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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
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
LAB, noun a great talker; a blabber. obsolete
Labadist
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
LABDANUM. [See Ladanum.]
Labefaction
LABEFAC'TION, noun [Latin labefactio, from labefacio, labo, to totter, and facio, to make.]
A weakening or loosening; a failing; decay; downfall; ruin.
Labefy
LAB'EFY, verb transitive To weaken or impair. [Not used.]
Label
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.
Labeled
LA'BELED, participle passive Furnished with a label.
Labeling
LA'BELING, participle present tense Distinguishing by a label.
Labent
LA'BENT, adjective [Latin labens.] Sliding; gliding.
Labial
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.
Labiate
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.
Labiated
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.
Labile
LA'BILE, adjective [Low Latin labilis.] Liable to err, fall or apostatize. [Not used.]
Labiodental
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.
Labor
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 - .
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 - .
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. .
3. To toil; to be burdened.
Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. .
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. .
9. To perform the duties of the pastoral office. .
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.
Laborant
LA'BORANT, noun A chimist. [Not used.]
Laboratory
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.
Labored
LA'BORED, participle passive Tilled; cultivated; formed with labor.
Laborer
LA'BORER, noun One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a man who does work that requires little skill, as distinguished from an artisan.
Laboring
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.
Laborious
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.
Laboriously
LABO'RIOUSLY, adverb With labor, toil or difficulty.
Laboriousness
LABO'RIOUSNESS, noun
1. The quality of being laborious, or attended with toil; toilsomeness; difficulty.
2. Diligence; assiduity.
Laborless
LA'BORLESS, adjective Not laborious.
Laborsome
LA'BORSOME, adjective Made with great labor and diligence. [Not in use.]
Laburnum
LABURN'UM, noun A tree of the genus Cytisus.
Labyrinth
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.
Labyrinthian
LABYRINTH'IAN, adjective Winding; intricate; perplexed.
Lac
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.
Laccic
LAC'CIC, adjective Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as laccic acid.
Lace
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.
Lace-Bark
LA'CE-BARK, noun A shrub in the West Indies, the Daphue lagetto, so called from the texture of its inner bark.
Laced
LA'CED, participle passive Fastened with lace or a string; also, tricked off with lace.
Laced coffee, coffee with spirits in it.
Laceman
LA'CEMAN, noun A man who deals in lace.
Lacerable
LAC'ERABLE, adjective [See Lacerate.] That may be torn.
Lacerate
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.
Lacerated
LAC'ERATED, participle passive or adjective
1. Rent; torn.
2. In botany, having the edge variously cut into irregular segments; as a lacerated leaf.
Laceration
LACERA'TION, noun The act of tearing or rending; the breach made by rending.
Lacerative
LAC'ERATIVE, adjective Tearing; having the power to tear; as lacerative humors.
Lacertine
LAC'ERTINE, adjective [Latin lacertus.] Like a lizard.
Lacertus
LACER'TUS, noun The girroc, a fish of the gar-fish kind; also, the lizard-fish.
Lacewoman
LA'CEWOMAN, noun A woman who makes or sells lace.
Lache
LACHE,
LACH'ES, noun [Latin laxus, lax, slow.] In law, neglect; negligence.
Lachrymable
LACH'RYMABLE, adjective Lamentable.
Lachrymal
LACH'RYMAL, adjective [Latin lachryma, a tear.]
1. Generating or secreting tears; as the lachrymal gland.
2. Pertaining to tears; conveying tears.
Lachrymary
LACH'RYMARY, adjective Containing tears.
Lachrymation
LACHRYMA'TION, noun The act of shedding tears.
Lachrymatory
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.
Lacing
LAC'ING, participle present tense Fastening with a string; adorned or trimmed with lace.
Laciniate
LACIN'IATE,
LACIN'IATED, adjective [Latin lacinia, a hem.]
1. Adorned with fringes.
2. In botany, jagged.
Lack
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 - .
2. To blame. [Not in use.]
LACK, verb intransitive
1. To be in want.
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger. .
2. To be wanting.
Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous.
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LACK, noun Want; destitution; need; failure.
He that gathered little, had no lack .
LACK of rupees is one hundred thousand rupees, which at 55 cents each, amount to fifty five thousand dollars, or at d. sterling, to 12, 500 pounds.
Lack-A-Day
LACK-A-DAY, exclamation of sorrow or regret; alas.
Lackbrain
LACK'BRAIN, noun One that wants brains, or is deficient in understanding.
Lacker
LACK'ER,
LACK'ERED, participle passive Covered with lacker; varnished.
Lackered
LACK'ERED, pp. Covered with lacker; varnished.
Lackey
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.
Lacklinen
LACK'LINEN, adjective Wanting shirts. [Little used.]
Lackluster
LACK'LUSTER, adjective Wanting luster or brightness.
Lacmus
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.
Laconic
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.
Laconically
LACON'ICALLY, adverb Briefly; concisely; as a sentiment laconically expressed.
Laconicism
LACON'ICISM, noun [Latin lacomismus.]
1. A concise style.
2. A brief sententious phrase or expression.
Laconics
LACON'ICS, noun A book of Pausanias, which treats of Lacedemonia.
