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Love: American rock group formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s that was more popular with critics than with record buyers. The original members were Arthur Lee (b. 1945, Memphis, ...
Love Canal: neighbourhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., U.S., that was the site of the worst environmental disaster involving chemical wastes in U.S. history.
love grass: any of the tufted annual and perennial grasses of the genus Eragrostis (family Poaceae). About 250 species are native to tropical and temperate regions of the world.
love seat: wide chair capable of, if not necessarily designed for, accommodating two people, whose intentions are implied in the name. The makers of early examples, in the late 17th and the ...
Love's Labour's Lost: early comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime between 1588 and 1597, more likely in the early 1590s, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a ...
Love, Augustus Edward Hough: British geophysicist and mathematician who discovered a major type of seismic wave that was subsequently named for him.
love-in-a-mist: (Nigella damascena), an annual herbaceous plant of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Native to the Mediterranean region, it is now grown in gardens throughout temperate regions of the world. It grows ...
lovebird: any of nine species of small parrots, genus Agapornis (subfamily Psittacinae), of Africa and Madagascar. Lovebirds are noted for pretty colours and the seemingly affectionate proximity of pairs. (That one ...
Lovech: town, north-central Bulgaria, on the Osum (Ossam) River. A rapidly developing industrial town, its manufactures include bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, agricultural machinery, and leather goods. Once a prehistoric settlement, it was ...
Lovecraft, H.P.: American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror.
Lovedu: a Bantu-speaking people of Northern province, S.Af. Their immediate neighbours include the Venda and the Tsonga. Agriculture is their major economic activity, with corn (maize), millet, squash, and peanuts (groundnuts) ...
Lovejoy, Arthur O.: American philosopher best known for his work on the history of ideas and theory of knowledge.
Lovejoy, Elijah P.: American newspaper editor and martyred abolitionist who died in defense of his right to print antislavery material in the period leading up to the American Civil War (1861-65).
Lovek: the principal city of Cambodia after the sacking of Angkor by the Siamese king Boromoraja II in 1431. In the 14th and 15th centuries Cambodia was in a state of ...
Lovelace, Ada King, countess of: English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer.
Lovelace, Earl: West Indian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright celebrated for his descriptive, dramatic fiction about West Indian culture. Using Trinidadian speech patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent ...
Lovelace, Richard: English poet, soldier, and Royalist whose graceful lyrics and dashing career made him the prototype of the perfect Cavalier.
Loveland: city, Larimer county, northern Colorado, U.S., on the Big Thompson River, east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, 45 miles (72 km) north of Denver. Founded in 1877 ...
Lovell, Francis Lovell, Viscount: English politician, supporter of King Richard III in the dynastic struggles of the 1480s; he led the first rebellion against Richard's enemy and successor Henry VII and took part in ...
Lovell, James A, Jr.: U.S. astronaut, commander of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 flight to the Moon in 1970.
Lovell, Sir Bernard: English radio astronomer, founder and director (1951-81) of England's Jodrell Bank Experimental Station.
Lovelock, Jack: New Zealand athlete famous for an unexpected victory in the 1,500-metre (metric-mile) race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The world record he set on that occasion-3 min 47.8 ...
Lover, Samuel: Anglo-Irish novelist, songwriter, and painter. Privately educated, Lover fled his father's stockbroking office and became a successful painter, largely of portraits. He also wrote songs, notably "Rory O'More" (1826), which ...
Lovett, William: Chartist leader in England, the person mainly responsible for drafting the People's Charter of 1838, demanding electoral reform.
Lovin' Spoonful, the: American folk rock band with a string of hits in the mid 1960s. The original members were John Sebastian (b. March 17, 1944, New York, New York, U.S., ), Zal ...
loving cup: large, two-handled cup, often made of silver, that may take many forms. In the past, at weddings, banquets, or meetings, a loving cup might be shared by a number of ...
Lovington: city, seat (1917) of Lea county, southeastern New Mexico, U.S. Bordered on the east and south by Texas, the county lies on a sandy, grassy plain long favoured by cattle ...
low comedy: dramatic or literary entertainment with no underlying purpose except to provoke laughter by boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery, and other riotous activity. Used either alone or added as ...
Low Countries: coastal region of northwestern Europe, consisting of Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg (qq.v.). These are together known as the Benelux countries, from the initial letters of their names. The Low ...
Low Countries, history of: history of the Low Countries from prehistoric times to 1579.
Low, Juliette Gordon: founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
Low, Seth: American municipal reformer, university builder, and philanthropist who, during his tenure as president of Columbia College (renamed Columbia University in 1896), transformed it from a small college on a crowded ...
Low, Sir David: New Zealand-born British journalist, one of the great modern political cartoonists and caricaturists.
Low, Sir Hugh: first successful British administrator in the Malay Peninsula, whose methods became models for subsequent British colonial operations in Malaya.
low-temperature phenomena: the behaviour of matter at temperatures closer to absolute zero (-273.15° C [-459.67° F]) than to room temperature. At such temperatures the thermal, electric, and magnetic properties of many substances ...
lowboy: a small dressing table with four or six legs and two or three drawers, resembling in some ways the lower portion of a highboy (q.v.). Lowboy and highboy were often ...
Lowden, Frank Orren: American lawyer and politician, governor of Illinois (1917-21), and a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 and 1928.
Lowe, Doug: English middle-distance runner who won gold medals in the 800-metre races at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris and at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.
Lowe, Sir Hudson: British general, governor of St. Helena when Napoleon I was held captive there; he was widely criticized for his unbending treatment of the former emperor.
