Name Report For First Name LISE:
LISE
First name LISE's origin is French. LISE means "abbreviation of elisabeth. my god is bountiful:god of plenty: devoted to god". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LISE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lise.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with LISE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LISE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LISE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LÝSE AS A WHOLE:
ingelise liseli adelise ailise alise analise annalise annelise chalise charlise elise emma-lise liselle lisette marlise melisenda naylise eliseo eulises ulisesNAMES RHYMING WITH LÝSE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ise) - Names That Ends with ise:
heloise aloise amarise cerise charise cherise danise denise dennise dorise eloise francoise janise jenise kaise labhaoise louise luise marise marquise mavise mertise minoise morise sherise treise blaise cochise plaise wise steiseRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (se) - Names That Ends with se:
alesandese libuse nourbese omorose anneliese alsoomse aase melesse thutmose ambrose lasse seoirse agnese ailse alese alisse allyse alyse alysse anlienisse annaliese ayalisse blisse bluinse blysse caresse celesse chayse cherese cheresse cherisse clarisse denisse denyse ellesse else elyse hausisse hortense ilse ilyse lssse maddy-rose margawse morgawse promyse therese blase case chase jesse jose kesegowaase morse neese reese rousse royse tse tyrese breuse terese nyse melisse larisse inese rose morguase lyonesseNAMES RHYMING WITH LÝSE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lis) - Names That Begins with lis:
lisa lisabet lisabeth lisabette lisandra lisandro lisavet lisbet lisha lishan lisimba lisle lissa lissette listRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (li) - Names That Begins with li:
lia liam liana liane lianna libby liberty lichas licia lidia lidio lidmann lidoine liealia lien liesbet liesheth liesl lieu liezel lifton ligia liisa liko lil lila lilah lili lilia lilian liliana liliane lilianna lilibet lilibeth lilie lilike lilis lilith lilium lillee lilli lillian lilliana lillie lillis lilly lillyana lilo liluye lily lilyanna lilybell lilybeth lin lina lincoln lind linda lindael lindberg linddun lindeberg lindel lindell linden lindi lindie lindisfarne lindiwe lindl lindleigh lindley lindly lindsay lindsey lindy line linette linford linh link linka linleah linleyNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LÝSE:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'e':
lace lacee lacene lache lachie lacie ladde lafayette lailie laine lainie laire lajeune lalage lamandre lance lane lanette lange lanice lanie lannie laoghaire larae laraine laramie larcwide larie larine larke larraine larue lasalle lashae lassie laudegrance laudine lauraine lauralee laurelle laurence laurene laurenne laurette laurie lausanne laverne lawe lawrence laycie laylie layne lea-que leandre leane leanne lee leeanne legarre leighanne leilanie lele lenae lenee lennie lenore leocadie leodegrance leodegraunce leonce leone leonelle leonie leonore leontyne leopoldine leotie leslee leslie lethe letje leucippe levane levene lexie lexine lezlie linne linnette liriene lirienne livingstone lizette locke locrine loe lonnie loraine loralee loranceEnglish Words Rhyming LISE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LÝSE AS A WHOLE:
| aliseptal | adjective (a.) Relating to expansions of the nasal septum. |
| callisection | noun (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. |
| coliseum | noun (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. |
| solisequious | adjective (a.) Following the course of the sun; as, solisequious plants. |
| trellised | adjective (a.) Having a trellis or trellises. |
| valise | noun (n.) A small sack or case, usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LÝSE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ise) - English Words That Ends with ise:
| afterwise | adjective (a.) Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late. |
| aguise | noun (n.) Dress. |
| verb (v. t.) To dress; to attire; to adorn. |
| amortise | noun (n.) Alt. of Amortisement |
| anise | noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds. |
| noun (n.) The fruit or seeds of this plant. |
| apprise | noun (n.) Notice; information. |
| verb (v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done. |
| arise | noun (n.) Rising. |
| verb (v. i.) To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning. | |
| verb (v. i.) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise. | |
| verb (v. i.) To proceed; to issue; to spring. |
| bise | noun (n.) A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice. |
| noun (n.) A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral. | |
| noun (n.) See Bice. |
| braise | noun (n.) Alt. of Braize |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Braize | |
| verb (v. t.) To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan. |
| bruise | noun (n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit. |
| verb (v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall. | |
| verb (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box. |
| cerise | adjective (a.) Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk. |
| chaise | noun (n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse. |
| noun (n.) a carriage in general. |
| chemise | noun (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women. |
| noun (n.) A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork. |
| compromise | noun (n.) A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. |
| noun (n.) A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement. | |
| noun (n.) A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right. | |
| noun (n.) To bind by mutual agreement; to agree. | |
| noun (n.) To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. | |
| noun (n.) To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion. | |
| verb (v. i.) To agree; to accord. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make concession for conciliation and peace. |
| concise | adjective (a.) Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. |
| cotise | noun (n.) See Cottise. |
| cottise | noun (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close. |
| counterpoise | noun (n.) A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight. |
| noun (n.) An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force. | |
| noun (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To act against with equal power; to balance. |
