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- English Word Lexicon Definition A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
- English Word Lexiconist Definition A writer of a lexicon.
- English Word Lexigraphic Definition Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.
- English Word Lexigraphy Definition The art or practice of defining words; definition of words.
- English Word Lexiphanic Definition Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.
- English Word Lexiphanicism Definition The use of pretentious words, language, or style.
- English Word Lexipharmic Definition See Alexipharmic.
- English Word Ley Definition To lay; to wager.
- English Word Ley Definition Law.
- English Word Ley Definition See Lye.
- English Word Ley Definition Grass or meadow land; a lea.
- English Word Ley Definition Fallow; unseeded.
- English Word Leyden jar Definition Alt. of Leyden phial
- English Word Leyden phial Definition A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.
- English Word Leyser Definition Leisure.
- English Word Leze majesty Definition Any crime committed against the sovereign power.
- English Word Lherzolite Definition An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).
- English Word Li Definition A Chinese measure of distance, being a little more than one third of a mile.
- English Word Li Definition A Chinese copper coin; a cash. See Cash.
- English Word Li bella Definition A small balance.