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The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.

Plaintive; -- a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style. Moore.

it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

See Lachrymatory, n., and Lachrymal, a.

See Lachrymary, Lachrymatory, Lachrymose.

The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.

One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.

Pertaining to, or designating, an amido acid related to lactic acid, and called also amido-propionic acid.

An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine.

Suckling; giving suck.

A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.

Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Obs.] "Lactary or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.

A salt of lactic acid.

A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.

Milkily; in the manner of milk.

Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk. "This lactean whiteness." Moxon.

Milky; resembling milk. "The lacteous circle." Sir T. Browne.

In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.

or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color. This lactescence does commonly ensue when . . . fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution. Boyle.