| croise | noun (n.) A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. |
| noun (n.) A crusader. |
| cruise | noun (n.) See Cruse, a small bottle. |
| noun (n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure. | |
| verb (v. i.) To wander hither and thither on land. | |
| verb (v. i.) To inspect forest land for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cruise over or about. | |
| verb (v. t.) To explore with reference to capacity for the production of lumber; as, to cruise a section of land. |
| demise | noun (n.) Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. |
| noun (n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person. | |
| noun (n.) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath. | |
| verb (v. t.) To convey; to give. | |
| verb (v. t.) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease. |
| dervise | noun (n.) Alt. of Dervis |
| devise | noun (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate. |
| noun (n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. | |
| noun (n.) Property devised, or given by will. | |
| noun (n.) Device. See Device. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe. | |
| verb (v. t.) To imagine; to guess. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. |
| disguise | noun (n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties. |
| noun (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show. | |
| noun (n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication. | |
| noun (n.) A masque or masquerade. | |
| verb (v. t.) To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions. | |
| verb (v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. |
| ecossaise | noun (n.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style. |
| emprise | noun (n.) An enterprise; endeavor; adventure. |
| noun (n.) The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits. | |
| verb (v. t.) To undertake. |
| entermise | noun (n.) Mediation. |
| enterprise | noun (n.) That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. |
| noun (n.) Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to entertain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. |
| equipoise | noun (n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. |
| noun (n.) Counterpoise. |
| excise | noun (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system. |
| noun (n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor. |
| exercise | noun (n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice. |
| noun (n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback. | |
| noun (n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty. | |
| noun (n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition. | |
| noun (n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. | |
| verb (v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office. | |
| verb (v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement. |
| foolhardise | noun (n.) Foolhardiness. |
| fraise | noun (n.) A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. |
| noun (n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position. | |
| noun (n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. |
| franchise | adjective (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. |
| adjective (a.) A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. | |
| adjective (a.) The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary. | |
| adjective (a.) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to. |
| froise | noun (n.) A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise. |
| fadaise | noun (n.) A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense. |
| galliardise | adjective (a.) Excessive gayety; merriment. |
| gise | noun (n.) Guise; manner. |
| verb (v. t.) To feed or pasture. |
| grise | noun (n.) See Grice, a pig. |
| noun (n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. | |
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| guise | noun (n.) Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself. |
| noun (n.) External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. | |
| noun (n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism. |
| hollandaise | noun (n.) A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar. |
| intermise | noun (n.) Interference; interposition. |
| jewise | noun (n.) Same as Juise. |
| juise | noun (n.) Judgment; justice; sentence. |
| juwise | noun (n.) Same as Juise. |
| likewise | noun (n.) In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also. |
| lyonnaise | adjective (a.) Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley. |
| mainprise | noun (n.) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete. |
| noun (n.) Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day. | |
| verb (v. t.) To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner. |
| malaise | noun (n.) An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease. |
| marquise | noun (n.) The wife of a marquis; a marchioness. |
| marseillaise | noun (n. f.) A native or inhabitant of Marseilles. |
| adjective (a. f.) Of or pertaining to Marseilles, in France, or to its inhabitants. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LÝSE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lis) - Words That Begins with lis:
| lister | noun (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish. |
| noun (n.) One who makes a list or roll. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Leister. | |
| noun (n.) A double-moldboard plow which throws a deep furrow, and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow. |
| lisbon | noun (n.) A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal. |
| lisle | noun (n.) A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures. |
| lisne | noun (n.) A cavity or hollow. |
| lisping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lisp |
| lisp | noun (n.) The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1. |
| verb (v. i.) To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children. | |
| verb (v. i.) To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. | |
| verb (v. i.) To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pronounce with a lisp. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language. | |
| verb (v. t.) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason. |
| lisper | noun (n.) One who lisps. |
| liss | noun (n.) Release; remission; ease; relief. |
| verb (v. t.) To free, as from care or pain; to relieve. |
| lissencephala | noun (n. pl.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. |
