lot

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A large extent, amount, or number.
• noun Used adverbially to mean “to a great degree or extent” or “frequently”.
• noun A number of associated people or things.
• noun Miscellaneous articles sold as one unit.
• noun An individual of a particular kind or type.
• noun A piece of land having specific boundaries, especially one constituting a part of a city, town, or block.
• noun A piece of land used for a given purpose.
• noun The complete grounds of a film studio.
• noun The outdoor area of a film studio.
• noun An object used in making a determination or choice at random.
• noun The use of objects in making a determination or choice at random.
• noun The determination or choice so made.
• noun One's fortune in life; one's fate.
• transitive verb To apportion by lots; allot.
• transitive verb To divide (land) into lots.
• transitive verb To divide (goods) into lots for sale.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To allot; assign; distribute; award.
• To cast lots.
• noun An individual person: usually with bad.
• noun A means of determining something by chance; anything (as dice, pieces of paper of different lengths or differently marked, so placed that these differences cannot be perceived) used to decide a choice, advantage, dispute, etc. See to cast lots, to draw lots, below.
• noun That which is determined or assigned by lot; that which one gets by the drawing or casting of lots, or by some other fortuitous method; a chance allotment, share, or portion, as of land, money, service, etc.
• noun Share or portion in life allotted in any casual way; station or condition determined by the chances of life; fortune; destiny: as, the lot of the poor.
• noun Any distinct part or parcel; a portion or part separated from others of the same kind: as, a lot of goods; a lot of furniture. Specifically
• noun A portion or parcel of land; any piece of land divided off or set apart for a particular use or purpose: as, a building-lot; a pasture-lot; all that lot, piece, or parcel of ground (a formula in legal instruments).
• noun Proportion or share of taxes.
• noun Tribute; toll.
• noun In mining, dues to the lord of the manor for ingress and egress.
• noun A large or considerable number or amount; a great deal: as, a lot of people: often used in the plural (and the plural even as an adverb, meaning ‘a great deal’): as, he has lots of money.
• noun plural A game formerly played with roundels on which short verses were written: used as a singular.
• noun The shoot of a tree.
• noun Synonyms Hap, destiny, fate, doom, allotment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
• noun Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will.
• noun The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
• noun A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; all objects sold in a single purchase transaction; ; -- colloquially, sometimes of people
• noun A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
• noun colloq. A large quantity or number; a great deal
• noun obsolete A prize in a lottery.
• noun to share the fortunes of.
• noun to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforeseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined.
• noun to determine an event, or make a decision, by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer.
• noun to pay taxes according to one's ability. See Scot.
• transitive verb rare To allot; to sort; to portion.
• transitive verb [Colloq. U. S.] to count or reckon upon; to expect with pleasure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A large quantity or number; a great deal.
• noun A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.