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To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.

In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. [Obs.] Heylin.

Transportation; conveyance. [Obs.]

Having a broad beak. Sir T. Browne.

The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.

Somewhat late. [Colloq.]

Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.

Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]

A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding. Blackstone.

A lying in concealment; hiding. [Obs.]

idewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. Sir H. Wotton.

Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.

or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.

A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford.

Having latitude, or wide extent.

Latten, 1. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Barking. [Obs.] Tickell.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.]

A barking. [Obs.]