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A dealer in horses; a horse trader. Macaulay.

Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.

or by a lamp beneath, so as to make a powerful blowpipe flame when the vapor is ignited. Weale. -- Arc lamp (Elec.), a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc is used as the source of light. -- Dëbereiner's lamp, an apparatus for the instantaneous production of a flame by the spontaneous ignition of a jet of hydrogen o…

them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. Weale.

An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.

Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.

length grow. Latent heat (Physics), that quantity of heat which disappears or becomes concealed in a body while producing some change in it other than rise of temperature, as fusion, evaporation, or expansion, the quantity being constant for each particular body and for each species of change. -- Latent period. (a) (M…

In a secret or concealed manner; invisibly.

A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.

Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]

An oven in which glassware is annealed.

ers or writs directed to particular persons for particular purposes, and hence closed or sealed on the outside; -- distinguished from letters patent. Burrill. -- Letters of orders (Eccl.), a document duly signed and sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has regularly ordained a certain person as priest, dea…

That which binds; bond; connection. Tied with tape, and sealed at each fold and ligation. Sir W. Scott.

thing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen. Linen draper, a dealer in linen. -- Linen prover, a small microscope for counting the threads in a given space in linen fabrics. -- Linen scroll, Linen pattern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff sy…

A dealer in linen; a linen draper. [Obs.]

A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans. The millions of the loanmonger. Beaconsfield.

mine an event, or make a decision, by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer. -- To pay scot and lot, to pay taxes according to one's ability. See Scot.

the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno. [Often written loto.]

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream. [Southwestern U. S.]