"a tied up Isaac Evers, the apparent mastermind behind the Gasworks plot, who claims he only wanted to burn down Gotham Industrial in order to collect on the insurance money, as he couldn't collect on the damage left by Freeze without revealing his financial backers, particularly the Joker. With the Harlequin of Hate having funded the research with filthy lucre, Evers would be arrested for criminal facilitation and conspiracy if he revealed his affiliation with the notorious criminal and resorted to hiring the Joker's men and using his equipment in order to throw the cops off his trail after burning"
"Lustre (mineralogy) Lustre or luster is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. The word traces its origins back to the Latin ""lux"", meaning ""light"", and generally implies radiance, gloss, or brilliance. A range of terms are used to describe lustre, such as ""earthy"", ""metallic"", ""greasy"", and ""silky"". Similarly, the term ""vitreous"" (derived from the Latin for glass, ""vitrum"") refers to a glassy lustre. A list of these terms is given below. Lustre varies over a wide continuum, and so there are no rigid boundaries between the different types of lustre. (For this reason,"
"Lute (material) Lute (from Latin ""Lutum"", meaning mud, clay etc.) was a substance used to seal and affix apparatus employed in chemistry and alchemy, and to protect component vessels against heat damage by fire; it was also used to line furnaces. ""Lutation"" was thus the act of ""cementing vessels with lute"". In pottery, luting is a technique for joining pieces of unfired leather-hard clay together, using a wet clay slip or slurry as adhesive. The complete object is then fired. Large objects are often built up in this way, for example the figures of the Terracotta Army in ancient China."
"standards varied over time and from place to place. European Lutes: African Lutes: Asian Lutes: Societies Online music and other useful resources Photos of historic instruments Articles and resources Lute A lute () is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. More specifically, the term ""lute"" can refer to an instrument from the family of European lutes. The term also refers generally to any string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound"
"Lute A lute () is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. More specifically, the term ""lute"" can refer to an instrument from the family of European lutes. The term also refers generally to any string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound table (in the Hornbostel–Sachs system). The strings are attached to pegs or posts at the end of the neck, which have some type of turning mechanism to enable the"
"as the father of all sins. Lust, or lechery (Latin, """"luxuria"""" (carnal)), is intense longing. It is usually thought of as intense or unbridled sexual desire, which leads to fornication, adultery, rape, bestiality, un-natural sexual practices and other immoral sexual acts. However, lust could also mean simply desire in general; thus, lust for money, power, and other things are sinful. In accordance with the words of Henry Edward Manning, the impurity of lust transforms one into ""a slave of the devil"". Lust, if not managed properly, can subvert propriety. German philosopher Schopenhauer wrote as follows: Dante defined lust as the"
"Part 2"" and ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"". The latter play seems to contain jokes about Lucy's name similar to the ""lousy"" ballad, when Shallow and his dim-witted relative Slender discuss the ""luces"" (pike) in their coat of arms, which unintentionally becomes literally lice-ridden when this is misinterpreted as a ""dozen white louses"". Lucy's coat of arms contained ""luces"". The theory dates back to c.1688-1700, as part of Davies's comments that Lucy ""oft had him whipped and sometimes imprisoned"". He goes on, ""his revenge is so great that he [Lucy] is his Justice Clodpate [i.e. Shallow], and calls him a"
"self-seeking. This is seen as lust. The Latin for ""extravagance"" (Latin: ""luxuria"") was used by St Jerome to translate a variety of biblical sins, including drunkenness and sexual excess. Gregory the Great placed ""luxuria"" as one of the seven capital sins (it is often considered the least serious of the seven deadly sins), narrowing its scope to disordered desire, and it was in this sense that the Middle Ages generally took ""luxuria"", (although the Old French cognate was adopted into English as ""luxury"" without its sexual meaning by the 14th century). In Romanesque art, the personified Luxuria is generally feminine,"
"Slut Slut is generally a term for a woman or girl who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous. It is usually used as an insult, sexual slur or offensive term of disparagement (slut-shaming). It originally meant ""a dirty, slovenly woman"", and is rarely used to refer to men, generally requiring clarification by use of the terms ""male slut"" or ""man whore"". The first recorded use of the word was a reference to a man, in Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"", in which he is referring to the man's untidy appearance. ""Slut-shaming"" is a related"
"Larrikin Larrikin is an Australian English term meaning ""a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good hearted person"", or ""a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions"". In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the term generally meant ""a lout, a hoodlum"" or ""a young urban rough, a hooligan"", meanings which became obsolescent. The term ""larrikin"" was reported in an English dialect dictionary in 1905, referring to ""a mischievous or frolicsome youth"". The word ""lupikin"", from Scottish Gaelic ""lubaiche"", in the Cromarty Fisherfolk dialect, meaning ""scoundrel"", is unlikely to be cognate. Commentators have noted the"
"family coat of arms, they mention that it depicted ""luces"" (pike). Their family symbols unintentionally become literally lice-ridden when this is misinterpreted as a ""dozen white louses"". Thomas Lucy's coat of arms contained ""luces"". The theory that Shallow was a joke at Lucy's expense dates back to c.1688, when Archdeacon Richard Davies wrote that Shakespeare was ""much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and Rabbits particularly from Sr. Lucy. . . his revenge is so great that he [Lucy] is his Justice Clodpate, and calls him a great man and that in allusion to his name bore three louses"
"and filled all the land."" John Ray recorded a Scottish proverb, ""Gie a beggar a bed and he'll repay you with a Louse."" In Shakespeare's ""Troilus and Cressida"", Thersites compares Menelaus, brother of Agamemnon, to a louse: ""Ask me not what I would be, if I were not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus."" Louse Louse (plural: lice) is the common name for members of the order Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless insect. Lice are obligate parasites, living externally on warm-blooded hosts which include every species"
"Kludge A kludge or kluge () is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet slang, evolutionary neuroscience, and government. A software kludge (often called ""spaghetti code"") is frequently the result of hacking. See photo of ""A network kludge"" at right. The word has alternate spellings ("""" and """"), pronunciations ( and , rhyming with ""judge"" and ""stooge"" respectively) and several proposed etymologies. In the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" (2nd ed., 1989), the ""kludge"" entry cites one source"
"may have had a sacrificial element. The ""wolf priests"", organized into two colleges and later three, who participated in the Lupercalia. The most famous ""Lupercus"" was Mark Antony. A ritual of purification which was held every five years under the jurisdiction of censors in Rome. Its original meaning was purifying by washing in water (Lat. ""lustrum"" from verb ""luo"", ""I wash in water""). The time elapsing between two subsequent lustrations being of five years the term ""lustrum"" took up the meaning of a period of five year. ""Manubia"" is a technical term of the Etruscan discipline, and refers to the"
"Louse Louse (plural: lice) is the common name for members of the order Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless insect. Lice are obligate parasites, living externally on warm-blooded hosts which include every species of bird and mammal, except for monotremes, pangolins, and bats. Lice are vectors of diseases such as typhus. Chewing lice live among the hairs or feathers of their host and feed on skin and debris, while sucking lice pierce the host's skin and feed on blood and other secretions. They usually spend their whole life on a single host, cementing their eggs, which are known"
"Lur A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural blowing horn without finger holes that is played by embouchure. Lurs can be straight or curved in various shapes. The purpose of the curves was to make long instruments easier to carry (e.g. for marching, like the modern sousaphone) and to prevent directing the loud noise at nearby people. The name lur is particularly given to two distinct types of ancient wind instruments. The more recent type is made of wood and was in use in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages. The older type, named after the more recent"
"Cruft Cruft is a jargon word for anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for defective, superseded, useless, superfluous, or dysfunctional elements in computer software. Around 1958, the term was used in the sense of ""garbage"" by students frequenting the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the 1959 edition of the club's dictionary, it was defined as ""that which magically amounds in the Clubroom just before you walk in to clean up. In other words, rubbage"". Its author Peter Samson later explained that this was"
"interior psychological state, the ""thinking"" about sex, the desire for it. Lechery is an outward behavior, a physical manifestation or behavior pattern of an interior condition of lust. Lust does not necessarily result in the action of lechery. Lascivious behavior Lascivious behavior is sexual behavior or conduct that is considered crude and offensive, or contrary to local moral or other standards of appropriate behavior. In this sense ""lascivious"" is similar in meaning to ""lewd"", ""lustful"", ""indecent"", ""lecherous"", ""unchaste"", ""licentious"" or ""libidinous"". In American legal jargon, ""lascivious"" is a semi-technical term indicating immoral sexual actions and in certain cases, words or"
"""most fleshy fruits undergo a new kind of alteration; their flesh either rots or blets."" In Shakespeare's ""Measure for Measure"", he alluded to bletting when he wrote (IV. iii. 167) ""They would have married me to the rotten Medler."" Thomas Dekker also draws a misogynistic comparison in his play The Honest Whore: ""I scarce know her, for the beauty of her cheek hath, like the moon, suffered strange eclipses since I beheld it: women are like medlars – no sooner ripe but rotten."" Elsewhere in literature, D. H. Lawrence dubbed medlars ""wineskins of brown morbidity."" There is also an old"
"The figurative meaning ""wealthy, full of some desired quality"" dates from the 1620s (e.g., a pirate calling a heavily laden ship he aims to plunder a ""juicy catch""). The meaning ""lively, suggestive, racy, sensational"" (e.g., a juicy scandal) is from 1883. Juice Juice is a drink made from the extraction or pressing of the natural liquid contained in fruit and vegetables. It can also refer to liquids that are flavored with concentrate or other biological food sources, such as meat or seafood, such as clam juice. Juice is commonly consumed as a beverage or used as an ingredient or flavoring"
"Fulgurite Fulgurites (from the Latin ""fulgur"", meaning ""lightning"") are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified, and/or fused soil, sand, rock, organic debris and other sediments that can form when lightning discharges into ground. They can therefore be referred to as petrified lightning. They are classified as a variety of the mineraloid lechatelierite, although their absolute chemical composition is dependent on the physical and chemical properties of the usually granular-crystalline material providing an electrically and thermally conductive dissipation network for lightning-facilitated energy transfer. They are commonly hollow and/or branching assemblages of glassy, protocrystalline, and heterogeneously microcrystalline tubes, crusts, slags,"
"of wild beasts, plural lustra ( ), a den of vice. Lustrum A lustrum (, plural lustra) was a term for a five-year period in Ancient Rome. The lustration was originally a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors in the name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census. The sacrifice was often in the form of an animal sacrifice, known as a suovetaurilia. These censuses were taken at five-year intervals, thus a lustrum came to refer to the five-year inter-census period. ' (from ', ) is a lustration or"
"Lutite Lutite is old terminology, which is not widely used, by Earth scientists in field descriptions for fine-grained, sedimentary rocks, which are composed of silt-size sediment, clay-size sediment, or a mixture of both. When mixed with water lutites often disintegrate into mud. Because this is a field term, there is a lack of any precise definition for it based upon specific grain-size characteristics. Lutites include a variety of fine-grained sedimentary rocks, including calcisiltite, calcilutite, claystone, mudstone, shale, and siltstone. It is equivalent to the term mudstone and the Greek-derived term pelite. Lutite was first used in 1904 by Grabau, who"
"corruption of Latin ""urceus"" 'jug', 'pitcher', or of ""orca"" 'pot', 'jar'. The word 'orc' in the first gloss has the meaning 'cup': it is descended from an early Germanic borrowing from ""urceus"", related to Gothic ""aurkeis"" 'cup', both related to Modern English ""ark"" 'vessel', 'container'. In the second gloss, the Latin ""orcus"" is equated to Old English 'giant', 'hell-devil', but not to any already-existing Old English word 'orc', as Tolkien mistakenly thought. Orc is a proper name for one of the characters in the complex mythology of William Blake. Unlike the Tolkien's humanoid monster, his Orc is a positive figure,"
"Lunate Lunate is a crescent or moon-shaped microlith. In the specialized terminology of lithic reduction, a lunate flake is a small, crescent-shaped flake removed from a stone tool during the process of pressure flaking. In the Natufian period, a lunate was a small crescent-shaped stone tool that was sometimes used to harvest grasses. In archaeology a lunate is a small stone artifact, that has a blunt straight edge and a sharpened crescent shaped back. The word originates from the Latin word lunatus which means to bend like a crescent, and from luna meaning moon in Latin. A lunate object can"
