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Laced mutton, a prostitute. [Old slang] -- Laced stocking, a strong stocking which can be tightly laced; -- used in cases of weak legs, varicose veins, etc. Dunglison.

The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear. Dryden.

See Varnpligtige.

The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope.

The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.

Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law. When every case in law is right. Shak. He found law dear and left it cheap. Brougham.

Going to law; litigation. Holinshed.

hlorophyll. -- Leaf hopper (Zoöl.), any small jumping hemipterous insect of the genus Tettigonia, and allied genera. They live upon the leaves and twigs of plants. See Live hopper. -- Leaf insect (Zoöl.), any one of several genera and species of orthopterous insects, esp. of the genus Phyllium, in which the wings, an…

sed in some games of leaping. -- Leaping spider (Zoöl.), a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ.

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something. "Lea…

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.

The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

l bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity. He gave the form of levity to that which ascended; to that which descended, the form of gravity. Sir. W. Raleigh. This bubble by reason of its comparative levity to the fluidity…

A flogging or castigation. [Colloq. or Low]

ite flowers. -- Lily pad, the large floating leaf of the water lily. [U. S.] Lowell. -- Tiger lily (Bot.), Lilium tigrinum, the sepals of which are blotched with black. -- Turk's-cap lily (Bot.) Lilium Martagon, a red lily with recurved sepals; also, the similar American lily, L. superbum. -- Water lily (Bot.), the…

f long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lio…

To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness); clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agree…

To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue. Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues. Dryden.