loafer 
" The thought is not new to me ; I have read Washing- 
ton Irving." " Prince of intellectual loafers," said Gray- 
hurst J. W. Palmer, After his Kind, p. 69. 
loaferish (16'fer-ish), . [< loafer + -ish 1 .] Of 
or pertaining to a loafer ; like or characteristic 
of a loafer. 
Four pleasant ruffians in the Inaferuh postures which 
they have learned as facchini waiting for jobs. 
Hou-ells, Venetian Life, xix. 
loaf-SOgar (lof'shug'ar), H. Sugar refined ami 
molded into a conical mass. 
loam (16m), u. [Early mod. E. also lome; also 
dial, lame, luim ; < ME. 'lorn, lam, < AS. lam 
= OS. lento, leimo = D. leem = MLG. LG. 
Itm = OHG. leimo, MHG. leime, Mm, G. Mm, 
but usually lehni (after LG.), loam, clay; akin 
to AS. lim, etc., lime, and to L. limvs, mud: 
see tote 1 .] 1. A soil consisting of a natural 
mixture of clay and sand, the latter being pres- 
ent in sufficient quantity to overcome the ten- 
dency of the clay to form a coherent mass. 
That which is ordinarily called loam is fine-grained, ho- 
mogeneous, and "light " that is, not densely compacted 
together. Carbonate of lime is usually present in small 
quantity, and also organic matter. See marli, toil, and 
loess. 
At the higher and farther sides of those upper ovens are 
trenches of Imne. Sandy*, Travailes, p. 98. 
The soil was a dark brown loam, and very rich. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 91. 
2. In founding, a mixture of sand, clay, saw- 
dust, straw, etc., used in making the molds for 
castings. The compound must be plastic when wet, and 
hard, air-tight, and able to resist high temperatures when 
dry. Specifically called ca&iny-loam. 
3f. A vessel of clay ; an earthen vessel. 
And so into the lomes of meth and tubs of brine and 
other liquor he bestowed the parts of the dead carcasses of 
his brother's seruants. Holiiuthed, Hist. Eng., viii. 7. 
Loam-and-sand core. See corei. 
loam (16m), v. t. [< loam, *.] To cover or coat 
with loam ; clay. 
With the ashes of bones tempered with oile. Camels 
haire, and a clay they have, they lome them so well that 
no weather will pierce them. 
Capt. John Stnith, True Travels, I. 32. 
The joist ends and girders, which be in the walls, must 
be /iuiiiifil;M over to preserve them from the corroding of 
the mortar. F. Mvxon, Mechanical Exercises. 
loam-beater (16m'be''ter), n. In foundry-work, 
an instrument for compacting loam in loam- 
molding ; a molders' rammer. 
loam-board (lom'bord), . A founders' tool ami 
templet used' in making cores of loam, it is a 
board cut to the shape of the core, and is used both to 
hold a supply of loam for the operation, and as an aid in 
turning the dried core down to the exact shape. Also called 
xtricMe. 
loam-cake (lom'kak), . In foundry-work, a 
cake, plate, or disk of compacted loam used to 
cover in a loam-mold. It is provided with holes or 
gates through which the molten metal enters the mold, 
and with other holes or vents for free exit of air from the 
mold. 
loam-mold (lom'mold), . A mold made from 
casting-loam. Such mokls are used for castings 
of iron and brass. 
loam-molding (16m'm61"ding), n. In foundry- 
work, the making of loam-molds in general. 
The term is used especially of the act of striking up the 
surfaces of molds by means of templets controlled by 
parallel guides, or, in case the surfaces are cylindrical, by 
a central pivot and radial arms, to which the templets are 
attached. Sometimes cores are formed on a barrel or cen- 
tral cylinder, and then turned on the barrel by means of 
a tool resting on the loam-board. 
loam-plate (lom'plat), n. In foundry-work, a 
flat ring or plate of cast-iron, used in construct- 
ing a loam-mold, one or more of which are used 
to support and clamp together the brickwork 
which supports the softer parts of the mold. 
loam-work (lom'werk), n. In foundries, the 
processes of making loam-molds, and casting 
iron, brass, etc., in them. Very fine castings 
are obtained by these processes. 
loamy (16'mi), a. [< loam + -yl.] 1. Consist- 
ing of loam ; of the nature of or resembling 
loam: as, loamy soil. 
