Sick men with divers languors.
Wyclif (Luke iv. 40).
3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. " German dreams, Italian
languors." The Century.
Syn. -- Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness;
heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.
Lan"guor*ous (?), a. [From Languor: cf. F. langoureux.] Producing, or
tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. [Obs. or Poetic]
Whom late I left in languorous constraint.
Spenser.
To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from
pain.
Tennyson.
Lan"gure (?), v. i. To languish. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Lan"gya (?), n. (Zoöl.) [Native name Anglicized.] One of several
species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus
Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and
for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes.
Lan"iard (?), n. See Lanyard.
La`ni*ar"i*form (?), a. [Laniary + -form.] (Anat.) Shaped like a
laniary, or canine, tooth. Owen.
La"ni*a*ry (?), a. [L. laniarius, fr. lanius butcher, laniare to tear
in pieces: cf. F. laniaire.] (Anat.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the
laniary canine teeth.