3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in
distinction from those belonging to it.
||La*ka"o (?), n. Sap green. [China]
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Lake (lk), n. [F. laque, fr. Per. See Lac.] A pigment formed by
combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a
metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake;
Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
Lake, n. [Cf. G. laken.] A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Lake (lk), v. i. [AS. lcan, læcan, to spring, jump, lc play, sport, or
fr. Icel. leika to play, sport; both akin to Goth. laikan to dance.
√120. Cf. Knowledge.] To play; to sport. [Prov. Eng.]
Lake, n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea, Icel. lögr;
OIr. loch; cf. Gr. la`kkos pond, tank. Cf. Loch, Lough.] A large body
of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied
from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the
Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean.
Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which
inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on
piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are
common in the lakes of Switzerland. -- Lake dwellings (Archæol.),
dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude
foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of
prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes.
Called also lacustrine dwellings. See Crannog. -- Lake fly (Zoöl.), any
one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Chironomus. In
form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvæ live in
lakes. -- Lake herring (Zoöl.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii). -- Lake
poets, Lake school, a collective name originally applied in contempt,
but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in
the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were
classed with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and lakists.
-- Lake sturgeon (Zoöl.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus), of
moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It
is used as food. -- Lake trout (Zoöl.), any one of several species of
trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United States,
esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in
New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout (S.
fontinalis), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake
trout. See Namaycush. -- Lake whitefish. (Zoöl.) See Whitefish. -- Lake
whiting (Zoöl.), an American whitefish (Coregonus Labradoricus), found
in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more
slender than the common whitefish.
Lake"-dwell`er (?), n. See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
Lake"let (?), n. A little lake. Southey.
Lake"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an
aquatic plant of Europe and North America.
||Lakh (?), n. Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.
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La"kin (?), n. See Ladykin.
Lak"ke (?), n. & v. See Lack. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Lak"y (?), a. Pertaining to a lake. Sir W. Scott.
Lak"y, a. [From Lake the pigment.] Transparent; -- said of blood
rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red
blood corpuscles.
Lal*la"tion (?), n. [L. lallare to sing lalla, or lullaby: cf. F.
lallation.] An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it
sounds like l.
La"lo (?), n. The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the
Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered
sassafras. Cf. Couscous.
Lam (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lammed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lamming.]
[Icel. lemja to beat, or lama to bruise, both fr. lami, lama, lame. See
Lame.] To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low] Beau. & Fl.
La"ma (?; 277), n. (Zoöl.) See Llama.
La"ma, n. [Thibet. blama (pronounced lä"ma) a chief, a high priest.] In
Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism.
The Grand Lama, or Dalai Lama [lit., Ocean Lama], the supreme pontiff
in the lamaistic hierarchy. See Lamaism.
La"ma*ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Lamaism.
La"ma*ism (?), n. A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet,
Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name
of its priests. See 2d Lama.
{ La"ma*ist (?), La"ma*ite (?) } n. One who believes in Lamaism.
La`ma*is"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Lamaism.
La*man"tin (?), n. [F. lamantin, lamentin, prob. from the name of the
animal in the Antilles. Cf. Manater.] (Zoöl.) The manatee. [Written
also lamentin, and lamantine.]
La*marck"i*an (?), a. Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of
Lamarckianism.
La*marck"i*an*ism (?), n. (Biol.) Lamarckism.
La"marck"ism (?), n. [From Lamarck, a distinguished French naturalist.]
(Biol.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of
species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct
influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals,
by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.
La"ma*ser*y (?), n. [See 2d Lama.] A monastery or convent of lamas, in
Thibet, Mongolia, etc.
Lamb (lm), n. [AS. lamb; akin to D. & Dan. lam, G. & Sw. lamm, OS.,
Goth., & Icel. lamb.] 1. (Zoöl.) The young of the sheep.