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LEVINER :  noun  a hound, a mongrel. See PATIBULARY

LIRIPOOP :  noun  the tail on the hood of an academic gown. See PATIBULARY

LOBDOTTEREL :  noun  a gullible klutz. See LOOBY

LOOBY :  noun  from "lob," clumsy; a clod, a klutz

[Seventeenth-century English provided] . . . what rich neologisms! Slabberdegullion† druggels,† lubbardly louts, blockish grutnols,† doddipol† joltheads, lobdotterels,† codshead loobies, ninnyhammer† flycatchers, and other suchlike defamatory epithets!

--Davies, The Rebel Angels, p. 50.

LOXODROMIC :  adj  tackling, oblique sailing

. . . a ship, as it were, straining at its moorings in a contrary current and arming for its sinuous and loxodromic voyage. . . .

--Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, p. 433.

LUPINE :  adj  having to do with wolves. Compare THOOID

For such flirtatious occasions my father had a smile lupine rather than ursine,† a kind of engagingly slimy grin. . . .

--DeVries, Consenting Adults, p. 10.

LUSTRATION :  noun  the act of brightening, a purification by cleansing. Compare ABLUTE

Enderby recognised that the coming occasion called for a bath. Lustration before the sacramental meal.

--Burgess, Enderby, p. 34.

It lasted a long time, this swim which seemed to have some of the qualities of an esoteric act of lustration.

--Durrell, Monsieur, p. 128.