lilalite

[Etym. doubtful.] Min.: The same as LEPIDOLITE (q. v.). lil-i-ā-çě- æ, s. pl. [Lat. lil i (um); fem. pl. adj. suff.- ace a.] Bot .: Lilyworts; an order of Endogens founded by Linnæus in 1751, and still retained. It is the typical order of the alliance Liliales. It consists of herbaceous plants, shrubs, or trees, with bulbe, tubers, rhizomes, or fibrous roots; leaves generally narrow, with parallel veins; flowers large and showy, to small and green, with all intermediate gradations; calyx and corolla confounded, both colored, sometimes cohering into a tube; stamens six, inverted into the perianth; the anthers opening inward; ovary free, three celled; fruit succulent, dry, or capsular. Seeds one above another, in one or two rows. Many of the species are very beautiful. They are widely diffused, being, however, more common in temperate than in tropical countries; those belonging to the latter region being often arborescent. Some are eaten; many yield fibers capable of being spun; others are used medicinally; some yield resins, some are poisonous. ( Lindley .) Known genera 170, species about 1,500. ( Sir Joseph Hooker.) Lindley divides the order into eleven tribes: Tulipew, Hemerocallese. Aloinee. Scilleæ, Conantherese, Anthericem, Aphyllanthese, Wachendorfeæ, As parageæ, Aspidistreæ, and Ophiopo gonem. 111-1-ā-çě-ous (or ceo us as shus), a. [Latin liliaceus , from lilium =a lily.) Pertaining to lilies or the Liliacese; like a lily. 111-1-al, a. [LILIALES.] Bot .: Of or belonging to the alliance Liliales, the typical order Liliaceæ, or its typical genus Lilium. 111-1-a-lēş, s. pl . [Masc. and fem. pl. of Mod. Lat. lilial ( is ) , from Lat. lilium =a lily.] Bot.: The Lilial alliance. It consists of hypogynous, bisexual, hex a petaloid endogens, with copious albumen. Lindley includes under it the orders Gillies i aceæ, Melanthaceæ, Liliacese, and Pontederacem (q. v.). 111-1-e-sæ, s. pl. [Lat. lil i (um); fem. pl. adj. suff.ee.] Bot.: A tribe of Liliacem, type Lilium. The styles are combined or the stigma se ile, the capsule loculicidal, the testa various, the radicle next the hilum. 111-led, *111-lied, a. [Eng. lily ; -ed.] Full of or covered with lilies. "Nymphs and shepherds dance no more By sandy Ladon's lilied banks." Milton Arcades. LII-I-put, Lil-li-put, s . & a. [See def.] A. As subst.: The name of an imaginary country in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which were pigmies. "Watchful against impending harms All Lilliput cried out, 'To arms!'" Lloyd: Charity; A Fragment. B. As adj .: Lil i put i an. LIl-1-pū-tian, Lil-li-pu-tian, a. & s. [Eng. Liliput; -ian.] A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to Liliput; pigmy, small, pigmean. B. As substantive: 1. A native of Liliput (q. v.). 2. A person of very diminutive size; a pigmy. lilium 1. Ord. Lang .: A word transliterated and adopted from the Hebrew by Henderson, following the example of Aquila, Van der Paim, and de Wette. The LXX. translate it by onokentauroi , the Vulgate by lamia, and most moderns by "screech-owl. Восhart, Gesenius, Rosenmüller, and Hitzig are of the same opinion as Newman. [Etym.] (See also Cheyne: Proph. of Isaiah , xxxiv. 14.) [LAMIA, [.] "There also the lilith shall rest, And find for herself a place of repose." E. Henderson: Isaiah xxxiv. 14. 2. Folk -lore : According to Talmudic tradition, Lilith was Adam's first wife, who for her refractory conduct was transformed into a demon endowed with power to injure and destroy infants unprotected by the nece ary amulet. ( Hershon : Tal mudic Misc .. p. 9.) (See also Buxtorf, Lex . Talm ., s. v.; Burton, Anat. Mel. (edition 1881), p. 116.) [LAMIA.] "It was Lilith , the wife of Adam Not a drop of her blood was human, But she was made like a soft, sweet woman." D. G. Ro etti: Eden Bower. 111-1-ŭm, s . [Lat. lilium; Gr.leirion=a lily.] Bot.: A genus of Liliaceæ, tribe Tulipeæ ( Lind ley ), the typical genus of the tribe Liliese ( Sir J. Hooker ). Bulb of many imbricated fleshy scales; leaves all cauline, not sheathing, alternate or whorled; flowers few or many, large, solitary, erect, or drooping; perianth-segments free, caducous, erect below, recurved or revolute above; nectary median elongate; stamens hypogynous or in the base of the segments; filaments subulate; anthers versatile, bursting inward; ovary six-grooved; style terete; stigma obtuse. Fruit capsular, erect, soods many, in two series. Known species forty, all from the north temperate zone. Lilium martagon , the Martagon or Turk's cap lily, which has pale purple or white flowers, is naturalized in Surrey, England; its native country is Continental Europe. L. pyrenaicum is a garden escape in Devons hire. Lilium candidum is the White or Bourbon lily, from the Levant; L. croceum is the Yellow lily, from Germany; L.japonicum is the Japan lily; L. chalcedonicum [LILY, 2] is the Scarlet Martagon lily, from the Levant; L. pomponium is the Scarlet Pompone lily, from Siberia; L. bulbiferum is the Bulb-bearing or Orange lily, from Italy; L. super bum is the Superb Martagon lily, of North America; and L.tigrinum is the Tiger or Tiger-spotted lily from China. The finest of all is a Japanese species, L. auratum. It is two to five feet high, flowers, which are white with purple blotches, being sometimes a foot acro . The smell is perceived at a distance. The bulbs of L. wallichianum, an Indian have demulcent properties, and are used in pectoral complaints. L. pomponium is cultivated in Kamtchatka for its roots, which are roasted and eaten. 111-11-bul-lërō, 111-11-bür-lër-ō, s . [Said to have been a word of distinction used by the Irish Papists in their ma acres of the Protestants in 1641.] The refrain and name of a song, written by Lord Wharton, which contributed in no little degree to the revolution of 1688. "One of the characteristics of the good old soldier is his trick of whistling Lillibullero ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. ix.