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- English Word Lain Definition of Lie
- English Word Lainere Definition See Lanier.
- English Word Lair Definition A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
- English Word Lair Definition A burying place.
- English Word Lair Definition A pasture; sometimes, food.
- English Word Laird Definition A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown.
- English Word Lairdship Definition The state of being a laird; an estate; landed property.
- English Word Laism Definition See Lamaism.
- English Word Laissez faire Definition Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.
- English Word Laity Definition The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
- English Word Laity Definition The state of a layman.
- English Word Laity Definition Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
- English Word Lakao Definition Sap green.
- English Word Lake Definition A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
- English Word Lake Definition A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
- English Word Lake Definition To play; to sport.
- English Word Lake Definition A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
- English Word Lake-dweller Definition See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
- English Word Lakelet Definition A little lake.
- English Word Lakeweed Definition The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.
- English Word Lakh Definition One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.
- English Word Lakh Definition Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.
- English Word Lakin Definition See Ladykin.
- English Word Lakke Definition See Lack.
- English Word Laky Definition Pertaining to a lake.
- English Word Laky Definition Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.
- English Word Lallation Definition An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l.
- English Word Lalo Definition The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous.
- English Word Lam Definition To beat soundly; to thrash.
- English Word Lama Definition See Llama.