L, the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, is usually denominated a semi-vowel, or a liquid. It represents an imperfect articulation, formed by placing the tip of the tongue against the gum that incloses the roots of the upper teeth; but the sides of the tongue not being in close contact with the roof of the mouth, the breath of course not being entirely intercepted, this articulation is attended with an imperfect sound. The shape of the letter is evidently borrowed from that of the oriental lamed, or lomad, nearly coinciding with the Samaritan 2.
L has only one sound in English, as in like, canal. At the end of monosyllables, it is often doubled, as in fall, full, tell, bell; but not after diphthongs and digraphs; foul, fool, prowl, growel, foal, etc. being written with a single l
With some nations, l and r are commutable; as in Greek, l lilium.
In some words, l is mute, as in half, calf, walk, talk, chalk.
In English words, the terminating syllable le is unaccented, the e is silent, and l has a feeble sound; as in able, eagle, pronounced abl, eagl.
As a number l denotes 50, and with a dash above the l 50, 000. As an abbreviation, in Latin, it stands for Lucius; and l Latin S. for a sesterce, or two librae and a half.
LA, exclamation [perhaps corrupted from look, but this is doubtful.] Look; see; behold.
LA, in music, the syllable by which Guido denotes the last sound of each hexachord.
LAB, noun a great talker; a blabber. obsolete
LAB'ADIST, noun the Labadists were followers of Jean de Labadie, who lived in the 17th century. They held that God can and does deceive men, that the observance of the sabbath is a matter of indifference, and other peculiar or heretical opinions.
LABDANUM. [See Ladanum.]
LABEFAC'TION, noun [Latin labefactio, from labefacio, labo, to totter, and facio, to make.]
A weakening or loosening; a failing; decay; downfall; ruin.
LAB'EFY, verb transitive To weaken or impair. [Not used.]
LA'BEL, noun
1. A narrow slip of silk, paper or parchment, containing a name or title, and affixed to any thing, denoting its contents. Such are the labels affixed to the vessels of an apothecary. Labels also are affixed to deeds or writings to hold the appended seal.
2. Any paper annexed to a will by way of addition; as a codicil.
3. In heraldry, a fillet usually placed in the middle, along the chief of the coat, without touching its extremities. It is adorned with pendants, and used on the arms of the eldest son, to distinguish him from the younger sons, while the father is living.
4. A long thin brass rule, with a small sight at one end, and a center-hole at the other, commonly used with a tangent line on the edge of a circumferentor, to take altitudes, etc.
LA'BEL, verb transitive To affix a label to.
LA'BELED, participle passive Furnished with a label.
LA'BELING, participle present tense Distinguishing by a label.
LA'BENT, adjective [Latin labens.] Sliding; gliding.
LA'BIAL, adjective [Latin labium, a lip. See Lip.]
Pertaining to the lips; formed by the lips; as a labial articulation. Thus b, p, and m are labial articulations.
LA'BIAL, noun A letter or character representing an articulation of the lips; as b, f, m, p, v.
LA'BIATE,
LA'BIATED, adjective [from Latin labium, lip.] In botany, a labiate corol is irregular, monopetalous, with two lips, or monopetalous, consisting of a narrow tube with a wide mouth, divided into two or more segments arranged in two opposite divisions or lips. a labiate flower has a labiate corol.
LA'BIATED, a. [from L. labium, lip.] In botany, a labiate corol is irregular, monopetalous, with two lips, or monopetalous, consisting of a narrow tube with a wide mouth, divided into two or more segments arranged in two opposite divisions or lips. a labiate flower has a labiate corol.
LA'BILE, adjective [Low Latin labilis.] Liable to err, fall or apostatize. [Not used.]
LABIODENT'AL, adjective [labium, a lip, and dens, a tooth.]
Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth; as f and v.
LA'BOR, noun [Latin labor from labo, to fail.]
1. Exertion of muscular strength, or bodily exertion which occasions weariness; particularly, the exertion of the limbs in occupations by which subsistence is obtained, as in agriculture and manufactures, in distinction from exertions of strength in play or amusements, which are denominated exercise, rather than labor Toilsome work; pains; travail; any bodily exertion which is attended with fatigue. After the labors of the day, the farmer retires, and rest is sweet. Moderate labor contributes to health.
What is obtained by labor will of right be the property of him by whose labor it is gained.
2. Intellectual exertion; application of the mind which occasions weariness; as the labor of compiling and writing a history.
3. Exertion of mental powers, united with bodily employment; as the labors of the apostles in propagating christianity.
4. Work done, or to be done; that which requires wearisome exertion.
Being a labor of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
5. Heroic achievement; as the labors of Hercules.
6. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
7. The evils of life; trials; persecution, etc.
They rest from their labors - Revelation 14:1.
LA'BOR, verb intransitive [Latin laboro.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to act or move with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work - Exodus 20:1.
2. To exert one's powers of body or mind, or both, in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
Labor not for the meat which perisheth. John 6:1.
3. To toil; to be burdened.
Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:1.
4. To move with difficulty.
The stone that labors up the hill.
5. To move irregularly with little progress; to pitch and roll heavily; as a ship in a turbulent sea.
6. To be in distress; to be pressed.
- As sounding cymbals aid the laboring moon.
7. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
8. To journey or march.
Make not all the people to labor thither. Joshua 7:1.
9. To perform the duties of the pastoral office. 1 Timothy 5:1.
10. To perform christian offices.
To labor under, to be afflicted with; to be burdened or distressed with; as, to labor under a disease or an affliction.
LA'BOR, verb transitive
1. To work at; to till; to cultivate.
The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only labored by children.
2. To prosecute with effort; to urge; as, to labor a point or argument.
3. To form or fabricate with exertion; as, to labor arms for Troy.
4. To beat; to belabor. [The latter word is generally used.]
5. To form with toil and care; as a labored composition.
LA'BORANT, noun A chimist. [Not used.]
LAB'ORATORY, noun
1. A house or place where operations and experiments in chimistry, pharmacy, pyrotechny, etc., are performed.
2. A place where arms are manufactured or repaired, or fire-works prepared; as the laboratory in Springfield, in Massachusetts.
3. A place where work is performed, or any thing is prepared for use. Hence the stomach is called the grand laboratory of the human body; the liver, the laboratory of the bile.
LA'BORED, participle passive Tilled; cultivated; formed with labor.
LA'BORER, noun One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a man who does work that requires little skill, as distinguished from an artisan.
LA'BORING, participle present tense
1. Exerting muscular strength or intellectual power; toiling; moving with pain or with difficulty; cultivating.
2. A laboring man, or laborer, is often used for a man who performs work that requires no apprenticeship or professional skill, in distinction from an artisan; but this restricted sense is not always observed. A hard laboring man, is one accustomed to hard labor.
LABO'RIOUS, adjective [Latin laboriosus.]
1. Using exertion; employing labor; diligent in work or service; assiduous; used of persons; as a laborious husbandman or mechanic; a laborious minister or pastor.
2. Requiring labor; toilsome; tiresome; not easy; as laborious duties or services.
3. Requiring labor, exertion, perseverance or sacrifices.
Dost thou love watchings, abstinence or toil, laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.
LABO'RIOUSLY, adverb With labor, toil or difficulty.
LABO'RIOUSNESS, noun
1. The quality of being laborious, or attended with toil; toilsomeness; difficulty.
2. Diligence; assiduity.
LA'BORLESS, adjective Not laborious.
LA'BORSOME, adjective Made with great labor and diligence. [Not in use.]
LABURN'UM, noun A tree of the genus Cytisus.
LAB'YRINTH, noun [Latin labyrinthus; Gr.]
1. Among the ancients, an edifice or place full of intricacies, or formed with winding passages, which rendered it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance. The most remarkable of these edifices mentioned, are the Egyptian and the Cretan labyrinths.
2. A maze; an inexplicable difficulty.
3. Formerly, an ornamental maze or wilderness in gardens.
4. A cavity in the ear.
LABYRINTH'IAN, adjective Winding; intricate; perplexed.
LAC, noun
Gum-lac, so called, but improperly, not being a gum, but a resin. It is deposited on different species of trees in the East Indies, by an insect called Chermes lacca. Stick lac is the substance in its natural state, encrusting small twigs. When broken off and boiled in water, it loses its red color, and is called seed lac When melted and reduced to a thin crust, it is call shell lac United with ivory black or vermilion, it forms black and red sealing wax. A solution with borax, colored by lampblack, constitutes Indian ink. lac dissolved in alcohol or other menstrua, by different methods of preparation, constitutes various kinds of varnishes and lackers.
LAC'CIC, adjective Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as laccic acid.
LACE, noun [Latin laqueus.]
1. A work composed of threads interwoven into a net, and worked on a pillow with spindles or pins. Fine laces are manufactured in France, Italy and England.
2. A string; a cord.
3. A snare; a gin.
4. A plaited string with which females fasten their clothes.
Doll ne'er was called to cut her lace
LACE, verb transitive
1. To fasten with a string through eyelet holes.
When Jenny's stays are newly laced -
2. To adorn with lace; as cloth laced with silver.
3. To embellish with variegations or stripes.
Look, love, what envious streaks.
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
4. To beat; to lash; [probably to make stripes on.]
I'll lace your coat for ye.
LA'CED, participle passive Fastened with lace or a string; also, tricked off with lace.
Laced coffee, coffee with spirits in it.
LA'CEMAN, noun A man who deals in lace.
LAC'ERABLE, adjective [See Lacerate.] That may be torn.
LAC'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin lacero, to tear.] To tear; to rend; to separate a substance by violence or tearing; as, to lacerate the flesh. It is applied chiefly to the flesh, or figuratively to the heart. But sometimes it is applied to the political or civil divisions in a state.
LAC'ERATED, participle passive or adjective
1. Rent; torn.
2. In botany, having the edge variously cut into irregular segments; as a lacerated leaf.
LACERA'TION, noun The act of tearing or rending; the breach made by rending.
LAC'ERATIVE, adjective Tearing; having the power to tear; as lacerative humors.
LAC'ERTINE, adjective [Latin lacertus.] Like a lizard.
LACER'TUS, noun The girroc, a fish of the gar-fish kind; also, the lizard-fish.
LA'CEWOMAN, noun A woman who makes or sells lace.
LACHE,
LACH'ES, noun [Latin laxus, lax, slow.] In law, neglect; negligence.
LACH'RYMABLE, adjective Lamentable.
LACH'RYMAL, adjective [Latin lachryma, a tear.]
1. Generating or secreting tears; as the lachrymal gland.
2. Pertaining to tears; conveying tears.
LACH'RYMARY, adjective Containing tears.
LACHRYMA'TION, noun The act of shedding tears.
LACH'RYMATORY, noun A vessel found in sepulchers of the ancients, in which it has been supposed the tears of a deceased person's friends were collected and preserved with the ashes and urn. It was a small glass or bottle like a phial.
LAC'ING, participle present tense Fastening with a string; adorned or trimmed with lace.
LACIN'IATE,
LACIN'IATED, adjective [Latin lacinia, a hem.]
1. Adorned with fringes.
2. In botany, jagged.
LACK, verb transitive [Latin deliquium, which seems to be connected with linquo, to leave, to faint, and with liquo, to melt, liquid, etc.]
1. To want; to be destitute of; not to have or possess.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask it of God - James 1:5.
2. To blame. [Not in use.]
LACK, verb intransitive
1. To be in want.
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger. Psalms 34:10.
2. To be wanting.
Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous.
Genesis 18:28.
LACK, noun Want; destitution; need; failure.
He that gathered little, had no lack Exodus 14:1.
LACK of rupees is one hundred thousand rupees, which at 55 cents each, amount to fifty five thousand dollars, or at 2 Samuel 6:1d. sterling, to 12, 500 pounds.
LACK'BRAIN, noun One that wants brains, or is deficient in understanding.
LACK'ER,
LACK'ERED, participle passive Covered with lacker; varnished.
LACK'ERED, pp. Covered with lacker; varnished.
LACK'EY, noun [Latin lego, to send.]
An attending servant; a footboy or footman.
LACK'EY, verb transitive To attend servilely.
LACK'EY, verb intransitive To act as footboy; to pay servile attendance.
Oft have I servants seen on horses ride, the free and noble lackey by their side.
LACK'LINEN, adjective Wanting shirts. [Little used.]
LACK'LUSTER, adjective Wanting luster or brightness.
LAC'MUS, noun A blue pigment, formed from archil, a species of lichen. [See Archil.] It is prepared by bruising the archil, and adding quick lime and putrefied urine, or spirit of urine distilled from lime. The mixture, after cooling and the evaporation of the fluid, becomes a mass of the consistence of paste, which is laid on a board to dry in square lumps.
LACON'IC,
LACON'ICAL, adjective [Latin laconicus, from Laconia or Lacomes, the Spartans.]
1. Short; brief; pithy; sententious; expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Spartans; as a laconic phrase.
2. Pertaining to Sparta or Lacedemonia.
LACON'ICALLY, adverb Briefly; concisely; as a sentiment laconically expressed.
LACON'ICISM, noun [Latin lacomismus.]
1. A concise style.
2. A brief sententious phrase or expression.
LACON'ICS, noun A book of Pausanias, which treats of Lacedemonia.
LA'CONISM,
LAC'QUER, noun A kind of varnish. The basis of lackers is a solution of the substance called seed-lack or shell-lack, in spirit of wine or alcohol. Varnishes applied to metals improve their color and preserve them from tarnishing.
Lackers consist of different resins in a state of solution, of which the most common are mastick, sandarach, lack, benzoin, copal, amber, and asphalt. The menstrua are either expressed or essential oils, or spirit of wine.
LACK'ER, verb transitive To varnish; to smear over with lacker, for the purpose of improving color or preserving from tarnishing and decay.
LAC'QUER, n. A kind of varnish. The basis of lackers is a solution of the substance called seed-lack or shell-lack, in spirit of wine or alcohol. Varnishes applied to metals improve their color and preserve them from tarnishing.
Lackers consist of different resins in a state of solution, of which the most common are mastick, sandarach, lack, benzoin, copal, amber, and asphalt. The menstrua are either expressed or essential oils, or spirit of wine.LAC'TAGE, noun The produce of animals yielding milk.
LAC'TANT, adjective [Latin lactans, from lacto, to give suck; lac, milk.] Suckling; giving suck. [Little used.]
LAC'TARY, adjective [Latin lactarius, from lacto; lac, milk.]
Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Little used.]
LAC'TARY, noun [Latin lactarius.] A dairyhouse.
LAC'TATE, noun In chimistry, a salt formed by the lactic acid, or acid of milk, with a base.
LACTA'TION, noun [Latin lacto, to give suck.] The act of giving suck; or the time of suckling.
LAC'TEAL, adjective
1. Pertaining to milk.
2. Conveying chyle; as a lacteal vessel.
LAC'TEAL, noun A vessel or slender tube of animal bodies, for conveying chyle from the intestines to the common reservatory.
LAC'TEOUS, adjective [Latin lacteus, from lac, milk.
1. Milky; resembling milk.
2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as a lacteous vessel.
LACTES'CENCE, noun [Latin lactescens, lactescp, from lacto; lac, milk.]
1. Tendency to milk; milkiness or milky color.
2. In botany, milkiness; the liquor which flows abundantly from a plant, when wounded; commonly white, but sometimes yellow or red.
LACTES'CENT, adjective
1. Producing milk or white juice.
2. Abounding with a thick colored juice.
LAC'TIC, adjective Pertaining to milk, or procured from sour milk or whey; as the lactic acid.
LACTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lac, milk, and fero, to bear.]
1. Bearing or conveying milk or white juice; as a lactiferous duct.
2. Producing a thick colored juice; as a plant.
LAC'UNAR, noun [Latin] An arched roof or ceiling.
LACUNO'SE, adjective [Latin lacunosus, from lacuna, a ditch or hollow.]
Furrowed or pitted. A lacunose leaf has the disk depressed between the veins.
LACU'NOUS,
LAD, noun [Heb. to procreate or bear young.] A young man or boy; a stripling.
LAD, n. [Heb. to procreate or bear young.] A young man or boy; a stripling.
LAD'ANUM, noun The resinous juice which exsudes from the leaves of the Cistus ladanifera, a shrub which grows in Arabia, Candia, and other parts of the Archipelago. It is collected with a kind of rake, with leather thongs attached to it, with which the shrubs are brushed. The best sort is in dark-colored black masses, of the consistence of a soft plaster. The other sort is in long rolls coiled up, harder than the former, and of a paler color. It is chiefly used in external applications.
LAD'DER, noun
1. A frame of wood, consisting of two side pieces, connected by rounds inserted in them at suitable distances, and thus forming steps, by which persons may ascend a building, etc.
2. That by which a person ascends or rises; means of ascending; as a ladder made of cords.
Lowliness is young ambition's ladder
3. Gradual rise; elevation.
Mounting fast towards the top of the ladder ecclesiastical.
LADE, verb transitive preterit tense laded; participle passive laded, laden.
1. To load; to put on or in, as a burden or freight. We lade a ship with cotton. We lade a horse or other beast with corn.
And they laded their asses with the corn and departed thence. Genesis 42:26.
2. To dip; to throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or dipper; as, to lade water out of a tub or into a cistern.
3. To draw water. [Not in use.]
LADE, noun The mouth of a river. obsolete
LA'DED,
LA'DEN, participle passive
1. Loaded; charged with a burden or freight.
2. adjective Oppressed; burdened.
LA'DEN, pp.
1. Loaded; charged with a burden or freight.2. a. Oppressed; burdened.LA'DING, participle present tense Loading; charging with a burden or freight; throwing or dipping out.
LA'DING, noun That which constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden; as the lading of a ship. Acts 27:10.
LAD'KIN, noun A little lad; a youth. [Little used.]
LA'DLE, noun
1. A utensil somewhat like a dish, with a long handle, used for throwing or dipping out liquor from a vessel.
2. The receptacle of a mill wheel, which receives the water which moves it.
3. In gunnery, an instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
LA'DY, noun
1. A woman of distinction. Originally, the title of lady was given to the daughters of earls and others in high rank, but by custom, the title belongs to any woman of genteel education.
2. A word of complaisance; used of women.
3. Mistress; the female who presides or has authority over a manor or a family.
LA'DYSHIP, noun The title of a lady.
LAG, adjective [This word belongs to the root of slack, slow, sluggish, languish, long; Gr. See the Verb.]
1. Coming after or behind; slow; sluggish; tardy.
2. Last; long delayed; as the lag end.
[This adjective is not now in use.]
LAG, noun
1. The lowest class; the rump; the fag end.
2. He that comes behind. [Not in use.]
LAG, verb intransitive [Eng. to flag, and flacceo, langueo, to languish, etc. The sense is to extend or draw out, or to become lax or loose.]
To walk or move slowly; to loiter; to stay behind.
I shall not lag behind.
LAG'GARD, noun Slow; sluggish; backward. [Not used.]
LAG'GER, adjective A loiterer; an idler; one who moves slowly and falls behind.
LAG'GING, participle present tense Loitering; moving slowly and falling behind.
The nurse went lagging after with the child.
LAGOON',
LAGU'NE, noun A fen, moor, marsh, shallow pond or lake; as the lagunes of Venice.
LAGU'NE, n. A fen, moor, marsh, shallow pond or lake; as the lagunes of Venice.
LA'IC,
LA'ICAL, adjective [Latin laicus, Gr. from people.]
Belonging to the laity or people, in distinction from the clergy.
LA'IC, noun A layman.
LA'ICAL, a. [L. laicus, Gr. from people.]
Belonging to the laity or people, in distinction from the clergy.LAID, preterit tense and participle passive of lay; so written for layed.
LAIN, participle passive of lie. Lien would be a more regular orthography, but lain is generally used.
LAIR, noun [Latin locus.]
1. A place of rest; the bed or couch of a boar or wild beast.
2. Pasture; the ground.
LAIRD, noun
In the Scots dialect, a lord; the proprietor of a manor.
LA'ITY, noun [Gr. people. See Laic.]
1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
2. The state of a layman, or of not being in orders. [Not used.]
LAKE, verb intransitive
To play; to sport. North of England. This is play, without a prefix.
LAKE, noun [Latin lacus. A lake is a stand of water, from the root of lay. Hence Latin lagena, Eng. flagon.]
1. A large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth. It differs from a pond in size, the latter being a collection of small extent; but sometimes a collection of water is called a pond or a lake indifferently. North America contains some of the largest lakes on the globe, particularly the lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior.
2. A middle color between ultramarine and vermilion, made of cochineal.
LA'KY, adjective Pertaining to a lake or lakes.
LAMA, noun
1. The sovereign pontiff, or rather the god of the Asiatic Tartars.
2. A small species of camel, the Camelus lama of South America.
LAM'ANTIN,
LAMB, noun lam.
1. The young of the sheep kind.
2. The Lamb of God, in Scripture, the Savior Jesus Christ, who was typified by the paschal lamb.
Behold the lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:1.
LAMB, verb transitive To bring forth young, as sheep.
LAMB, n. lam.
1. The young of the sheep kind.2. The Lamb of God, in Scripture, the Savior Jesus Christ, who was typified by the paschal lamb.Behold the lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world. John 1.LAMB, v.t. To bring forth young, as sheep.
LAM'BATIVE, adjective [Latin lambo, to lick.]
Taken by licking. [Little used.]
LAM'BATIVE, noun A medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
LAM'BENT, adjective [Latin lambens, lambo, to lick.] Playing about; touching lightly; gliding over; as a lambent flame.
LAMBKIN, noun lam'kin. A small lamb.
LAMBLIKE, adjective lam'like. Like a lamb; gentle; humble; meek; as a lamblike temper.
LAMDOID'AL, adjective [Gr. the name of the letter A, form.]
In the form of the Greek A, the English L; as the lamdoidal suture.
LAME, adjective
1. Crippled or disabled in a limb, or otherwise injured so as to be unsound and impaired in strength; as a lame arm or leg, or a person lame in one leg.
