List of Old English Words in the OED/LA

Old English	sb	English
La	excl	An exclamation, formerly used to introduce or accompany a conventional phrase, an address or statement; in recent use, an expression of surprise. Now only dialect, vulgar or archaic. 2. repeated as an expression of derision. 3. see "Lo"
Ladder	n	An appliance consisting of two poles or rungs connected by cross bars used for climbing
Laddered	adj	Furnished with a ladder. 2. of a rope made into a ladder. 3. gradational.
Ladderless	adj	Having no ladder.
Ladder-like	adj	Resembling a lady; gradational.
Ladder-work	n	Work done with the help of a ladder; as, house pianting.
Ladderwort	n	Polygonatum multiflorium; polemonium caeruleuum. 2. Ladder-to-Heaven.
Lade	n	Load, ship, burden, lading.
Lade	n	OE. (northern form of lode) - a channel constructed for leading water to the mill; a mill race. 2. watercourse; a mouth of a river.
Lade	vb	To load, put cargo on a boat.
Ladeful	adj	As much cargo as a ship can hold.
Lademan	n	One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant.
Laden	adj	Burdened, loaded,
Ladened	adj	Laden, loaded.
Lader	n	One who loads cargo on a ship.
Ladies first	phr	A phrase encouraging polite gentlemanliness, allowing the ladies to go before the men.
Ladies' man	n	A man who attracts women and enjoys their company, 2. a womanizer.
Ladies' night	n	A function for women only. 2. a function where women are admitted free or for a small entry-fee.
Ladies' room	n	A rest-room for women.
Ladies' wear	n	Women's clothing.
Lading	n	The action of loading. 2. shipment, cargo, freight
Ladle	n	Spoon with a long handle and a large bowl
Ladle	vb	To fit up a water-mill with ladle-boards.
Ladleful	adj	Sufficient quantity to fill a ladle.
Ladler	n	One who transports molten lead in a ladle.
Ladle-shaped	adj	Resembling a ladle in shape.
Lady	n	Feminine head of the household
Lady	phr	"Lady Of the House" - housewife.
Lady	phr	"Lady of the Night" - prostitute, harlot, harridan, skanky ho.
Lady	phr	"Lady of the Thimble" - sewer, seamstress.
Lady	phr	"Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" - The Bank of England.
Ladybird	n	Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles.
Lady-bower	n	The Clematis.
Ladydom	n	The world of women collectively.
Ladyfinger	n	A small sponge cake, shaped like a finger.
Lady-friend	n	A female friend (used to avoid the possible ambiguity of the term 'girlfriend'). 2. a more quaint term for girlfriend, often used ironically.
Ladyhood	n	State or quality of having a lady; the quality pertaining to a lady. 2. ladies collectively, domain or realm of ladies.
Ladyish	adj	Characteristic of a lady.
Ladyless	adj	Having no lady; unaccompanied by a lady.
Lady-like	adj	Condition of being a lady; having qualities pertaining to a lady:feminine, discreet and graceful. 2. of or connected to the appearance or behavior of a well-mannered lady; ladyly. 3. of a man: effeminate.
Lady-likeness	n	Lady-like behavior.
Lady-love	n	A lady who is loved; a sweetheart. 2. love for ladies.
Ladyly	adv	Manner befitting a lady; as a lady.
Ladymonger	n	A womanizer; a casanova, a romeo. (a monger of ladies)
Ladyness	n	State or quality of being a lady.
Lady of the Night	n	Prostitute.
Ladyship	n	The condition of being a lady. 2. having the personality of a lady. 3. having kindness befitting a lady. 4. a term of respect for a woman of the peerage without using her title. 5. a formal form of an address for a lady judge. 6. a district governed by a lady.
Lady's man	n	A man who is devoted to female society; a Casanova
Lady-smock	n	The cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis
Lady's thumb	n	The invasive perennial place of the knotweed family, persiciana maculosa.
Lady-thimble	n	The harebell, the foxglove
Laen	n	An estate held in benefice.
Laen-right	n	A beneficial right
Laet	n	OE. term for a person of status intermediate between that of a freeman and a slave
Lahler	n	OE: (lean) - to blame; a vice, sin.
Laid-back	adj	Relaxed and easy-going; an absence of stress or worry.
Laid-off	adj	(Of a bet, amount of money) bet with another bookmaker to reduce risk off loss. 2. made unemployed or redundant.
Laid-up	adj	Unable to move normally due to illness or injury, especially when confined to bed. 2. stored at a dock or other place of safety and security.
Lain	n	Concealment, silence about, disguise.
Lain	vb	To conceal, hide, be silent about, disguise a fact.
Lain	phr	"Not a Lain" - not concealed.
Laining	n	The action of concealing, being silent about, disguising.
Lair	n	The action or fact of lying down. 2. the resting place of a corpse: a tomb, a grave, plot in a graveyard. 3. that place whereon one lies down to sleep, a bed, couch etc. 4. place for animals to lie down, esp. for beasts of prey. 5. native soil. 5. a lying with a person; fornication, as 'siblair' - incest.
Lair	phr	"At Lair" - in or on a bed. 2. an animal in his lair.
Laird	n	A form of lord. a landed proprietor, originally one who held land immediately from the King.
Lairdship	n	The condition of estate of a laird
Lair-holder	n	A holder of a grave.
Lair-stall	n	An enclosure for farm animals to sleep in.
Lair-stead	n	A grave within a church. 2. a graveyard, cemetery.
Lairstone	n	A gravestone.
Lair-stow	n	An enclosure for farm animals to sleep in.
Lairwite	n	A fine for fornication or adultery; esp. with the Lord's bondswoman.
Lairy	adj	Earthly, filthy.
