Word Meanings - DRABBLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

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• LACINIATE; LACINIATED
  Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. (more info) 1. Fringed; having a fringed border.
• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
• LACUSTRAL; LACUSTRINE
  Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. Lacustrine deposits , the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. -- Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• LACTEOUS
  1. Milky; resembling milk. "The lacteous circle." Sir T. Browne. 2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as, lacteous vessels.
• LACTEALLY
  Milkily; in the manner of milk.
• LACTEOUSLY
  In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.
• LACEDAEMONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n.
• LACERT
  A muscle of the human body. Chaucer.
• LACTIFUGE
  A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
• LACTURAMIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.
• LACTAGE
  The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.
• LACERATE; LACERATED
  Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. (more info) 1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.
• LACONISM
  1. A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style. 2. An instance of laconic style or expression.
• LACERTUS
  A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers.
• LACONIC
  Laconism. Addison.
• LACERTILIA
  An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards. Note: They are closely related to the snakes, and life the latter, usually have the body covered with scales or granules. They usually have eyelids, and most of then have well-formed legs; but in
• DEPTH
  The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward
• LACRYMAL
  See A
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• INTERAMBULACRUM
  In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. (more info) Interambulacrums
• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• SIMULACRUM
  A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense. Beneath it nothing but a great simulacrum. Thackeray.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.