Laund
(Laund) n. [See Lawn of grass.] A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [Obs.]
In a laund upon an hill of flowers.
Chaucer.
Through this laund anon the deer will come.
Shak. Launder
(Laun"der) n. [Contracted fr. OE. lavender, F. lavandière, LL. lavandena, from L. lavare to
wash. See Lave.]
1. A washerwoman. [Obs.]
2. (Mining) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or
for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.
Launder
(Laun"der), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laundered (-derd); p. pr. & vb. n. Laundering.]
1. To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder
shirts.
2. To lave; to wet. [Obs.] Shak.
Launderer
(Laun"der*er) n. One who follows the business of laundering.
Laundering
(Laun"der*ing), n. The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.
Laundress
(Laun"dress) n. A woman whose employment is laundering.
Laundress
(Laun"dress), v. i. To act as a laundress.[Obs.]
Laundry
(Laun"dry) n.; pl. Laundries [OE. lavendrie, OF. lavanderie. See Launder.]
1. A laundering; a washing.
2. A place or room where laundering is done.
Laundryman
(Laun"dry*man) n.; pl. Laundrymen A man who follows the business of laundering.
Laura
(Lau"ra) n. [LL., fr. Gr. lane, defile, also, a kind of monastery.] (R. C. Ch.) A number of hermitages
or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. C. Kingsley.
Lauraceous
(Lau*ra"ceous) a. [From Laurus.] (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order
(Lauraceæ) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras,
cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.
Laurate
(Lau"rate) n. (Chem.) A salt of lauric acid.
Laureate
(Lau"re*ate) a. [L. laureatus, fr. laurea laurel tree, fr. laureus of laurel, fr. laurus laurel: cf.
F. lauréat. Cf. Laurel.] Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer.
To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Milton.
Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.
Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric,
at the English universities; — so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] (b) Formerly,
an officer of the king's household, whose business was to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday,
