Lattermath noun [ Confer Aftermath .] The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.

Lattice noun [ Middle English latis , French lattis lathwork, from latte lath. See Latten , 1st Lath .]
1. Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework .

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice .

Judg. v. 28.

2. (Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.

Lattice bridge , a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses. -- Lattice girder (Architecture) , a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework. -- Lattice plant (Botany) , an aquatic plant of Madagascar ( Ouvirandra fenestralis ), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is O. Berneriana . The genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors.

Lattice intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Latticed ; present participle & verbal noun Latticing .]
1. To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers.

2. To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window.

To lattice up , to cover or inclose with a lattice.

Therein it seemeth he [ Alexander] hath latticed up Cæsar.

Sir T. North.

Latticework noun Same as Lattice , noun , 1.

Latticing noun
1. The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to.

2. (Bridge Building) A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut.

Latus rectum [ Latin , the right side.] (Conic Sections) The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus , and Parameter .

Laud noun [ Latin laus , laudis . See Laud , intransitive verb ]

1. High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory. " Laud be to God." Shak.

So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.

Tyndals.

2. A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; -- usually in the plural

» In the Roman Catholic Church, the prayers used at daybreak, between those of matins and prime, are called lauds .

3. Music or singing in honor of any one.

Laud intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Lauded ; present participle & verbal noun Lauding .] [ Latin laudare , from laus , laudis , praise. Confer Allow .] To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol.

With all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name.

Book of Common Prayer.

Laudability noun [ Latin laudabilitas .] Laudableness; praiseworthiness.

Laudable adjective [ Latin laudabilis : confer Middle English laudable . See Laud , intransitive verb ]
1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.

2. (Medicine) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot.

Laudableness (lad"ȧ*b'l*nĕs) noun The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.

Laudably adverb In a laudable manner.

Laudanine noun [ From Laudanum .] (Chemistry) A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.

Laudanum noun [ Orig. the same wort as ladanum , ladbdanum : confer French laudanum , Italian laudano , ladano . See Ladanum .] Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.

» A fluid ounce of American laudanum should contain the soluble matter of one tenth of an ounce avoirdupois of powdered opium with equal parts of alcohol and water. English laudanum should have ten grains less of opium in the fluid ounce. U. S. Disp.

Dutchman's laudanum (Botany) See under Dutchman .

Laudation noun [ Latin laudatio : confer Middle English taudation . See Land , transitive verb ] The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.

Laudative adjective [ Latin laudativus laudatory: confer French laudatif .] Laudatory.

Laudative noun A panegyric; a eulogy. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Laudator noun [ Latin ]
1. One who lauds.

2. (Law) An arbitrator. [ Obsolete] Cowell.

Laudatory adjective [ Latin laudatorius : confer Old French laudatoire .] Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden. Sir J. Stephen.

Lauder noun One who lauds.

Laugh intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Laughed present participle & verbal noun Laughing .] [ Middle English laughen , laghen , lauhen , Anglo-Saxon hlehhan , hlihhan , hlyhhan , hliehhan ; akin to Old Saxon hlahan , D. & German lachen , Old High German hlahhan , lahhan , lahhēn , Icelandic hlæja , Danish lee , Swedish le , Goth. hlahjan ; perhaps of imitative origin.]
1. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er.

Shak.

He laugheth that winneth.

Heywood's Prov.

2. Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned.

Dryden.

In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy.

Pope.

To laugh at , to make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride.

No wit to flatter left of all his store,
No fool to laugh at , which he valued more.

Pope.

-- To laugh in the sleeve , to laugh secretly, or so as not to be observed, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at. -- To laugh out , to laugh in spite of some restraining influence; to laugh aloud. -- To laugh out of the other corner (or side ) of the mouth , to weep or cry; to feel regret, vexation, or disappointment after hilarity or exaltation. [ Slang]

Laugh transitive verb
1. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?

Shak.

I shall laugh myself to death.

Shak.

2. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out .

From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.

Shak.

To laugh away . (a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret . (b) To waste in hilarity. "Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune." Shak. -- To laugh down . (a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter; as, to laugh down a speaker . (b) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule; as, to laugh down a reform. -- To laugh one out of , to cause one by laughter or ridicule to abandon or give up; as, to laugh one out of a plan or purpose. -- To laugh to scorn , to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt, and scorn; to despise.

