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Luba
Cluster of Bantu-speaking peoples who share a common political history surrounding the Luba empires (see Luba-Lunda states). They are savanna and forest dwellers who hunt and gather, engage in agriculture, and keep livestock; they also fish intensively in the Congo and its tributaries. They have associations for hunting, magic, and medicine and a well-developed literature that includes epic cycles.


lye
Alkaline (see alkali) liquid extracted by soaking wood ashes in water, commonly used for washing and in making soap. More generally, lye is any strong alkaline solution or solid, such as sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) or potassium hydroxide (caustic potash).


Lyly
English writer. Educated at Oxford, Lyly gained fame in London with two prose romances, Euphues (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580). The novels inspired "euphuism," an elegant, extravagant Elizabethan literary style, and made Lyly the first English prose stylist to leave an enduring impression on the language. As a dramatist he also contributed to the development of prose dialogue in English comedy, a genre to which he devoted himself almost exclusively after 1580. Endimion (performed 1588) is considered his finest play.


Lynd
U.S. sociologists. Husband and wife (born respectively in New Albany, Ind., and La Grange, Ill.), the Lynds taught for several decades at Columbia Univ. and Sarah Lawrence College, respectively. In their collaboration on the studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classics of sociological literature as well as popular successes, they became the first scholars to apply the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city (Muncie, Ind.).


lynx
Short-tailed forest cat (Felis lynx) of Europe, Asia, and N N. America. The Canada lynx is sometimes regarded as a distinct species (Felis canadensis). The lynx has long legs, large paws, tufted ears, hairy soles, and a broad, short head. Its coat, which forms a bushy ruff on the neck, is tawny to cream-colored and mottled with brown and black. Its dense, soft winter fur has been used for trimming garments. Lynx are approximately 30-40 in. (80-100 cm) long, without the 4-8-in. (10-20-cm) tail, and stand about 24 in. (60 cm) high at the shoulder. They weigh 20-45 lbs (10-20 kg). Nocturnal and silent except during mating season, lynx live alone or in small groups. They climb and swim well, and feed on birds, small mammals, and occasionally deer. Some races are considered endangered.


Lyon
City (pop., 1990: 422,000), E central France. Located at the confluence of the Rhô ne and Saô ne rivers, it was founded as the Roman military colony Lugdunum in 43 BC (see Lorraine), and became a principal city of Gaul. It was incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire in 1032 and into the kingdom of France in 1312. It flourished economically in the 15th cent., and by the 17th cent. ...

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