Laissez faire () Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.
Laity (a.) The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
Laity (a.) The state of a layman.
Laity (a.) Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
Lakao (n.) Sap green.
Lake (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
Lake (n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
Lake (v. i.) To play; to sport.
Lake (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
Lake-dweller (n.) See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
Lakelet (n.) A little lake.
Lakeweed (n.) The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.
Lakh (n.) Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.
Lakin (n.) See Ladykin.
Lakke (n. & v.) See Lack.
Laky (a.) Pertaining to a lake.
Laky (a.) Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.
Lallation (n.) An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l.
Lalo (n.) The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous.
Lammed (imp. & p. p.) of Lam
Lamming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lam
Lam (v. t.) To beat soundly; to thrash.
Lama (n.) See Llama.
Lama (n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism.
Lamaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Lamaism.
Lamaism (n.) A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama.
Lamaist (n.) Alt. of Lamaite
Lamaite (n.) One who believes in Lamaism.
Lamaistic (a.) Of or pertaining to Lamaism.
Lamantin (n.) The manatee.
Lamarckian (a.) Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.
Lamarckianism (n.) Lamarckism.
Lamarckism (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.
Lamasery (n.) A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc.
Lamb (n.) The young of the sheep.
Lamb (n.) Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.
Lamb (n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.
Lambed (imp. & p. p.) of Lamb
Lambing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lamb
Lamb (v. i.) To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.
Lambale (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs.
Lambaste (v. t.) To beat severely.
Lambative (a.) Taken by licking with the tongue.
Lambative (n.) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
Lambda (n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.
Lambda (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.
Lambdacism (n.) A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.
Lambdacism (n.) A defect in pronunciation of the letter l when doubled, which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to that of the letters lli in billion.
Lambdacism (n.) The use of the sound of l for that of r in pronunciation; lallation; as, Amelican for American.
Lambdoid (a.) Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.
Lambdoidal (a.) Same as Lambdoid.
Lambent (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
Lambent (a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.
Lambert pine () The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
Lambkin (n.) A small lamb.
Lamblike (a.) Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.
Lamboys (n. pl.) Same as Base, n., 19.
Lambrequin (n.) A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.
Lambrequin (n.) A leather flap hanging from a cuirass.
Lambrequin (n.) A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.
Lambskin (n.) The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.
Lambskin (n.) A kind of woolen.
Lambskinnet (n.) See Lansquenet.
Lamb's-quarters (n.) A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.
Lamdoidal (a.) Lambdoid.
Lame (superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
Lame (superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.
Lame (superl.) Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
Lamed (imp. & p. p.) of Lame
Laming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lame
Lame (v. t.) To make lame.
Lamel (n.) See Lamella.
Lamellae (pl. ) of Lamella
Lamellas (pl. ) of Lamella
Lamella (n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.
Lamellar (a.) Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellae.
Lamellarly (adv.) In thin plates or scales.
Lamellary (a.) Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar.
Lamellate (a.) Alt. of Lamellated
Lamellated (a.) Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae.
Lamellibranch (n.) One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.
Lamellibranchia (n. pl.) Alt. of Lamellibranchiata
Lamellibranchiata (n. pl.) A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.
Lamellibranchiate (a.) Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia.
Lamellibranchiate (n.) One of the Lamellibranchia.
Lamellicorn (a.) Having antennae terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.
Lamellicorn (a.) Terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of antennae.
Lamellicorn (n.) A lamellicorn insect.
Lamellicornia (n. pl.) A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.
Lamelliferous (a.) Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.
Lamelliform (a.) Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.
Lamellirostral (a.) Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese.
Lamellirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate.
Lamellose (a.) Composed of, or having, lamellae; lamelliform.
Lamely (adv.) An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.
Lameness (n.) The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.
Lament (v. i.) To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Lamented (imp. & p. p.) of Lament
Lamenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lament
Lament (v. t.) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.