2. Imperfect; not satisfactory; as a lame excuse.
3. Hobbling; not smooth; as numbers in verse.
LAME, verb transitive To make lame; to cripple or disable; to render imperfect and unsound; as, to lame an arm or a leg.
LAM'EL, noun [Latin lamella. See Lamin.] A thin plate or scale of any thing.
LAM'ELLAR, adjective [from lamel.] Disposed in thin plates or scales.
LAM'ELLARLY, adverb In thin plates or scales.
LAM'ELLATE,
LAM'ELLATED, adjective Formed in thin plates or scales, or covered with them.
LAM'ELLATED, a. Formed in thin plates or scales, or covered with them.
LAMELLIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lamella and fero, to produce.
Producing plates; an epithet of polypiers presenting lamellar stars, or waved furrows a garnished with plates.
LAM'ELLIFORM, adjective [Latin lamella, a plate, and form.] Having the form of a plate.
LA'MELY, adverb [See Lame.]
1. Like a cripple; with impaired strength; in a halting manner; as, to walk lamely
2. Imperfectly; without a complete exhibition of parts; as a figure lamely drawn; a scene lamely described.
3. Weakly; poorly; unsteadily; feebly.
LA'MENESS, noun
1. An impaired state of the body or limbs; loss of natural soundness and strength by a wound or by disease; particularly applied to the limbs, and implying a total or partial inability; as the lameness of the leg or arm.
2. Imperfection; weakness; as the lameness of an argument or of a description.
LAMENT', verb intransitive [Latin lamentor.]
1. To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow.
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chronicles 35:25.
2. To regret deeply; to feel sorrow.
LAMENT', verb transitive To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore.
One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.
LAMENT', noun [Latin lamentum.] Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping.
Torment, and loud lament and furious rage.
[This noun is used chiefly or solely in poetry.]
LAM'ENTABLE, adjective [Latin lamentabilis.]
1. To be lamented; deserving sorrow; as a lamentable declension of morals.
2. Mournful; adapted to awaken grief; as a lamentable tune.
3. Expressing sorrow; as lamentable cries.
4. Miserable; pitiful; low; poor; in a sense rather ludicrous. [Little used.]
LAM'ENTABLY, adverb
1. Mournfully; with expressions or tokens of sorrow.
2. So as to cause sorrow.
3. Pitifully; despicably.
LAMENTA'TION, noun [Latin lamentatio.]
1. Expression of sorrow; cries of grief; the act of bewailing.
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping. Matthew 2:18.
2. In the plural, a book of Scripture, containing the lamentations of Jeremiah.
LAMENT'ED, participle passive Bewailed; mourned for.
LAMENT'ER, noun One who mourns, or cries out with sorrow.
LAMENTIN. [See Lamantin.]
LAM'ENTIN, noun A species of the walrus or sea-cow, the Trichechus manatus.
LAMENT'ING, participle present tense Bewailing; mourning; weeping.
LAMENT'ING, noun A mourning; lamentation.
LA'MIA, noun [Latin] A hag; a witch; a demon.
LAM'IN,
LAM'INA, noun [Latin lamina.]
1. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; applied to the plates of minerals, bones, etc.
2. A bone, or part of a bone, resembling a thin plate, such as the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone.
3. The lap of the ear.
4. The border, or the upper, broad or spreading part of the petal, in a polypetalous corol.
LAM'INA, n. [L. lamina.]
1. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; applied to the plates of minerals, bones, &c.2. A bone, or part of a bone, resembling a thin plate, such as the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone.3. The lap of the ear.4. The border, or the upper, broad or spreading part of the petal, in a polypetalous corol.LAM'INABLE, adjective Capable of being formed into thin plates.
LAM'INAR, adjective In plates; consisting of thin plates or layers.
LAM'INATE,
LAM'INATED, adjective Plated; consisting of plates, scales or layers, one over another.
LAM'INATED, a. Plated; consisting of plates, scales or layers, one over another.
LAMM, verb transitive To beat. [Not in use.]
LAM'MAS, noun
The first day of August.
LAMP, noun [Latin lampas; Gr. to shine; Heb.]
1. A vessel for containing oil to be burned by means of a wick; or a light, a burning wick inserted in a vessel of oil. Hence,
2. Figuratively, a light of any kind. The moon is called the lamp of heaven.
Thy gentle eyes send forth a quickening spirit, to feed the dying lamp of life within me.
LAMP of safety, or safety lamp a lamp for lighting coal mines, without exposing workmen to the explosion of inflammable air.
LAM'PAS, noun A lump of flesh of the size of a nut, in the roof of a horse's mouth, and rising above the teeth.
LAMP'BLACK, noun [lamp and black; being originally made by means of a lamp or torch.]
A fine soot formed by the condensation of the smoke of burning pitch or resinous substances, in a chimney terminating in a cone of cloth.
LAMP'IATE, noun A compound salt, composed of lampic acid and a base.
LAMP'IC, adjective The lampic acid is obtained by the combustion of ether by means of a lamp.
LAMP'ING, adjective Shining; sparkling. [Not used.]
LAMPOON', noun A personal satire in writing; abuse; censure written to reproach and vex rather than to reform.
LAMPOON', verb transitive To abuse with personal censure; to reproach in written satire.
LAMPOON'ER, noun One who abuses with personal satire; the writer of a lampoon.
The squibs are those who are called libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.
LAMPOON'ING, participle present tense Abusing with personal satire.
LAMPOON'RY, noun Abuse.
LAM'PREY, noun [Latin labor, to slip, and most probably the animal is name from slipping. If, however, the sense is taken from licking the rocks, as Camden supposes, it accords with the sense of the technical name of the genus petromyzon, the rock-sucker.]
A genus of anguilliform fishes, resembling the eel, and moving in water by winding, like the serpent on land. This fish has seven spiracles on each side of the neck, and a fistula or aperture on the top of the head, but no pectoral or ventral fins. The marine or sea lamprey is sometimes found so large as to weigh four or five pounds.
Lamprel and lampron. [See lamprey ]
LA'NATE,
LAN'ATED, adjective [Latin lanatus, from lana, wool.] Wooly. In botany, covered with a substance like curled hairs; as a lanated leaf or stem.
LAN'ATED, a. [L. lanatus, from lana, wool.] Wooly. In botany, covered with a substance like curled hairs; as a lanated leaf or stem.
LANCE, noun l'ans. [Latin lancea; Gr.]
A spear, an offensive weapon in form of a half pike, used by the ancients and thrown by the hand. It consisted of the shaft or handle, the wings and the dart.
LANCE, verb transitive
1. To pierce with a lance or with a sharp pointed instrument.
- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanc'd her back.
2. To pierce or cut; to open with a lancet; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
LANCELY, adjective l'ansly. Suitable to a lance.
LAN'CEOLAR, adjective In botany, tapering towards each end.
LAN'CEOLATE,
LAN'CEOLATED, adjective Shaped like a lance; oblong and gradually tapering toward each extremity; spear-shaped; as a lanceolate leaf.
LAN'CEOLATED, a. Shaped like a lance; oblong and gradually tapering toward each extremity; spear-shaped; as a lanceolate leaf.
LANCEPESA'DE, noun An officer under the corporal.
L'ANCER, noun One who lances; one who carries a lance.
L'ANCET, noun
1. A surgical instrument, sharp-pointed and two-edged; used in venesection, and in opening tumors, abscesses, etc.
2. A pointed window.
L'ANCH, verb transitive [from lance.]
1. To throw, as a lance; to dart; to let fly.
See whose arm can lanch the surer bolt.
2. To move, or cause to slide from the land into the water; as, to lanch a ship.
L'ANCH, verb intransitive To dart or fly off; to push off; as, to lanch into the wide world; to lanch into a wide field of discussion.
L'ANCH, noun
1. The sliding or movement of a ship from the land into the water, on ways prepared for the purpose.
2. A kind of boat, longer, lower, and more flat-bottomed than a long boat.
LAND, noun
1. Earth, or the solid matter which constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the sea or other waters, which constitute the fluid or movable part. Hence we say, the globe is terraqueous, consisting of land and water. The seaman in a long voyage longs to see land
2. Any portion of the solid, superficial part of the globe, whether a kingdom or country, or a particular region. The United States is denominated the land of freedom.
Go, view the land even Jericho. Joshua 2:1.
3. Any small portion of the superficial part of the earth or ground. We speak of the quantity of land in a manor. Five hundred acres of land is a large farm.
4. Ground; soil, or the superficial part of the earth in respect to its nature or quality; as good land; poor land; moist or dry land
5. Real Estate. A traitor forfeits all his lands and tenements.
6. The inhabitants of a country or region; a nation or people.
These answers in the silent night received, the king himself divulged, the land believed.
7. The ground left unplowed between furrows, is by some of our farmers called a land
To make the land
To make land In seaman's language, is to discover land from sea, as the ship approaches it.
To shut in the land to lose sight of the land left, by the intervention of a point or promontory.
To set the land to see by the compass how it bears from the ship.
LAND, noun Urine; whence the old expression, land dam, to kill. obsolete
LAND, verb transitive to set on shore; to disembark; to debark; as, to land troops from a ship or boat; to land goods.
LAND, verb intransitive To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.
LAN'DAU, noun A kind of coach or carriage whose top may be opened and thrown back; so called from a town in Germany.
LAND'-BREEZE, noun [land and breeze.] A current of air setting from the land towards the sea.
LAND'ED, participle passive
1. Disembarked; set on shore from a ship or boat.
2. adjective Having an estate in land; as a landed gentleman.
The house of commons must consist, for the most part, of landed men.
3. Consisting in real estate or land; as landed security; landed property. The landed interest of a nation is the interest consisting in land; but the word is used also for the owners of that interest, the proprietors of land.
LAND'FALL, noun [land and fall.]
1. A sudden translation of property in land by the death of a rich man.
2. In seamen's language, the first land discovered after a voyage.
LAND'FLOOD, noun [land and flood.] An overflowing of land by water; an inundation. Properly, a flood from the land from the swelling of rivers; but I am not sure that it is always used in this sense.
LAND'-FORCE, noun [land and force.] A military force, army or troops serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force.
LAND'GRAVE, noun
In Germany, a count or earl; or an officer nearly corresponding to the earl of England, and the count of France. It is now a title of certain princes who possess estates or territories called landgraviates.
LANDGRA'VIATE, noun The territory held by a landgrave, or his office, jurisdiction or authority.
LAND'HOLDER, noun A holder, owner or proprietor of land.
LAND'ING, participle present tense Setting on shore; coming on shore.
LAND'JOBBER, noun A man who makes a business of buying land on speculation, or of buying and selling for the profit of bargains, or who buys and sells for others.
LAND'LADY, noun [See Landlord.]
1. A woman who has tenants holding from her.
2. The mistress of an inn.
LAND'LESS, adjective Destitute of land; having no property in land.
LAND'LOCK, verb transitive [land and lock.] To inclose or encompass by land.
LAND'LOCKED, participle passive Encompassed by land, so that no point of the compass is open to the sea.
LAND'LOPER, noun [See Leap and Interloper.]
A landman; literally, a land runner; a term of reproach among seamen to designate a man who passes his life on land.
