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- English Word Loth Definition Alt. of Lothsome
- English Word Lothario Definition A gay seducer of women; a libertine.
- English Word Lothly Definition Alt. of Lothsome
- English Word Lothsome Definition See Loath, Loathly, etc.
- English Word Lotion Definition A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.
- English Word Lotion Definition A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.
- English Word Loto Definition See Lotto.
- English Word Lotong Definition An East Indian monkey (Semnopithecus femoralis).
- English Word Lotophagi Definition A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.
- English Word Lotos Definition See Lotus.
- English Word Lotos-eater Definition One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.
- English Word Lotted Definition of Lot
- English Word Lotteries Definition of Lottery
- English Word Lottery Definition A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.
- English Word Lottery Definition Allotment; thing allotted.
- English Word Lotting Definition of Lot
- English Word Lotto Definition A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.
- English Word Loture Definition See Lotion.
- English Word Lotus Definition A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.
- English Word Lotus Definition The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.