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Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [Obs.] "Some large jests he will make." Shak.

,. v. i. To ply the whip; to strike; to uttercensure or sarcastic language. To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. Dryden. To lash out, to strike out wildly or furiously.

Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold.

In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. [Obs.] Heylin.

es which the primitive Indo-European stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the first Lautverschiebung, sound shifting, or consonant shifting. (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in m…

n in Sanskrit and, with some changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone in the Teutonic languages. Examples: Skr. bhatr, L. frater, E. brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three, G. drei, Skr. go, E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dha to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do, OHG, tuon, G. thun. -- Kepler's laws (Astron.), three important laws…

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

Language; speech; voice; cry. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. Luke xxiii. 38.

The language of the Letts; Lettish.

The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.

eding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.

A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

The use of pretentious words, language, or style.

nse; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.

Language; speech; dialect. [Slang]

The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the language of the people of the region and foreign traders.

A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster.