loathe 
he honey'd cakes, I long for bread. 
fmrlril. 
= Byn. 1. Hate, Abhnr, Detest, etc. See hate'. 
leather (!<~>'Tner),. One who loathe* or bhor. 
loathful (loTll'ful), a. [Formerly also lolhful; 
< ME. lolhl'iil (?), lalliful ; < //(/( + -//.] 1. 
FuD of loathing ; abhorring; hating. 
\Vhii:h when lie diil with lixtthjtdl eyes beholde. 
He would no more endure. 
8pen*rr, Mother Huh. Tale, I. 1818. 
2. Exciting loathing or disgust; loathsome; 
hateful. [Now rare.] 
And Mhe/tM idlenes he (loth detest, 
The eanker wormc of everie gentle hrcst. 
X/fiwr, Mother Hal). Talc, 1. 784. 
The surface of the upper portion of the body |of a gi- 
gantic earthworm | shows n bright green color, of variable 
Intensity, hut otherwise it in a loathful animal. 
Science, IV. 420. 
loathing (lo'Tiiing), . [< ME. lotliiiii/ : verbal 
tin . r.] Extreme disgust : abhorrence. 
A surfeit of the sweetest things 
lobe 
forming or dividing into lobes: the state of 
being lobed. 
Lobatiiiii is usually associated with semlpalmation, u 
i- cll seen iii the grebes. Iii the snipe-like plmlaropes, 
/oliatiiiii is present u a modllleation of a foot otherwise 
quite cursorial. The most emphatic eases of lultation tn 
those in which each joint of the toes has its own flap. 
Couei, Key to X. A. Birds, p. 1M. 
lobb (lob), n. See lob 1 . 
lobber (lob'er), v. i. Same M fcqyMrV, [Local, 
n. s.i 
ii. [Verbal n. of tofcl, r.] 
fellow. Cf. AS. loblii; n spider (see loffl); Icel. 
liibbi, a shaggy long-haired dog. Cf. also loobi/. 
lull/in:] I. A dull, sluggish person; a lout. 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
farewell, thou lab of spirits [I'uckl ; I'll be gone. 
.S'/io*.. M. X. U.,ti. 1. Hi. 
But us the ill-one the honey hive doth rob, 
With woorthy Iwoks so deals this Idle t,,b. 
<i'l-"i'.lll'-. \ Kt-mrllllil.-mr . 
This is the wonted way for quacks and cheats to gull 
country ini*. /.'/-. Mate, Anti-Baal-Berith (11X p. 12. 
2. The last person in a race. [Prov. Eng.] 
3. Something thick and lumpish ; a lump. 4. 
A thick, soft mixture. S,.,. the quotation, and with \$De"n7f 
eompjirc loblollu. Marriage, of Witt anil Wisdoms (1579X (HattimU.) 
aSSrwU^JSSafmS^^^mr^toiMtta^im lobbisht, a. [< toftl + -tofc 1 .] Clownish; lub- 
place until fermentation commences, when the mixture, lierish. 
n. of 
The deepest loathimj to the stomach brings. 
Shale., M. N. 1)., 11. 2. 188. 
loathingly (16 'Tiring -li), m/c. [< loathini/ + 
-I !/-.} With loathing or extreme disgust or ab- 
horrenei-. 
loathliness (16Tn'li-ues), . [Formerly also 
lotliliitfKK ; < loittltl// + -uess.] The quality of 
beiug loathly; loathsomeness. 
The beautie of vertue, and the deformytie an 
of vice. Sir T. Elynt, The Oovernonr, iii. 24. 
The more 111 savour and loathlituia we ean find in our 
bosom sins, the nearer we come to the purity of that Holy 
One of Israel, our Blessed Redeemer. 
Up. Hall, Remains, p. 188. (Latham.) 
loathly (loTH'li), a. [Formerly also lotWij; 
dial, also lai/lili/, luutty; < ME. lothli, loothly, 
lothlii-li, lofJtelirli, l,irlli, lodlich, etc., < AS. luthlic, 
hateful. < lath, hateful, + -lie, E. -tyl.] Loath- 
some; disgusting. [Archaic.] 
