2. The state of a layman. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to
it.
Lakao
(||La*ka"o) n. Sap green. [China]
Lake
(Lake) n. [F. laque, fr. Per. See Lac.] 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.
Lake
(Lake), n. [Cf. G. laken.] A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Lake
(Lake) v. i. [AS. lacan, læcan, to spring, jump, lac play, sport, or fr. Icel. leika to play, sport; both
akin to Goth. laikan to dance. &radic120. Cf. Knowledge.] To play; to sport. [Prov. Eng.]
Lake
(Lake), n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea, Icel. lögr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. la`kkos pond,
tank. Cf. Loch, Lough.] 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.
Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually
no outlet to the ocean.
Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe.
Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common
in the lakes of Switzerland. — Lake dwellings (Archæol.), dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on
piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric
times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See Crannog.
— Lake fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Chironomus. In form
they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvæ live in lakes. — Lake herring (Zoöl.), the
cisco — Lake poets, Lake school, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor,
to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb
and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and lakists. — Lake
sturgeon (Zoöl.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and
the Mississippi River. It is used as food. — Lake trout (Zoöl.), any one of several species of trout and
salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great
Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout
inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See Namaycush. — Lake whitefish.
(Zoöl.) See Whitefish. — Lake whiting (Zoöl.), an American whitefish found in many lakes in the Northern
United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish.
Lake-dweller
(Lake"-dwell`er) n. See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
Lakelet
(Lake"let) n. A little lake. Southey.
Lakeweed
(Lake"weed`) n. (Bot.) The water pepper an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.
Lakh
(||Lakh) n. Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.
Lakin
(La"kin) n. See Ladykin.
Lakke
(Lak"ke) n. & v. See Lack. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Laky
(Lak"y) a. Pertaining to a lake. Sir W. Scott.
