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Lachrymal
() Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland.
Lachrymal
() Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.
Lacrymal
() Alt. of Lacrymal
Lacrymal
() See Lachrymatory.
Lachrymary
() Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal.
Lachrymate
() To weep.
Lachrymation
() The act of shedding tears; weeping.
Lachrymatory
() A \"tear-bottle;\" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.
Lachrymiform
() Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.
Lachrymose
() Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
Lacing
() The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.
Lacing
() A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.
Lacing
() A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.
Lacing
() A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.
Laciniae
() of Lacinia
Lacinia
() One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.
Lacinia
() A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.
Lacinia
() The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects.
Laciniate
() Alt. of Laciniated
Laciniated
() Fringed; having a fringed border.
Laciniated
() Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.
Laciniolate
() Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniae.
Lacinulae
() of Lacinula
Lacinulas
() of Lacinula
Lacinula
() A diminutive lacinia.
Lack
() Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
Lack
() Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
Lacked
() of Lack
Lacking
() of Lack
Lack
() To blame; to find fault with.
Lack
() To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
Lack
() To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
Lack
() To be in want.
Lack
() Exclamation of regret or surprise.
Lackadaisical
() Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental.
Lackadaisy
() An expression of languor.
Lackadaisy
() Lackadaisical.
Lackaday
() Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.
Lackbrain
() One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person.
Lacker
() One who lacks or is in want.
Lacker
() See Lacquer.
Lackeys
() of Lackey
Lackey
() An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
Lackey
() To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
Lackeyed
() of Lackey
Lackeying
() of Lackey
Lackey
() To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Lackluster
() Alt. of Lacklustre
Lacklustre
() A want of luster.
Lacklustre
() Wanting luster or brightness.