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Lilli burlero: 17th-century English political song that played a part in driving James II from the throne in 1688. Written in 1687 by Thomas (afterward Marquess of) Wharton, the verses were intended ...
Lillie, Beatrice: sophisticated-comedy star of British and American revues, perhaps the foremost theatrical comedienne of the 20th century.
Lillie, Frank Rattray: American zoologist and embryologist, known for his discoveries concerning the fertilization of the egg (ovum) and the role of hormones in sex determination.
Lillo, George: English dramatist of pioneer importance in whose domestic tragedy The London Merchant: or, the History of George Barnwell (1731) members of the middle class replaced the customary aristocratic or royal ...
Lilongwe: city, capital (since 1975) of Malawi. It is located on the inland plains and is the country's second largest city. An agricultural market centre for the fertile Central Region Plateau, ...
lily: the common name applied to herbaceous flowering plants belonging to the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae. The genus contains between 80 and 100 species, native to the temperate areas ...
lily of the valley: (Convallaria majalis), fragrant perennial herb and only species of the genus Convallaria of the family Liliaceae, native to Eurasia and eastern North America. Lily of the valley has nodding, white, ...
Lily, William: English Renaissance scholar and classical grammarian, a pioneer of Greek learning in England and one of the authors of an extremely popular Latin grammar that, with corrections and revisions, was ...
Lima: city, capital of Peru and of Lima department. It is the country's commercial and industrial centre. Central Lima is located at an elevation of 512 feet (156 metres) on the ...
Lima: city, seat (1831) of Allen county, northwestern Ohio, U.S. The city is situated on the Ottawa River, 88 miles (142 km) northwest of Columbus. Laid out in 1831, its name ...
Lima: department of central Peru and site of the national capital of Lima. The department stretches from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes in ...
Lima Barreto, Afonso Henriques de: Brazilian novelist, journalist, short-story writer, and an aggressive social critic, who re-created in caricatural fashion the city and society of Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the century.
lima bean: any of a variety of legumes of the species Phaseolus limensis widely cultivated for their edible seeds. See bean.
Lima, Jorge de: Brazilian poet and novelist who became one of the foremost representatives of regionalist poetry in Brazil in the 1920s.
Lima, Manuel dos Santos: Angolan poet, dramatist, and novelist whose writing is rooted in the struggle for liberation of Angola from Portuguese colonialism.
Liman von Sanders, Otto: German general largely responsible for making the Ottoman army an effective fighting force in World War I and victor over the Allies at Gallipoli.
Limasawa: small island of historic importance near the island of Leyte, east-central Philippines. Located about 4 miles (6 km) off the southern tip of the island of Leyte just outside the ...
Limassol: city and chief port of the Republic of Cyprus. The city lies on Akrotiri Bay, on the southern coast, southwest of Nicosia; it is the island's second largest city and ...
Limavady: town, seat, and district (established 1973), formerly in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Limavady town is on the River Roe 17 miles (27 km) east of the old city of Londonderry. ...
limb darkening: in astrophysics, gradual decrease in brightness of the disk of the Sun or of another star as observed from its centre to its edge, or limb. This phenomenon is readily ...
Limbe: port, southwestern Cameroon. It lies along Ambas Bay of the Gulf of Guinea, at the southern foot of Mount Cameroon, just south of Buea. Limbe is Cameroon's second largest port, ...
limbo: in Roman Catholic theology, the border place between heaven and hell where dwell those souls who, though not condemned to punishment, are deprived of the joy of eternal existence with ...
Limbu: the second most numerous tribe of the indigenous people called Kiranti, living in Nepal on the easternmost section of the Himalayas between the Arun River and the border of Sikkim ...
Limburg: historic region of the Low Countries that was one of many small states resulting from the division of the duchy of Lower Lorraine in the second half of the 11th ...
Limburg: provincie, southeastern Netherlands. It is bounded on the northwest by Noord-Brabant provincie, on the north by Gelderland provincie, on the east by Germany, and on the south and southwest by ...
