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The lordtess man was liable to be slain as an outlaw by For that he wes lordtwyk, furst he wes todrawe 
any one who met him. Execution of Sir Simon Frater (Child s Ballads, VI. 280). 
mrM. Creasy, Eng. Constitution, p. 48. i orf i woo d (lord'wud), . [Trans, of Cypriote 
lord-lieutenancy (lord-lu-ten'an-si), n. The name, Xylon Effendi: Gr. fi^ov, wood; Turk, 
oflice of lord lieutenant. See lord. efendi : see effendi.] The tree Liquidambar ori- 
Curteret, turned out of the lord-lieuteiumcy about the entalis, of Asia Minor. It yields the liquid 
timu, was now in nprn oppoHitiun. 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, II. 103. j j (lor) )( 
lordlike (lord'lik), . [< lord + like*, a. Cf. 
lordly.] 1. Befitting or liko a lord; lordly. 2. 
Haughty; proud; insolent. 
lordliness (16rd'li-nes), n. 1. The state of 
lordly dignity ; high station. 2. Lordly pride; 
haughtiness. 
lordling (lord'liiig), n. [< ME.*tor<tttn<7, loverd- 
li/ii/r^lord + -ling 1 .'] A little or diminutive 
lord: used commonly in a derogatory or con- 
temptuous sense. 
lordly (lord'li), a. [< ME. lordlich, loverdlich; 
< lord + -ly 1 .] 1. Of the character or quality 
of a lord; having high or noble rank; noble; 
aristocratic. 
In sight of England and her lordly peers. 
Shall., 2 Hen. VI., i. 1. 11. 
2. Pertaining to or befitting a lord ; character- 
istic of lordship; large or grand in scale, size, 
or extent. 
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judges v. 26. 
Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them. 
South, Sermons. 
3. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent. 
Lords are lordliest in their wine. Hilton, S. A., 1. 1418. 
= Syn. 3. Domineering, overbearing, lofty. 
lordly (lord'li), adv. [< lord + -fy 2 .] In the 
manner of a lord; hence, proudly; imperiously; 
despotically. 
A famished lion, Issuing from the wood, 
Boars lordly fierce. Dryden. 
lordolatry flor-dol'a-tri), . [< lord + Gr. ^a- 
rpEi'a, worship ; after idolatry, etc.] Lord-wor- 
ship ; excessive respect for the nobility. [Hu- 
morous.] 
But how should it be otherwise in a country where Lor- 
dolatry is part of our creed, and where our children are 
brought up to respect the Peerage as the Englishman's 
second Bible? Thackeray, Book of Snobs, ill. 
lordosis (lor-do'sis), . [NL., < Gr. Mpduats, a 
bending (back in the manner described), < top- 
6ovv, bend back, < /lopcMf, bent back so as to ad- 
vance the lower part of the body.] In pathol. : 
(a) Abnormal curvature of the spinal column, 
with the convexity toward the front, in dis- 
tinction from kyphosis, in which the convexity 
is toward the back, and from scoliosis, or lateral 
curvature. (6) Any abnormal curvature of the 
bones. 
lords-and-ladies(16rdz'and-la'diz), n. 1. The 
loricate 
pair of eye-glasses, shutting into a frame which 
when in use serves as a handle, intended for 
examining objects at a little distance: also 
sometimes used as synonymous with opera-yUum 
or lorgnette. 
She raises to her eyes of blue 
Her lorynon, as she looks at you. 
The Atlantic, LXIII. 049. 
storax. 
ore 1 (lor), w. [Also dial, or var. lear, 
leari, n.); < ME. lore, tore, < AS. Idr (= OS. lori (16'ri), n. Same as tori*, 1. 
lira = OFries. tare, NFries. leere = D. leer = loria, Plural of lorion. 
MLG. tire, tore = OHG. lera, MHG. lere, G. lorlc (lor'ik), . r ' T '' 
lehre; 8w. liira = Dan. lore, after G. ), teaching, 
doctrine, learning; connected with the facti- 
tive verb lieran, teach, from the verb seen in 
Goth, leisan, pret. pres. law, find out; whence 
also ult. E. learn: see ieori, v., and learn.] 1. 
That which is taught; instruction; counsel: 
admonition; teaching; lesson. 
Thy wille vn-to them taughte haue I, 
That wolde vu-to my lore enclyne. 
[< L. loriea, a corselet: see 
loriea.] Same as loriea, 1. [Bare.] 
Lorie and low-browed Gorgon on the breast. 
Urowning, Protus. 
ja(lo-ri'ka),n.; pl.torc!(-8e). [L.,acorse- 
(orig. of leather thongs), cuirass, any de- 
Let this proverb a lore unto yow be. 
Chaucer, Troilus. 11. 397. 
But these conditions doe to him propound : 
That, if I vanquishe him, he shall obay 
My law, and ever to my lore be bound. 
Spenter, F. Q., V. iv. 49. 
2. That which is learned; any store of know- 
ledge; learning; erudition. 
Lo ! Rome herself, proud mistress now no more 
Of arts, but thund'ring against heathen lore. 
Pope, Dunclad, 111. 102. 
The gentle deities 
Showed me the lore of colors and of sounds. 
Emerson, Mnsketaquld. 
= Syn. 2. Learning, Erudition, etc. (see literature), attain- 
nirnt !-, acquirements. 
lore 2 *. Preterit and past participle of leese 1 . 
lore 3 !, n. [ME., usually lure, lyre, < AS. lyre, 
loss, < leosan, pp. loren, lose : see Jeesel, lose 1 .] 
Loss. 
Of loos, of lore, and of wynnynges. 
let 
fense, Fence, hedge, plaster, etc., <' lorum, a 
thong, strap: see lore*.] 1. In Ront. antiq., a 
cuirass or corselet. 2. In the middle ages, a 
military garment consisting of a loose jacket 
of leather upon which rings or small plates of 
iron were sewed; also, a coat of fence of any 
kind. 3. In eool., a case or covering likened 
to a coat of mail, (a) The carapace of a crustacean. 
(J) The organically distinct protective sheath or domicile 
excreted and inhabited by many Inf usorians, such as Va- 
ginicola, Tintinnw, and Salping&ca, and aura by some roti- 
fers. 
Loricaria (lor-i-ka'ri-a), n. [NL., fern, of L. 
loricarius, of or pertainingto a corselet, < loriea, 
a corselet: see forica.] The typical genus of 
Loricariidte, loricated with plate-like scales, 
whence the name. 
Chaucer, Honse'bf Fame, 1. 1965. loricarian (lor-i-ka'ri-an), a. and . [< Lori- 
lore 4 (lor), . [< F. lore, < L. lorum, a thong, caria + -an.] Same as loricarioid. 
lash, whip, strap: see lorate.] 1. Anything LoricariidaB(lori-ka-ri'i-de), n. pi. [NL.,<io- 
suggesting a thong. 
About the which two Serpents weren wound, 
Entrayled mutually in lovely lore, 
And by the tailes together flnnely bound. 
Speneer, F. Q., IV. 111. 42. 
2. In ornith., the side of the head between the 
riearia + -4<Ue.] A family of loricated nema- 
tognathous fishes, of which the type is the genus 
Loricaria. They have an elongate body covered with 
angular plates, a depressed head mailed above, an Inferior 
mouth with reverted lower lip. the dorsal fin In relation 
1th the abdominal region, and; the ventral fins advanced 
*,. iu . ., , -"' to near the pectorals. The scapular arch is widened and 
eye and the base of the upper^manaiple.^ This flattened below, and the pectorals and ventrals expand hori- 
space is definitely marked in some birds, as herons and 
grebes, by being naked ; and in others by some special 
kind of feathering, as the bristly plumules of a hawk. 
torn. , a corneous angular process in the mouth 
_ ___ ___ ,. - of some insects, by means of which the trophi 
plant cuckoo-pint or wake-robin, Arum macula- are pu t forth or retracted. Also lora. Kirby. 
turn: in allusion to its bght- and dark-colored i orea i (16're-al), n. Same as loral. 
spadices, which suggest the two sexes See The am(dl ^ on the alde of the gnoutj the 80 . called 
Arum, Aracew, and bulls-and-coirs. 2. Ihenar- \ mea i, Ounther, Encyc. Brit., XXII. 196. 
< lorei 
lordship (Idrd'ship), n. [ . 
*locerdlichipe, layerdschipe, < AS. hldfordscipe, ^^ 
lordship, dominion, <hlaford, lord, + -*<%, E. i orelnert . 8ee torimer. 
-ship: see lord and -ship.] 1. The authority or j (t > ^ obsolete variant of torn, 
power of a lord or ruler; dominion; sovereignty. J orer ^ . See laurer. 
They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles ex- l or esmant (lorz'man), . [ME. ; < lore's, poss. 
erclse lordship over them. Mark x. 42. ^f^?^. \ W a.] "An instructor! 
2. The territory over which a lord holds juris- As W8 loref . man Iereg hym blleueth and troweth. 
diction ; a seigniory, domain, or manor. pien Plowman (B), xll. 183. 
zontally. Nearly 150 species live in the fresh waters of trop- 
ical America. Ooniodontes, Qoniadontida;, and Uypostomi- 
=. . . dee are synonyms. 
3. In herpet., a region on the side of the head l or i ca rioid (lor-i-ka'ri-oid), a. and n. I. a. 
between the eye and the nostril, where certain Pertaining to the Loricariidte, or having their 
plates called lorals may be present. 4. In en- characters. 
U. n. A fish of the family Loricariida;; a lori- 
cated South American catfish. 
Also loricarian. 
