Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LACK'ER, or LAC'QUER, n. [Fr. laque.]

A kind of varnish. The basis of lackers is a solution of the substance called lac, in spirit of wine or alcohol. Varnishes applied to metals improve their color and preserve them from tarnishing. Encyc. Cyc. Lackers consist of different resins in a state of solution, of which the most common are mastic, sandarach, lac, benzoin, copal, amber, and asphalt. The menstrua are either expressed or essential oils, or spirit of wine. Nicholson.

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. {} lak, to send, whence {} lake, a servant; L. lego, to send. From this root is the Shemitic {}, 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; 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.