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t In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

Plaintive; -- a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style. Moore.

Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

Lar forget, Victorious by his benefit. Lovelace. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton. Looking backward in vain toward their Lares and lands. Longfellow.

A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [Obs.] In a laund upon an hill of flowers. Chaucer. Through this laund anon the deer will come. Shak.

rtain regular changes which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants, so-called (most plainly seen 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 t…

To cause to lie dead or dying. Brave Cæneus laid Ortygius on the plain, The victor Cæneus was by Turnus slain. Dryden.

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from. Now leave complaining and begin your tea. Pope.

Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; - - used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript. The stone with moss and lichens so overspread, Nothing is legible but the name alone. Longfellow.

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

Spare, meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy. "Lenten entertainment." " Lenten answer." Shak. " Lenten suit." Beau. & Fl. Lenten color, black or violet. F. G. Lee.

Straightforward; direct; direct; clear; open. A very plain and level account. M. Arnold.

A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.

ree to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious. " Most like a liberal villain." Shak.

; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk. Shak. To lick the dust, to be slain; to fall in battle. "His enemies shall lick the dust." Ps. lxxii. 9. -- To lick into shape, to give proper form to; -- from a notion that the bear's cubs are born shapeless and subsequently formed by licking. Hudibras. -- T…

of Lie. See lain. Ps. lxviii. 13.

fficult; as, a light affliction or task. Chaucer. Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. Dryden.

ntury. -- Limoges ware. (a) Articles decorated with Limoges enamel. (b) Articles of porcelain, etc., manufactured at Limoges.

Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.

er privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc.