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Definition & Synonyms
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• Lot
- (n.) The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
- (n.) A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.
- (n.) A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.
- (n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without mans choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.
- (n.) That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
- (n.) A prize in a lottery.
- (n.) A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so.
- (v. t.) To allot; to sort; to portion.
Synonyms:
Administer, Allot, Band, Batch, Bunch, Caboodle, Circle, Deal, Destiny, Dispense, Distribute, Draw, Fate, Flock, Fortune, Heap, Luck, Mass, Mess, Mickle, Mint, Muckle, Peck, Pile, Plenty, Portion, Pot, Raft, Set, Sight, Slew, Spate, Stack, Wad,
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• Lotus
- (n.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.
- (n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
- (n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.
- (n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.
- (n.) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
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• Lotophagi
- (n. pl.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.
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