Chapter 101

Both of us have closed the tenth luster.

Bolingbroke.

{ Lus"ter, Lus"tre, } n. [F. lustre; cf. It. lustro; both fr. L. lustrare to purify, go about (like the priests at the lustral sacrifice), traverse, survey, illuminate, fr. lustrum a purificatory sacrifice; perh. akin to E. loose. But lustrare to illuminate is perh. a different word, and akin to L. lucere to be light or clear, to shine. See Lucid, and cf. Illustrious, Lustrum.]

1. Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.

The right mark and very true luster of the diamond.

Sir T. More.

The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky.

Addison.

There is a tendency to limit the use of luster, in this sense, to the brightness of things which do not shine with their own light, or at least do not blaze or glow with heat. One speaks of the luster of a diamond, or of silk, or even of the stars, but not often now of the luster of the sun, a coal of fire, or the like.

2. Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.

His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great luster.

Sir H. Wotton.

3. A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character. Pope.

4. (Min.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.

The principal kinds of luster recognized are: metallic, adamantine, vitreous, resinous, greasy, pearly, and silky. With respect to intensity, luster is characterized as splendent, shining, glistening, glimmering, and dull.

5. A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

6. A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.

Luster ware, earthenware decorated by applying to the glazing metallic oxides, which acquire brilliancy in the process of baking.

{ Lus"ter, Lus"tre, } v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lustred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lustering, or Lustring.] To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic]

Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold.

Lowell.

Lus"ter*ing, n. 1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.

2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.

{ Lus"ter*less, Lus"tre*less, } a. Destitute of luster; dim; dull.

Lust"ful (?), a. 1. Full of lust; excited by lust. Spenser. Tillotson.

2. Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality. " Lustful orgies." Milton.

3. Strong; lusty. [Obs.] " Lustful health." Sackville.

Syn. -- sensual; fleshly; carnal; inordinate; licentious; lewd; unchaste; impure; libidinous; lecherous.

-- Lust"ful*ly, adv. -- Lust"ful*ness, n.

Lus"tic (?), a. Lusty; vigorous. [Obs.]

Lus"ti*head (?), n. [Lusty + -head.] See Lustihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lus"ti*hood (?), n. [Lusty + -hood.] State of being lusty; vigor of body. " Full of lustihood." Tennyson.

Lus"ti*ly, adv. In a lusty or vigorous manner.

Lus"ti*ness, n. State of being lusty; vigor; strength.

Lust"less (?), a. [CF. Listless.] 1. Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. Free from sexual lust.

Lus"tral (?), a. [L. lustralis, fr. lustrum: cf. F. lustral. See Lustrum.] 1. Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.

2. Of or pertaining to a lustrum.

Lus"trate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lustrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lustrating (?).] [L. lustratus, p. p. of lustrare to lustrate, fr. lustrum. See Lustrum.] To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.

We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.

Hammond.

Lus*tra"tion (?), n. [L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.] 1. The act of lustrating or purifying.

And holy water for lustration bring.

Dryden.

2. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.

Lus"tre (?), n. Same as Luster.

Lus"tri*cal (?), a. [L. lustricus, fr. lustrum. See Lustrum.] Pertaining to, or used for, purification.

Lus"tring (?), n. [F. lustrine, It. lustrino, fr. lustrare to polish, L. lustrare. See 3d Luster, and cf. Lutestring.] A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.

Lus"trous (?), a. [Cf. F. lustreux. See 3d Luster.] Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.

Lus"trum (?), n.; pl. E. Lustrums (#), L. Lustra (#). [L. Cf. 2d & 3d Luster.] A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.

Lust"wort` n. (Bot.) See Sundew.

Lust"y (?), a. [Compar. Lustier (?); superl. Lustiest.] [From Lust. See Lust, and cf. Luscious.]

1. Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.

Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home.

Milton.

2. Beautiful; handsome; pleasant. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant. [Obs. or Prov.]

4. Lustful; lascivious. [Obs.] Milton.

||Lu"sus na*tu"ræ (?). [L., fr. lusus sport + naturae, gen. of natura ||nature.] Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural ||production. || Lut"a*nist (?), n. [LL. lutanista, fr. lutana lute. See Lute the instrument.] A person that plays on the lute. Johnson.

Lu*ta"ri*ous (?), a. [L. lutarius fr. lutum mud.] Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud. [Obs.] Grew.

Lu*ta"tion (?), n. [L. lutare, lutatum, to bedaub with mud, fr. lutum mud: cf. F. lutation.] The act or method of luting vessels.

