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Inflammation of the laminæ or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder. Youatt.

A wolf (Canis pallipes), found in India, allied to the jackal.

A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.

Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals.

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

A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.

tc. Lasso cell (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar kind of defensive and offensive stinging cells, found in great numbers in all coelenterates, and in a few animals of other groups. They are most highly developed in the tentacles of jellyfishes, hydroids, and Actiniæ. Each of these cells is filled with, fluid, and contains a lo…

An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.

the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.

A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

loke, or sloakan. Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains

nd; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law. When every case in law is right. Shak. He found law dear and left it cheap. Brougham.

was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den. Dan. vi. 17. Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid. Milton.

One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.

black lead). -- Lead plant (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus Amorpha (A. canescens), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. Gray. -- Lead tree. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, Leucæna glauca; -- probably so called from the gla…

or, consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; -- so called from having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland.

sembles the leaves of plants upon which it rests; esp., butterflies of the genus Kallima, found in Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Leaf crumpler (Zoöl.), a small moth (Phycis indigenella), the larva of which feeds upon leaves of the apple tree, and forms its nest by crumpling and fastening leaves together in clu…

An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain- bearing plants.

rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.