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ed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. Lath brick, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. Lath nail a slender nail for fastening laths.…

A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer. Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser. Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

c metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206…

. Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.

A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata.

ce; inconsiderate; easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile; as, a light, vain person; a light mind. There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person than profanely to scoff at religion. Tillotson.

Thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose. "Light- headed, weak men." Clarendon. -- Light"-head`ed*ness, n.

Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate. -- Light"-mind`ed*ness, n.

Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting. Shak.

A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170º Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for ill…

A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.

An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida.

A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile.

Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.

" Lo, we turn to the Gentiles." Acts xiii. 46.

g of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races. Macaulay.

Dominion; power; authority. They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. Mark x. 42.

The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.

Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.