lax mannite

[Named after Prof. E. Laxmann by A. E. Nor den ski old; suff. -ite. (Min.) (q. v.).] Min.: A mineral separated from vauquelinite (q. v.) on the ground that it contained over 8 per cent. of phosphoric acid, its composition being a phospho-chromate of lead and copper. Its physical characters correspond, however, very closely to vauquelinite, and later analyses appear to point to the probability that it may be a mixture. A similar compound was analyzed by John in 1845, and Hermann has announced another under the name of phos pho chromite (q. v.). It occurs with vauquelinite at Beresowsk, Perm, Ru ia. lăx-ne , s. [Eng. laz; -ne .) The quality or state of being lax; laxity. lay, pret. of v. [LIE, (2), v.] lāy, *legge, *leie, *lein (pa. t. * leid , * leide , laid , pa. par. leghd , * leid , laid ), v. t . & i. [A. S. lecgan (pa. t. legde , pa. par., pa. par. gelegd ), from lag , læg , pa. t. of licgan to lie (2); cogn. with Dutch leggen (pa. t. legde , leide , pa. par. gelegt ; Icel. leggja (pa. t. lagdhi , pa. par. lagidhr , lagdhr ); Dan. lægge (pa. t. lagde , pa. par. lagt ; Sw. lägge (pa. t. lade , pa. par. lagd ); Goth. lagjan (pa. t. lagida , pa. par. lagiths ); Ger. legen (pa. t. legte , pa. par. gelegt ).] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To cause to lie; to place, to set; to place in a lying position. 2. To cause to lie flat; to beat down so as to lie on the ground; to prostrate. "Another ill accident is laying of corn with great rains in harvest." - Bacon: Natural History. 3. To throw down; to overturn. "When I have laid Athens on a heap." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, iv. 3. 4. To place or set generally; to fix, to apply. "To my thinking, he was very loth to lay his fingers on it."-Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, i. 2. 5. Το construct, to fix. "He laid a bridge of tin boats on the river." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvii. 6. To present; to bring forward; to produce; as, to lay a bill before Congre . 7. To keep from rising; to keep down. "Thou sawest the damsel lay the dust by sprinkling the floor with water." - Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. 1. 8. To still, to allay, to calm. "Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds." Milton: P. R. , iv. 429. 9. To cause to disappear; to exorcise. "The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a petticoat, but the rattling of a bladder with beans in it."L' Estrange: Fables. 10. To dispose regularly or according to rule; as, to lay bricks. *11. To depict, to draw. 12. To spread on a surface. "That was laid on with a trowel." Shakesp.: As You Like It, i. 2. 13. To place or set in the earth for growing; to plant. "The chief time of laying gilliflowers is in July, when the flowers are gone." - Mortimer: Husbandry. 14. To bury, to inter. "David fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption." -Acts xiii. 36. 15. To set or place secretly, as a snare, for the purpose of entrapping. " Lay thee an ambush for the city behind thee." -Joshua viii. 2. *16. To add, to join, to conjoin, to unite. "Woe unto them that lay field to field."- Isaiah v. 8. 17. To impute, to charge. "It will be laid to us, whose providence Should have kept short, restrained, and out of haunt, This mad young man." Shakesp: Hamlet , iv. 1. 18. To impose as a penalty or punishment. "The weariest and most loathed life That age, ache, penury, imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iii. 1. IMG:content-0412.png:[blocks in formation] 21. To put or bring into a certain state; followed by various adjectives; as, to lay bare, to lay waste. 22. To extrude eggs. "After the egg is layed , there is no further growth or nourishment from the female." - Bacon: Nat. Hist. 23. To wager, to stake. "I'll lay my head to any good man's hat." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , i. 1. 24. To plan, to project, to contrive, to plot. "This plot of death when sadly she had laid ." *25. To embroider. Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 1,212. "A scarlet cloak, laid down with silver lace three inches broad."-Scott: Monastery, ch. xiv. *26. To pronounce, to declare. "And lay a sentence." --Shakesp.: Othello , i. 8. II. Technically : 1. Gardening: To propagate by layers. 2. Law: (1) To prefer or bring before a court of justice; as, to lay an indictment. (2) To allege, to claim, to state; as, to lay damages. (3) To fix, to appoint; as, to lay the venue. 3. Rope making , .: To twist or unite the strands, as of a rope, a cable, . IMG:content-0413.png:[blocks in formation] lay (2) To dre in grave clothes; to lay out. "Embalm me, Then lay me forth ; although unqueened, yet like A queen." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., iv. 2. 14. To lay hold of or on: To seize, to catch. "They went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself."- Mark iii. 21. 