LAND'LORD, noun
1. The lord of a manor or of land; the owner of land who has tenants under him.
2. The master of an inn or tavern.
LAND'MAN, noun A man who serves on land; opposed to seaman.
LAND'MARK, noun [land and mark.]
1. A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object; as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones, by which the limits of a farm, a town or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark Deuteronomy 19:14.
2. In navigation, any elevated object on land that serves as a guide to seamen.
LAND'-OFFICE, noun In the United States, an office in which the sales of new land are registered, and warrants issued for the location of land and other business respecting unsettled land is transacted.
LAND'SCAPE, noun
1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including mountains, rivers, lakes, and whatever the land contains.
- Whilst the landscape round it measures, russet lawns and fallows gray, where the nibbling flocks do stray.
2. A picture, exhibiting the form of a district of country, as far as the eye can reach, or a particular extent of land and the objects it contains, or its various scenery.
3. The view or prospect of a district of country.
LAND'SLIP, noun A portion of a hill or mountain, which slips or slides down; or the sliding down of a considerable tract of land from a mountain. landslips are not unfrequent in Swisserland.
LAND'SMAN, noun In seaman's language, a sailor on board a ship, who has not before been at sea.
LAND'STREIGHT, noun A narrow slip of land. [Not used.]
LAND'-TAX, noun A tax assessed on land and buildings.
LAND'-TURN, noun A land breeze.
LAND'-WAITER, noun An officer of the customs, whose duty is to wait or attend on the landing of goods, and to examine, weigh or measure, and take an account of them.
LAND'WARD, adverb Toward the land.
LAND'-WIND, noun A wind blowing from the land.
LAND'-WORKER, noun One who tills the ground.
LANE, noun
1. A narrow way or passage, or a private passage, as distinguished from a public road or highway. A lane may be open to all passengers, or it may be inclosed and appropriated to a man's private use. In the United States, the word is used chiefly in the country, and answers in a degree, to an alley in a city. It has sometimes been used for alley. In London, the word lane is added to the names of streets; as chancery lane
2. A passage between lines of men, or people standing on each side.
LAN'GRAGE,
LAN'GREL, noun Langrel shot or langrage is a particular kind of shot used at sea for tearing sails and rigging, and thus disabling an enemy's ship. It consists of bolts, nails and other pieces of iron fastened together.
LANGTERALOO', noun A game at cards.
LAN'GUAGE, noun [Latin lingua, the tongue, and speech.]
1. Human speech; the expression of ideas by words or significant articulate sounds, for the communication of thoughts. language consists in the oral utterance of sounds, which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented by letters, marks or characters which form words. Hence language consists also in
2. Words duly arranged in sentences, written, printed or engraved, and exhibited to the eye.
3. The speech or expression of ideas peculiar to a particular nation. Men had originally one and the same language but the tribes or families of men, since their dispersion, have distinct languages.
4. Style; manner of expression.
Others for language all their care express.
5. The inarticulate sounds by which irrational animals express their feelings and wants. Each species of animals has peculiar sounds, which are uttered instinctively, and are understood by its own species, and its own species only.
6. Any manner of expressing thoughts. Thus we speak of the language of the eye, a language very expressive and intelligible.
7. A nation, as distinguished by their speech. Daniel 3:29.
LAN'GUAGED, adjective Having a language; as many languaged nations.
LAN'GUET, noun Any thing in the shape of the tongue. [Not English.]
LAN'GUID, adjective [Latin languidus, from langueo, to droop or flag. See Languish.]
1. Flagging; drooping; hence, feeble; weak; heavy; dull; indisposed to exertion. The body is languid after excessive action, which exhausts its powers.
2. Slow; as languid motion.
3. Dull; heartless; without animation.
And fire their languid soul with Cato's virtue.
LAN'GUIDLY, adverb Weakly; feebly; slowly.
LAN'GUIDNESS, noun
1. Weakness from exhaustion of strength; feebleness; dullness; languor.
2. Slowness.
LAN'GUISH, verb intransitive [Latin langueo, lachinisso; Gr. to flag, to lag. Latin laxo, laxus, flacceo.]
1. To lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine; to be or to grow heavy. We languish under disease or after excessive exertion.
She that hath borne seven languisheth. Jeremiah 15:9.
2. To wither; to fade; to lose the vegetating power.
For the fields of Heshbon languisheth. Jeremiah 15:9.
3. To grow dull; to be no longer active and vigorous. The war languished for want of supplies. Commerce, agriculture, manufactures languish not for want of money, but for want of good markets.
4. To pine or sink under sorrow or any continued passion; as, a woman languishes for the loss of her lover.
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish Hosea 4.
5. To look with softness or tenderness, as with the head reclined and a peculiar cast of the eye.
LAN'GUISH, verb transitive To cause to droop or pine. [Little used.]
LAN'GUISH, noun Act of pining; also, a soft and tender look or appearance.
And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.
LAN'GUISHER, noun One who languishes or pines.
LAN'GUISHING, participle present tense
1. Becoming or being feeble; losing strength; pining; withering; fading.
2. adjective Having a languid appearance; as a languishing eye.
LAN'GUISHINGLY, adverb
1. Weakly; feebly; dully; slowly.
2. With tender softness.
LAN'GUISHMENT, noun
1. The state of pining.
2. Softness of look or mien, with the head reclined.
LAN'GUOR, noun [Latin languor ]
1. Feebleness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude of body; that state of the body which is induced by exhaustion of strength, as by disease, by extraordinary exertion, by the relaxing effect of heat, or by weakness from any cause.
2. Dullness of the intellectual faculty; listlessness.
3. Softness; laxity.
To isles of fragrance, lily-silvered vales, diffusing languor in the parting gales.
LAN'GUOROUS, adjective Tedious; melancholy. obsolete
LAN'GURE, verb transitive To languish. [Not in use.]
LANIARD, noun lan'yard.
A short piece of rope or line, used for fastening something in ships, as the laniards of the gun-ports, of the buoy, of the cathook, etc., but especially used to extend the shrouds and stays of the masts, by their communication with the dead eyes, etc.
LA'NIATE, verb transitive [Latin lanio.] To tear in pieces. [Little used.]
LANIA'TION, noun A tearing in pieces. [Little used.]
LANIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lanifer; lana, wool, and fero, to produce.] Bearing or producing wool.
LAN'IFICE, noun [Latin lanificium; lana, wool, and facio, to make.]
Manufacture of wool. [Little used.]
LANIG'EROUS, adjective [Latin laniger; lana, wool, and gero, to bear.] Bearing or producing wool.
LANK, adjective [Gr. probably allied to flank.]
1. Loose or lax and easily yielding to pressure; not distended; not stiff or firm by distension; not plump; as a lank bladder or purse.
The clergy's bags are lank and lean with thy extortions.
2. Thin; slender; meager; not full and firm; as a lank body.
3. Languid; drooping. [See Languish.]
LANK'LY, adverb Thinly; loosely; laxly.
LANK'NESS, noun Laxity; flabbiness; leanness; slenderness.
LANK'Y, noun Lank. [Vulgar.]
LAN'NER,
LAN'NERET, noun [Latin laniarius, lanius, a butcher.] A species of hawk.
LAN'NERET, n. [L. laniarius, lanius, a butcher.] A species of hawk.
LANS'QUENET, noun [lance and knecht, a boy, a knight.]
1. A common foot soldier.
2. A game at cards.
LAN'TERN, noun [Latin laterna.]
1. A case or vessel made of tin perforated with many holes, or of some transparent substance, as glass, horn, or oiled paper; used for carrying a candle or other light in the open air, or into stables, etc.
A dark lantern is one with a single opening, which may be closed so as to conceal the light.
2. A light-house or light to direct the course of ships.
3. In architecture, a little dome raised over the roof of a building to give light, and to serve as a crowning to the fabric.
4. A square cage of carpentry placed over the ridge of a corridor or gallery, between two rows of shops, to illuminate them.
Magic lantern an optical machine by which painted images are represented so much magnified as to appear like the effect of magic.
LANU'GINOUS, adjective [Latin lanuginosus, from lanugo, down, from lana, wool.]
Downy; covered with down, or fine soft hair.
LAODICE'AN, adjective Like the christians of Laodicea: lukewarm in religion.
LAODICE'ANISM, noun Lukewarmness in religion.
LAP, noun
1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely.
2. The part of clothes that lies on the knees when a person sits down; hence, the knees in this position.
Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps.
LAP, verb transitive
1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
To lap boards, is to lay one partly over another.
2. To wrap or twist round.
I lapped a slender thread about the paper.
3. To infold; to involve.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
LAP, verb intransitive To be spread or laid; to be turned over.
The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends where they lap over, transparent like the wing of a fly.
LAP, verb intransitive [Gr. If m is casual in Latin lambo, as it probably is, this is the same word.]
To take up liquor or food with the tongue; to feed or drink by licking.
The dogs by the river Nilus' side being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore.
And the number of them that lapped were three hundred men. Judges 7:1.
LAP, verb transitive To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up; as, a cat laps milk.
LAP'DOG, noun A small dog fondled in the lap.
LAP'FULL, noun As much as the lap can contain. 2 Kings 4:1.
LAP'ICIDE, noun A stone-cutter. [Not used.]
LAPIDA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin lapidarius, from lapis, a stone.] Stony; consisting of stones.
LAP'IDARY, noun [Latin lapidarius, lapis, a stone.]
1. An artificer who cuts precious stones.
2. A dealer in precious stones.
3. A virtuoso skilled in the nature and kinds of gems or precious stones.
LAP'IDARY, adjective Pertaining to the art of cutting stones. The lapidary style denotes that which is proper for monumental and other inscriptions.
LAP'IDATE, verb transitive [Latin lapido.] To stone. [Not used.]
LAPIDA'TION, noun The act of stoning a person to death.
LAPID'EOUS, adjective [Latin lapideus.] Stony; of the nature of stone; as lapideous matter. [Little used.]
LAPIDES'CENCE, noun [Latin lapidesco, from lapis, a stone.]
1. The process of becoming stone; a hardening into a stony substance.
2. A stony concretion.
LAPIDES'CENT, adjective Growing or turning to stone; that has the quality of petrifying bodies.
LAPIDES'CENT, noun Any substance which has the quality of petrifying a body, or converting it to stone.
LAPIDIF'IC, adjective [Latin lapis, a stone, and facio, to make.] Forming or converting into stone.
LAPIDIFICA'TION, noun The operation of forming or converting into a stony substance, by means of a liquid charged with earthy particles in solution, which crystallize in the interstices, and end in forming free stone, pudding stone, etc.
LAPID'IFY, verb transitive [Latin lapis, a stone, and facio, to form.] To form into stone.
LAPID'IFY, verb intransitive To turn into stone; to become stone.
LAP'IDIST, noun A dealer in precious stones. [See lapidary.]
LAPIS, in Latin, a stone. Hence,
LAPIS Bononiensis, the Bolognian stone.
LAPIS Hepaticus, liver stone.
LAPIS Lazuli, azure stone, an aluminous mineral, of a rich blue color, resembling the blue carbonate of copper. [See Lazuli.]
