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The lark. [Old Eng. & Scot.] [Written also lavrock.] Gower.

The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament. What things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law . . . But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the pro…

or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge. [Written also, but improperly, lazaroni.]

om which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern]. Fairholt.

which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads. [Written also leger.]

a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained. Gwilt. [Written also ledgement, legement, and ligement.]

The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also leach.] Leech line, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. Totten. -- Leech rope, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government. [Written also lieger, leiger.] [Obs.] Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome. Fuller.

A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species. [Written also Lemuroida.]

Slow; in slow time; slowly; -- rarely written lente.

and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. [Written also Leptocardii.]

A bird or other animal having slender toes. [Written also lepodactyle.]

ative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. Luke xxiii. 38.

See Leucocythæmia. -- Leu*chæm"ic, a. [Written also leukæmia, leukæmic.]

An albino. [Also written leucoethiops.]

wisting the plane of polarization towards the left, as levulose, levotartaric acid, etc. [Written also lævogyrate.]

olarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left handed quartz crystals, etc. [Written also lævorotatory.]

spongy, amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose. [Written also lævulin.]

c acid), C5H8O3, obtained by the action of dilute acids on various sugars (as levulose). [Written also lævulinic.]

sugar. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization to the left. [Written also lævulose.]C6H12O6.