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rom the other voussoirs, or projects, or is decorated with carving. See Illust. of Arch. Keystone State, the State of Pennsylvania; -- so called from its having been the central State of the Union at the formation of the Constitution.

Pennsylvania; -- a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original United States.

See Key way, under Key.

osition; sort; kind. Shak. There are in later other decrees, made by popes of another kidney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns.

Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.

A kind of saxifrage (Saxifrage stellaris).

A variety of the boomerang.

ale servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with blue, yellow,…

See Lammergeir.

An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side. [Written also lamper eel, lamp…

One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds of Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow.

A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.

, & i. To lay; to wager. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.

Leisure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Linsey-woolsey.

Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.

Having acute sight.

A fire-backed pheasant. See Fireback.

The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.