lot 
it pi hluton, pp. hloten) = OS. hliotan = 
OHG. liosan, MHG. Uezen = Icel. Mjota =Goth. 
Mi/ta (not recorded), obtain by lot. Hence, 
through F., lottery and allot.'] I. A means of 
It contains the 
ferences cannot be perceived) used to 
choice, advantage, dispute, etc. See to cast tote, 
to draw lots, below. 
Bach markt his lot, and cast it in to Agamemnon's caske. 
Chapman, Iliad, vn. 
2 That which is determined or assigned by lot ; 
that which one gets by the drawing or casting 
of lots, or by some other fortuitous method ; a 
chance allotment, share, or portion, as of land, 
money, service, etc. 
And all that fell in Robyn's late 
3524 lott 
Lett*.* A* who shall begin fin and perfect ventral fins. 
SAaAr., A. and C., ii. 6. 63. burbots and lings. . 
Vacant lot a plot of ground on which there is no build- lotine (16'tin), a. and . [< Lota* + -IM L . J I. 
in* particularly, a small unoccupied lot among others ff Having the characters of a burbot or ling, 
that are built upon, in a town or city. =Syn. 3. Hap, de . Qf or perta j n i n g to the LotincE. 
ttted nor lottina II. " A fish of the subfamily Lotinas. 
'SUX3& i^/lgjKtf &J<TiSal 
larntio(n-), a washing, < taware, lavatus, lautns, 
lotus, wash: see taw 2 , 0.] 1. A washing; par- 
ticularly, a washing of the skin. 2. A fluid 
preparation, wash, or cosmetic applied to the 
. ., ,_. of t]ae fac6; for t he 
Your brother Lorel's prize ! for so my largess 
Hath lotted her to be. 
B. Jmwon, Sad Shepherd, ii. 1. 
II. intrans. To cast lots. 
cxr 
3. In ptiar., a liquid holding in solution va- 
rious medicinal substances, applied externally 
to stimulate action, to relieve pain, etc. 
' r ' Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 216. 
To lot upon, to count upon ; look forward to with plea- 
sure: as, I lotted upon going to town. [New Eng.] loto 1 , . See lotto. 
A,,a au urn- u ... .,.. . ~~ Lota* (16'ta), n. [NL < OF. lote, a pout: see loto<2 (16 , t6)( _ Another form 
He smote them wonder sare. lotcS.1 A genus of gadoid fishes of an elongate L t phagi (16-tof'a-ji), n. pi. [L., < Gr. Auro- 
Lytell Geate of Kobyn Bode (Child's Ballads, v. 1M). ghape ^^ v imf orra teeth on the jaws and vo- ifa lotus-eaters,"< fasrk, lotus, + Qayuv, eat.] 
.ludah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me merj typical of the subfamily Lotinte. The bur- The lotus-eaters; in Gr. legend, especially as 
,nto niy lot; ... and I likewise will go up with thee i fe . L macu i osa jg a n example. See cut under ; j t he Odyssey, the name of a people who 
>-'"' Jna esi. a. > ~ ^ n. _;. _ U. j. _u^ +!, *,,<, _ 
lota 2 , lotah (lo't'a), n. [Also tofe>; E ; Ind.] A 
thyfo: Judges! 
His lot was to burn incense when he went into the tem- 
ple of the Lord. Luke > 9 - 
3. Share or portion in life allotted in any casual 
way; station or condition determined by the 
chances of life; fortune; destiny: as, the lot of 
the poor. 
Such is the lot of all that deal in public affairs, whether 
of church or commonwealth. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 14. 
The lots of glorious men are wrapt in mysteries, 
And so deliver'd. 
ate the fruit of a plant called the lotus, con- 
jecturally identified with various plants which 
globular or melon-shaped pot, usually of pol- nave borne that name. Those of the followers of 
r_i-- j i A ; +i,ft T?ocf Tnrlioa f nr firs/wine'' Odysseus or Ulysses who ate of it are described as being 
rendered forgetful of theirfriends and unwilling to return 
ished brass, used in the East Indies for drawing 
water, drinking, and ablutions. 
The dismayed sirdar found the head of a fourth [kitten] 
jammed in the neck of his sacred lotah, wherewith he per- 
forms his pious ablutions every morning at the ghaut. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 311. 
rendered forgi - 
to their own land. In historical times a people known 
under the name of Lotophagi lived on the northern coast 
of Africa in Tripoli, and on the island of Meninx (Loto- 
phagitis, modern Jerba) in Tunis. See lotus, 1, and lotus- 
loteM (lot), v. i. [ME. loten, lotien, < AS. lutian, lotor (16'tor), n. [NL., < L. lavare, pp. lotus, 
lurk (= OHG. luzen, MHG. luzen, lie hidden, wash: see lave 2 , lotion.] The washer: 
_ . * . . * _ _ T j-i i m,. i . . ..i- . - - ~ 
, ,. v T_ u * 10 lUTK (= Uxlljr. luzctt. IYLXIUT. vwivn. no UIWJA,**, wasu; set? nt ;&-* n/cn/^.j j.i*v, 
Fletcher (and another), Prophetess,!. 3. lurk) V < ^^ s toop, lout : see tol.] To lurk; nation, both specific and generic, of the Ameri- 
lie hidden. 