LAPIS Lydius, touch-stone; basanite; a variety of siliceous slate.
LAP'PED, participle passive [See Lap.] Turned or folded over.
LAP'PER, noun
1. One that laps; one that wraps or folds.
2. One that takes up with his tongue.
LAP'PET, noun [dim. of lap.] A part of a garment or dress that hangs loose.
LAP'PING, participle present tense
1. Wrapping; folding; laying on.
2. Licking; taking into the mouth with the tongue.
LAPSE, noun laps. [Latin lapsus, from labor, to slide, to fall.]
1. A sliding, gliding or flowing; a smooth course; as the lapse of a stream; the lapse of time.
2. A falling or passing.
The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, but the return to diligence is difficult.
3. A slip an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
This Scripture may be usefully applied as a caution to guard against those lapses and fallings to which our infirmities daily expose us.
So we say, a lapse in style or propriety.
4. In ecclesiastical law, the slip or omission of a patron to present a clerk to a benefice, within six months after it becomes void. In this case, the benefice is said to be lapsed, or in lapse
5. In theology, the fall or apostasy of Adam.
LAPSE, verb intransitive laps.
1. To glide; to pass slowly, silently or by degrees.
This disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from which we descended.
2. To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault.
To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need.
3. To slip or commit a fault by inadvertency or mistake.
Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character.
4. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, by the omission or negligence of the patron.
If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
5. To fall from a state of innocence, or from truth, faith or perfection.
Once more I will renew his lapsed powers.
LAPS'ED, participle passive Fallen; passed from one proprietor to another by the negligence of the patron; as a lapsed benefice. A lapsed legacy is one which falls to the heirs through the failure of the legatee, as when the legatee dies before the testator.
LAP'SIDED, adjective [Lap and side.] Having one side heavier than the other, as a ship.
LAPS'ING, participle present tense Gliding; flowing; failing; falling to one person through the omission of another.
LAP'WING, noun A bird of the genus Tringa; the tewit.
LAP'WORK, noun Work in which one part laps over another.
L'AR, noun plural lares. [Latin] A household deity.
L'ARBOARD, noun [Board, bord, is a side; but I know the meaning of lar. The Dutch use bakboard, and the Germans backbord.]
The left hand side of a ship, when a person stands with his face to the head; opposed to starboard.
L'ARBOARD, adjective Pertaining to the left hand side of a ship; as the larboard quarter.
L'ARCENY, noun [Latin latrocinium.]
Theft; the act of taking and carrying away the goods or property of another feloniously. larceny is of two kinds; simple larceny or theft, not accompanied with any atrocious circumstance; and mixed or compound larceny which includes in it the aggravation of taking from one's house or person, as in burglary or robbery. The stealing of any thing below the value of twelve pence, is called petty larceny; above that value, it is called grand larceny
L'ARCH, noun [Latin larix.]
The common name of a division of the genus Pinus, species of which are natives of America, as well as of Europe.
L'ARD, noun [Latin lardum, laridum.]
1. The fat of swine, after being melted and separated from the flesh.
2. Bacon; the flesh of swine.
L'ARD, verb transitive
1. To stuff with bacon or pork.
The larded thighs on loaded altars laid.
2. To fatten; to enrich.
Now Falstaff sweats to death, and lards the lean earth.
3. To mix with something by way of improvement.
- Let no alien interpose, to lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
L'ARD, verb intransitive To grow fat.
LARDA'CEOUS, adjective Of the nature of lard; consisting of lard.
L'ARDED, participle passive Stuffed with bacon; fattened; mixed.
L'ARDER, noun A room where meat is kept or salted.
L'ARDRY, noun A larder. [Not used.]
L'ARGE, a larj. [Latin largus; Gr. wide, copious, and perhaps with floor.]
1. Big; of great size; bulky; as a large body; a large horse or ox; a large mountain; a large tree; a large ship.
2. Wide; extensive; as a large field or plain; a large extent of territory.
3. Extensive or populous; containing many inhabitants; as a large city or town.
4. Abundant; plentiful; ample; as a large supply of provisions.
5. Copious; diffusive.
I might be very large on the importance and advantages of education.
6. In seamen's language, the wind is large when it crosses the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction, particularly on the beam or quarter.
7. Wide; consisting of much water; as a large river.
8. Liberal; of a great amount; as a large donation.
1. At large without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large
2. Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse on a subject at large
L'ARGE, noun Formerly, a musical note equal to four breves.
LARGEHE'ARTEDNESS, noun Largeness of heart; liberality. [Not used.]
L'ARGELY, adverb
1. Widely; extensively.
2. Copiously; diffusely; amply. The subject was largely discussed.
3. Liberally; bountifully.
- How he lives and eats; how largely gives.
4. Abundantly.
They their fill of love and love's disport took largely
L'ARGENESS, noun
1. Bigness; bulk; magnitude; as the largeness of an animal.
2. Greatness; comprehension; as the largeness of mind or of capacity.
3. Extent; extensiveness; as largeness of views.
4. Extension; amplitude; liberality; as the largeness of an offer; largeness of heart.
5. Wideness; extent; as the largeness of a river.
L'ARGESS, noun [Latin largitio; from largus, large.]
A present; a gift or donation; a bounty bestowed.
LARGHET'TO, Musical terms, directing to slow movement. Large is one degree quicker than grave, and two degrees quicker than adagio.
L'ARGISH, adjective Somewhat large. [Unusual.]
L'ARGO,
L'ARK, noun [As the Latin alauda coincides with laudo, Eng. loud so the first syllable of lark, laf, lau, lave. But I know not the sense of the word.]
A bird of the genus Alauda, distinguished for its singing.
L'ARK, n. [As the Latin alauda coincides with laudo, Eng. loud so the first syllable of lark, laf, lau, lave. But I know not the sense of the word.]
A bird of the genus Alauda, distinguished for its singing.L'ARKER, noun A catcher of larks.
L'ARKLIKE, adjective Resembling a lark in manners.
L'ARKSPUR, noun A plant of the genus Delphinium.
L'ARMIER, noun
The flat jutting part of a cornice; literally, the dropper; the eave or drip of a house.
LAR'UM, noun
Alarm; a noise giving notice of danger. [See Alarm, which is generally used.]
L'ARVA,
L'ARVATED, adjective Masked; clothed as with a mask.
L'ARVE, noun [Latin larva, a mask.]
An insect in the caterpillar state; eruca; the state of an insect when the animal is masked, and before it has attained its winged or perfect state; the first stage in the metamorphoses of insects, preceding the chrysalis and perfect insect.
LARYN'GEAN, adjective [See Larynx.] Pertaining to the larynx.
LARYNGOT'OMY, noun [larynx and Gr. to cut.]
The operation of cutting the larynx or windpipe; the making of an incision into the larynx for assisting respiration when obstructed, or removing foreign bodies; bronchotomy; tracheotomy.
LAR'YNX, noun [Gr.] In anatomy, the upper part of the windpipe or trachea, a cartilaginous cavity, which modulates the voice in speaking and singing.
LAS'CAR, noun In the East Indies, a native seaman, or a gunner.
LASCIVIENCY, LASCIVIENT. [Not used. See the next words.]
LASCIVIENCY, LASCIVIENT [Not used. See the next words.]
LASCIV'IOUS, adjective [Latin lascivus, from laxus, laxo, to relax, to loosen.]
1. Loose; wanton; lewd; lustful; as lascivious men; lascivious desires; lascivious eyes.
2. Soft; wanton; luxurious.
He capers numbly in a lady's chamber, to the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
LASCIV'IOUSLY, adverb Loosely; wantonly; lewdly.
LASCIV'IOUSNESS, noun
1. Looseness; irregular indulgence of animal desires; wantonness; lustfulness.
Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lasciviousness Ephesians 4:19.
2. Tendency to excite lust, and promote irregular indulgences.
The reason pretended by Augustus was, the lasciviousness of his Elegies and his Art of Love.
LA'SERWORT, noun Laserpitium, a genus of plants of several species, natives of Germany, Italy, France, etc.
LASH, noun
1. The thong or braided cord of a whip.
I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
2. A leash or string.
3. A stroke with a whip, or any thing pliant and tough. The culprit was whipped thirty nine lashes.
4. A stroke of satire; a sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain.
The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
LASH, verb transitive
1. To strike with a lash or any thing pliant; to whip or scourge.
We lash the pupil and defraud the ward.
2. To throw up with a sudden jerk.
He falls; and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.
3. To beat, as with something loose; to dash against.
And big waves lash the frighted shores -
4. To tie or bind with a rope or cord; to secure or fasten by a string; as, to lash any thing to a mast or to a yard; to lash a trunk on a coach.
5. To satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.
LASH, verb intransitive To ply the whip; to strike at.
To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
To lash out, is to be extravagant or unruly.
LASH'ED, participle passive
1. Struck with a lash; whipped; tied; made fast by a rope.
2. In botany, ciliate; fringed.
LASH'ER, noun One that whips or lashes.
LASH'ING, noun A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.
LASH'ING, noun Extravagance; unruliness.
L'ASS, noun
A young woman; a girl.
LAS'SITUDE, noun [Latin lassitudo, from lassus, and this from laxus, laxo, to relax.]
1. Weakness; dullness; heaviness; weariness; languor of body or mind, proceeding from exhaustion of strength by excessive labor or action, or other means.
2. Among physicians, lassitude is a morbid sensation or languor which often precedes disease, in which case it proceeds from an impaired or diseased action of the organs.
L'ASSLORN, adjective Forsaken by his lass or mistress.
L'AST, adjective [See Late and Let.]
1. That comes after all the others; the latest; applied to time; as the last hour of the day; the last day of the year.
2. That follows all the others; that is behind all the others in place; hindmost; as, this was the last man that entered the church.
3. Beyond which there is no more.
Here, last of Britons, let your names be read.
4. Next before the present; as the last week; the last year.
5. Utmost.
Their last endeavors bend, T' outshine each other.
It is an object of the last importance.
6. Lowest; meanest.
Antilochus takes the lst prize.
At last at the last at the end; in the conclusion.
Gad, a troop shall overcome him; but he shall overcome at the last Genesis 49:1.
To the last to the end; till the conclusion.
And blunder on in business to the last
In the phrases, 'you are the last man I should consult' 'this is the last place in which I should expect to find you, ' the word last implies improbability; this is the most improbable place, and therefore I should resort to it last
L'AST, adverb
1. The last time; the time before the present. I saw him last at New York.
2. In conclusion; finally.
Pleased with his idol, he commends, admires, adores; and last the thing adored desires.
L'AST, verb intransitive [See Let.]
1. To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence. Our government cannot last long unless administered by honest men.
2. To continue unimpaired; not to decay or perish. Select for winter the best apples to last This color will last
3. To hold out; to continue unconsumed. The captain knew he had not water on board to last a week.
L'AST, noun [See Load.]
A load; hence, a certain weight or measure. A last of codfish, white herrings, meal, and ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn is ten quarters or eighty bushels; of gun powder, twenty four barrels; of red herrings, twenty cades; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1700 pounds.
L'AST, noun
A mold or form of the human foot, made of wood, on which shoes are formed.