Lait	n	Lightning, flash of fire.
Lait	vb	To flash, light, glean.
Laiting	n	Lightning.
Lake	n	Play, sport, fun. 2. pl: tricks, games. 3. a fight, contest.
Lake	n	"A body of water," early 12c., from Old Frenchh lack and directly from Latin lacus "pond, lake," also "basin, tank," There was a Germanic form of the word, which yielded cognate Old Norse lögr "sea flood, water," Old English lacu "stream," lagu "sea flood, water," leccan ". In Middle English, lake, as a descendant of the Old English word, also could mean "stream; river gully; ditch; marsh; grave; pit of hell," and this might have influenced the form of the borrowed word.
Lake	vb	OE. "lacan' -to exert oneself, move quickly, leap, spring; hence, to fight. 2. to play sport; to play (sometimes) in an amorous or obscene sense. 3. take a holiday from work; to be out of work.
Lake-dwelling	adj	A prehistoric structure, built over shallow water, such as a lake or a marsh, supported on piles or artificial mounds of earth or wood.
Lake-frith	n	The close-time for fishing in a stream.
Lakehouse	n	A house whose grounds border a lake.
Lakeless	adj	Without a lake or lakes.
Lakelike	adj	Resembling a lake or some aspect of.
Lakeside	n	The grounds near the edge of a lake.
Lakeside	adj	On the side of a lake.
Lakewards	adj	Towards the direction of a lake.
Lakewide	adj	Throughout a lake.
Lamb	n	The young of a sheep. 2. a young member of a flock, esp of the church (OE). 3. simpleton. 4. flesh of a lamb for food
Lamb	vb	To bring forth or to give birth to a lamb. 2. of a shepherd to attend ewes at lambing lambs time.
Lamb	phr	"Lamb of God" - a title of Christ.
Lambcote	n	An enclosure for lambs.
Lambfold	n	An enclosure for keeping lambs; a sheepfold.
Lambhood	n	The state of being a lamb. 2. the youth of a sheep.
Lambing	n	The parturition of yeaning of lambs. 2. of a lamb: birth, time of birth. 3. of a ewe: breeding, with young.
Lambish	adj	Lamb-like, meek, gentle as a lamb.
Lambless	adj	Without a lamb or lambs.
Lamb-like	adj	Having lamb-like qualities. 2. meek, gentle, submissive.
Lambly	adj	Resembling that of a lamb; lamb-like.
Lamb's tongue	n	A name for a species of plantain, (arnoglossa).
Lamb's-wool	n	The wool of lambs, used for hosiery, etc., clothing material made of this.
Lambly	adj	In a gentle, docile manner.
Lamby	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a lamb or the meat of a lamb.
Lame	adj	Crippled through injury, weak, infirmed, paralysed. 2. a defect in a limb, esp. in the foot or leg. 3. unable to walk, maimed, halting, imperfect or defective (also fig.) 3. of verse, argument, excuse, account: halting, metrically deficient.
Lame	n	Infirmity, paralysis. 2. (sl) a socially unskilled person; one not skilled in the behavior patterns of a particular group.
Lame	vb	To make lame, cripple, maim, disable.
Lame-born	adj	Crippled, infirmed, disabled from birth.
Lame-brain	n	Fool, simpleton, idiot.
Lame duck	n	Disabled or ineffectual person, weak, vulnerable.
Lameish	adj	Somewhat lame or crippled.
Lameling	n	One who is lame.
Lamely	adv	In a lame manner or way.
Lameness	n	State or condition of being lame.
Lamer	n	One who is lame.
Lammas	n	Lamb's mass, held on the first of august in the early English church; a harvest festival at which loaves of bread made from the first ripe corn were consecrated.
Lammas	n	Latter Lammas: a day that will never come (jocular).
Land	n	The solid portion of the earth surface, as opposed to the sea or water. 2. ground or soil. 3. country or territory. 4. realm, domain; country as opposed to town. 5. expanse of country of undefined extent. 6. a building divided into flats or tenements for different households. 7. the space between the grooves of a rifle bore. 8. the space between the furrows of a millstone. Phrase: How the land lies: the state of affairs.
Land	vb	To bring to land; set ashore, come ashore, disembark or arrive at a place from a journey. 2. to set down from a vehicle; land an aircraft or come to ground; to alight upon the ground, e.g. from a vehicle, after a jump. 3. to lower onto a deck. 4. to bring a horse "home" to the winning-post; to land a winner. 5. to catch on rod or net a fish. 6. to get a blow "home" or succeed in punching or landing a blow on another. 7. to win a bet and with it a large sum of money. 8. to fill or block up with earth. 9. lit & fig. - to arrive at a place; a stage in a journey, etc. to end in something.
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Land	phr	How the Land Lies: the state of affairs.
Land	phr	"Land Down Under" - nickname for Australia.
Land	phr	"Land of the Free" - The USA.
Land	phr	"Land of the Living" - the present life.
Land	phr	"Land of the Long White Cloud" - the country of New Zealand, probably in reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after a sea voyage.
Land	phr	"Land of the Midnight (or Rising) Sun" - Japan.
Land	phr	"Land One's Feet" - to be lucky, or successful, often in difficult situations.
Land-bird	n	Cormorant
Landbound	adj	Restricted to the land, unable to enter the sea or sky.
Landbridge	n	An isthmus (land bridge) or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses. 2. a ferry, hovercrafrt etc. that connects cities or ports, such as the ones that operate between Ireland, England and France.
Land-buyer	n	One who buys land for purpose use or as an occupation.
Landcrab	n	A land-based crab.
Land-Down-Under	n	Nickname for Australia.
