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  • English Word Lecture Definition A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
  • English Word Lecture Definition A rehearsal of a lesson.
  • English Word Lecture Definition To read or deliver a lecture to.
  • English Word Lecture Definition To reprove formally and with authority.
  • English Word Lecture Definition To deliver a lecture or lectures.
  • English Word Lectured Definition of Lecture
  • English Word Lecturer Definition One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
  • English Word Lectureship Definition The office of a lecturer.
  • English Word Lecturing Definition of Lecture
  • English Word Lecturn Definition A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.]
  • English Word Lecythis Definition A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.
  • English Word Led Definition of Lead
  • English Word Led Definition of Lead.
  • English Word Ledden Definition Language; speech; voice; cry.
  • English Word Leden Definition Alt. of Ledden
  • English Word Ledge Definition A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
  • English Word Ledge Definition A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  • English Word Ledge Definition A layer or stratum.
  • English Word Ledge Definition A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  • English Word Ledge Definition A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
  • English Word Ledgement Definition See Ledgment.
  • English Word Ledger Definition A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.
  • English Word Ledger Definition A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
  • English Word Ledger Definition A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.
  • English Word Ledgment Definition A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building.
  • English Word Ledgment Definition The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.
  • English Word Ledgy Definition Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island.
  • English Word Lee Definition To lie; to speak falsely.
  • English Word Lee Definition That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.
  • English Word Lee Definition A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.