Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - lot

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Old English h~; akin to Old High German hloz  Date: before 12th century  1. an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance  2.  a. the use of ~s as a means of deciding something  b. the resulting choice  3.  a. something that comes to one upon whom a ~ has fallen ; share  b. one's way of life or worldly fate ; fortune  4.  a. a portion of land  b. a measured parcel of land having fixed boundaries and designated on a p~ or survey  c. a motion-picture studio and its adjoining property  d. an establishment for the storage or sale of motor vehicles a used car ~  5.  a. a number of units of an article, a single article, or a parcel of articles offered as one item (as in an auction sale)  b. all the members of a present group, kind, or quantity — usually used with the sampled the whole ~ of desserts  6.  a. a number of associated persons ; set fell in with a rough ~  b. kind, sort  7. a considerable quantity or extent a ~ of money ~s of friends  Synonyms: see fate  II. transitive verb  (~ted; ~ting)  Date: 15th century  1. al~, apportion  2. to form or divide into ~s LOT  I. noun  Etymology: Hebrew Lo?  Date: circa 1534 a nephew of Abraham who according to the account in Genesis escaped from the doomed city of Sodom with his wife who turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back  II. geographical name river 300 miles (483 kilometers) S France flowing W into the Garonne