Landed	adj	Consisting of land; consisting of or in the possession of a land; derived from the ownership of land. 2. possessed of land, consisting of land, having estate in land.
Lander	n	A spacecraft, especially a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another planet. 2. an illegal immigrant.
Landfall	n	An approach to or sighting of land; esp. for the first time in a sea voyage. 2. A sudden transference or conveyance of land by the death of a wealthy or rich person.
Landfall	n	"A Good Landfall" - to land in accordance with one's reckoning.
Landfall	phr	"To Make Landfall" - to reach land or the shore; to be on tera firma.
Land-flood	n	Overflowing of land by water from inland sources, such as a swollen river.
Land-fyrd	n	Army, military force.
Land-gate	n	A way or passage through, over or across land.
Land-gavel	n	land tribute, land tax, rent for land, ground-rent
Land-holder	n	Proprietor or occupier of land, (as opposed to landowner). 2. a tenant holding land of a proprietor.
Land-hunger	n	Keenness to acquire land, land hungry, colonialism
Land-ice	n	Ice attached to the shore, as opposed to floe.
Landimere	n	Boundary of land or region; landmere.
Landing	n	Disembarkation, arrival, coming to ground at the end of a voyage. 2 a landing place or spot. 3. platform at the top of the stairs; a landing. 4. a place or spot where fisherman reels in or lands his catch. 5. a stopping place or landing for a cage in a mining shaft; or for a train.
Landing	phr	"Landing Up" - blocking of a waterway by mud or earth. 2. the earthing-up of plants.
Landing-craft	n	Landingcraft, a type of flat-bottomed military boat used to transport infantry and vehicles onto a shore during an attack or assault from the sea. 2. a landing-ship.
Landing-field	n	A runway or area for planes to land.
Landing-ship	n	Landingship, a sea-going, military, light ferry designed to asault shores taht held against them, and disembark forces directly onto the shore.
Landing-speed	n	The speed that a plane can safely land.
Landing-waiter	n	A customs officer who supervises the landing of goods and examines them.
Landish	adj	Belonging to a land or country; native. 2. of a commons or common people.
Landlady	n	A woman who manages a boarding-house, inn or lodging-rooms. 2. a gentleman housekeeper; a cuckold. 3. a mistress, (fig).; a paramour
Landladydom	n	The realm or domain of a lady.
Landladyhood	n	the position or dignity of a landlady; landladyship.
Landladyish	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a landlady.
Landladyship	n	Position or characteristic of a landlady; the tenure of such a position.
Landlaw	n	The law of a land or country. 2. a law, or law, relating to land.
Land-lead	n	A navigable opening in the ice along the shore.
Landless	adj	Having no land; without land.
Landlessness	n	State or condition of being landless.
Land-line	n	The outline of the land against the sky and the sea; the horizon. 2. national boundaries; a country border
Landlocked	adj	Shut in or enclosed by land, (or borders). 2. transfig, of fish living in lakes and inland seas, so as to be shut off from the sea. Also pp. to be landlocked.
Landlord	n.	Lord or owner of land; in recorded use only spec. the person who lets land to the tenant. 2. a person of whom another person holds any tenement, whether a piece of land or building. 3. innkeeper, the keeper of a lodging house. 4. a host (in private).
Landman	n	A peasant, rustic, up-country-man. 2. a man having land and property
Land mark	n	The boundary of a country, estate, etc. 2. an object set up to mark the boundary line; a land mark. 3. an object or land mark set up to mark a boundary line. 4. a conspicuous object in the landscape, which serves as a guide; any prominent object in a district. 5. a object associated with some event or stage in a process, esp. an event which marks the period or turning point in history.
Landmere	n	Boundary of land, country, region, landmere.
Landmonger	n	Real-estate agent; realtor
Land-owner	n	An owner or proprietor of land. 2.
Land-owning	n	The state of owning land.
Land-ownership	n	The state or position of a landowner. 2. the land belonging to an owner; a smal holding.
Land-rat	n	A rat that lives on the land. 2. A realtor or real estate agent. 3. landsharp.
Land-reeve	n	Subordinate officer on an estate who acts as an assistant to a land-steward.
Landright	n	Laws of the land; legal rights of the natives of a land or country. 2. legal obligation connected with land or estate.
Land-score	n	Division of land.
Land scot	n	A tax on land.
Land's end	n	Extremities of a land or country.
Land sharp	n	One who preys on the gullible and inexperienced in the buying and selling of land; a land-rat; a land-shark. 2. A realtor or real estate agent.
Land-side	n	The side towards the land, the landward. 2. the flat of a plough, which is turned towards the unploughed land.
Landskip	n	Landscape (rare or regional).
Landslide	n	Landslip; the moving of land on a cliff side or mountain; land which has so fallen. 2. a great majority of votes, overwhelming esp. in an election victory.
Landsman	n	A native of a particular country. 2. one's fellow countryman. 3. one who lives and has business on land, as opposed to seaman.
Landsnail	n	A species of snail that lives on the land.
Land-speech	n	A language, speech, tongue of a land or country.
Land-speed	n	The speed of a craft relative to the ground. 2. the speed on the ground of a motor vehicle.
Land-stall	n	A staith, wharf or a landing place.
Land-steward	n	One who mnages an estate for a landowner
Landstream	n	A current in the sea due to river waters
Landswell	n	Roll of the water near the shore.
Landward	adj	Pertaining to the land, as opposed to the country. 2. situated towards the land (as opposed to the sea. 3. belonging to the land.
Landward	adv	Towards the land; landwards.
Landwardness	n	State or quality of rusticity.
Land wash	n	The wash of the tide near the shore
Land-water	n	Water that flows through or over a land as opposed to the sea water. 2. a land flood. 3. a land flood. 4. water free from ice or a frozen shore.
