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A lace. See Lace. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower. [East Indies]

Loose; lascivious. [Obs.] "To depaint lascious wantonness." Holland.

Lasciviousness; wantonness. [Obs.]

Lascivious. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires. Milton.

Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, of several species (as L. glabrum, and L. siler), the root of which yields a resinous substance of a bitter taste. The genus is mostly European.

braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. Addison.

One who whips or lashes.

The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.

A diarrhea or flux. [Obs.] Holland.

latching.

A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.

Less. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A young girl; a lass. [Scot.]

The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

Forsaken by a lass. Shak.

pe or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc. Lasso cell (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar kind of defensive and offensive stinging cells, found in great numbers in all coelenterates, and in a few animals of other groups. They are most highly developed in the tentacles of jellyfishe…

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A tax on wares sold by the last. [Obs.] Cowell.