Laconism
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.
Lacquer
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.
Lactage
LAC'TAGE, noun The produce of animals yielding milk.
Lactant
LAC'TANT, adjective [Latin lactans, from lacto, to give suck; lac, milk.] Suckling; giving suck. [Little used.]
Lactary
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.
Lactate
LAC'TATE, noun In chimistry, a salt formed by the lactic acid, or acid of milk, with a base.
Lactation
LACTA'TION, noun [Latin lacto, to give suck.] The act of giving suck; or the time of suckling.
Lacteal
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.
Lacteous
LAC'TEOUS, adjective [Latin lacteus, from lac, milk.
1. Milky; resembling milk.
2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as a lacteous vessel.
Lactescence
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.
Lactescent
LACTES'CENT, adjective
1. Producing milk or white juice.
2. Abounding with a thick colored juice.
Lactic
LAC'TIC, adjective Pertaining to milk, or procured from sour milk or whey; as the lactic acid.
Lactiferous
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.
Lacunar
LAC'UNAR, noun [Latin] An arched roof or ceiling.
Lacunose
LACUNO'SE, adjective [Latin lacunosus, from lacuna, a ditch or hollow.]
Furrowed or pitted. A lacunose leaf has the disk depressed between the veins.
Lacunous
LACU'NOUS,
LAD, noun [Heb. to procreate or bear young.] A young man or boy; a stripling.
Lad
LAD, n. [Heb. to procreate or bear young.] A young man or boy; a stripling.
Ladanum
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.
Ladder
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
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. .
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
Laded
LA'DED,
LA'DEN, participle passive
1. Loaded; charged with a burden or freight.
2. adjective Oppressed; burdened.
Laden
LA'DEN, pp. 1. Loaded; charged with a burden or freight.2. a. Oppressed; burdened.
Lading
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. .
Ladkin
LAD'KIN, noun A little lad; a youth. [Little used.]
Ladle
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.
Ladle-Ful
LA'DLE-FUL, noun The quantity contained in a ladle.
Lady
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.
Lady-Bird
LA'DY-BIRD, or LA'DY-BUG, or LA''DY-COW, or LA'DY-FLY noun A small red vaginopennous or sheath-winged insect.
A coleopterous insect of the genus Coccinella.(Linne)
Lady-Bug
LA'DY-BIRD, or LA'DY-BUG, or LA'DY-COW, or LA'DY-FLY noun A small red vaginopennous or sheath-winged insect.
A coleopterous insect of the genus Coccinella.(Linne)
Lady-Cow
LA'DY-BIRD, or LA'DY-BUG, or LA'DY-COW, or LA'DY-FLY noun A small red vaginopennous or sheath-winged insect.
A coleopterous insect of the genus Coccinella.(Linne)
Lady-Day
LA'DY-DAY, noun The day of the annunciation of the holy virgin, March 25th.
Lady-Fly
LA'DY-FLY, noun A small red vaginopennous or sheath-winged insect.
A coleopterous insect of the genus Coccinella.
Lady-Like
LA'DY-LIKE, adjective
1. Like a lady in manners; genteel; well bred.
2. Soft; tender; delicate.
Ladyship
LA'DYSHIP, noun The title of a lady.
Lag
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.
Laggard
LAG'GARD, noun Slow; sluggish; backward. [Not used.]
Lagger
LAG'GER, adjective A loiterer; an idler; one who moves slowly and falls behind.
Lagging
LAG'GING, participle present tense Loitering; moving slowly and falling behind.
The nurse went lagging after with the child.
Lagoon
LAGOON',
LAGU'NE, noun A fen, moor, marsh, shallow pond or lake; as the lagunes of Venice.
Lagune
LAGU'NE, n. A fen, moor, marsh, shallow pond or lake; as the lagunes of Venice.
Laic
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.
Laical
LA'ICAL, a. [L. laicus, Gr. from people.] Belonging to the laity or people, in distinction from the clergy.
Laid
LAID, preterit tense and participle passive of lay; so written for layed.
Lain
LAIN, participle passive of lie. Lien would be a more regular orthography, but lain is generally used.
Lair
LAIR, noun [Latin locus.]
1. A place of rest; the bed or couch of a boar or wild beast.
2. Pasture; the ground.
Laird
LAIRD, noun
In the Scots dialect, a lord; the proprietor of a manor.
Laity
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
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.
Laky
LA'KY, adjective Pertaining to a lake or lakes.
Lama
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.
Lamantin
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. .
LAMB, verb transitive To bring forth young, as sheep.
Lamb
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. LAMB, v.t. To bring forth young, as sheep.
Lambative
LAM'BATIVE, adjective [Latin lambo, to lick.]
Taken by licking. [Little used.]
LAM'BATIVE, noun A medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
Lambent
LAM'BENT, adjective [Latin lambens, lambo, to lick.] Playing about; touching lightly; gliding over; as a lambent flame.
Lambkin
LAMBKIN, noun lam'kin. A small lamb.
Lamblike
LAMBLIKE, adjective lam'like. Like a lamb; gentle; humble; meek; as a lamblike temper.