He fond this holy olde Urban anon 
Among the seintes buriels lotinge. 
Chaucer, Second Nun's Tale, 1. 186. 
For outlawes in the wode and vnder banke lotyeth. 
Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 102. 
[< F. lote = Sp. Pg. It. toto, < L. 
lotus,\ Gr. /umif, lotus: see lotus."] Lotus. 
can racoon, Procyon lotor, from its habit of 
dipping its food in water before eating it. 
lotos (lo'tos), n. Same as lotus. 
lotted (lot'ed), p. a. Having a (specified) lot 
or fortune. [Rare.] 
Some sense, and more estate, kind heaven 
To this well lotted peer has given. 
Prior, The Ladle, Moral. 
A witch ; a fortune- 
This report . . . assigns a lot for the maintenance of 
public schools in every township ; another lot for the pur- 
poses of religion. Bancroft, Hist. Const, II. 111. 
6. (a) Proportion or share of taxes, (if) Trib- 
ute; toll. 
In Englond he arered a lote 
OfficF " ' 
4. Any distinct part or parcel; a portion or part 
separated from others of the same kind: as, a 
lot of goods; a lot of furniture. Specifically 
5. A portion or parcel of land; any piece of 
land divided off or set apart for a particular use 
or purpose: as, a building-to<; a pasture-to*; all 
that lot, piece, or parcel of ground (a formula in I te 2 (lot), n. 
legal instruments). In the phrase "lot, piece, or par- lotus, (. Gr. A 
bu 1 t whe n n d use < cl atoncTt common" denotel'a small tact" As regards personal considerations, we were to abstain lot-teller+ (lot'tel'er), n, 
division of land. Thus.'a quarter quarter-section (40 acres), R - f - Surton > El-Medin , p. 8 . witches, in foretime named lot-tellers, now commonly 
being a legal subdivision and as such marked as a lot of l o te 3 (lot), n. [< OF. lote, F. lotte = Sp. tote called sorcerers. 
ground, is held a "lot" within the meaning of a home- f ML total a DOut 1 A gadoid fish, the burbot. A. MaunseU, Catalogue of English Printed Books >(1596). 
stead exemption law exempting " the lot of ground and the y r jTi [(inej/e. Diet.) 
,n, occupied as a residence and owned by jgjjjg^ , ^ [NL . (A , p. de f^AM*, lotter y ( l ot 'e-ri), n. ; pi. lotteries (-riz). [= D. 
1825), < Lotus + -ete.~] A tribe of leguminous totery = G. lottene = I>an. bw. lotten . bp. lo 
plants, typified by the genus Lotus, distinguish- 
ed by their pinnate five- to many-foliate leaves 
with entire leaflets, and capitate, umbellate, or 
rarely solitary flowers. The tribe embraces 8 
genera of herbs or suffrutescent plants, 
lote-busb. (lot'bush), n. The small tree Zieyphus 
Lotus. Same as lotus-tree, 1. Also lote-tree. 
n. [Also lutby, Indby; < ME. loteby (pi. 
< lote*. + by 1 .] A concubine. 
And with me folwith my loteby 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 6339. 
lote-fruit (lot'frot), . Lotus-fruit; especial- 
ly, the product of Zizyphus Lotus. See lotus- 
That's a big lot of money. Tennyson, Queen Mary, ii. 3. lote-tree (lot'tre), n. [< lote"*, .,+ tree.] Same 
8t. pi. A game formerly played with roundels as lotus-tree, 1. 
on which short verses were written: used as a Oh ! what are the brightest [flowers] that e'er have blown 
singular. 9. The shoot of a tree. [Prov.Eng.] To the lote-tree, springing by Alla's throne, 
-Across lots, cross lots. See across, crossl, prep. -City Whose flowere have a soul in every leaf? 
10t,inthel T nitedStates,arectangularplotofground25feet Haore, Lalla Rookh, Paradise and the Peri. 
wideandlOOfeetlong.thesebeingthemostcommondimen- loth. 1 a and n See loath. 
sionsof the separate parcels of ground in American cities, ^,.^.^.2'^nt^ Cft Innd a wpwlit F, lentil ~\ 
It is commonly taken in such towns as a unit of land- lOin/ 5 (lot), n. l. lead, a weignt, _ Xi.tei 
measures. Job lot See joW (&). Lot of ground. See A German unit of weight, varying in different 
def. 6. Lot system, in the law of registration of land- localities from 225 to 270 grains troy, 
titles, the system which records all known lots within the Lotharingian (16-tha-rin'ji-an), a. and n. [< 
Lotharingia (G. Lotkfingen, F. Lorraine) + -an.] 
c) In mining, dues to the lord of the manor for 
ingress and egress [Prov.Eng.]-?. Alargeor 
considerable number or amount ; a great deal : 
as, a lot of people : often used in the plural (and 
the plural even as an adverb, meaning ' a great 
deal'): as, he has tote of money. [Colloq.] 
