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Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

A little lad. [R.] Dr. H. More.

See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.

ttle lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.

See Ladykin.

A small lamb.

The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.

See Lansquenet.

The condition or quality or being lanky.

A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow; -- variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. [Australia & Eng.] -- a.

A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.

Enacting laws; legislative. -- n.

The quality of being leaky.

Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.

A house or lodging. [Old Slang] B. Jonson.

A lapping with the tongue.

A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.

Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obs.] Chaucer. Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort Dan. i. 10.

s of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (A. giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (A. scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.…

Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.