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Lab
To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.
Lability
Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize.
Labrose
Having thick lips.
lacebark
A small tree or shrub () of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.
lachrymatory
Relating to or inducing tears; -- especially of chemical substances.
Lacquer
To cover with lacquer.
Lad
A boy; a youth; a stripling.
Lakh
Same as , one hundred thousand.
Lama
See .
Lambskinnet
See .
Landlubber
One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.
Lap
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Lapboard
A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.
Lapidescence
The state or quality of being lapidescent.
Lapis
A stone.
Lascar
A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.
Lash
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
Lask
A diarrhea or flux.
Lateran
The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.
Latitancy
Act or state of lying hid, or lurking.
Laurel
An evergreen shrub, of the genus (), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also .
Laureled
Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
Lavishly
In a lavish manner.
Laze
To be lazy or idle.
Leam
See .
Lean-faced
Having a thin face.
Leavenous
Containing leaven.
Leech
See ,
Leek
A plant of the genus (), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.
Lees
Dregs. See 2d .
Lemna
A genus of minute acquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
Lemuroid
Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea.
Lent
A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.
Leontodon
A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also .
Lepidosiren
An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name is also applied to a related African species (). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also .
Leptodactylous
Having slender toes.
lespedeza
Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus , widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.
Lest
Last; least.
Lettic
Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish.
Leuconic
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.
Leveler
One who, or that which, levels.
Levigate
Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated.
Levorotation
Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.
Lewdster
A lewd person.
Licker
One who, or that which, licks.
Lifemate
Companion for life.
Likely
Worthy of belief; probable; credible; .
Limp
A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
Line
Flax; linen.
Link motion
A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the , in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.
Links
A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green.
Liquefy
To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
List
To hearken; to attend; to listen.
Lithiasis
The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.
Loan
A loanin.
Lobe
Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form
Lobelia
A genus of plants, including a great number of species. , or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.
Lockup
A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse; a jail.
Locule
A little hollow; a loculus.
Lodger
One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
Loft
That which is lifted up; an elevation.
Logania
The type genus of the Loganiaceae; Australian and New Zealand shrubs sometimes cultivated for their flowers.
lomatia
any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus having attractive fragrant flowers.
Lomonite
Same as .
lordless
having no lord or master; .
Loricate
An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
losses
something lost, especially money lost at gambling. Inverse of .
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.
low-pitched
low in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices. Opposite of .
Lucernarian
Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida.
Luggage
That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.
Lugsail
A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.
Lungfish
Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.
Lurch
To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
Lutulence
The state or quality of being lutulent.
Luvaridae
A natural family including the louvars.
Lycopus
A small genus of nonaromatic herbs of the mint family.
Lyrist
A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.