A great lot of evil spirits. 
C. Mather, Mag. Chris. 
teria = Pg. loteria, < F. loterie, lottery, a lot- 
tery, < lot, lot, share: see lot, n.] 1. Distri- 
bution of anything by lot ; allotment ; also, the 
drawing of lots; determination by chance or 
fate ; random choice ; matter of chance : as, 
the lottery of life. 
Ajax. Who shall answer him ? 
Achil. I know not : it is put to lottery. 
Shak., T. and C., ii. 1. 140. 
Knowledge and improvements are to be got by sailing and 
posting for that purpose ; but whether useful knowledge 
and real improvements, is all a lottery. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 14. 
2. A scheme for raising money by selling 
chances to share in a distribution of prizes; 
more specifically, a scheme for the distribution 
of prizes by chance among persons purchasing 
tickets, the correspondingly numbered slips, 
or lots, representing prizes or blanks, being 
drawn from a wheel on a day previously an- 
nounced in connection with the scheme of in- 
tended prizes. In law the term lottery embraces all 
schemes for the distribution of prizes by chance, such as 
policy-playing, gift^exhibitions, prize-concerts, raffles at 
fairs, etc., and includes various forms of gambling. Most 
an inspection of the record shows each lot separately, I. a. Of or pertaining to Lotharingia or Lor- 
together with all instruments affecting it : distinguished raine, an ancient duchy and later a province of 
France. It is now divided between France and 
Germany. 
II. n. A native of Lotharingia or Lorraine. 
See Lorrainer. 
Lothario (lo-tha'ri-6), n. [In allusion to Loflia- 
rio (called in one place "the gay Lothario"), 
a character in Rowe's play, " The Fair Peni- 
tent." The name Lothario is an Italianized 
form of OHG. Hlodhari, Lwlheri, G. Luther (> 
OF. Ludhers), AS. Hlothhere.] A jaunty liber- 
tine; a gay deceiver ; a rake. 
...j. ofBrunne, p. 124. lothet, An obsolete form of loathe. 
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lothflllt, lotb.lin.eS8t, etc. Obsolete forms of 
lots. Mat. xxvii. 36. loathful, etc. 
To draw lots, to draw or take from an urn or some other LotinSB (lo-ti'ne), w. pi. [NL.,< Lota* + -in/I'.] 
mfsl 6 maA^^r m of n different le? a ?ns' for'lhT' u^os^of A s ubf amily of gadoid fishes, typified by the 
determining, by the accident of drawing, some P choi'c<' or genus Lota, with two dorsal fins (a short antf- 
question. rior and a long posterior one), a single long anal 
from the block system, or the record together of all instru- 
ments affecting any of the lots in a block that is, any area, 
exclusive of highway, which is bounded by highways, leav- 
ing the searcher to form his own opinion as to whether a 
particular lot is affected or not. Scot and lot. See scot. 
To cast in one's lot with or among, to share the for- 
tunes of (another or others). 
Cast in thy lot aiiioivj us ; let us all have one purse. 
Prov. 1. 14. 
To cast lots, to throw some object, as a die, for the 
purpose of determining by the manner of its fall some 
choice, a question in dispute, etc. 
Lotes did the! kast, for whom thei had that wo. 
, ., 
of the governments of the continent of Europe have at 
different periods raised money for public purposes by 
means of lotteries ; and a small sum was raised in Amer- 
ica during the Revolution by a lottery authorized by the 
Continental Congress. Both state and private lotteries 
have been forbidden by law in Great Britain and in nearly 
all of the United States, Louisiana and Kentucky being 
the two notable exceptions. 
He [man] comes not into the world, nor he comes not to 
the Sacrament, as to a lottery, where perchance he may 
draw salvation. Donne, Sermons, iv. 
Lotteries, at this period common in all New England, 
had become a favorite resort for raising money to support 
government, carry on wars, build churches, construct 
roads, or endow colleges. S. Jttdd, Margaret, i. 6. 
3f. The lot or portion falling to one's share ; a 
chance allotment or prize. 
Octavia is 
A blessed lottery to him. 
Shale., A. and C., ii. 2. 248. 
4. A children's picture or print. [Prov. Eng.] 
lotto, loto 1 (lot'6, 16'to), n. [It. lotto, lot, lot- 
tery: see lot, .] 1. A game played with disks 
and cards. Each disk has one number on it, and each 
card several numbers in lines. The disks are drawn from 
a bag, the number on each is called, and the correspond- 
