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Lictor
- - An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals.
Locale
- noun - the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
Locals
- noun - anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
- public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops; "the local seemed to take forever to get to New York"
Locate
- verb - assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
- determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property"
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing"
- Find
- take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
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)