And if it want binding, [mix] a little loamy earth. 
Evelyn, Calendarium Hortense, May. 
2. Damp. Halliivell. [Prov. Eng.] 
loan 1 (Ion), n. [< ME. lone, lane, Ian, < AS. 
laii (in comp. lanland, for usual lainland), usually 
Ian, a loan, grant, gift, fief, = OFi-ies. len = D. 
leen, a grant, fief, = MLG. LG. len OHG. le- 
han, MHG. lehen, G. leJien, lelm, a fief, = Icel. 
liin, a loan, ten, a fief, = Dan. latoi = Sw. l&u, 
a loan (prob. = Skt. reknax, estate, wealth), 
akin to AS. "Wiaii, lean = OHG. liban, MHG. li- 
hen, G. leiheit = Icel. Ijd = Goth, leihiran, lend, 
orig. 'leave,' = Ir. leicim, leave, = Lith. likti, 
leave behind (cf. OBulg. <>tu-l<-ku. remainder), 
= L. linqitere (perf. lii/iii, pp. *lictim), leave. 
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also in comp. relinquere, leave behind, = Gr. 
~/.ti-tn<, Imelv, leave, = Skt. / rich, leave, let go, 
give up. Hence ult. lend 1 . From the L. verb 
(liiiquere) are ult. E. delinquent, relinquish, relic, 
relief, reliquary, derelict, etc., and from the same 
root license, licit, illicit, leisure, etc. From the 
Gr. verb (faiiretv) are ult. E. eclipse, ellipse,vrords 
in HJKI-, etc.] If. A grant; gift; reward. 
They may now, God be thanked of his Iwne ! 
Maken hir jubilee, and walke allone. 
Chaucer, C. T. (Summoner's Tale), 1. 11,903 (ed. Gilnian). 
2. That which is lent ; anything furnished on 
condition of the future return of it, or of the 
delivery of an equivalent in kind ; especially, a 
sum of money lent at interest. 
I lowe hym that this lane has lente, 
For he may stynte oure stryve, 
And fende vs fro alle ille. York Plays, p. 53. 
Advantaging their loan with interest 
Of ten times double gain of happiness. 
Shalt., Rich. III., iv. 4. 323. 
What e'er is given the Strange and Seedy one, 
Is not a gift (indeed), but 'tis a Loan, 
A Loan to God, who payes with interest. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, H., The Vocation. 
The person whom you favoured with a loan, if he be a 
good man, will think himself in your debt after he has 
paid you. Steele, Spectator, No. 346. 
3. The act of lending or the condition of being 
lent; a lending: as, to arrange a loan. 
I do not doubt 
To find, at some place I shall come at, arms 
On loan, or else for pledge. Tennyson, Oeraint. 
(In civil law, when the loan was made of things which 
could be returned only by their material equivalent, it was 
called mutuum ; when made of things which could be re- 
turned in the identical form, it was called commodatuin.} 
4. Permission to use ; grant of the use : as, a 
loan of credit. Gratuitous loan, in law, same as 
commodate. Loan and trust company. See bank'-, 4. 
Public loan, money borrowed by, or the lending of 
money to, the state at a fixed rate of interest. 
loan 1 (Ion), v. [< loan 1 , . The older verb, 
from the same noun in its older form, is lend 1 , 
q. v.] I. trans. To lend. [An objectionable 
use, rare in Great Britain.] 
Loan for lend, with which we have hitherto been black- 
ened, I must retort upon the mother island, for it appears 
so long ago as in "Albion's England." 
