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Loches
- noun - a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
- Scottish word for a lake
Lochia
- noun - substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth
Locked
- verb - become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace"
- become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence"
- hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"
- hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck"
- keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
Locker
- noun - a fastener that locks or closes
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks)
Locket
- noun - a small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace
Lockup
- noun - jail in a local police station
- the act of locking something up to protect it
Locule
- noun - a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal
Loculi
- noun - a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal
Locums
- noun - someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession