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Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm. Good father cardinal, cry thou amen To my keen curses. Shak.

he form of kernels; to granulate. [Obs.] It is observed that rain makes the salt kern. Dampier.

To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.] Love them and lakke them not. Piers Plowman.

cohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-maché, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.

To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.

To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Quincey.

Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).

An occupier of land. Cowell.

To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. [Obs.] Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds. Spenser.

To shine. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Lent. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

People; a nation; a man. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Bp. Gibson.

To teach; to instruct. Shak. To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad. Byron.

line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline. Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. Piers Plowman.

One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.

An idle vagabond. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. "Lovely to look on." Piers Plowman. Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely. Robert of Brunne. If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers. Shak.

irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. " A lump of cheese." Piers Plowman. " This lump of clay." Shak.

ing that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract. I am not lured with love. Piers Plowman. And various science lures the learned eye. Gay.

To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.