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L — Labor to Latitude (Part 6 of 11)

Landrail, n. Corn-crake, daker-hen (Crex pratensis).

Landscape, n. View, prospect, scene, rural scene.

Land-waiter, n. Tide-waiter.

Lane, n. Alley, narrow street, narrow passage or way.

Lang-syne, ad. [Scotch.] Long since, long ago.

Lang-syne, n. The good old time, past times, days gone by, days of yore.

Language, n.

    1. Speech, tongue.
    2. Speech, power or faculty of speech, utterance.
    3. Style, expression, phraseology, diction, form of expression.
    4. Expression, utterance, voice.

Languid, a.

    1. Faint, exhausted, drooping, pining, languishing, flagging, weak, feeble.
    2. Dull, torpid, listless, spiritless, heartless, heavy, inactive, slow, sluggish.

Languidness, n.

    1. Languer, faintness, feebleness, lassitude.
    2. Dulness, listlessness, heaviness, heartlessness.

Languish, v. n.

    1. Droop, pine, faint, fade, wither, decline, fail, become feeble, pine away, waste away.
    2. Look tender, have the air of a lover.

Languishment, n.

    1. Feebleness, decline, weakness, drooping, pining, withering, wasting.
    2. Look of tenderness.