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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,872 words match “LANT”

One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.

FORE-TOPGALLANT a.

Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.

FRESNEL LAMP; FRESNEL LANTERN n.

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

GALLANT a. 8 definitions

Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. The town is built in a very gallant place. Evelyn. Our royal, good and gallant ship. Shak.

GALLANTLY adv. 2 definitions

In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.

The quality of being gallant.

GALLANTRY n. 4 definitions

Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. [Archaic] Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops.

A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. Ice-skater = one who skates on ice wearing a…

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth. Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton.

IMPLANTATION n.

The act or process of implantating.

INHALANT a. 2 definitions

Inhaling; used for inhaling.

INTEROSCULANT a. 2 definitions

Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles.

INTERPELLANT a. 2 definitions

Interpelling; interrupting. -- n.

JACK-'-LANTERN n.

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.

JACK-O'-LANTERN n. 3 definitions

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. JACKPOT Jackpot

Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting. "The jubilant age." Coleridge. While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Milton.

JUBILANTLY adv.

In a jubilant manner.