*lode*

n. [ Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + lode leading. ] (O. Eng. Law) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To burst with a loud report; to explode. “Disploding engines.” Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disploded; p. pr. & vb. n. Disploding. ] [ L. displodere, displosum; dis- + plodere, plaudere, to clap, strike, beat. ] To discharge; to explode. [ 1913 Webster ]

In posture to displode their second tire
Of thunder. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Exploded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exploding. ] [ L. explodere, explosum, to drive out, drive out a player by clapping; ex out + plaudere, plodere, to clap, strike, applaud: cf. OF. exploder. See Plausible. ] 1. To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as, gunpowder explodes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Him old and young
Exploded, and seized with violent hands. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

But late the kindled powder did explode
The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. See Explosive, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who or that which explodes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Glide. Chaucer.

prop. n. A natural family of lizards, including the only known venomous lizards.
Syn. -- family Helodermatidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; woody, wooded, muddy; &unr_; a wood + e'i^dos form. ] (Zool.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To burst inward; contrasting with explode. [ PJC ]

a. (Phon.) Formed by implosion. Ellis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Phon.) An implosive sound. Ellis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Livelihood. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Livelihood. ] Course of life; means of support; livelihood. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. lād way, journey, fr. līðan to go. See Lead to guide, and cf. Load a burden. ] 1. A water course or way; a reach of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) A body of ore visibly separated from adjacent rock. [ PJC ]

3. Especially: (Mining) Any regular vein or course of valuable mineral, whether metallic or not. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence: A concentrated supply or source of something valuable. [ PJC ]

mother lode a large concentrated source of mineral or other valuable thing, from which lesser sources have been derived; -- often used figuratively. The term may have been originally applied to real or imagined large deposits of gold from which smaller granules were washed downstream, there constituting a diluted source of gold, and hinting at the richer source from which they were derived; as, to hit the mother lode. [ PJC ]

{ , n. Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lodemenage. Chaucer. ] Pilotage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An old name for a pilot boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Load, lode + man. See Lode. ] A pilot. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Loadsman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Load, lode + star. See Lode. ] 1. A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar, Polaris; also, the constellation containing the pole star, the cynosure (Ursa Minor). Chaucer. “ Your eyes are lodestars.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something that serves as a guide or provides direction; a cynosure{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

3. Something that attracts attention or on which the atention is fixed; a cynosure{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

n. Same as Loadstar. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Load, lode + stone. ] (Min.) A piece of magnetite, a magnetic iron ore, possessing polarity like a magnetic needle, having the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically. See Magnetite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Same as Loadstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; musical. See Melody, and cf. Odeon. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Mus.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A music hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nickel + odeon. ] 1. A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents. [ U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. An early version of a jukebox that was operated by insertion of a nickel{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

3. (capitalized) The name of a Cable Television channel, specializing in programs for children. [ Trademark ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Omphalo- + Gr. e'i^dos form. ] (Bot.) The central part of the hilum of a seed, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or the chalaza; -- called also omphalodium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. fello`s cork + -derm. ] (Bot.) A layer of green parenchymatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Phyllodium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Trade Mark of Newell Office Products. ] A trade name for a type of card file; as, a Rolodex(R) card file. Also used informally and improperly as a noun meaning Rolodex(R) card file. [ PJC ]

n. [ See Syphilis, and Derm. ] (Med.) A cutaneous affection due to syphilis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis. [ 1913 Webster ]