Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LACE-BARK, n.

The bark of a shrub in the West Indies, the Daphne lagetto, so called from the texture of its inner bark.

LAC-ED, pp.

Fastened with lace or a string; also tricked off with lace. Laced coffee, coffee with spirits in it. Addison.

LACE'-MAN, n.

A man who deals in lace. Addison.

LAC'ER-A-BLE, a. [See Lacerate.]

That may be torn. Harvey.

LAC'ER-ATE, or LAC'ER-A-TED, pp. [or a.]

1. Rent; torn.
2. In botany, having the edge variously cut into irregular segments; as, a lacerated leaf. Martyn.

LAC'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. lacero, to tear.]

To tear; to rend; to separate a substance by violence or tearing; as, to lacerate the flesh. It is applied chiefly to the flesh, or figuratively to the heart. But sometimes it is applied to the political or civil divisions in a state.

LAC-ER-A'TION, n.

The act of tearing or rending; the breach made by rending. Arbuthnot.

LAC'ER-A-TIVE, a.

Tearing; having the power to tear; as, lacerative humors. Harvey.

LAC'ERT-INE, a. [L. lacertus.]

Like a lizard. Journ. of Science.

LA-CERT'US, n.

The girrock, a fish of the gar-fish kind; also, the lizard-fish. Dict. Nat. Hist. Cyc.

LACE'-WING-ED, a.

Having wings like lace.

LACE'-WOM-AN, n.

A woman who makes or sells lace.

LACHE, or LACH'ES, n. [Norm. Fr. lachesse, from lache; L. laxus, lax, slow.]

In law, neglect; negligence.

LACH'RY-MA-BLE, a.

Lamentable. Morley.

LACH'RY-MAL, a. [Fr. from L. lachryma, a tear.]

1. Generating or secreting tears; as, the lachrymal gland.
2. Pertaining to tears; conveying tears.

LACH'RY-MA-RY, a.

Containing tears. Addison.

LACH'RY-MA'TION, n.

The act of shedding tears.

LACH'RY-MA-TO-RY, n. [Fr. lachrymatoire.]

A vessel found in sepulchers of the ancients, in which it has been supposed the tears of a deceased person's friends were collected and preserved with the ashes and urn. It was a small glass or bottle like a phial. Encyc.

LACH'RY-MOSE, a.

Generating or shedding leaves.

LAC-ING, ppr.

Fastening with a string; adorning or trimming with lace.

LA-CIN'I-ATE, or LA-CIN'I-A-TED, a. [L. lacinia, a hem.]

1. Adorned with fringes.
2. In botany, jagged. Martyn.

LACK, n.

Want; destitution; need; failure. He that gathered little, had no lack. Ex. xvi. Lack of rupees is one hundred thousand rupees, which at 55 cents each, amount to fifty-five thousand dollars, or at 2s. 6d. sterling, to £12,500.

LACK, v.i.

1. To be in want. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger. Ps. xxxiv.
2. To be wanting. Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous. Gen. xviii.

LACK, v.t. [D. leeg, empty; leegen, to empty; Dan. lak, a fault; lakker, to decline or wear away; Goth. ufligan, to lack or fail; L. deliquium, which seems to be connected with linquo, to leave, to faint, and with liquo, to melt, liquid, &c.]

1. To want; to be destitute of; not to have or possess. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask it of God. James i.
2. To blame. [Not in use.] Chaucer.

LACK-A-DAY, exclam.

of sorrow or regret; alas.