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h and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden.

A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.

ter the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.

. With all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name. Book of Common Prayer.

or clipping the short grass of lawns. -- Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.

To apply; to put. She layeth her hands to the spindle. Prov. xxxi. 19.

The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.

. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. Leaf beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds upon leaves; esp., any species of the family Chrysomelidæ, as the potato beetle and helmet beetle. -- Leaf bridge, a draw-…

o infect; to vitiate. With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer. Milton.

A layer or stratum. The lowest ledge or row should be of stone. Sir H. Wotton.

A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species. [Written also Lemuroida.]

elinquish; to abandon. [Obs. or Archaic, except when followed by alone or be.] He . . . prayed him his voyage for to let Chaucer. Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, But to her mother Nature all her care she lets. Spenser. Let me alone in choosing of my wife. Chaucer.

To grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause. [Obs.] God leve all be well. Chaucer.

Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. " A spirit of levity and libertinism." Atterbury. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity. Calamy.

A layer of leather in the heel.

To descend; to light. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us. Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.]

to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.].

To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness. A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out By violet-hooded doctors. Tennyson.

ht as cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. Hence, consspicuous position before the public; as, politicians who are never happy except in the limelight.

wledge or endeavor. As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. Pope.