Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 10
Lanthanum (n.) (Chem.) A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La. [Formerly written also lanthanium.]
Lanthanum (n.) A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57].
Lanthanum
Symbol: La
Atomic number: 57
Atomic weight: 138.9055
(From the Greek word lanthanein, to lie hidden) Silvery metallic element belonging to group 3 of the periodic table and oft considered to be one of the lanthanoids. Found in some rare-earth minerals. Twenty-five natural isotopes exist. La-139 which is stable, and La-138 which has a half-life of 10^10 to 10^15 years. The other twenty-three isotopes are radioactive.
It resembles the lanthanoids chemically. Lanthanum has a low to moderate level of toxicity, and should be handled with care. Discovered in 1839 by C.G. Mosander.
Lanthopine (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Lanthorn (n.) See Lantern. [Obs.] Lanuginose
Lanuginose (a.) Alt. of Lanuginous.
Lanuginous (a.) Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.
Lanugo (n.) (Anat.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.
Lanugo (n.) The fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation.
Lanyard (n.) (Naut.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.
Lanyard (n.) (Mil.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube.
Lanyard (n.) A cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon [syn: lanyard, laniard].
Lanyard (n.) A cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle [syn: lanyard, laniard].
Lanyard (n.) (Nautical) A line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships [syn: lanyard, laniard].
Compare: Lanier
Lanier (n.) [Written also lanner, lanyer.] A thong of leather; a whip lash. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Lanier (n.) A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like. -- Fairholt.
Lanyer (n.) See Lanier.
Laocoon (n.) (Class. Myth.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)
Laocoon (n.) (Sculp.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.
Laocoon (n.) (Greek mythology) The priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them.
Laocoon, (n.) A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.
The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.
Laodicean (a.) Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. -- Rev. iii. 14-16.
Lap (n.) (衣服的) 下擺，衣兜，裙兒 The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. -- Chaucer.
Lap (n.) An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. -- Chaucer.
If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him. -- Fuller.
Lap (n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps. -- Tillotson.
Lap (n.) That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
Note: The lap of shingles or slates in roofing is the distance one course extends over the second course below, the distance over the course immediately below being called the cover.
Lap (n.) (Steam Engine) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
Lap (n.) The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
Lap (n.) One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
Lap (n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
Lap (n.) (Cotton Manuf.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
Lap (n.) (Mach.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
Lap joint, A joint made by one layer, part, or piece, overlapping another, as in the scarfing of timbers.
Lap weld, A lap joint made by welding together overlapping edges or ends.
Inside
lap (Steam
Engine), Lap of the valve with respect to the exhaust port.
Outside lap, Lap with respect to the admission, or steam, port.
Lap (v. i.) To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a flay. -- Grew.
Lapped (imp. & p. p.) of Lap.
Lapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lap.
Lap (v. t.) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
To lap his head on lady's breast. -- Praed.
Lap (v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
Lap (v. t.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
Lap (v. t.) To wrap or wind around something.
About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk. -- Sir I. Newton.
Lap (v. t.) To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds. -- Dryden.
Lap (v. t.) To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
Lap (v. t.) (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
To lap boards, Shingles, etc., to lay one partly over another.
To lap timbers, To unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. -- Weale.
Lap (v. i.) 舔舐；舔食 To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. -- Sir K. Digby.
Lap (v. i.) To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag. -- Tennyson.
Lap (v. t.) To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk. -- Shak.
Lap (n.) The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
Lap (n.) The sound of lapping.
Lap (n.) The upper side of the thighs of a seated person; "he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap."
Lap (n.) An area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in my lap."
Lap (n.) The part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs; "his lap was covered with food stains" [syn: {lap}, {lap covering}].
Lap (n.) A flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches" [syn: {lap}, {overlap}].
Lap (n.) Movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance" [syn: {lap}, {circle}, {circuit}].
Lap (n.) Touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet" [syn: {lick}, {lap}].
Lap (v.) Lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another.
Lap (v.) Pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand" [syn: {lick}, {lap}].
Lap (v.) Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open" [syn: {lap}, {swish}, {swosh}, {swoosh}].
Lap (v.) Take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast" [syn: {lap}, {lap up}, {lick}].
Lap (v.) Wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" [syn: {lave}, {lap}, {wash}].
LAP, () LAN Access Profile (Bluetooth, SPP, LAN)
LAP, () Link Access Procedure / Protocol (CCITT, X.25)
LAP, () LISP Assembly Program. The assembly language embedded into early Lisp. LAP was also used by the Liar compiler for MIT Scheme and MACLISP. [Sammet 1969, p. 597]. (1994-11-01)
LAP, (n.) One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.
In the lap of the gods (ph.) (UK) 全靠運氣，碰運氣，聽天由命，難以預料的 Used to say that a situation that cannot be controlled and depends only on good luck.
// The doctors have done everything possible for him, so his recovery now is in the lap of the gods.
In the lap of the gods (ph.) If you say that a situation is in the lap of the gods, you mean that its success or failure depends entirely on luck or on things that are outside your control.
// They had to stop the operation, so at that stage my life was in the lap of the gods.
Laparocele (n.) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
Laparocele (n.) Hernia through the abdomen.
Laparotomy (n.) (Surg.) A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section.
Lapboard (n.) A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.
Lapboard (n.) Writing board used on the lap as a table or desk.
Lapdog (n.) A small dog fondled in the lap.
Lapdog (n.) One who does the bidding of another; a servile follower. [informal]
Lapdog (n.) A dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap.
Lapel (n.) That part of a garment which is turned back; specifically, the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar. [Written also lappel and lapelle.]
Lapel (n.) Lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar.
