lot /lot/

1. An object, such as a slip of wood or a straw, drawn or thrown out from among a number in order to reach a decision by chance
2. Decision by this method
3. Sortilege or divination
4. A prize won through divination
5. Destiny
6. That which falls to anyone as his or her fortune
7. A separate portion
8. A patch of ground
9. A set
10. A set of things offered together for sale
11. The whole
12. A great deal, large amount
13. A plot of ground allotted or assigned to any person or purpose, esp for building
14. The area around a film studio used for outside filming
15. A turn (obsolete)
16. A tax or due (historical; see scot)
17. A large quantity or number
18. A batch of horses grouped for daily exercise (horse-racing)

1. To allot
2. To separate into lots
3. To divide (a property) into lots, esp for selling purposes
4. To cast lots for (obsolete)

lots noun

A large amount

By a great deal, as in lots better

a bad lot

An unscrupulous person with a bad reputation

across lots (US)

By short cuts

cast or throw in one's lot with

To choose to share the fortunes of

cast or draw lots

(of two or more people) to draw from a set of different but unseen or superficially indistinguishable objects as a means of singling out one person

lots of (informal)

Many

lots to blanks (Shakespeare)

Any odds

the lot

The entire number or amount

• dummy runs
• dummy whist
• dumortierite
• dumortierites
• dumose
• dumosities
• dumosity
• dumous
• dump
• dum-palm
• dumpbin
• dumpbins
• dumped
• dumpee
• dumpees
• dumper
• dumpers
• dumper truck
• dumper trucks
• dumpier
• dumpies
• dumpiest
• dumpiness
• dumpinesses
• dumping