Old English | sb | English |
Lude | n | Noise, din, clamour. |
Luke | adj. | Moderately warm, tepid. 2. of persons, their actions, attributes: having little worth or depth; lacking enthusiasm candor; indifferent. |
Luke | vb | To make luke warm. |
Luke-hearted | adj | Having little warmth or feeling; indifferent. |
Luke-hot | adj | Not very hot; tepid. |
Lukely | adv | In a tepid or unenthusiastic manner or way. |
Lukeness | n | The state or quality of being tepid. 2. the action or attitude of lacking enthusiasm, candour, indifference. |
Lukewarm | adj | Moderately warm. 2. of persons, etc. having little warm or depth of feeling. 2. lacking zeal or enthusiasm, indifferent. |
Lukewarmish | adj | Somewhat or rather cool. 2. of attitude: having little feeling or warmth of feeling. |
Lukewarmly | adv | In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without enthusiasm. |
Lukewarmth | n | State or condition of being moderately warm. 2. lacking of feeling or depth. 3. zeal moderation or enthusiasm temperate. |
Luke-warmthness | n | State or condition of being lukewarm; lukewarmness. |
Lung | n. | Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood |
Lung-busting | adj | Exhausting, causing someone to be out of breath. |
Lung-butter | n | Thick, yellow mucus coughed up during illness. 2. thick, brown mucus coughed up due to habitual smoke inhalatiion. |
Lunged | adj | Furnished with lungs or something resembling lungs, as applied to human being, usually with a prefixed adjective, as 'weak-lunged'. |
Lungfish | n | A fresh water fish with lungs as well as gills. |
Lungful | adj | Enough to fill the lungs, esp. of smoke. |
Lung-grown | adj | Having lungs that adhere to the pleura. |
Lungless | n | Without lungs. |
Lung-lessness | n | An absence of lungs. |
Lung-like | adj | Resembling a lung with some aspect of one. |
Lung-pipe | n. | Trachea or windpipe. |
Lungsought | n. | Lung-woe, disease of the lung. |
Lung-woe | n. | Diseases of the lung; lung-sought. |
Lung-worm | n | (Angiostrongylus vasorum) a parasite that can cause serious health problems in dogs and can even be fatal if not diagnosed and treated. |
Lungwort | n | Pulmonaria officinalis, an eurasian plant with dark-coloured leaves spotted with white. |
Lungy | adj | affected with lung disease. |
Lure | n. | Loss, action or process of losing, or what is lost. 2. destruction, perdition, bring to lure or loss. |
Lust | n. | Pleasure, delight, appetite for pleasures. 2. a source of pleasure, joy or delight. 3. an attraction or charm. 4. liking, friendly inclination to a person. 5. desire, appetite, relish or inclination to something. 6. the lust one desires or wishes. 7. sexual appetite or desire. 8. degrading animal passion. 9. lawless passionate desire; over-masterly desire. 10. vigor, power, lusting, fertility. |
Lust | phr | "Lust After" - strong desire for, covet a woman, man, money, fame, glory. |
Luster | n | One who lusts. |
Lust-fiend | n | Devotee or addict to lust |
Lustful | adj | Having a strong or excessive desire for something. 2. vigorous, lusty. 3. full or characterized by lust. 4. pertaining to or characterized by lust. 5. sensual desire, libidinous. 6. powerful, strong |
Lustfulness | n | Condition or characteristic of being lustful. 2. full of libido; lust; pleasure, sensual delight. |
Lustfully | adj | In a lustful manner. |
Lust-greedy | adj. | Given to or overcome by excessive desire or lust, pleasure, sensual delight. |
Lustihood | n | Lustiness, vigor of body; sexual energy. 2. a state of pleasure or sensual delight. |
Lustily | adv | In a lusty, libido or vigorous manner. 2. pleasurably, sensually delightfully. |
Lustiness | n | Pleasure, sensual delight, vigour. 2. with great libido. |
Lusting | n | The having of a straong sexual sexual desire for someone. 2. having a strong desire for someone. |
Lustingly | adv | With lust, lustfully. |
Lustless | adj | Without or having no lust or sexual desire. 2. without sexual desire, vigor, or energy, listless. 3. without joyfulness, pleasure or delight. |
Lustlessly | adv | In a lustful manner. |
Lustlessness | n | The state or condition of being without lust; absence of lust. |
Lustmaking | n | Sexual intercourse solely for lust. |
Lust-murder | n | Murder accompanied by mutilation, often of a sexual nature. |
Lustsome | adj | Covetous, wilfully. |
Lust-wearied | adj. | Tired or exhausted sexually. |
Lustwort | n. | Round-leafed sundew; Drosera rotundfolia. |
Lusty | adj. | Driven or inclined to lust. 2. joyful, merry, lively. 3. pleasing, pleasant. 4. of persons, gaily dressed. 5. full of desire, desirous. 6. full of sexual desire, lustful. 7. full of healthy vigour, strong. 8. insolent, arrogant, self-confident. 9. of a fine wine, poison, disease: strong, powerful. 10. of a ship: sailing well. 11. of actions: vigorous. 12. of a meal: hearty, abundant. 13. massive, substantial, large. 14. of persons: massively built, hence corpulent. |
Lutter | adj. | Pure. |
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