1. The edge or border of the mouth. The lips are two fleshy or muscular parts, composing the exterior of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man, the lips, which may be opened or closed at pleasure, form the covering of the teeth, and are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence the lips, by a figure, denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Job 2:10. NWAD LIP.2
2. The edge of any thing; as the lip of a vessel. NWAD LIP.3
3. In botany, one of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corol. The upper is called the helmet, and the lower the beard. Also, an appendage to the flowers of the orchises, considered by Linne as a nectary. NWAD LIP.4
To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. NWAD LIP.5
A writing in which a single letter is wholly omitted. NWAD LIPOGRAM.2
A fainting; a swoon. NWAD LIPOTHYMY.2
1. Having lips. NWAD LIPPED.2
2. In botany, labiate. NWAD LIPPED.3
Soreness of eyes; blearedness. NWAD LIPPITUDE.2
1. The act or operation of melting. NWAD LIQUATION.2
2. The capacity of being melted; as a substance congealed beyond liquation. NWAD LIQUATION.3
1. The act or operation of melting or dissolving; the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat or caloric. Liquefaction, in common usage, signifies the melting of any substance, but by some authors it is applied to the melting of substances, which pass through intermediate states of softness before they become fluid, as tallow, was, resin, etc. NWAD LIQUEFACTION.2
2. The state of being melted. NWAD LIQUEFACTION.3
To melt; to dissolve; to convert from a fixed or solid form to that of a liquid, and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat or caloric. NWAD LIQUEFY.2
1. Fluid; flowing or capable of flowing; not fixed or solid. But liquid is not precisely synonymous with fluid. Mercury and air are fluid, but not liquid. NWAD LIQUID.2
2. Soft; clear; flowing; smooth; as liquid melody. NWAD LIQUID.3
3. Pronounced without any jar; smooth; as a liquid letter. NWAD LIQUID.4
4. Dissolved; not obtainable by law; as a liquid debt. Obs. NWAD LIQUID.5
1. A fluid or flowing substance; a substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and which flows on an inclined plane; as water, wine, milk, etc. NWAD LIQUID.7
2. In grammar, a letter which has a smooth flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as l and r, in bla, bra. M and n are also called liquids. NWAD LIQUID.8
1. To clear from all obscurity. NWAD LIQUIDATE.2
Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system. NWAD LIQUIDATE.3
2. To settle; to adjust; to ascertain or reduce to precision in amount. NWAD LIQUIDATE.4
Which method of liquidating the amercement to a precise sum, was usually performed in the superior courts. NWAD LIQUIDATE.5
The clerk of the commons’ house of assembly in 1774, gave certificates to the public creditors that their demands were liquidated, and should be provided for in the next tax bill. NWAD LIQUIDATE.6
The domestic debt may be subdivided into liquidated and unliquidated. NWAD LIQUIDATE.7
3. To pay; to settle, adjust and satisfy; as a debt. NWAD LIQUIDATE.8
Kyburgh was ceded to Zuric by Sigismond, to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins. NWAD LIQUIDATE.9
1. The quality of being fluid or liquid. NWAD LIQUIDITY.2
2. Thinness. NWAD LIQUIDITY.3
A liquid or fluid substance. [See Liquid.] Liquor is a word of general signification, extending to water, milk, blood, say, juice, etc.; but its most common application is to spirituous fluids, whether distilled or fermented, to decoctions, solutions, tinctures. NWAD LIQUOR.2
To speak with a particular articulation of the tongue and teeth, nearly as in pronouncing th. Lisping is particularly noticed in uttering th for s, as yeth for yes. It is most common in children. NWAD LISP.2
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. NWAD LISP.3
1. In commerce, the border, edge or selvage of cloth; a strip of cloth forming the border, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it. NWAD LIST.2
2. A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. Hence, to enter the lists, is to accept a challenge or engage in contest. Hence, NWAD LIST.3
3. A limit or boundary; a border. NWAD LIST.4
4. In architecture, a little square molding; a fillet; called also a listel. NWAD LIST.5
5. A roll or catalogue, that is, a row or line; as a list of names; a list of books; a list of articles; a list of ratable estate. NWAD LIST.6
