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, casual and easy-going attitude; an absence of stress or worry. 2. free and easy-going. |
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. |
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. |
Land | sfx | Used to form a name of a territory, country, or region; Greenland, Iceland. |
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 | "Lay of the Land" - the contours of the land. 2. fig. the nature, arrangement or disposition of something. |
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 Finger On Someone or Something" - to touch someone or something, even slightly, as with only a finger. |
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 door. 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 at the Feet Of" - to make or hold someone, esp. a group of people, responsible for something. |
Lay | phr | "To Lay Away" - turn aside, bury. 2. to put something in lawaway (lay-by.) 2. to purchase something by paying part of the price initially and not receiving the goods until the money has been paid in full. |
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 Down the Law" - give instructions in writing or in speech in an authoritative or dogmatic way. |
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 for future use; 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; stop doing, quit. 2. take one's fingers off. 3. sack, dismiss from a job, pink-slip. 4. to terminate the employment of a worker. 5. to mark off or lay off on an area, etc., for a garden or flower bed. |
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 Groundwork" - to create a foundation. 2. provide the basics or fundamentals. |
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 Rest" - to bury one who has died, entomb, inhume, inter. |
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. |
Layaway | n | Lay-away, or lay-by: the purchase of something by paying part of the price initially, and only receiving the goods when the remainder of the money owing is paid in full. |
Lay-about | n | A habitual loafer, idler, vagabond, beggar, tramp. |
Lay-bed | n | The bed in which something or someone is laid. 2. a grave, burial-place. 3. a stratum, layer. |
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. |
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 leather-work, a welt. 5. an artificial oyster bed. |
Layer | vb | To set down in layers. |
Layered | adj | Set out or down in layers. |
Layered-ness | n | The state or condition of being arranged or set in layers. |
Layering | n | A structure made up of layers. |
Layerwise | adv | Set down one layer at a time. |
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. |
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