LAGGER — LANGUET

LAGGER — LANGUET NWAD LAGGER.1

LAGGER, a. A loiterer; an idler; one who moves slowly and falls behind. NWAD LAGGER.1

LAGGING, ppr. Loitering; moving slowly and falling behind. NWAD LAGGING.1

The nurse went lagging after with the child. NWAD LAGGING.2

LAGOON, LAGUNE, n. A fen, moor, marsh, shallow pond or lake; as the lagunes of Venice. NWAD LAGOON.1

LAIC, LAICAL, a. [L. laicus, Gr. from people.] NWAD LAIC.1

Belonging to the laity or people, in distinction from the clergy. NWAD LAIC.2

LAIC, n. A layman. NWAD LAIC.3

LAID, pret. and pp. of lay; so written for layed. NWAD LAID.1

LAIN, pp. of lie. Lien would be a more regular orthography, but lain is generally used. NWAD LAIN.1

LAIR, n. [L. locus.] NWAD LAIR.1

1. A place of rest; the bed or couch of a boar or wild beast. NWAD LAIR.2

2. Pasture; the ground. NWAD LAIR.3

LAIRD, n. NWAD LAIRD.1

In the Scots dialect, a lord; the proprietor of a manor. NWAD LAIRD.2

LAITY, n. [Gr. people. See Laic.] NWAD LAITY.1

1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. NWAD LAITY.2

2. The state of a layman, or of not being in orders. [Not used.] NWAD LAITY.3

LAKE, v.i. NWAD LAKE.1

To play; to sport. North of England. This is play, without a prefix. NWAD LAKE.2

LAKE, n. [L. lacus. A lake is a stand of water, from the root of lay. Hence L. lagena, Eng. flagon.] NWAD LAKE.3

1. A large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth. It differs from a pond in size, the latter being a collection of small extent; but sometimes a collection of water is called a pond or a lake indifferently. North America contains some of the largest lakes on the globe, particularly the lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior. NWAD LAKE.4

2. A middle color between ultramarine and vermilion, made of cochineal. NWAD LAKE.5

LAKY, a. Pertaining to a lake or lakes. NWAD LAKY.1

LAMA, n. NWAD LAMA.1

1. The sovereign pontiff, or rather the god of the Asiatic Tartars. NWAD LAMA.2

2. A small species of camel, the Camelus lama of South America. NWAD LAMA.3

LAMANTIN, LAMENTIN, n. A species of the walrus or sea-cow, the Trichechus manatus. NWAD LAMANTIN.1

LAMB, n. lam. NWAD LAMB.1

1. The young of the sheep kind. NWAD LAMB.2

2. The Lamb of God, in Scripture, the Savior Jesus Christ, who was typified by the paschal lamb. NWAD LAMB.3

Behold the lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29. NWAD LAMB.4

LAMB, v.t. To bring forth young, as sheep. NWAD LAMB.5

LAMBATIVE, a. [L. lambo, to lick.] NWAD LAMBATIVE.1

Taken by licking. [Little used.] NWAD LAMBATIVE.2

LAMBATIVE, n. A medicine taken by licking with the tongue. NWAD LAMBATIVE.3

LAMBENT, a. [L. lambens, lambo, to lick.] Playing about; touching lightly; gliding over; as a lambent flame. NWAD LAMBENT.1

LAMBKIN, n. lam’kin. A small lamb. NWAD LAMBKIN.1

LAMBLIKE, a. lam’like. Like a lamb; gentle; humble; meek; as a lamblike temper. NWAD LAMBLIKE.1

LAMDOIDAL, a. [Gr. the name of the letter A, form.] NWAD LAMDOIDAL.1

In the form of the Greek A, the English L; as the lamdoidal suture. NWAD LAMDOIDAL.2

LAME, a. NWAD LAME.1

1. Crippled or disabled in a limb, or otherwise injured so as to be unsound and impaired in strength; as a lame arm or leg, or a person lame in one leg. NWAD LAME.2

2. Imperfect; not satisfactory; as a lame excuse. NWAD LAME.3

3. Hobbling; not smooth; as numbers in verse. NWAD LAME.4

LAME, v.t. To make lame; to cripple or disable; to render imperfect and unsound; as, to lame an arm or a leg. NWAD LAME.5

LAMEL, n. [L. lamella. See Lamin.] A thin plate or scale of any thing. NWAD LAMEL.1

LAMELLAR, a. [from lamel.] Disposed in thin plates or scales. NWAD LAMELLAR.1

LAMELLARLY, adv. In thin plates or scales. NWAD LAMELLARLY.1

LAMELLATE, LAMELLATED, a. Formed in thin plates or scales, or covered with them. NWAD LAMELLATE.1

