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LAX'ATIVENESS, n. The quality of relaxing.
LAX'ITY, n. [L. laxitas.] 1. Looseness; slackness; the opposite of tenseness or ...
LAX'LY, adv. Loosely; without exactness.
LAX'NESS, n. 1. Looseness; softness; flabbiness; as the laxness of flesh or of m...
LAY, pret. of lie. The estate lay in the county of Hartford. When Ahab heard the...
LAY-CLERK, n. A vocal officiate in a cathedral.
LA'YER, n. la'er. [from lay, the verb.] 1. A stratum; a bed; a body spread over ...
LA'YING, ppr. Putting; placing; applying; imputing; wagering.
LA'YLAND, n. Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Local.]
LA'YMAN, n. la'man. [lay and man.] 1. A man who is not a clergyman; one of the l...
LA'YSTALL, n. [lay and stall.] A heap of dung, or a place where dung is laid.
LA'ZAR, n. [from Laxarus.] A person infected with nauseous and pestilential dise...
LA'ZAR-HOUSE, n. A lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.
LA'ZAR-LIKE, LAZARET', LAZARETTO, n. A public building, hospital or pest-house f...
LA'ZARLY, a. Full of sores; leprous.
LA'ZARWORT, LAZE, v.i. To live in idleness. [Vulgar.] LAZE , v.t. To waste in sl...