KYR SUPPLEMENT. LLA 



KYROSITE, a variety of marcasite, or white termining the quality of gold or tilTW, 

 Iron pyrites, containing copper and arsenic, according to the colour of the streak, 

 found both in South America and in LARARIUM, the apartment in ihe dwell - 

 E Uror , e- ings of the ancients in which the household 



gods or lares were kept. 



Li LASfRiTE, blue carbonate of copper. 

 ' LATICIFEROUS TISSUE, one of the vascu- 

 lar elementary tissues of plants, in the tubes 



LA BLAB, a genus of leguminous tropical O f which the latex circulates and is con- 

 plants. The puls-^ yielded by L. r ?../,. m veyfd. 



is used as an article of food, and the young LEAD GLANCE, native sulphide of lead, 

 pods like kidney beans, as well as those of LECTERN, a desk or stand for supporting a 

 L. Cultrafus. book for the use of the public readers in 



LABRCS, the bream. The typical genus churches, 

 of the Labridte, or bream tribe of fishes. LECTJCARII, the bearers of the lectica of 



LACINIATE, baring fringe-like margins, in the Romans, or litter-bearers, 

 botany. LEOPARD WOOD, the wood of the South 



LACONICCM, a dry bath. Heated air used American tree Brosim-um Aubletii. It be- 

 by the Romans to produce sudorific etfects, longs to the order Artocarpacece. 

 and said to have been first used in Laconia. LEPIDOLITE, a silicate of lithea, alumina, 



LACTONE, a volatile liquid product of an d iron with fluoride of potassium, 

 the destructive distillation of lactic acid. LETTIC, a division of the Aryan languages, 



LACTUCIC ACID, an acid somewhat simi- including the Old Prussian and still exist- 

 lar to oxalic acid, found in the juice of ing dialects of Livonia, Lithuania, and 

 Lactuca Virosa. Courland. 



LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS. The deposits of LEVANT, from the Italian word levante, 

 fresh-water lakes and pools are so called " rising," an Italian geographical term for 

 by geologists. that part of the world which is toward the 



LADIES' SLATES, a term denoting a par- East or rising sun, but distinctively, in gene- 

 ticular size of slates lor roofing. They are ral acceptation, that part of the Mediter- 

 16 inches by 8 inches. ranean Sea and shores to the east of the 



LAGOMYS, the rat-hares of Siberia, a meridian of Candia. 



genus of rodent quadrupeds differing from LIBER ALBUS, a book of the ancient laws 

 the true hares in having no tail, nearly and customs of the City of London, of great 

 equal legs, shorter ears, and nearly perfect antiquarian as well as practical interest, 

 clavicles. It has been printed by direction of the Mas- 



LAGONITE, an earthy ochreous yellow ter of the Rolls. 



mineral incrustation, found at the Tuscan Lien GATE, a shed covering the entrance 

 lagoons. to a burying ground, where the corpse- 



LAORIMOSO, a direction in music to per- bearers rested on the way to interment, 

 form the part indicated in a plaintive, tear- From Leiche, the German for a corpse, 

 ful manner. LIEBERKUHN, a speculum or concave re- 



LAK.E IRON ORE, the bog iron ore of Swe- fleeter used with a microscope to throw focal 

 deu aad Finland, found generally on the light on the object under examination, 

 elopes declining toward the larger lakes. LIGNEOUS, woody, or resembling wood. 



J-AMANTIN, the manatee, or sea cow. LIGURE, a gem stone worn in the breast- 



JuAND-FALL, a nautical term signifying the plate of the High Priest of Israel. 

 first land sen after a voyage. When it LIMONITE, a hydrated peroxide of iron, or 

 ^Mil-ears as calculated on, it is called a good brown iron ore. 

 i*.r.dfall. LINGULA FLAGS, a group of rock deposits 



LANIAD.E, the family of shrikes or butcher belonging to the middle members of the 

 bi-'.-ls. Lower Silurian formation, found in the Cam- 



LANTERN WITEEL, a pinion wheel with brian district of England, but not belonging 

 treadle or spiudle teeth. to what is called the Cambrian series. 



LANTHANUM, an elementary metal dis- LIPAROCELE. a fatty tumour, 

 cohered by Mcsander in cerite. : LIPPITUDO, bleared eyes. A disease of 



t*.7LLi, " little stones," small volcanic the eye-lids easily cured, as well as sty, by 

 CltifTi. the application of red precipitate ointment, 



Lr. CAUSTICUS, caustic potash. prepared in a weakened form for the eye by 



L/IPI& Bivists, a compound in which any druggist. 



&lus, oH'.% and vordi^-ls were melted to LITHOLOGICAL, the structure, character, 

 pether, or wh'te ,-UHol iu place of verdigris, and composition of any mineral or stone, 

 with the GO^sn?i\v a-M'.tica of camphor. I LITHOPHYTES, stony polypes, or those 



LAPIS I>FHV.LJa. luiiar causuc, & fused hiving a stony axis, as distinct from those 

 ttinrate of siiver. having a bomy axis. 



LAPIS LVJJ;VS, a fin.vous f!s.tp cailcd iJw! LLANDML* SLATES or FLAGS, a group of 

 It u a touchstone for df- .i-irk-colourea *ndy grit beds belonging to 

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