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- English Word Leister Definition Alt. of Lister
- English Word Leisurable Definition Leisurely.
- English Word Leisurable Definition Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.
- English Word Leisurably Definition At leisure.
- English Word Leisure Definition Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
- English Word Leisure Definition Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
- English Word Leisure Definition Unemployed; as, leisure hours.
- English Word Leisured Definition Having leisure.
- English Word Leisurely Definition Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
- English Word Leisurely Definition In a leisurely manner.
- English Word Leitmotif Definition See Leading motive, under Leading, a.
- English Word Leman Definition A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense.
- English Word Leme Definition A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
- English Word Leme Definition To shine.
- English Word Lemma Definition A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.
- English Word Lemman Definition A leman.
- English Word Lemmas Definition of Lemma
- English Word Lemmata Definition of Lemma
- English Word Lemming Definition Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.
- English Word Lemnian Definition Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.
- English Word Lemniscata Definition Alt. of Lemniscate
- English Word Lemniscate Definition A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.
- English Word Lemnisci Definition of Lemniscus
- English Word Lemniscus Definition One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
- English Word Lemon Definition An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.
- English Word Lemon Definition The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree.
- English Word Lemonade Definition A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.
- English Word Lemur Definition One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.
- English Word Lemures Definition Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
- English Word Lemuria Definition A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant.