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  • English Word Lexicon Definition A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
  • English Word Lexiconist Definition A writer of a lexicon.
  • English Word Lexigraphic Definition Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.
  • English Word Lexigraphy Definition The art or practice of defining words; definition of words.
  • English Word Lexiphanic Definition Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.
  • English Word Lexiphanicism Definition The use of pretentious words, language, or style.
  • English Word Lexipharmic Definition See Alexipharmic.
  • English Word Ley Definition To lay; to wager.
  • English Word Ley Definition Law.
  • English Word Ley Definition See Lye.
  • English Word Ley Definition Grass or meadow land; a lea.
  • English Word Ley Definition Fallow; unseeded.
  • English Word Leyden jar Definition Alt. of Leyden phial
  • English Word Leyden phial Definition A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.
  • English Word Leyser Definition Leisure.
  • English Word Leze majesty Definition Any crime committed against the sovereign power.
  • English Word Lherzolite Definition An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).
  • English Word Li Definition A Chinese measure of distance, being a little more than one third of a mile.
  • English Word Li Definition A Chinese copper coin; a cash. See Cash.
  • English Word Li bella Definition A small balance.
  • English Word Li bella Definition A level, or leveling instrument.
  • English Word Liabilities Definition of Liability
  • English Word Liability Definition The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.
  • English Word Liability Definition That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable.
  • English Word Liability Definition the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets.
  • English Word Liable Definition Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
  • English Word Liable Definition Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident.
  • English Word Liableness Definition Quality of being liable; liability.
  • English Word liad Definition A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.
  • English Word Liage Definition Union by league; alliance.