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Of or pertaining to latria. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.

A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.

Theft; larceny. [Obs.]

erly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass. He had a cross of latoun full of stones. Chaucer.

Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.

A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.

Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison.

A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.

Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.

The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.

Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. Judg. v. 28.

Same as Lattice, n., 1.

The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to.

The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.

Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.

A carrying or taking away; removal. Jer. Taylor.

Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. Sir J. Herschel.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]