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Laborous
Laborious.
lacertid
Any lizard of the family , a family of Old World terrestrial lizard.
Ladify
To make a lady of; to make ladylike.
Ladykin
A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form , to the Virgin Mary.
Laidly
Ugly; loathsome.
Lairdship
The state of being a laird; an estate; landed property.
Lamely
In a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner;
Lament
To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Lapboard
A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.
Lapdog
A small dog which is or can be fondled in the lap.
Largish
Somewhat large.
Last
To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; .
Lastreopsis
A genus of tropical terrestrial shield ferns.
Lathe
Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent.
Latitudinarian
Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
Laurone
The ketone of lauric acid.
Laver
One who laves; a washer.
Lavsium
A supposed new metallic element, which was said to have been discovered in pyrites, and some other minerals, and to be of a silver-white color, and malleable. It is not currently (1998) a recognized element.
Leach
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
Leasehold
Held by lease.
Leash
To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Lent
Slow; mild; gentle; .
Lepidomelane
An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See .
Leprosity
The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale.
Lernacea
A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See in Appendix.
Letch
Strong desire; passion; especially, lust.
Levelly
In an even or level manner.
Liard
Gray.
Licit
Lawful.
Lierne rib
In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.
Lifehold
Land held by a life estate.
Lignify
To become wood.
Lignitiferous
Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.
Lilliputian
One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's Voyage to Lilliput or Gulliver's Travels.
liminality
that temporary state during a rite of passage when the participant lacks social status or rank, is required to follow specified forms of conduct, and is expected to show obedience and humility.
Lin
To yield; to stop; to cease.
Linament
Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
Lister
One who makes a list or roll.
Lithe
To smooth; to soften; to palliate.
Liturgy
An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.
Lixiviate
To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
Llanero
One of the inhabitants of the llanos of South America.
Loader
One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.
loanblend
a word that is composed of parts from different languages; e.g. has a Greek prefix and a Latin root.
Lock washer
A washer that is not completely smooth or flat, designed to prevent a nut from loosening, placed under the nut on a screw or bolt.
Locutory
A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Loggerheads
The knapweed.
Logoddaly
Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
Longingly
With longing.
Longirostres
A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.
Looping
of .
Lope
To leap; to dance.
Lotophagi
A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See , and .
Lowboy
A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed.
lower-ranking
inferior in rank or status.
lumberjack
a person who works at lumbering; a lumberman.
Lumbricus
A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochta, and including the common earthworms. See .
Lung
An organ for arial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
Lustwort
See .
Lute
To close or seal with lute;
Luteolin
A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom ().
Lux
To put out of joint; to luxate.
Luxuriantly
In a luxuriant manner.
Lymph node
A lymphatic gland.