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Lunistice
- - The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution.
Lurcation
- - Gluttony; gormandizing.
Lurchline
- - The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.
Lustering
- - The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.
Lutherism
- - The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
Lycaenids
- noun - any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Lycopsida
- noun - club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
Lynchpins
- noun - a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"
- pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on
Lyonnaise
- adjective - cooked with onions
Lyre Bird
- - Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.