Laity, lā-′i-ti, n. the people as distinct from the clergy. [See Lay, adj.]
Lake, lāk, n. a pigment or colour formed by precipitating animal or vegetable colouring matters from their solutions, chiefly with alumina or oxide of tin. [Fr. laque. See Lac (2).]
Lake, lāk, n. a large body of water within land.—ns. Lake′-bā′sin, the whole area drained by a lake; Lake′-law′yer (U.S.), the bowfin: burbot; Lake′let, a little lake; Lā′ker, Lā′kist, one of the Lake school of poetry.—adj. Lā′ky, pertaining to a lake or lakes.—Lake District, the name applied to the picturesque and mountainous region within the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and a small portion of Lancashire, containing as many as sixteen lakes or meres; Lake dwellings, settlements in prehistoric times, built on piles driven into a lake; Lake school of poetry, a name applied to the group of illustrious poets who made the Lake District—Wordsworthshire—their home about the beginning of the 19th century. [A.S. lac—L. lacus.]
Lakh, n. See Lac, term used for 100,000.
Lakin, lā′kin, n. (Shak.) a corruption of ladykin, dim. of lady.
Lakshmi, laksh′mē, n. in Hindu mythology, the name of the consort of the god Vishnu (q.v.), considered as his female or creative energy.
Lallan, lal′an, n. the Scotch dialect. [Lowland.]
Lallation, la-lā′shon, n. lambdacism (q.v.).
Lam, lam, v.t. to beat. [Ice. lemja, to beat.]
Lama, n. an animal. [See Llama.]