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lure, v. entice, tempt, seduce, allure, decoy.
lurking-place, n. ambush, retreat, cover.
luscious, a. delicious, delectable; cloying, fulsome, unctuous.
lush, a. juicy, succulent.
l.u.s.t, n. venereal appet.i.te, concupiscence, salacity, s.e.xual desire; longing, cupidity, desire, hankering. Antonym: anaphrodisia. See s.e.xual desire.
l.u.s.ter, n. brightness, gloss, glitter, sheen, brilliancy.
l.u.s.terless, a. dull, lackl.u.s.ter.
l.u.s.tful, a. lascivious, concupiscent, lecherous, licentiou-libidinous, salacious, carnal, lickerish, ruttish, prurient aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, lecherous.
l.u.s.tre, n. brilliancy, glitter, radiance, resplendence.
l.u.s.trous, a. See bright.
l.u.s.ty, a. robust, st.u.r.dy, stalwart, strapping, muscular.
luxuriance, n. exuberance, rampancy, richness.
luxuriant, a. exuberant, rampant, superabundant, excessive.
luxuriate, v. revel, wanton.
luxurious, a. voluptuous, epicurean, sybaritic.
luxury, n. voluptuousness, epicurism, sybaritism, luxuriousness.
lying, a. untruthful, false, mendacious, deceitful.
lying, n. falsehood, lie, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, fiction.
lying down. reclining, rec.u.mbent, acc.u.mbent; (face down) p.r.o.ne, prostrate; (face upward) supine.
lying down. reclining, reclination, accubation, rec.u.mbence; (face down) prostration, p.r.o.nation; (face upward) supination, supineness.
lying in wait. ambush, ambuscade.
lying round. circ.u.mjacent.--n. circ.u.mjacence.
lyre, n. See harp.
M
Machine, n. automaton (self-moving machine); mechanism; organization, system.
machinist, n. mechanician.
mad, a. crazy, insane, demented, maniacal, raving; indignant, enraged, irate, resentful; rabid; distracted, wild, infatuated. See angry.
madcap, n. hotspur, blood.--a. wild, reckless, rash.
madden, v. incense, anger, enrage, infuriate, provoke, exasperate, vex, inflame.
made up. devised, fabricated, artificial, sham, false, counterfeit.
madhouse, n. bedlam, insane asylum.
madman, n. maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac.
madness, n. dementia, insanity, craziness, mania, lunacy; monomania; frenzy, rage, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, indignation, anger.
magazine, n. storehouse, depot, repository; periodical, publication, ephemeris.
magic, n. enchantment, conjuration, wizardry, legerdemain prestidigitation, necromancy, jugglery, sorcery; fascination, witchery, charm.
magic, a. magical, necromantic, talismanic.
magician, n. conjurer, prestidigitator, sorcerer, wizard, necromancer, juggler, thaumaturge.
magnet, n. loadstone.
magnetist, n. magnetician.
magnificence, n. grandeur, sublimity, splendor, majesty
magnificent, a. splendid, superb, sublime, majestic, stately, grand.
magnify, v. augment, amplify, enlarge; overstate, exaggerate.
maid, n. See girl; lady's maid, Abigail; soubrette.
maiden, a. virgin; chaste, undefiled, pure; unused, fresh, new.
maidenhead, n. maidenhood; hymen (virginal membrane).
maidenhood, n. maidhood, girlhood, virginity.
mail, n. armor, hauberk; scale, sh.e.l.l; post.
mail, v. post.
