laceret, n.m., small auger.
lacerne, n.f., (antiq.) lacerna, a kind of cloak worn by the Romans.
laceron, n.m., (bot.) sow-thistle. V. laiteron.
lacet, n.m., lace; springe; braid; bow-string (to strangle); zigzags, windings, turnings of mountain-roads. pl., toils. Ferrer un —; to tag a lace. Mouvement de —; (rail.) oscillation.
lâche, adj., loose, slack, lax; slothful, sluggish; faint-hearted; mean-spirited, dastardly; cowardly, base, mean, shameful. Ce nœud est trop —; this knot is too loose.
lâche, n.m., coward, craven, dastard.
lâché, -e, part., slackened, loose, loosened.
lâchement (lâsh-mān), adv., sluggishly, slothfully; loosely, slackly; dastardly, cowardly, basely.
lâcher, v.a., to slacken, to relax, to loose, to make loose, to loosen; to let go, to let slip, to cast off, to throw off; to let out, to unbind; to let loose, to release; to utter, to blurt out; to fire, to discharge; to turn on. — la bride à un cheval; to loosen the reins of a horse. — pied, — le pied; to retreat, to turn tail; to waver, to be irresolute. — sa proie; to let go one’s prey. — un prisonnier; to release a prisoner. — prise; to let go one’s hold. — une arme à feu; to fire off a gun. — un soufflet à quelqu’un; to give any one a box on the ear. — une parole, — un mot; to let out a word. — le mot, la parole; to speak the word. — une bordée; (nav.) to fire a broadside.