The cobbler is not to go beyond his last
L'ASTAGE, noun [See Last, a load.]
1. A duty paid for freight or transportation.
[Not used in the United States.]
2. Ballast. [Not used.]
3. The lading of a ship. [Not used.]
L'ASTERY, noun A red color. [Not in use.]
L'ASTING, participle present tense
1. Continuing in time; enduring; remaining.
2. adjective Durable; of long continuance; that may continue or endure; as a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.
L'ASTINGLY, adverb Durably; with continuance.
L'ASTINGNESS, noun Durability; the quality or state of long continuance.
L'ASTLY, adverb
1. In the last place.
2. In the conclusion; at last; finally.
LATCH, noun [Latin ligula, from ligo, to tie, and with English lock. Latin laqueus, from which we have lace, may belong to the same root. The primary sense of the root is to catch, to close, stop or make fast.]
1. A small piece of iron or wood used to fasten a door.
2. A small line like a loop, used to lace the bonnets to the courses, or the drabblers to the bonnets.
LATCH, verb transitive
1. To fasten with a latch; to fasten.
2. To smear. [Not used.]
LATCH'ET, noun [from latch.] The string that fastens a shoe. Mark 1:7.
LATE, adjective [This word is from the root of let, the sense of which is to draw out, extend or prolong, hence to be slow or late See Let. This adjective has regular terminations of the comparative and superlative degrees, later, latest, but it has also latter, and latest is often contracted into last.]
1. Coming after the usual time; slow; tardy; long delayed; as a late spring; a late summer. The crops or harvest will be late
2. Far advanced towards the end or close; as a late hour of the day. He began at a late period of his life.
3. Last, or recently in any place, office or character; as the late ministry; the late administration.
4. Existing not long ago, but now decayed or departed; as the late bishop of London.
5. Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as the late rains. We have received late intelligence.
LATE, adverb
1. After the usual time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late
2. After the proper or usual season. This year the fruits ripen late
3. Not long ago; lately.
And round them throng with leaps and bounds the late imprison'd young.
4. Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie a-bed late; to sit up late at night.
Of late lately, in time not long past, or near the present. The practice is of late uncommon.
Too late after the proper time; not in due time. We arrived too late to see the procession.
LA'TED, adjective Belated; being too late. [Not used.]
LAT'EEN, adjective A lateen sail is a triangular sail, extended by a lateen yard, which is slung about one quarter the distance from the lower end, which is brought down at the tack while the other end is elevated at an angle of about 45 degrees; used in xebecs, polacres and settees, in the Mediterranean.
LA'TELY, adverb Not long ago; recently. We called on a gentleman who has lately arrived from Italy.
LA'TENCY, noun [See Latent.] The state of being concealed; abstruseness.
LA'TENESS, noun
1. The state of being tardy, or of coming after the usual time; as the lateness of spring or of harvest.
2. Time far advanced in any particular period; as lateness of the day or night; lateness in the season; lateness in life.
3. The state of being out of time, or after the appointed time; as the lateness of one's arrival.
LA'TENT, adjective [Latin latens, lateo; Gr; Heb. to cover.]
Hid; concealed; secret; not seen; not visible or apparent. We speak of latent motives; latent reasons; latent springs of action.
Latent heat, is heat in combination, in distinction from sensible heat; the portion of heat which disappears, when a body changes its form from the solid to the fluid, or from the fluid to the aeriform state.
LA'TER, adjective [comparative deg. of late.] Posterior; subsequent.
LAT'ERAL, adjective [Latin lateralis, from latus, a side, and broad, Gr., Eng. flat. The primary sense of these words is to extend, as in late, let.]
1. Pertaining to the side; as the lateral view of an object.
2. Proceeding from the side; as the lateral branches of a tree; lateral shoots.
LATERAL'ITY, noun The quality of having distinct sides. [Not used.]
LAT'ERALLY, adverb
1. By the side; sideways.
2. In the direction of the side.
LAT'ERAN, noun One of the churches at Rome. The name is said to have been derived from that of a man.
A latere, [Latin] A legate a latere, is a pope's legate or envoy, so called because sent from his side, from among his favorites and counselors.
LA'TERED, adjective Delayed. obsolete
LATERIFO'LIOUS, adjective [Latin latus, side, and folium, leaf.]
In botany, growing on the side of a leaf at the base; as a laterifolious flower.
LATERI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin lateritius, from later, a brick.] Like bricks; of the color of bricks.
Lateritious sediment, a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms.
L'ATH, noun
1. A thin, narrow board or slip of wood nailed to the rafters of a building to support the tiles or covering.
2. A thin narrow slip of wood nailed to the studs, to support the plastering.
L'ATH, verb transitive To cover or line with laths.
L'ATH, noun [See Wapenktae.]
In some parts of England, a part or division of a county. Spenser, Spelman and Blackstone do not agree in their accounts of the lath; but according to the laws of Edward the Confessor, the lath in some counties, answered to the trithing or third part of a county in others.
LATHE, noun
An engine by which instruments of wood, ivory, metals and other materials, are turned and cut into a smooth round form.
LATH'ER, verb intransitive
To form a foam with water and soap; to become froth, or frothy matter.
LATH'ER, verb transitive To spread over with the foam of soap.
LATH'ER, noun
1. Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
2. Foam or froth from profuse sweat, as of a horse.
L'ATHY, adjective Thin as a lath; long and slender.
L'ATHY, adjective Flabby; weak.
LATIB'ULIZE, verb intransitive [Latin latibulum, a hiding place.]
To retire into a den, burrow or cavity, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid.
The tortoise latibulizes in October.
LAT'ICLAVE, noun [Latin laticlavium; latus, broad, and clavus, a stud.]
An ornament of dress worn by Roman senators. It is supposed to have been a broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, set with knobs or studs.
LAT'IN, adjective Pertaining to the Latins, a people of Latium, in Italy; Roman; as the latin language.
Latin church, the western church; the christian church in Italy, France, Spain and other countries where the latin language was introduced, as distinct from the Greek or eastern church.
LAT'IN, noun
1. The language of the ancient Romans.
2. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into latin
LAT'INISM, noun A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to the Latins.
LAT'INIST, noun One skilled in Latin.
LATIN'ITY, noun Purity of the Latin style or idiom; the Latin tongue.
LAT'INIZE, verb transitive To give to foreign words Latin terminations and make them Latin.
LAT'INIZE, verb intransitive To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.
LATIROS'TROUS, adjective [Latin latus, broad, and rostrum, beak.] Having a broad beak, as a fowl.
LA'TISH, adjective [from late.] Somewhat late.
LAT'ITANCY, noun [Latin latitans, latito, to lie hid, from lateo. See Latent.]
The state of lying concealed; the state of lurking.
LAT'ITANT, adjective Lurking; lying hid; concealed.
[These words are rarely used. See latent.]
LAT'ITAT, noun [Latin he lurks.] A writ by which a person is summoned into the king's bench to answer, as supposing he lies concealed.
LAT'ITUDE, noun [Latin latitudo, breadth; latus, broad.]
1. Breadth; width; extent from side to side.
2. Room; space.
[In the foregoing senses, little used.]
3. In astronomy, the distance of a star north or south of the ecliptic.
4. In geography, the distance of any place on the globe, north or south of the equator. Boston is situated in the forty third degree of north latitude
5. Extent of meaning or construction; indefinite acceptation. The words will not bear this latitude of construction.
6. Extent of deviation from a settled point; freedom from rules or limits; laxity.
In human actions, there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged.
7. Extent.
I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude
LATITU'DINAL, adjective Pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.
LATITUDINA'RIAN, adjective Not restrained; not confined by precise limits; free; thinking or acting at large; as latitudinarian opinions or doctrines.
LATITUDINA'RIAN, noun
1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
2. In theology, one who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy; or one who indulges a latitude of thinking and interpretation; a moderate man.
LATITUDINA'RIANISM, noun
1. Freedom or liberality of opinion, particularly in theology.
2. Indifference to religion.
LA'TRANT, adjective [Latin latro, to bark.] Barking.
LA'TRATE, verb intransitive To bark as a dog. [Not used.]
LATRA'TION, noun A barking. [Not used.]
LA'TRIA, noun [Latin from Gr.] The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; distinguished by the Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.
LATRO'BITE, noun [from Latrobe.] A newly described mineral of a pale pink red color, massive or crystallized, from an isle near the Labrador coast.
LAT'ROCINY, noun [Latin latrocinium.] Theft; larceny. [Not in use.]
LAT'TEN, noun Iron plate covered with tin.
LAT'TER, adjective [an irregular comparative of late.]
1. Coming or happening after something else; opposed to former; as the former and latter rain; former or latter harvest.
2. Mentioned the last of two.
The difference between reason and revelation - and in what sense the latter is superior.
3. Modern; lately done or past; as in these latter ages.
LAT'TERLY, adverb Of late; in time not long past; lately.
LAT'TERMATH, noun The latter mowing; that which is mowed after a former mowing.
LAT'TICE, noun
Any work of wood or iron, made by crossing laths, rods or bars, and forming open squares like net-work; as the lattice of a window.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice Judges 5:28.
LAT'TICE, adjective
1. Consisting of cross pieces; as lattice work.
2. Furnished with lattice work; as a lattice window.
LAT'TICE, verb transitive
1. To form with cross bars, and open work.
2. To furnish with a lattice
LAT'TICED, participle passive Furnished with a lattice.
LAUD, noun [Latin laus, laudis; Gr. ; Eng. loud. See Loud.]
1. Praise; commendation; an extolling in words; honorable mention. [Little used.]
2. That part of divine worship which consists in praise.
3. Music or singing in honor of any one.
LAUD, verb transitive [Latin laudo.] To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate.
LAUD'ABLE, adjective [Latin laudabilis.]
1. Praiseworthy; commendable; as laudable motives; laudable actions.
2. Healthy; salubrious; as laudable juices of the body.
3. Healthy; well digested; as laudable pus.
LAUD'ABLENESS, noun The quality of deserving praise; praiseworthiness; as the laudableness of designs, purposes, motives or actions. [Laudability, in a like sense, has been used, but rarely.]
LAUD'ABLY, adverb In a manner deserving praise.
LAUD'ANUM, noun [from Latin laudo, to praise.] Opium dissolved in spirit or wine; tincture of opium.
LAUD'ATIVE, noun [Latin laudativus.] A panegyric; an eulogy. [Little used.]
LAUD'ATORY, adjective Containing praise; tending to praise.
LAUD'ATORY, noun That which contains praise.
LAUD'ER, noun One who praises.
LAUGH, verb intransitive l'aff. [Heb.]
1. To make the noise and exhibit the features which are characteristic of mirth in the human species. Violent laughter is accompanied with a shaking of the sides, and all laughter expels breath from the lungs.
2. In poetry, to be gay; to appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, lively or brilliant.
Then laughs the childish year with flow'rets crown'd.
And o'er the foaming bowl, the laughing wine.
To laugh at, to ridicule; to treat with some degree of contempt.
No fool to laugh at, which he valued more.
To laugh to scorn, to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt and scorn. Nehemiah 2:19.
LAUGH, noun l'aff. An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species.
