Latin (n.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Latin (v. t.) To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.
Latinism (n.) A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.
Latinist (n.) One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar.
Latinistic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom.
Latinitaster (n.) One who has but a smattering of Latin.
Latinity (n.) The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.
Latinization (n.) The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country.
Latinized (imp. & p. p.) of Latinize
Latinizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Latinize
Latinize (v. t.) To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.
Latinize (v. t.) To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech.
Latinize (v. t.) To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.
Latinize (v. i.) To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.
Latinize (v. i.) To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.
Latinly (adv.) In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.
Lation (n.) Transportation; conveyance.
Latirostral (a.) Alt. of Latirostrous
Latirostrous (a.) Having a broad beak.
Latirostres (n. pl.) The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.
Latish (a.) Somewhat late.
Latisternal (a.) Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.
Latitancy (n.) Act or state of lying hid, or lurking.
Latitant (a.) Lying hid; concealed; latent.
Latitat (n.) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
Latitation (n.) A lying in concealment; hiding.
Latitude (n.) Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.
Latitude (n.) Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence.
Latitude (n.) Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
Latitude (n.) Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
Latitude (n.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian.
Latitude (n.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
Latitudinal (a.) Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.
Latitudinarian (a.) Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
Latitudinarian (a.) Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology.
Latitudinarian (a.) Lax in moral or religious principles.
Latitudinarian (n.) One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
Latitudinarian (n.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed.
Latitudinarian (n.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy.
Latitudinarianism (n.) A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief.
Latitudinous (a.) Having latitude, or wide extent.
Laton (n.) Alt. of Latoun
Latoun (n.) Latten, 1.
Latrant (a.) Barking.
Latrate (v. i.) To bark as a dog.
Latration (n.) A barking.
Latreutical (a.) Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting.
Latreutical (a.) Of or pertaining to latria.
Latria (n.) The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.
Latrine (n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.
Latrociny (n.) Theft; larceny.
Latten (n.) A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass.
Latten (n.) Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten.
Latter (a.) Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
Latter (a.) Of two things, the one mentioned second.
Latter (a.) Recent; modern.
Latter (a.) Last; latest; final.
Latter-day saint () A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
Latterkin (n.) A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
Latterly (adv.) Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period.
Lattermath (n.) The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.
Lattice (n.) 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.
Lattice (n.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.
Latticed (imp. & p. p.) of Lattice
Latticing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lattice
Lattice (v. i.) To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers.
Lattice (v. i.) To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window.
Latticework (n.) Same as Lattice, n., 1.
Latticing (n.) The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to.
Latticing (n.) A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut.
Latus rectum () 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 (v. i.) High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory.
Laud (v. i.) A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; -- usually in the pl.
Laud (v. i.) Music or singing in honor of any one.
Lauded (imp. & p. p.) of Laud
Lauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laud
Laud (v. i.) To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol.
Laudability (n.) Laudableness; praiseworthiness.
Laudable (v. i.) Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.
Laudable (v. i.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.
Laudableness (n.) The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
Laudably (adv.) In a laudable manner.
Laudanine (n.) A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.
Laudanum (n.) Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.
Laudation (v. t.) The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.
Laudative (a.) Laudatory.
Laudative (n.) A panegyric; a eulogy.
Laudator (n.) One who lauds.
Laudator (n.) An arbitrator.
Laudatory (a.) Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden.
Lauder (n.) One who lauds.
Laughed (imp. & p. p.) of Laugh
Laughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laugh
Laugh (v. i.) 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.
Laugh (v. i.) Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
Laugh (v. t.) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
Laugh (v. t.) To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.
Laugh (n.) An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
Laughable (a.) Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.
Laugher (n.) One who laughs.