Thou art so ImiMy and so oold also. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 248. 
Her face most fowle and filthy was to see, 
With squinted eyes contrarie wayes intended, 
And loalttlv mouth, unmeete a mouth to be. 
Speiaer, F. Q., IV. i. 27. 
The lixiihlii toad out of his hole doth crawl. 
I>rayton, Potyolbion, iL 185. 
loathly (loTH'li), adv. [Formerly also lotlily; 
< ME. "lothly, lotlly, < AS. lathlice, hatefully, < 
Idttilic, hateful : see loathly, a. In def. 2, mod- 
ern, < loath + -fy 2 .] 1. In a loathsome man- 
ner; disgustingly. 
He shal him travaile day and nl^t, 
And Imlly his lx>dy dijt 
Curtor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab, f. 4. (Hattiwett.) 
So loathlu wretched a street as this same Cowgate. 
The AOatttic, III. 3S8. 
2. Unwillingly; reluctantly. 
Private tongues, of kinsmen and allies, 
Inspired with comforts, Midi/ are endured. 
B. Jonmn, Sejanus, Ui. 1. 
This shows that you from nature loatMy stray. 
Donne. 
loathness (loth'ues), u. [< ME. "lotlint'X, luitli- 
ties; < loath + -ness.] The state of being loath ; 
unwillingness ; reluctance. 
Thof It be laifull to ladys and other les wemen, 
get It ledls vnto laithnfs and vnlefe werkes. 
Destruction n/ Troy (K. E. T. S.), 1. 2MB. 
And the fair soul herself 
Welgh'd between loathwss and obedience, at 
Which end o' the beam should bow. 
Shak., Tempest, ii. 1. ISO. 
After they had snt about the fire, there grew a general 
silence and'/.,'///i.- to speak. Bacon, Nat Hist. 
loathsome (loM'sum), . [< ME. lolhmm; < 
lofttJi + -gome.] Such as to cause loathing or 
excite disgust; disgusting; odious; detestable. 
Tho gun he her perswade to leave that lewd 
And Inathmii life. Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 51. 
But this mole-eyed, dragon-tailed abomination [a croco- 
dile] . . . was utterly Ittathxnne. 
O. W. Curtis, Nile Notes of a Howadji, xv. 
- SyH. Nauseous, nauseating, revolting, sickening, abom- 
inable. hateful. 
loathsomely (Umi'sum-li), adr. {< loaAson* 
+ -Iii-.'] In a loathsome manner ; disgustingly. 
loathsomeness (loTH'sum-nes), . [< lontli- 
yiniii + -iirxx.] The quality of being loathsome. 
or of exciting strong dislike or disgust. 
Heede must be taken that such rules or sentences be 
e.hoisl.v made, and not often vsed, least excesse breed loth- 
nmMM, I'litirnhain, Arte of F.ng. Poesie, p. 197. 
loathy(lo'THi), n. [<. loath + ^y l . C,t.ltMitldit,a.] 
Loathsome. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
The loath*/ floor of liquid mud lay bare beneath the 
mangrove forest. Kinyetet/, Westward Ho. p. 331. 
loaves, a. Plural of toafi. 
lob 1 (lob), . [Also Inbb; < ME. lobbr (in cpnip. 
): perhaps < W. IM>, a dull, unwieldy 
termed 1<M, may be added to the gyle in the tun. 
SIMM' Encuc. Manitf., I. 402. 
5. A lobworm. 6t. The pollack. 
The lob alluded to in the statute of Herrings (81 Edward 
III., A. I). 15S7) evidently meant this fish. 
Dan, Ml..'- of Oreat Britain, I. 2M7. 
7. The coalfish. 8. [< tofi 1 , r.] In cricket, a 
low slow ball. 9. In latrii-teiniif!, a play by 
which one of the contestants knocks the ball 
over the head of his opponent into the back 
part of the court Lob lle-by-the-flre. seethequo- 
tation. 
Lob Lie-by-the-fre the Lubfier-flend, as Milton calls him 
is a rough kind of Brownie or House Elf, supposed to 
haunt some north-country homesteads, where he does the 
work of the farm-laliourers, for no grander wages than 
"to earn his cream-bowl duly set," 
... It was said that a Lub Jjie-by-tlie-Jire once haunted 
the little old Hall at Lingborongh. 
lln. J. H. Ewiny, lab Lie-by-the-Fire, Int. 
lob 1 (lob), i'.; pret. and pp. lobbed, ppr. lobbini/. 
[< /oftl, .] I. tram. 1. To throw (a lump or 
ball, etc.); toss gently or with a slow move- 
ment; specifically, in lawn-tennis, to strike (the 
ball) over the head of one's opponent into the 
back part of the court. 
Suppose . . . that firing with reduced charges is re- 
quired, that shell are being lobbed from behind a para]iet 
at high angles into a work. 
2. To kick. HaUiwell. 
Their lobbinh guard, who all night had kept themselves 
awake with prating how valiant deeds they had done when 
they ran away, ... awaked them. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, Iv. 
lobby (lob'i), .; pi. lobbien(-iz). [< OP. 'lobii. 
< ML. lobia, lobinni, laiibia, a portico, covered 
way, gallery, < OHG. loiiba, lonpd, MHG. loube. 
G. laube, an arbor, < OHG. lonb, MHG. lott/i, G. 
laiib = E. fca/,q. v. Cf. Itxltje and lourer,from the 
same source.] 1. An inclosed space surround- 
ing or communicating with one or more apart- 
ments, (a) A small hall or waiting-room serving as the 
entrance into a principal apartment, where there is a con- 
siderable space between such apartment and a portico or 
vestibule ; especially, such a hall or anteroom In a theater 
or adjacent to a legislative or audience chamber. 
If you find him not within this month, you shall nose 
him as you go up the stairs Into the IMn/. 
Shak., Hamlet, Iv. 8. :. 
lio, busk about, and run thyself Into the next great 
man's bMy. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, Hi. 1. 
(6) ymtt., an apartment immediately before the captain's 
cabin. 
2. Persons who occupy or resort to the lobby 
or the approaches to a legislative chamber for 
the purpose of transacting business with the 
members, and especially of influencing their 
. . official action or votes. [U. 8.] 
Enqtc. Brit., XI. si . I bby (lob'i), r. ; pret. and pp. lobbied, ppr. lob- 
[Proy. Eng.] bying. [< lobby, .] I. intrant. To frequent 
II. intranx. To be tossed with a slow move- fjie lobby of a legislature or other deliberative 
body for the purpose of influencing the official 
action of members; solicit votes from mem- 
bers, whether in the lobby or elsewhere. [U. S.] 
Lobbying should be made the object of incessant war 
and corrective enactment, until it is driven from legisla- 
tive halls. IT. A. Ret., CXL. 311. 
II. tranx. To promote or carry by solicita- 
tion of legislative favor or votes: as. to lobby a 
measure through Congress. [U. .S.J 
ment, as a cricket-ball or a shot. 
Great escapes and some wounds from IcMriny round-shot 
already. W. H. Rwaell, Diary in India, I. 2B. 
lob' 2 (lob), P.; pret. and pp. Milted, ppr. lolibin//. 
[Var. of to/A] I. in trans. To hangdi 
down; drop 
or droop. 
II. traiix. To hang wearily or languidly ; al- 
low to drop or droop. 
And their poor jades 
Loft down their heads. Shak., Hen. V.,lv.2.47. lobbyist (lob'i-ist), n. [< lobby + -int.] One 
lobar (16'bar), a. [< lobe + -ar%.] Of or per- who frequents the lobby or the precincts of a 
taining to a lobe, as of the brain or lungs : as, legislature or other deliberative assembly, with 
lobar emphysema. 
In the cases of lobar and of iobular pneumonia that I 
have examined, none of the urines have turned red. 
Lancet, No. 3427, p. SSO. 
the view of influencing the votes of members. 
[U.S.] 