LAMELLIFEROUS, a. [L. lamella and fero, to produce.] NWAD LAMELLIFEROUS.1

Producing plates; an epithet of polypiers presenting lamellar stars, or waved furrows a garnished with plates. NWAD LAMELLIFEROUS.2

LAMELLIFORM, a. [L. lamella, a plate, and form.] Having the form of a plate. NWAD LAMELLIFORM.1

LAMELY, adv. [See Lame.] NWAD LAMELY.1

1. Like a cripple; with impaired strength; in a halting manner; as, to walk lamely. NWAD LAMELY.2

2. Imperfectly; without a complete exhibition of parts; as a figure lamely drawn; a scene lamely described. NWAD LAMELY.3

3. Weakly; poorly; unsteadily; feebly. NWAD LAMELY.4

LAMENESS, n. NWAD LAMENESS.1

1. An impaired state of the body or limbs; loss of natural soundness and strength by a wound or by disease; particularly applied to the limbs, and implying a total or partial inability; as the lameness of the leg or arm. NWAD LAMENESS.2

2. Imperfection; weakness; as the lameness of an argument or of a description. NWAD LAMENESS.3

LAMENT, v.i. [L. lamentor.] NWAD LAMENT.1

1. To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow. NWAD LAMENT.2

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chronicles 35:25. NWAD LAMENT.3

2. To regret deeply; to feel sorrow. NWAD LAMENT.4

LAMENT, v.t. To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore. NWAD LAMENT.5

One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. NWAD LAMENT.6

LAMENT, n. [L. lamentum.] Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping. NWAD LAMENT.7

Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. NWAD LAMENT.8

[This noun is used chiefly or solely in poetry.] NWAD LAMENT.9

LAMENTABLE, a. [L. lamentabilis.] NWAD LAMENTABLE.1

1. To be lamented; deserving sorrow; as a lamentable declension of morals. NWAD LAMENTABLE.2

2. Mournful; adapted to awaken grief; as a lamentable tune. NWAD LAMENTABLE.3

3. Expressing sorrow; as lamentable cries. NWAD LAMENTABLE.4

4. Miserable; pitiful; low; poor; in a sense rather ludicrous. [Little used.] NWAD LAMENTABLE.5

LAMENTABLY, adv. NWAD LAMENTABLY.1

1. Mournfully; with expressions or tokens of sorrow. NWAD LAMENTABLY.2

2. So as to cause sorrow. NWAD LAMENTABLY.3

3. Pitifully; despicably. NWAD LAMENTABLY.4

LAMENTATION, n. [L. lamentatio.] NWAD LAMENTATION.1

1. Expression of sorrow; cries of grief; the act of bewailing. NWAD LAMENTATION.2

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping. Matthew 2:18. NWAD LAMENTATION.3

2. In the plural, a book of Scripture, containing the lamentations of Jeremiah. NWAD LAMENTATION.4

LAMENTED, pp. Bewailed; mourned for. NWAD LAMENTED.1

LAMENTER, n. One who mourns, or cries out with sorrow. NWAD LAMENTER.1

LAMENTIN. [See Lamantin.] NWAD LAMENTIN.1

LAMENTING, ppr. Bewailing; mourning; weeping. NWAD LAMENTING.1

LAMENTING, n. A mourning; lamentation. NWAD LAMENTING.2

LAMIA, n. [L.] A hag; a witch; a demon. NWAD LAMIA.1

LAMIN, LAMINA, n. [L. lamina.] NWAD LAMIN.1

1. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; applied to the plates of minerals, bones, etc. NWAD LAMIN.2

2. A bone, or part of a bone, resembling a thin plate, such as the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone. NWAD LAMIN.3

3. The lap of the ear. NWAD LAMIN.4

4. The border, or the upper, broad or spreading part of the petal, in a polypetalous corol. NWAD LAMIN.5

LAMINABLE, a. Capable of being formed into thin plates. NWAD LAMINABLE.1

LAMINAR, a. In plates; consisting of thin plates or layers. NWAD LAMINAR.1

LAMINATE, LAMINATED, a. Plated; consisting of plates, scales or layers, one over another. NWAD LAMINATE.1

LAMM, v.t. To beat. [Not in use.] NWAD LAMM.1

LAMMAS, n. NWAD LAMMAS.1

The first day of August. NWAD LAMMAS.2

LAMP, n. [L. lampas; Gr. to shine; Heb.] NWAD LAMP.1

1. A vessel for containing oil to be burned by means of a wick; or a light, a burning wick inserted in a vessel of oil. Hence, NWAD LAMP.2

2. Figuratively, a light of any kind. The moon is called the lamp of heaven. NWAD LAMP.3

Thy gentle eyes send forth a quickening spirit, to feed the dying lamp of life within me. NWAD LAMP.4

Lamp of safety, or safety lamp, a lamp for lighting coal mines, without exposing workmen to the explosion of inflammable air. NWAD LAMP.5

LAMPAS, n. A lump of flesh of the size of a nut, in the roof of a horse’s mouth, and rising above the teeth. NWAD LAMPAS.1

LAMPBLACK, n. [lamp and black; being originally made by means of a lamp or torch.] NWAD LAMPBLACK.1

A fine soot formed by the condensation of the smoke of burning pitch or resinous substances, in a chimney terminating in a cone of cloth. NWAD LAMPBLACK.2

LAMPIATE, n. A compound salt, composed of lampic acid and a base. NWAD LAMPIATE.1

LAMPIC, a. The lampic acid is obtained by the combustion of ether by means of a lamp. NWAD LAMPIC.1

LAMPING, a. Shining; sparkling. [Not used.] NWAD LAMPING.1

LAMPOON, n. A personal satire in writing; abuse; censure written to reproach and vex rather than to reform. NWAD LAMPOON.1

LAMPOON, v.t. To abuse with personal censure; to reproach in written satire. NWAD LAMPOON.2

LAMPOONER, n. One who abuses with personal satire; the writer of a lampoon. NWAD LAMPOONER.1

The squibs are those who are called libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers. NWAD LAMPOONER.2

LAMPOONING, ppr. Abusing with personal satire. NWAD LAMPOONING.1

LAMPOONRY, n. Abuse. NWAD LAMPOONRY.1

LAMPREY, n. [L. labor, to slip, and most probably the animal is name from slipping. If, however, the sense is taken from licking the rocks, as Camden supposes, it accords with the sense of the technical name of the genus petromyzon, the rock-sucker.] NWAD LAMPREY.1

A genus of anguilliform fishes, resembling the eel, and moving in water by winding, like the serpent on land. This fish has seven spiracles on each side of the neck, and a fistula or aperture on the top of the head, but no pectoral or ventral fins. The marine or sea lamprey is sometimes found so large as to weigh four or five pounds. NWAD LAMPREY.2

Lamprel and lampron. [See Lamprey.] NWAD LAMPREY.3

LANATE, LANATED, a. [L. lanatus, from lana, wool.] Wooly. In botany, covered with a substance like curled hairs; as a lanated leaf or stem. NWAD LANATE.1

LANCE, n. l’ans. [L. lancea; Gr.] NWAD LANCE.1

A spear, an offensive weapon in form of a half pike, used by the ancients and thrown by the hand. It consisted of the shaft or handle, the wings and the dart. NWAD LANCE.2

LANCE, v.t. NWAD LANCE.3

1. To pierce with a lance or with a sharp pointed instrument. NWAD LANCE.4

- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanc’d her back. NWAD LANCE.5

2. To pierce or cut; to open with a lancet; as, to lance a vein or an abscess. NWAD LANCE.6

LANCELY, a. l’ansly. Suitable to a lance. NWAD LANCELY.1

LANCEOLAR, a. In botany, tapering towards each end. NWAD LANCEOLAR.1

LANCEOLATE, LANCEOLATED, a. Shaped like a lance; oblong and gradually tapering toward each extremity; spear-shaped; as a lanceolate leaf. NWAD LANCEOLATE.1

LANCEPESADE, n. An officer under the corporal. NWAD LANCEPESADE.1

LANCER, n. One who lances; one who carries a lance. NWAD LANCER.1

LANCET, n. NWAD LANCET.1

1. A surgical instrument, sharp-pointed and two-edged; used in venesection, and in opening tumors, abscesses, etc. NWAD LANCET.2

2. A pointed window. NWAD LANCET.3

LANCH, v.t. [from lance.] NWAD LANCH.1

1. To throw, as a lance; to dart; to let fly. NWAD LANCH.2

See whose arm can lanch the surer bolt. NWAD LANCH.3

2. To move, or cause to slide from the land into the water; as, to lanch a ship. NWAD LANCH.4

LANCH, v.i. To dart or fly off; to push off; as, to lanch into the wide world; to lanch into a wide field of discussion. NWAD LANCH.5

LANCH, n. NWAD LANCH.6

1. The sliding or movement of a ship from the land into the water, on ways prepared for the purpose. NWAD LANCH.7

2. A kind of boat, longer, lower, and more flat-bottomed than a long boat. NWAD LANCH.8

LAND, n. NWAD LAND.1

1. Earth, or the solid matter which constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the sea or other waters, which constitute the fluid or movable part. Hence we say, the globe is terraqueous, consisting of land and water. The seaman in a long voyage longs to see land. NWAD LAND.2

2. Any portion of the solid, superficial part of the globe, whether a kingdom or country, or a particular region. The United States is denominated the land of freedom. NWAD LAND.3

Go, view the land, even Jericho. Joshua 2:1. NWAD LAND.4

3. Any small portion of the superficial part of the earth or ground. We speak of the quantity of land in a manor. Five hundred acres of land is a large farm. NWAD LAND.5

4. Ground; soil, or the superficial part of the earth in respect to its nature or quality; as good land; poor land; moist or dry land. NWAD LAND.6

5. Real Estate. A traitor forfeits all his lands and tenements. NWAD LAND.7

6. The inhabitants of a country or region; a nation or people. NWAD LAND.8

These answers in the silent night received, the king himself divulged, the land believed. NWAD LAND.9

7. The ground left unplowed between furrows, is by some of our farmers called a land. NWAD LAND.10

To make the land, NWAD LAND.11

To make land, In seaman’s language, is to discover land from sea, as the ship approaches it. NWAD LAND.12

To shut in the land, to lose sight of the land left, by the intervention of a point or promontory. NWAD LAND.13

To set the land, to see by the compass how it bears from the ship. NWAD LAND.14

LAND, n. Urine; whence the old expression, land dam, to kill. Obs. NWAD LAND.15

LAND, v.t. to set on shore; to disembark; to debark; as, to land troops from a ship or boat; to land goods. NWAD LAND.16

LAND, v.i. To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark. NWAD LAND.17

LANDAU, n. A kind of coach or carriage whose top may be opened and thrown back; so called from a town in Germany. NWAD LANDAU.1

LAND-BREEZE, n. [land and breeze.] A current of air setting from the land towards the sea. NWAD LAND-BREEZE.1

LANDED, pp. NWAD LANDED.1

1. Disembarked; set on shore from a ship or boat. NWAD LANDED.2

2. a. Having an estate in land; as a landed gentleman. NWAD LANDED.3

The house of commons must consist, for the most part, of landed men. NWAD LANDED.4

3. Consisting in real estate or land; as landed security; landed property. The landed interest of a nation is the interest consisting in land; but the word is used also for the owners of that interest, the proprietors of land. NWAD LANDED.5

LANDFALL, n. [land and fall.] NWAD LANDFALL.1

1. A sudden translation of property in land by the death of a rich man. NWAD LANDFALL.2

2. In seamen’s language, the first land discovered after a voyage. NWAD LANDFALL.3

LANDFLOOD, n. [land and flood.] An overflowing of land by water; an inundation. Properly, a flood from the land from the swelling of rivers; but I am not sure that it is always used in this sense. NWAD LANDFLOOD.1

LAND-FORCE, n. [land and force.] A military force, army or troops serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force. NWAD LAND-FORCE.1

LANDGRAVE, n. NWAD LANDGRAVE.1

In Germany, a count or earl; or an officer nearly corresponding to the earl of England, and the count of France. It is now a title of certain princes who possess estates or territories called landgraviates. NWAD LANDGRAVE.2

LANDGRAVIATE, n. The territory held by a landgrave, or his office, jurisdiction or authority. NWAD LANDGRAVIATE.1

LANDHOLDER, n. A holder, owner or proprietor of land. NWAD LANDHOLDER.1

LANDING, ppr. Setting on shore; coming on shore. NWAD LANDING.1

LANDING, LANDING-PLACE, n. A place on the shore of the sea or of a lake, or on the bank of a river; where persons land or come on shore, or where goods are set on shore. NWAD LANDING.2

LANDJOBBER, n. A man who makes a business of buying land on speculation, or of buying and selling for the profit of bargains, or who buys and sells for others. NWAD LANDJOBBER.1

LANDLADY, n. [See Landlord.] NWAD LANDLADY.1

1. A woman who has tenants holding from her. NWAD LANDLADY.2

2. The mistress of an inn. NWAD LANDLADY.3

LANDLESS, a. Destitute of land; having no property in land. NWAD LANDLESS.1

LANDLOCK, v.t. [land and lock.] To inclose or encompass by land. NWAD LANDLOCK.1

LANDLOCKED, pp. Encompassed by land, so that no point of the compass is open to the sea. NWAD LANDLOCKED.1