Landway	n	A way or path over land. 2. a road giving access to land.
Landways	adv	By land; over land.
Landwinkle	n	A snail
Land-worthiness	n	Fitness of land to be traveled over.
Lane	n	A narrow way between .two hedges or banks. 2. a narrow road or street between houses or walls. 3. a bye-way. 4 course prescribed for ocean-going vessels. 4. a channel of water in an ice-field. 5. (slang): the throat.
Lane	vb	To mark the course of intended roads. 2. to mark the roads on land.
Lane	phr	"The Narrow Red Lane" - the throat.
Lane-born	adj	Rustic.
Laneway	n	A narrow road, a laneway.
Laney	adj	Of or pertaining to a land.
Lank	n	OE: hlanc; loose from emptiness; not plump; shrunken, spare, flabby, hollow. 2. of grass: long and flaccid. 3. of hair; not wavy, straight and flat. 4. leanness, scarcity, thinness.
Lank	vb	To make or become lank.
Lankish	adj	Somewhat lank.
Lankly	adv	In a lankly manner.
Lankness	n	The state or quality of being lank.
Lant	n	OE. hland; urine, chamber-lye.
Lant	vb	To mingle with lant.
Lap	n	The part of the body from the knees to the waist. 2. a fold of skin or flesh. 3. fold of the robe over the breast, hence the bosom. 4. hollow among the hills.
Lap	vb	To take up liquid with the tongue, usu. of animals. 2. to drink greedily. 3. of liquids, water: to move with a sound like that made in lapping. 4. to beat upon the shore with a lapping sound: the sound of wavelets on the beach.
Lap	vb	To foil, coil, wrap a garment. 2. fold up, roll up, wrap in, swathe, clothe, bind up, tie around. 3. to involve, to imply, implicate, include. 4. to wrap up in a disguise. 5. to fold caressingly, to nurse, fondle, to surround with care. 6. to enfold, surround, esp. in a soothing, stupefying or seductive effect. 7. to lay something over another. 8. to come partly alongside. 9. to get one or more laps ahead of another.
Lap	phr	"Drop Something in the Lap Of" - to shift the burden or difficulty to someone else. 2. left in the lap of; left in the lurch.
Lap	phr	"Fall Into the Lap Of" - to come within the reach or into the power of.
Lap	phr	"In the Lap Of the God" - a situation one cannot control what will happen and depend on only on good luck.
Lap	phr	"Lap Into Something" - to project into (something).
Lap	phr	"Lap Over" - to project beyond something else, forming a lap or flap; fig. to extend beyond some limit.
Lap-belt	n	A seat belt in vehicles that holds only near the lap, not like the sash belt which holds fromn waist across the body above the shoulders.
Lap-board	n	A board which to lay on the lap, as a substitute for a table.
Lap-dog	n	A small dog, kept as a household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament made it both suited and deposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner. 2. (idiom) a person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover. 3. a sycophant, a toady.
Lapful	n	As much as one's lap can hold.
Laplike	adj	Resembling a lap or some aspect of it.
Lapling	n	One who has been fondled to excess. 2. one fond of ease and sensual delights (derogatory).
Lapstone	n	A stone that shoemakers lay in their laps to beat leather upon.
Laptop	n	Of a computer: small and light enough to be used on one's lap.
Lapwing	n	Bird of the plover family, Vannelus vulgaris, also called the peewit.
Lapwork	n	Work which one part overlaps another 2. in sport, training for sport which involves doing lapwork (running laps)to build up physical strength and enduarance.
Lark	n	Generic name for any bird of the family Alaudine. 2. a person who frolics and plays. 3. a frolic, a spree, a tease, a playing around, jocosity. 2. a business, matter, affair.
Lark	vb	To frolic, play tricks, tease sportively. 2. to ride across the country.
Lark	phr	"Make a Lark Of" - be frolicsome. 2.
Larkiness	n	The quality of being larky, sportiveness.
Larking	n	The process of catching larks. 2. frolicsome, sportive.
Larkish	adj	Somewhat frolicsome, sportive.
Larkishness	n	The state or quality of being larkish.
Larksome	adj	Giving to larking, sportive.
Larky	adj	Inclined or ready for a lark. 2. inclined or ready for a lark, frolicsome, sportive.
Last	n	Shoemaker's or Laster's last: a wooden model of the foot, on which shoemakers shape boots and shoes. 2. a load, burden, weight carried. 3. a commercial denomination of weight, capacity or quality varying for different goods and localities, as in a last of cod herrings which is twelve barrels. 4. (obsolete) an old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.  5. a load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value a huge indefinite number of something.
Last	n	The name of an administrative assembly.
Last	adj	Following all others in a series, order etc. 2. subsequent to all others in occurrence, existence, endurance. 3. supreme; highest in degree; utmost. 4. the lowest, reaching an ultimate limit; lowest in rank or degree.. 5. final, conclusive. 6. in combinations, last-brood; denoting young salmon at a certain stage stage of growth. 7. final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. 8. most recent, latest, last so far.  9. farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. 10. being the only one remaining of its class.
Last	vb	(Obs): to perform, carry out. 2. to endure, continue over time.  3. to hold out, continue undefeated or entire. 4. continue; endure; survive, finish, stay, press on, power on.
Last	vb	To shape on a last. 2. to fasten or fit on a last. 3. to place something on a last.
Last ‎	adv	Most recently. 2. (sequence) after everything else; finally; lastly.
Last	phr	"At Last" : finally, at the end.
Last	phr	"Last Burst of Fire" - a final effort, a final attempt before ceasing.
Last	phr	"Last But Not Least" - an expression emphasizing that something or someone may be last, it or he/she is as important as the rest of things.
