Lackadaisical
(Lack`a*dai"si*cal) a. [From Lackadaisy, interj.] Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental.
— Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.
Lackadaisy
(Lack"a*dai`sy) interj. [From Lackaday, interj.] An expression of languor.
Lackadaisy
(Lack"a*dai`sy), a. Lackadaisical.
Lackaday
(Lack"a*day`) interj. [Abbreviated from alackaday.] Alack the day; alas; — an expression of
sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.
Lackbrain
(Lack"brain`) n. One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.
Lacker
(Lack"er) n. One who lacks or is in want.
Lacker
(Lack"er), n. & v. See Lacquer.
Lackey
(Lack"ey) n.; pl. Lackeys [F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. of German
origin, and akin to E. lick, v.] An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey.
Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.),
the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; —
so called from its party-colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with
blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species (C. Americana and C. sylvatica)
are commonly called tent caterpillars. See Tent caterpillar, under Tent. — Lackey moth (Zoöl.), the
moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.
Lackey
(Lack"ey), v. t. To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
Milton. Lackey
(Lack"ey), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lackeyed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lackeying.] To act or serve as
lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Lackluster
(Lack"lus`ter, Lack"lus`tre) n. A want of luster. — a. Wanting luster or brightness. "Lackluster
eye." Shak.
Lacmus
(Lac"mus) n. See Litmus.
Laconian
(La*co"ni*an) a. Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan. - - n. An
inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan.
Laconic
(La*con"ic La*con"ic*al) a. [L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr. fr. a Laconian, Lacedæmonian, or Spartan: cf.
F. laconique.]
1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic.
In this sense laconic is the usual form.
I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary
epistles of half a yard long.
Pope.
His sense was strong and his style laconic.
Welwood. 2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching.
His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well.
Bp. Hall.