Chapter 102

Ly`on`naise" (?), a. [F. lyonnaise, fem. of lyonnais of Lyons.] (Cookery) Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

||Ly`o*po"ma*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to loose + &?;, &?;, a ||lid.] (Zoöl.) An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell ||are not articulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and ||allied forms. [Written also Lyopoma.] || ||Ly"ra (?), n. [L. lyra, Gr. &?;. See Lyre.] 1. (Astron.) A northern ||constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first ||magnitude, called Alpha Lyræ, or Vega. || 2. (Anat.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

Ly"ra*id (?), n. (Astron.) Same as Lyrid.

{ Ly"rate (?), Ly"ra*ted (?), } a. [NL. lyratus. See Lyre.] 1. (Bot.) Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

2. (Zoöl.) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.

Lyre (?), n. [OE. lire, OF. lyre, L. lyra, Gr. &?;. Cf. Lyra.] 1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

The lyre was the peculiar instrument of Apollo, the tutelary god of music and poetry. It gave name to the species of verse called lyric, to which it originally furnished an accompaniment.

2. (Astron.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.

Lyre bat (Zoöl.), a small bat (Megaderma lyra), inhabiting India and Ceylon. It is remarkable for the enormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears. -- Lyre turtle (Zoöl.), the leatherback.

Lyre" bird` (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.

{ Lyr"ic (?), Lyr"ic*al (?), } a. [L. lyricus, Gr. &?;: cf. F. lyrique. See Lyre.] 1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton.

Lyr"ic, n. 1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

2. A composer of lyric poems. [R.] Addison.

3. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Lyr"ic*al*ly (?), adv. In a lyrical manner.

Lyr"i*cism (?), n. A lyric composition. Gray.

Ly"rid (l"rd), n. (Astron.) One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars if produced backwards crosses the constellation Lyra.

Ly"rie (l"r), n. [Icel. hlri a sort of fish.] (Zoöl.) 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.

Ly*rif"er*ous (l*rf"r*s), a. [Lyre + -ferous.] (Zoöl.) Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.

Lyr"ism (lr"z'm), n. [Cf. Gr. lyrismo`s.] The act of playing on a lyre or harp. G. Eliot.

Lyr"ist, n. [L. lyristes, Gr. lyristh`s: cf. F. lyriste.] A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.

Ly*sim"e*ter (l*sm"*tr), n. [Gr. ly`sis a loosing + - meter.] An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.

||Ly"sis (l"ss), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ly`sis.] (Med.) The resolution or ||favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not ||marked by abrupt change. || It is usually contrasted with crisis, in which the improvement is sudden and marked; as, pneumonia ends by crisis, typhoid fever by lysis.

||Lys"sa (ls"s), n. [NL. See Lytta.] (Med.) Hydrophobia. || The plural (Lyssæ) has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia.

Ly*te"ri*an (l*t"r*an), a. [Gr. lyth`rios healing, fr. lyth`r a deliverer, fr. ly`ein to loosen.] (Med.) Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.

Lythe (lth), n. (Zoöl.) The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet. [Scot.]

Lythe (l), a. [See Lithe, a.] Soft; flexible. [Obs.] Spenser.

{ Lyth`on*thrip"tic (lth`n*thrp"tk), Lyth`on*trip"tic (-trp"tk) }, a. (Med.) See Lithontriptic.

||Lyt"ta (lt"t), n.; pl. Lyttæ (-t). [L., a worm said to grow under the ||tongue of dogs, and to cause canine madness, fr. Gr. ly`tta, ly`ssa, ||lit., madness.] (Anat.) A fibrous and muscular band lying within the ||longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog. ||