Language – Laving

Language

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.

Language-Master

LAN'GUAGE-MASTER, noun One whose profession is to teach languages.

Languaged

LAN'GUAGED, adjective Having a language; as many languaged nations.

Languet

LAN'GUET, noun Any thing in the shape of the tongue. [Not English.]

Languid

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.

Languidly

LAN'GUIDLY, adverb Weakly; feebly; slowly.

Languidness

LAN'GUIDNESS, noun

1. Weakness from exhaustion of strength; feebleness; dullness; languor.

2. Slowness.

Languish

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.

Languisher

LAN'GUISHER, noun One who languishes or pines.

Languishing

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.

Languishingly

LAN'GUISHINGLY, adverb

1. Weakly; feebly; dully; slowly.

2. With tender softness.

Languishment

LAN'GUISHMENT, noun

1. The state of pining.

2. Softness of look or mien, with the head reclined.

Languor

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.

Languorous

LAN'GUOROUS, adjective Tedious; melancholy. obsolete

Langure

LAN'GURE, verb transitive To languish. [Not in use.]

Laniard

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.

Laniate

LA'NIATE, verb transitive [Latin lanio.] To tear in pieces. [Little used.]

Laniation

LANIA'TION, noun A tearing in pieces. [Little used.]

Laniferous

LANIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lanifer; lana, wool, and fero, to produce.] Bearing or producing wool.

Lanifice

LAN'IFICE, noun [Latin lanificium; lana, wool, and facio, to make.]

Manufacture of wool. [Little used.]

Lanigerous

LANIG'EROUS, adjective [Latin laniger; lana, wool, and gero, to bear.] Bearing or producing wool.

Lank

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.]

Lankly

LANK'LY, adverb Thinly; loosely; laxly.

Lankness

LANK'NESS, noun Laxity; flabbiness; leanness; slenderness.

Lanky

LANK'Y, noun Lank. [Vulgar.]

Lanner

LAN'NER,

LAN'NERET, noun [Latin laniarius, lanius, a butcher.] A species of hawk.

Lanneret

LAN'NERET, n. [L. laniarius, lanius, a butcher.] A species of hawk.

Lansquenet

LANS'QUENET, noun [lance and knecht, a boy, a knight.]

1. A common foot soldier.

2. A game at cards.

Lantern

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.

Lantern-Fly

LAN'TERN-FLY, noun An insect of the genus Fulgora.

Lantern-Jaws

LAN'TERN-JAWS, noun A thin visage.

Lanuginous

LANU'GINOUS, adjective [Latin lanuginosus, from lanugo, down, from lana, wool.]

Downy; covered with down, or fine soft hair.

Laodicean

LAODICE'AN, adjective Like the christians of Laodicea: lukewarm in religion.

Laodiceanism

LAODICE'ANISM, noun Lukewarmness in religion.

Lap

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.

Lapdog

LAP'DOG, noun A small dog fondled in the lap.

Lapfull

LAP'FULL, noun As much as the lap can contain. 2 Kings 4:1.

Lapicide

LAP'ICIDE, noun A stone-cutter. [Not used.]

Lapidarious

LAPIDA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin lapidarius, from lapis, a stone.] Stony; consisting of stones.

Lapidary

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.

Lapidate

LAP'IDATE, verb transitive [Latin lapido.] To stone. [Not used.]

Lapidation

LAPIDA'TION, noun The act of stoning a person to death.

Lapideous

LAPID'EOUS, adjective [Latin lapideus.] Stony; of the nature of stone; as lapideous matter. [Little used.]

Lapidescence

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.

Lapidescent

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.

Lapidific

LAPIDIF'IC, adjective [Latin lapis, a stone, and facio, to make.] Forming or converting into stone.

Lapidification

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.

Lapidify

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.

Lapidist

LAP'IDIST, noun A dealer in precious stones. [See lapidary.]

Lapis

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.

Lapped

LAP'PED, participle passive [See Lap.] Turned or folded over.

Lapper

LAP'PER, noun

1. One that laps; one that wraps or folds.

2. One that takes up with his tongue.

Lappet

LAP'PET, noun [dim. of lap.] A part of a garment or dress that hangs loose.

Lapping

LAP'PING, participle present tense

1. Wrapping; folding; laying on.

2. Licking; taking into the mouth with the tongue.

Lapse

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.

Lapsed

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.

Lapsided

LAP'SIDED, adjective [Lap and side.] Having one side heavier than the other, as a ship.

Lapsing

LAPS'ING, participle present tense Gliding; flowing; failing; falling to one person through the omission of another.

Lapwing

LAP'WING, noun A bird of the genus Tringa; the tewit.