"of the one about the trouser button. But the one about not letting it come into contact with metal is absolutely true..."" In ""Mort"" it was drunk on the Sto Plains, but in later books it is associated with Lancre, where it is distilled by Nanny Ogg (whose particular variant is known as ""Suicider""). The consumption of scumble in Lancre has earned the populace of the area a reputation for having ""Four brain cells, huddling together for warmth"". The word scumble is a pun on the West Country cider known as scrumpy, but scumble is clearly stronger than cider and"
"Clootie A clootie (also cloutie; from the Old English clūt: ""a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag"") is a strip or piece of cloth, a rag or item of clothing; it can also refer to fabric used in the patching of clothes or the making of proddy rugs (a.k.a. ""clootie mats""). The saying ""Ne'er cast a cloot til Mey's oot"" conveys a warning not to shed any clothes before the summer has fully arrived and the May flowers (hawthorn blossoms) are in full bloom. The saying also appears in English as ""Ne'er cast a clout till May"
"intellectual French aristocrats. And half of the time I believe it really is a practical joke by a bunch of intellectual French aristocrats. And then part of the time I think it is a real conspiracy. Ludibrium Ludibrium is a word derived from Latin ""ludus"" (plural ""ludi""), meaning a plaything or a trivial game. In Latin ""ludibrium"" denotes an object of fun, and at the same time, of scorn and derision, and it also denotes a capricious game itself: e.g., ""ludibria ventis"" (Virgil), ""the playthings of the winds"", ""ludibrium pelagis"" (Lucretius), ""the plaything of the waves""; ""Ludibrio me adhuc habuisti"""
"each soul to one of the lower eight circles. In the second circle are those overcome by lust. These souls are blown back and forth by the terrible winds of a violent storm, without hope of rest. The third circle is gluttony, where the gluttons, guarded by Cerberus, are forced to lie in a vile slush produced by ceaseless foul, icy rain. Those whose attitude toward material goods deviated from the appropriate mean are punished in the fourth circle, avarice. They include the avaricious or miserly, who hoarded possessions, and the prodigal, who squandered them. The two groups are guarded"
"Lucus In ancient Roman religion, a lucus is a sacred grove. ""Lucus"" was one of four Latin words meaning in general ""forest, woodland, grove"" (along with ""nemus"", ""silva"", and ""saltus""), but unlike the others it was primarily used as a religious designation. Servius defines the ""lucus"" as ""a large number of trees with a religious significance,"" as distinguished from the ""silva"", a natural forest, and a ""nemus"", an arboretum that is not consecrated. A ""saltus"" usually implied a wilderness area with varied topographical features. A ""lucus"" was a cultivated place, more like a wooded park than a forest, and might"
"Louver A louver (American English) or louvre (British English) is a window blind or shutter with horizontal slats that are angled to admit light and air, but to keep out rain and direct sunshine. The angle of the slats may be adjustable, usually in blinds and windows, or fixed. Louvers originated in the Middle Ages as lantern-like constructions in wood that were fitted on top of roof holes in large kitchens to allow ventilation while keeping out rain and snow. They were originally rather crude constructions consisting merely of a barrel. Later they evolved into more elaborate designs made of"
"of the terraces of Mount Purgatory so as to purge themselves of lustful thoughts and feelings and finally win the right to reach the Earthly Paradise at the summit. In Dante's ""Inferno"", unforgiven souls guilty of the sin of lust are whirled around for all eternity in a perpetual tempest, symbolic of the passions by which, through lack of self-control, they were buffeted helplessly about in their earthly lives. Gluttony (Latin, ) is the overindulgence and overconsumption of anything to the point of waste. The word derives from the Latin ""gluttire"", meaning to gulp down or swallow. In Christianity, it"
"for the phallus. The function of the clitoris ""(landica)"" was ""well understood"". In classical Latin, ""landica"" was a highly indecorous obscenity found in graffiti and the ""Priapea""; the clitoris was usually referred to with a metaphor, such as Juvenal's ""crista"" (""crest""). Cicero records that a hapless speaker of consular rank broke up the senate just by saying something that sounded like ""landica"": ""hanc culpam maiorem an il-""lam dicam""?"" (""Shall I call this fault greater or that one?"" heard as ""this greater fault or a clitoris?""). ""Could he have been more obscene?"" Cicero exclaims, observing at the same time that ""cum"