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Found: 3,475 words.
In a labored manner; with labor.
One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
Laboring
3 defs
of Labor
Laborious
2 defs
Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
Not involving labor; not laborious; easy.
Laborious.
Laborsome
2 defs
Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor.
of Labrum
A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland.
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.
Lips.
of Labrus
Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ...
Having thick lips.
Labrum
3 defs
A lip or edge, as of a basin.
of Labrum
A genus of marine fishes, including the wrasses of Europe. See Wrasse.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the laburnum.
A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.
A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.
Labyrinth
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A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
Labyrinthibranch
2 defs
Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici.
Alt. of Labyrinthical
Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.
Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodon...
Labyrinthodont
2 defs
Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta.
An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers th...
Lac
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A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bar...
A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.
Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.
A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.
Alt. of Laccolith
A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.
Lace
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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.
A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.
Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies.
Laced
3 defs
Decorated with the fabric lace.
Lacedaemonian
2 defs
A Spartan.
A man who deals in lace.
of Laceman
That can be lacerated or torn.
Lacerate
2 defs
Alt. of Lacerated
Lacerated
3 defs
Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.
of Lacerate