Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 9
Lane (n.) [C] 小路；巷，弄；車道，線道；跑道；泳道 A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice.
It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. -- Tyndale.
Lane (n.) A narrow way or road.
Lane (n.) A well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic.
LANE (Acronyms) Local Area Network Emulation [over ATM specification] (ATM).
Lane -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 2155
Housing Units (2000): 1065
Land area (2000): 717.217602 sq. miles (1857.584983 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.212796 sq. miles (0.551138 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 717.430398 sq. miles (1858.136121 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.510314 N, 100.485950 W
Headwords:
Lane
Lane, KS
Lane County
Lane County, KS
Lane -- U.S. County in Oregon
Population (2000): 322959
Housing Units (2000): 138946
Land area (2000): 4554.004250 sq. miles (11794.816359 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 167.787633 sq. miles (434.567957 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4721.791883 sq. miles (12229.384316 sq. km)
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 43.989252 N, 123.080812 W
Headwords:
Lane
Lane, OR
Lane County
Lane County, OR
Lane, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 59
Housing Units (2000): 34
Land area (2000): 0.467280 sq. miles (1.210249 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.467280 sq. miles (1.210249 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35780
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.069148 N, 98.425917 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57358
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lane, SD
Lane
Lane, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 585
Housing Units (2000): 256
Land area (2000): 3.969628 sq. miles (10.281288 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.969628 sq. miles (10.281288 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40210
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.525346 N, 79.879560 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29564
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lane, SC
Lane
Lane, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 256
Housing Units (2000): 105
Land area (2000): 0.217363 sq. miles (0.562967 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.217363 sq. miles (0.562967 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38400
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.440265 N, 95.082339 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66042
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lane, KS
Lane
Lang (a. & adv.) Long.
Langaha (n.) A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade.
Langarey (n.) One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds of Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow.
Langate (n.) A linen roller used in dressing wounds.
Langdak (n.) A wolf (Canis pallipes), found in India, allied to the jackal.
Langrage (n.) Alt. of Langrel.
Langrel (n.) A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.
Langret (n.) A kind of loaded die. [Obs.]
Langridge (n.) See Langrage.
Note: [Sometimes compounded with shot.]
Langsyne (adv. & n.) Long since; long ago. [Scot.]
Langsyne (adv.) At a distant time in the past (chiefly Scottish).
Langsyne (n.) Past times remembered with nostalgia [syn: auld langsyne, langsyne, old times, good old days].
Langteraloo (n.) An old game at cards. See Loo (a). -- Tatler.
Language (n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented to the eye by letters, marks, or characters, which form words.
Language (n.) The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.
Language (n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
Language (n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
Others for language all their care express. -- Pope.
Language (n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.
Language (n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
There was . . . language in their very gesture. -- Shak.
Language (n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.
Language (n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech. [R.]
All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image. -- Dan. iii. 7.
Language (n.) Any system of symbols created for the purpose of communicating ideas, emotions, commands, etc., between sentient agents.
Language (n.) Specifically: (computers) Any set of symbols and the rules for combining them which are used to specify to a computer the actions that it is to take; also referred to as a computer lanugage or programming language; as, JAVA is a new and flexible high-level language which has achieved popularity very rapidly.
Note: Computer languages are classed a low-level if each instruction specifies only one operation of the computer, or high-level if each instruction may specify a complex combination of operations. Machine language and assembly language are low-level computer languages. FORTRAN, COBOL and C are high-level computer languages. Other computer languages, such as JAVA, allow even more complex combinations of low-level operations to be performed with a single command. Many programs, such as databases, are supplied with special languages adapted to manipulate the objects of concern for that specific program. These are also high-level languages.
Language master, A teacher of languages. [Obs.]
Syn: Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction; discourse; conversation; talk.
Usage: Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect. Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the language of articulate sounds; tongue is the Anglo-Saxon term for language, esp. for spoken language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; dialects are varieties of expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same language.
Languaged (imp. & p. p.) of Language.
Languaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Language.
Language (v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.
Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. -- Fuller.
Language (n.) A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" [syn: language, linguistic communication].
Language (n.) (Language) Communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets" [syn: speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication].
Language (n.) The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language" [syn: lyric, words, language].
Language (n.) The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have the language to express his feelings" [syn: linguistic process, language].
Language (n.) The mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" [syn: language, speech].
Language (n.) A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology" [syn: terminology, nomenclature, language].
Language, () Programming language.
Language, () Natural language.
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Language (n.) The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
Languaged (a.) Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Many-languaged nations." -- Pope.
Languageless (a.) Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. -- Shak.
Langued (a.) (Her.) Tongued; having the tongue visible.
Lions . . . represented as armed and langued gules. -- Cussans.
Langue d'oc () The dialect, closely akin to French, formerly spoken south of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oc); Provencal.
Langue d'oil () The dialect formerly spoken north of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oil, F. oui).
Languente (adv.) In a languishing manner; pathetically.
Languet (n.) Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.
Languet (n.) That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.
Languid (a.) Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
Languid (a.) Slow in progress; tardy.
Languid (a.) Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.
Languished (imp. & p. p.) of Languish.
Languishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Languish.
Languish (v. i.) To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.
Languish (v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.
Languish (v. i.) To cause to droop or pine.
Languish (n.) See Languishiment.
Languisher (n.) One who languishes.
Languishing (a.) Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.
Languishing (a.) Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.
Languishingly (adv.) In a languishing manner.
Languishment (n.) The state of languishing.
Languishment (n.) Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
Languishness (n.) Languishment.
Languor (n.) A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
Languor (n.) Any enfeebling disease.
Languor (n.) Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope.
Languorous (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.
Langure (v. i.) To languish.
Langya (n.) One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes.
Laniard (n.) See Lanyard.
Laniariform (a.) Shaped like a laniary, or canine, tooth.
Laniary (a.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.
Laniary (a.) The shambles; a place of slaughter.
Laniary (a.) A laniary, or canine, tooth.
Laniate (v. t.) To tear in pieces.
Laniation (n.) A tearing in pieces.
Lanier (n.) A thong of leather; a whip lash.
Lanier (n.) A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like.
Laniferous (n.) Bearing or producing wool.
Lanifical (a.) Working in wool.
Lanifice (n.) Anything made of wool.
Lanigerous (a.) Bearing or producing wool.
Lanioid (a.) Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidae).
Lank (a.) 瘦的，瘦長的；（頭髮）平直的，不鬈曲的 Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
Meager and lank with fasting grown. -- Swift.
Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? -- Barrow.
Lank (a.) Languid; drooping. [Obs.]
Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -- Milton.
{Lank hair}, Long, thin hair. -- Macaulay.
Lank (v. i. & t.) To become lank; to make lank. [Obs.] -- Shak. -- G. Fletcher.
Lank (a.) Long and thin and often limp; "grown lank with fasting"; "lank mousy hair."
Lank (a.) Long and lean [syn: {lank}, {spindly}].
Lankiness (n.) The condition or quality or being lanky.
Lankly (adv.) In a lank manner.
Lankness (n.) The state or quality of being lank.
Lanky (a.) Somewhat lank.
Lanner (n. m.) Alt. of Lanneret.
Lanneret (n. m.) A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.
Lanolin (n.) A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.
Lanseh (n.) The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste.
Lansquenet (n.) A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.
Lansquenet (n.) A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet.
Lant (n.) Urine.
Lant (n.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.
Lant (n.) See Lanterloo.
Lantanium (n.) Alt. of Lantanum.
Lantanum (n.) See Lanthanum.
Lantanuric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.
Lanterloo (n.) An old name of loo (a).
Lantern (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
Lantern (n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
Lantern (n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
Lantern (n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
Lantern (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.
Lantern (n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
Lantern (n.) See Aristotle's lantern.
Lanterned (imp. & p. p.) of Lantern.
Lanterning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lantern.
Lantern (v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.
Lantern-jawed (a.) Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.
Lanthanite (n.) Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals.