loll
loll is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion. The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet. Dryden .
- 2.To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.
- 3.To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue. Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accubation
- accumbent
- all
- alluvial
- area
- azimuth
- back
- beam
- billiard
- bowling
- butte
- calm
- couch
- couchant
- cricket
- croquet
- dead
- decumbence
- decumbency
- decumbent
- discumbency
- down
- esplanade
- estrade
- even
- fell
- flat
- flatness
- flatten
- floor
- glass
- green
- ground
- horizontal
- horizontality
- horizontally
- instrument
- its
- jacent
- knock
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is loll.
- What is to hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion. The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet. Dryden called?
- What is to let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow called?
- What is to let hang from the mouth, as the tongue. Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues. Dryden called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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