Lane
(Lane) n. [OE. lane, lone, AS. lone, lone; akin to D. laan, OFries. lana, lona.] 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.
It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through.
Tyndale. Lang
(Lang) a. & adv. Long. [Obs. or Scot.]
Langaha
(Lan"ga*ha) n. (Zoöl.) A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar.
It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade.
Langarey
(Lan`ga*rey") n. (Zoöl.) One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds of Australia
and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow.
Langate
(Lan"gate) n. (Surg.) A linen roller used in dressing wounds.
Langdak
(Lang"dak`) n. (Zoöl.) A wolf found in India, allied to the jackal.
Langrage
(Lan"grage Lan"grel) n. A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It
consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.
Langret
(Lan"gret) n. A kind of loaded die. [Obs.]
Langridge
(Lan"gridge) n. See Langrage. [Sometimes compounded with shot.]
Langsyne
(Lang`syne") adv. & n. [Scot. lang long + syne since.] Long since; long ago. [Scot.]
Langteraloo
(Lang`ter*a*loo") n. [See Loo.] An old game at cards. See Loo (a). Tatler.
Language
(Lan"guage) n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua the tongue, hence speech, language; akin
to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. Lingual.]
1. 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.
Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made the representatives of ideas.
When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of
these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language,
the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing.
Articulate sounds are represented to the eye by letters, marks, or characters, which form words.
2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.
3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
