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LABYRINTH n. 7 definitions

An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.

LABYRINTHIAN a.

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

LABYRINTHIBRANCH a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici. -- n.

LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL a.

Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.

LABYRINTHICI n.

An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.

LABYRINTHIFORM a.

Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.

LABYRINTHINE a.

Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.

LABYRINTHODON n.

A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.

LABYRINTHODONT a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta. -- n.

LABYRINTHODONTA n.

An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.

ance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.

One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [Written also lack.] [East Indies]

Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.

A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.

LACCOLITE; LACCOLITH n.

etween sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata. -- Lac`co*lit"ic, a.

LACE n. 9 definitions

parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. His hat hung at his back down by a lace. Chaucer. For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied. Spenser.

A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.

Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace- winged flies.

LACED a. 2 definitions

Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.