Lowell: city, Middlesex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies at the junction of the Concord and Merrimack rivers, 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Boston. It was the nation's first planned ...
Lowell, A Lawrence: American lawyer and educator, president of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933, who led the university in significant academic growth.
Lowell, Amy: American critic, lecturer, and a leading poet of the Imagist school.
Lowell, Francis Cabot: American businessman, a member of the gifted Lowell family of Massachusetts and the principal founder of what is said to have been the world's first textile mill in which were ...
Lowell, James Russell: American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose major significance probably lies in the interest in literature he helped develop in the United States. He was a highly influential man ...
Lowell, Josephine Shaw: nee Shaw American charity worker and social reformer, an advocate of the doctrine that charity should not merely relieve suffering but that it should also rehabilitate the recipient.
Lowell, Percival: American astronomer who predicted the existence of the planet Pluto and initiated the search that ended in its discovery.
Lowell, Robert, Jr.: American poet noted for his complex, autobiographical poetry.
Lower Burma: historical and geographic division of Burma (Myanmar), referring to the southern coastal and delta region on the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea (as opposed to Upper Burma). It ...
Lower Canada: in Canadian history, the region in Canada now known as Quebec. Known as Lower Canada from 1791 to 1841, the region became known as Canada East (q.v.) with the Act ...
Lower Egypt: geographic and cultural division of Egypt consisting primarily of the triangular Nile River delta region and bounded generally by the 30th parallel north in the south and by the Mediterranean ...
Lower Hutt: city, Wellington local government region, southern North Island, New Zealand, about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Wellington. It is the major business centre for the highly urbanized Hutt River ...
Lower Saxony: constituent Land (state) of Germany. The second largest Land in size, it occupies an important band of territory across the northwestern part of the nation. Lower Saxony stretches from The ...
Lower Southampton: township, Bucks county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., just northeast of Philadelphia. Many of the early settlers were English Quakers, who became known as the Friends of Southampton. The area was called ...
lower vascular plant: any of the spore-bearing vascular plants, including the ferns, club mosses, spike mosses, quillworts, horsetails, and whisk ferns. Once considered of the same evolutionary line, these plants were formerly placed ...
Lowes, John Livingston: American scholar of English literature and persuasive teacher, known for his scholarly method in tracing authors' sources and his allusive style of speaking and writing.
Lowestoft: town, Waveney district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England, that originated as a Danish settlement on Lowestoft Ness, the most easterly point in the United Kingdom. From 1757 until ...
Lowestoft porcelain: English phosphatic soft-paste ware, resembling Bow porcelain, produced in Lowestoft, Suffolk, from 1757 to 1802; the wares are of a domestic kind, such as pots, teapots, and jugs. Generally on ...
Lowie, Robert H: Austrian-born American anthropologist whose extensive studies of North American Plains Indians include exemplary research on the Crow. He also influenced anthropological theory through such works as Culture and Ethnology (1917), ...
Lowin, John: English actor, a colleague of William Shakespeare.
Lowlands: cultural and historical region of Scotland, comprising the portion of the country southeast of a line drawn from Dumbarton to Stonehaven; northwest of the line are the Highlands. Traditionally, the ...
Lowndes, Marie Adelaide: nee Belloc, pen name Mrs. Belloc Lowndes English novelist and playwright best known for murder mysteries that were often based on actual murder cases.
Lowry, L.S.: English painter noted for his industrial landscapes that express the bleakness and loneliness of modern urban life.
Lowry, Malcolm: English novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose masterwork is Under the Volcano (1947; reissued 1962). It was begun in 1936 and is redolent of that period, when the world itself ...
loxodrome: curve cutting the meridians of a sphere at a constant nonright angle. Thus, it may be seen as the path of a ship sailing always oblique to the meridian and ...
Loxonema: genus of extinct gastropods (snails) found as fossils in rocks of Ordovician to Early Carboniferous age (505 to 320 million years ago). Loxonema has a distinctive high-spired, slender shell with ...
Loxton: town, southeastern South Australia. It lies along the Murray River and is the service centre for an extensive, irrigated fruit-raising area. Major European settlement of the region began in 1894, ...
Loy, Mina: modernist poet whose strongly feminist work portrayed unflinchingly the intimate aspects of female sexuality and emotional life.
Loy, Myrna: American motion-picture actress who began her screen career playing treacherous femmes fatales and who attained stardom during the 1930s in roles as glib, resourceful sophisticates. Dubbed the "Queen of Hollywood" ...
Loyal Publication Society: either of two groups, one in New York and one in New England, that during the American Civil War published pamphlets and broadsides supporting the Union and blasting Copperheads, or ...
loyalist: colonist loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution. Loyalists constituted about one-third of the population of the American colonies during that conflict. They were not confined to any particular ...
Loyalty Islands: limestone coral group in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Comprising the islands of Ouvea, Lifou, and Mare (qq.v.), the group has a total area of ...
Loyd, Sam: American puzzle maker who was best known for composing chess problems and games, including Parcheesi.
Loyola University Chicago: private, coeducational university in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church. Loyola University was founded in 1870 on the near west side ...
Loyola, Saint Ignatius of: Spanish theologian and one of the most influential figures in the Catholic Reformation of the 16th century, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Paris in 1534.
Lozi: a complex of about 25 peoples of about 6 cultural groups inhabiting western Zambia, the area formerly known as Barotseland in Zambia and speaking Benue-Congo languages of the Niger-Congo family.
LSD: potent synthetic hallucinogenic drug that can be derived from the ergot alkaloids (as ergotamine and ergonovine, principal constituents of ergot, the grain deformity and toxic infectant of flour caused by ...