Limburg, Pol, Herman, and Jehanequin de: (all b. after 1385, Nijmegen, Brabant [now in The Netherlands]-d. by 1416), three Flemish brothers who were the most famous of all late Gothic illuminators. They synthesized the achievements of ...
Limburger: semisoft surface-ripened cow's-milk cheese that has a rind of pungent odour and a creamy-textured body of strong flavour. Limburger originated in the Belgian province of Liege and was first sold ...
limburgite: dark-coloured volcanic rock that resembles basalt but normally contains no feldspar. It is associated principally with nepheline-basalts and leucite-basalts; it also occurs with monchiquite, from which it is not easily ...
lime: (Citrus aurantifolia), tree widely grown in tropical and subtropical areas and its edible acid fruits. The tree seldom grows more than 5 m (16 feet) high and if not pruned ...
lime: calcium oxide, an alkaline inorganic compound of calcium (q.v.).
Limehouse: neighbourhood in the borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London.
Limeira: city, east-central Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on the headwaters of Tatu Stream, a tributary of the Piracicaba River. Known at various times as Tatuibi, Rancho de Limeira, and Nossa Senhora ...
limelight: first theatrical spotlight, also a popular term for the incandescent calcium light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816. Drummond's light, which consisted of a block of calcium heated to incandescence ...
Limerick: county borough, port, and chief town of County Limerick, west-central Ireland, occupying both banks and King's Island of the River Shannon at the head of its estuary.
limerick: a popular form of short, humorous verse that is often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant metre is anapestic, with two metrical ...
Limerick: county, southwestern Ireland, in the province of Munster. Its northern boundary, with County Clare, is the River Shannon and its estuary. The River Maigue bisects the county and flows north ...
Limerick lace: strictly speaking not lace at all but embroidered machine-made net the appearance of which approximates true lace. It was made at Mount Kennet, near Limerick, in Ireland, having been introduced ...
limes: in ancient Rome, the strip of open land along which troops advanced into unfriendly territory. The word, therefore, came to mean a Roman military road, fortified with watchtowers and forts. ...
limestone: sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃), usually in the form of calcite or aragonite. It may contain considerable amounts of magnesium carbonate (dolomite) as well; minor constituents also ...
Limfjorden: strait (110 miles [180 km] long) across northern Jutland, Denmark, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat and separating the Vendsyssel and Thy regions from the mainland. Actually a series ...
limit: mathematical concept based on the idea of closeness, used primarily to assign values to certain functions at points where no values are defined, in such a way as to be ...
limitations, statute of: legislative act restricting the time within which legal proceedings may be brought, usually to a fixed period after the occurrence of the events that gave rise to the cause of ...
limited liability: condition under which the loss that an owner (shareholder) of a business firm may incur is limited to the amount of capital invested by him in the business and does ...
Limmen Bight: inlet of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in the northeast coast of Northern Territory, Australia. It extends for 85 miles (135 km) between the islands of Groote Eylandt (north) and the ...
Limnocharitaceae: family of the water plantain order Alismales, containing 4 genera and about 12 species of tropical, freshwater plants. Two species-Hydrocleys nymphoides and Limnocharis flava, both native to tropical America-are cultivated ...
limnology: subsystem of hydrology that deals with the scientific study of fresh waters, specifically those found in lakes and ponds. The discipline also includes the biological, physical, and chemical aspects of ...
Limnoscelis: extinct genus of primitive reptiles, among the earliest of the disputed labyrinthodont reptilian forms, that occurs as fossils in Early Permian rocks (those 258 to 286 million years old) of ...
Limoges: city, capital of Haute-Vienne departement and of the Limousin region, south central France (formerly in the province of Limousin), south-southwest of Paris, on the right bank of the Vienne River.
Limoges painted enamel: any of the enamelled products made in Limoges, Fr., and generally considered the finest painted enamelware produced in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Limoges enamels are largely the ...
Limoges ware: porcelain, largely servicewares, produced in Limoges, Fr., from the 18th century. Faience (tin-glazed earthenware) of mediocre quality was produced there after 1736, but the manufacture of hard-paste, or true, porcelain ...
