Lancasterian
Lan′cas‐te″ri‐an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils bel...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Lance
Lance (lăns), n. [OE. lance, F. lance, fr. L. lancea; cf. Gr. λόγχη. Cf. Launch.] 1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear car...
Lance (2)
Lance, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Lanced (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Lancing (?).] 1. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.Seized the due victim, and with fury lancedHer back. Dry...
Lance fish
Lance″ fish′ (?). (Zoöl.) A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; — called also sand lance.
Lancegay
{ Lance″gay′, Lance″gaye′ } (?), n. [OF. lancegaie, corrupted from the same source as E. assagai, under the influence of F. lance lance. See Assagai.] A kind of spear anciently ...
Lancelet
Lance″let (?), n. [Lance + -let.] (Zoöl.) A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Le...
Lancely
Lance″ly, a. Like a lance. Sir P. Sidney.
Lanceolar
Lan″ce‐o‐lar (?), a. [L. lanceola a little lance, dim. of lancea lance: cf. F. lancéolaire.] (Bot.) Lanceolate.
Lanceolate
{ Lan″ce‐o‐late (?), Lan″ce‐o‐la′ted (?) } a. [L. lanceolatus: cf. F. lancéolé. See Lanceolar.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at t...
Lancepesade
Lance′pe‐sade″ (?), n. [F. lancepessade, lanspessade, anspessade, It. lancia spezzata a broken lance or demilance, a demilance roan, a light horseman, bodyguard.] An assistant t...
Lancer
Lan″cer (?), n. [Cf. F. lancier.] 1. One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of...
Lancet
Lan″cet (?), n. [F. lancette, dim. of lance lance. See Lance.] 1. A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in openi...
Lancewood
Lance″wood′ (?), n.(Bot.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Q...
Lanch
Lanch (lȧnch), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Lanched (lȧncht); p. pr. & vb. n.Lanching. See Launch, Lance.] To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.See Whose arm can lanch the surer bo...
Lanciferous
Lan‐cif″er‐ous (?), a. [Lance + -ferous.] Bearing a lance.
Lanciform
Lan″ci‐form (?), a. [Lance + -form: cf. F. lanciforme.] Having the form of a lance.
Lancinate
Lan″ci‐nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Lancinated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Lancinating (?).] [L. lancinatus, p. p. of lancinare to fear.] To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Qui...
Lancinating
Lan″ci‐na′ting, a. Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).
Lancination
Lan′ci‐na″tion (?), n. A tearing; laceration. “Lancinations of the spirit.” Jer. Taylor.
Land
Land (lănd), n. Urine. See Lant.
Land (2)
Land, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land.] 1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; — opposed to water as constituting a part of such sur...
Land (3)
Land (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Landed; p. pr. & vb. n.Landing.] 1. To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.I 'll undertake to land them on...
Land (4)
Land, v. i. To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
Land League
Land League. In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and ...
Land of Steady Habits
Land of Steady Habits. Connecticut; — a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period.
Land-poor
Land″–poor′ (?), a. Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
Landamman
Lan″dam‐man (?), n. [G. Landamman; land land, country + amimann bailiff. See Land, and Ambassador.] 1. A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.2. The president of the di...