Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: LA-DY'S-BOW-ER – LA'I-TY
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LA-DY'S-BOW-ER, n.
A plant of the genus Clematis.
LA-DY'S-COMB, n.
A plant of the genus Scandix.
LA-DY'-SEAL, n.
A plant of the genus Tamus.
LA-DY'S-FIN-GER, n.
A plant of the genus Anthyllis.
LA'DY-SHIP, n.
The title of a lady. Shak. Dryden.
LA-DY'S-MAN-TLE, n.
A plant of the genns Alchemilla.
LA-DY'S-SLIP-PER, n.
A plant of the genus Cypripedium.
LA-DY'S-SMOCK, n.
A plant of the genus Cardamme.
LA-DY'S-TRA-CES, n.
A plant of the genus Ophrys.
LAG, a. [This word belongs to the root of slack, slow, sluggish, languish, long; Goth. laggs; W. llag, llac; Gr. {foreign} {foreign}. Class Lg. See the Verb.]
- Coming after or behind; slow; sluggish; tardy. Shak.
- Last; long delayed; as, the lag end. Shak. [This adjective is not now in use.]
LAG, n.
- The lowest class; the rump; the fag end.
- He that comes behind. [Not in use.] Shak.
LAG, v.i. [W. llag, llac, slack, loose; Goth. laggs, long; Eng. to flag, and flacceo, languro, to languish, &c. The sense is to extend or draw out, or to become lax or loose. Class Lg.]
To walk or move slowly; to loiter; to stay behind. I shall not lag behind. Milton.
LAG'GARD, a.
Slow; sluggish; backward. Collins.
LAG'GER, n.
A loiterer; an idler; one who moves slowly and falls behind.
LAG'GING, ppr.
Loitering; moving slowly and falling behind. The nurse went lagging after with the child. Dryden.
LAG'GING-LY, adv.
Loiteringly.
LAG'O-MYS, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a hare, and {foreign}, mouse or rat.]
The animal called rat-hare, a genus between the hare and rat, found in Siberia. Mantel.
LA-GOON', n. [It. and Sp. laguna, from the root of LA-GONE, lake.]
A fen, moor, marsh, shallow pond or lake; as, the lagunes of Venice. Ray. Smollet.
LA'IC, or LA'IC-AL, a. [It. laico, laicale, Fr. laique, Sp. laycal, D. leek, L.laicus, from Gr. {foreign} from {foreign}, people. The Greek {foreign} is probably a contracted word.]
Belonging to the laity or people, in distinction from the clergy.
LA'IC, n.
A layman. Bp. Morton.
LAID, pret.
and pp. of lay; -- so written for layed.
LAIN, pp.
of lie. Lien would he a more regular orthography, but lain is generally used.
LA'IR, n. [G. lager, from the root of lay, locus.]
- A place of rest; the bed or couch of a boar or wild beast. Milton. Dryden.
- Pasture; the ground. Spenser.
LAIRD, n. [contracted from Sax. hlaford, lord.]
In the Scots dialect, a lord; the proprietor of a manor. Cleaveland.
LA'I-TY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, people. See Laic.]
- The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
- The state of a layman, or of not being in orders. [Not used.] Ayliffe.