Limon: capital, Limon province, eastern Costa Rica, on an open roadstead of the Caribbean Sea near the landfall sighted by Columbus in 1503. The waters are deep enough for large ships, ...
Limon: province, eastern Costa Rica, bounded on the north by Nicaragua, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the southeast by Panama. Although the territory of 3,600 sq mi ...
Limon, Bahia: natural harbour of the Caribbean Sea, in Panama at the north end of the Panama Canal. Approximately 4 12 mi (7 km) long and 2 12 mi wide, it is ...
Limon, Jose: Mexican-born U.S. modern dancer and choreographer who expanded the repertoire of modern dance in works that explored the strengths and weaknesses of the human character.
limonene: a colourless liquid abundant in the essential oils of pine and citrus trees and used as a lemonlike odorant in industrial and household products and as a chemical intermediate.
limonite: one of the major iron minerals, hydrated ferric oxide (Fe₂O₃·H₂O). It was originally considered one of a series of such oxides; later it was thought to be the amorphous equivalent ...
Limosin, Leonard: French painter especially known for the revealing realism of his portraits painted in enamel.
Limousin: region of France encompassing the central departements of Correze, Haute-Vienne, and Creuse. Limousin is bounded by Centre to the north, Auvergne to the east, ...
limpet: any of various snails having a flattened shell. Limpets belonging to the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda) are marine; most cling to rocks near shore. A common American species is the ...
limpkin: (species Aramus guarauna), large swamp bird of the American tropics, sole member of the family Aramidae (order Gruiformes). The bird is about 70 cm (28 inches) long and is coloured ...
Limpopo River: river in southeast Africa that rises as the Krokodil (Crocodile) River in the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and flows on a semicircular course first northeast and then east for about 1,100 ...
Lin Biao: Wade-Giles romanization Lin Piao Chinese military leader who, as a field commander of the Red Army, contributed to the Communists' 22-year struggle for power and held many high government and ...
Lin Fengmian: Chinese painter and art educator who sought to blend the best of both Eastern and Western art.
Lin Shu: Chinese translator who first made available to Chinese readers more than 180 works of Western literature, even though he himself had no firsthand knowledge of any foreign language.
Lin Tse-hsu: leading Chinese scholar and official of the Ch'ing (Manchu) dynasty, known for his role in the events leading up to the Anglo-Chinese Opium War (1839-42). He was a proponent of ...
Lin Yutang: prolific writer of a wide variety of works in Chinese and English; in the 1930s he founded several Chinese magazines specializing in social satire and Western-style journalism.
Lin, Maya: American architect and sculptor who is best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Lin-fen: city, southern Shansi sheng (province), China. Lin-fen is situated on the east bank of the Fen River about 140 miles (220 km) south of T'ai-yuan.
Lin-tzu: town, central Shantung sheng (province), China. It is situated on the west bank of the Tzu River, a tributary of the Hsiao-ch'ing River, some 19 miles (30 km) east of ...
Linaceae: the flax family, comprising about 14 genera of herbaceous plants and shrubs, in the order Linales, of cosmopolitan distribution. The genus Linum includes flax (q.v.), perhaps the most important member ...
Linacre, Thomas: English physician, classical scholar, founder and first president of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Linares: town, north-central Jaen provincia, situated in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Andalusia, southern Spain, in the southern foothills of the Sierra Morena just northwest of the Rio Guadalimar. The ...
Linares: capital of Linares provincia, Maule region, central Chile, lying inland, 60 miles (100 km) from the Pacific coast, in the fertile Central Valley. Founded in 1755 as San Javier de ...
Lincoln: capital of Nebraska, U.S., and seat (1869) of Lancaster county, in the southeastern part of the state. Laid out in 1859 as Lancaster, it was renamed for Pres. Abraham Lincoln ...
Lincoln: city (district), administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, England. It stands 200 feet (60 metres) above sea level on an impressive site at the point where the River Witham cuts ...
Lincoln: city, seat (1853) of Logan county, central Illinois, U.S. It lies about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Springfield. Founded in 1853, the city was named for Abraham Lincoln, then ...