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Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath…

State, or office, of a laureate.

The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.

A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.

Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate. [Written also laurelled.]

Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills. Laurentian period (Geol.), the lower of the two divisions of the Archæan age; -- called also the Laurentian.

Laurel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths. [Written also laurustine and laurestina.]

A wash or lotion. [Obs.]

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture. [Obs.]

One who lectures; an assistant preacher.

The office of a lecturer.

Legateship. [Obs.]

aws; a legislative body. Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is, or can be, made. Sir M. Hale.

om from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple.

Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.

Characterized by leisure; taking abundant tome; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.

Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton.

Letters; literature. [Obs.] "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.

See Letterure. [Obs.] Chaucer.