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  • English Word Lithophyte Definition A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.
  • English Word Lithophytic Definition Of or pertaining to lithophytes.
  • English Word Lithophytous Definition Lithophytic.
  • English Word Lithosian Definition Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosidae. Many of them are beautifully colored.
  • English Word Lithotint Definition A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.
  • English Word Lithotint Definition A picture produced by this process.
  • English Word Lithotome Definition A stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art.
  • English Word Lithotome Definition An instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone.
  • English Word Lithotomic Definition Alt. of Lithotomical
  • English Word Lithotomical Definition Pertaining to, or performed by, lithotomy.
  • English Word Lithotomist Definition One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.
  • English Word Lithotomy Definition The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.
  • English Word Lithotripsy Definition The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.
  • English Word Lithotriptic Definition Same as Lithontriptic.
  • English Word Lithotriptist Definition One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.
  • English Word Lithotriptor Definition An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.
  • English Word Lithotrite Definition Alt. of Lithotritor
  • English Word Lithotritist Definition A lithotriptist.
  • English Word Lithotritor Definition A lithotriptor.
  • English Word Lithotrity Definition The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.
  • English Word Lithotype Definition A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy.
  • English Word Lithotype Definition To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy.
  • English Word Lithotyped Definition of Lithotype
  • English Word Lithotypic Definition Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy.
  • English Word Lithotyping Definition of Lithotype
  • English Word Lithotypy Definition The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.
  • English Word Lithoxyl Definition Petrified wood.
  • English Word Lithuanian Definition Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).
  • English Word Lithuanian Definition A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people.
  • English Word Lithy Definition Easily bent; pliable.