| Lie |
n. |
See Lye. |
| Lie |
n. |
A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive. |
| Lie |
n. |
A fiction; a fable; an untruth. |
| Lie |
n. |
Anything which misleads or disappoints. |
| Lie |
v. i. |
To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation. |
| Lie |
adj. |
To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out;
often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. |
| Lie |
adj. |
To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port. |
| Lie |
adj. |
To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall. |
| Lie |
adj. |
To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist;
with in. |
| Lie |
adj. |
To lodge; to sleep. |
| Lie |
adj. |
To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. |
| Lie |
adj. |
To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. |
| Lie |
n. |
The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country. |
| Lieberkuhn |
n. |
A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector. |
| Lieberkuhn's glands |
|
The simple tubular glands of the small intestines;
called also crypts of Lieberkuhn. |
| Lied |
imp. & p. p. |
of Lie |
| Lied |
n. |
A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national. |
| Lieder |
pl. |
of Lied |
| Liederkranz |
n. |
Lit., wreath of songs;
used as the title of a group of songs, and esp. as the common name for German vocal clubs of men. |
| Liedertafel |
n. |
A popular name for any society or club which meets for the practice of male part songs. |
| Lief |
n. |
Same as Lif. |
| Lief |
n. |
Dear; beloved. |
| Lief |
n. |
Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable. |
| Lief |
adv. |
Willing; disposed. |
| Lief |
n. |
A dear one; a sweetheart. |
| Lief |
adv. |
Gladly; willingly; freely;
now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not. |
| Liefsome |
a. |
Pleasing; delightful. |
| Liegance |
n. |
Same as Ligeance. |
| Liege |
a. |
Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord. |
| Liege |
a. |
Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject. |
| Liege |
a. |
Full; perfect; complete; pure. |
| Liege |
n. |
A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign. |
| Liege |
n. |
The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman. |
| Liegeman |
n. |
Same as Liege, n., 2. |
| Liegemen |
pl. |
of Liegeman |
| Lieger |
n. |
A resident ambassador. |
| Liegiancy |
n. |
See Ligeance. |
| Lien |
|
of Lie |
| Lien |
obs. p. p. |
of Lie. See Lain. |
| Lien |
n. |
A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied. |
| lien |
|
A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed. |
| Lienal |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic. |
| Lienculi |
pl. |
of Lienculus |
| Lienculus |
n. |
One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen. |
| Lieno-intestinal |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog. |
| Lienteric |
a. |
Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery. |
| Lienteric |
n. |
A lientery. |
| Lientery |
n. |
A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change. |
| Lier |
n. |
One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment. |
| Lierne rib |
|
In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another. |
| Lieu |
n. |
Place; room; stead;
used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of. |
| Lieutenancy |
n. |
The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant. |
| Lieutenancy |
n. |
The body of lieutenants or subordinates. |
| Lieutenant |
n. |
An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. |
| Lieutenant |
n. |
A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain. |
| Lieutenant |
n. |
A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander. |
| Lieutenant |
n. |
A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander. |
| Lieutenant general |
|
An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. |
| Lieutenantry |
n. |
See Lieutenancy. |
| Lieutenantship |
n. |
Same as Lieutenancy, 1. |
| Lieve |
a. |
Same as Lief. |