| lissom | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lissome |
| lissome | adjective (a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. |
| adjective (a.) Light; nimble; active. |
| list | noun (n.) A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. |
| noun (n.) Inclination; desire. | |
| noun (n.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard. | |
| noun (n.) A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet. | |
| noun (n.) A limit or boundary; a border. | |
| noun (n.) The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. | |
| noun (n.) A stripe. | |
| noun (n.) A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate. | |
| noun (n.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman. | |
| noun (n.) The first thin coat of tin. | |
| noun (n.) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inclose for combat; as, to list a field. | |
| verb (v. i.) To hearken; to attend; to listen. | |
| verb (v. t.) To listen or hearken to. | |
| verb (v. i.) To desire or choose; to please. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enroll; to place or register in a list. | |
| verb (v. t.) To engage, as a soldier; to enlist. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board. | |
| verb (v. i.) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist. | |
| verb (v. t.) To plow and plant with a lister. | |
| verb (v. t.) In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. |
| listing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of List |
| noun (n.) The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange. | |
| noun (n.) The selvedge of cloth; list. | |
| noun (n.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board. | |
| noun (n.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops. |
| listel | noun (n.) Same as List, n., 6. |
| listening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Listen |
| listener | noun (n.) One who listens; a hearkener. |
| listerian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to listerism. |
| listerism | noun (n.) The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon. |
| listful | adjective (a.) Attentive. |
| listless | adjective (a.) Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LÝSE:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'e':
| labiate | noun (n.) A plant of the order Labiatae. |
| adjective (a.) Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip. | |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatae), of which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic herbs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To labialize. |
| labile | adjective (a.) Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. |
| labiose | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of being labiate; -- said of certain polypetalous corollas. |
| laborsome | adjective (a.) Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. |
| adjective (a.) Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor. |
| labradorite | noun (n.) A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar. |
| labrose | adjective (a.) Having thick lips. |
| laburnine | noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum. |
| labyrinthine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal. |
| laccolite | noun (n.) Alt. of Laccolith |
| lace | noun (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. |
| noun (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. | |
| noun (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. | |
| noun (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. | |
| verb (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). | |
| verb (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace. | |
| verb (v. t.) To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. |
| lacerable | adjective (a.) That can be lacerated or torn. |
| lacerate | adjective (p. a.) Alt. of Lacerated |
| verb (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart. |
| lacerative | adjective (a.) Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. |
| lacertine | adjective (a.) Lacertian. |
| lache | noun (n.) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim. |
| lachrymable | adjective (a.) Lamentable. |
| lachrymose | adjective (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. |
| laciniate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Laciniated |
| laciniolate | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniae. |
| lacklustre | noun (n.) A want of luster. |
| adjective (a.) Wanting luster or brightness. |
| lacrosse | noun (n.) 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 with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field. |
| lactage | noun (n.) The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it. |
| lactamide | noun (n.) An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine. |
| lactarene | noun (n.) A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico. |
| lactate | noun (n.) A salt of lactic acid. |
| lactescence | noun (n.) The state or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color. |
| noun (n.) The latex of certain plants. See Latex. |
| lactide | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance. |
| lactifuge | noun (n.) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body. |
| lactimide | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid. |
| lactone | noun (n.) One of a series of organic compounds, regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid. |
| lactoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. |
| lactose | noun (n.) Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin. |
| noun (n.) See Galactose. |
| lactucone | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium. |
| lacune | noun (n.) A lacuna. |
| lacunose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lacunous |
| lacustrine | adjective (a.) Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. |
| laddie | noun (n.) A lad; a male sweetheart. |
| lade | noun (n.) The mouth of a river. |
| noun (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw water. | |
| verb (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc. |
| ladrone | noun (n.) A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal. |
| ladylike | adjective (a.) Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. |
| adjective (a.) Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. | |
| adjective (a.) Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. |
| ladylove | noun (n.) A sweetheart or mistress. |
| laevigate | adjective (a.) Having a smooth surface, as if polished. |
