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.

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.

In Tibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism.

Of or pertaining to Lamaism.

A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Tibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama.

Of or pertaining to Lamaism.

One who believes in Lamaism.

The manatee.

Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.

Lamarckism.

The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs. It is a discredited theory, not believed by modern biologists.

A monastery or convent of lamas, in Tibet, Mongolia, etc.

To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.

A name given to several common weedy European plants of the Goosefoot family, introduced into N. America, and sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

Same as lambaste.

To beat severely; to beat with a cane.

A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.

The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.

A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.

Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

Same as Lambdoid.

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.

The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.

A small genus of Australian shrubs.

A genus of scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of eastern hemisphere.

A small American ericaceous shrub (Kalmia angustifolia), resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; -- called also calfkill, sheepkill, sheep laurel, etc. It is supposed to poison young sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food.

A small lamb.

Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.

Same as Base, n., 19.

A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.

The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.

See Lansquenet.

Lambdoid.

To make lame.

The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to l.

See Lamella.

A thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.

Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellAE. In thin plates or scales.

Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar.

Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antenn/.