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(16st), p.a. [Pp.of losel,v.] 1. Parted with unwillingly or by misadventure; not to be found; no longer held or po e ed; no longer kept in knowledge or remembrance: as, a lost book; a lost limb; a lost fortune. I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Ps. cxix. 176. Lore long dead, Lost to the hurrying world. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 9. 2. Not won or gained; mi ed: as, a lost prize; a lost chance. In the lost battle, borne down by the flying, Where mingles war’s rattle with groans of the dying! Scott, Marmion, vi. 32. 3. Not employed or enjoyed; not effectually or profitably used; mi pent; wasted: as, a lost day; a lost opportunity. Do you go back dismay’d? ’tis a lost fear; Man but a rush against Othello’s breast, And he retires. Shak., Othello, v. 2. 269. 4, Ruined; destroyed; consumed or wasted away, whether physically or morally: as, lost health; lost honor. Bring some good oil, pitch, and tar, and a good piece of an old cable to make oakum; for that which was sent is much Jost. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 454. She might be more disposed to feel a woman’s interest in the Jost girl. Dickens, David Copper field, xlvi. The shame Of a lost country and dishonoured name. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 255. 5, Spiritually ruined; abandoned morally; in theol., finally shut out from salvation or eternal life; damned: as, a lost soul. And now without redemption all mankind Must have been Jost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe, had not the Son of God... His dearest mediation thus renew’d. Milton, P. L., iii. 223. 6, Bewildered; absent-minded; absorbed: as, he looked about in a lost way. And there among the solitary downs, Full often Jost in fancy, lost his way. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. Lost cause, the cause of the overthrown Southern Confederacy. [U. 8.]—Lost motion, See motion.—Lost Sunday. See Sunday.—Lost to, insensible to; incapable of feeling: as, /ost to shame. The most vice-hardened men, although they are Jost to all other feeling, are often found to cherish a regard for the feelings of a mother. Bibliotheca Sacra, XLV. 7. =Syn. 1. Mi ing.—4 and 5, Shattered; overthrown; downfallen; depraved, abandoned, reprobate, profligate, incorrigible, shamele . hee lostet. An obsolete past participle of loose. losynget, ». An obsolete variant of lozenge. lot (lot),. [ Sp. Pg. lote) = F. lot, lot hledt, pl. hluton, pp. hloten) = OS. hliotan = OHG. liozan, MHG. liezen = feel. hijota = Goth. hliutan (not recorded), obtain by lot. Hence, through F., lottery and allot.] 1. A means of determining something by chance; anything (as dice, pieces of paper of different lengths or differently marked, so placed that these differences cannot be perceived) used to decide a choice, advantage, dispute, ete. See to cast lots, to draw lots, below. Each markt his Jot, and cast it in to Agamemnon’s caske. Chapman, liad, vii. 2. That which is determined or a igned by lot; that which one gets by the drawing or casting of lots, or by some other fortuitous method; a chance allotment, share, or portion, as of land, money, service, ete. And all that fell in Robyn’s Jote He smote them wonder sare. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child’s Ballads, V. 114). Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot;... and I likewise will go up with thee into thy lot. Judges i. 3. His Jot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. Luke i. 9. 8. Share or portion in life allotted in any casual way; station or condition determined by the chances of life; fortune; destiny: as, the lot of the poor. Such is the Jot of all that deal in public affairs, whether of church or commonwealth. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 14. The lots of glorious men are wrapt in mysteries, And so deliver’d. Fletcher (and another), Prophete , i. 3. 4. Any distinct part or parcel; a portion or part separated from others of the same kind: as, a lot of goods; a lot of furniture. Specifically —5,. A portion or parcel of land; any piece of land divided off or set apart for a particular use or purpose: as, a building-lot; a pasture-lot; all that lot, piece, or parcel of ground (a formula in legal instruments). In the phrase “lot, piece, or parcel of land,” Jot implies nothing as to the size of the tract, but when used alone it commonly denotes a small tract, such as a building-site. But it may include any legal subdivision of land. Thus, a quarter quarter-section (40 acres), being a legal subdivision and as such marked as a lot of ground, is held a “lot” within the meaning of a homestead exemption law exempting “ the lot of ground and the buildings thereon, occupied as a residence and owned by the debtor.” This report a igns a Jot for the maintenance of public schools in every township; another lot for the purposes of religion. Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 111. 6. (a) Proportion or share of taxes. (bt) Tribute; toll. In Englond he arered a lote Off iche house that comes smoke, MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, £..99. (Hailliwell.) (c) In mining, dues to the lord of the manor for ingre and egre . [Proy.Eng.]—7. A large or considerable number or amount; a great deal: as, a lot of people: often used in the plural (and the plural even as an adverb, meaning ‘a great deal’): as, he has lots of money. [Colloq.] A great lot of evil spirits. C. Mather, Mag. Chris. (Bartlett.) That’s a big lot of money. Tennyson, Queen Mary, ii. 3. 8}. pl. A game formerly played with roundels on which short verses were written: used as a singular.—9. The shoot of atree. [Prov.Eng.] —Acro lots, cro lots, See acro , cro 1, prep.—City lot, in the United States, a rectangular plot of ground 25 feet wide and 100feet long, these being the most common dimensions of the separate parcels of ground in American cities. It is commonly taken in such towns as a unit of land measures.—Job lot, See job2 (b).—Lot of ground, See def. 5.—Lot system, in the law of registration of land titles, the system which records all known lots within the district, and registers or indexes each conveyance or encumbrance in connection with every lot it affects, so that an inspection of the record shows each lot separately, together with all instruments affecting it: distinguished from the block system, or the record together of all instruments affecting any of the lots in a block —that is, any area, exclusive of highway, which is bounded by highways, leaving the searcher to form his own opinion as to whether a particular lot is affected or not.—Scot and lot, See scot. —To cast in one’s lot with or among, to share the fortunes of (another or others), Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse. Prov. i, 14. To cast lots, to throw some object, as a die, for the purpose of determining by the manner of its fall some choice, a question in dispute, etc. Lotes did the i kast, for whom the i had that wo. Rob. of Brunne, p. 124. And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots. Mat, xxvii. 35. To draw lots, to draw or take from an urn or some other place of concealment pieces of paper, or straw, etc., variously marked or of different lengths, for the purpose of determining, by the accident of drawing, some choice or question, 3524 Let’s draw lots who shall begin. Shak., A. and C., ii. 6. 63. Vacant lot, a plot of ground on which there is no building; particularly, a small unoccupied lot among others that are built upon, in a town or city.=Syn. 3. Hap, destiny, fate, doom, allotment.