Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 59
Lyrie (n.) (Zool.) A European fish ({Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.
Lyriferous (a.) (Zool.) Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.
Lyrism (n.) The act of playing on a lyre or harp. -- G. Eliot.
Lyrist (n.) A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. -- Shelley. Lysichiton
Lyrist (n.) A person who writes the words for songs [syn: lyricist, lyrist].
Lysimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. -- Knight.
Lysis (n.) (Med.) The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.
Note: It is usually contrasted with crisis, in which the improvement is sudden and marked; as, pneumonia ends by crisis, typhoid fever by lysis.
Lysis (n.) Recuperation in which the symptoms of an acute disease gradually subside.
Lysis (n.) (Biochemistry) Dissolution or destruction of cells such as blood cells or bacteria.
Lyssa (n.) (Med.) Hydrophobia.
Note: The plural (Lyss[ae]) has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia.
Lyssa (n.) An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain [syn: rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness].
Lyterian (a.) (Med.) Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.
Compare: Pollack
Pollack (n.) (Zool.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.
Pollack (n.) (Zool.) (b) The American pollock; the coalfish.
Lythe (n.) (Zool.) The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet. [Scot.]
Lythe (a.) Soft; flexible. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Lythonthriptic
Lythonthriptic (a.) Alt. of Lythontriptic
Lythontriptic (a.) (Med.)
See Lithontriptic.
Lyttae (n. pl. ) of Lytta.
Lytta (n.) (Anat.) A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.