But the arrangement* of the committee system have 
produced and sustain the class of professional lobbi/intf, 
UV.HU UJK,..!!..,..!... - * men, and women too, who make it their business to "see ' 
Lobata (16-ba'ta), n. ul. [NL., ueut. pi. of lob<i- members and procure, by persuasion Importunity, or the 
/ rS.1,1 .?&& 1 A Hiviai ordinal or "<> <* inducements, the passing of bills, public as well an 
tux, lobed. see tlobtite.] A division, ordinal |)rlvRte which illvolve gai,, to their promoters, 
subordinal, of the class or order 
those 
Lobar pneumonia. See pneumonia. 
Cteno/iliora, including 
comb-bearing hydroids or cte- 
nophorans which have a pair 
of oral lobes: distinguished 
from Twit iata&uA Saccate. The 
l.obata are composed of such 
forms as Kiirlnni>)>lni'a, Jioliim, 
Milt-mill, I'liliimina, and Ocyroe. 
lobate (16'bat), a. [< NL. loba- 
tus, lobed, < lolxm, a lobe: see 
lobe.] 1. Having a lobe or 
lobes; lobated; lobose; lobed; 
lobulate: as, a lobate leaf; a lo- 
bdtc fin or foot; a lobate rhizo- 
pod or ctenophorau. 2. Hav- 
vcxiltfftra}. 
mg the form of a lobe : as, a lobate part or pro- "^ 
- W - " S ' 
. 
J. Bryce, American Commonwealth, 1. 158, 
lobby-member (lob'i-mem''ber), M. A lobby- 
ist; one who makes a business of influencing 
the action or votes of a legislature. [TJ. S.] 
lob-coatt, Same as lob&irk. 
Cares not a groate 
For such a lab-coate. 
The Wit tf a Woman (1604). (Sam. ) 
lobcockt (lob'kok), . [< /W& 1 + eockl, used as 
a diminutive.] A stupid, sluggish, inactive 
person ; a lob. 
Such a calfe, such an asse, such a blocke, . . . suc-li a 
Inbcacltc. ffdatt, Roister bolster, III. . 
lob-dotterelt (lob'dot'er-el), n. A loutish fool. 
(iroothead gnat-snappers. Inb-dotterelt, gaping change- 
UrquJiart, tr. of Rabelais, 1. 25. 
S 7 ^TTT < obe, 
&^^ of the liver,' the po< of a leguminous plant; 
elongated disk formed by the skeleton of the tin ; and the prob. also /eirif, a scale, husk, peel, Stireiv. peel 
' 
Integunient is continued to the basis of the fln-rays, 
which thus seem tx> fringe a lobe of the integument. 
Hence the tin is said to beJo&n/' 1 . 
Huxley, Anat.Vert,, p. 128. 
Lobate foot, in ornith. , a bird's foot of which the toes are 
separately lobed, as in the coot, phalarope, or grebe. 
lobated ( 16'ba-ted), a. Same as lobate. 
lobately (16'bat-li), adr. [< lobat,- + -lip.] In 
liot., in such a manner as to form lobes Lobate- 
ly crenate, in but., having crenatures or indentations so 
deep as to form a series of small Ini ><?.. 
lobation (lo-bfi'shon), . [< lobate + -/'(. | 
Tlie formation of lobes; the act or process of 
see lepts.J A ronnded and more or less globular 
projection or part, (a) In anat., a large natural divi- 
sion of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. ; also, the 
lower soft part of the ear ; the lobule. Especially - (1) One 
of several definite and considerable parts of each half of 
the cerebrum, or each hemisphere of the brain, separated 
superficially by certain well-marked fissures or sulci. In 
ordinary language these lobes or major divisions are the 
frontal, parietal, and occipital, or the fore, middle, and hind 
divisions. But by carefully considering the course c,f the 
three great fissures of each hemisphere, namely the Sylvian, 
the Rolandic, and the parieto-occipital, we find these to de- 
marcate four cerebral lobes, named frontal, parietal, tem- 
parotphmoMal, and occipital; and by considering the two 
