LAY-CLERK
LAY-CLERK, noun A vocal officiate in a cathedral.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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LAYER
LA'YER, noun la'er. [from lay, the verb.]1. A stratum; a bed; a body spread over another; as a layer of clay or of sand.2. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stoc...
LAYING
LA'YING, participle present tense Putting; placing; applying; imputing; wagering.
LAYLAND
LA'YLAND, noun Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Local.]
LAYMAN
LA'YMAN, noun la'man. [lay and man.]1. A man who is not a clergyman; one of the laity or people, distinct from the clergy.2. An image used by painters in contriving attitudes.3....
LAYSTALL
LA'YSTALL, noun [lay and stall.] A heap of dung, or a place where dung is laid.
LAZAR
LA'ZAR, noun [from Laxarus.] A person infected with nauseous and pestilential disease.
LAZAR-HOUSE
LA'ZAR-HOUSE, noun A lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.
LAZAR-LIKE
LA'ZAR-LIKE,LAZARET',LAZARETTO, nounA public building, hospital or pest-house for the reception of diseased persons, particularly for those affected with contagious distempers.
LAZARET
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LAZARETTO
LAZARETTO, n.A public building, hospital or pest-house for the reception of diseased persons, particularly for those affected with contagious distempers.
LAZARLY
LA'ZARLY, adjective Full of sores; leprous.
LAZARWORT
LA'ZARWORT,LAZE, verb intransitive To live in idleness. [Vulgar.]LAZE, verb transitive To waste in sloth. [Vulgar.]
LAZE
LAZE, v.i. To live in idleness. [Vulgar.]LAZE, v.t. To waste in sloth. [Vulgar.]
LAZILY
LA'ZILY, adverb [from lazy.] In a heavy, sluggish manner; sluggishly.Whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time.
LAZINESS
LA'ZINESS, noun [from lazy.]1. The state or quality of being lazy; indisposition to action or exertion; indolence; sluggishness; heaviness in motion; habitual sloth. laziness di...
LAZING
LA'ZING, adjective Spending time in sluggish inaction.[This is an ill-formed, inelegant word.]
LAZULI
LAZ'ULI. Lapis lazuli is a mineral of a fine, azure blue color, usually amorphous, or in rounded masses of a moderate size. It is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphu...
LAZULITE
LAZ'ULITE, noun A mineral of a light, indigo blue color, occurring in small masses, or crystallized in oblique four-sided prisms.
LAZY
LA'ZY, adjective [Latin laxus, and it is doubtful whether this is of the same family.]1. Disinclined to action or exertion; naturally or habitually slothful; sluggish; indolent;...
LD
LD, stands for lord.
LEA
LEA,LEACH, verb transitive [See leak. Perhaps Latin lix may be from the same root.]To wash, as ashes, by percolation, or causing water to pass through them, and thus to separate...
LEACH
LEACH, v.t. [See leak. Perhaps L. lix may be from the same root.]To wash, as ashes, by percolation, or causing water to pass through them, and thus to separate from them the alk...
LEACH-TUB
LE'ACH-TUB, noun A wooden vessel or tub in which ashes are leached. It is sometimes written letch-tub.
LEAD
LEAD, noun led.1. A metal of a dull white color, with a cast of blue. It is the least elastic and sonorous of all the metals, and at the same time it is soft and easily fusible....
LEADEN
LEADEN, adjective led'n. [from lead.]1. Made of lead; as a leaden ball.2. Heavy; indisposed to action.3. heavy; dull.
LEADEN-HEARTED
LEADEN-HE'ARTED, adjective Stupid; destitute of feeling.