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Jesting; buffoonery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.

A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral. Grove.

See Capellmeister.

One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.

Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.

See Landlouper.

The pictorial aspect of a country. The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. Macaulay. Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.

lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar. [Written also lappel and lapelle.]

Furnished with lapels.

Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.

One who, or that which, leaps.

A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.

Of a linear shape.

Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.

A malapert person. Are you growing malapert! Will you force me to make use of my authority Dryden. -- Mal"a*pert`ly, adv. -- Mal"a*pert`ness, n.

ertaining to that part of the columella of the ear which, in some animals, connects the stapes with the other parts of the columella. -- n.

Pertaining to, or designating, a supposed acid obtained from pectin.

A substance obtained from, and resembling, pectin, and occurring in overripe fruits.

An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.