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@@ -2337,6 +2337,29 @@ succubus
 	same demon, one who lies with a human for its own purposes,
 	usually to the detriment of the mortals who are unwise in
 	their dealings with them.
+*insect
+*insects
+	A minute invertebrate animal; one of the class _Insecta_.
+	The true insects or hexapods have the body divided into a
+	head, a thorax of 3 segments, each of which bears a pair of
+	legs, and an abdomen of 7 to 11 segments, and in development
+	usually pass through a metamorphosis.  There are usually 2
+	pairs of wings, sometimes one pair or none.
+		[ Webster's Comprehensive International Dictionary
+		  of the English Language ]
+
+	Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow
+	will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
+	And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot
+	be able to see the earth:  and they shall eat the residue of
+	that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail,
+	and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
+	And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy
+	servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither
+	thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day
+	that they were upon the earth unto this day.  And he turned
+	himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
+		[ Exodus, 10:4-6 ]
 *iron ball
 *iron chain
 	"You are fettered, " said Scrooge, trembling.  "Tell me why?"
@@ -2350,6 +2373,16 @@ succubus
 	heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago.  You
 	have laboured on it, since.  It is a ponderous chain!"
 		[ A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens ]
+iron bars
+	Stone walls do not a prison make,
+	  Nor iron bars a cage;
+	Minds innocent and quiet take
+	  That for an hermitage;
+	If I have freedom in my love,
+	  And in my soul am free,
+	Angels alone that soar above
+	  Enjoy such liberty.
+		[ To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace ]
 ishtar
 	Ishtar (the star of heaven) is the Mesopotamian goddess of
 	fertility and war.  She is usually depicted with wings and
@@ -2414,6 +2447,16 @@ vorpal*
 	He left it dead, and with its head
 	  He went galumphing back.
 				[ Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll ]
+jacinth*
+	Sweet in the rough weather
+	  The voice of the turtle-dove
+	'Beautiful altogether
+	  Is my Love.
+	  His Hands are open spread for love
+	And full of jacinth stones
+	  As the apple-tree among trees of the grove
+	Is He among the sons.'
+		[ The Beloved, by May Probyn ]
 jackal
 	In Asiatic folktale, jackal provides for the lion; he scares
 	up game, which the lion kills and eats, and receives what is
@@ -2428,6 +2471,14 @@ jackal
 	Jackal goes around behaving the way he does "because he is
 	Jackal".
 		[ Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore ]
+*jack*boot*
+	A large boot extending over the knee, acting as protective
+	armour for the leg, worn by troopers in the 17th and 18th
+	centuries and later.  It is still the type of boot worn by
+	the Household Cavalry and was adopted by fishermen and others
+	before the advent of gum boots.  Figuratively, _to be under the
+	jack-boot_ is to be controlled by a brutal military regime.
+		[ Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ]
 jade*
 	Nothing grew among the ruins of the city.  The streets were
 	broken and the walls of the houses had fallen, but there were
@@ -2458,6 +2509,16 @@ jubilex
 	he is a slime-like creature who swallows other creatures
 	alive, spits acidic secretions, and causes disease in his
 	victims which can be almost instantly fatal.
+k?ration
+	The K ration was the [ Quartermaster Subsistence Research
+	and Development Laboratory's ] answer to the demand for an
+	individual, easy-to-carry ration that could be used in
+	assault and combat operations.  It was noted for compactness
+	and superior packaging and was acknowledged as the ration
+	that provided the greatest variety of nutritionally balanced
+	components within the smallest space.
+		[ Special Rations for the Armed Forces, 1946-53,
+		  by Franz A. Koehler ]
 kabuto
 	The kabuto is the helmet worn by the samurai.  It was
 	characterized by a prominent beaked front which jutted out over
@@ -2673,6 +2734,36 @@ lance
 	evil plight.
 		[ Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miquel de
 		  Cervantes Saavedra ]
+*lantern
+	While pretending to be a fancy safety lamp, it is in fact
+	battery powered.  A discreet little switch is marked "on/off"
+	in elaborate lettering.
+		[ Adventure 770, by Mike Arnautov ]
+lava
+* lava
+	You are on the edge of a breath-taking view.  Far below you
+	is an active volcano, from which great gouts of molten lava
+	come surging out, cascading back down into the depths.  The
+	glowing rock fills the farthest reaches of the cavern with a
+	blood-red glare, giving everything an eerie, macabre appearance.
+	The air is filled with flickering sparks of ash and a heavy
+	smell of brimstone.  The walls are hot to the touch, and the
+	thundering of the volcano drowns out all other sounds.
+	Embedded in the jagged roof far overhead are myriad twisted
+	formations composed of pure white alabaster, which scatter the
+	murky light into sinister apparitions upon the walls.  To one
+	side is a deep gorge, filled with a bizarre chaos of tortured
+	rock which seems to have been crafted by the devil himself.
+	An immense river of fire crashes out from the depths of the
+	volcano, burns its way through the gorge, and plummets into a
+	bottomless pit far off to your left.  To the right, an immense
+	geyser of blistering steam erupts continuously from a barren
+	island in the center of a sulfurous lake, which bubbles
+	ominously.  The far right wall is aflame with an incandescence
+	of its own, which lends an additional infernal splendor to the
+	already hellish scene.  A dark, forboding passage exits to the
+	south.
+		[ Adventure, by Will Crowther and Doug Woods. ]
 leash
 	They had splendid heads, fine shoulders, strong legs, and
 	straight tails.  The spots on their bodies were jet-black and
@@ -2703,7 +2794,17 @@ lembas*
 	Men, and it is more pleasant than cram, by all accounts.'
 		[ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
 lemure
-	The lowliest of the inhabitants of hell.
+larvae
+	The Larvae (Lemures) are Roman spirits of deceased family
+	members.  These malignant spirits dwell throughout the house
+	and frighten the inhabitants.  People tried to reconcile or
+	avert the Larvae with strange ceremonies which took place on
+	May 9, 11, and 13; this was called the "Feast of the Lemures".
+	The master of the house usually performed these ceremonies,
+	either by offering black beans to the spirits or chasing them
+	away by making a lot of noise.  Their counterparts are the
+	Lares, friendly and beneficent house spirits.
+		[ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]
 leocrotta
 leu*otta
 	... the leucrocotta, a wild beast of extraordinary swiftness,
@@ -2896,9 +2997,24 @@ magic marker
 	The pen is mightier than the sword.
 		[ Richelieu, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
 magic mirror of merlin
-	This powerful mirror was created by Merlin, the druid, in ages
+	  [...] In Dehenbarth (that now South Wales is hight,
-	past, when trees sang and rocks danced.  It protects all who
+	  What time King Ryence reigned, and dealed right)
-	carry it from magic missiles, and gives them ESP.
+	  The great magician Merlin had devised,
+	  By his deep science, and hell-dreaded might,
+	  A looking-glass, right wondrously aguised,
+	Whose virtues through the wide world soon were solemnized.
+
+	It virtue had to show in perfect sight
+	  Whatever thing was in the world contained,
+	  Betwixt the lowest earth and heaven's height,
+	  So that it to the looker appertained;
+	  Whatever foe had wrought, or friend had fained,
+	  Therein discovered was, nor aught might pass,
+	  Nor aught in secret from the same remained;
+# we'll leave out the part about it being a crystal ball...
+#	  For-thy it round and hollow shaped was,
+#	Like the world itself, and seemed a world of glass.
+		[ The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spencer ]
 mail d*emon
 	It is rumoured that these strange creatures can be harmed by
 	domesticated canines only.