LOMY
First name LOMY's origin is Other. LOMY means "from prague". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LOMY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lomy.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with LOMY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming LOMY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LOMY AS A WHOLE:
pslomydes palomydesNAMES RHYMING WITH LOMY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (omy) - Names That Ends with omy:
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (my) - Names That Ends with my:
barthelemy ptolemy kosmy amy anemy delmy jessemy stormy tammy jeramy jeremy jimmy ramy remy timmy tommy bellamy emmyNAMES RHYMING WITH LOMY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lom) - Names That Begins with lom:
lomahongva loman lomasi lomskyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (lo) - Names That Begins with lo:
loc lochlain lochlann locke locklyn lockwood locrine lodema lodima lodyma loe loefel logan logen logestilla loghan logistilla lohengrin lohoot loiyan lojza lokelani lokni lola lola-jo loleta lolita lolitta lon lona lonato lonell loni lonn lonna lonnell lonnie lono lonyn lonzo lootah lora lorah loraina loraine loralee loralei loran lorance loranna lorant lorayne lorcan lorda lore loredana loreen loreene lorelai lorelei lorelie loren lorena lorence lorencz lorene lorenia lorenna lorenz lorenza lorenzo loreta loretta lorette lori loria lorian loriana loriann lorianne loriel lorilee lorilynn lorimar lorimer lorin lorinda lorineus loring loris lorita loritz lorna lorne lornell lorrainaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LOMY:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'y':
lacey lacy laidley laidly lainey landrey landry laney langley lanny lany larry lavy lawley lawly lay leary leeroy leilany lenny leroy lesley levey lewy lexy ley libby liberty lilly lily lindley lindly lindsay lindsey lindy linley linly linsay linsey lucky lucy lundy lyndsay lyndsey lynley lynsey lynzeyEnglish Words Rhyming LOMY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LOMY AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LOMY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (omy) - English Words That Ends with omy:
adenotomy | noun (n.) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands. |
agronomy | noun (n.) The management of land; rural economy; agriculture. |
anatomy | noun (n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. |
noun (n.) The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. | |
noun (n.) A treatise or book on anatomy. | |
noun (n.) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse. | |
noun (n.) A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. |
andranatomy | noun (n.) The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. |
androtomy | noun (n.) Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zootomy; anthropotomy. |
angiotomy | noun (n.) Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. |
anomy | noun (n.) Disregard or violation of law. |
anthropotomy | noun (n.) The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. |
antinomy | noun (n.) Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. |
noun (n.) An opposing law or rule of any kind. | |
noun (n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience. |
aplotomy | noun (n.) Simple incision. |
aponeurotomy | noun (n.) Dissection of aponeuroses. |
arteriotomy | noun (n.) The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting. |
noun (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries. |
astronomy | noun (n.) Astrology. |
noun (n.) The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena. | |
noun (n.) A treatise on, or text-book of, the science. |
atomy | noun (n.) An atom; a mite; a pigmy. |
noun (n.) A skeleton. |
autonomy | noun (n.) The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state. |
noun (n.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. |
anthroponomy | noun (n.) The science of the laws of the development of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment. |
appendectomy | noun (n.) Alt. of Appendicectomy |
appendicectomy | noun (n.) Excision of the vermiform appendix. |
bionomy | noun (n.) Physiology. |
bloomy | adjective (a.) Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. |
adjective (a.) Covered with bloom, as fruit. |
blossomy | adjective (a.) Full of blossoms; flowery. |
bosomy | adjective (a.) Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows. |
bronchotomy | noun (n.) An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy. |
broomy | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. |
celotomy | noun (n.) The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. |
cephalotomy | noun (n.) Dissection or opening of the head. |
noun (n.) Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw. |
chirognomy | noun (n.) The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand. |
chironomy | noun (n.) The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture |
cholecystotomy | noun (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone. |
chondrotomy | noun (n.) The dissection of cartilages. |
cirsotomy | noun (n.) Any operation for the removal of varices by incision. |
cleronomy | noun (n.) Inheritance; heritage. |
colotomy | noun (n.) An operation for opening the colon |
craniognomy | noun (n.) The science of the form and characteristics of the skull. |
craniotomy | noun (n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery. |
cystotomy | noun (n.) The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus. |
capsulotomy | noun (n.) The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation. |
dactylonomy | noun (n.) The art of numbering or counting by the fingers. |
demonomy | noun (n.) The dominion of demons. |
deuteronomy | noun (n.) The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses. |
dichotomy | noun (n.) A cutting in two; a division. |
noun (n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts. | |
noun (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures. | |
noun (n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation. | |
noun (n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked. | |
noun (n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white. |
dysnomy | noun (n.) Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws. |
economy | noun (n.) The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. |
noun (n.) Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy. | |