Laugh noun An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh , intransitive verb

And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Goldsmith.

That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh .

F. W. Robertson.

Laughable adjective Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.

Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll , and Ludicrous .

-- Laugh"a*ble*ness , noun -- Laugh"a*bly , adverb

Laugher noun
1. One who laughs.

2. A variety of the domestic pigeon.

Laughing adjective & noun from Laugh , intransitive verb

Laughing falcon (Zoology) , a South American hawk ( Herpetotheres cachinnans ); -- so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laugh. -- Laughing gas (Chemistry) , hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; -- so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it sometimes produces when inhaled. It is much used as an anæsthetic agent. -- Laughing goose (Zoology) , the European white-fronted goose. -- Laughing gull . (Zoology) (a) A common European gull ( Xema ridibundus ); -- called also pewit , black cap , red-legged gull , and sea crow . (b) An American gull ( Larus atricilla ). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black. -- Laughing hyena (Zoology) , the spotted hyena. See Hyena . -- Laughing jackass (Zoology) , the great brown kingfisher ( Dacelo gigas ), of Australia; -- called also giant kingfisher , and gogobera . -- Laughing owl (Zoology) , a peculiar owl ( Sceloglaux albifacies ) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes.

Laughingly adverb With laughter or merriment.

Laughingstock noun An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak.

When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers.

Macaulay.

Laughsome adjective Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry. [ R.]

Laughter noun [ Anglo-Saxon hleahtor ; akin to Old High German hlahtar , German gelächter , Icelandic hlātr , Danish latter . See Laugh , intransitive verb ] A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh , intransitive verb

The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.

Sir T. Browne.

Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .

Longfellow.

Laughterless adjective Not laughing; without laughter.

Laughworthy adjective Deserving to be laughed at. [ R.] B. Jonson.

Laumontite noun [ From Dr. Laumont , the discoverer.] (Min.) A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles. [ Written also laumonite .]

Launce noun A lance. [ Obsolete]

Launce noun [ Italian lance , Latin lanx , lancis , plate, scale of a balance. Confer Balance .] A balance. [ Obsolete]

Fortune all in equal launce doth sway.

Spenser.

Launce noun (Zoology) See Lant , the fish.

Launcegaye noun See Lancegaye . [ Obsolete]

Launch (länch) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Launched (läncht); present participle & verbal noun Launching .] [ Middle English launchen to throw as a lance, Old French lanchier , another form of lancier , French lancer , from lance lance. See Lance .] [ Written also lanch .]
1. To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

2. To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. [ Obsolete]

Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.

Spenser.

3. To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship,
And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.

Pope.

4. To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.

All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England.

Eikon Basilike.

Launch intransitive verb To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out .

Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

Luke v. 4.

He [ Spenser] launches out into very flowery paths.

Prior.

Launch noun
1. The act of launching.

2. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.

3. [ Confer Spanish lancha .] (Nautical) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.

Launching ways . (Nautical) See Way , noun (Nautical) .

Laund (land) noun [ See Lawn of grass.] A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [ Obsolete]

In a laund upon an hill of flowers.

Chaucer.

Through this laund anon the deer will come.

Shak.

Launder (län"dẽr) noun [ Contracted from Middle English lavender , French lavandière , Late Latin lavandena , from Latin lavare to wash. See Lave .]
1. A washerwoman. [ Obsolete]

2. (Mining) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.

Launder transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Laundered (-dẽrd); present participle & verbal noun Laundering .]
1. To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

2. To lave; to wet. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Launderer noun One who follows the business of laundering.

Laundering noun The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

Laundress noun A woman whose employment is laundering.

Laundress intransitive verb To act as a laundress. [ Obsolete]

Laundry noun ; plural Laundries . [ Middle English lavendrie , Old French lavanderie . See Launder .]
1. A laundering; a washing.

2. A place or room where laundering is done.

Laundryman noun ; plural Laundrymen A man who follows the business of laundering.

Laura noun [ Late Latin , from Greek lane, defile, also, a kind of monastery.] (R. C. Ch.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. C. Kingsley.