Lute (?), n. [L. lutum mud, clay: cf. OF. lut.] 1. (Chem.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

3. (Brick Making) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

Lute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Luted; p. pr. & vb. n. Luting.] To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

Lute, n. [OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. laút, It. liúto, leúto, Sp. laúd, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. al'&?;d; al the + '&?;d wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp.] (Mus.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

Lute, v. i. To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

Lute, v. t. To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

Tennyson.

Lute"-backed` (?), a. Having a curved spine.

Lu*te"ic (?), a. (Chem.) (a) Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola). (b) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of Euphorbia cyparissias.

Lu"te*in (?), n. [From corpus luteum.] (Physiol. Chem.) A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

Lut"e*nist (?), n. Same as Lutanist.

Lu"te*o- (?). [L. luteus.] (Chem.) A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.

Lu"te*o*co*balt"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic.

Luteocobaltic chloride (Chem.), a brilliant reddish yellow crystalline compound, Co2Cl6(NH3)12, obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on an ammoniacal solution of cobaltic chloride.

Lu"te*o*lin (?), n. [From NL. Reseda luteola, fr. L. luteolus yellowish, fr. luteus: cf. F. lutéoline. See Luteous.] (Chem.) A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).

Lu"te*ous (?), a. [L. luteus, fr. lutum dyer's broom, weld, which is used as a yellow dye.] Yellowish; more or less like buff.

Lut"er (?), n. [From 3d Lute.] One who plays on a lute.

Lut"er, n. [From Ist Lute.] One who applies lute.

Lu*tes"cent (?), a. [L. luteus yellow.] Of a yellowish color.

Lute"string` (?), n. [Corrupted fr. lustring.] A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

Luth (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The leatherback.

Lu"ther*an (?), a. (Eccl. Hist.) Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

Lu"ther*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

{ Lu"ther*an*ism, Lu"ther*ism } (?), n. The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.

Lu"thern (?), n. [F. lucarne a dormer, dormer window, garret window, L. lucerna lamp, fr. lucere to be light or clear, fr. lux light. See Light, n., and cf. Lucarne.] (Arch.) A dormer window. See Dormer.

Lu"ti*dine (?), n. [From toluidine, by transposition.] (Chem.) Any one of several metameric alkaloids, C5H3N.(CH3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.

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Lut"ing (?), n. (Chem.) See Lute, a cement.

Lut"ist, n. One who plays on a lute.

Lu*tose" (?), a. [L. lutosus, fr. lutum mud.] Covered with clay; miry.

Lu"tu*lence (?), n. The state or quality of being lutulent.

Lu"tu*lent (?), a. [L. lutulentus, fr. lutum mud.] Muddy; turbid; thick. [Obs.]

Lu*wack" (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Paradoxure.

Lux (?), v. t. [Cf. F. luxer. See Luxate.] To put out of joint; to luxate. [Obs.]

Lux"ate (?), a. [L. luxatus, p. p. of luxare to dislocate.] Luxated. [Obs.]

Lux"ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Luxated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Luxating (?).] To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.

Lux*a"tion (?), n. [L. luxatio: cf. F. luxation.] The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.

Luxe (?), n. [L. luxus: cf. F. luxe.] Luxury. [Obs.] Shenstone.

||Édition de luxe (&?;). [F.] (Printing) A sumptuous edition as regards ||paper, illustrations, binding, etc. || Lux"ive (?), a. Given to luxury; voluptuous. [Obs.]

Lux*ul"li*an*ite (?), n. [So called from Luxullian, in Cornwall.] (Min.) A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.

Lux*u"ri*ance (?), n. [Cf. F. luxuriance.] The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth. "Tropical luxuriance." B. Taylor.

Lux*u"ri*an*cy (?), n. The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance.

Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion.

Spectator.

Lux*u"ri*ant (?), a. [L. luxurians, p. pr. of luxuriare: cf. F. luxuriant. See Luxuriate.] Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.

Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine.

Pope.

Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

Lux*u"ri*ant*ly, adv. In a luxuriant manner.

Lux*u"ri*ate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Luxuriated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Luxuriating.] [L. luxuriatus, p. p. of luxuriari, -are, to luxuriate. See Luxury.]

1. To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton.

2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures.

3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.

Lux*u`ri*a"tion (?), n. The act or process of luxuriating.

Lux`u*ri"e*ty (?), n. Luxuriance. [Obs.]

