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LA'YMAN, n. la'man. [lay and man.] 1. A man who is not a clergyman; one of the l...
LA'YLAND, n. Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Local.]
LA'YING, ppr. Putting; placing; applying; imputing; wagering.
LA'YER, n. la'er. [from lay, the verb.] 1. A stratum; a bed; a body spread over ...
LAY-CLERK, n. A vocal officiate in a cathedral.
LAY, pret. of lie. The estate lay in the county of Hartford. When Ahab heard the...
LAX'NESS, n. 1. Looseness; softness; flabbiness; as the laxness of flesh or of m...
LAX'LY, adv. Loosely; without exactness.
LAX'ITY, n. [L. laxitas.] 1. Looseness; slackness; the opposite of tenseness or ...
LAX'ATIVENESS, n. The quality of relaxing.
LAX'ATIVE, a. [L. laxo.] Having the power or quality of loosening or opening the...
LAXA'TION, n. [L. laxatio.] The act of loosening or slackening; or the state of ...
LAX, a. [L. laxus.] 1. Loose; flabby; soft; not tense, firm or rigid; as lax fle...
LAW'YERLY, a. Judicial.
LAW'YER-LIKE, a. Like a real lawyer.
LAW'YER, n. [that is lawer, contracted from law-wer, law-man.] One versed in the...