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  • English Word Last Definition Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.
  • English Word Last Definition At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York.
  • English Word Last Definition In conclusion; finally.
  • English Word Last Definition At a time next preceding the present time.
  • English Word Last Definition To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.
  • English Word Last Definition To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.
  • English Word Last Definition A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.
  • English Word Last Definition To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.
  • English Word Last Definition A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.
  • English Word Last Definition The burden of a ship; a cargo.
  • English Word Lastage Definition A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
  • English Word Lastage Definition A tax on wares sold by the last.
  • English Word Lastage Definition The lading of a ship; also, ballast.
  • English Word Lastage Definition Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.
  • English Word Laste Definition of Last, to endure.
  • English Word Lasted Definition of Last
  • English Word Laster Definition A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.
  • English Word Lastery Definition A red color.
  • English Word Lasting Definition of Last
  • English Word Lasting Definition Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.
  • English Word Lasting Definition Continuance; endurance.
  • English Word Lasting Definition A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women's shoes; everlasting.
  • English Word Lasting Definition The act or process of shaping on a last.
  • English Word Lasting Definition In a lasting manner.
  • English Word Lastly Definition In the last place; in conclusion.
  • English Word Lastly Definition at last; finally.
  • English Word Lat Definition To let; to allow.
  • English Word Latakia Definition A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.
  • English Word Latch Definition To smear; to anoint.
  • English Word Latch Definition That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.