Vocabulary : Ludicrous to Luffed

Ludicrous : Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
Ludification : The act of deriding.
Ludificatory : Making sport; tending to excite derision.
Ludlamite : A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
Ludlow group : A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.

Ludwigite : A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.
Lues : Disease, especially of a contagious kind.
Luff : The side of a ship toward the wind. ;; The act of sailing a ship close to the wind. ;; The roundest part of a ship's bow. ;; The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails. ;; To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.
Luffa : A small genus of tropical cucurbitaceous plants having white flowers, the staminate borne in racemes, and large fruits with a dry fibrous pericarp. The fruit of several species and the species themselves, esp. L. Aegyptiaca, are called dishcloth gourds. ;; Any plant of this genus, or its fruit. ;; The fibrous skeleton of the fruit, used as a sponge and in the manufacture of caps and women's hats; -- written also loofah.
Luffed : of Luff

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