Loricata (lor-i-ka'ta), n. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of 
L. loricatus, pp. of tor/care, clothe in mail, < 
loriea, a corselet, coat of mail : see loriea.] In 
zool., a name having various applications, (a) 
In mammal., the armadillos; the American mailed or 
loricate edentates, as one of five suborders of Jlmta or 
Edentata. They fall Into three families, Tatunida, Daty- 
1s.) Ori- 
Loricati. 
order of rep- 
tiles, the loricated saurlans, containing the crocodiles, 
alligators, and gavials, and corresponding to the modern 
order Crocodilia. (c) An order of choanoflagellate inf usori- 
ans, containing those which are loricate. E. It. Lanketter. 
Edentata. Theylau into tnree lamines, lammaae, JJQ 
podidae, and Chlamydophoridce. (See these words.) ( 
ginally named by Vlcq-d' Azyr (1792), in the form Loria 
(6) In Merrem's system of classification, an order of r 
(d) In iehth. : m A suborder of ganoid fishes. 
(2) Th 
. See Chan- 
e Cottoidea; gurnards or mail-cheeked 
drostei. ,_, 
acanthopterygian fishes. Also Loricati. Jenyns. (c) In 
conch., the coat-of-mail shells ; the polyplacophorous inol- 
And the Kyng of Hungarye is a gret Lord and a rayghty, Jojette (16-ref) n [F. (see def.): said to be SO lusks or chitons : so named from the overlapping plates 
and^holdethe grete Lardschippes ^Jf^^^^ <-llpd from their livinff at one time chieflvin the ol.M> e shell, which resemble a corselet (/)ln carcinot., 
What lands and lordships for their owner know 
My quondam barber. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, x. 856. 
3. The state or dignity of a lord or nobleman: 
chiefly {cap.], with his or your, as a title used in 
addressing or mentioning a nobleman, except 
a duke or an archbishop, who has the title of 
Grace (his or your). 4. In commerce, a royalty. 
The plan proposed of a fixed lordship or percentage on 
sales seems the only proposal which meets all the difficul- 
ties of the case. Nineteenth Century, XXII. 612. 
lordshipt, '. ' [ME. lordschipcn ; < lordship, n.] 
To exercise domination over. 
a division of macrurous decapod crustaceans, composed of 
: some of 
^ ie base of 
being dedicated to the the antennae, and passing through a peculiar larval stage 
Virgin Mary, who has this title from the site ^^BS^^SffST^lSS^K^ 
of a building at Loreto in Italy, called the ^' amArf i nIU8 orians and rotifers. 
Santa Casa ( r holy house'), and alleged to be l or icate (lor'i-kat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. loricated, 
, v;,,ri,,> a H wniii^cr n f Na^rpt h miraciilrmslv ppr i^c^ng, [< L. foricatus, pp. of loricare, 
clothe in mail, < loriea, a corselet, coat of mail : 
lord's-roomt (lordz'rom), n. 
a theater. 
The stage-box in 
He pours them out as familiarly as if he had . . . ta'en 
tobacco with them over the stage in the lordtroom. 
the Virgin's dwelling at Nazareth miraculously 
transported to Italy.] In French usage, a mem- ,,, ^ mail) N w , , tU) VU10C1CL , ui , . 
ber of the demi-monde. A lorette differs from a gee tonca.] To cover with any material that 
gritette only in living in a more showy style, and doing no 
work, being entirely supported by her admirers. 
Lorettine (16-re-ten' ), n. [< Loreto in Italy, with 
ref . to the Virgin Mary and her sanctuary at 
that place.] One of an order of nuns founded in 
Kentucky in 181 2. They are occupied with the edu- 
cation and care of destitute orphans. They labor chiefly 
in the Western States. Also called Sisten of Loreto, and 
Frietuls of Mary at the Foot of the Cross. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 1. lorgnette (16r-nyet'),. [F.,' 
lordswiket, . [ME., earlier loverdmcikt. larrrd- perhaps < G. dial. toreH,look 
serves as a protection or defense. See loriea. 
Therefore hath Nature loricated or plalstred over the 
Sides of the forementioned Hole (the Inner ear] with Ear- 
wax, to stop and entangle any Insects that should attempt 
to creep In. Ray, Works of Creation, U. 264. 
In the Mammalia the development of a dermal exoskel- 
eton Is exceptional, and occurs only In the loricated Eden- 
tata. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 42. 
FT, < tori/Her, spy, peep, loricate (lor'i-kat), a. and . [< L,. loricatus, 
at.] 1. Anopera- 
pp.: see the verb.] I. a. 1. Covered with de- 
. . ..e, < AS'. Mdfordswica, & betrayer of his lord, glass. 2. A lorgnon. fensive armor or with any defensive covering. 
a traitor, < hldford, lord, + swiai, betrayer, < lorgnon (16r'nyon; F. pron. 16r-ny6n'), . [F., 2. Consisting of overlapping plates ; having a 
moieau, betray.] One who is disloyal ; a traitor. < lorgner, spy : see lorgnette.] An eye-glass, or a pattern as of overlapping plates ; imbricated : 
