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- English Word Lettern Definition See Lecturn.
- English Word Letterpress Definition Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
- English Word Letterure Definition Letters; literature.
- English Word Letterwood Definition The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.
- English Word Lettic Definition Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish.
- English Word Lettic Definition Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.
- English Word Lettic Definition The language of the Letts; Lettish.
- English Word Lettic Definition The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.
- English Word Letting Definition of Let
- English Word Lettish Definition Of or pertaining to the Letts.
- English Word Lettish Definition The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.
- English Word Lettrure Definition See Letterure.
- English Word Letts Definition An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.
- English Word Lettuce Definition A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis.
- English Word Letuary Definition Electuary.
- English Word Leuc- Definition Same as Leuco-.
- English Word Leuc- Definition A combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (Chem.), denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc.
- English Word Leucadendron Definition A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.
- English Word Leucaniline Definition A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.
- English Word Leuchaemia Definition See Leucocythaemia.
- English Word Leucic Definition Alt. of Leucinic
- English Word Leucin Definition A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid.
- English Word Leucinic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from leucin, and called also oxycaproic acid.
- English Word Leucite Definition A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and potash. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at Vesuvius.
- English Word Leucite Definition A leucoplast.
- English Word Leucitic Definition Containing leucite; as, leucitic rocks.
- English Word Leucitoid Definition The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; -- so called as being the form of the mineral leucite.
- English Word Leuco- Definition Alt. of Leuc-
- English Word Leucocyte Definition A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc.
- English Word Leucocythaemia Definition Alt. of Leucocythemia