea (n. pl. ) of Lophosteon
Lophosteons (n. pl. ) of Lophosteon
Lophosteon (n.) The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.
Loppard (n.) A tree, the top of which has been lopped off. [Eng.]
Lopper (n.) One who lops or cuts off.
Loppered (imp. & p. p.) of Lopper
Loppering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lopper
Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
Lopper (n.) A long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees [syn: pruner, pruning hook, lopper].
Lopping (n.) A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.
The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. -- Burke.
Loppy (a.) Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.
Lopseed (n.) (Bot.) A perennial herb ({Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.
Lopsided (a.) 傾向一側的；不平衡的；不對稱的 Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship. -- Marryat.
Lopsided (a.) Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; having much more on one side than the other; -- also used metaphorically; as, a lopsided victory.
Lopsided (a.) Full of idiosyncrasies. -- J. S. Mill.
Lopsided (a.) Having one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other.
Lopsided (a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew, awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff].
Loquacious (a.) Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. -- Dryden.
Loquacious (a.) Speaking; expressive. [R.] -- J. Philips.
Loquacious (a.) Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
Syn: Garrulous; talkative. See Garrulous.
Loquaciously (adv.) In a loquacious manner.
Loquaciously (adv.) In a chatty loquacious manner; "`When I was young,' she continued loquaciously, `I used to do all sorts of naughty things'" [syn: loquaciously, garrulously, talkatively, talkily].
Loquaciousness (n.) Loquacity.
Loquaciousness (n.) The quality of being wordy and talkative [syn: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness].
Loquacity (n.) The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.
Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. -- Arbuthnot.
Loquacity (n.) The quality of being wordy and talkative [syn: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness].
Loquat (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.
Loquat (n.) Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan [syn: loquat, loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, Eriobotrya japonica].
Loquat (n.) Yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies [syn: loquat, Japanese plum].
Loral (n.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the lores.
Loral (n.) Of or pertaining to lore [1].
Compare: Loreal
Loreal, Loral (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.
Lorate (a.) (Bot.) Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.
Lorcha (n.) [Pg.] (Naut.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. -- Admiral Foote.
Lord (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively. [Eng.] -- Richardson (Dict.).
Lord (n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion. -- Shak.
Man over men He made not lord. -- Milton.
Lord (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. [Eng.]
Lord (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. [Eng.]
Lord (n.) A husband. "My lord being old also." -- Gen. xviii. 12.
Thou worthy lord Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee. -- Shak.
Lord (n.) (Feudal Law) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
Lord (n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
Note: When Lord, in the Old Testament, is printed in small capitals, it is usually equivalent to Jehovah, and might, with more propriety, be so rendered.
Lord (n.) (Christianity) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
House of Lords, one of the constituent parts of the British Parliament, consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal.
Lord high chancellor, Lord high constable, etc. See Chancellor, Constable, etc.
Lord justice clerk, The second in rank of the two highest judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland.
Lord justice general, or Lord president, The highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland.
Lord keeper, An ancient officer of the English crown, who had the custody of the king's great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents. The office is now merged in that of the chancellor.
Lord lieutenant, A representative of British royalty: the lord lieutenant of Ireland being the representative of royalty there, and exercising supreme administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county.
Lord of misrule, The master of the revels at Christmas in a nobleman's or other great house. -- Eng. Cyc.
Lords spiritual, The archbishops and bishops who have seats in the House of Lords.
Lords temporal, The peers of England; also, sixteen representative peers of Scotland, and twenty-eight representatives of the Irish peerage.
Our lord, Jesus Christ; the Savior.
The Lord's Day, Sunday; the Christian Sabbath, on which the Lord Jesus rose from the dead.
The Lord's Prayer, (Christianity) The prayer which Jesus taught his disciples, also called the Our Father. -- Matt. vi. 9-13.
The Lord's Supper. (a) The paschal supper partaken of by Jesus the night before his crucifixion.
The Lord's Supper (b) The sacrament of the eucharist; the holy communion.
The Lord's Table. (a) The altar or table from which the sacrament is dispensed.
The Lord's Table. (b) The sacrament itself.
Lord (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord. [R.] -- Shak.
Lord (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord. [R.]
Lorded (imp. & p. p.) of Lord
Lording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lord
Lord (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb ; as, rich students lording it over their classmates.
The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss. -- Spenser.
I see them lording it in London streets. -- Shak.
And lorded over them whom now they serve. -- Milton.
Lord (n.) Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah].
Lord (n.) A person who has general authority over others [syn: overlord, master, lord].
Lord (n.) A titled peer of the realm [syn: Lord, noble, nobleman] [ant: Lady, noblewoman, peeress].
Lord (v.) Make a lord of someone.
Lord, () There are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered.
Lord, () Heb. Jehovah, has been rendered in the English Bible LORD, printed in small capitals. This is the proper name of the God of the Hebrews. The form "Jehovah" is retained only in Ex. 6:3; Ps. 83:18; Isa. 12:2; 26:4, both in the Authorized and the Revised Version.
Lord, () Heb. 'adon, means one possessed of absolute control. It denotes a master, as of slaves (Gen. 24:14, 27), or a ruler of his subjects (45:8), or a husband, as lord of his wife (18:12).
The old plural form of this Hebrew word is _'adonai_. From a superstitious reverence for the name "Jehovah," the Jews, in reading their Scriptures, whenever that name occurred, always pronounced it _'Adonai_.
Lord, () Greek kurios, a supreme master, etc. In the LXX. this is invariably used for "Jehovah" and "'Adonai."
Lord, () Heb. ba'al, a master, as having domination. This word is applied to human relations, as that of husband, to persons skilled in some art or profession, and to heathen deities. "The men of Shechem," literally "the baals of Shechem" (Judg. 9:2, 3). These were the Israelite inhabitants who had reduced the Canaanites to a condition of vassalage (Josh. 16:10; 17:13).
Lord, () Heb. seren, applied exclusively to the "lords of the Philistines" (Judg. 3:3). The LXX. render it by satrapies. At this period the Philistines were not, as at a later period (1 Sam. 21:10), under a kingly government. (See Josh. 13:3; 1 Sam. 6:18.) There were five such lordships, viz., Gath, Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron.
Lording (n.) The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Lording (n.) A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Note: In the plural, a common ancient mode of address equivalent to "Sirs" or "My masters."
Therefore, lordings all, I you beseech. -- Chaucer.
Lordkin (n.) A little lord. -- Thackeray.
Lordlike (a.) Befitting or like a lord; lordly. -- Shak.
Lordlike (a.) Haughty; proud; insolent; arrogant.
Lordliness (n.) The state or quality of being lordly. -- Shak.
Lordliness (n.) Formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity" [syn: dignity, lordliness, gravitas].
Lordliness (n.) Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors [syn: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness].
Lordling (n.) A little or insignificant lord. -- Goldsmith.
Lordly (adv.) In a lordly manner.
Lordly (a.) Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. -- Judges v. 25.
Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them. -- South.
The maidens gathered strength and grace And presence, lordlier than before. -- Tennyson.
Lordly (a.) Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
Lords are lordliest in their wine. -- Milton.
Syn: Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic; domineering; arrogant. See Imperious.
Lordly (a.) Of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage" [syn: august, grand, lordly].
Lordly (a.) Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual" -- W. L. Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering].