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Lyr"ic*al*ly (?), adv. In a lyrical manner.

Lyr"i*cism (?), n. A lyric composition. Gray.

Ly"rid (l"rd), n. (Astron.) One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars if produced backwards crosses the constellation Lyra.

Ly"rie (l"r), n. [Icel. hlri a sort of fish.] (Zoöl.) A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.

Ly*rif"er*ous (l*rf"r*s), a. [Lyre + -ferous.] (Zoöl.) Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.

Lyr"ism (lr"z'm), n. [Cf. Gr. lyrismo`s.] The act of playing on a lyre or harp. G. Eliot.

Lyr"ist, n. [L. lyristes, Gr. lyristh`s: cf. F. lyriste.] A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.

Ly*sim"e*ter (l*sm"*tr), n. [Gr. ly`sis a loosing + - meter.] An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.

||Ly"sis (l"ss), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ly`sis.] (Med.) The resolution or ||favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not ||marked by abrupt change. || It is usually contrasted with crisis, in which the improvement is sudden and marked; as, pneumonia ends by crisis, typhoid fever by lysis.

||Lys"sa (ls"s), n. [NL. See Lytta.] (Med.) Hydrophobia. || The plural (Lyssæ) has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia.

Ly*te"ri*an (l*t"r*an), a. [Gr. lyth`rios healing, fr. lyth`r a deliverer, fr. ly`ein to loosen.] (Med.) Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.

Lythe (lth), n. (Zoöl.) The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet. [Scot.]

Lythe (l), a. [See Lithe, a.] Soft; flexible. [Obs.] Spenser.

{ Lyth`on*thrip"tic (lth`n*thrp"tk), Lyth`on*trip"tic (-trp"tk) }, a. (Med.) See Lithontriptic.

||Lyt"ta (lt"t), n.; pl. Lyttæ (-t). [L., a worm said to grow under the ||tongue of dogs, and to cause canine madness, fr. Gr. ly`tta, ly`ssa, ||lit., madness.] (Anat.) A fibrous and muscular band lying within the ||longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog. ||