Word Meanings - LACEDAEMONIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n.

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• 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.
• 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
• 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.