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Lom`bard*eer" (?; 277), n. A pawnbroker. [Obs.] Howell.

{ Lom"bard-house (?), Lom"bar-house` (?), } [F. or D. lombard. See Lombard, n.] 1. A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

2. A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.

Lom*bar"dic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Lombardy of the Lombards.

Lombardic alphabet, the ancient alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscript of Italy. -- Lombardic architecture, the debased Roman style of architecture as found in parts of Northern Italy. F. G. Lee. Lombardy poplar. (Bot.) See Poplar.

Lo"ment (?), n. [L. lomentum a mixture of bean meal and rice, used as a cosmetic wash, bean meal, fr. lavare, lotum, to wash.] (Bot.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.

Lo`men*ta"ceous (?), a. [From Loment.] (Bot.) Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.

Lom"o*nite (?), n. Same as Laumontite.

Lomp"ish (?), a. Lumpish. [Obs.] Spenser.

Lond (?), n. Land. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lon"don (?), n. The capital city of England.

London paste (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain. (b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. Dr. Prior. -- London rocket (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (Sisymbrium Irio) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins of the great fire of 1667.

Lon"don*er (-r), n. A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.

Lon"don*ism (?), n. A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

Lon"don*ize (?), v. i. To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.

Lon"don*ize, v. i. To imitate the manner of the people of London.

Lone (?), n. A lane. See Loanin. [Prov. Eng.]

Lone, a. [Abbrev. fr. alone.] 1. Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.

When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.

Shenstone.

2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic]

Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.

Collection of Records (1642).

A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.

Shak.

3. Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. " A lone isle." Pope.

By a lone well a lonelier column rears.

Byron.