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dicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon. Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay.

inhabitants of a nation or people. These answers, in the silent night received, The kind himself divulged, the land believed. Dryden.

Alone [Scot.] His lane, by himself; himself alone.

hem, as of cloth. Chaucer. If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him. Fuller.

One who applies himself to laryngology.

Next before the present; as, I saw him last week.

oud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Goldsmith. That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh. F. W. Robertson.

n object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.

will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.

ring, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Is. Iiii. 6.

e state or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.

ind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.) They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill. Luke iv. 29. In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. Milton.

f the forward pair of horses. He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times. Hare.

rt, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. He leaned not on his fathers but himself. Tennyson.

A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor. Shak.

of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look. I will leer him as a'comes by. Shak. The priest, above his book, Leering at his neighbor's wife. Tennyson.

A legate, or envoy, and the persons associated with him in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic minister and his suite; a deputation.

of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. Levit. xxv. 37.

For Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Prov. xx. 18. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth he standeth take heed lest he fall. I Cor. x. 12.