LANDLOPER, n. [See Leap and Interloper.] NWAD LANDLOPER.1

A landman; literally, a land runner; a term of reproach among seamen to designate a man who passes his life on land. NWAD LANDLOPER.2

LANDLORD, n. NWAD LANDLORD.1

1. The lord of a manor or of land; the owner of land who has tenants under him. NWAD LANDLORD.2

2. The master of an inn or tavern. NWAD LANDLORD.3

LANDMAN, n. A man who serves on land; opposed to seaman. NWAD LANDMAN.1

LANDMARK, n. [land and mark.] NWAD LANDMARK.1

1. A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object; as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones, by which the limits of a farm, a town or other portion of territory may be known and preserved. NWAD LANDMARK.2

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark. Deuteronomy 19:14. NWAD LANDMARK.3

2. In navigation, any elevated object on land that serves as a guide to seamen. NWAD LANDMARK.4

LAND-OFFICE, n. In the United States, an office in which the sales of new land are registered, and warrants issued for the location of land and other business respecting unsettled land is transacted. NWAD LAND-OFFICE.1

LANDSCAPE, n. NWAD LANDSCAPE.1

1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including mountains, rivers, lakes, and whatever the land contains. NWAD LANDSCAPE.2

- Whilst the landscape round it measures, russet lawns and fallows gray, where the nibbling flocks do stray. NWAD LANDSCAPE.3

2. A picture, exhibiting the form of a district of country, as far as the eye can reach, or a particular extent of land and the objects it contains, or its various scenery. NWAD LANDSCAPE.4

3. The view or prospect of a district of country. NWAD LANDSCAPE.5

LANDSLIP, n. A portion of a hill or mountain, which slips or slides down; or the sliding down of a considerable tract of land from a mountain. landslips are not unfrequent in Swisserland. NWAD LANDSLIP.1

LANDSMAN, n. In seaman’s language, a sailor on board a ship, who has not before been at sea. NWAD LANDSMAN.1

LANDSTREIGHT, n. A narrow slip of land. [Not used.] NWAD LANDSTREIGHT.1

LAND-TAX, n. A tax assessed on land and buildings. NWAD LAND-TAX.1

LAND-TURN, n. A land breeze. NWAD LAND-TURN.1

LAND-WAITER, n. An officer of the customs, whose duty is to wait or attend on the landing of goods, and to examine, weigh or measure, and take an account of them. NWAD LAND-WAITER.1

LANDWARD, adv. Toward the land. NWAD LANDWARD.1

LAND-WIND, n. A wind blowing from the land. NWAD LAND-WIND.1

LAND-WORKER, n. One who tills the ground. NWAD LAND-WORKER.1

LANE, n. NWAD LANE.1

1. A narrow way or passage, or a private passage, as distinguished from a public road or highway. A lane may be open to all passengers, or it may be inclosed and appropriated to a man’s private use. In the United States, the word is used chiefly in the country, and answers in a degree, to an alley in a city. It has sometimes been used for alley. In London, the word lane is added to the names of streets; as chancery lane. NWAD LANE.2

2. A passage between lines of men, or people standing on each side. NWAD LANE.3

LANGRAGE, LANGREL, n. Langrel shot or langrage, is a particular kind of shot used at sea for tearing sails and rigging, and thus disabling an enemy’s ship. It consists of bolts, nails and other pieces of iron fastened together. NWAD LANGRAGE.1

LANGTERALOO, n. A game at cards. NWAD LANGTERALOO.1

LANGUAGE, n. [L. lingua, the tongue, and speech.] NWAD LANGUAGE.1

1. Human speech; the expression of ideas by words or significant articulate sounds, for the communication of thoughts. Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds, which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented by letters, marks or characters which form words. Hence language consists also in NWAD LANGUAGE.2

2. Words duly arranged in sentences, written, printed or engraved, and exhibited to the eye. NWAD LANGUAGE.3

3. The speech or expression of ideas peculiar to a particular nation. Men had originally one and the same language, but the tribes or families of men, since their dispersion, have distinct languages. NWAD LANGUAGE.4

4. Style; manner of expression. NWAD LANGUAGE.5

Others for language all their care express. NWAD LANGUAGE.6

5. The inarticulate sounds by which irrational animals express their feelings and wants. Each species of animals has peculiar sounds, which are uttered instinctively, and are understood by its own species, and its own species only. NWAD LANGUAGE.7

6. Any manner of expressing thoughts. Thus we speak of the language of the eye, a language very expressive and intelligible. NWAD LANGUAGE.8

7. A nation, as distinguished by their speech. Daniel 3:29. NWAD LANGUAGE.9