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/).

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.

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.

An old name of loo (a).

To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.

any one of several species of large, handsome, brightly marked, tropical hemipterous insects of the genera Laternaria, Fulgora, and allies, of the family Fulgorid/. The largest species is Laternaria phosphorea of Brazil. The head has a snoutlike process in some species which was formerly thought to emit a phosphorescent light.

Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.

A small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night.

Any rare earth element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71).

Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular white crystals.

Same as lanthanide.

A natural family of stout-bodied lizards.

A genus withonly one species.

A rare element of the rare earth group of the metals, of atomic number 57, allied to aluminum. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare earth elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.9. Symbol La.

An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

See Lantern.

Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.

The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.

See Lanier.

A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)

Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion.

a country in Southeast Asia.

of or pertaining to Laos; as, the Laotian Prime Minister.

A Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism in the 6th-century b.c.

The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.

To take up (drink or food) with the tongue; to drink by licking up.

Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats. Contrasted with carvel-built.

Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.

A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.

A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.

Laparotomy performed with a laparoscope.

A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section.

A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.

A small dog which is or can be fondled in the lap.

That part of a garment which is turned back; specifically, the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar.

Furnished with lapels.

As much as the lap can contain.

A stonecutter.

Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record.

Consisting of stones.

Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation.

To stone.

The act of stoning.

Of the nature of stone.

The state or quality of being lapidescent.

Any substance which has the quality of petrifying other bodies, or of converting or being converted into stone.

Forming or converting into stone.

The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.

To become stone or stony.