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See Langegaye. [Obs.]

es which the primitive Indo-European stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the first Lautverschiebung, sound shifting, or consonant shifting. (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in m…

n 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 to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do, OHG, tuon, G. thun. -- Kepler's laws (Astron.), three important laws…

A plan; a scheme. [Slang] Dickens. Lay figure. (a) A jointed model of the human body that may be put in any attitude; -- used for showing the disposition of drapery, etc. (b) A mere puppet; one who serves the will of others without independent volition. -- Lay race, that part of a lay on which the shuttle travels in w…

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

Language; speech; voice; cry. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

-- Over the left shoulder, or Over the left, an old but still current colloquialism, or slang expression, used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief; as, he said it, and it is true, -- over the left.

A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. [Slang, Eng.]

a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. Luke xxiii. 38.

The language of the Letts; Lettish.

The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.

eding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.

A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

The use of pretentious words, language, or style.

nse; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.

A house or lodging. [Old Slang] B. Jonson.

Language; speech; dialect. [Slang]

The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the language of the people of the region and foreign traders.

A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster.

Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.