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rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.

Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.

Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals.

and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La. [Formerly written also lanthanium.]

An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

See Lantern. [Obs.]

Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.

The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.

See Lanier.

A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoön, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.

Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. Rev. iii. 14-16.

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. Chaucer.

Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.

Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.

A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.

A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Cæsarean section.

A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.

A small dog fondled in the lap.

That part of a garment which is turned back; specifically, the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar. [Written also lappel and lapelle.]