Lux*u"ri*ous (?), a. [L. luxuriosus: cf. F. luxurieux. See Luxury.] Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton.

-- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.

Lux"u*rist (?), n. One given to luxury. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

Lux"u*ry (?), n.; pl. Luxuries (#). [L. luxuria, fr. luxus: cf. F. luxure.] 1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury.

Spectator.

2. Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.

He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit.

Addison.

3. Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak.

Luxury is in wine and drunkenness.

Chaucer.

4. Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] Bacon.

Syn. -- Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality; lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification.

Luz (?), n. A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute. Brande & C.

-ly (?). [OE. -lich, AS. -lic, orig. the same word as E. like, a. See Like, a.] A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance.

Ly"am (?), n. [See Leam.] A leash. [Obs.]

Ly"can*thrope (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; a wolf + &?; a man.] 1. A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.

2. One affected with lycanthropy.

||Ly`can*thro"pi*a (?), n. [NL.] See Lycanthropy, 2. || Ly`can*throp"ic (?), a. Pertaining to lycanthropy.

Ly*can"thro*pist (?), n. One affected by the disease lycanthropy.

Ly*can"thro*pous (?), a. Lycanthropic.

Ly*can"thro*py (?), n. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. lycanthropie.] 1. The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf. Lowell.

2. (Med.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.

Ly*ce"um (?), n.; pl. E. Lyceums (#), L. Lycea (#). [L. lyceum, Gr. &?;, so named after the neighboring temple of &?; &?; Apollo the wolf slayer, prob. fr. &?; belonging to a wolf, fr &?; wolf. See Wolf.] 1. A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.

2. A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.

3. A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.

4. An association for debate and literary improvement.

Lyche (?), a. Like. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ly"chee` (?), n. (Bot.) See Litchi.

Lych" gate` (?). See under Lich.

||Lych"nis (?), n. [L., a kind of red flower, Gr. lychni`s; cf. ||ly`chnos a lamp.] (Bot.) A genus of Old World plants belonging to the ||Pink family (Caryophyllaceæ). Most of the species have brilliantly ||colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered ||as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the ||garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in ||wheat fields. || Lych"no*bite (?), n. [Gr. ly`chnos a lamp + bi`os life.] One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

Lych"no*scope (?), n. [Gr. &?; + - scope.] (Arch.) Same as Low side window, under Low, a.

Lyc"ine (?), n. (Chem.) A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

||Ly`co*per"don (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; wolf + &?; to break wind.] ||(Bot.) A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, ||forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is ||compressed or burst; puffball. || Ly"co*pod (?), n. [Cf. F. lycopode.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Lycopodium.

Ly"co*pode (?), n. [F.] Same as Lycopodium powder. See under Lycopodium.

Ly`co*po`di*a"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

Ly*cop"o*dite (?), n. (Paleon.) An old name for a fossil club moss.

Ly`co*po"di*um (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; wolf + &?;, &?;, a foot.] (Bot.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss.

Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceæ. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of lightning.

Ly*cot"ro*pous (?), a. [Gr. &?; hook + &?; to turn.] (Bot.) Campylotropous.

Lyd"en (?), n. See Leden. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lyd"i*an (?), a. [L. Lydius, fr. Lydia, Gr. &?;.] Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character.

Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.

Dryden.

Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

Lyd"ine (?), n. (Dyeing) A violet dye derived from aniline.

Lye (?), n. [Written also lie and ley.] [AS. leáh; akin to D. loog, OHG. louga, G. lauge; cf. Icel. laug a bath, a hot spring.] A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.

Lye, n. (Railroad) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding. [Eng.]

Lye, n. A falsehood. [Obs.] See Lie.

||Ly`en*ceph"a*la (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to loose + &?; the ||brain.] (Zoöl.) A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and ||monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary. || Ly`en*ceph"a*lous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.

Ly"er*man (?), n. (Zoöl.) The cicada.

Ly*go"di*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; flexible; &?; a willow twig + &?; form.] (Bot.) A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

Lygodium palmatum, much prized for indoor ornament, inhabits shaded and moist grassy places, from Massachusetts to Virginia and Kentucky, and sparingly southwards.

Ly"ing (?), p. pr. & vb. n. of Lie, to tell a falsehood.

Ly"ing, p. pr. & vb. n. of Lie, to be supported horizontally.

Lying panel (Arch.), a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal. [R.] -- Lying to (Naut.), having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other.

Ly"ing-in" (?), n. 1. The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.

