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Alectorides
Alectorides Al`ec*tor"i*des, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a cock.] (Zo["o]l.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
Alectoromachy
Alectoromachy A*lec`to*rom"a*chy, n. [Gr. ? cock + ? fight.] Cockfighting.
Alectoromancy
Alectoromancy A*lec"to*ro*man`cy, n. See Alectryomancy.
Apoplectoid
Apoplectiform Ap`o*plec"ti*form, Apoplectoid Ap`o*plec"toid, a. [Apoplectic + -form, -oid.] Resembling apoplexy.
Collectorate
Collectorate Col*lect"or*ate, n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
Collectorship
Collectorship Col*lect"or*ship, n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
Crax alector
Curassow Cu*ras"sow (k?-r?s"s?), n. [Native name in Brazil.] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracid[ae]. Note: The crested curassow (Crax alector) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird (Ourax Pauxi) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head.
Deflector
Deflector De*flect"or, n. (Mech.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).
Dialectology
Dialectology Di`a*lec*tol"o*gy, n. [Dialect + -logy.] That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects. --Beck.
Dialector
Dialector Di`a*lec"tor, n. One skilled in dialectics.
Electorality
Electorality E*lect`or*al"i*ty, n. The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. [R.] --Sir H. Wotton.
Electoress
Electoress E*lect"or*ess, n. [Fem. of Elector.] An electress. --Bp. Burnet.
Electorial
Electorial E`lec*to"ri*al, a. Electoral. --Burke.
Electorship
Electorship E*lect"or*ship, n. The office or status of an elector.
Emplecton
Emplecton Em*plec"ton, n. [F. or L. emplecton, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? interwoven, fr. ? to plait or weave in; ? in + ? to twist, weave.] A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] --Weale.
Flector
Flector Flec"tor, n. A flexor.
Lector
Lector Lec"tor (l[e^]k"t[o^]r), n. [L. See Lection.] (Eccl.) A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.
Plectognath
Plectognath Plec"tog*nath, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi. -- n. One of the Plectognathi.
Plectognathi
Plectognathi Plec*to"gna*thi, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ? twisted (fr. ? to plait, twist) + ? jaw.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary. Note: The upper jaw is immovably joined to the skull; the ventral fins are rudimentary or wanting; and the body is covered with bony plates, spines, or small rough ossicles, like shagreen. The order includes the diodons, filefishes, globefishes, and trunkfishes.
Plectognathic
Plectognathic Plec`tog*nath"ic, Plec-tognathous Plec-tog"na*thous, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.
Plectospondyli
Plectospondyli Plec`to*spon"dy*li, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? plaited + ?, ?, a vertebra.] (Zo["o]l.) An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebr[ae] united and much modified; the Eventognathi.
Plectospondylous
Plectospondylous Plec`to*spon"dy*lous, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Plectospondyli.
Prelector
Prelector Pre*lec"tor, n. [L. praelector.] A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. --Sheldon.
Selector
Selector Se*lect"or, n. [L.] One who selects.
Textor alector
Oxbird Ox"bird`, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The dunlin. (b) The sanderling. (c) An African weaver bird (Textor alector).

Meaning of LECTO from wikipedia

- with apices): Temptábat et scríbere, tabulásque et códicellós ad hoc in lectó sub cervícálibus cir****ferre solébat, ut, **** vacuum tempus esset, manum...
- Federico Lecot (born 1891, date of death unknown) was an Argentine rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. "Federico Lecot"...
-       Si quis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi,            hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet. The Ars Amatoria is a didactic elegiac poem in three...
- first (European) illustration of the plant was later designated as the (lecto-)type. In 1753, Carl Linnaeus used Aldini's work as basis for his taxon...
- Portuguese French Catalan LFN milk lacte latte leche leite lait llet lete bed lecto letto lecho leito lit llit leto night nocte notte noche noite nuit nit note...
- the money-changers' tables 7 MISERUNT IN TEMPLUM HOMINEM PARALYTI**** IN LECTO ANTE PEDES IESU ET SANAVIT EUM They sent the paralysed man in to the temple...
- non lascivientem ferculis, sed quaestionibus doctis pudicam et mutuis ex lecto relationibus exigamus? Tilley, Arthur (October 1892). "Ludus Latrunculorum"...
- delectation, delicious, delight, dilettante, elicit, illicit, illicium, lace †lectō lect- lectāv- lectāt- laedō -lidō laed- -lid- laes- -lis- laes- -lis- hurt...
- peregrino labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum, desideratoque adquiescimus lecto? Oh what is more blest than when the mind, Cares dispelled, puts down its...
- carried to the Church of Saint Peter the Apostle 27 HIC EADWARDUS REX IN LECTO ALLOQUIT[UR] FIDELES Here King Edward in bed speaks to his faithful followers...