Loaf (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
Loafer (n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.
Loam (n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
Loam (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.
Loamed (imp. & p. p.) of Loam
Loaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loam
Loam (v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
Loamy (a.) Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
Loan (n.) A loanin.
Loan (n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
Loan (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
Loaned (imp. & p. p.) of Loan
Loaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loan
Loan (n. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out.
Loanable (a.) Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.
Loanin (n.) Alt. of Loaning
Loaning (n.) An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane.
Loanmonger (n.) A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
Loath (a.) Hateful; odious; disliked.
Loath (a.) Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part.
Loathed (imp. & p. p.) of Loathe
Loathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loathe
Loathe (v. t.) To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
Loathe (v. t.) To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate.
Loathe (v. i.) To feel disgust or nausea.
Loather (n.) One who loathes.
Loathful (a.) Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
Loathful (a.) Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.
Loathing (n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
Loathingly (adv.) With loathing.
Loathliness (n.) Loathsomeness.
Loathly (a.) Loathsome.
Loathly (adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly.
Loathly (adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing.
Loathness (n.) Unwillingness; reluctance.
Loathsome (a.) Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
Loathy (a.) Loathsome.
Loaves (n.) pl. of Loaf.
Lob (n.) A dull, heavy person.
Lob (n.) Something thick and heavy.
Lobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Lob
Lobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lob
Lob (v. t.) To let fall heavily or lazily.
Lob (v. t.) See Cob, v. t.
Lob (n.) The European pollock.
Lobar (a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.
Lobate (a.) Alt. of Lobated
Lobated (a.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.
Lobated (a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.
Lobated (a.) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.
Lobately (adv.) As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.
Lobbish (a.) Like a lob; consisting of lobs.
Lobbies (pl. ) of Lobby
Lobby (n.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
Lobby (n.) That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.
Lobby (n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
Lobby (n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
Lobbied (imp. & p. p.) of Lobby
Lobbying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lobby
Lobby (v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
Lobby (v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
Lobbyist (n.) A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.
Lobcock (n.) A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob.
Lobe (n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form
Lobe (n.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf.
Lobe (n.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.
Lobe (n.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain.
Lobe (n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.
Lobed (a.) Having lobes; lobate.
Lobefoot (n.) A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.
Lobe-footed (a.) Lobiped.
Lobelet (n.) A small lobe; a lobule.
Lobelia (n.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.
Lobeliaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.
Lobelin (n.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.
Lobeline (n.) A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.
Lobiped (a.) Having lobate toes, as a coot.
Loblolly (n.) Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.
Lobosa (n. pl.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.
Lobscouse (n.) A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.
Lobsided (a.) See Lopsided.
Lobspound (n.) A prison.
Lobster (n.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.
Lobular (a.) Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.
Lobulate (a.) Alt. of Lobulated
Lobulated (a.) Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.
Lobule (n.) A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
Lobulette (n.) A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.
Lobworm (n.) The lugworm.
Local (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
Local (n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.
Local (n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.
Locale (n.) A place, spot, or location.
Locale (n.) A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.
Localism (n.) The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.
Localism (n.) A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.
Localitiees (pl. ) of Locality
Locality (n.) The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
Locality (n.) Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
Locality (n.) Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.