Lapwork

LAP'WORK, noun Work in which one part laps over another.

Lar

L'AR, noun plural lares. [Latin] A household deity.

Larboard

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.

Larceny

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

Larch

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.

Lard

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.

Lardaceous

LARDA'CEOUS, adjective Of the nature of lard; consisting of lard.

Larded

L'ARDED, participle passive Stuffed with bacon; fattened; mixed.

Larder

L'ARDER, noun A room where meat is kept or salted.

Lardry

L'ARDRY, noun A larder. [Not used.]

Large

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.

Largeheartedness

LARGEHE'ARTEDNESS, noun Largeness of heart; liberality. [Not used.]

Largely

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

Largeness

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.

Largess

L'ARGESS, noun [Latin largitio; from largus, large.]

A present; a gift or donation; a bounty bestowed.

Larghetto

LARGHET'TO, Musical terms, directing to slow movement. Large is one degree quicker than grave, and two degrees quicker than adagio.

Largish

L'ARGISH, adjective Somewhat large. [Unusual.]

Largo

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.

Lark

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.

Larker

L'ARKER, noun A catcher of larks.

Larklike

L'ARKLIKE, adjective Resembling a lark in manners.

Larks-Heel

L'ARK'S-HEEL, noun A flower called Indian cress.

Larkspur

L'ARKSPUR, noun A plant of the genus Delphinium.

Larmier

L'ARMIER, noun

The flat jutting part of a cornice; literally, the dropper; the eave or drip of a house.

Larum

LAR'UM, noun

Alarm; a noise giving notice of danger. [See Alarm, which is generally used.]

Larva

L'ARVA,

L'ARVATED, adjective Masked; clothed as with a mask.

Larve

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.

Laryngean

LARYN'GEAN, adjective [See Larynx.] Pertaining to the larynx.

Laryngotomy

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.

Larynx

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.

Lascar

LAS'CAR, noun In the East Indies, a native seaman, or a gunner.

Lasciviency

LASCIVIENCY, LASCIVIENT. [Not used. See the next words.]

Lascivient

LASCIVIENCY, LASCIVIENT [Not used. See the next words.]

Lascivious

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.

Lasciviously

LASCIV'IOUSLY, adverb Loosely; wantonly; lewdly.

Lasciviousness

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.

Laserwort

LA'SERWORT, noun Laserpitium, a genus of plants of several species, natives of Germany, Italy, France, etc.

Lash

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.

Lashed

LASH'ED, participle passive

1. Struck with a lash; whipped; tied; made fast by a rope.

2. In botany, ciliate; fringed.

Lasher

LASH'ER, noun One that whips or lashes.

Lashing

LASH'ING, noun A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.

LASH'ING, noun Extravagance; unruliness.

Lass

L'ASS, noun

A young woman; a girl.

Lassitude

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.

Lasslorn

L'ASSLORN, adjective Forsaken by his lass or mistress.

Last

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

Lastage

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.]

Lastery

L'ASTERY, noun A red color. [Not in use.]

Lasting

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.

Lastingly

L'ASTINGLY, adverb Durably; with continuance.

Lastingness

L'ASTINGNESS, noun Durability; the quality or state of long continuance.

Lastly

L'ASTLY, adverb

1. In the last place.

2. In the conclusion; at last; finally.

Latch

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.]

Latchet

LATCH'ET, noun [from latch.] The string that fastens a shoe. Mark 1:7.

Late

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.

Lated

LA'TED, adjective Belated; being too late. [Not used.]

Lateen

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.

Lately

LA'TELY, adverb Not long ago; recently. We called on a gentleman who has lately arrived from Italy.

Latency

LA'TENCY, noun [See Latent.] The state of being concealed; abstruseness.

Lateness

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.

Latent

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.

Later

LA'TER, adjective [comparative deg. of late.] Posterior; subsequent.

Lateral

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.

Laterality

LATERAL'ITY, noun The quality of having distinct sides. [Not used.]

Laterally

LAT'ERALLY, adverb

1. By the side; sideways.

2. In the direction of the side.

Lateran

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.

Latered

LA'TERED, adjective Delayed. obsolete

Laterifolious

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.

Lateritious

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.

Lath

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

LATHE, noun

An engine by which instruments of wood, ivory, metals and other materials, are turned and cut into a smooth round form.

Lather

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.

Lathy

L'ATHY, adjective Thin as a lath; long and slender.

L'ATHY, adjective Flabby; weak.

Latibulize

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.

Laticlave

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.

Latin

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

Latinism

LAT'INISM, noun A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to the Latins.

