Definition of L:

• Yearly obligations to a financial institution.
• the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
• a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
• As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.
• An extension at right angles to the length of a main building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direction of the length of the main building; a wing.
• A short right- angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles.
• Having the general shape of the ( capital) letter L; as, an L beam, or L- beam.
• An elevated road; as, to ride on the L.
• is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid.
• As a numeral, stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.
• 1. Abbreviation for left, left eye. 2. Abbreviation for Latin limes, boundary, limit; used in an equation noting the reaction of toxin and antitoxin.
• Denotes the number of doses of toxic bouillon, fatal to a guinea- pig weighing 250 grams, which are necessary, when mixed with one antitoxin unit, to kill the animal within five days, one lethal dose being left uncombined.
• Twelfth letter of the alphabet; as a roman numeral fifty.
• The twelfth letter in the English alphabet.
• Something, as the wing of a house, having or making the form of an L; an ell.
• The twelfth letter of the alphabet, usually denominated a semi- vowel, or a liquid, and with only one sound in English, as in like, canal. At the end of monosyllables it is often doubled, as in fall, full, but not after diphthongs and digraphs, as foul, foal, & c. As a numeral it stands for 50; lb. stands for pound weight, and lbs. for pounds.
• Having the general shape of the ( capital) letter L; as, an beam, or L- beam.
• Elevated; - a symbol for el. as an abbreviation of elevated in elevated road or railroad.

Usage examples for L

1. Then, in the stop press of the Gleaner's final edition, appeared the following: " Baron Hague, Sir L. Jesson, Messrs.  The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Sax Rohmer

2. Miss Hinkle was again following it aloud: " 'H- e- l- e- n.  Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough

3. But this is to make swylce in l.  Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers

4. This Salary of 100 l.  The Present State of Virginia by Hugh Jones