luzula, lu ciola

[From Ital. lucciola = a glowworm, which the heads of flowers, wet with dew and sparkling by moonlight, feebly resemble. (Sir J. E. Smith.)] Bot.: Wood-rush; a genus of Juncacce (Rushes). It has soft, plane, generally hairy leaves, a glumaceous perianth of six leaves, and a one-celled, three valved ca capsule with three seeds. About forty are known, all from temperate or cold climates. -lỹ, suff . [See def. O. H. Ger. lih ; Goth. leiks ; Ger. lich ; Dut. lijk ; Icel. likr , legr .] [LIKE, a .] A common adjectival and adverbial ending in English. As an adjectival ending, as in man- ly , it represents the A. S. -lic like; as an adverbial ending, as in splendid- ly , the A. S. lice . *ly-am, s . [LEAM.] Aleash for holding hounds. "In a pyde lyam leading forth his hound." Drayton: Poems, p. 21. ly-art, *ly-arde, a. [O. Fr. liard.] [LIART.) Of a mixed color; gray, gray-haired. *lyb-icke, *lib-ýck, a . [Lat. Libycus .] Of or pertaining to Libya; Libyan.