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  • English Word Launching Definition of Launch
  • English Word Laund Definition A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade.
  • English Word Launder Definition A washerwoman.
  • English Word Launder Definition A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.
  • English Word Launder Definition To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.
  • English Word Launder Definition To lave; to wet.
  • English Word Laundered Definition of Launder
  • English Word Launderer Definition One who follows the business of laundering.
  • English Word Laundering Definition of Launder
  • English Word Laundering Definition The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.
  • English Word Laundress Definition A woman whose employment is laundering.
  • English Word Laundress Definition To act as a laundress.
  • English Word Laundries Definition of Laundry
  • English Word Laundry Definition A laundering; a washing.
  • English Word Laundry Definition A place or room where laundering is done.
  • English Word Laundryman Definition A man who follows the business of laundering.
  • English Word Laundrymen Definition of Laundryman
  • English Word Laura Definition A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.
  • English Word Lauraceous Definition Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.
  • English Word Laurate Definition A salt of lauric acid.
  • English Word Laureate Definition Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
  • English Word Laureate Definition One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
  • English Word Laureate Definition To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.
  • English Word Laureated Definition of Laureate
  • English Word Laureateship Definition State, or office, of a laureate.
  • English Word Laureating Definition of Laureate
  • English Word Laureation Definition The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
  • English Word Laurel Definition An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
  • English Word Laurel Definition A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.
  • English Word Laurel Definition An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.