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To let; to allow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person.

A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.

A latching.

The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.

the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. [Usually in pl.]

A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.

A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door. To find the latchstring out, to meet with hospitality; to be welcome. (Intrusion is prevented by drawing in the latchstring.) [Colloq. U.S.]

when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.

Belated; too late. [Obs.] Shak.

n the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below. Lateen sail. Etym: [F. voile latine a sail in the shape of a right- angled triangle; cf. It. & Sp. vela latina; properly Latin sail. See Latin.] (Naut.) A triangular sail, extended by a long yard, which is slung at about one fourt…

Not long ago; recently; as, he has lately arrived from Italy.

Latency. Coleridge.

The state or quality of being latent. To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this latency. Sir W. Hamilton.

The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.

Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. Burke. Latent buds (bot.), buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow. Latent heat (Physics), that quantity of heat which disappears or becomes co…

In a secret or concealed manner; invisibly.

Compar. of Late, a. & adv.

Toward the side; away from the mesial plane; -- opposed to mesiad.

Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.