6. A strip of cloth; a fillet. NWAD LIST.7
Civil list, in Great Britain and the United States, the civil officers of government, as judges, embassadors, secretaries, etc. Hence it is used for the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers. NWAD LIST.8
1. To enroll; to register in a list or catalogue; to enlist. The latter is the more elegant word. Hence, NWAD LIST.10
2. To engage in the public service, as soldiers. NWAD LIST.11
They in my name are listed. NWAD LIST.12
3. To inclose for combat; as, to list a field. NWAD LIST.13
4. To sew together, as strips of cloth; or to form a border. NWAD LIST.14
5. To cover with a list, or with strips of cloth; as, to list a door. NWAD LIST.15
6. To hearken; to attend; a contraction of listen, which see. NWAD LIST.16
Properly, to lean or incline; to be propense; hence, to desire or choose. NWAD LIST.19
Let other men think of your devices as they list. NWAD LIST.20
The wind bloweth where it listeth. John 3:8. NWAD LIST.21
1. Striped; particolored in stripes. NWAD LISTED.2
2. Covered with list. NWAD LISTED.3
3. Inclosed for combat. NWAD LISTED.4
4. Engaged in public service; enrolled. NWAD LISTED.5
1. To hearken; to give ear; to attend closely with a view to hear. NWAD LISTEN.2
On the green bank I sat, and listened long. NWAD LISTEN.3
2. To obey; to yield to advice; to follow admonition. NWAD LISTEN.4
I lit my pipe with the paper. NWAD LIT.2
[This word, though used by some good writers, is very inelegant.] NWAD LIT.3
A solemn form of supplication, used in public worship. NWAD LITANY.2
Supplications for the appeasing of God’s wrath, were by the Greek church termed litanies, by the Latin, rogations. NWAD LITANY.3
1. According to the letter; primitive; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as the literal meaning of a phrase. NWAD LITERAL.2
2. Following the letter or exact words; not free; as a literal translation. NWAD LITERAL.3
3. Consisting of letters. NWAD LITERAL.4
The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. NWAD LITERAL.5
1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively. A man and his wife cannot be literally one flesh. NWAD LITERALLY.2
2. With close adherence to words; word by word. NWAD LITERALLY.3
So wild and ungovernable a poet cannot be translated literally. NWAD LITERALLY.4
1. Pertaining to letters or literature; respecting learning or learned men; as a literary history; literary conversation. NWAD LITERARY.2
2. Derived from erudition; as literary fame. NWAD LITERARY.3
3. Furnished with erudition; versed in letters; as a literary man. NWAD LITERARY.4
4. Consisting in letters, or written or printed compositions; as literary property. NWAD LITERARY.5
Stone-coal, a black, compact, brittle, inflammable substance, of laminated texture, more or less shining. NWAD LITHANTHRAX.2
A semi-vitreous oxyd of lead, produced in refining silver by cupellation with lead. It appears in the form of soft flakes, or semi-transparent shining plates. NWAD LITHARGE.2
1. To smooth; to soften; to palliate. Obs. NWAD LITHE.3
2. To listen. Obs. NWAD LITHE.4
1. Soft; pliant. Obs. NWAD LITHER.2
2. Bad; corrupt. Obs. NWAD LITHER.3
The doctrine or science of the origin of minerals composing the globe, and of the causes which have produced their form and disposition. NWAD LITHOGENESY.2
A fossil that presents the appearance of being engraved or shaped by art. NWAD LITHOGLYPHITE.2
The art of engraving, or of tracing letters, figures or other designs on stone, and of transferring them to paper by impression; an art recently invented by Mr. Sennefelder of Munich, in Bavaria. NWAD LITHOGRAPHY.2
Pertaining to the science of stones. NWAD LITHOLOGIC.2
1. The science or natural history of stones. NWAD LITHOLOGY.2
2. A treatise on stones found in the body. NWAD LITHOLOGY.3
Divination or prediction of events by means of stones. NWAD LITHOMANCY.2
An earth of two species, friable and indurated, more siliceous than aluminous, distinguished by its great fineness and its fusibility into a soft slag. NWAD LITHOMARGA.2
Having the quality of dissolving the stone in the bladder or kidneys. NWAD LITHONTRIPTIC.2
Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich. NWAD LITHOPHAGOUS.2
Bibliolite or lithobiblion, fossil leaves, or the figures of leaves on fossils. NWAD LITHOPHYL.2
Stone-coral; a name given to those species of polypiers, whose substance is stony. The older naturalists classed them with vegetables. NWAD LITHOPHYTE.2