Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lost"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lost \Lost\, a. [Prop. p. p. of OE. losien. See {Lose}, v. t.]
1. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be
found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.
2. Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb;
lost honor.
3. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed
ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost
opportunity or benefit.
5. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way;
bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a
stranger lost in London.
6. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past
help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to
virtue; a lost soul.
7. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated;
insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
8. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an
island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.
9. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as
to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in
thought.
{Lost motion} (Mach.), the difference between the motion of a
driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of
parts or looseness of joints.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lost
adj 1: no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found
or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his
lost book"; "lost opportunities" [ant: {found}]
2: having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or
personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented
when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left
her completely disoriented" [syn: {confused}, {disoriented}]
3: spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls";
"a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"
[ant: {saved}]
4: not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" [ant: {won}]
5: incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"
6: not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the
din" [syn: {missed}]
7: deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a
professor listening to the prattling of his freshman
class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown" [syn: {bemused},
{deep in thought(p)}, {lost(p)}, {preoccupied}]
8: no longer known; irretrievable; "a forgotten art"; "a lost
art"; "lost civilizations" [syn: {forgotten}]
9: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements;
filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his
questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and
confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt
lost on the first day of school" [syn: {baffled}, {befuddled},
{bemused}, {bewildered}, {confounded}, {confused}, {mazed},
{mixed-up}, {at sea}]
10: unable to function; without help [syn: {helpless}]
n : people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the
doomed was in his voice" [syn: {doomed}]
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