One of a Roman Catholic order of nuns of the nineteenth century, devoting themselves to education and the care of destitute orphans.

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the lore.

(zoology) Any of the loreal scales.

plural of lorette

(dated) A woman of low morals, especially associated with the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette district of Paris.

A sedative and anticonvulsant.

plural of loreal

Of or relating to Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch physicist.

(electromagnetism) A partial gauge fixing of the electromagnetic vector potential, used to eliminate the redundant spin-0 component in the (1/2,1/2) representation of the Lorentz group.

(archaic, poetic) Without lore or learning; uneducated.