Last	phr	"Last Ditch Stand" - a final, desperate attempt or effort before quitting. 2. an effort or striving that is made at the end of a series of failures to solve a problem, and is not expected to end successfully. In the sixteenth century, when an army attacked a walled city or fortress, they would advance by digging a series of trenches for protection until they were close enough to storm the walls. If there was a successful counter-attack, the invaders would retreat by attempting to hold each trench in the reverse order from which they had gone forward until they might find themselves fighting from the 'last ditch.' If they failed to hold that one, the battle was lost.
Last	phr	"Last in, First In" - of or pertaining to any situation where the last to arrive or join is the first to go. 2. in data structure where the most recently added item is the first to be retrieved.
Last	phr	"Last Thing One Needs" - something not wanted by someone, who is already heavily burdened down.
Last	phr	"Last Through" - defy, endure, outlast, resist, stand, suffer, withstand, brave, cope with
Last	phr	"The Four Last Things" - death, judgement , heaven and hell.
Last	phr	"The Last Day" - yesterday.
Last	phr	"The Last Days" - the closing period of life or history of a person, etc.; also the days including and immediately preceding the day of judgement.
Last	phr	"Till the Last" - up to or until the end; esp. of life, to the point of death.
Last	phr	"To Breathe One's Last" - to die, pass away, expire.
Last	phr	"To Look One's Last On" - to have one's last look at something or someone.
Last	phr	"To The Last" - up to the end, of life, death; till the last.
Last-born	adj	Born last in the family. 2. youngest in the family. 3. fig. younger than anyone else in the group.
Last eight	n	In sport, a quarter-final match.
Last four	n	In sport, a semi-final match or contest.
Lastful	adj	Helpful, serviceable.
Lasting	n	The action of continuance, duration, permanence. 2. staying power.
Lasting	n	The action of shaping a boot or shoe on a last.
Lasting	adj	Continuing, enduring, permanent. 2. durable; (sl): having staying power.
Lastingly	adv	In a lasting manner; in a way that persists.
Lastingness	n	The property of lasting; duration, permanence.
Lastly	adv	At the end, in the last instance; ultimately. 2. conclusively, finaly. 3. very lately, latterly, recently.
Last meal	n	A final meal that a prisoner has before execution.
Last name	n	A surname.
Lastness	n	The position of being or coming last, finally.
Lastness	adv	After the deadline has passed. 2. past a designated time. 3. formerly, esp. in the context of service in a military unit.
Last night	n	The evening or night immediately before the present.
Last straw	n	(idiom) - a small addition or change to a burden which causes it to make it beyond the capacity (of a doer.) 2. the straw that broke the camel's back.
Last time	n	The ultimate, final or previous occurrence.
Last word	n	Concluding remark; final observation, advice, or instructions (idiom.)  2. (in plural): the final statement uttered by a person before death. 3. (idiomatic) a final decision, or the right to make such a decision.
Last words	n	The final statement uttered by a person before death.(often in plural.)
Latch	n	A fastener for a door or gate.
Latch	vb	To take hold of, grasp, seize (in the hand or claw). 2. to take with force, capture, sieze upon, catch.
Latch	phr	"Latch On" - to grasp firmly. 2. to become attached to.
Latch	phr	"Latch Onto" - to obtain, acquire or get and keep a hold of something. 2. catch on, sieze on, fasten on, take up.
Latching	n	A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail. 2. the situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap.
Latching	adj	Of something that latches.
Latchkey	n	Latch-key, a key especially to an outside door. 2. a latchkey kid.
Latchkey-child	n	A school child who carries keys to his or her house, because there is usually no parent home after school finishes.
Latch-strings	n	A string passed through a hole in a door so that the latch may be raised from the outside.
Late	adj	Coming after or beyond the appointed or proper time. 2. well advanced towards the end of close. 3. at or continuing to a late hour. 4. recent or comparatively recent; a short time back; lately, latterly. 5. passed away or died not long ago. 6. after delay, or at a late hour.
Late	adv	After a deadline has passed, past a designated. 2. formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
Late	phr	"Late On" - at a late stage of something.
Late	phr	"Of Late" - during a comparatively short time extending into the present; recently, lately.
Late-begun	adj	Very late in a matter; at the last mooment.
Late-born	adj	One born to parents later in life than the norm; as 'late-born and long-desired.'
Late-come	adj	Late arriving or at the last moment
Latecomer	n	Late-comer, one who arrives comparatively recently. 2. one who arrived late.
Lated	adj	Belated, too late.
Lateish	adj	Quite or rather late.
Lateish	adv	Quite or rather late.
Late-learned	adj	Learned late in life or at the last momentp; as ' a late-learned skill'.
Lately	adv	Recently, not long ago.
Latemost	adv	Last.
Lateness	n	The quality or condition of being late. 2. slowness, recency.
Late-night	adj	Late in the evening.
Later	adj	More late.
Later	adv	At a later time or period; subsequently.
Later	phr	"Later On' - at a later time, subsequently, hereafter.
Latermore	adv	Later, last.
Lateship	n	Slowness, sluggishness.
Latesome	adj	Backward, slow, sluggish, late.
Latesomeness	n	Tardity, tardiness, belatedness.
Latest	adj	Most late, most recent. 2. most recent.
Latest	n	The most recent thing, the latest, the latest thing, part, information or news.
Latest	phr	"The Latest" - the most recent news, information, piece of news, fashion, fad.
Latest	phr	"At the Latest" - at the most advanced hour or date.
Lateward	adj	Late, slow, backward(said of fruit or crops, and the seasons of the year). 2. pertaining to a late period.
Lateward	adv	Of late, lately, recently. 2. late, after the due time or season. 3. towards the last.
Latewardly	adv	Of late, lately. 2. at a late date.
Late-while	adv	Of late,recently.
Lath	n	A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of s supporting a covering of tiles, plaster, etc.
Lathe	n	One of the administrative districts (five in number) into which Kent is divided, each containing several hundred. 2. in a loom, the swinging beam which beats up the weft.
Lathe	vb	To invite, bid, ask.
Lathe-like	adj	Lathelike, resembling a lathe or some aspect of one.
Lathe-reeve	n	The official charged with the administration of a lathe.
Lathe-silver	n	The chief rent payable to the crown.
Lather	n	Washing soda, OE. only. 2. froth or foam from soap and water. 3. profuse perspiration, esp. frothy sweat of a horse.
Lather	vb	To cover with a lather; to wash in or with a lather. 2. to be covered with foam, now chiefly of a horse. 3. to produce or form a lather or foam. 4. to beat or thrash.
Lathery	adj	Frothy; fig., unsubstantial.
Lathwork	n	A covering of laths.
Lathy	adj	Like a lath; thin or long, esp. said esp of a very thin person. 2. made of lath and (plaster)
Latter	adj	Pertaining to the end of life, or a period, or the world. 2. slower, later, second. 3. second of two, as opposed to form. 4. lattermost; latterday
Latter	adv	Most slowly. 2. latter.
Latter-day	adj	Belonging to the latter-days, modern.
Latter-days	n	Pertaining to the end of life; a temporal sequence or the world.
Latter-end	n	The concluding part (of a period). 2. the end of life ; one's death.
Latterly	adv	Recently, to have occurred a short time before.
Lattermath	n	Aftermath, or secondary result; sequel. 2 the latter or after mowing or harvest; the crop then reaped
Lattermost	adv	Last
Latterness	n	The condition of being latter or subsequent.
Lattew	n	A leader (lode & thew).
Laugh	n	Make sounds normally caused by amusement
Laugh	vb	Make sounds normally caused by amusement. 2. to express amusement, hilarity, derision etc., by expressions of the face and by a series of sounds, made in the chest and throat. 3. to appear happy and animated
Laugh	phr	"Don't Make Me Laugh" - (inforaml) -used to express that one cannot take a suggestion seriously.
Laugh	phr	"Get a Laugh On" - have a laugh at someone's expense.
Laugh	phr	"Have the Last Laugh" - to be finally successful, despite earlier setbacks.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh At" - to deride, make fun of, ridicule; to make an object of laughter or ridicule.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Away" - to let go with a laugh; to get rid of with a laugh. 2. to while away (time) with laughter.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Down" - to subdue or silence with laughter.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh In One's Sleeve" - to laugh to oneself.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Like a Drain" - to laugh with a loud, coarse sound.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Off" - laugh away. 2. to treat lightly, dismiss lightly
Laugh	phr	"Laugh One's Head Off" - to laugh uproariously.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Out" - to laugh in spite of some restraining influence; to laugh aloud.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Over" - to recall or repeat with laughter or mirth.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Someone (Something) Down" - to cause someone to quit or something to end by laughing in ridicule.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Upon" - have a quiet chuckle to oneself over something you consider funny or stupid.
Laugh	phr	"Laugh Up One's Sleeve" - to laugh secretly, or so as not to be observed, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at.
Laugh	phr	"That's a Laugh" - that's ridiculous, not smart or plain stupid.
Laugher	n	Anyone or anything provoking laughter.
Laugh-in	n	A demonstration, event, or situation marked by laughter.
Laughing	n	The action of a laugh.
Laughing	phr	"Burst Out Laughing" - to sudden start laughing intensely.
Laughing-death	n	Kuru or 'laughing-death' is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder endemic to tribal regions of Papua New Guinea. The term "kuru" derives from the Fore word "kuria/guria" ("to shake"); a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the "laughing sickness" due to the pathological bursts of laughter people display when afflicted with the disease. It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism.
Laughing-eyed	adj	Having eyes that reflect happiness (i.e., having eyes that 'laugh').
Laughingly	adv	In laughter of merriment. 2. with derision.
Laugh-maker	n	One who has the ability and skill to make others laugh. 2. comic, comedian.
Laughsome	adj	Addicted to laughter, laughy
Laughster	n	One who laughs or is laughing; a comedian.
Laughing stock	n	A thing or person make sport by all; a butt of ridicule. 2. an object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed.
Laughter	n	The action of laughing.
Laughter-book	n	A joke book.
Laughter-burst	n	A burst of laughter.
Laughterless	adj	Without laughter; unfit for laughter, sad, disappointing. 2. devoid of laughter or merriment.
Laughter-lines	n	The lines, smiling wrinkling on a face.
Laughter-loving	adj	Loving and delighting in laughter and happy times.
Laughworthy	adj	Deserved to be laughed at; ridiculous.
Laughy	adj	Inclined to laugh.
Lave	n	What is left, the remainder, the leftover, the rest.
Lave	vb	OE: a fusion of lafian: to wash by affusion & Latin: lavare: to wash. 2. to wash, bathe. 3.of a body of water: to wash against, to flow along or past. 4. to pour out, with or as a ladle. 5. OE: to draw water up or with a bucket, ladle or scoop. 6. to bale
Laver	n	A water plant. 2. a name for various algae, especially, now, the edible kind.
