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- English Word Lapse Definition To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.
- English Word Lapse Definition To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
- English Word Lapse Definition To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
- English Word Lapse Definition To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
- English Word Lapsed Definition of Lapse
- English Word Lapsed Definition Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses.
- English Word Lapsed Definition Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy.
- English Word Lapsible Definition Liable to lapse.
- English Word Lapsided Definition See Lopsided.
- English Word Lapsing Definition of Lapse
- English Word Lapstone Definition A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.
- English Word Lapstrake Definition Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.
- English Word Lapstreak Definition Alt. of Lapstrake
- English Word Laputan Definition Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy.
- English Word Lapwing Definition A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.
- English Word Lapwork Definition Work in which one part laps over another.
- English Word Laquear Definition A lacunar.
- English Word Laquearia Definition of Laquear
- English Word Laqueary Definition Using a noose, as a gladiator.
- English Word Lar Definition A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
- English Word Lar Definition A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
- English Word Laramie group Definition An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology.
- English Word Larboard Definition The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to starboard.
- English Word Larboard Definition On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter.
- English Word Larcener Definition Alt. of Larcenist
- English Word Larcenies Definition of Larceny
- English Word Larcenist Definition One who commits larceny.
- English Word Larcenous Definition Having the character of larceny; as, a larcenous act; committing larceny.
- English Word Larceny Definition The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
- English Word Larch Definition A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).