Leucosoid
(Leu"co*soid) a. [NL. Leucosia, the typical genus (fr. Gr. leyko`s white) + -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa.
Leucosphere
(Leu"co*sphere) n. [Leuco- + sphere.] (Astron.) The inner corona. [R.]
Leucoturic
(Leu`co*tu"ric) a. [Leuco- + allantoic + uric.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous
organic substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin. See Oxalantin.
Leucous
(Leu"cous) a. [Gr. leyko`s.] White; — applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and
hair.
Leucoxene
(Leu*cox"ene) n. [Leuco- + Gr. xe`nos stranger.] (Min.) A nearly opaque white mineral, in
part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.
Leukæmia
(Leu*kæ"mi*a) n. Leucocythæmia.
Leuke
(Leuke) a., Leukeness
(Leuke"ness), n. See Luke, etc.
Leukoplast
(Leu"ko*plast) n. (Bot.) See Leucoplast.
Levana
(||Le*va"na) n. [L., fr. levare to raise.] (Rom. Myth.) A goddess who protected newborn infants.
Levant
(Le"vant) a. [F., p. pr. of lever to raise.] (Law) Rising or having risen from rest; — said of cattle.
See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
Levant
(Le*vant") n. [It. levante the point where the sun rises, the east, the Levant, fr. levare to raise,
levarsi to rise: cf. F. levant. See Lever.]
1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
2. A levanter
Levant
(Le"vant) a. Eastern. [Obs.]
Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.
Milton. Levant
(Le*vant") v. i. [Cf. Sp. levantar to raise, go from one place to another.] To run away from
one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.] Thackeray.
Levanter
(Le*vant"er) n. [From Levant, v.] One who levants, or decamps. [Colloq. Eng.]
Levanter
(Le*vant"er), n. [From Levant, n.] A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean. W.
H. Russell.
Levantine
(Le*vant"ine) (le*vant"in or lev"ant*in; 277), a. [F. levantin, or It. levantino. See Levant, n.]
Of or pertaining to the Levant. J. Spencer.
Levantine
(Le*vant"ine), n.
1. A native or inhabitant of the Levant.
2. [F. levantine, or It. levantina.] A stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the Levant.
Levari facias
(||Le*va`ri fa"ci*as) (le*va`ri fa"shi*as). [Law L., cause to be levied.] A writ of execution at
common law.
