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- English Word Laodicean Definition Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion.
- English Word Lap Definition The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- English Word Lap Definition An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- English Word Lap Definition The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
- English Word Lap Definition That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
- English Word Lap Definition The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
- English Word Lap Definition The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
- English Word Lap Definition One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
- English Word Lap Definition In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- English Word Lap Definition A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- English Word Lap Definition A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
- English Word Lap Definition To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- English Word Lap Definition To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
- English Word Lap Definition To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
- English Word Lap Definition To wrap or wind around something.
- English Word Lap Definition To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- English Word Lap Definition To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
- English Word Lap Definition To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
- English Word Lap Definition To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
- English Word Lap Definition To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
- English Word Lap Definition To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
- English Word Lap Definition To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- English Word Lap Definition The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
- English Word Lap Definition The sound of lapping.
- English Word Lap-jointed Definition Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.
- English Word Lap-welded Definition Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.
- English Word Laparocele Definition A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- English Word Laparotomy Definition A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section.
- English Word Lapboard Definition A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.
- English Word Lapdog Definition A small dog fondled in the lap.