2. The act of bearing a child.

Ly"ing*ly, adv. In a lying manner; falsely.

Ly"ken (?), v. t. [See Like, v. t. ] To please; -- chiefly used impersonally. [Obs.] " Sith it lyketh you." Chaucer.

{ Lym (?), or Lym"hound` (?) }, n. A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound. [Obs.] Shak.

Ly*mail" (?), n. See Limaille. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lyme" grass` (?). (Bot.) A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E. Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius.

Lymph (?), n. [L. lympha: cf. F. lymphe.] 1. A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.

A fountain bubbled up, whose lymph serene Nothing of earthly mixture might distain.

Trench.

2. (Anat.) An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.

3. (Med.) A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together.

Lymph corpuscles (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lymph and chyle. -- Lymph duct (Anat.), a lymphatic. -- Lymph heart. See Note under Heart, n., 1.

||Lym`pha*de*ni"tis (?), n. [NL. See Lymph, and Adenitis.] (Med.) ||Inflammation of the lymphatic glands; -- called also lymphitis. || ||Lym`pha*de*no"ma (?), n. [NL. See Lymph, Aden-, and -oma.] (Med.) See ||Lymphoma. || ||Lym*phan`ge*i"tis (?), n. [NL., from L. lympha lymph + Gr. &?; vessel ||+ -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels. [Written also ||lymphangitis.] || Lym*phan"gi*al (?), a. [See Lymphangeitis.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the lymphatics, or lymphoid tissue; lymphatic.

{ Lymph"ate (?), Lymph"a*ted (?), } a. [L. lymphatus, p. p. of lymphare to water, dilute with water, to drive out of one's senses, to make mad.] Frightened into madness; raving. [Obs.]

Lym*phat"ic (?), a. [L. lymphaticus distracted, frantic: cf. F. lymphatique] pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.

2. Madly enthusiastic; frantic. [Obs.] " Lymphatic rapture. " Sir T. Herbert. [See Lymphate.]

Lymphatic gland (Anat.), one of the solid glandlike bodies connected with the lymphatics or the lacteals; -- called also lymphatic ganglion, and conglobate gland. -- Lymphatic temperament (Old Physiol.), a temperament in which the lymphatic system seems to predominate, that is, a system in which the complexion lacks color and the tissues seem to be of loose texture; hence, a temperament lacking energy, inactive, indisposed to exertion or excitement. See Temperament.

Lym*phat"ic, n. 1. (Anat.) One of the lymphatic or absorbent vessels, which carry lymph and discharge it into the veins; lymph duct; lymphatic duct.

2. A mad enthusiast; a lunatic. [Obs.]

||Lym*phi"tis (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) See Lymphadenitis. || Lym`pho*gen"ic (?), a. [Lymph + root of L. gignere to produce.] (Physiol.) Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands.

Lym*phog"ra*phy (?), n. [Lymph + -graphy.] A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.

Lymph"oid (?), a. [Lymph + - oid.] (Anat.) Resembling lymph; also, resembling a lymphatic gland; adenoid; as, lymphoid tissue.

||Lym*pho"ma (?), n. [NL. See Lymph, and -oma.] (Med.) A tumor having a ||structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also ||lymphadenoma. || Malignant lymphoma, a fatal disease characterized by the formation in various parts of the body of new growths resembling lymphatic glands in structure.

Lymph"y (?), a. Containing, or like, lymph.

Lyn (?), n. A waterfall. See Lin. [Scot.]

Lyn*ce"an (?), a. [See Lynx.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the lynx.

Lynch (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lynched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lynching.] [See Note under Lynch law.] To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

Lynch"er (?), n. One who assists in lynching.

Lynch" law` (?). The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.

The term Lynch law is said to be derived from a Virginian named Lynch, who took the law into his own hands. But the origin of the term is very doubtful.

{ Lynde (?), Lyn"den (?) }, n. See Linden.

Lyne (?), n. Linen. [Obs.] Spenser.

Lynx (lks), n. [L. lynx, lyncis, Gr. ly`gx; akin to AS. lox, G. luchs, prob. named from its sharp sight, and akin to E. light. See Light, n., and cf. Ounce an animal.] 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.

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Among the well-known species are the European lynx (Felis borealis); the Canada lynx or loup-cervier (F. Canadensis); the bay lynx of America (F. rufa), and its western spotted variety (var. maculata); and the pardine lynx (F. pardina) of Southern Europe.

2. (Astron.) One of the northern constellations.

Lynx"-eyed` (?), a. Having acute sight.