Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 5
Ladyhood (n.) 貴婦之身分或風度 The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of a lady.
Lady-killer (n.) 【口】令女人傾心的男子，專門勾引女子的男人 A gallant who captivates the hearts of women. "A renowned dandy and lady-killer." -- Blackw. Mag.
Lady-killing (n.) The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women.
Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. -- Thackeray.
Ladykin (n.) A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.
Note: The diminutive does not refer to size, but is equivalent to "dear." -- Brewer.
Ladylike (a.) Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. -- Hawthorne.
Ladylike (a.) Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. "With fingers ladylike." -- Warner.
Ladylike (a.) Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear. -- Dryden.
Ladylike (a.) Befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners."
Ladylikeness (n.) The quality or state of being ladylike.
Ladylikeness (n.) Behavior befitting a lady.
Ladylove (n.) A sweetheart or mistress.
Ladylove (n.) A woman who is a man's sweetheart [syn: ladylove, dulcinea].
Lady's bedstraw () (Bot.) The common bedstraw ({Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub ({Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.
Lady's bower () (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms ({Clematis vitalba).
Note: This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus.
Lady's comb () (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant ({Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.
Lady's cushion () (Bot.) An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift ({Armeria vulgaris).
Lady's finger () pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch. Anthyllis vulneraria; called also lady's fingers.
Lady's finger () (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.
Lady's finger () A long, slender variety of the potato.
Lady's finger () (Zool.) One of the branchiae of the lobster.
Lady's finger () (Bot.) A tall coarse annual ({Abelmoschus esculentus) of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern U. S. and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; it is sometimes placed in the genus Hibiscus.
Note: different from lady's fingers.
Syn: okra, gumbo, okra plant, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus.
Lady's garters () (Bot.) Ribbon grass.
Lady's hair, () (Bot.) Briza+({Briza+media">A plant of the genus Briza ({Briza media); a variety of quaking grass.
Ladyship (n.) The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your).
Your ladyship shall observe their gravity. -- B. Jonson.
Ladyship (n.) A title used to address any peeress except a duchess; "Your Ladyship"; "Her Ladyship."
Lady's laces, () (Bot.) A slender climbing plant; dodder.
Lady's looking-glass, () (Bot.) See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.
Venus (n.) (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
Venus (n.) (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
Venus (n.) (Alchem.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. [Archaic]
Venus (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
Venus's basin (Bot.), The wild teasel; -- so called because the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet. Also called Venus's bath.
Venus's basket (Zool.), An elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge ({Euplectella speciosa) native of the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called also Venus's flower basket, and Venus's purse.
Venus's comb. (a) (Bot.) Same as Lady's comb.
Murex+({Murex+tenuispinus">(b) (Zool.) A species of Murex ({Murex tenuispinus). It has a long, tubular canal, with a row of long, slender spines along both of its borders, and rows of similar spines covering the body of the shell. Called also Venus's shell.
Venus's fan (Zool.), A common reticulated, fanshaped gorgonia ({Gorgonia flabellum) native of Florida and the West Indies. When fresh the color is purple or yellow, or a mixture of the two.
Venus's flytrap. (Bot.) See Flytrap, 2.
Venus's girdle (Zool.), A long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore ({Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix.
Venus's hair (Bot.), A delicate and graceful fern ({Adiantum Capillus-Veneris) having a slender, black and shining stem and branches.
Venus's hair stone (Min.), Quartz penetrated by acicular crystals of rutile.
Venus's looking-glass (Bot.), An annual plant of the genus Specularia allied to the bellflower; -- also called lady's looking-glass.
Venus's navelwort (Bot.), Any one of several species of Omphalodes, low boraginaceous herbs with small blue or white flowers.
Venus's pride (Bot.), An old name for Quaker ladies. See under Quaker.
Venus's purse. (Zool.) Same as Venus's basket, above.
Venus's shell. (Zool.) (a) Any species of Cypraea; a cowrie.
Venus's shell. (Zool.) (b) Same as Venus's comb, above.
Venus's shell. (Zool.) (c) Same as Venus, 4.
Venus's slipper. (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Cypripedium. See Lady's slipper.
