loosestrife

(lés’str if), n. [ strife; translating the Gr. name Avow way i a, Avoi- \ Ba xwov (> L, lysi- “a machi a), loosestrife: see Lysimachia.| In bot., the English popular name of seyeral species of plants, chiefly of the genera Lysimachiaand Lythrum. Along the Wall kill the spiked loosestrife, a tall, downy weed, with large, purple flowers, has long been common. J. Burroughs, (The Century, [XX. 99. Loosestrife (Lystmachta quadrifolia). Common loose- I, upper part of the stem with the flowers; gtrife Lysima- 2, LK part, showing the rhizome; a, flowchia vulgar is or er; it, RP Lythrum Salicaria. [Great Britain.]|— False loosestrife, a plant of the genus Ludwigia.— Golden or yellow loosestrife, Lysimackia vulgar is.— Purple or spiked loosestrife, Lythrum Salic art a.—Swamp-loosestrife, Neswa verticil lat a.—Tufted loosestrife, Lysimachia thyrsijflora.— West Indian loosestrife, Ju icea suffruticosa. loose-work (lés’wérk),. An old style of embroidery in which parts were left free to moye, as the leaves of a tree represented in the work, and attached by one side or one point only. loot (lét), ». [