Lamdoidal
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
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.
Lamel
LAM'EL, noun [Latin lamella. See Lamin.] A thin plate or scale of any thing.
Lamellar
LAM'ELLAR, adjective [from lamel.] Disposed in thin plates or scales.
Lamellarly
LAM'ELLARLY, adverb In thin plates or scales.
Lamellate
LAM'ELLATE,
LAM'ELLATED, adjective Formed in thin plates or scales, or covered with them.
Lamellated
LAM'ELLATED, a. Formed in thin plates or scales, or covered with them.
Lamelliferous
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.
Lamelliform
LAM'ELLIFORM, adjective [Latin lamella, a plate, and form.] Having the form of a plate.
Lamely
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.
Lameness
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
LAMENT', verb intransitive [Latin lamentor.]
1. To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow.
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. .
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.]
Lamentable
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.]
Lamentably
LAM'ENTABLY, adverb
1. Mournfully; with expressions or tokens of sorrow.
2. So as to cause sorrow.
3. Pitifully; despicably.
Lamentation
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. .
2. In the plural, a book of Scripture, containing the lamentations of Jeremiah.
Lamented
LAMENT'ED, participle passive Bewailed; mourned for.
Lamenter
LAMENT'ER, noun One who mourns, or cries out with sorrow.
LAMENTIN. [See Lamantin.]
Lamentin
LAM'ENTIN, noun A species of the walrus or sea-cow, the Trichechus manatus.
Lamenting
LAMENT'ING, participle present tense Bewailing; mourning; weeping.
LAMENT'ING, noun A mourning; lamentation.
Lamia
LA'MIA, noun [Latin] A hag; a witch; a demon.
Lamin
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.
Lamina
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.
Laminable
LAM'INABLE, adjective Capable of being formed into thin plates.
Laminar
LAM'INAR, adjective In plates; consisting of thin plates or layers.
Laminate
LAM'INATE,
LAM'INATED, adjective Plated; consisting of plates, scales or layers, one over another.
Laminated
LAM'INATED, a. Plated; consisting of plates, scales or layers, one over another.
Lamm
LAMM, verb transitive To beat. [Not in use.]
Lammas
LAM'MAS, noun
The first day of August.
Lamp
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.
Lampas
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.
Lampblack
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.
Lampiate
LAMP'IATE, noun A compound salt, composed of lampic acid and a base.
Lampic
LAMP'IC, adjective The lampic acid is obtained by the combustion of ether by means of a lamp.
Lamping
LAMP'ING, adjective Shining; sparkling. [Not used.]
Lampoon
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.
Lampooner
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.
Lampooning
LAMPOON'ING, participle present tense Abusing with personal satire.
Lampoonry
LAMPOON'RY, noun Abuse.
Lamprey
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 ]
Lanate
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.
Lanated
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
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
LANCELY, adjective l'ansly. Suitable to a lance.
Lanceolar
LAN'CEOLAR, adjective In botany, tapering towards each end.
Lanceolate
LAN'CEOLATE,
LAN'CEOLATED, adjective Shaped like a lance; oblong and gradually tapering toward each extremity; spear-shaped; as a lanceolate leaf.
Lanceolated
LAN'CEOLATED, a. Shaped like a lance; oblong and gradually tapering toward each extremity; spear-shaped; as a lanceolate leaf.
Lancepesade
LANCEPESA'DE, noun An officer under the corporal.
Lancer
L'ANCER, noun One who lances; one who carries a lance.
Lancet
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.
Lanch
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
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. .
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.
Landau
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.
Landed
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.
Landfall
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.
Landflood
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.
Landgrave
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.
Landgraviate
LANDGRA'VIATE, noun The territory held by a landgrave, or his office, jurisdiction or authority.
Landholder
LAND'HOLDER, noun A holder, owner or proprietor of land.
Landing
LAND'ING, participle present tense Setting on shore; coming on shore.
Landing-Place
LAND'ING-PLACE, noun A place on the shore of the sea or of a lake, or on the bank of a river; where persons land or come on shore, or where goods are set on shore.
Landjobber
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.
Landlady
LAND'LADY, noun [See Landlord.]
1. A woman who has tenants holding from her.
2. The mistress of an inn.
Landless
LAND'LESS, adjective Destitute of land; having no property in land.
Landlock
LAND'LOCK, verb transitive [land and lock.] To inclose or encompass by land.
Landlocked
LAND'LOCKED, participle passive Encompassed by land, so that no point of the compass is open to the sea.
Landloper
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.
Landlord
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.
Landman
LAND'MAN, noun A man who serves on land; opposed to seaman.
Landmark
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 .
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.
Landscape
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.
Landslip
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.
Landsman
LAND'SMAN, noun In seaman's language, a sailor on board a ship, who has not before been at sea.
Landstreight
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.
Landward
LAND'WARD, adverb Toward the land.
LAND'-WIND, noun A wind blowing from the land.
LAND'-WORKER, noun One who tills the ground.
Lane
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.
Langrage
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
LANGTERALOO', noun A game at cards.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.