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.

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.

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/.

One of the Lamellibranchia (also called Pelecypoda). Also used adjectively.

An earlier name for the class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc., now called Pelecypoda or Bivalvia.

Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia (also called Pelecypoda). One of the Lamellibranchia (also called Pelecypoda).

Having antennae terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of certain coleopterous insects. Terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of antennae. A lamellicorn insect.

A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.

Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.

Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese.

A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate.

Composed of, or having, lamellae; lamelliform.

In a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.

The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.

Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

Mourned for; bewailed.

One who laments.

See Lamantin.

Lamentation.

In a lamenting manner.

Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.

A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.

A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

The quality or state of being laminable.

Capable of being split into lamin/ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.

In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.

Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.

A broad-leafed fossil alga.

Laminar.

To separate into laminae.

Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, sheets, scales, or layers, one over another; laminate.

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.

Having a structure consisting of lamin/, or thin layers.

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

Inflammation of the lamin/ or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.

Somewhat lame.

See Lam.

The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.

A very large vulture (Gypa/tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.