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lactuca serriola

noun · European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States

lade

verb · fill or place a load on

Example: load a car

laden

adjective · burdened psychologically or mentally

Example: laden with grief

lady fern

noun · most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage

lady of the house

noun · a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income

lady's tobacco

noun · North American perennial propagated by means of runners

laicise

verb · reduce to lay status

Example: laicize the parochial schools

laid low

adjective · put out of action (by illness)

laid-back

adjective · unhurried and relaxed

Example: a mellow conversation

lake malawi

noun · a long lake in southeastern Africa between Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi

lam into

verb · hit violently, as in an attack

lambast

verb · censure severely or angrily

Example: The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car

lambaste

verb · censure severely or angrily

Example: The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car

lambent

adjective · softly bright or radiant

Example: a house aglow with lights

lamely

adverb · in a weak and unconvincing manner

Example: `I don't know, Edward,' she answered lamely

lamentably

adverb · in an unfortunate or deplorable manner

Example: he was sadly neglected

lamenting

adjective · vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression- Shakespeare

Example: lamenting sinners

lamium amplexicaule

noun · Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers

lampris

noun · type genus of the Lampridae

lanceolate

adjective · (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex

lancinate

adjective · painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

Example: a cutting wind

landed

adjective · owning or consisting of land or real estate

Example: the landed gentry

landless

adjective · owning no land

Example: the landless peasantry

landward

adverb · toward land

Example: landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands

landwards

adverb · toward land

Example: landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands

lang syne

adverb · of the distant or comparatively distant past is Scottish

Example: We met once long ago

langoustine

noun · caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster

langside

noun · (1568) Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants

language

noun · the mental faculty or power of vocal communication

Example: language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals

languidly

adverb · in a languid and lethargic manner

Example: the men languidly put on their jackets

languorously

adverb · in a languorous manner

Example: he was sprawling languorously on the sofa

laotian

adjective · of or relating to Laos or its people

Example: the Laotian Prime Minister

lap of honour

noun · a lap by the winning person or team run to celebrate the victory

lapidary

adjective · of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them- Lord Byron

Example: the ring is of no lapidary value

lapidify

verb · change into stone

Example: the wood petrified with time

lapplander

noun · a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer

large-minded

adjective · showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

Example: a broad political stance

largely

adverb · in large part; mainly or chiefly

Example: These accounts are largely inactive

largemouth

noun · a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye

larger

adjective · large or big relative to something else

lark about

verb · play boisterously

Example: The children frolicked in the garden

larn

verb · gain knowledge or skills

Example: She learned dancing from her sister

larrup

verb · give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

lash

noun · a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

Example: the whip raised a red welt

lash out

verb · attack in speech or writing

Example: The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker

lash together

verb · bind together with a cord or rope

Example: Lash together these barrels!

lashing

adjective · violently urging on by whipping or flogging

Example: looked at the lashing riders

last but not least

adverb · in addition to all the foregoing

Example: last not least he plays the saxophone

last frontier

noun · a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union

Example: Alaska is the largest state in the United States

last not least

adverb · in addition to all the foregoing

Example: last not least he plays the saxophone

last out

verb · hang on during a trial of endurance

Example: ride out the storm

lastly

adverb · the item at the end

Example: last, I'll discuss family values

latch on

verb · understand, usually after some initial difficulty

Example: She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on

lately

adverb · in the recent past

Example: he was in Paris recently

latent diabetes

noun · a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures