Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 15

Laugher (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.

Laughing (a. & n.) from Laugh, v. i.

Laughingly (adv.) With laughter or merriment.

Laughingstock (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.

Laughsome (a.) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.

Laughter (v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.

Laughterless (a.) Not laughing; without laughter.

Laughworthy (a.) Deserving to be laughed at.

Laumontite (n.) A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles.

Launce (n.) A lance.

Launce (n.) A balance.

Launce (n.) See Lant, the fish.

Launcegaye (n.) See Langegaye.

Launched (imp. & p. p.) of Launch

Launching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Launch

Launch (v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

Launch (v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.

Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

Launch (v. i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.

Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.

Launch (n.) The act of launching.

Launch (n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.

Launch (n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.

Laund (n.) A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade.

Launder (n.) A washerwoman.

Launder (n.) 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.

Laundered (imp. & p. p.) of Launder

Laundering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Launder

Launder (v. i.) To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

Launder (v. i.) To lave; to wet.

Launderer (n.) One who follows the business of laundering.

Laundering (n.) The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

Laundress (n.) A woman whose employment is laundering.

Laundress (v. i.) To act as a laundress.

Laundries (pl. ) of Laundry

Laundry (n.) A laundering; a washing.

Laundry (n.) A place or room where laundering is done.

Laundrymen (pl. ) of Laundryman

Laundryman (n.) A man who follows the business of laundering.

Laura (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.

Lauraceous (a.) 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.

Laurate (n.) A salt of lauric acid.

Laureate (a.) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.

Laureate (n.) One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.

Laureated (imp. & p. p.) of Laureate

Laureating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laureate

Laureate (v. i.) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.

Laureateship (n.) State, or office, of a laureate.

Laureation (n.) The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.

Laurel (n.) 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.

Laurel (n.) A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.

Laurel (n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

Laureled (a.) Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.

Laurentian (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills.

Laurer (n.) Laurel.

Laurestine (n.) The Viburnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths.

Lauric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel (Laurus nobilis).

Lauriferous (a.) Producing, or bringing, laurel.

Laurin (n.) A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.

Laurinol (n.) Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Lauraceae) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.

Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

Laurite (n.) A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

Laurone (n.) The ketone of lauric acid.

Laurus (n.) A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger L. Canariensis of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs, were also referred to the genus Laurus.

Laus (a.) Loose.

Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

Lavaret (n.) A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

Lavatic (a.) Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.

Lavation (n.) A washing or cleansing.

Lavatory (a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing.

Lavatories (pl. ) of Lavatory

Lavatory (n.) A place for washing.

Lavatory (n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in.

Lavatory (n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part.

Lavatory (n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing.

Lavature (n.) A wash or lotion.

Laved (imp. & p. p.) of Lave

Laving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lave

Lave (v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.

Lave (v. i.) To bathe; to wash one's self.

Lave (v. t.) To lade, dip, or pour out.

Lave (n.) The remainder; others.

Lave-eared (a.) Having large, pendent ears.

Laveer (v. i.) To beat against the wind; to tack.

Lavement (n.) A washing or bathing; also, a clyster.

Lavender (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

Lavender (n.) The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.

Laver (n.) A vessel for washing; a large basin.

Laver (n.) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.

Laver (n.) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.

Laver (n.) That which washes or cleanses.

Laver (n.) One who laves; a washer.

Laver (n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.

Laverock (n.) The lark.

Lavic (a.) See Lavatic.

Lavish (a.) Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.

Lavish (a.) Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.

Lavished (imp. & p. p.) of Lavish

Lavishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lavish

Lavish (v. t.) To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

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