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- English Word Linoleate Definition A salt of linoleic acid.
- English Word Linoleic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.
- English Word Linoleum Definition Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.
- English Word Linoleum Definition A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.
- English Word Linoxin Definition A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid.
- English Word Linsang Definition Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.
- English Word Linseed Definition The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.
- English Word Linsey Definition Linsey-woolsey.
- English Word Linsey-woolsey Definition Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.
- English Word Linsey-woolsey Definition Jargon.
- English Word Linsey-woolsey Definition Made of linen and wool; hence, of different and unsuitable parts; mean.
- English Word Linstock Definition A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
- English Word Lint Definition Flax.
- English Word Lint Definition Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
- English Word Lintel Definition A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.
- English Word Lintie Definition Alt. of Lintwhite
- English Word Lintseed Definition See Linseed.
- English Word Lintwhite Definition See Linnet.
- English Word Linum Definition A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).
- English Word Lion Definition A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.
- English Word Lion Definition A sign and a constellation; Leo.
- English Word Lion Definition An object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in London at that time.
- English Word Lion's ear Definition A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.
- English Word Lion's foot Definition A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States.
- English Word Lion's foot Definition The edelweiss.
- English Word Lion's leaf Definition A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.
- English Word Lion's tail Definition A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
- English Word Lion's tooth Definition See Leontodon.
- English Word Lion-heart Definition A very brave person.
- English Word Lion-hearted Definition Very brave; brave and magnanimous.