Lomtt, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. 
The practice of loaning money. Westminster Kev. 
II. intrans. To lend money or other property; 
make a loan. [U. S.] 
loan- (Ion), H. [ME. lone, a var. of lane, > E. 
lane: see lane 1 ."] 1. A lane. [Scotch and prov. 
Eng.] 
The Captain of Bewcastle, and Jephtha's John, 
Coming down by the foul steps of Catlowdie's loan. 
Fray of Suport (Child's Ballads, VI. 120). 
And darker gloaming brought the night : . . . 
The kye stood rowtin' i' the loan. 
Burns, The Twa Dogs. 
2. An open space between fields of corn, left 
untilled as a passage for cattle ; hence, a place 
near a village for milking cows. Also loanini/. 
[Scotch and New Eng.] 
loanable (lo'na-bl), a. [< loan 1 + -able.'] Ca- 
pable of being loaned ; specifically, capable of 
being, or intended to be, loaned out at interest. 
Free capital, loanable for a certain interval, is equally 
available for all classes of industry. 
Jevons, PoL Econ. (2d ed.), Pref., p. 5. 
This ... is distinctly visible among powerful classes 
la the North-Eastern States, which are the great posses- 
sors of loanable capital. S. A. Rev., CXLIII. 214. 
loaning (16'ning), n. [< lottil't + -ing.'] Same 
as loan*, 2. 
Ye might hae heard him a mile down the wind- he 
routed like a cow in a fremd (strange] loaning. 
Scott, Old Mortality, xiv. 
loan-office (lon'of'is), u. 1. A public office at 
which loans are made or arranged. 2. A pawn- 
shop, or pawnbroker's establishment. 
loan-word (lon'werd), n. [< loan 1 + word; an 
imperfect adaptation of G. lehnwort, a'lend- 
word,' < leltnen, lend (see lend 1 and loan 1 ), + 
wor?, word.] A borrowed word; a word taken 
into one language from another. [Rare.] 
In the 16th century it [z] crept in from the French, and 
its use is even now pretty nearly restricted to foreign l<mn 
words, as Zebulon, Zedekiah. zigzag, zest, etc. 
Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, II. 142. 
Loasa (16'a-sa), H. [NL., of S. Amer. origin.] 
A genus of dicotyledonous polypetalous herbs, 
of the natural order Loaseat, characterized by 
either opposite or alternate leaves and a capsule 
three- or five-valved atthe apex, rarely twisted. 
The flowers are pentamerous, with cucullate petals, two to 
five scales, and ten filiform abortive stamens, besides nu- 
merous perfect ones. There are about 50 species, growing 
throughout tropical America, with the exception of north- 
ern Brazil and Guiana. 
loathe 
Loasaceae (16-a-sa'se-e), n. pi. [NL., < Loasa 
+ -acea!.] A synonym of Loasece, still in com- 
mon use. 
loasaceous (16-a-sa'shius), a. Pertaining to or 
having the characters of the order Loaseai. 
loasad (16'a-sad). H. A plant of the order Loa- 
sea:; in the plural, the order. Lindley. 
Loaseae (lo-a'se-e), u. pi. [NL. (A. L. de Jus- 
sieu, 1804 j,< Luasa + -eiK.~] An order of dicoty- 
ledonous plants composed of 10 genera and 
about 100 species, confined, with one excep- 
tion, to warm and tropical America. They are 
herbaceous plants, often climbing, and usually covered 
with bristly hairs, secreting an acrid juice. The flowers 
are perfect and regular with an adherent calyx, a four- or 
five-parted corolla, an indefinite number of stamens, and 
usually a one-celled ovary with a single filiform style. 
