Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LA-O-DI-CE'AN-ISM, n.

Lukewarmness in religion. E. Stiles.

LAP, n. [Sat. læppe; G. lappen; D. Dan. lap; Sw. lapp. This word seems to be a different orthography of flap.]

1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely. Swift.
2. The part of clothes that lies on the knees when a person sits down; hence, the knees in this position. Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps.

LAP, v.i.

¹ To be spread or laid; to be turned over. The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends where they lap over, transparent like the wing of a fly. Grew.

LAP, v.i. [Sax. lappian; D. labben; Arm. lappa; Fr. laper; Dan. laber; W. llepiaw, lleibiaw; Gr. λαπτω. If m is casual in L. lambo, as it probably is, this is the same word. Class Lb, No. 22.]

To take up liquor or food with the tongue; to feed or drink by licking. The dogs by the river Niles' side being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Rigby. And the number of them that lapped were three hundred men. Judg. vii.

LAP, v.t.

1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on; as, to lap a piece of cloth. To lap boards, is to lay one partly over another.
2. To wrap or twist round. I lapped a slender thread about the paper. Newton.
3. To infold; to involve. Her garment spreads, and taps him in the folds. Dryden.

LAP, v.t.

To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up: as, a cat laps milk. Shak.

LAP'DOG, n.

A small dog fondled in the lap. Dryden.

LA-PEL', n. [from lap.]

That part of a coat which laps over the facing.

LA-PEL'LED, a.

Furnished with lapels.

LAP'FUL, n.

As much as the lap can contain. 2 Kings iv.

LAPH-I-O'DON, n.

An animal of the order of pachyderms, resembling the rhinoceros and tapir, now extinct. Buckland.

LAP'I-CIDE, n.

A stone-cutter. [Not used.] Dict.

LAP-I-DA'RI-OUS, a. [L. lapidarius, from lapis, a stone.]

Stony; consisting of stones.

LAP'I-DA-RY, a.

Pertaining to the art of cutting stones. The lapidary style denotes that which is proper for monumental and other inscriptions. Encyc.

LAP'I-DA-RY, n. [Fr. lapidaire; L. lapidarius, lapis, a stone.]

1. An artificer who cuts precious stones.
2. A dealer in precious stones.
3. A virtuoso skilled in the nature and kinds of gems or precious stones. Encyc.

LAP'I-DATE, v.i. [L. lapido.]

To stone. [Not used.]

LAP-I-DA'TION, n.

The act of stoning a person to death. Hall.

LA-PID'E-OUS, a. [L. lapideus.]

Stony of the nature of stone; as, lapideous matter. [Little used.] Ray.

LAP-I-DES'CENCE, n. [L. lapidesco, from lapis, a stone.]

1. The process of becoming stone; a hardening into a stony substance.
2. A stony concretion. Brown.

LAP-I-DES'CENT, a.

Growing or turning to stone; that has the quality of petrifying bodies.

LAP-I-DES'CENT, n.

Any substance which has the quality of petrifying a body, or converting it to stone.

LAP-I-DIF'IC, a. [L. lapis, a stone, and facio, to make.]

Forming or converting into stone.

LA-PID-IF-I-CA'TION, n.

The operation of forming or converting into a stony substance, by means of a liquid charged with earthy particles in solution, which crystalize in the interstices, and end in forming free stone, pudding stone, &c. Dict. Nat. Hist.

LA-PID'I-FY, v.i.

To turn into stone; to become stone.

LA-PID'I-FY, v.t. [L. lapis, a stone, and facio, to form.]

To form into stone.