Venus's slipper. (b) (Zool.) Any heteropod shell of the genus Carinaria. See Carinaria.
Lady's mantle () (Bot.) A genus of rosaceous herbs ({Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
Lady's seal () (Bot.) The European Solomon's seal ({Polygonatum verticillatum).
Lady's seal () (Bot.) The black bryony ({Tamus communis).
Lady's slipper () Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).
Lady's smock () A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.
Lady's thimble () The harebell.
Lady's thumb () An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
Lady's traces () Alt. of Ladies' tresses.
Ladies' tresses () A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
Laelaps (n.) A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
Laemmergeyer (n.) See Lammergeir.
Laemodipod (n.) One of the Laemodipoda.
Laemodipoda (n. pl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.
Laemodipodous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Laemodipoda.
Laetere Sunday () The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word Laetare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.
Laevigate (a.) Having a smooth surface, as if polished.
Laevo- () A prefix. See Levo.
Laevorotatory (a.) Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.
Laevulose (n.) See Levulose.
Lafayette (n.) The dollar fish.
Lafayette (n.) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
Laft () p. p. of Leave.
Lafte () imp. of Leave.
Lag (a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
Lag (a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
Lag (a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Lag (n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.
Lag (n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
Lag (n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
Lag (n.) See Graylag.
Lagged (imp. & p. p.) of Lag.
Lagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lag.
Lag (v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
Lag (v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.
Lag (v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
Lag (n.) One transported for a crime.
Lag (v. t.) To transport for crime.
Lagan (n. & v.) See Ligan.
Lagarto (n.) An alligator.
Lagenae (n. pl. ) of Lagena.
Lagenas (n. pl. ) of Lagena.
Lagena (n.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.
Lagenian (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.
Lageniform (a.) Shaped like a bottle or flask; flag-shaped.
Lager (n.) Lager beer.
Lager beer () Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.
Lager wine () Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar.
Laggard (a.) Slow; sluggish; backward.
Laggard (n.) One who lags; a loiterer.
Lagger (n.) A laggard.
Lagging (n.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.
Lagging (n.) Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.
Laggingly (adv.) In a lagging manner; loiteringly.
Lagly (adv.) Laggingly.
Lagniappe (n.) [Also spelled {lagnappe}.] 免費贈品 In Louisiana, a trifling present given to customers by tradesmen; a gratuity.
Lagniappe (n.) A tip or gratuity.
Lagniappe (n.) Hence: Anything obtained gratuitously or unexpectedly.
Lagniappe (n.) A small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure.
// Our meal began with a lagniappe of pickled vegetables.
Lagniappe (n.) A small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase).
Lagniappe (n.) (Chiefly Southern Louisiana & Mississippi) A small gift presented by a storeowner to a customer with the customer's purchase.
Lagniappe (n.) An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. Also called regionally boot2. See Note at beignet.
[Louisiana French, from American Spanish la ñapa, the gift : la, the (from Latin illa, feminine of ille, that, the; see al- in Indo-European roots) + ñapa (variant of llapa, gift of a little something extra, bonus, from Quechua, from yapay, to give more).]
Lagomorph (n.) One of the Lagomorpha.
Lagemorpha (n. pl.) A group of rodents, including the hares. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata.
Lagoon (n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.
Lagoon (n.) A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.
Lagophthalmia (n.) Alt. of Lagophthalmos
Lagophthalmos (n.) A morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open, giving a peculiar staring appearance.
Lagopous (a.) Having a dense covering of long hair, like the foot of a hare.
Lagune (n.) See Lagoon.
Laic (a.) Alt. of Laical.
Laical (a.) Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity.
Laic (n.) A layman.
Laicality (n.) The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.
Laically (adv.) As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.
Laid (imp. & p. p.) of Lay.
Laidly (a.) Ugly; loathsome.
Lain (p. p.) of Lie, v. i.
Lainere (n.) See Lanier.
Lair (n.) A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
Lair (n.) A burying place.
Lair (n.) A pasture; sometimes, food.
Laird (n.) A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown.
Lairdship (n.) The state of being a laird; an estate; landed property.
Laism (n.) See Lamaism.