The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . re not so stvift of wing. li. II. Stoddard, Chinese Songs. loris (loris), «. [NL. loris (F. loris, sing, andpi.); commonly said to be a native (E. Ind.)name,but accordin|^toBaird<,aclow-n,booby, formerly , locrincli, Incrsch, clownish,< locr, herd, a down, fool, < OF. lourd, a stupidfellow: see /owrrfl.] 1. The slender lemur ofCeylon, Aracliuocebus or Loris {iracilis, a pro-simian mammal of the family Lemur idw and sub-family Xyclicehinec:
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . re not so stvift of wing. li. II. Stoddard, Chinese Songs. loris (loris), «. [NL. loris (F. loris, sing, andpi.); commonly said to be a native (E. Ind.)name,but accordin|^toBaird<,aclow-n,booby, formerly , locrincli, Incrsch, clownish,< locr, herd, a down, fool, < OF. lourd, a stupidfellow: see /owrrfl.] 1. The slender lemur ofCeylon, Aracliuocebus or Loris {iracilis, a pro-simian mammal of the family Lemur idw and sub-family Xyclicehinec: more fully called .iloidcrloris. A\so lori,• Tpl. loris.—2. [cojj.] The typi-cal genus of iMrisinw, based by Geoffroy ontheslender lori or loris of Ceylon, and the same asArarlinocibus of Lesson; extended to in(dudethe slow lemur, which is more frequently re-ferred to a genus Xyctirebus, Stenops, or Brady-lemur. The species arc arboreal and nocturnal inhabi-tants of the East Intlii-s. L. frraeitijt is remarkable for itsslender form. dl»iirrirlloiialely long limbs, the absence ofa tail, short ntuzzle. and large eyes. 3522. H slender Loris iLoris ^racttis). Lorisinae (lor-i-siue), [NL , < Loris +-ina:.] A subfamily of Lemuridw, named fromthe genus Loris, in a restricted sense includingonly this genus and Xycticebus, in a. wider senseincluding these genera with Arctocebus andIcrodicticus: in the latter use it is the sameas Kycticrbinw. The animals referred to this groupare the slender loris, Loris gracilis ; the slow lemur, Nye-ticehus tardijradus; the potto, Perodictictts pitto; and theaiigwantibo, Arctocebus calabarcmis. Also Loridi/ut. Lorius (16ri-us), n. [NL., < E. lory, q. v.] Alarge genus of small triehoglossine parrots, tj-jieof the subfamily Loriinic; the lories. The termhas been used with much latitude, but is now restrictedto the broad-tailed lories, of which more than 20 spe-cies are known, all of the Austromalayan region, as of the Moluc
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