Law	n	A binding custom or practice of a community : a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority 2. the whole body of such customs, practices, or rules 3. the control brought about by the existence or enforcement of such law 4. the action of laws considered as a means of redressing wrongs; also : litigation 5. the agency of or an agent of established law 6. rule or order that it is advisable or obligatory to observe 7. something compatible with or enforceable by established law 8. control, authority. 9. the revelation of the will of God set forth in the Old Testament 10. the first part of the Jewish scriptures. 11. a rule of construction or procedure (the laws of poetry.) 12. the whole body of laws relating to one subject 13. law as a department of knowledge : jurisprudence 14. legal knowledge. 15.statement of an order or relation of phenomena that so far as is known is invariable under the given conditions. 16. a general relation proved or assumed to hold between mathematical or logical expressions.
Law	vb	To ordain laws; to render lawful. 2. to go to law; litigate. 3. to mutilate an animal so to make it incapable of mischief; to expeditate (a dog).
Law	n	A more or less conical hill. 2. a monumental tumulus of stone.
Law	phr	"At Law": under or within the provisions of the law; enforceable at law
Law	phr	"By My Law" - by my faith.
Law	phr	"Have the Law in One's Own Hands" - to possess the means of redress. 2. to be master of the situation.
Law	phr	"Law of the Land" - customs of a country.
Law	phr	"Law of Kind" - law of nature.
Law	phr	"Law of the Tongue" - appropriate control of one's words.
Law	phr	"Law of Wedlock" - lawfully married.
Law	phr	"Law Unto Oneself" - fig. one who ignores laws or rules. 2. one who has no standard of behavior.
Law	phr	"Take the Law Into One's Own Hands" - to redress one's own grievances.
Law	phr	"The Day of Law" - the day of trial.
Law	phr	"The Law is an Ass" - stupid, slow to keep up with change; must be dragged forward like an ass.
Law	phr	"The Law of God" - the ten commandments.
Law	phr	"The New Law" - the gospel dispensation.
Law	phr	"The Old Law" - the Mosiac dispensation, the law of Moses.
Law	phr	"To Give the Law to" - to exercise absolute or undisputed sway over. 2. to impose one's will on.
Law	phr	"To Go to Law." - to seek a settlement on any matter by bringing before the courts of law; to sue, to prosecute.
Law	n	A more or less conical hill, as the 'North Berwick' law. 2. a monumental tumulus of stone.
Law-abiding	adj	Abiding by, maintaining or submitting to the law.
Law-bearer	n	One who makes and upholds the law of a nation, region or organization
Law-binding	n	Bound by the law.
Law-book	n	A book containing a code of laws. 2. a book treating the law.
Law-breach	n	A breach or breaking of law.
Law-breaker	n	One who breaks or disobeys the law.
Law-breaking	n	The act and action of breaking and violating of the law and laws.
Lawcraft	n	The knowledge, ability and skill required in the practice of law.
Law day	n	Formerly a day of holding court, esp. a court leet. 2. the day named in a mortgage for the payment of the money to secure which it was given.
Lawfare	n	The use of the judicial system against one's foes; often only to attack or condemn a rival. (Based on the words 'law' & 'warfare'.)
Lawful	adj	According or not contrary to the law; permitted by law. 2. permissible, justifiable. 3. appointed, sanctioned or recognized by the law; legally qualified or entitled. 4. of off spring: legitimate. 5. law-abiding, loyal.
Lawfully	adv	Conforming to the law, legally.
Lawfulness	n	The property of obeying the law.
Law-giver	n	One who gives, i.e. makes or promulgates a law, or code of laws. 2. a legislator, law-maker..
Law-giving	n	That gives or makes laws.
Law-goodness	n	The justness and justice of the law.
Law-hand	n	The style of handwriting used for legal documents.
Law-house	n	Court of justice.
Lawing	n	Going or proceeding to litigation.
Lawing	adj	Giving to litigation.
Law-learned	adj	Educated and trained in matters relating to law.
Law-learnedness	n	The state of being learned in matters regarding to law.
Lawless	adj	Without law, ignorant of, or not regulated by law. 2. of a law: not based on right. 3. exempt from law; above or beyond the reach of law. 4. regardless of, or disobedient to law. 5. of passion: unbridled.
Lawlessly	adv	In a lawless manner, without constraint by law or moral code.
Lawlesness	n	A lack of law and order; anarchy.
Law-like	adj	Characteristic of the law.
Law lords	n	Peers in the British parliament who have hold high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal profession.
Lawlore	n	Jurisprudence. legal studies.
Law-loving	adj	Respectful of the law and it's offices.
Lawly	adj	Lawful.
Lawly	adv	In a lawful manner.
Law-maker	n	One who makes the law, a legislator
Law-making	n	Lawmaking, the act of passing or enacting of laws; legislating.
Lawman	n	An officer of the law, esp. a police chief, sheriff.
Law-monger	n	The trade in law, one who practices law as if it were a trade.
Law-work	n	Work involving the law; legal work.
Law-worker	n	One who works in the legal field.
Law-worthy	adj	Worthy or entitled to the laws. 2. of persons: having a standing in the law courts. 3. of things: within the purview of the law; able to be dealt with by a court of law.
Lax	n	The Salmon, in later use, some particular kind of salmon.
Lay	n	That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood. 2. the lay of a rope is right-handed or left-handed according to the hemp or strands are laid up. See: "The lay of land" is its topographical situation, esp. its slope and its surface 3. A wager. 4. A job, price, or profit; a share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; 5. measure of yarn; the lathe of a loom. 6. A plan; a scheme.
Lay	vb	To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave. 2. to place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table. 3. to prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan. 4. to spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint. 5. to cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise. 6. to cause to lie dead or dying. 7. to deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk. 8. to bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs. 9. to apply; to put. 10. To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land. 11. to impute; to charge; to allege. 12. to impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one. 13. to present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one. 14. to state; to allege; as, to lay the venue. 15. to point; to aim; as, to lay a gun. 16.to put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope. 17. in printing: to place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. 18. to place (new type) properly in the cases.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Aback" - to lie back; reverse; incline, bend backwards.
