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CHRISTIAN AUGUST LOBECK (1781-186o)

JOAO LOBEIRA (c. 1233-1285)

FRANCISCO RODRIGUES LOBO (?1575–?1627); Portuguese bucolic writer, a lineal descendant in the family of letters of Bernardim Ribeiro and Christovam Falcao. All we know of his life is that he was born of rich and noble parents at Leiria, and lived at ease

JERONIMO LOBO (1593-1678)

LOBSTER (O.E. lopustre, lopystre, a corruption of Lat. locusta, lobster or other marine shell-fish; also a locust)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD

LOCARNO (Ger. Luggarus)

1ST BARON HENRY BROUGHAM LOCH LOCH (1827-1900)

LOCK (from the O. Eng. loc.; the word appears, in different forms, in many Teutonic languages, but with such various meanings as " hole," Ger. Loch, " lid," Swed. lock, &c.; probably the original was a root meaning " to enclose ")

GOTTFRIED CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH LOCKE (1791–1855)

JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704)

MATTHEW LOCKE (c. 1630-1677)

JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART (1794–1854)

QEORGE LOCKHART (1673-1731)

SIR WILLIAM STEPHEN ALEXANDER LOCKHART (1841–1900)

SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD (1846–1897)

WILTON LOCKWOOD (1861– )

SIR JOSEPH NORMAN LOCKYER (1836– )

LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA (Gr. a, priv., and -rafts, order; synonyms, Tubes dorsalis, posterior spinal sclerosis)

LOCSE (Ger. Leutschau)

LOCUS (Lat. for " place "; in Gr. rinros)

EDMUND LODGE (1756-1839)

HENRY CABOT LODGE (1850– )

SIR OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE (1851– )

THOMAS LODGE (c. 1558–1625)

LODGER AND LODGINGS

LODZ (L6dz; more correctly Lodzia)

LOESS (Ger. Loss)

CAPEL LOFFT (1751-1824)

LOFOTEN AND VESTERAALEN

LOFT (connected with " lift," i.e. raised in the air; O. Eng. lyft; cf. Ger. Luft; the French term is grenier and Ger. Boden)

ADAM LOFTUS (c. 1533-1605)

LOG (a word of uncertain etymological origin,possibly onomatopoeic; the New English Dictionary rejects the derivation from Norwegian lag, a fallen tree)

JOHN LOGAN (1748-1788)

JOHN LOGAN (c. 1725-1780)

JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN (1826-1886)

SIR WILLIAM EDMOND LOGAN (1798-1875)

LOGARITHM (from Gr. Abyos, word, ratio, and apx0µos, number)

FRIEDRICH LOGAU

LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

LOGOGRAPHI (X&yos, ypiic/w, writers of prose histories or tales)

LOGOTHETE (Med. Lat. logothela, Gr. Xo'yoBErtls, from Xdyos, word, account, calculation, and riOEvai, to set, i.e. " one who accounts, calculates or ratiocinates ")

LOGROSCINO (or Lo GRoscINo), NICOLA (1700?–1763 ?)

LOGWOOD (so called from the form in which it is imported)

JOHANN KONRAD LOHE

LOIN (through O. Fr. loigne or logne, mod. lunge, from Lat. Iambus)

ALFRED FIRIIIIN LOISY (1857– )

LOJA (formerly written Loxa)

LOMBARDS, or LANGOBARDI

LOMBOK (called by the natives Sasak)

CESARE LOMBROSO (1836-1909)

ETIENNE CHARLES DE LOMENIE DE BRIENNE (1727-1794)

MIKHAIL VASILIEVICH LOMONOSOV (1711-1765)

LOMZA, or LOMZHA

CHARLES WILLIAM STEWART LONDONDERRY (VANE), 3RD MARQUESS

EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF LONDONDERRY

2ND MARQUESS OF ROBERT STEWART LONDONDERRY (1769-1822)

LONDONDERRY, or DERRY

LONG ISLAND CITY

GEORGE LONG (1800-1879)

JOHN DAVIS LONG (1838– )

WILLIAM LONGCHAMP (d. 1197)

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)

PIETRO LONGHI (1702-1762)

CASSIUS LONGINUS (c. A.D. 213-273)

LONGITUDE (from Lat. longitudo, " length ")

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

CHARLES THOMAS LONGLEY (1794-1868)

LONGOMONTANUS (or LONGBERG), CHRISTIAN

JAMES LONGSTREET (1821-1904)

DUCHESSE DE ANNE GENEVIEVE LONGUEVILLE (1619—1679)

ELIAS LONNROT (1802-1884)

EARLS OF LONSDALE

WILLIAM LONSDALE (1994-1871)

LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

FERNAO LOPES (138o?—1459?)

FRANCISCO LOPEZ DE GOMARA (151o?-1555?)

CARLOS ANTONIO LOPEZ (1790-1862)

JAPANESE PLUM LOQUAT

LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE

LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR

LORD HIGH CONSTABLE

LORD HIGH STEWARD

LORD HIGH TREASURER

LORD JUSTICE CLERK

LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEAL

LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

JOHN LORD (1810-1894)

LORDS JUSTICES OF APPEAL

LORDS OF APPEAL IN

LORDS OF APPEAL IN ORDINARY

AMBROISE DE LORE (1396-1446)

LORELEI (from Old High Ger. Lur, connected with modern Ger. lauern, " to lurk," " be on the watch for," and equivalent to elf, and lai, " a rock ")

C LORENZO LOTTO

LORINER, or LORIMER (from O. Fr. loremier or lorenier, a maker of lorains, bridles, from Lat. lorum, thong, bridle; the proper form is with the n; a similar change is found in Latimer for Latiner, the title of an old official of the royal household, the k

