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are or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. [Obs.] Fairfax. Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace. Chaucer.

ach player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.] Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.

The shambles; a place of slaughter. [R.]

d the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.

To smear with lard or fat. In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes. Somerville.

A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare. [Obs.]

y the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er. Shak. He laugheth that winneth. Heywood's Prov.

Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.

With laughter or merriment.

Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry. [R.]

expenditures; -- often with out. Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. Luke v. 4. He [Spenser] launches out into very flowery paths. Prior.

leads melodious days. Tennyson. You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife and daughter. Dickens.

over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.

That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing." A smooth and pleasing lesson." Milton. Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind. Chaucer.

Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.

everal degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive. Locke. They shall light into atheistical company. South. And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest. Tennyson.

Birdlime. Like the lime That foolish birds are caught with. Wordsworth.

In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

gnity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. Lofty and sour to them that loved him not. Shak. Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Milton.