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1: the practice of punishing people by hanging without due process of law

1: a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority

1: a city in central Virginia

1: putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

1: 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" [syn: {anchor}, {mainstay},...

1: 36th President of the United States; was elected Vice President and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973) [syn: {Johnson}, {Lyndon Johnson}, {LBJ}, {President Johnson}, {Presi...

1: 36th President of the United States; was elected Vice President and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973) [syn: {Johnson}, {Lyndon Baines Johnson}, {LBJ}, {President Johnson},...

1: United States actress (born in England) who married Alfred Lunt and performed with him in many plays (1887-1983) [syn: {Fontanne}]

1: short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur [syn: {catamount}]

1: of northern North America [syn: {Canada lynx}]

1: of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia [syn: {caracal}, {desert lynx}]

1: of northern Eurasia [syn: {common lynx}]

1: of southern Europe [syn: {spotted lynx}]

1: small lynx of North America [syn: {bobcat}, {bay lynx}]

1: having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat" [syn: {argus-eyed}, {hawk-eyed}, {keen-sighted}, {quick-sighted}, {sharp-eyed}, {sharp-sighted}]

1: a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon [syn: {Lyons}]

1: evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya [syn: {genus Lyonia}]

1: deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers [syn: {maleberry}, {male berry}, {privet andromeda}, {he-huckleberry}]

1: showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel [syn: {fetterbush}, {fetter bush}, {shiny ly...

1: deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock [syn: {staggerbush}, {stagger bush}]

1: a former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes

1: cooked with onions

1: brown sauce with sauteed chopped onions and parsley and dry white wine or vinegar [syn: {brown onion sauce}]

1: a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon [syn: {Lyon}]

1: a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes [syn: {free...

1: to dry (blood, serum, tissue, etc.) by freezing in a high vacuum [syn: {lyophilize}]

1: used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum [syn: {lyophilized}, {freeze-dried}]

1: a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes [syn: {free...

1: to dry (blood, serum, tissue, etc.) by freezing in a high vacuum [syn: {lyophilise}]

1: used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum [syn: {lyophilised}, {freeze-dried}]

1: an antidiuretic and vasoconstrictor used to treat diabetes insipidus

1: a small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco; contains the star Vega

1: of a leaf shape; having curvature suggestive of a lyre

1: having curvature suggestive of a lyre

1: a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment

1: mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America

1: garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers [syn: {bleeding heart}, {lyreflower}, {Dicentra spectabilis}]

1: Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape

1: garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers [syn: {bleeding heart}, {lyre-flower}, {Dicentra spectabilis}]

1: expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" [syn: {lyrical}] 2: used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano" [ant: {dram...

1: a short poem of songlike quality [syn: {lyric}]

1: suitable for or suggestive of singing 2: expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" [syn: {lyric}]

1: the property of being suitable for singing [syn: {lyricism}, {songfulness}]

1: in a lyrical manner; "she danced the part of the Black Swan very lyrically"

1: the property of being suitable for singing [syn: {lyricality}, {songfulness}] 2: unrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm

1: a person who writes the words for songs

1: black grouse [syn: {genus Lyrurus}]

1: a black grouse of western Asia [syn: {Asian black grouse}]

1: large northern European black grouse with a lyre-shaped tail [syn: {European black grouse}, {heathfowl}]

1: Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC)

1: Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976) [syn: {Trofim Denisovich Lysenko}]

1: a crystalline acid often used in medical research; obtained from ergotic alkaloids

1: a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid [syn: {LSD}]

{lysis}

1: skunk cabbage [syn: {genus Lysichiton}, {Lysichitum}, {genus Lysichitum}]

1: clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe [syn: {skunk cabbage}]

1: skunk cabbage [syn: {Lysichiton}, {genus Lysichiton}, {genus Lysichitum}]

1: small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods [syn: {genus Lysiloma}]

1: a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods [syn: {wild tamarind}, {Lysiloma latisiliqua}]

1: a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods [syn: {wild tamarind}, {Lysiloma bahamensis}]

1: West Indian tree yielding la hard dark born wood resembling mahogany in texture and value [syn: {sabicu}]

1: loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive [syn: {genus Lysimachia}]

1: of North America [syn: {fringed loosestrife}]

1: a variety of the loosestrife herb [syn: {gooseneck loosestrife}]

1: trailing European evergreen with yellow flowers [syn: {yellow pimpernel}]

1: a loosestrife vine [syn: {moneywort}, {creeping Jenny}, {creeping Charlie}]

1: common North American yellow-flowered plant [syn: {whorled loosestrife}]

1: North American plant with spikes of yellow flowers, found in wet places [syn: {swamp candles}]

1: frequently considered a weed; Europe and Asia [syn: {yellow loosestrife}, {garden loosestrife}]

1: Macedonian general under Alexander the Great; with Seleucus he defeated Antigonus and Demetrius at the battle of Ipsus (circa 355-281 BC)

1: any substance (such as an antibody) or agent that can cause lysis

1: an essential amino acid found in proteins; occurs especially in gelatin and casein

1: a disorder in which a lack of certain enzymes makes it impossible to digest the amino acid lysine

1: an inborn error of metabolism in which the lack of certain enzymes leads to an inability to metabolize the amino acid lysine; characterized by muscular weakness and mental retardation

1: Greek sculptor (4th century BC)

1: recuperation in which the symptoms of an acute disease gradually subside 2: (biochemistry) dissolution or destruction of cells such as blood cells or bacteria [also: {lyses} (pl)]

1: of or relating to lysogeny 2: capable of producing or undergoing lysis

1: the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material; "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome...

1: the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome [syn: {lysogenization}]

1: the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome [syn: {lysogenisation}]

1: become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium)

1: the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material; "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome...

1: a clear oily brown solution of cresols in soap; used as an antiseptic and disinfectant

1: an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)

1: an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria [syn: {muramidase}]

1: an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain [syn: {rabies}, {hydrophobia...

1: a neurotropic nonarbovirus of the family Rhabdoviridae that causes rabies

1: herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers [syn: {family Lythraceae}, {loosestrife family}]

1: loosestrife [syn: {genus Lythrum}]

1: annual with small solitary pink flowers; originally of Europe but widely naturalized in moist areas [syn: {grass poly}, {hyssop loosestrife}]

1: marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers; originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States [syn: {purple loosestrife}, {spiked loosestrife}]

{lytta}

1: English writer of historical romances (1803-1873) [syn: {First Baron Lytton}, {Bulwer-Lytton}, {Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton}]

1: English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932) [syn: {Strachey}, {Giles Lytton Strachey}]