Chapter Lumbey to Lychorida of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Luz, a bone which the Jews affirm remains uncorrupted till the last day, when it will form the nucleus of the new body. This bone Mahomet called Al ajb or the rump-bone.

Eben Ezra and Manasseh ben Israil say this bone is in the rump.

The learned rabbins of the Jews
Write, there’s a bone, which they call luez
I’ the rump of man.
   —S. Butler: Hudibras, iii. 2 (1678).

Lyæus [“spleen-melter”], one of the names of Bacchus.

He perchance the gifts
Of young Lyæus, and the dread exploits,
May sing.
   —Akenside: Hymn to the Naiads (1767).

Lybius (Sir), a very young knight, who undertook to rescue the lady of Sinadone. After overcoming sundry knights, giants, and enchanters, he entered the palace, when the whole edifice fell to pieces, and a horrible serpent coiled about his neck and kissed him. The spell being broken, the serpent turned into the lady of Sinadone, who became sir Lybius’s bride.—Libeaux (a romance).

Lycaon, king of Arcadia, instituted human sacrifices, and was metamorphosed into a wolf. Some say all his sons were also changed into wolves, except one named Nictimus. Oh that

Of Arcady the beares
Might plucke awaye thine ears;
The wilde wolfe, Licâon,
Bite asondre thy backe-bone!
   —Skelton: Philip Sparow (time, Henry VIII.)

For proof, when with Lycaon’s tyranny
Man durst not deal, then did Jove…
Him fitly to the greedy wolf transform.
   —Brooke: Declination of Monarchy (1633).

Lyceum, a gymnasium on the banks of the Ilissus, in Attica, where Aristotle taught philosophy as he paced the walks.

Guide my way
Through fair Lyceum’s walks.
   —Akenside: Pleasures of Imagination, i. 715 (1744).

Lychorida, nurse of Marina who was born at sea. Marina was the daughter of Pericles prince of Tyre and his wife Thaisa.—Shakespeare: Pericles Prince of Tyre (1608).