Lay"ship (?), n. The condition of being a layman. [Obs.] Milton.
Lay"stall` (?), n. 1. A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or
deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson.
Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth.
Bacon.
2. A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market
are lodged. [Obs.]
La"zar (?), n. [OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20.] A
person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Chaucer.
Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay.
Spenser.
Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.
{ Laz`a*ret" (?), Laz`a*ret"to (?), } n. [F. lazaret, or It.
lazzeretto, fr. Lazarus. See Lazar.] A public building, hospital, or
pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those
affected with contagious diseases.
{ Laz"a*rist (?), Laz"a*rite (?), } n. (R. C. Ch.) One of the
Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute
founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or
Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied
by them until 1792.
{ La"zar*like` (?), La"zar*ly (?), } a. Full of sores; leprous. Shak.
Bp. Hall.
Laz`a*ro"ni (?), n. pl. See Lazzaroni.
La"zar*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) Laserwort.
Laze (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lazed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lazing.] [See
Lazy.] To be lazy or idle. [Colloq.] Middleton.
Laze, v. t. To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to
laze away whole days. [Colloq.]
La"zi*ly (?), adv. In a lazy manner. Locke.
La"zi*ness, n. The state or quality of being lazy.
Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.
Franklin.
Laz"u*li (?), n. [F. & NL. lapis lazuli, LL. lazulus, lazurius, lazur
from the same Oriental source as E. azure. See Azure.] (Min.) A mineral
of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is
essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium
sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron,
and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and
Armenian stone.
Laz"u*lite (?), n. [From lazuli : cf. F. lazulite, G. lazulith.] (Min.)
A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or
in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina
and magnesia.
La"zy (?), a. [Compar. Lazier (?); superl. Laziest.] [OE. lasie,
laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. F. las tired, L. lassus, akin to E.
late; or cf. LG. losig, lesig.] 1. Disinclined to action or exertion;
averse to labor; idle; shirking work. Bacon.
2. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night
owl's lazy flight." Shak.