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.

Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.

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.

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.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel (Laurus nobilis).

Producing, or bringing, laurel.

A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.

Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Laurace/) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.

Spurge laurel.

A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

The ketone of lauric acid.

A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger Laurus Canariensis of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs, were also referred to the genus Laurus.

Loose.

The regular changes which the primitive Indo-European stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the first Lautverschiebung, sound shifting, or consonant shifting. A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in modern literary German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the second Lautverschiebung, the results of which form the striking differences between High German and The Low German Languages. The statement of these changes is commonly regarded as forming part of Grimm's law, because included in it as originally framed.

Same as lavatory{5}; -- a shortened form of the word.

The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

A printed cloth garment resembling a skirt or kilt, worn as the principle garment by both men and women in Polynesia, especialy in Samoa; called also pareu.

A small microphone worn around the neck on a supporting string or chain.

A genus of plants of the mint family including the lavender{1}.

A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

A widespread genus of herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.

Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.

A washing or cleansing.

A place for washing.

A wash or lotion.

The remainder; others.

Having large, pendent ears.

To beat against the wind; to tack.

A washing or bathing; also, an enema.

An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (Lavandula vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (Lavandula Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

The fronds of certain marine alg/ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and Porphyra vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.

The lark.

See Lavatic.

To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

One who lavishes.

In a lavish manner.

The act of lavishing.

The quality or state of being lavish.

A supposed new metallic element, which was said to have been discovered in pyrites, and some other minerals, and to be of a silver-white color, and malleable. It is not currently (1998) a recognized element.

An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound.

A dancer of the lavolta.

A laver.

Same as Laverock.

An exclamation of mild surprise.

Abiding the law; waiting for the operation of law for the enforcement of rights; also, abiding by the law; obedient to the law; as, law-abiding people.

One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a criminal.

an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.