Laissez faire () Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.

Laity () The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.

Laity () The state of a layman.

Laity () Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.

Lakao () Sap green.

Lake () A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.

Lake () A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.

Lake () To play; to sport.

Lake () A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

Lake-dweller () See Lake dwellers, under Lake.

Lakelet () A little lake.

Lakeweed () The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.

Lakh () Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.

Lakin () See Ladykin.

Lakke () See Lack.

Laky () Pertaining to a lake.

Laky () Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

Lallation () An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l.

Lalo () The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous.

Lammed () of Lam

Lamming () of Lam

Lam () To beat soundly; to thrash.

Lama () See Llama.

Lama () In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism.

Lamaic () Of or pertaining to Lamaism.

Lamaism () A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama.

Lamaist () Alt. of Lamaite

Lamaite () One who believes in Lamaism.

Lamaistic () Of or pertaining to Lamaism.

Lamantin () The manatee.

Lamarckian () Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.

Lamarckianism () Lamarckism.

Lamarckism () The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.

Lamasery () A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc.

Lamb () The young of the sheep.

Lamb () Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.

Lamb () A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.

Lambed () of Lamb

Lambing () of Lamb

Lamb () To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.

Lambale () A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

Lambaste () To beat severely.

Lambative () Taken by licking with the tongue.

Lambative () A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.

Lambda () The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.

Lambda () The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

Lambdacism () A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.

Lambdacism () A defect in pronunciation of the letter l when doubled, which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to that of the letters lli in billion.

Lambdacism () The use of the sound of l for that of r in pronunciation; lallation; as, Amelican for American.

Lambdoid () Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

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