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.

A lapidary.

The state of being, or the act of making, stony.

Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles.

A stone.

An albuminous mineral of a rich blue color; also called lapis. Same as Lazuli, which see.

A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp.

Of or pertaining to Lapland.

One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.

Same as Laplander. Cf. Lapps.

Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.

One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.

To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.

Of or pertaining to Lapland, or the Lapps. The language of the Lapps. See Lappish.

A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish. The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.

Laplandish; Lappish.

A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.

Lapsible.

To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses.

Liable to lapse.

See Lopsided.

A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.

Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy.

A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or Vanellus vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the /plover's eggs/ of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.

Work in which one part laps over another.

A lackey.

A lacunar.

Using a noose, as a gladiator.

A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.

An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology.

On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter.

One who commits larceny.

The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.

A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).

Of or pertaining to the larch.

To grow fat.

A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.

Consisting of, or resembling, lard.

A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.

One in charge of the larder.

A larder.

A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.

A larder.

Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.

To feed; to fatten.

See 1st Lar.

A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.

Possessing much land.

Having large hands. Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.

Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.

large in area, scope or degree; as, a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed.

In a large manner.

The quality or state of being large.

Liberality; generosity; bounty.

greatest in size of those under consideration.

A short piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.

Somewhat slow or slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and rather more so than andante.

Generous; ample; liberal.

Flowing copiously.

Grandiloquent.

Somewhat large.

Slow or slowly; -- more so than adagio; next in slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn. A movement or piece in largo time.

A suborder of birds including the gulls; terns; jaegers; and skimmers.

To secure with a lariat fastened to a stake, as a horse or mule for grazing; also, to lasso or catch with a lariat.

The natural family of birds including the gulls and terns; the gull family.

Of or pertaining to the Gull family (Larid/).

The genus of trees comrising the larches.

Of, or derived from, the larch (Larix); as, larixinic acid.

To catch larks; as, to go larking.

Having the sandy brown color of the European larks.

Indian cress.

A catcher of larks.

A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Delphinium), having showy flowers, and a spurred calyx. They are natives of the North Temperate zone. The commonest larkspur of the gardens is Delphinium Consolida. The flower of the bee larkspur (Delphinium elatum) has two petals bearded with yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee.

See Tearpit.

Like or belonging to the Gull family (Larid/).

A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow; a hoodlum; -- variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. Rowdy; rough; disorderly.

To beat or flog soundly.

Same as Lorry, or Lorrie.

See Alarum, and Alarm.

Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larv/ of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larv/ are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.

A class sometimes classified as an order.

Of or pertaining to a larva.

An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia.

Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.

Masked; clothed as with a mask.

A larva.

Having the form or structure of a larva.

Depositing living larv/, instead of eggs; -- said of certain insects.

A guillemot; -- called also lavy.

Of or pertaining to the larynx; adapted to operations on the larynx; as, laryngeal forceps.

See Laryngeal.

Excision of the larynx.