Loathful
(Loath"ful) a.
1. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. "Loathful eyes." Spenser.
2. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.
Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust.
Spenser. Loathing
(Loath"ing), n. Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races.
Macaulay. Loathingly
(Loath"ing*ly), adv. With loathing.
Loathliness
(Loath"li*ness) n. Loathsomeness. [Obs.]
Loathly
(Loath"ly) a. [AS. laðlic.] Loathsome. [Obs.] " Loathly mouth." Spenser.
Loathly
(Loath"ly) adv.
1. Unwillingly; reluctantly.
This shows that you from nature loathly stray.
Donne. 2. (lo&thlig"ly) So as to cause loathing. [Obs.]
With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight.
Fairfax. Loathness
(Loath"ness) n. Unwillingness; reluctance.
A general silence and loathness to speak.
Bacon. Loathsome
(Loath"some) a. Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.
Macaulay. — Loath"some*ly. adv. — Loath"some*ness, n.
Loathy
(Loath"y) a. Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.
Loaves
(Loaves) n.; pl. of Loaf.
Lob
(Lob) n. [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead. Cf. Looby, Lubber.]
1. A dull, heavy person. " Country lobs." Gauden.
2. Something thick and heavy.
Lob
(Lob), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lobbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lobbing.] To let fall heavily or lazily.
And their poor jades
Lob down their heads.
Shak. To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.
Lob
(Lob), v. t. (Mining) See Cob, v. t.
Lob
(Lob), n. [Dan. lubbe.] (Zoöl.) The European pollock.
