Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LA'ZAR, n. [from Lazarus; Sp. lazaro.]

A person infected with nauseous and pestilential disease. Shak. Dryden.

LAZ-A-RET', or LAZ-A-RET'TO, n. [Sp. lazareto; It. lazzeretto; Fr. lazaret, from Lazarus.]

A public building, hospital or pest-house for the reception of diseased persons, particularly for those affected with contagious distempers.

LA'ZAR-HOUSE, n.

A lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

LA'ZAR-LIKE, or LA'ZAR-LY, a.

Full of sores; leprous. Bp. Hall.

LAZ'A-RO-NI, n.

In Italy, the poor, who live by begging, or have no permanent habitation.

LA'ZAR-WORT, or LA'SERWORT, n.

The popular English name of some species of Laserpitium, a genus of plants of several species, natives of Germany, Italy, France, &c.

LAZE, v.i.

To live in idleness. [Vulgar.]

LAZE, v.t.

To waste in sloth. [Vulgar.]

LA'ZI-LY, adv. [from lazy.]

In a heavy, sluggish manner; sluggishly. Whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time. Locke.

LA'ZI-NESS, n. [from lazy.]

1. The state or quality of being lazy; indisposition to action or exertion; indolence; sluggishness; heaviness in motion; habitual sloth. Laziness differs from idleness; the latter being a mere defect or cessation of action, but laziness is sloth, with natural or habitual disinclination to action. Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.
2. Slowness; tardiness.

LAZ'ING, a.

Spending time in sluggish inaction. L'Estrange. [This is an ill-formed, inelegant word.]

LAZ'U-LI,

Lapis Lazuli is a mineral of a fine, azure blue color, usually amorphous, or in rounded masses of a moderate size. It is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphuret of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. It is distinguished from lazulite, by the intenseness of its color. [Qu. Ar. azul.] Cleaveland.

LAZ'U-LITE, n.

A mineral of a light, indigo blue color, occurring in small masses, or crystalized in oblique four-sided prisms. Cleaveland,

LA'ZY, a. [G. lass, lassig; W. llesg. The Fr. lache is from L. laxus, and it is doubtful whether this is of the same family.]

1. Disinclined to action or exertion; naturally or habitually slothful; sluggish; indolent; averse to labor; heavy in motion. Wicked men will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy and spend victuals. Bacon.
2. Slow; moving slowly or apparently with labor; as, a lazy stream. The night-owl's lazy flight. Shak.

LD,

stands for Lord.

LEA, or LEY, n. [See Lay.]

A meadow or plain. The Welsh write lle, but as this word is from the root of lay, the latter is the more correct orthography.

LEACH, n.

A quantity of wood ashes, through which woe passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

LEACH, v.t. [Sw. laka, to fall in drops, to distill; laka, to leak; Dan. lekker, to drop, to leak. See Leak. Perhaps L. lix may be from the same root.]

To wash, as ashes, by percolation, or causing water to pass through them, and thus to separate from them the alkali. The water thus charged with alkali, is called lye.

LEACH'-TUB, n.

A wooden vessel or tub in which ashes are leached. It is sometimes written letch-tub.

LEAD, n.

Precedence; a going before; guidance. Let the, general take the tear. [A colloquial word not reputable.]

LEAD, n. led. [Sax. lad; G. lolk; D. lend; Dan. and Sw. lod; Russ. lot, probably a mass, like clod.]

1. A metal of a dull white color, with a cast of blue. It the least elastic and sonorous of all the metals, and at the same time it is soft and easily fusible. It is found native in small masses, but generally mineralized by sulphur, am sometimes by other substances. Lead fused in a stren; heat, throws off vapors which tare unwholesome.
2. A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
3. Leads, a flat roof covered with lead. Shak. Bacon. White lead, the oxyd of lead, ground with one-third part of chalk. Fourcroy

LEAD, v.i.

1. To go before and show the way. I will lead on softly. Gen. xxxiii.
2. To conduct, as a chief or commander. Let the troops follow, where their general leads.
3. To draw; to have a tendency to. Gaming leads to other vices.
4. To exercise dominion. Spenser. To lead off or out, to go first; to begin. Cumberland.

LEAD, v.i. led.

To cover with lead; to fit with lead.

LEAD, v.t. led.

To separate lines in printing by a thin plate of lead.

LEAD, v.t. pret.

1. and pp. led. [Sax. ladan; G. &Ben; D leiden; Sw. leda; Dan. leder; probably to draw, to strain or extend.]
2. To guide by the hand; as, to lead a child. It often includes the Sense of drawing as well as of directing.
3. To guide or conduct by shooing the way; to direct; as the Israelites were led by a pillar of cloud by day, and lit a pillar of fire by night.
4. To conduct to any place. He leadeth me beside the still waters. Ps. xxiii.
5. To conduct, as a chief or commander, implying authority to direct and govern; as, a general leads his troops to haul and to victory. Christ took not on him flesh and blood, that he might conquer and rats nations, lead armies, South.
6. To precede; to introduce by going first. As Hesperus that leads the sun his way. Fairfax.
7. To guide; to show the method of attaining an object. Self-examination may lead us to a knowledge of ourselves.
8. To draw; to entice; to allure. The love of pleasure leads men into vices which degrade and impoverish then
9. To induce; to prevail on; to influence. He was driven by the necessities of the times more than led by his own disposition to any rigor of actions. K. Charles.
10. To pass; to spend, that is, to draw out; as, to lead a life of gayety, or a solitary life. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. I. Tim. To lead astray, lo guide in wrong way or into error; to seduce from truth or rectitude. To lead captive, to carry into captivity.