noun (n.) The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. | |
noun (n.) Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. |
embryotomy | noun (n.) The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal. |
encephalotomy | noun (n.) The act or art of dissecting the brain. |
enterotomy | noun (n.) Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia. |
entomotomy | noun (n.) The science of the dissection of insects. |
esophagotomy | noun (n.) The operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. |
eunomy | noun (n.) Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government. |
gastroelytrotomy | noun (n.) The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Caesarean operation, and less dangerous. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LOMY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lom) - Words That Begins with lom:
loma | noun (n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap. |
lomatinous | adjective (a.) Furnished with lobes or flaps. |
lombard | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lombardy. |
noun (n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards. | |
noun (n.) Same as Lombard-house. | |
noun (n.) A form of cannon formerly in use. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy. |
lombardeer | noun (n.) A pawnbroker. |
lombardic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy of the Lombards. |
loment | noun (n.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed. |
lomentaceous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments. |
lomonite | noun (n.) Same as Laumontite. |
lompish | adjective (a.) Lumpish. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LOMY:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'y':
lability | noun (n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize. |
laboratory | noun (n.) The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile. |
lachrymary | adjective (a.) Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal. |
lachrymatory | noun (n.) A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal. |
lackadaisy | adjective (a.) Lackadaisical. |
(interj.) An expression of languor. |
lactary | noun (n.) a dairyhouse. |
adjective (a.) Milky; full of white juice like milk. |
lactory | adjective (a.) Lactiferous. |
lady | noun (n.) A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household. |
noun (n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord. | |
noun (n.) A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. | |
noun (n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right. | |
noun (n.) A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman. | |
noun (n.) A wife; -- not now in approved usage. | |
noun (n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike. | |
() The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation. |
laevorotatory | adjective (a.) Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory. |
laicality | noun (n.) The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman. |
laidly | adjective (a.) Ugly; loathsome. |
laity | adjective (a.) The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. |
adjective (a.) The state of a layman. | |
adjective (a.) Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it. |
laky | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a lake. |
adjective (a.) Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles. |
lamasery | noun (n.) A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc. |
lamellary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar. |
laminability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being laminable. |
laminary | adjective (a.) Laminar. |
lampoonry | noun (n.) The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons. |
lamprey | noun (n.) An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side. |
lanary | noun (n.) A place for storing wool. |
lancegay | noun (n.) Alt. of Lancegaye |
lancely | adjective (a.) Like a lance. |
landlady | noun (n.) A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants. |
noun (n.) The mistress of an inn or lodging house. |
landlordry | noun (n.) The state of a landlord. |
langarey | noun (n.) One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds of Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow. |
laniary | adjective (a.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth. |
adjective (a.) The shambles; a place of slaughter. | |
adjective (a.) A laniary, or canine, tooth. |
lanky | adjective (a.) Somewhat lank. |
laparotomy | noun (n.) A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section. |
lapidary | noun (n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones. |
noun (n.) A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation. |
laguay | noun (n.) A lackey. |
laqueary | adjective (a.) Using a noose, as a gladiator. |
larceny | noun (n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement. |
lardery | noun (n.) A larder. |
lardry | noun (n.) A larder. |
lardy | adjective (a.) Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard. |
larry | noun (n.) Same as Lorry, or Lorrie. |
lary | noun (n.) A guillemot; -- called also lavy. |
laryngology | noun (n.) Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of the larynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases of the larynx. |
laryngophony | noun (n.) The sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope when the latter is placed upon the larynx. |
laryngoscopy | noun (n.) The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope. |
laryngotomy | noun (n.) The operation of cutting into the larynx, from the outside of the neck, for assisting respiration when obstructed, or for removing foreign bodies. |
laryngotracheotomy | noun (n.) The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing. |
lasciviency | noun (n.) Lasciviousness; wantonness. |
lastery | noun (n.) A red color. |
latchkey | noun (n.) A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch. |
latency | noun (n.) The state or quality of being latent. |
laterality | noun (n.) The state or condition of being lateral. |
lathy | adjective (a.) Like a lath; long and slender. |
latinity | noun (n.) The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. |
latitancy | noun (n.) Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. |
latrociny | noun (n.) Theft; larceny. |
laudability | noun (n.) Laudableness; praiseworthiness. |
laudatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden. |
laughworthy | adjective (a.) Deserving to be laughed at. |
laundry | noun (n.) A laundering; a washing. |
noun (n.) A place or room where laundering is done. |
lavatory | noun (n.) A place for washing. |
noun (n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in. | |
noun (n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part. | |
noun (n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing. | |
adjective (a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing. |
lawny | adjective (a.) Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. |
adjective (a.) Made of lawn or fine linen. |
lawyerly | adjective (a.) Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity. |
laxity | adjective (a.) The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness. |
lay | noun (n.) The laity; the common people. |
noun (n.) A meadow. See Lea. | |
noun (n.) Faith; creed; religious profession. | |
noun (n.) A law. | |
noun (n.) An obligation; a vow. | |
noun (n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother. | |
adjective (a.) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant. | |
adjective (a.) Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease. | |
adjective (a.) A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad. | |
adjective (a.) A melody; any musical utterance. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust. | |
verb (v. t.) To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table. | |
verb (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan. | |
verb (v. t.) To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to lie dead or dying. | |
verb (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs. | |
verb (v. t.) To apply; to put. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land. | |
verb (v. t.) To impute; to charge; to allege. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one. | |
verb (v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one. | |
verb (v. t.) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue. | |
verb (v. t.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun. | |
verb (v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope. | |
verb (v. t.) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. | |
verb (v. t.) To place (new type) properly in the cases. | |
verb (v. i.) To produce and deposit eggs. | |
verb (v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft. | |
verb (v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet. | |
verb (v. t.) A wager. | |
verb (v. t.) A job, price, or profit. | |
verb (v. t.) A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay. | |
verb (v. t.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a). | |
verb (v. t.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3. | |
verb (v. t.) A plan; a scheme. | |
(imp.) of Lie, to recline. | |
(imp.) of Lie |
lazarly | adjective (a.) Full of sores; leprous. |
leachy | adjective (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like. |
leady | adjective (a.) Resembling lead. |
leany | adjective (a.) Lean. |
leasy | adjective (a.) Flimsy; vague; deceptive. |
leathery | adjective (a.) Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. |
leavy | adjective (a.) Leafy. |
lecanomancy | noun (n.) divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought. |
lechery | noun (n.) Free indulgence of lust; lewdness. |
noun (n.) Selfish pleasure; delight. |
lectionary | noun (n.) A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service. |
ledgy | adjective (a.) Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island. |
leeway | noun (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift. |
legacy | noun (n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. |
noun (n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. |
legality | noun (n.) The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law. |
noun (n.) A conformity to, and resting upon, the letter of the law. |
legatary | noun (n.) A legatee. |
legendary | noun (n.) A book of legends; a tale or narrative. |
noun (n.) One who relates legends. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. |
legerity | noun (n.) Lightness; nimbleness. |
leggy | adjective (a.) Having long legs. |
legibility | noun (n.) The quality of being legible; legibleness. |
legionary | noun (n.) A member of a legion. |
adjective (a.) Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force. |
legionry | noun (n.) A body of legions; legions, collectively. |
legitimacy | adjective (a.) The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock. |
leisurely | adjective (a.) Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk. |
adverb (adv.) In a leisurely manner. |
leniency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency. |
lenity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor. |
l'envoy | noun (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. |
noun (n.) A conclusion; a result. |
leprosity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale. |
leprosy | noun (n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious. |
lepry | noun (n.) Leprosy. |
leptology | noun (n.) A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things. |
letchy | adjective (a.) See Leachy. |
lethality | noun (n.) The quality of being lethal; mortality. |
lethargy | noun (n.) Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked. |
noun (n.) A state of inaction or indifference. | |
verb (v. t.) To lethargize. |
lethy | adjective (a.) Lethean. |
letuary | noun (n.) Electuary. |
leucopathy | noun (n.) The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents. |
leucophlegmacy | noun (n.) A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats. |
levity | noun (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity. |
noun (n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. | |
noun (n.) Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. |
levorotatory | adjective (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc. |
levy | noun (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d. |
noun (n.) The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc. | |
noun (n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. | |
noun (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise, as a siege. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. | |
verb (v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money. | |
verb (v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution. | |
verb (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods. |