n. [ from kalumb, its native name in Mozambique. ] (Med.) The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic. [ Written also colombo, columbo, and calombo. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

American calumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called American gentian. Its root has been used in medicine as bitter tonic in place of calumba. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root. [ Written also colombin, and columbin ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named from the estate of the Duke of Newcastle. ] (Zool.) A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) See Calumba. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl.; [ L. columba pigeon. ] (Zool.) An order of birds, including the pigeons. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Columbaria /plu> [ L. See Columbary. ] (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A dovecote or pigeon house. (b) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Columbaries [ L. columbarium, fr. columba a dove. ] A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. colombate. See Columbium. ] (Chem.) A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Kolumbatz, a mountain in Germany. ] (Zool.) See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., dim. of L. columba a dove. So called from a fancied resemblance in color and form, of some species. ] (Zool.) A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer. Dr. T. Dwight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Columbia the United States. ] (Mil.) A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Since the War of 1812 the Columbiad has been much modified, especially by General Rodman, and the improved form now used in seacoast defense is often called the Rodman gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Columbia. ] Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Columbium. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Columbic acid (Chem.), a weak acid derived from columbic or niobic oxide, Nb2O5; -- called also niobic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Columbo. ] Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root. [ 1913 Webster ]

Columbic acid (Chem.), an organic acid extracted from the columbo root as a bitter, yellow, amorphous substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Colombier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Columbium + -ferous. ] Producing or containing columbium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. columbinus, fr. columba dove. ] Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. “Columbine innocency.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. columbina, L. columbinus dovelike, fr. columba dove: cf. F. colombine. Perh. so called from the beaklike spurs of its flowers. ] 1. (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, Aquilegia vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; Aquilegia Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. colombite. See Columbium. ] (Min.) A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Columbia America. ] (Chem.) A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) See Calumba. [ 1913 Webster ]

The 12th day of October, on which day in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America, landing on one of the Bahama Islands (probably the one now commonly called Watling Island), and naming it “San Salvador”; -- called also Discovery Day. This day is made a legal holiday in many States of The United States. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. elumbis; e + lumbus loin. ] Weak or lame in the loins. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the iliac and lumbar regions; as, the iliolumbar artery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to lumbago. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. lumbus loin. See Lumbar. ] (Med.) A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. lumbus loin. See Loin. ] (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lumbar region (Anat.), the region of the loin; specifically, a region between the hypochondriac and iliac regions, and outside of the umbilical region. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To move heavily, as if burdened. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound. ] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard. ] 1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [ U.S. ] --
Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [ U.S. ] --
Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc. --
dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering. ] 1. To heap together in disorder. “ Stuff lumbered together.” Rymer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who works at lumbering; a lumberman.
Syn. -- lumberman, timberman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Zool.) The grey jay. [ Canadian ] [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Lumbermen One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. Maine; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. lumbus loin + E. sacral. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lumbricus. ] (Zool.) An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. lombrical. See Lumbric. ] (Anat.) Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet. -- n. A lumbrical muscle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lumbricus worm + -form. ] (Zool.) Resembling an earthworm; vermiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Lumbricus + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. See Lumbric. ] (Zool.) A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochæta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ Ceylonese word. ] (Bot.) A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, Nelumbo speciosa. [ Written also Nelumbium. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. plomb, L. plumbum lead, a leaden ball or bullet; cf. Gr. mo`lybos, mo`libos, mo`lybdos. Cf. Plummet, Plunge. ] A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plumb bob. See Bob, 4. --
Plumb joint, in sheet-metal work, a lap joint, fastened by solder. --
Plumb level. See under Level. --
Plumb line. (a) The cord by which a plumb bob is suspended; a plummet. (b) A line directed to the center of gravity of the earth. --
Plumb rule, a narrow board with a plumb line, used by builders and carpenters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a plumb direction; perpendicularly. “Plumb down he falls.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plumbed p. pr. & vb. n. Plumbing ] 1. To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test. [ 1913 Webster ]

He did not attempt to plumb his intellect. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Leadwork [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. plumbago leadwort, fr. plumbum lead; cf. F. plombagin. ] (Chem.) A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family. [ 1913 Webster ]