Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gadoid fish, the burbot. See Lota.
  • noun Lotus.
  • To lurk; lie hidden.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The European burbot.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To lurk; to lie hid.

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Examples

  • Marmots, glacier fleas (spring-tails, not true fleas), admirable trout, and burbot (the fresh-water cod, called "lote" in French), outrageous wood-gnats, which English people call by a Portuguese name as soon as they are on the Continent, and singing birds (usually one is too late in the season to hear them) were our zoological accompaniment.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • Nor are the commentators agreed whether they were cut out of a kind of lote-tree in paradise called al Sedra, or whether they were chrysolites, emeralds, rubies or common stone. 1 But they say that they were each ten or twelve cubits long; for they suppose that not only the ten commandments but the whole law was written thereon: and some add that the letters were cut quite through the tables, so that they might be read on both sides2-which is a fable of the Jews.

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

  • a large size in the Lake of Geneva (where I have seen it netted) is the burbot -- called "lote" in French -- a true cod of fresh-water habit which, though common throughout Europe and Northern Asia, is, in our country, only taken in a few rivers opening on the east coast.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • If its the proceeding, I think politics could be a lote more interesting.

    Extra Fizz: 36th Dems Oppose Nickerson Bike Improvements « PubliCola 2010

  • For god sake bring another writer along and A lote more action.

    I Am Legend Director Francis Lawrence Talks Prequel « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • I've been meaning to make handvo with the lote my mother-in-law sent, and now your post is egging me on!

    Weekend Lunch Series: Spinach-Zucchini Handvoh Cardamom 2008

  • When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear

    # of Houses on the market 2007

  • When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear

    # of Houses on the market 2007

  • When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear

    # of Houses on the market 2007

  • When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear

    # of Houses on the market 2007

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