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A clergyman or officer in a kirk. [Scot.]

A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.

A person affected with kleptomania.

See Kleptomania.

One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.

l (Crossarchus obscurus) of tropical Africa. It its allied to the civets. Called also kusimansel, and mangue.

A man who deals in lace.

One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. [Obs. or Local]

A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.

The manatee. [Written also lamentin, and lamantine.]

A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.

A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.

One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.

A man who follows the business of laundering.

One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do. Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which belong to the profession. Dryden.

One who leads a dance.[Obs.] B. Jonson.

The man who heaves the lead. Totten.

divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought.

One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.

A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. Shak.