| laevulose | noun (n.) See Levulose. |
| lafayette | noun (n.) The dollar fish. |
| noun (n.) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States. |
| lagune | noun (n.) See Lagoon. |
| lainere | noun (n.) See Lanier. |
| lake | noun (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. |
| noun (n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. | |
| noun (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play; to sport. |
| lakke | noun (n. & v.) See Lack. |
| lamaite | noun (n.) One who believes in Lamaism. |
| lambale | noun (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs. |
| lambative | noun (n.) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture. |
| adjective (a.) Taken by licking with the tongue. |
| lamblike | adjective (a.) Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive. |
| lamellate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lamellated |
| lamellibranchiate | noun (n.) One of the Lamellibranchia. |
| adjective (a.) Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. |
| lamellose | adjective (a.) Composed of, or having, lamellae; lamelliform. |
| lamentable | adjective (a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. |
| adjective (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. | |
| adjective (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. |
| laminable | adjective (a.) Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. |
| laminarite | noun (n.) A broad-leafed fossil alga. |
| laminate | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling. | |
| verb (v. i.) To separate into laminae. |
| lampadrome | noun (n.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize. |
| lampate | noun (n.) A supposed salt of lampic acid. |
| lampyrine | noun (n.) An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridae. See Lampyris. |
| lanarkite | noun (n.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color. |
| lance | noun (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. |
| noun (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. | |
| noun (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. | |
| noun (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch. |
| lancegaye | noun (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. |
| lanceolate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lanceolated |
| lancepesade | noun (n.) An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal. |
| landgrave | noun (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. |
| landgraviate | noun (n.) The territory held by a landgrave. |
| noun (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave. |
| landgravine | noun (n.) The wife of a landgrave. |
| landreeve | noun (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward. |
| landscape | noun (n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. |
| noun (n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. | |
| noun (n.) The pictorial aspect of a country. |
| landslide | noun (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. |
| noun (n.) The land which slips down. |
| lane | noun (n.) A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. |
| adjective (a.) Alone. |
| langate | noun (n.) A linen roller used in dressing wounds. |
| langrage | noun (n.) Alt. of Langrel |
| langridge | noun (n.) See Langrage. |
| langsyne | noun (adv. & n.) Long since; long ago. |
| language | noun (n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. |
| noun (n.) The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality. | |
| noun (n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation. | |
| noun (n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style. | |
| noun (n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants. | |
| noun (n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. | |
| noun (n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology. | |
| noun (n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech. | |
| verb (v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language. |
| lanifice | noun (n.) Anything made of wool. |
| lanthanite | noun (n.) Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals. |
| lanthopine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance. |
| lanuginose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lanuginous |
| laparocele | noun (n.) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions. |
| lapicide | noun (n.) A stonecutter. |
| lapidescence | noun (n.) The state or quality of being lapidescent. |
| noun (n.) A hardening into a stone substance. | |
| noun (n.) A stony concretion. |
| lapsable | adjective (a.) Lapsible. |
| lapse | noun (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. |
| noun (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude. | |
| noun (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege. | |
| noun (n.) A fall or apostasy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. | |
| verb (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall. | |
| verb (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. |
| lapsible | adjective (a.) Liable to lapse. |
| lapstone | noun (n.) A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather. |
| lapstrake | adjective (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats. |
| lare | noun (n.) Lore; learning. |
| noun (n.) Pasture; feed. See Lair. | |
| verb (v. t.) To feed; to fatten. |
| large | noun (n.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves. |
| superlative (superl.) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city. | |
| superlative (superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. | |
| superlative (superl.) Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart. | |
| superlative (superl.) Free; unembarrassed. | |
| superlative (superl.) Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. | |
| superlative (superl.) Prodigal in expending; lavish. | |
| superlative (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. | |
| adverb (adv.) Freely; licentiously. |
| largesse | adjective (a.) Liberality; generosity; bounty. |
| adjective (a.) A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. |
| larine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gull family (Laridae). |
| larve | noun (n.) A larva. |
| larungoscope | noun (n.) An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image. |
| laryngotome | noun (n.) An instrument for performing laryngotomy. |
| lassie | noun (n.) A young girl; a lass. |
| lassitude | noun (n.) A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. |
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