A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
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A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.
Like a lance.
Lanceolate.
Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.
One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.
A set of quadrilles for 8 or 16 couples.
A surgical knife-like instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
A large, elongated, scaleless, voracious, deep-sea fish (Alepidosaurus ferox), having long, sharp, lancetlike teeth and a long saillike dorsal fin.
A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonase/).
To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
Bearing a lance.
Having the form of a lance.
To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.
Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).
A tearing; laceration.
To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.
In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws.
Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period.
Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage.
A small landau.
Having an estate in land.
One who lands, or makes a landing.
A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.
A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
The territory held by a landgrave.
The wife of a landgrave.
A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.
ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land.
A going or bringing on shore.
The wheels and attached structures under an airplane that support it and allow it to move when on the ground; also, the floats or pontoons of an amphibious airplane together with their supporting structures. Landing gear may be fixed rigidly in place, or retractable when in flight.
A runway at an airport, at which airplanes land{3}; the long smooth surface used for takeoff or landing{4}.
A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
See Landlouper.
Having no property in land.
To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land; having no border on the sea; as, a landlocked country.
Same as Landlouper.
The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands.
The state of a landlord.
A vagabond; a vagrant.
Vagrant; wandering about.
One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.
Like a landlubber: inexperienced in seamanshap.
A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.
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.
a large continuous extent of land; as, the Eurasian landmass.
An owner of land.
The owning of land. Having property in land; of or pertaining to landowners.
A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
Working as a landscape gardner.
A painter of landscapes.
A landscape.
The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
See Legislature, below.
See Varnpligtige.
A narrow strip of land.
A general levy in time of war. The forces called out on such levy, composed of all men liable to service who are not in the army, navy, or Landwehr; the last line of defense, supposed to be called out only in case of invasion or other grave emergency. See Army organization, above.
The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia. See Legislature, below.
A chief magistrate in rural districts. He was replaced in 1827 by /resident magistrates./ The president of the Heemraad.
See Landing waiter, under Landing, a.
Toward the land.
That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.
A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice.
Long.
A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade.
One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds of Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow.
A linen roller used in dressing wounds.
A wolf (Canis pallipes), found in India, allied to the jackal.
A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.
A kind of loaded die.
See Langrage.
Long since; long ago.
An old game at cards. See Loo (a).
To communicate by language; to express in language.
Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition.
Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent.
The dialect, closely akin to French, formerly spoken south of the Loire (in which the word for /yes/ was oc); Proven/al.
Tongued; having the tongue visible.
In a languishing manner; pathetically.
Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.
See Languishment.
One who languishes.
Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.
In a languishing manner.
The state of languishing.
Languishment.
A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.
To languish.
One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes.
See Lanyard.
Shaped like a laniary, or canine, tooth.
Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.
To tear in pieces.
A tearing in pieces.
A thong of leather; a whip lash.
Bearing or producing wool.
Working in wool.
Anything made of wool.
Bearing or producing wool.
Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniid/).
To become lank; to make lank.
The condition or quality or being lanky.
In a lank manner.
The state or quality of being lank.
Somewhat lank; tall, thin, bony and ungraceful.
A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.
A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.
Same as lanseh.
The small, yellow to whitish brown berrylike fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable tart subacid taste.
A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.
See Lanterloo.
See Lanthanum.
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