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[Fr. loc he.] Ichthyology : IMG:content-0654.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To place or set a load upon or in; to charge with a load; to supply with a load or cargo. "I strive all in vaine to lode the cart when it raineth." -Gas coigne: To Lord Gray of Will on. 2. To weigh down; to be a burden, load, or weight upon; to oppre . "Its ebb he measured by a book, Whose iron volume loaded his huge hand." Scott: Vision of Don Roderick , xv. 3. To encumber; to bestow or provide for in great abundance. "The army which beseiged it (consisting of Catti Vsipij and Matiaci) was alreadie departed away loaden with spoiles."- Savile : Tacitus ; Hist ., p. 158. 4. To make heavy. "In autumn, Jove his fury pours, And earth is loaden with ince ant showers." Pope : Homer's Iliad , xvi. 476. IMG:content-0655.png:[blocks in formation] ; 5. To make heavy by something added or ap6. To place a charge in; to charge, as a gun. "His musketeers had still to learn how to load their pieces."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiv. 7. To crowd, to fill to overflowing. "When loaded cribs their evening banquet yield." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, x. 486. *8. To magnetize, by bringing into contact with loadstone. "Great kings to wars are pointed forth, Like loaded needles, to the north." IMG:content-0656.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small] "Yes! 'twas sublime, but sad. The loneline Loaded thy heart; the desert tired thine eye." Scott : Lord of the Isles , iv. 1. 2. To heap; to abuse in exce ; as, to load a man with insults. 1. To load dice : To make one side heavier than the other, so as to cause the die to fall with that side downward. *2. To load wine : To drug, adulterate, or hocus wine. lõad-er, s . [Eng. load ; -er.] One who or that which loads; spec if., a machine attached to a wagon, as a hay-loader or stone-loader. In the former case, it is an endle traveling apron on a truck, trailing behind the wagon and carrying up the hay collected by a rake. "The French man did it out of covetousne , that so two loaders might bring double grist to his mill."-Fuller: Worthies; Cornwall . (2) The group or sub-family Cobitidina. Mouth surrounded by six or more barbels; dorsal fin short or of moderate length: anal fin short; scales small, rudimentary, or entirely absent; pharyngeal teeth in a single series, in moderate number; air-bladder partly or entirely inclosed in a bony capsule; verb.) pseudo-branch iæ, none. ne. ( Günther.) load (1), *lode, s. [LOAD, v.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or carried. (2) The amount, weight, or quantity which a person or animal can carry; as much as can be carried at a time by a person or animal, or in a ship, vehicle, or other mode of conveyance. (3) That which is borne with difficulty; a heavy weight; a burden. (4) The charge of a firearm. 2. Figuratively : (1) That which oppre es, hinders or grieves; a burden, an incumbrance, a weight. (2) A quantity of food or drink as much as can be borne. "There are those who can never sleep without their load , nor enjoy one easy thought, till they have laid all their cares to rest with a bottle."-L'Estrange. *(3) Weight or violence, as of blows. "Like lion mov'd they laid on load , And made a cruel fight." II. Technically : Chevy Chase. 1. Mach .: The amount of work done by an engine tion of ve els, . Lloyd's-bond, s . 1. A form of security devised by John Horatio Lloyd, for enabling corporate bodies, whose powers of borrowing money are regulated and limited by with duty. 2. Min .: The quantity of nine dishes of ore, each dish being about half a cwt. load-line, s. Naut .: The same as LOAD WATER-LINE (q. v.). lõad-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [LOAD, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the C. As substantive : IMG:content-0657.png:[blocks in formation] *loads-man, *lodes-man, s. [A. S. ládman = a leader, from lád =course.] One who leads the way; a pilot. lõad-star, lōde'-star, *lode-sterre, s . [Icel. leidhar- stjerna , from leidhar (gen it. of leidh )=a way, and stjarna a star; Sw. led -stjerna; Ger. leit -stern.] 1. Lit .: A star which serves to lead or guide; spec if., the pole-star. 2. Fig .: Anything which guides or attracts. "Your eyes are lodestars." IMG:content-0658.jpg:[blocks in formation] "The power to draw to itself, like the loadstone, Whatsoever it touches." Long fellow: Miles Standish, vi. marine; gō, põt, pine, pit, sire, sir, IMG:content-0659.png:[blocks in formation] loan-society, s. A society or a ociation estab- lished for the purpose of advancing money on loan to the working cla es, to be repaid with interest by instalments. loan-word, s. (For definition, see extract.) "Loan-words are common to all dialects. No people can have near neighbors without receiving something IMG:content-0660.png:[blocks in formation] "If thy strong loam superfluous wet retain, Lead through thy fields the subterraneous drain." Scott : Amœæbæan Eclogues , 2. institutions, and these, almost inevitably, are adopted under their foreign names. The French have taken 'meeting' and 'turf' from us, together with the ideas which they denote. We have had in return 'naive' and "The mason-lads that built the lang dike that gaes down the loaning ."- Scott ; Antiquary , ch. iv. 3. A green sward on which cows are milked. lõan, v . t . & i 10-a-sa, s . [Named by Adanson, who did not explain the reason why.] Bot .: The typical genus of the order Loasaceæ. The stigma is trifid, the capsules open by three valves at their summits. The species are found in Chili and Peru. lō-a-sā-çëæ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. loas (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceæ .] lō-a-sădş, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. loas (a): Eng. pl. suff. -ads .] Bot.: The name given by Lindley to the order Loasacee (q. v.). lō-ā-se-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. loas (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ .] "Ich was him loth . "-Owl and Nightingale , 1,088. 2. Unwilling, averse, reluctant; filled with aver- sion. "The day, as thou seest, is very far spent, and we are loath to-night to go any farther."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. ii. 1. To feel disgust at; to be disgusted at or with; to abhor; especially to feel nausea or an extreme aversion to food. "My idle greyhound loathes his food." Scott: Lady of the Lake, vi, 24. 2. To dislike greatly; to hate. "The Whigs loathed it as servile; the Jacobites loathed "It may loathe the sense of every man." Peele: David and Beths a be. *2. To feel nausea, disgust, or abhorrence; to hate, to abhor. "The Egyptians shall lot he to drink of the water."- Exodus vii. 18. lõather, s. [English loath (e); -er.] One who loathes. lõath-ful, *lot he-full, *loth-full, a. loath , and ful ( 1 ) .) 1. Full of loathing; abhorring, hating. "Which when he did with lothfull eyes behold." Spenser: Mother Hubberds Tale. IMG:content-0661.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Anything thick and heavy. 3. A lobworm. With torch-staves in their hands: and their poor jades Lob down their heads." Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. 2. IMG:content-0662.png:[blocks in formation] lobaric-acid, s. Chem.: C17H1605, a colorle resinoid acid extracted from the lichen, Lobaria adusta . It crystallizes in thin plates, and resembles a crystalline resin in many of its properties, and in its degree of solubility in different menstrua. Its ammoniacal solution is colorle , but on exposure to the air it becomes rose-red, and dries up to an amorphous violet brown ma , resembling in tint the thallus of the lichen which yields it.