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- English Word Lampooner Definition The writer of a lampoon.
- English Word Lampooning Definition of Lampoon
- English Word Lampoonry Definition The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons.
- English Word Lamprel Definition See Lamprey.
- English Word Lamprey Definition An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side.
- English Word Lampreys Definition of Lamprey
- English Word Lampron Definition See Lamprey.
- English Word Lampyrine Definition An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridae. See Lampyris.
- English Word Lampyris Definition A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.
- English Word Lanarkite Definition A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.
- English Word Lanary Definition A place for storing wool.
- English Word Lanate Definition Alt. of Lanated
- English Word Lanated Definition Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.
- English Word Lance Definition A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- English Word Lance Definition A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- English Word Lance Definition A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- English Word Lance Definition An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- English Word Lance Definition One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- English Word Lance Definition To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- English Word Lance Definition To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
- English Word Lance Definition To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
- English Word Lance fish Definition A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.
- English Word Lanced Definition of Lance
- English Word Lancegay Definition Alt. of Lancegaye
- English Word Lancegaye Definition A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
- English Word Lancelet Definition A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.
- English Word Lancely Definition Like a lance.
- English Word Lanceolar Definition Lanceolate.
- English Word Lanceolate Definition Alt. of Lanceolated
- English Word Lanceolated Definition Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.