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  • English Word Lant Definition Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.
  • English Word Lant Definition See Lanterloo.
  • English Word Lantanium Definition Alt. of Lantanum
  • English Word Lantanum Definition See Lanthanum.
  • English Word Lantanuric Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.
  • English Word Lanterloo Definition An old name of loo (a).
  • English Word Lantern Definition Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
  • English Word Lantern Definition An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  • English Word Lantern Definition A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  • English Word Lantern Definition A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
  • English Word Lantern Definition A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
  • English Word Lantern Definition A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.
  • English Word Lantern Definition A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  • English Word Lantern Definition See Aristotle's lantern.
  • English Word Lantern Definition To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.
  • English Word Lantern-jawed Definition Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.
  • English Word Lanterned Definition of Lantern
  • English Word Lanterning Definition of Lantern
  • English Word Lanthanite Definition Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals.
  • English Word Lanthanum Definition A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La.
  • English Word Lanthopine Definition An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
  • English Word Lanthorn Definition See Lantern.
  • English Word Lanuginose Definition Alt. of Lanuginous
  • English Word Lanuginous Definition Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.
  • English Word Lanugo Definition The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.
  • English Word Lanyard Definition A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.
  • English Word Lanyard Definition A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube.
  • English Word Lanyer Definition See Lanier.
  • English Word Laocoon Definition A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)
  • English Word Laocoon Definition A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.