(chiefly US, politics) An organized group which attempts to influence public policy and law with respect to firearms, especially as an advocate of ownership of and access to firearms by individual citizens.

The workload involved in an academic course. / The number and difficulty of courses taken in an academic setting.

A small, short-term unsecured loan of money at an extremely high interest rate.

(transitive) To give a load to. / (intransitive) To get a load. / (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To fully load (a weapon).

(British spelling) alternative spelling of local anesthetic

plural of local anaesthetic

(geology) The location, usually where the first specimen was discovered, considered most representative of a mineral, formation etc.

With all features and options.

(historical) In 18th- and 19th-century warships, a non-professional (male) assistant to the ship's surgeon.

(euphemistic) To defecate.