LATERITIOUS
LATERI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin lateritius, from later, a brick.] Like bricks; of the color of bricks.Lateritious sediment, a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed af...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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LATH
L'ATH, noun1. A thin, narrow board or slip of wood nailed to the rafters of a building to support the tiles or covering.2. A thin narrow slip of wood nailed to the studs, to sup...
LATHE
LATHE, nounAn engine by which instruments of wood, ivory, metals and other materials, are turned and cut into a smooth round form.
LATHER
LATH'ER, verb intransitiveTo form a foam with water and soap; to become froth, or frothy matter.LATH'ER, verb transitive To spread over with the foam of soap.LATH'ER, noun1. Foa...
LATHY
L'ATHY, adjective Thin as a lath; long and slender.L'ATHY, adjective Flabby; weak.
LATIBULIZE
LATIB'ULIZE, verb intransitive [Latin latibulum, a hiding place.]To retire into a den, burrow or cavity, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid.The tortoise latibuliz...
LATICLAVE
LAT'ICLAVE, noun [Latin laticlavium; latus, broad, and clavus, a stud.]An ornament of dress worn by Roman senators. It is supposed to have been a broad stripe of purple on the f...
LATIN
LAT'IN, adjective Pertaining to the Latins, a people of Latium, in Italy; Roman; as the latin language.Latin church, the western church; the christian church in Italy, France, S...
LATINISM
LAT'INISM, noun A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to the Latins.
LATINIST
LAT'INIST, noun One skilled in Latin.
LATINITY
LATIN'ITY, noun Purity of the Latin style or idiom; the Latin tongue.
LATINIZE
LAT'INIZE, verb transitive To give to foreign words Latin terminations and make them Latin.LAT'INIZE, verb intransitive To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.
LATIROSTROUS
LATIROS'TROUS, adjective [Latin latus, broad, and rostrum, beak.] Having a broad beak, as a fowl.
LATISH
LA'TISH, adjective [from late.] Somewhat late.
LATITANCY
LAT'ITANCY, noun [Latin latitans, latito, to lie hid, from lateo. See Latent.]The state of lying concealed; the state of lurking.
LATITANT
LAT'ITANT, adjective Lurking; lying hid; concealed.[These words are rarely used. See latent.]
LATITAT
LAT'ITAT, noun [Latin he lurks.] A writ by which a person is summoned into the king's bench to answer, as supposing he lies concealed.
LATITUDE
LAT'ITUDE, noun [Latin latitudo, breadth; latus, broad.]1. Breadth; width; extent from side to side.2. Room; space.[In the foregoing senses, little used.]3. In astronomy, the di...
LATITUDINAL
LATITU'DINAL, adjective Pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.
LATITUDINARIAN
LATITUDINA'RIAN, adjective Not restrained; not confined by precise limits; free; thinking or acting at large; as latitudinarian opinions or doctrines.LATITUDINA'RIAN, noun1. One...
LATITUDINARIANISM
LATITUDINA'RIANISM, noun1. Freedom or liberality of opinion, particularly in theology.2. Indifference to religion.
LATRANT
LA'TRANT, adjective [Latin latro, to bark.] Barking.
LATRATE
LA'TRATE, verb intransitive To bark as a dog. [Not used.]
LATRATION
LATRA'TION, noun A barking. [Not used.]
LATRIA
LA'TRIA, noun [Latin from Gr.] The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; distinguished by the Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.
LATROBITE
LATRO'BITE, noun [from Latrobe.] A newly described mineral of a pale pink red color, massive or crystallized, from an isle near the Labrador coast.
LATROCINY
LAT'ROCINY, noun [Latin latrocinium.] Theft; larceny. [Not in use.]