Lay	phr	"To Lay a Blessing Upon" - bless, often by laying hands on.
Lay	phr	"To Lay About" - surround, beset.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Along" - to stretch out at full length. 2. to prostate. 3. destroy, kill.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Abroad" - to spread, to spread out. 2. to set out foe view.
Lay	phr	"To Lay a Name On" - give a name to.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Aside" - to put to one side. 2. to turn aside or away from one's person.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Asleep" -to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless.
Lay	phr	"To Lay At the Door Of" - put something at someone's dooor. 2. fig. to blame a problem on someone; to hold someone responsible for something. (alludes to someone laying incriminating evidence at the door of a guilty person, perhaps in the night.) 2. fig. to give or assign a problem to someone for solving.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Away" - turn aside, bury.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Bare" To make bare; to strip.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Before" - to bring to the sight of, to submit to the consideration of. 3. to set, watch. 4. to set a snare for. 2. to present to; to submit for consideration.
Lay	phr	"To Lay By" - to save. 2. to purchase by installments. 3. to discard.
Lay	phr	"To Lay by the Heels" - to put in the stocks; to punish.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Down" - to put something one is holding or carrying down on the ground. 2. to stake as a wager. 3. to yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay down one's life; to lay down one's arms. 4. to assert or advance, as a proposition or principle.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Fallow" - allow ground or a field to be plowed but not sewn with seed; uncultivated.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Fast" - to set fast, render unable to proceed or escape.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Fast by the Heels/Feet" - to detain another by securing the feet.
Lay	phr	"To Lay For" - to set an ambush or trap for; to waylay. 2. to await a chance for revenge. 3. to set a watch or guard for a place. 4. to set soldier in watch stations along a route. 5. to beset a place with soldiers. 6. to place or locate (a scene).
Lay	phr	"To Lay Forth" : to extend at length; (reflexively) to exert one's self; to expatiate. 2. to lay out (as a corpse). [Obs.]
Lay	phr	"To Lay Hand On" - to seize.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Hands On One's Self" : to lay violent hands on one's self, to injure one's self; specif., to commit suicide.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Heads Together": to consult.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Hold Of" - grasp, seize; to lay hold on; to catch.
Lay	phr	"To Lay In" - to store; to provide.
Lay	phr	"To Lay In Forebode" - to prohibit the use.
Lay	phr	"To Lay In Water" - make nugatory.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Into" - to beat, assault, aim blows sometimes)at, press hard (lit & fig.). 2. to belabor.
Lay	phr	"To Lay It On" - to thrash with a stick; beat soundly. 2. to exaggerate, play with the truth. 3. to apply without stint.
Lay	phr	"To Lay It on Thick" - to flatter excessively.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Low" - stay inconspicuous.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Off" ('Lay Off') - to put away from. 2. take one's fingers off. 3. sack, dismiss from a job, pink-slip.
Lay	phr	"To Lay On" - to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on blows.
Lay	phr	"To Lay On Load" - to lay on blows; to strike violently.
Lay	phr	"To Lay On the Lips" - to kiss.
Lay	phr	"To Lay One's Self Open To" - to expose one's self to, as to an accusation.
Lay	phr	"To Lay One's Self Out" - to strive earnestly.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Open" -to open; to uncover; to expose; to reveal.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Out": 2. to expend. 3. To display; to discover. 4. to plan in detail; to arrange; as, to lay out a garden. 5. to prepare for burial; as, to lay out a corpse. 6. to exert; as, to lay out all one's strength.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Over": to spread over; to cover.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Someone Low" - knock someone down with a punch. 2. of illness: to reduce someone to inactivity and languidness.
Lay	phr	"To Lay the Land" - to cause it to disappear below the horizon, by sailing away from it.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Together" - to copulate.
Lay	phr	"To Lay to Heart" - to feel deeply; to consider earnestly.
Lay	phr	"To Lay To One's Ear" - listen to.
Lay	phr	"To Lay to Sight" - reveal, disclose.
Lay	phr	"To Lay to Sleep" - to put to rest. 2. to bury, inter.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Under" - to subject to; as, to lay under obligation or restraint.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Unto" Same as To lay to (above). 3. to put before.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Up" To store; to put away for future use. 3. to confine; to disable. 4. to dismantle, and retire from active service, as a ship.
Lay	phr	"To Lay Weight Upon" - to emphasize, bring into special prominence, atach importance to.
Lay-about	n	A habitual loafer, idler, vagabond, beggar, tramp.
Lay-day	n	In commerce, the days allowed a ship's lessee for loading and discharging cargo. 2. In marine insurance, the days (usually not beyond 30) while a ship lies idle in port without fires, for which return of insurance premium may be demanded. 3. in general, days when work does not occur; or when workers are idle.
Lay-bed	n	The bed in which something or someone is laid. 2. a grave, burial-place. 3. a stratum, layer.
Layer	n	One who or that which lays. 2. a single horizontal thickness of a course, stratum or coat. 3. a shoot or twig laid in the ground to take root without being attached from the parent plant. 4. in leatherwork, a welt. 5. an artificial oyster bed.
Lay-off	n	The act of firing or discharging workers or employees. 2. a discontinuance of work.
Lay-out	n	A structured arrangement of items within certain limits. 2. a plan for such arrangement. 3. the act of laying out something. 4. (publishing) the process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints. 5. (engineering) a map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
Lay-over	n	A stopover.
Laystall	n	A burial place. 2. a place where refuse and dung are laid.
Lay-up	n	A period during which a person or thing is temporarily out of work.