Lumbar to Lung-grown
Lumbar (Lum"bar Lum"bal) a. [L. lumbus loin. See Loin.] (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as,
the lumbar arteries.
Lumbar region (Anat.), the region of the loin; specifically, a region between the hypochondriac and
iliac regions, and outside of the umbilical region.
Lumber (Lum"ber) 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.]
They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray. 2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
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.]
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.
Lumber (Lum"ber), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.]
1. To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together." Rymer.
2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
Lumber (Lum"ber), v. i.
1. To move heavily, as if burdened.
2. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper.
3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]
Lumberer (Lum"ber*er) n. One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a
lumberman. [U.S.]
Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell. Lumbering (Lum"ber*ing), n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
[U.S.]
Lumberman (Lum"ber*man) n.; pl. Lumbermen One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or
employment. [U.S.]
Lumbosacral (Lum`bo*sa"cral) 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.
Lumbric (Lum"bric) n. [L. lumbricus.] (Zoöl.) An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.
Lumbrical (Lum"bric*al) 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.
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