Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 8
Lanceolate (a.) Alt. of Lanceolated.
Lanceolated (a.) (Bot. & zool.) Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
Lanceolate (a.) (Of a leaf shape) Shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex [syn: lanceolate, lancelike].
Lancepesade (n.) An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal. [Obsolete]
Lancer (n.) 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 some nations. -- Wilhelm.
Lancer (n.) A lancet. [Obs.]
Lancer (n.) pl. (Dancing) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement. [Written also lanciers.]
Lancer (n.) (Formerly) A cavalryman armed with a lance.
Lancet (n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
Lancet (n.) (Metal.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. -- Knight.
Lancet arch (Arch.), A pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height.
Lancet architecture, A name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; -- peculiar to England and 13th century. lancetfish
Lancet (n.) An acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance [syn: lancet arch, lancet].
Lancet (n.) A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions [syn: lancet, lance].
Lancewood (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 Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family ({Anonaseae).
Australian lancewood, A myrtaceous tree ({Backhousia Australis).
Lancewood (n.) Durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools.
Lancewood (n.) Source of most of the lancewood of commerce [syn: lancewood, lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata].
Lanched (imp. & p. p.) of Lanch.
Lanching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lanch.
Lanch (v. t.) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
Lanciferous (a.) Bearing a lance.
Lanciform (a.) Having the form of a lance.
Lancinated (imp. & p. p.) of Lanciname.
Lancinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lanciname.
Lanciname (v. t.) To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.
Lancinating (a.) Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).
Lancination (n.) A tearing; laceration.
Land (n.) Urine. See Lant.
Land (n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
Land (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
Land (n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
Land (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people.
Land (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands.
Land (n.) The ground or floor.
Land (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
Land (n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.
Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
Land (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.
Landed (imp. & p. p.) of Land.
Landing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Land.
Land (v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
Land (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
Land (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.
Land (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
Landamman (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
Landamman (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Landau (n.) A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage. [Written also landaw.].
Landau (n.) Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968) [syn: Landau, Lev Davidovich Landau].
Landau (n.) A four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately.
Landaulet (n.) A small landau. Landdrost
Landed (a.) Having an estate in land.
The House of Commons must consist, for the most part, of landed men. -- Addison.
Landed (a.) Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.
Landed (a.) Owning or consisting of land or real estate; "the landed gentry"; "landed property" [ant: landless].
Lander (n.) One who lands, or makes a landing. "The lander in a lonely isle." -- Tennyson.
Lander (n.) (Mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
Lander (n.) A town in central Wyoming.
Lander (n.) A space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet.
Lander -- U.S. County in Nevada
Population (2000): 5794
Housing Units (2000): 2780
Land
area (2000): 5493.631359 sq. miles (14228.439296 sq.
km)
Water
area (2000): 25.840248 sq. miles (66.925931 sq. km)
Total
area (2000): 5519.471607 sq. miles (14295.365227 sq. km)
Located
within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 40.026808 N, 117.016325 W
Headwords:
Lander
Lander, NV
Lander County
Lander County, NV
Lander, WY -- U.S. city in Wyoming
Population (2000): 6867
Housing Units (2000): 3036
Land area (2000): 4.419003 sq. miles (11.445165 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.419003 sq. miles (11.445165 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44760
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 42.833035 N, 108.732633 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lander, WY
Lander
Landfall (n.) 著陸；登陸；（遠洋航行時）初見陸地（或接近陸地） A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
Landfall (n.) (Naut.) Sighting or making land when at sea.
{A good landfall} (Naut.), The sighting of land in conformity with the navigator's reckoning and expectation.
Landfall (n.) The seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water).
Landfall (n.) The first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water).
Landfall (n.), MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 700
Housing Units (2000): 300
Land area (2000): 0.077806 sq. miles (0.201516 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.024254 sq. miles (0.062817 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.102060 sq. miles (0.264333 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35414
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.951063 N, 92.977038 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Landfall, MN
Landfall
Landflood (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. -- Clarendon.
Landgrave (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
Note: The title was first adopted by some German counts in the twelfth century, to distinguish themselves from the inferior counts under their jurisdiction. Three of them were princes of the empire.
Landgrave (n.) A count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany.
Landgraviate (n.) The territory held by a landgrave.
Landgraviate (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.
Landgravine (n.) The wife of a landgrave.
Landholder (n.) A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. -- Land"hold`ing, n. & a.
Landholder (n.) A holder or proprietor of land [syn: landowner, landholder, property owner].
Landing (n.) A going or bringing on shore.
Landing (n.) A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.
Landing (n.) (Arch.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
Landing (n.) (Aeronautics) The act or process of bringing an aircraft to land after having been in the air; as, the pilot made a perfect three-point landing. Contrasted with take-off.
Landing place. Me as Landing, n., 2 and 3.
Landing (a.) Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.
Landing charges, Charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.
Landing net, A small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.
Landing stage, A floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.
Landing waiter, A customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.
Landing (n.) An intermediate platform in a staircase.
Landing (n.) Structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods [syn: landing, landing place].
Landing (n.) The act of coming down to the earth (or other surface); "the plane made a smooth landing"; "his landing on his feet was catlike."
Landing (n.) The act of coming to land after a voyage.
Landladies (n. pl. ) of Landlady.
Landlady (n.) [C] 女房東；（旅館，家庭公寓等的）女主人，女老板；女地主 A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
Landlady (n.) The mistress of an inn or lodging house.
