Lot

lot, n. That which happens without human de- sign or forethought; chance; hazard; fortune; a contrivance to determine a question by chance; part, or fate, which falls to one by chance; separate portion belonging to one person a distinct parcel, separate part; distmctportion of land; quantity or large number. — v. To allot, a ign to separate into lots or parcels, a ort. [AS. Mot, hlyt, hleotan, to cast lots, Goth, hlauts, OHG. hloz. a lot.] — Lofo, Lot'- to, n. A game played with cards marked with numbers, and balls or knobs numbered to correspond keno. [F. loto. lotto, a lot, lottery, OHG. hloz.] — Lot'tery, -ter-I, n. A distribution of anything by lot or chance; esp. a gambling scheme, in which certain tickets draw prizes and the rest are blanks. Lote, lot, Lo'tus, -tos, n. A shrub of N. Africa and S. Europe, of several genera, o n e of which prob. furnished the food of Homer's lotus-eaters, and was fabled to make strangers forget their native land; the nettle tree; Lotus. (Arch.) or ink, then, boNboN, chair get. 350 LOTH 332 an Egyptian water-lily of several species; a legumi nous clover-like^ plant. (Arch.) An ornament ornament inii the form of the Egyptian water- [L. lotus, Gr lotos, name of several plants.] Loth. Same as Loath.