GUSTAV ALBERT LORTZING (18o1-1851)

LORY (a word of Malayan origin signifying parrot, in general use with but slight variation of form in many European languages)

CHARLES LORY (1823-1889)

LOS ISLANDS (ISLAS DE LOS 1DOLos)

BENSON JOHN LOSSING (1813-1891)

LOT (Lat. Oltis)

LOTHAIR (825-869)

LOTHAIR (941–986)

PIERRE [the pen-name of Louis MARIE Ju.LIEN VIAUD] LOTI (1850— )

ANTONIO LOTTI (1667?-174o)

LOTTO (Ital. for " lot ")

LORENZO LOTTO (c. 1480-1556)

RUDOLF HERMANN LOTZE (1817-1881)

EMILE FRANCOIS LOUBET (1838— )

LOUIS (804–876)

LOUIS (893–911)

LOUIS ARMAND DE BOURBON

LOUIS GASTON ADRIEN DE SEGUR (182o-1881)

LOUIS HENRY JOSEPH

LOUIS II2 (846-879)

LOUIS OF NASSAU (1538-1574)

LOUIS PHILIPPE I

BARON JOSEPH DOMINIQUE LOUIS (1755-1837)

LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

LOUISE OF SAVOY (1476-1531)

LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810)

LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

LOURENCO MARQUES

LOUSE (O. Eng. leis, cf. Du. luis, Ger. Laus, Dan. and Swed. lus)

LOUVAIN (Flem. Leuven)

JEAN BAPTISTE LOUVET DE COUVRAI (176o-1797)

MARQUIS DE FRANCOIS MICHEL LE TELLIER LOUVOIS (1641–1691)

PIERRE LOUYS (187o– )

12TH BARON SIMON FRASER LOVAT (e. 1667-1747)

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)

VISCOUNT FRANCIS LOVELL LOVELL (1454-1487)

SAMUEL LOVER (1797-1868)

SETH LOW (1850- )

WILL HICOK LOW (1853- )

JOHANN KARL GOTTFRIED LOWE (1796-1869)

SIR HUDSON LOWE (1769-1844)

LOWELL INSTITUTE

ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL (1856— )

CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL (1835-1864)

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)

JOHN LOWELL (1743-1802)

JOHN LOWIN (1576-16J9)

THOMAS LOWNDES (1692-1748)

WILLIAM THOMAS LOWNDES (1798-1843)

ROBERT LOWTH (1710-1787)

LOXODROME (from Gr. Xo os, oblique, and Spoµos, course)

LOYALTY ISLANDS (Fr. Iles Loyalty or Loyaute)

ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA (1491–1556)

LOZENGE (from the Fr. losenge, or losange; the word also appears in Span. losanje, and Ital. losanga; perhaps derived from a word meaning a stone slab laid on a grave, which appears in forms such as Provencal lousa, Span. losa, the ultimate origin of whic

CVRILLOS LUCARIS (1572-1637)

LUCAS VAN LEYDEN (c. 1494-1533)

CHARLES LUCAS (1713–1771)

JOHN SEYMOUR LUCAS (1849– )

SIR CHARLES LUCAS (d. 1648)

LUCCA (anc. Luca)

BAGNI DI LUCCA (Baths of Lucca, formerly Bagno a Corsena)

LUCIUS LUCCEIUS

GIROLAMO LUCCHESINI (1751-1825)

LUCERNE (Ger. Luzern; Ital. Lucerne)

LAKE OF LUCERNE

PURPLE MEDICK LUCERNE

DENIS JEAN ACHILLE LUCHAIRE (1846-1908)

LUCHU ARCHIPELAGO (called also RIuKIu, Loo-exoo and L1uxru)

LUCIA (or LucY), ST

LUCIAN (d. 312)

LUCIAN [Aowaavos] (c. A.D. 120-180)

LUCIFER (d. 370/1)

LUCIFER (the Latinized form of Gr. 4scwo'4 bpos, " light-bearer ")

LUCILIUS JUNIOR

GAIUS LUCILIUS (c. 18o–ro3 B.C.)

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (c. 3 B.C.—A.D. 65)

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (c. 54 B.C.–A.D. 39)

LUCIUS CORNELIUS LENTULUS

LUCRE (Lat. lucrum, gain; the Indo-European root is seen in Gr. anoTavew, to enjoy, and in Ger. Lohn, wages)

LUCRETILIS MONS

LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) (c. 98–55 B.C.)

RICHARD DE LUCY (d. 1179)

LUDLOW GROUP, or LUDLOVIAN

EDMUND LUDLOW (c. 1617-1692)

LUDOLF (or LEUTHOLF), HIOB (1624-1704)

LUDWIG DEVRIENT (1784-1832)

KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDWIG (1816—1895)

OTTO LUDWIG (1813-1865)

LUGANO (Ger. Lauis)

LAKE OF LUGANO (also called CERESIO)

LUGANSK (also LUGAIr and LUGANSICIY ZAVOD)

SIR FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD (1858- )

LUGUDUNUM, or LUGDUNUM

BERNARDINO LUINI (?1465-?154o)

GOSPEL OF ST LUKE

LULL (or LvLLY), RAIMON, or RAYMOND (c. 1235-1315)

SIR HARRY BURNETT LUMSDEN (1821-1896)

LUNA (mod. Luni)

ALVARO DE LUNA (d. 1453)

TROELS FREDERIK LUND (1840- )

BENJAMIN LUNDY (1789-1839)

ROBERT LUNDY (fl. 1688)

LUNEBURGER HEIDE

LUNETTE (French diminutive of lune, moon)

GEORG LUNGE (1839- )

LUPINE (Lupinus)

LUPUS (Lat. lupus, wolf)