Landlady (n.) A landlord who is a woman.
Landlouper (n.) A vagabond; a vagrant. [Written also landleaper and landloper.] "Bands of landloupers." -- Moltey.
Landleaper (n.) See Landlouper.
Landless (a.) Having no property in land.
Landless (a.) Owning no land; "the landless peasantry" [ant: landed].
Landlock (v. t.) To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
Landlocked (a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.
Landlocked (a.) (Zool.) Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon.
Landlocked (a.) Surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land; "a landlocked country."
Landloper (n.) Same as Landlouper.
Landlouper (n.) A vagabond; a vagrant. [Written also landleaper and landloper.] "Bands of landloupers." -- Moltey.
Landlord (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
Landlord (n.) The master of an inn or of any form of lodging house; as, the landlord collects the rents on the first of the month.
Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord. -- Addison.
Landlord (n.) A landowner who leases to others.
Landlordism (n.) The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands. -- J. S. Mill.
Landlordry (n.) The state of a landlord. [Obs.]
Landlouper (n.) A vagabond; a vagrant. [Written also landleaper and landloper.] "Bands of landloupers." -- Moltey.
Landlouping (a.) Vagrant; wandering about.
Landlubber (n.) (Naut.) One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.
Landlubber (n.) A person who lives and works on land [syn: landlubber, landsman, landman].
Landlubber (n.) An inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage [syn: landlubber, lubber, landsman].
Landmen (n. pl. ) of Landman.
Landman (n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.
Landman (n.) An occupier of land.
Landmark (n.) A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.
Landmark (n.) Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.
Landmark (n.) [ C ] (Object) (C1) 地標；標誌性建築 A building or place that is easily recognized, especially one that you can use to judge where you are.
// The Rock of Gibraltar is one of Europe's most famous landmarks.
Landmark (n.) [ C ] (Stage) (C2) （發展過程中的）里程碑 An important stage in something's development.
// The invention of the silicon chip was a landmark in the history of the computer.
// In a landmark case/ decision, the governor pardoned a woman convicted of killing her husband, who had physically abused her.
Landowner (n.) An owner of land.
Landowner (n.) A holder or proprietor of land [syn: landowner, landholder, property owner].
Landowning (n.) The owning of land.
Landowning (a.) Having property in land; of or pertaining to landowners.
Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. [Colloq.]
Landreeve (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
Landscape (n.) （陸上的）風景，景色 [C]；風景畫，山水畫 [C]；風景繪畫（或攝影）[U] A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
Landscape (n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare seascape.
Landscape (n.) The pictorial aspect of a country.
The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. --Macaulay.
{Landscape gardening}, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.
Landscape (n.) An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view.
Landscape (n.) Painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery.
Landscape (n.) A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery [syn: {landscape}, {landscape painting}].
Landscape (n.) An extensive mental viewpoint; "the political landscape looks bleak without a change of administration"; "we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity."
Landscape (v.) (v. t.) 在（一片土地）上造園 (v. i.) 從事景觀美化（或園藝） 工作 Embellish with plants; "Let's landscape the yard."
Landscape (v.) Do landscape gardening; "My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living."
Landscapist (n.) A painter of landscapes.
Landscapist (n.) Someone who paints landscapes.
Landscapist (n.) Someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively [syn: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper, landscapist].
Landskip (n.) A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.]
Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. -- Milton. Landslide
Landslip (n.) Alt. of Landslide.
Landslide (n.) 山崩；滑坡；（選舉中的）壓倒性大勝利 The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
Landslide (n.) The land which slips down.
Landslide (n.) An election victory in which the winning candidate receives a substantial majority of the votes, usually meaning at least ten per cent more than any opposing candidate.
Landslide (n.) Any overwhelming victory.
Landslide (n.) An overwhelming electoral victory; "Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide."
Landslide (n.) A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff [syn: {landslide}, {landslip}].
Landslide victory (n.) 壓倒性的勝利 A landslide victory is an electoral victory in a political system, when one candidate or party receives an overwhelming majority of the votes or seats in the elected body, thus all but utterly eliminating the opponents. The winning party has reached more voters than usual, and a landslide victory is often seen in hindsight as a turning point in people's views on political matters.
Part of the reason for a landslide victory is sometimes a bandwagon effect, as a significant number of people may decide to vote for the party which is in the lead in the pre-election opinion polls, regardless of its politics.
The term is borrowed from geology, where a landslide takes almost everything with it on its way.
Landsmen (n. pl. ) of Landsman.
Landsman (n.) One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
Landsman (n.) (Naut.) A sailor on his first voyage.
Landsman (n.) A person who lives and works on land [syn: landlubber, landsman, landman].
Landsman (n.) An inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage [syn: landlubber, lubber, landsman].
Landstreight (n.) A narrow strip of land. [Obs.]
Landsturm (n.) [In Germany and other European nations, and Japan:] (a) A general levy in time of war.
Landsturm (n.) (b) The forces called out on such levy, composed of all men liable to service who are not in the army, navy, or Landwehr; the last line of defense, supposed to be called out only in case of invasion or other grave emergency.
See Army organization, above.
Landtag (n.) (Prussia.) The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia. See Legislature, below.
Landwaiter (n.) See Landing waiter, under Landing, a.
Landward (adv. & a.) Toward the land.
Landward (adv.) Toward land; "landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands" [syn: landward, landwards].
Landwehr (n.) That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.
Lane (a.) Alone. [Scot.]
{His lane}, By himself; himself alone.