But feigns a laugh to see me search around, and by that laugh the willing fair is found.
LAUGHABLE, adjective l'affable. That may justly excite laughter; as a laughable story; a laughable scene.
LAUGHER, noun l'affer. One who laughs, or is fond of merriment.
The laughers are a majority.
LAUGHING, participle present tense l'affing. Expressing mirth in a particular manner.
LAUGHINGLY, adverb l'affingly. In a merry way; with laughter.
LAUGHTER, noun l'affter. Convulsive merriment; an expression of mirth peculiar to man, consisting in a peculiar noise and configuration of features, with a shaking of the sides and expulsion of breath.
I said of laughter it is mad. Ecclesiastes 2:2.
LAU'MONITE, noun Efflorescent zeolite; so called from Laumont, its discoverer. It is found in laminated masses, in groups of prismatic crystals or prismatic distinct concretions. Exposed to the air, it disintegrates.
LAUNCH, [See Lanch, the more correct orthography.]
LAUND, noun A lawn. [Not used.]
LAUNDER, noun l'ander. [from Latin lavo, to wash.]
A washer-woman; also, a long and hollow trough, used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten.
LAUNDER, verb transitive l'ander. To wash; to wet.
LAUNDERER, noun l'anderer. A man who follows the business of washing clothes.
LAUNDRESS, noun l'andress. [Latin lavo.]
A washer-woman; a female whose employment is to wash clothes.
LAUNDRESS, verb intransitive l'andress. [supra.] To practice washing.
LAUNDRY, noun l'andry.
1. A washing.
2. The place or room where clothes are washed.
LAU'REATE, adjective [Latin laureatus, from laurea, a laurel.]
Decked or invested with laurel; as laureate hearse.
Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.
Poet laureate in Great Britain, an officer of the king's household, whose business is to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and for the new year. It is said this title was first given him in the time of Edward IV.
LAU'REATE, verb transitive To honor with a degree in the university, and a present of a wreath of laurel.
LAU'REATED, participle passive Honored with a degree and a laurel wreath.
LAUREA'TION, noun The act of conferring a degree in the university, together with a wreath of laurel; an honor bestowed on those who excelled in writing verse. This was an ancient practice at Oxford, from which probably originated the denomination of poet laureate.
LAU'REL, noun [Latin laurus.]
The bay-tree or Laurus, a genus of plants of several species.
LAU'RELED, adjective Crowned or decorated with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
LAURIF'FEROUS, adjective [Latin laurus and fero, to bear.]
Producing or bringing laurel.
LAU'RUSTIN, noun [Latin laurustinus.] A plant of the genus Viburnum, an evergreen shrub or tree, whose flowers are said to continue through the winter.
LAUS'KRAUT, noun A plant of the genus Delphinium.
LAU'TU, noun A band of cotton, twisted and worn on the head of the Inca of Peru, as a badge of royalty.
L'AVA, noun [probably from flowing, and from the root of Latin fluo, or lavo.]
1. A mass or stream of melted minerals or stony matter which bursts or is thrown from the mouth or sides of a volcano, and is sometimes ejected in such quantities as to overwhelm cities. Catana, at the foot of Etna, has often been destroyed by it, and in 1783, a vast tract of land in Iceland was overspread by an eruption of lava from mount Hecla.
2. The same matter when cool and hardened.
LAVA'TION, noun [Latin lavatio, from lavo.] A washing or cleansing.
LAV'ATORY, noun [See lave.]
1. A place for washing.
2. A wash or lotion for a diseased part.
3. A place where gold is obtained by washing.
LAVE, verb transitive [Latin lavo; Gr.]
To wash; to bathe; a word used chiefly in poetry or rhetoric.
LAVE, verb intransitive
1. To bathe; to wash one's self.
2. To throw up or out; to lade out. [Not in use.]
LAVEE'R, verb transitive In seamen's language, to tack; to sail back and forth. [I believe this word is not in common use.]
LAV'ENDER, noun [Latin lavendula.] A plant, or a genus of aromatic plants, Lavandula.
LA'VER, noun A vessel for washing; a large basin; in scripture history, a basin placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle, where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet and the entrails of victims.
LAVEROCK. [See lark.]
LA'VING, participle present tense Washing; bathing.
LAV'ISH, adjective [I know not from what source we have received this word. It coincides in elements with Latin liber, free, liberal, and lavo, to wash.]
1. Prodigal; expending or bestowing with profusion; profuse. He was lavish of expense; lavish of praise; lavish of encomiums; lavish of censure; lavish of blood and treasure.
2. Wasteful; expending without necessity; liberal to a fault.
3. Wild; unrestrained.
Curbing his lavish spirit.
LAV'ISH, verb transitive
1. To expend or bestow with profusion; as, to lavish praise or encomiums.
2. To waste; to expend without necessity or use; to squander; as, to lavish money on vices and amusements.
LAV'ISHED, participle passive Expended profusely; wasted.
LAV'ISHER, noun A prodigal; a profuse person.
LAV'ISHING, participle present tense Expending or laying out with profusion; wasting.
LAV'ISHLY, adverb With profuse expense; prodigally; wastefully.
LAV'ISHNESS, noun Profusion; prodigality.
LAVOL'TA, An old dance in which was much turning and capering.
LAW, noun [Latin lex; from the root of lay. See lay. A law is that which is laid, set or fixed, like statute, constitution, from Latin statuo.]
1. A rule, particularly an established or permanent rule, prescribed by the supreme power of a state to its subjects, for regulating their actions, particularly their social actions. Laws are imperative or mandatory, commanding what shall be done; prohibitory, restraining from what is to be forborn; or permissive, declaring what may be done without incurring a penalty. The laws which enjoin the duties of piety and morality, are prescribed by God and found in the Scriptures.
LAW is beneficence acting by rule.
2. Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear; a statute.
Municipal or civil laws are established by the decrees, edicts or ordinances of absolute princes, as emperors and kings, or by the formal acts of the legislatures of free states. law therefore is sometimes equivalent to decree, edict, or ordinance.
3. law of nature, is a rule of conduct arising out of the natural relations of human beings established by the Creator, and existing prior to any positive precept. Thus it is a law of nature, that one man should not injure another, and murder and fraud would be crimes, independent of any prohibition from a supreme power.
4. Laws of animal nature, the inherent principles by which the economy and functions of animal bodies are performed, such as respiration, the circulation of the blood, digestion, nutrition, various secretions, etc.
5. Laws of vegetation, the principles by which plats are produced, and their growth carried on till they arrive to perfection.
6. Physical laws, or laws of nature. The invariable tendency or determination of any species of matter to a particular form with definite properties, and the determination of a body to certain motions, changes, and relations, which uniformly take place in the same circumstances, is called a physical law These tendencies or determinations, whether called laws or affections of matter, have been established by the Creator, and are, with a peculiar felicity of expression, denominated in Scripture, ordinances of heaven.
7. Laws of nations, the rules that regulate the mutual intercourse of nations or states. These rules depend on natural law or the principles of justice which spring from the social state; or they are founded on customs, compacts, treaties, leagues and agreements between independent communities.
By the law of nations, we are to understand that code of public instruction, which defines the rights and prescribes the duties of nations, in their intercourse with each other.
8. Moral law a law which prescribes to men their religious and social duties, in other words, their duties to God and to each other. The moral law is summarily contained in the decalogue or ten commandments, written by the finger of God on two tables of stone, and delivered to Moses on mount Sinai.
Exodus 20:1.
9. Ecclesiastical law a rule of action prescribed for the government of a church; otherwise called canon law
10. Written law a law or rule of action prescribed or enacted by a sovereign, and promulgated and recorded in writing; a written statute, ordinance, edict or decree.
11. Unwritten or common law a rule of action which derives its authority from long usage, or established custom, which has been immemorially received and recognized by judicial tribunals. As this law can be traced to no positive statutes, its rules or principles are to be found only in the records of courts, and in the reports of judicial decisions.
12. By-law, a law of a city, town or private corporation. [See By.]
13. Mosaic law the institutions of Moses, or the code of laws prescribed to the Jews, as distinguished from the gospel.
14. Ceremonial law the Mosaic institutions which prescribe the external rites and ceremonies to be observed by the Jews, as distinct from the moral precepts, which are of perpetual obligation.
15. A rule of direction; a directory; as reason and natural conscience.
These, having not the law as a law to themselves. Romans 2:12.
16. That which governs or has a tendency to rule; that which has the power of controlling.
But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Romans 7:1.
17. The word of God; the doctrines and precepts of God, or his revealed will.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalms 1:2.
18. The Old Testament.
Is it not written in your law I said, ye are gods? John 10:34.
19. The institutions of Moses, as distinct from the other parts of the Old Testament; as the law and the prophets.
20. A rule or axiom of science or art; settled principle; as the laws of versification or poetry.
21. law martial, or martial law the rules ordained for the government of an army or military force.
22. Marine laws, rules for the regulation of navigation, and the commercial intercourse of nations.
23. Commercial law law-merchant, the system of rules by which trade and commercial intercourse are regulated between merchants.
24. Judicial process; prosecution of right in courts of law
Tom Touchy is a fellow famous for taking the law of every body.
Hence the phrase, to go to law to prosecute; to seek redress in a legal tribunal.
25. Jurisprudence; as in the title, Doctor of Laws.
26. In general, law is a rule of action prescribed for the government of rational beings or moral agents, to which rule they are bound to yield obedience, in default of which they are exposed to punishment; or law is a settled mode or course of action or operation in irrational beings and in inanimate bodies.
Civil law criminal law [See Civil and Criminal.]
LAWs of honor. [See Honor.]
LAW language, the language used in legal writings and forms, particularly the Norman dialect or Old French, which was used in judicial proceedings from the days of William the conqueror to the 36th year of Edward III.
Wager of law a species of trial formerly used in England, in which the defendant gave security that he would, on a certain day, make his law that is, he would make oath that he owed nothing to the plaintiff, and would produce eleven of his neighbors as compurgators, who should swear that they believed in their consciences that he had sworn the truth.
LAW'-BREAKER, noun One who violates the law
LAW'FUL, adjective
1. Agreeable to law; conformable to law; allowed by law; legal; legitimate. That is deemed lawful which no law forbids, but many things are lawful which are not expedient.
2. Constituted by law; rightful; as the lawful owner of lands.
LAW'FULLY, adverb Legally; in accordance with law; without violating law. We may lawfully do what the laws do not forbid.
LAW'FULNESS, noun The quality of being conformable to law; legality. The lawfulness of an action does not always prove its propriety or expedience.
LAW'GIVER, noun [law and give.] One who makes or enacts a law; a legislator.
LAW'GIVING, adjective Making or enacting laws; legislative.
LAW'ING, noun Expeditation; the act of cutting off the claws and balls of the fore feet of mastiffs to prevent them from running after deer.
LAW'LESS, adjective
1. Not subject to law; unrestrained by law; as a lawless tyrant; lawless men.
2. Contrary to law; illegal; unauthorized; as a lawless claim.
He needs no indirect nor lawless course.
3. Not subject to the ordinary laws of nature; uncontrolled.
He, meteor-like, flames lawless through the void.
