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- English Word Laemodipodous Definition Of or pertaining to the Laemodipoda.
- English Word Laetere Sunday Definition The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word Laetare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.
- English Word Laevigate Definition Having a smooth surface, as if polished.
- English Word Laevo- Definition A prefix. See Levo.
- English Word Laevorotatory Definition Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.
- English Word Laevulose Definition See Levulose.
- English Word Lafayette Definition The dollar fish.
- English Word Lafayette Definition A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
- English Word Laft Definition p. p. of Leave.
- English Word Lafte Definition imp. of Leave.
- English Word Lag Definition Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
- English Word Lag Definition Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
- English Word Lag Definition Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
- English Word Lag Definition One who lags; that which comes in last.
- English Word Lag Definition The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- English Word Lag Definition The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
- English Word Lag Definition A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
- English Word Lag Definition See Graylag.
- English Word Lag Definition To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
- English Word Lag Definition To cause to lag; to slacken.
- English Word Lag Definition To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
- English Word Lag Definition One transported for a crime.
- English Word Lag Definition To transport for crime.
- English Word Lagan Definition See Ligan.
- English Word Lagarto Definition An alligator.
- English Word Lagemorpha Definition A group of rodents, including the hares. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata.
- English Word Lagena Definition The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.
- English Word Lagenae Definition of Lagena
- English Word Lagenas Definition of Lagena
- English Word Lagenian Definition Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.