Somewhat late; backward.

A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation. The lattex of the India rubber plant produces the rubber of commerce on coagulation.

To cover or line with laths.

Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.

A granary; a barn.

a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India.

To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.

The act or process of covering with laths.

Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.

Same as Lathing.

Like a lath; long and slender.

Belonging, or relating, to Latium, a country of ancient Italy. See Latin.

To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid.

A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.

Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.

A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office.

Broad-ribbed.

Broad-toothed.

Having broad leaves.

A strap for tightening a saddle girth.

A kind of halter usually made of raw hide.

An interpreter.

The type genus of the Latimeridae, including the coelacanth.

A natural family of fish extinct except for the coelacanth.

To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.

That part of the American continents that speak Spanish, Portuguese, or French; the part of the American continents south of the United States.

A native or inhabitant of Latin America.

derived from or imitative of Latin.

Same as Latinize.

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom.

One who has but a smattering of Latin.

The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.

The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country.

To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.

In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.

Transportation; conveyance.

The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.

Having a broad beak.

Somewhat late.

Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.

Act or state of lying hid, or lurking.

Lying hid; concealed; latent.

A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.

A lying in concealment; hiding.

Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.

Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.

One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.

A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief.

Having latitude, or wide extent.

Latten, 1.

Barking.

To bark as a dog.

A barking.

Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting.

The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.

A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.

Theft; larceny.

Same as cafe latte; a type of espresso coffee served with foamy steamed milk, and usually served in a tall glass or mug.

A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.

Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison.

A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.

Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period.

The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.

To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers.

having a lattice.

same as latticed.

Same as Lattice, n., 1.

The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to.

The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.

To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol.

Laudableness; praiseworthiness.

Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.

The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.

In a laudable manner.

A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.

Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.

The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.

A panegyric; a eulogy.

One who lauds.

Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden.

One who lauds.

An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.

Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.

One who laughs.

from Laugh, v. i.

With laughter or merriment.

An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.

Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.

A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.

Not laughing; without laughter.

Deserving to be laughed at.

A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles.

See Lant, the fish.

See Lancegaye.

The act of launching.

a device capable of launching a rocket.

the act of moving a newly-built vessel into the water for the first time.

a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched.

A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade.

To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

One who follows the business of laundering.

The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

To act as a laundress.

A laundering; a washing.

A man who follows the business of laundering.

A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.

Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Laurace/) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.

A salt of lauric acid.

To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.

State, or office, of a laureate.

The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.

An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (Laurus nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.

A small tree (Persea borbonia) of the Southern U. S. having dark red heartwood.

Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.

An honor or honors conferred for some notable achievement.

Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills.

Laurel.

The Viburnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter months.