LAW'LESSLY, adverb In a manner contrary to law.
LAW'LESSNESS, noun The quality or state of being unrestrained by law; disorder.
LAW'-MAKER, noun One who enacts or ordains laws; a legislator; a lawgiver.
Law-makers should not be law-breakers.
LAW'-MONGER, noun A low dealer in law; a pettifogger.
LAWN, noun
An open space between woods, or a plain in a park or adjoining a noble seat.
Betwixt them lawns or level downs, and flocks grazing the tender herbs, were interspers'd.
LAWN, noun [Latin linum.]
A sort of fine linen. Its use in the sleeves of bishops, explains the following line.
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn
LAWN, adjective Made of lawn
LAWN'Y, adjective
1. Level, as a plain; like a lawn.
2. Made of lawn.
LAW'SUIT, noun [See suit.] a suit in law for the recovery of a supposed right; a process in law instituted by a party to compel another to do him justice.
LAW'YER, noun [that is lawer, contracted from law-wer, law-man.]
One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to institute suits in courts of law, and to prosecute or defend the cause of clients. this is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, serjeants and advocates.
LAW'YERLY, adjective Judicial.
LAX, adjective [Latin laxus.]
1. Loose; flabby; soft; not tense, firm or rigid; as lax flesh; a lax fiber.
2. Slack; not tight or tense; as a lax cord.
3. Not firly united; of loose texture; as gravel and the like laxer matter.
4. Not rigidly exact; as a lax moral discourse.
5. Not strict; as lax morals.
6. Loose in the bowels; having too frequent discharges.
LAX, noun
1. A looseness; diarrhea.
2. A species of fish or salmon. [Not in use.]
LAXA'TION, noun [Latin laxatio.] The act of loosening or slackening; or the state of being loose or slackened.
LAX'ATIVE, adjective [Latin laxo.] Having the power or quality of loosening or opening the bowels, and relieving from constipation.
LAX'ATIVE, noun A medicine that relaxes the bowels and relieves from costiveness; a gentle purgative.
LAX'ATIVENESS, noun The quality of relaxing.
LAX'ITY, noun [Latin laxitas.]
1. Looseness; slackness; the opposite of tenseness or tension.
2. Looseness of texture.
3. Want of exactness or precision; as laxity of expression.
4. Looseness; defect of exactness; as laxity of morals.
5. Looseness, as of the bowels; the opposite of costiveness.
6. Openness; not closeness.
LAX'LY, adverb Loosely; without exactness.
LAX'NESS, noun
1. Looseness; softness; flabbiness; as the laxness of flesh or of muscles.
2. Laxity; the opposite of tension.
3. Looseness, as of morals or discipline.
4. Looseness, as of the bowels.
5. Slackness, as of a cord.
LAY, preterit tense of lie. The estate lay in the county of Hartford.
When Ahab heard these words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his head, and fasted and lay in sackcloth.
1 Kings 21:27.
LAY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive laid. [Latin loco, whence locus, Eng. ley or lea. The primary sense is to send or throw; hence this word is the Latin lego, legare, differently applied; Gr. to lie down.]
1. Literally, to throw down; hence, to put or place; applied to things broad or long, and in this respect differing from set. We lay a book on the table, when we place it on its side, but we set it on the end. We lay the foundation of a house, but we set a building on its foundation.
He laid his robe from him. Jonah 3:6.
Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid.
A stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den.
Daniel 6:1.
2. To beat down; to prostrate. Violent winds with rain lay corn and grass.
3. To settle; to fix and keep from rising. A shower lays the dust.
4. To place in order; to dispose with regularity in building; as, to lay bricks or stones in constructing walls.
5. To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
6. To spread or set; as, to lay snares.
7. To calm; to appease; to still; to allay.
After a tempest, when the winds are laid.
8. To quiet; to still; to restrain from walking; as, to lay the devil.
9. To spread and set in order; to prepare; as, to lay a table for dinner.
10. To place in the earth for growth.
The chief time of laying gilliflowers, is in July.
11. To place at hazard; to wage; to stake; as, to lay a crown or an eagle; to lay a wager.
12. To bring forth; to exclude; as, to lay eggs.
13. To add; to join.
Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field. Isaiah 5:6.
14. To put; to apply.
She layeth her hand to the spindle. Proverbs 31:19.
15. To asses; to charge; to impose; as, to lay a tax on land; to lay a duty on salt.
16. To charge; to impute; as, to lay blame on one; to lay want of prudence to one's charge.
17. To impose, as evil, burden, or punishment.
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 5:63.
18. To enjoin as a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
19. To exhibit; to present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county.
20. To prostrate; to slay.
The leaders first he laid along.
21. To depress and lose sight of, by sailing or departing from; as, to lay the land; a seaman's phrase.
22. To station; to set; as, to lay an ambush.
23. To contrive; to scheme; to plan.
To lay a cable, to twist or unite the strands.
To lay apart, to put away; to reject.
LAY apart all filthiness. James 1:21.
1. To lay aside, to put off or away; not to retain.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us. Hebrews 12:1.
2. To discontinue; as, to lay aside the use of any thing.
To lay away, to reposit in store; to put aside for preservation.
To lay before, to exhibit; to show; to present to view. The papers are laid before Congress.
1. To lay by, to reserve for future use.
Let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him. 1 Corinthians 16:2.
2. To put away; to dismiss.
Let brave spirits not be laid by, as persons unnecessary for the time.
3. To put off.
And she arose and went away, and laid by her veil. Genesis 38:1.
1. To lay down, to deposit, as a pledge, equivalent or satisfaction; to resign.
I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10:15.
2. To give up; to resign; to quit or relinquish; as, to lay down an office or commission.
3. To quit; to surrender the use of; as, to lay down one's arms.
4. To offer or advance; as, to lay down a proposition or principle.
To lay one's self down, to commit to repose.
I will both lay me down in peace and sleep - Psalms 4:8.
To lay hold of, to seize; to catch. To lay hold on, is used in a like sense.
To lay in, to store; to treasure; to provide previously.
To lay on, to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on blows.
To lay open, to open; to make bare; to uncover; also, to show; to expose; to reveal; as, to lay open the designs of an enemy.
To lay over, to spread over; to incrust; to cover the surface; as, to lay over with gold or silver.
1. To lay out, to expend; as, to lay out money, or sums of money.
2. To display; to discover.
He takes occasion to lay out bigotry and false confidence in all its colors. obsolete
3. To plan; to dispose in order the several parts; as, to lay out a garden.
4. To dress in grave clothes and place in a decent posture; as, to lay out a corpse. Shakespeare uses to lay forth.
5. To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength. So with the reciprocal pronoun, to lay one's self out, is to exert strength.
1. To lay to, to charge upon; to impute.
2. To apply with vigor.
3. To attack or harass. obsolete
4. To check the motion of a ship, and cause her to be stationary.
To lay together, to collect; to bring to one place; also, to bring into one view.
To lay to heart, to permit to affect greatly.
To lay under, to subject to; as, to lay one under restraint or obligation.
1. To lay up, to store; to treasure; to reposit for future use.
LAY up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Matthew 6:19.
2. To confine to the bed or chamber. He is laid up with the gout.
To lay siege, to besiege; to encompass with an army.
To lay wait, to station for private attack; to lay in ambush for.
To lay the course, in sailing, is to sail towards the port intended, without gibing.
To lay waste, to destroy; to desolate; to deprive of inhabitants, improvements and productions.
To lay the land, in seamen's language, is to cause the land apparently to sink or appear lower, by sailing from it; the distance diminishing the elevation.
LAY, verb intransitive
1. To bring or produce eggs.
Hens will greedily eat the herb that will make them lay the better.
2. To contrive; to form a scheme. [Unusual.]
To lay about, to strike or throw the arms on all sides; to act with vigor.
To lay at, to strike or to endeavor to strike.
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold. Job 41:8.
1. To lay out, to purpose; to intend. he lays out to make a journey.
2. To take measures.
I made strict inquiry wherever I came, and laid out for intelligence of all places.
To lay upon, to importune. obsolete
LAY, noun
1. That which lies or is laid; a row; a stratum; a layer; one rank in a series reckoned upward; as a lay of wood.
A viol should have a lay of wire-strings below.
2. A bet; a wager. [Little used.]
3. Station; rank. [Not used.]
LAY, noun [Latin locus. See lay the verb. The words which signify place, are from verbs which express setting or laying. It is written also ley, and lea, but less properly.]
A meadow; a plain or plat of grass land.
A tuft of daisies on a flowery lay
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
LAY, noun [Gr. to sound. Latin laudo, plaudo.]
A song; as a loud or soft lay; immortal lays.
[It is used chiefly in poetry.]
LAY, adjective [Latin laicus, Gr. from people.]
Pertaining to the laity or people, as distinct from the clergy; not clerical; as a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
LA'YER, noun la'er. [from lay, the verb.]
1. A stratum; a bed; a body spread over another; as a layer of clay or of sand.
2. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
3. A hen that lays eggs.
LA'YING, participle present tense Putting; placing; applying; imputing; wagering.
LA'YLAND, noun Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Local.]
LA'YMAN, noun la'man. [lay and man.]
1. A man who is not a clergyman; one of the laity or people, distinct from the clergy.
2. An image used by painters in contriving attitudes.
3. A lay-clerk.
LA'YSTALL, noun [lay and stall.] A heap of dung, or a place where dung is laid.
LA'ZAR, noun [from Laxarus.] A person infected with nauseous and pestilential disease.
LAZARET',
LAZARETTO, n.
A public building, hospital or pest-house for the reception of diseased persons, particularly for those affected with contagious distempers.LA'ZARLY, adjective Full of sores; leprous.
LA'ZARWORT,
LAZE, verb intransitive To live in idleness. [Vulgar.]
LAZE, verb transitive To waste in sloth. [Vulgar.]
LAZE, v.i. To live in idleness. [Vulgar.]
LAZE, v.t. To waste in sloth. [Vulgar.]
LA'ZILY, adverb [from lazy.] In a heavy, sluggish manner; sluggishly.
Whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time.
LA'ZINESS, noun [from lazy.]
1. The state or quality of being lazy; indisposition to action or exertion; indolence; sluggishness; heaviness in motion; habitual sloth. laziness differs from idleness; the latter being a mere defect or cessation of action, but laziness is sloth, with natural or habitual disinclination to action.
Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
2. Slowness; tardiness.
LA'ZING, adjective Spending time in sluggish inaction.
[This is an ill-formed, inelegant word.]
LAZ'ULI. Lapis lazuli is a mineral of a fine, azure blue color, usually amorphous, or in rounded masses of a moderate size. It is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphuret of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. It is distinguished from lazulite, by the intenseness of its color.
LAZ'ULITE, noun A mineral of a light, indigo blue color, occurring in small masses, or crystallized in oblique four-sided prisms.
LA'ZY, adjective [Latin laxus, and it is doubtful whether this is of the same family.]
1. Disinclined to action or exertion; naturally or habitually slothful; sluggish; indolent; averse to labor; heavy in motion.
Wicked men will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy and spend victuals.
2. Slow; moving slowly or apparently with labor; as a lazy stream.
The night-owl's lazy flight.