Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 135 : lure, v. entice, tempt, seduce, allure, decoy.lurking-place, n. ambush, retreat, cover

lure, v. entice, tempt, seduce, allure, decoy.

lurking-place, n. ambush, retreat, cover.

luscious, a. delicious, delectable; cloying, fulsome, unctuous.

lush, a. juicy, succulent.

l.u.s.t, n. venereal appet.i.te, concupiscence, salacity, s.e.xual desire; longing, cupidity, desire, hankering. Antonym: anaphrodisia. See s.e.xual desire.

l.u.s.ter, n. brightness, gloss, glitter, sheen, brilliancy.

l.u.s.terless, a. dull, lackl.u.s.ter.

l.u.s.tful, a. lascivious, concupiscent, lecherous, licentiou-libidinous, salacious, carnal, lickerish, ruttish, prurient aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, lecherous.

l.u.s.tre, n. brilliancy, glitter, radiance, resplendence.

l.u.s.trous, a. See bright.

l.u.s.ty, a. robust, st.u.r.dy, stalwart, strapping, muscular.

luxuriance, n. exuberance, rampancy, richness.

luxuriant, a. exuberant, rampant, superabundant, excessive.

luxuriate, v. revel, wanton.

luxurious, a. voluptuous, epicurean, sybaritic.

luxury, n. voluptuousness, epicurism, sybaritism, luxuriousness.

lying, a. untruthful, false, mendacious, deceitful.

lying, n. falsehood, lie, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, fiction.

lying down. reclining, rec.u.mbent, acc.u.mbent; (face down) p.r.o.ne, prostrate; (face upward) supine.

lying down. reclining, reclination, accubation, rec.u.mbence; (face down) prostration, p.r.o.nation; (face upward) supination, supineness.

lying in wait. ambush, ambuscade.

lying round. circ.u.mjacent.--n. circ.u.mjacence.

lyre, n. See harp.

M

Machine, n. automaton (self-moving machine); mechanism; organization, system.

machinist, n. mechanician.

mad, a. crazy, insane, demented, maniacal, raving; indignant, enraged, irate, resentful; rabid; distracted, wild, infatuated. See angry.

madcap, n. hotspur, blood.--a. wild, reckless, rash.

madden, v. incense, anger, enrage, infuriate, provoke, exasperate, vex, inflame.

made up. devised, fabricated, artificial, sham, false, counterfeit.

madhouse, n. bedlam, insane asylum.

madman, n. maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac.

madness, n. dementia, insanity, craziness, mania, lunacy; monomania; frenzy, rage, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, indignation, anger.

magazine, n. storehouse, depot, repository; periodical, publication, ephemeris.

magic, n. enchantment, conjuration, wizardry, legerdemain prestidigitation, necromancy, jugglery, sorcery; fascination, witchery, charm.

magic, a. magical, necromantic, talismanic.

magician, n. conjurer, prestidigitator, sorcerer, wizard, necromancer, juggler, thaumaturge.

magnet, n. loadstone.

magnetist, n. magnetician.

magnificence, n. grandeur, sublimity, splendor, majesty

magnificent, a. splendid, superb, sublime, majestic, stately, grand.

magnify, v. augment, amplify, enlarge; overstate, exaggerate.

maid, n. See girl; lady's maid, Abigail; soubrette.

maiden, a. virgin; chaste, undefiled, pure; unused, fresh, new.

maidenhead, n. maidenhood; hymen (virginal membrane).

maidenhood, n. maidhood, girlhood, virginity.

mail, n. armor, hauberk; scale, sh.e.l.l; post.

mail, v. post.