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A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [Obs.] In a laund upon an hill of flowers. Chaucer. Through this laund anon the deer will come. Shak.

h, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

One who follows the business of laundering.

The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

A woman whose employment is laundering.

A laundering; a washing.

A man who follows the business of laundering.

To injure one's good name; to slander. [Obs.]

Flemish. [Obs.]

An arctic sea bird.

Slander. [Obs.] Chaucer.

as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.

See Laund.

& n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning…

in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

t is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.

An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.