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Furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunæ; as, a lacunose leaf.

A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.

ustralia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow.

To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law. Ayliffe.

To let; to allow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.

Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

sponses of the congregation, etc., in the church service. Hook. -- Lay days (Com.), time allowed in a charter party for taking in and discharging cargo. McElrath. -- Lay elder. See 2d Elder, 3, note.

Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Obs.] Blount.

dred fathoms in depth. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Hand lead, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. -- Krems lead, Kremnitz lead Etym: [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also Krems, or Kremnitz, white, and Vienna white. -- Lead arming, tall…

An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. David earnestly asked leave of me. 1 Sam. xx. 6. No friend has leave to bear away the dead. Dryden.

of Let, to allow. Chaucer.

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow. Give me that ring. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To give it from me. Shak.

To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.

Allowable; permissible; lawful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fallow; unseeded. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.

f, or attachment to, something else. Shak. That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows. Sir W. Scott.

A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district. Chaucer. Latimer.