Chapter Lording to Loss of L by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

To lose ground

, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage. — To lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. "The mutineers lost heart." Macaulay. — To lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment.

In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads.

Whitney.

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To lose one's self. (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. — To lose sight of. (a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land. (b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue.

Lose
(Lose) v. i. To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

We 'll . . . hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out.

Shak.

Losel
(Los"el) n. [From the root of lose, loss. &radic127. Cf. Lorel.] One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. [Archaic] Spenser.

One sad losel soils a name for aye.

Byron.

Losel
(Los"el), a. Wasteful; slothful.

Losenger
(Los"en*ger) n. [OF. losengier, losengeor, fr. losengier to deceive, flatter, losenge, flattery, Pr. lauzenga, fr. L. laus praise. Cf. Lozenge.] A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done.

Holinshed.

Losengerie
(Los"en*ger*ie) n. [OF.] Flattery; deceit; trickery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Loser
(Los"er) n. One who loses. South.

Losing
(Lo"sing) a. [See Losenger.] Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. [Obs.]

Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick- named Losing, that is, the Flatterer.

Fuller.

Losing
(Los"ing) a. [See Lose, v. t.] Causing or incurring loss; as, a losing game or business.

Who strive to sit out losing hands are lost.

Herbert.

Losingly
(Los"ing*ly) adv. In a manner to incur loss.

Loss
(Loss) n. [AS. los loss, losing, fr. leósan to lose. &radic127. See Lose, v. t.]

1. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

Assured loss before the match be played.

Shak.

2. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.

Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss.

Shak.