Lapel, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 1855
Housing Units (2000): 788
Land area (2000): 0.766059 sq. miles (1.984083 sq. km)
Water
area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.766059 sq. miles (1.984083 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42228
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.068006 N, 85.847478 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 46051
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lapel, IN
Lapel
Lapelled (a.) Furnished with lapels.
Lapfuls (n. pl. ) of Lapful.
Lapful (n.) As much as the lap can contain.
Lapful (n.) The quantity that can be held in the lap.
Lapicide (n.) A stonecutter. [Obs.]
Lapidarian (a.) Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record.
Lapidarian (a.) Inscribed on stone; "a lapidarian record."
Lapidarious (a.) Consisting of stones.
Lapidary (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation.
Lapidary (a.) Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation.
Lapidary style, that style which is proper for monumental and other inscriptions; terse; sententious.
Lapidaries (n. pl. ) of Lapidary.
Lapidary (n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.
Lapidary (n.) A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
Lapidary's lathe, Lapidary's mill, Lapidary's wheel, A machine consisting essentially of a revolving lap on a vertical spindle, used by a lapidary for grinding and polishing.
Lapidary (a.) Of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them; "the ring is of no lapidary value" -- Lord Byron; "lapidary art."
Lapidary (n.) An expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them [syn: lapidary, lapidarist].
Lapidary (n.) A skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones [syn: lapidary, lapidist].
Lapidate (v. t.) To stone. [Obs.]
Lapidate (v.) Kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stone, lapidate].
Lapidate (v.) Throw stones at; "Pilgrims lapidate a stone pillar in commemoration of Abraham's temptation."
Lapidation (n.) The act of stoning. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Lapidation (n.) The act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) [syn: stoning, lapidation].
Lapideous (a.) Of the nature of stone. [Obs.] -- Ray.
Lapidescence (n.) The state or quality of being lapidescent.
Lapidescence (n.) A hardening into a stone substance.
Lapidescence (n.) A stony concretion. -- Sir T. Browne.
Lapidescent (a.) Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
Lapidescent (n.) Any substance which has the quality of petrifying other bodies, or of converting or being converted into stone. Lapidific
Lapidific (a.) Alt. of Lapidifical.
Lapidifical (a.) Forming or converting into stone.
Lapidification (n.) The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.
Lapidify (v. i.) To become stone or stony.
Lapidified (imp. & p. p.) of Lapidify.
Lapidifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lapidify.
Lapidify (v. t.) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
Lapidify (v.) Change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn: lapidify, petrify].
Lapidist (n.) A lapidary. -- Ray.
Lapidist (n.) A skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones [syn: lapidary, lapidist].
Lapillation (n.) The state of being, or the act of making, stony.
Lapilli (n. pl.) (Min.) Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles.
Lapides (n. pl. ) of Lapis.
Lapis (n.) [L.] A stone.
Lapis calaminarisn. [NL.] (Min.) Calamine.
Lapis infernalisn. [L.] Fused nitrate of silver; lunar caustic.
Compare: Lazuli
Lazuli (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.
Lapis lazuli (n.) (Min.) An albuminous mineral of a rich blue color. Same as Lazuli, which see.
Lapis lazuli (n.) An azure blue semiprecious stone [syn: lapis lazuli, lazuli].
Lap-jointed (a.) Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.
Lap-jointed (a.) Jointed so as to produce a flush surface.
Laplander (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp.
Laplandish (a.) Of or pertaining to Lapland.
Lapling (n.) One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.
Compare: Laplander
Laplander (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp.
Lapp (n.) Same as Laplander. Cf. Lapps.
Lapps (n. pl.; sing. Lapp.) (Ethnol.) A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
Lapp (n.) A member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer [syn: Lapp, Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Same, Saame].
Lapp (n.) The language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula [syn: Lapp, Sami, Saami, Same, Saame].
Lappaceous (a.) (Bot.) Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.
Lapper (n.) One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.
Lappet (n.) A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. --Swift.
Lappet moth (Zool.), One of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath.
Two common American species ({Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.
Lappeted (imp. & p. p.) of Lappet.
Lappeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lappet.
Lappet (v. t.) To decorate with, or as with, a lappet. [R.] --Landor.
Lappet (n.) A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards [syn: wattle, lappet].
Lappet (n.) A small lap on a garment or headdress.
Lappet (n.) Medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars [syn: lappet, lappet moth].
Lappic (a.) Of or pertaining to Lapland, or the Lapps.
Lappic (n.) The language of the Lapps. See Lappish.
Lappic (n.) Any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages [syn: Lappic, Lappish].
Lapping (n.) A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. -- Ure.
Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.
Lapping (n.) Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) [syn: imbrication, overlapping, lapping].
Lapping, () Of water like a dog, i.e., by putting the hand filled with water to the mouth. The dog drinks by shaping the end of his long thin tongue into the form of a spoon, thus rapidly lifting up water, which he throws into his mouth. The three hundred men that went with Gideon thus employed their hands and lapped the water out of their hands (Judg. 7:7).
Lappish (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.
Lappish (n.) The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language. Lapponian
Lappish (n.) Any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages [syn: Lappic, Lappish].
Lapponian (a.) Alt. of Lapponic.
Lapponic (a.) Laplandish; Lappish.
Lapps (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
Lapsable (a.) Lapsible. -- Cudworth.
Lapse (n.) [C] （時間的）流逝，間隔 [（+of）]；小錯，失誤；跌落，下降 A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. -- Rambler.
Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. -- I. Taylor.
Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
To guard against those lapses and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us. -- Rogers.
Lapse (n.) (Law) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.
Lapse (n.) (Theol.) A fall or apostasy.
Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Lapse.
Lapsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lapse.