Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LACK'ER, v.t.

To varnish; to smear over with lacker, for the purpose of improving color or preserving from tarnishing and decay.

LACK'ER-ED, pp.

Covered with lacker; varnished.

LACK'ER-ING, ppr.

Covering with lacker; varnishing.

LACK'EY, n. [Fr. laquais; Sp. lacayo; Port. lacaio; It. lacchè; Eth. ለአከ lak, to send, whence ላከክ lake, a servant; L. lego, to send. From this root is the Shemitic מלאך, a messenger.]

An attending servant; a footboy or footman. – Addison.

LACK'EY, v.i.

To act as footboy; to pay servile attendance. Oft have I servants seen on horses ride, / The free and noble lackey by their side. – Sandys.

LACK'EY, v.t.

To attend servilely. – Milton.

LACK'EY-ED, pp.

Attended servilely.

LACK'ING, ppr.

Wanting; not possessing.

LACK'LIN-EN, a.

Wanting shirts. [Little used.] – Shak.

LACK'LUS-TER, a.

Wanting luster or brightness. – Shak.

LACK'-LUS-TER, n.

A want of luster, or that which wants brightness.

LA-CON'IC, or LA-CON'IC-AL, a. [Fr. laconique; L. laconicus; from Laconia or Lacones, the Spartans.]

1. Short; brief; pithy; sententious; expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Spartans; as, a laconic phrase. Pope.
2. Pertaining to Sparta or Lacedemonia. Trans. of Pausanias. – D'Anville.

LA-CON'IC-AL-LY, adv.

Briefly; concisely; as, a sentiment laconically expressed.

LA-CON'ICS, n.

A book of Pausanias, which treats of Lacedemonia.

LA'CON-ISM, or LA-CON'I-CISM, n. [L. laconismus.]

1. A concise style.
2. A brief sententious phrase or expression.

LACT-AGE, n.

The produce of animals yielding milk. – Shuckford.

LAC'TANT, a. [L. lactans, from lacto, to give suck; lac, milk.]

Suckling; giving suck. [Little used.]

LAC'TA-RY, a. [L. lactarius, from lacto; lac, milk.]

Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Little used.] – Brown.

LAC'TA-RY, n. [L. lactarius.]

A dairy-house.

LAC'TATE, n.

In chimistry, a salt formed by the lactic acid, or acid of milk, with a base. – Fourcroy.

LAC-TA'TION, n. [L. lacto, to give suck.]

The act of giving suck; or the time of suckling. – Johnson. Encyc.

LAC'TE-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to milk.
2. Conveying chyle; as, a lacteal vessel.

LAC'TE-AL, n.

A vessel or slender tube of animal bodies, for conveying chyle from the intestines to the common reservatory. – Encyc.

LAC'TE-OUS, a. [L. lacteus, from lac, milk.]

1. Milky; resembling milk. – Brown.
2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as, a lacteous vessel. – Bentley.

LAC'TE-OUS-LY, adv.

Milky; lactedly.