From their stinging properties, many are known as Chili 
nettles. 
loath, loth (loth), a. and H. [< ME. loth, looth, 
latli,<. AS. lath, causing evil, evil, hateful, odious, 
grievous, also bearing hate, hostile, = OS. leth, 
led = OFries. leth, led = D. leed = MLG. let, 
leit = OHG. leid, hateful, painful, hostile, 
MHG. hit, G. kid, hateful, painful, = Icel. 
hitlhr = Sw. Dan. led, hateful, odious (cf. It. 
hiido = OSp. OPg. laido = Pr. lait = F. laid, 
hateful, odious, < G.); as a noun (neut. of the 
adj.), AS. lath, evil, wrong, = D. leed, evil, 
wrong, = MLG. let, lcit=ORG. MHG. G. leid, 
evil, pain, = Dan. lede = Sw. leda, disgust, loath- 
ing, tedium ; prob. from the verb represented 
by OHG. lidan, MHG. Men, G. leiden, suffer, 
supposed to be connected with OHG. lidan = 
AS. lithan = Goth, leithan, go, travel: see lode 1 , 
lead 1 . The spelling loth is rather more common 
than loath in the adj. ; but loath is common and 
is more in accordance with analogy (cf. oath), 
while derivatives of the verb, loathe, etc., are 
always spelled with oa. The forms are there- 
fore more conveniently put together.] L a,. If. 
Hateful ; disliked; detested. 
Alias ! my lyil me is full Intli, 
I lylfe ouere lange this lare to lere. 
York Plays, p. 50. 
Men seyn right thus, " Alwey the nye slye 
Maketh the ferre leeve to be looth." 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 207. 
2. Feeling extreme unwillingness or aversion ; 
very unwilling ; reluctant ; averse. 
"My righte lady," quod this woful man, 
" Whom I moost drede, and love as I best kan, 
And lothest were of al this world displese." 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 585. 
Jjoth he was to falsen his promyse of couenaunt. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 435. 
They would be loath to set earthly things, wealth or hon- 
our, before the wisdom of salvation. Milton, True Religion. 
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, 
The vanities of life forego. Scott, Rokeby, v. 1. 
Lief or loath t. See lief. 
H.t n. Evil; harm; injury. 
Mete and drynke I saf hem bothe, 
And bad hem kepe hem ay fro lathe. 
Cursor llundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab, f. 31. (HalKweU.) 
loathe (16TH), r. ; pret. and pp. loathed, ppr. 
loathing. [< ME. lothen, < AS. lathian (= OS. 
lethon = OHG. leidon), be evil, hateful, la>than, 
hate (= OS. a-lethian, disgust, = OHG. leidan. 
hate, = Icel. leidha, disgust), disgust, < lath, 
hateful, loath: see loath, .] I. intrans. If. 
To be hateful or loathed; excite nausea, dis- 
gust, or abhorrence. 
Where medicines loathe, it irks men to be healed. 
Chapman, Byron's Tragedy, iv. 1. 
2. To feel nausea, disgust, or abhorrence. 
"This is more vile," he made reply, 
"To breathe and loathe, to live and sigh." 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
II. trans. 1. To dislike greatly ; hate; abhor. 
Hereby satan saved his credit, who loves to tell lies, 
but loathes to be taken in them. 
Fuller, Church Hist, VI. iv. 2. 
In my soul I loathe 
All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; 
Object of my implacable disgust. 
Cowper, Task, ii. 416. 
2f. To cause to dislike or avoid; disgust. 
IThey] loathe men from reading by their covert, slander- 
ous reproaches of the Scriptures. Abp. Parker. 
How heatily he serves me ! his face loathes one. 
But look upon his care, who would not love him ? 
Middletmi, Changeling, v. 1. 
3. To feel disgust at-; especially, to have an 
extreme aversion to, as food or drink. 
C.ladli seue thi tithis * thin offrynge bothe. 
The poorc & the beedered, loke thou not lothe. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.X p. 37. 
Each countrey hath obaerned their owne peculiar ens- 
tome in this foode. some loathinn that which others es- 
teeme dainty. Punhat, Pilgrimage, p. 39. 