Latinist

LAT'INIST, noun One skilled in Latin.

Latinity

LATIN'ITY, noun Purity of the Latin style or idiom; the Latin tongue.

Latinize

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.

Latirostrous

LATIROS'TROUS, adjective [Latin latus, broad, and rostrum, beak.] Having a broad beak, as a fowl.

Latish

LA'TISH, adjective [from late.] Somewhat late.

Latitancy

LAT'ITANCY, noun [Latin latitans, latito, to lie hid, from lateo. See Latent.]

The state of lying concealed; the state of lurking.

Latitant

LAT'ITANT, adjective Lurking; lying hid; concealed.

[These words are rarely used. See latent.]

Latitat

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.

Latitude

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

Latitudinal

LATITU'DINAL, adjective Pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.

Latitudinarian

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.

Latitudinarianism

LATITUDINA'RIANISM, noun

1. Freedom or liberality of opinion, particularly in theology.

2. Indifference to religion.

Latrant

LA'TRANT, adjective [Latin latro, to bark.] Barking.

Latrate

LA'TRATE, verb intransitive To bark as a dog. [Not used.]

Latration

LATRA'TION, noun A barking. [Not used.]

Latria

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.

Latrobite

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.

Latrociny

LAT'ROCINY, noun [Latin latrocinium.] Theft; larceny. [Not in use.]

Latten

LAT'TEN, noun Iron plate covered with tin.

Latten-Brass

LAT'TEN-BRASS, noun Plates of milled brass reduced to different thicknesses, according to the uses they are intended for.

Latter

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.

Latterly

LAT'TERLY, adverb Of late; in time not long past; lately.

Lattermath

LAT'TERMATH, noun The latter mowing; that which is mowed after a former mowing.

Lattice

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

Latticed

LAT'TICED, participle passive Furnished with a lattice.

Laud

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.

Laudable

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.

Laudableness

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.]

Laudably

LAUD'ABLY, adverb In a manner deserving praise.

Laudanum

LAUD'ANUM, noun [from Latin laudo, to praise.] Opium dissolved in spirit or wine; tincture of opium.

Laudative

LAUD'ATIVE, noun [Latin laudativus.] A panegyric; an eulogy. [Little used.]

Laudatory

LAUD'ATORY, adjective Containing praise; tending to praise.

LAUD'ATORY, noun That which contains praise.

Lauder

LAUD'ER, noun One who praises.

Laugh

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.

Laugh-Worthy

LAUGH-WORTHY, adjective Deserving to be laughed at.

Laughable

LAUGHABLE, adjective l'affable. That may justly excite laughter; as a laughable story; a laughable scene.

Laugher

LAUGHER, noun l'affer. One who laughs, or is fond of merriment.

The laughers are a majority.

Laughing

LAUGHING, participle present tense l'affing. Expressing mirth in a particular manner.

Laughing-Stock

LAUGHING-STOCK, noun An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.

Laughingly

LAUGHINGLY, adverb l'affingly. In a merry way; with laughter.

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.

Laumonite

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

LAUNCH, [See Lanch, the more correct orthography.]

Laund

LAUND, noun A lawn. [Not used.]

Launder

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

LAUNDERER, noun l'anderer. A man who follows the business of washing clothes.

Laundress

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

LAUNDRY, noun l'andry.

1. A washing.

2. The place or room where clothes are washed.

Laureate

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.

Laureated

LAU'REATED, participle passive Honored with a degree and a laurel wreath.

Laureation

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.

Laurel

LAU'REL, noun [Latin laurus.]

The bay-tree or Laurus, a genus of plants of several species.

Laureled

LAU'RELED, adjective Crowned or decorated with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.

Laurifferous

LAURIF'FEROUS, adjective [Latin laurus and fero, to bear.]

Producing or bringing laurel.

Laurustin

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.

Lauskraut

LAUS'KRAUT, noun A plant of the genus Delphinium.

Lautu

LAU'TU, noun A band of cotton, twisted and worn on the head of the Inca of Peru, as a badge of royalty.

Lava

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.

Lavation

LAVA'TION, noun [Latin lavatio, from lavo.] A washing or cleansing.

Lavatory

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

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.]

Lave-Eared

LA'VE-EARED, adjective Having large pendant ears. [Not in use.]

Laveer

LAVEE'R, verb transitive In seamen's language, to tack; to sail back and forth. [I believe this word is not in common use.]

Lavender

LAV'ENDER, noun [Latin lavendula.] A plant, or a genus of aromatic plants, Lavandula.

Laver

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

LAVEROCK. [See lark.]

Laving

LA'VING, participle present tense Washing; bathing.