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louse(2) (iou) and Theta (medicine)


louse(2) (iou)



louse verb. LME.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. & intrans. Clear (a person, oneself, a garment) of lice, remove lice (from). LME.
verb intrans. Be infested with lice. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
verb trans. Foll. by up: infest with lice; spoil, mess up. slang. M20.
louser noun (a) a person who louses; (b) slang (also
louser-up) a person who spoils things; a contemptible person: L16.

Theta (medicine)


theta


A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qanatos, death.

<mathematics> Theta function, one of a group of functions used in developing the properties of elliptic functions.

Origin: L, fr. Gr. Qh^ta, the Greek letter <theta/, <THETA/.

Source: Websters Dictionary