An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.

An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.

A stout-stemmed trailing shrub (Rubus cissoides) of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth.

Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity.

A looseness; diarrhea.

The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.

Having a tendency to loosen or relax.

The quality of being laxative.

That which loosens; -- esp., a muscle which by its contraction loosens some part.

The state or quality of being lax; lack of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.

In a lax manner.

The state of being lax; laxity.

That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.

A person who does no work.

A paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily.

One who, or that which, lays.

arranged in layers.

A propagating by layers.

The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for use.

A genus of Western U. S. annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.

Land lying untilled; fallow ground.

One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.

A whiplash.

someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; a layman.

A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal-combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some marine engines, a shaft, driven by a small auxiliary engine, for independently operating the valves of the main engine to insure uniform motion.

The condition of being a layman.

A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.

A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.

A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.

One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.

Full of sores; leprous.

See Lazzaroni.

Laserwort.

To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.

In a lazy manner.

The state or quality of being lazy.

A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.

A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina and magnesia.

Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.

A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage.

A lazy person.

The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge.

Abbreviation for the least common multiple, the smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers; as, the least common multiple of 12 and 18 is 36.

The abbreviation for limited, term appended to the name of a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability; also abbreviated Ltd. It corresponds to Inc. in the United States.

Low-density lipoprotein, a lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood; high levels are thought to be associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis; sometimes called informally bad cholesterol.

A meadow or sward land; a grassy field.

See Leech, a physician.

Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.

The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.

Same as cause; as, the roaring stock market led to an increase in the purchase of big-ticket items during the 1996 Christmas season.

not containing the element lead.

a wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line.

Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.

Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. One who goes first. One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander. A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins. A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places. The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.

lacking a leader; as, a leaderless mob running riot in the streets.

the body of people who lead a group; the leadership{3}; as, they hung the leaders of the insurrection.

The office, position or function of a leader; as, Gingrich held the House leadership for six years.

A mineral of a yellowish or greenish white color, consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; -- so called from having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland.

the front edge of an airfoil; same as Advancing edge, above.

One who leads a dance.

A shrub (Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore.

The man who heaves the lead.

A genus of maritime herbs (Plumbago). Plumbago Europ/a has lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers.

Resembling lead.

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.

To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.

The larva of any tortricid moth which makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of plants and tying the leaves with spun silk; aalso, the moth itself. See Tortrix.

Any one of various species of wild bees of the genus Megachile, which cut rounded pieces from the edges of leaves, or the petals of flowers, to be used in the construction of their nests, which are made in holes and crevices, or in a leaf rolled up for the purpose. Among the common American species are Megachile brevis and Megachile centuncularis. Called also rose-cutting bee.

Having leaflike expansions on the legs; -- said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus).

A small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants.

Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).

Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.

A leaflet.

The state of being leafy.

Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.

A little leaf.

The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.

To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.

To besiege; to beleaguer.

A besieger.

To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.

A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

The quality of being leaky.

having liquid seeping in or out through openings; leaky.

having no leaks.

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask; a leaky faucet.

Faithful; loyal; true.

A cord or strap for leading a dog.

A dog held by a leam.

That part of flesh which consists principally of muscle without the fat.

Having a thin face.

A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall.

Having but little sense or shrewdness.

The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

The condition or quality of being lean.

Lean.

The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.

Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.

A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.

A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.

A basketful.

from Leap, to jump.

By leaps.

An annealing oven. See Leer, n.

To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly.

Such as can be learned.

Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.

profound knowledge.

One who learns; a scholar.

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

Such as can be leased.

The temporary transfer of a possession to another person in return for a fee or other valuable consideration paid for the transfer; A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

Same as lend-lease.

A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years.