Bird's-foot Trefoil; a genus of plants plants belonging to the diadelphia class; and in the natural method ranking under the 32d order, *Papilio-nacea*. See Botany Index.

**Lotus of Homer.** See *Diospyros*, Egyptian Lotus. See *Nymphæa*.

**Libyan Lotus.** See *Rhamnus*, Index.

**Lovage.** See *Ligusticum*.

**Love,** in a large sense of the word, denotes all those affections of the pleasing kind which objects and incidents raise in us; thus we are said to love not only intelligent agents of morally good dispositions, but also sensual pleasures, riches, and honours. But