Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LA-DY'S-COMB, n. [LA-DY'S COMB.]

A plant of the genus Scandix.

LA-DY'S-CUSHION, n. [LA-DY'S CUSHION.]

A plant of the genus Saxifraga.

LA-DY'S-FIN-GER, n. [LA-DY'S FIN-GER.]

A plant of the genus Anthyllis.

LA'DY-SHIP, n.

The title of a lady. – Shak. Dryden.

LA-DY'S-MAN-TLE, n. [LA-DY'S MAN-TLE.]

A plant of the genus Alchemilla.

LA-DY'S-SEAL, n. [LA-DY'S SEAL.]

A plant of the genus Tamus.

LA-DY'S-SLIP-PER, n. [LA-DY'S SLIP-PER.]

A plant of the genus Cypripedium.

LA-DY'S-SMOCK, n. [LA-DY'S SMOCK.]

A plant of the genus Cardamine.

LA-DY'S-TRA-CES, n. [LA-DY'S TRA-CES.]

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. λαγγευω, λαγγαζω. Class Lg. See the Verb.]

1. Coming after or behind; slow; sluggish; tardy. – Shak.
2. Last; long delayed; as, the lag end. – Shak. [This adjective is not now in use.]

LAG, n.

1. The lowest class; the rump; the fag end.
2. He that comes behind. [Not in use.] Shak.

LAG, v.i. [W. llag, llac, slack, loose; Goth. laggs, long; Eng. to flag, and flacceo, langueo, 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. λαγος, a hare, and μυς, mouse or rat.]

The animal called rat-hare, a genus between the hare and rat, found in Siberia. – Mantell.

LA-GOON', or LA-GUNE', n. [It. and Sp. laguna, from the root of 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. λαικος, from λαος, people. The Greek λαος is probably a contracted word.]

Belonging to the laity or people, in distinction from the clergy.

LA'IC, n.

A layman. – Bp. Morton.

LAID, v. [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.]

1. A place of rest; the bed or couch of a boar or wild beast. – Milton. Dryden.
2. 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. λαος, people. See Laic.]

1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
2. The state of a layman, or of not being in orders. [Not used.] – Ayliffe.