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rting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. Lath brick, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. Lath nail a slender nail for fastening laths.

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

t consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. [Written also lath.] Brande & C.

To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.

Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.

The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.

Same as Lathing.

Like a lath; long and slender. A lathy horse, all legs and length. R. Browning.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pat…

To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. G. Eliot.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.

Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.

An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young women.

One of the Platyelminthes.

Same as Platyelminthes.

The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe. Latham.

A mandrel in lathe turning. Knight. Arbor Day, a day appointed for planting trees and shrubs. [U.S.]