Webster's Dictionary 1828

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LACKBRAIN

LACK'BRAIN, noun One that wants brains, or is deficient in understanding.

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LACKER

LACK'ER,LACK'ERED, participle passive Covered with lacker; varnished.

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LACKERED

LACK'ERED, pp. Covered with lacker; varnished.

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LACKEY

LACK'EY, noun [Latin lego, to send.]An attending servant; a footboy or footman.LACK'EY, verb transitive To attend servilely.LACK'EY, verb intransitive To act as footboy; to pay ...

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LACKLINEN

LACK'LINEN, adjective Wanting shirts. [Little used.]

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LACKLUSTER

LACK'LUSTER, adjective Wanting luster or brightness.

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LACMUS

LAC'MUS, noun A blue pigment, formed from archil, a species of lichen. [See Archil.] It is prepared by bruising the archil, and adding quick lime and putrefied urine, or spirit ...

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LACONIC

LACON'IC,LACON'ICAL, adjective [Latin laconicus, from Laconia or Lacomes, the Spartans.]1. Short; brief; pithy; sententious; expressing much in few words, after the manner of th...

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LACONICALLY

LACON'ICALLY, adverb Briefly; concisely; as a sentiment laconically expressed.

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LACONICISM

LACON'ICISM, noun [Latin lacomismus.]1. A concise style.2. A brief sententious phrase or expression.

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LACONICS

LACON'ICS, noun A book of Pausanias, which treats of Lacedemonia.

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LACONISM

LA'CONISM,LAC'QUER, noun A kind of varnish. The basis of lackers is a solution of the substance called seed-lack or shell-lack, in spirit of wine or alcohol. Varnishes applied t...

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LACQUER

LAC'QUER, n. A kind of varnish. The basis of lackers is a solution of the substance called seed-lack or shell-lack, in spirit of wine or alcohol. Varnishes applied to metals imp...

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LACTAGE

LAC'TAGE, noun The produce of animals yielding milk.

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LACTANT

LAC'TANT, adjective [Latin lactans, from lacto, to give suck; lac, milk.] Suckling; giving suck. [Little used.]

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LACTARY

LAC'TARY, adjective [Latin lactarius, from lacto; lac, milk.]Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Little used.]LAC'TARY, noun [Latin lactarius.] A dairyhouse.

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LACTATE

LAC'TATE, noun In chimistry, a salt formed by the lactic acid, or acid of milk, with a base.

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LACTATION

LACTA'TION, noun [Latin lacto, to give suck.] The act of giving suck; or the time of suckling.

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LACTEAL

LAC'TEAL, adjective1. Pertaining to milk.2. Conveying chyle; as a lacteal vessel.LAC'TEAL, noun A vessel or slender tube of animal bodies, for conveying chyle from the intestine...

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LACTEOUS

LAC'TEOUS, adjective [Latin lacteus, from lac, milk.1. Milky; resembling milk.2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as a lacteous vessel.

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LACTESCENCE

LACTES'CENCE, noun [Latin lactescens, lactescp, from lacto; lac, milk.]1. Tendency to milk; milkiness or milky color.2. In botany, milkiness; the liquor which flows abundantly f...

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LACTESCENT

LACTES'CENT, adjective1. Producing milk or white juice.2. Abounding with a thick colored juice.

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LACTIC

LAC'TIC, adjective Pertaining to milk, or procured from sour milk or whey; as the lactic acid.

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LACTIFEROUS

LACTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lac, milk, and fero, to bear.]1. Bearing or conveying milk or white juice; as a lactiferous duct.2. Producing a thick colored juice; as a plant.

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LACUNAR

LAC'UNAR, noun [Latin] An arched roof or ceiling.

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LACUNOSE

LACUNO'SE, adjective [Latin lacunosus, from lacuna, a ditch or hollow.]Furrowed or pitted. A lacunose leaf has the disk depressed between the veins.

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LACUNOUS

LACU'NOUS,LAD, noun [Heb. to procreate or bear young.] A young man or boy; a stripling.