Part 749

This shows that you from nature loathly stray.

Donne.

2. (l"l) So as to cause loathing. [Obs.]

With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight.

Fairfax.

Loath"ness (?), n. Unwillingness; reluctance.

A general silence and loathness to speak.

Bacon.

Loath"some (?), a. Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.

The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.

Macaulay.

-- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.

Loath"y (?), a. Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

Loaves (?), n.; pl. of Loaf.

Lob (?), n. [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead. Cf. Looby, Lubber.] 1. A dull, heavy person. " Country lobs." Gauden.

2. Something thick and heavy.

Lob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lobbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lobbing.] To let fall heavily or lazily.

And their poor jades Lob down their heads.

Shak.

To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.

Lob, v. t. (Mining) See Cob, v. t.

Lob, n. [Dan. lubbe.] (Zoöl.) The European pollock.

Lo"bar (?), a. Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

{ Lo"bate (?), Lo"ba*ted (?), } a. [See Lobe.] 1. (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. (b) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.

Lo"bate*ly (?), adv. As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.

Lob"bish (?), a. Like a lob; consisting of lobs. Sir. P. Sidney.

Lob"by (?), n.; pl. Lobbies (#). [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.] 1. (Arch.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.