Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.
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A boy; a youth; a stripling.
A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.
imp. of Lead, to guide.
A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.
Same as hook-and-ladder company, hook-and-ladder truck.
a chair with a ladder-back{2}.
Having horizontal stripes on the back, reminiscent of a ladder; -- used of birds; as, a ladder-backed woodpecker.
resistant to runs or (in Britain) ladders; -- of hosiery.
A lad; a male sweetheart.
The mouth of a river.
One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant.
Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.
Ladylike; not rough; gentle.
The small-flowered Fuchsia (Fuchsia coccinea), and other closely related species.
A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
To make a lady of; to make ladylike.
A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol.
The act of loading.
The mixed Spanish and Hebrew language spoken by Sephardim.
A little lad.
To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.
A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.
A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.
Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.
The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation.
a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess.
A gallant who captivates the hearts of women.
The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women.
A West Indian shrub (Brunfelsia americana) with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers.
Same as lady's slipper.
A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).
Ribbon grass.
A plant of the genus Briza (Briza media); a variety of quaking grass.
A slender climbing plant; dodder.
See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.
Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).
A plant of the genus Cardamine (Cardamine pratensis); cuckoo flower.
The harebell.
An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
An erect or climbing shrub (Fuchsia coccinea) of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers.
Same as ladybird.
Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellid/); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, ladybeetle, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella.
Same as Ladybird.
See Ladybird.
A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macab/. A labroid fish (Harpe rufa) of Florida and the West Indies.
The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of a lady.
A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.
Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
The quality or state of being ladylike.
A sweetheart or mistress.
The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your).
A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
See Lammergeir.
One of the Laemodipoda.
A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.
Of or pertaining to the Laemodipoda.
The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word L/tare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.
Having a smooth surface, as if polished.
A prefix. See Levo.
Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.
See Levulose.
The dollar fish. A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
p. p. of Leave.
imp. of Leave.
To transport for crime.
See Ligan.
An alligator.
The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.
Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.
Shaped like a bottle or flask; flag-shaped.
A small genus of herbs of Australia and South America having small solidary white or purple flowers similar to true daisies of genus Bellis.
Lager beer.
Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.
Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar.
One who lags; a loiterer.
A laggard.
The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.
In a lagging manner; loiteringly.
Laggingly.
In Louisiana, a trifling present given to customers by tradesmen; a gratuity.
One of the Lagomorpha.
an order of rodent-like mammals, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata. They were formerly classified together with the rodents, but the Rodentia and Lagomorpha are now classed as separate orders.
A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.
A morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open, giving a peculiar staring appearance.
Having a dense covering of long hair, like the foot of a hare.
A mammal genus comprising the hare wallabies.
A mammal genus comprising the viscachas.
A mammal genus comprising the woolly monkeys.
See Legislatature, below.
See Lagoon.
A layman.
Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity.
The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.
As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.
of Lay.
Ugly; loathsome.
p. p. of Lie, v. i.
See Lanier.
A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown.
The state of being a laird; an estate; landed property.
See Lamaism.
Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system of government.
The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
Sap green.
A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
land bordering a lake.
A little lake.
One that is connected with a lake or lakes, as in habitation, toil, etc.: One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n. A fish living in, or taken from, a lake, esp. the namaycush. A lake steamer or canal boat.
the shore of a lake.
the shore of a lake.
The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.
Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.
One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.
See Ladykin.
See Lack.
Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.
An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l.
The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous.
To beat soundly; to thrash.
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