Word Meanings - LACEDAEMONIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n.
Related words: (words related to LACEDAEMONIAN)
- CHIEFLESS
Without a chief or leader. - 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. - LACONISM
1. A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style. 2. An instance of laconic style or expression. - 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. - 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 - LACRYMAL
See A - PALACIOUS
Palatial. Graunt. - MALACOSTOMOUS
Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes. - 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 - FRANKFORT BLACK
. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath. - INTERAMBULACRAL
Of or pertaining to the interambulacra. - 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.