Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 53
Lowliness (n.) Low condition, especially as to manner of life.
The lowliness of my fortune has not brought me to flatter vice. -- Dryden.
Lowliness (n.) The state of being humble and unimportant [syn: humbleness, unimportance, obscureness, lowliness].
Lowliness (n.) A position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation [syn: low status, lowness, lowliness] [ant: high status].
Low-lived (a.) Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.
Lowly (a.) Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands". -- Dryden.
Lowly (a.) Low in rank or social importance.
One common right the great and lowly claims. -- Pope.
Lowly (a.) Not lofty or sublime; humble.
These rural poems, and their lowly strain. -- Dryden.
Lowly (a.) Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. -- Matt. xi. 29.
Lowly (adv.) In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly. "Be lowly wise." -- Milton.
Lowly (adv.) In a low condition; meanly.
I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught. -- Shak.
Lowly (a.) Low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small].
Lowly (a.) Inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" [syn: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subaltern].
Lowly (a.) Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn: humble, menial, lowly].
Lowly (a.) Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble, lowly].
Low-lying (a.) （土地）低窪的，低的 Low-lying land is at or near sea level.
// People living in low-lying areas were evacuated because of the floods.
Low-lying (a.) Having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level; as, low-lying clouds.
Low-lying (a.) At a low elevation above sea level.
Syn: sea-level.
Low-lying (a.) Having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level; "low-lying clouds."
Low-lying (a.) Lying below the normal level; "a low-lying desert" [syn: low-lying, sea-level].
Low-minded (a.) Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.
Low-minded and immoral. -- Macaulay.
All old religious jealousies were condemned as low-minded infirmities. -- Bancroft.
Low-mindedness (n.) The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.
Lown (n.) A low fellow. [Obs.]
Low-necked (a.) Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a
woman's dress.
Low-necked (a.) (Of a garment) Having a low-cut neckline; "a low-cut neckline" [syn: decollete, low-cut, low-necked].
Lowness (n.) The state or quality of being low.
Lowness (n.) A position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation [syn: low status, lowness, lowliness] [ant: high status].
Lowness (n.) A feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits" [syn: downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness].
Lowness (n.) The quality of being low; lacking height; "he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling" [ant: highness, loftiness].
Lowness (n.) A low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); "he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates".
Low-pressure (a.) Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
Low-pressure (a.) Same as easygoing, 4; as, a low-pressure salesman.
Syn: easygoing.
Low-pressure steam engine, A steam engine in which low steam is used; often applied to a condensing engine even when steam at high pressure is used. See Steam engine.
Low-pressure (a.) Not forceful; "a low-pressure salesman"; "a low-pressure campaign".
Lowry (n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.
Lowry (n.) English painter (1887-1976) [syn: Lowry, L. S. Lowry, Laurence Stephen Lowry].
Lowry (n.) English novelist (1909-1957) [syn: Lowry, Malcolm Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Lowry].
Lowry, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 10
Housing Units (2000): 6
Land area (2000): 0.240569 sq. miles (0.623071 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.240569 sq. miles (0.623071 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39260
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 45.316348 N, 99.983763 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lowry, SD
Lowry
Lowry, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 271
Housing Units (2000): 122
Land area (2000): 0.371397 sq. miles (0.961914 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.371397 sq. miles (0.961914 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38366
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 45.704829 N, 95.516073 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56349
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lowry, MN
Lowry
Low-spirited (a.) Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
Syn: depressed, dispirited, down(predicate), downcast, downhearted, low. -- Low"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
Low-spirited (a.) Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited].
Low-studded (a.) Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
Low-thoughted (a.) Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.
Loxodromic (a.) Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.
Loxodromics (n.) The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line.
Loxodremism (n.) The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.
Loxodromy (n.) The science of loxodromics.
Loy (n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands.
Loyal (a.) Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.
Loyal (a.) True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle.
Loyalist (n.) A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.
Loyally (adv.) In a loyal manner; faithfully.
Loyalness (n.) Loyalty.
Loyalty (n.) The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.
Lozenge (n.) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.
Lozenge (n.) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
Lozenge (n.) A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
Lozenge (n.) Anything in the form of lozenge.
Lozenge (n.) A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
Lozenged (a.) Alt. of Lozenge-shaped.
Lozenge-shaped (a.) Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb.
Lozengy (a.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.
Lu (n. & v. t.) See Loo.
Lubbard (n.) A lubber.
Lubbard (a.) Lubberly.
Lubber (n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
Lubberly (a.) Like a lubber; clumsy.
Lubberly (adv.) Clumsily; awkwardly.
Lubric (a.) Alt. of Lubrical.
Lubrical (a.) Having a smooth surface; slippery.
Lubrical (a.) Lascivious; wanton; lewd.
Lubricant (a.) Lubricating.
Lubricant (n.) That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.
Lubricate (v. t.) 使滑潤；給……上潤滑油 (v. i.) 起潤滑劑作用 To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. -- S. Sharp.
Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. -- Young.
Lubricate (v. t.) To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.
Lubricate (v. t.) Hence: To reduce social frictions or difficulties between people, thus making cooperation easier and joint action smoother.
Lubricate (v. t.) To inebriate by supplying with alcoholic beverages. [slang]
Lubricate (v.) Have lubricating properties; "the liquid in this can lubricates well".
Lubricate (v.) Apply a lubricant to; "lubricate my car" [syn: lubricate, lube].
Lubricate (v.) Make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant; "lubricate the key".
Lubrication (n.) The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.
Lubricator (n.) One who, or that which, lubricates.
Lubricator (n.) A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.
Lubricitate (v. i.) See Lubricate.
Lubricity (n.) Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.
Lubricity (n.) Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune.
Lubricity (n.) Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency.
Lubricous (a.) Lubric.
Lubrification (n.) Alt. of Lubrifaction.
Lubrifaction (n.) The act of lubricating, or making smooth.
Lucarne (n.) A dormer window.
Lucchese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.
Luce (n.) A pike when full grown.
Lucency (n.) The quality of being lucent.
Lucent (a.) Shining; bright; resplendent.
Lucern (n.) A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland.
Lucern (n.) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx).
Lucern (n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa.
Lucern (n.) A lamp.
Lucernal (a.) Of or pertaining to a lamp.
Lucernaria (n.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.
Lucernarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida.
Lucernarian (n.) One of the Lucernarida.
lucernarida (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa.
lucernarida (n. pl.) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.
Lucerne (n.) See Lucern, the plant.
Lucid (n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
Lucid (n.) Clear; transparent.
Lucid (n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
Lucid (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
Lucidity (n.) The quality or state of being lucid.
Lucidly (adv.) In a lucid manner.
Lucidness (n.) The quality of being lucid; lucidity.
Lucifer (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.
Lucifer (n.) Hence, Satan.
Lucifer (n.) A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco.
Lucifer (n.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.
Luciferian (a.) Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.
Luciferian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader.
Luciferian (n.) One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.
Luciferous (a.) Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.
Luciferously (adv.) In a luciferous manner.
Lucific (a.) Producing light.
Luciform (a.) Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light.
Lucifrian (a.) Luciferian; satanic.
Lucimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.
Luck (n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck; as, luck is better than skill; a stroke of luck.
If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds. -- Shak.
Luck penny, A small sum given back for luck to one who pays money. [Prov. Eng.]
To be in luck, To receive some good, or to meet with some success, in an unexpected manner, or as the result of circumstances beyond one's control; to be fortunate.
Luck (n.) Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion].
Luck (n.) An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn: luck, fortune, chance, hazard].
Luck (n.) An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand" [syn: luck, fortune].
Luck, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 1210
Housing Units (2000): 572
Land area (2000): 1.849465 sq. miles (4.790091 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.593145 sq. miles (1.536238 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.442610 sq. miles (6.326329 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46200
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.570499 N, 92.474760 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54853
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Luck, WI
Luck
Luckily (adv.) In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.
Luckiness (n.) The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.
Luckiness (n.) Good fortune; favorable issue or event. -- Locke.
Luckiness (n.) An auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes [syn: good fortune, luckiness, good luck] [ant: bad luck, ill luck, misfortune, tough luck].