15. To lay in: (1) To store; to gather together. "The aboriginal peasantry of the neighborhood were laying in pikes and knives." - Macaulay : History England ch. xii. (2) To advance, as a claim; to enter. 16. To lay in for : (1) To make indirect overtures or offers for. (2) To allow for; to make allowance for. "I have laid in for these, by rebating the satire, where justice would allow it, from carrying too sharp an edge." -Dryden. 17. To lay it on: To be extravagant; to do anything to exce ; to charge exorbitantly. "My father has made her mistre Of the feast, and she lays it on." 18. To lay on: (1) Transitive: Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, iv. 2. (a) To apply or deliver with force. "We make no excuses for the obstinate: blows are the proper remedies; but blows laid on in a way different from the ordinary."-Locke: On Education. (b) To supply, as water, gas, ., to a house; spec if., to feed down sheets into a printing-machine. (2) In trans.: To strike with violence. "I will lay on for Tusculum, And lay thou on for Rome." Macaulay: Battle of Lake Regillus , xxviii. 19. To lay one's self forth : To exert one's self vig crously and earnestly. 20. To lay one's self open: To expose one's self. 21. To lay one's self out: To exert one's self. 22. To lay one's self out for : To be ready or will ing to take part in anything. 23. To lay one's hand on anything: To find anything when wanted. 24. To lay open: To cut so as to expose the interior of; hence, to expose, to discover, to disclose, te reveal. "A fool layeth open his folly." -Proverbs xiii. 16. 25. To lay over : To cover the surface; to spread over; to incrust. "Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there aside. "Lay apart all fil you r ."-James i. 21. 5. To lay aside : To put away, to get rid of. "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us." -Hebrews xii. 1. *6. To lay at one : To try to strike one; to aim a blow at one. "The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold." Job xli. 26. 7. To lay away : To lay aside, to put off or away. "Queen Esther laid away her glorious apparel."- Esther xiv. 2. IMG:content-0414.png:[blocks in formation] 26. To lay out: (1) Transitive: (a) To plan or set out in open view. (b) To plan; to dispose regularly. (c) To dre in grave-clothes, and dispose in decent posture. "She that lays thee out ."-Shakesp.: Troilus , ii. 3. (d) To expend. "Honest fools lay out their wealth on courtesies." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, i. 2. (e) To exert, to put forth; as, to lay out all one's strength. *(2) Intransitive. (a) To take measures; to try. "I made strict enquiry wherever I came, and laid out (2) To put or send away; to dismi . In this country the term " lay off " is used of dismi ion from service. (3) To put off. 9. To lay by the heels: To put in the stocks; to confine. ( Shakesp .: Henry VIII ., v. 4.) 10. To lay down: (1) To give up, to resign, to relinquish. "The soldier being once brought in for the service, I will not have him to lay down his arms any more."Spenser: On Ireland. (2) To delineate or set down on paper, used spec if. of the lines of a ship. (3) To stake or deposit, as a pledge or equivalent. "For her, my lord, IMG:content-0415.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0416.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0417.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0418.png:[blocks in formation] (1) Lit .: To beleaguer, to besiege. (2) Fig .: To importune; to annoy with persistent habits and vows of religion, but is employed mostly IMG:content-0419.png:[blocks in formation] in manual labor, and is therefore exempt from the duties of the choir, where such exist, or from the studies, ., incumbent on the other members of instance on record of lay-brothers occurred in the monastery of Vallombrosa, in the earlier part of the eleventh century. Lay-brothers and lay-sisters are now universal, or nearly so; and are found in the sisterhoods of the Anglican obedience. lay-clerk, s . A person, not in holy orders, who was originally a deputy or substitute performing the musical duties of a prebend or canon of a cathedral; a lay-vicar (q. v.). in minor orders is reduced to lay-communion by marriage; and a priest dispensed by the Pope from his obligation-wearing the clerical dre , reciting the breviary, and observing celibacy-is usually prohibited from exercising sacerdotal functions. ( Addis & Arnold .) lay-corporation, s. (See extract.) "Lay-corporations are either civil or eleemosynary. The civil are such as are erected for a variety of temporal purposes. The sovereign, for instance, is made a corpo- ration to prevent the po ibility of an interregnum ; other lay - corporations are erected for the good government of a town, and some for the better carrying on of divers IMG:content-0420.png:[blocks in formation] for the improvement of the medical science; the Royal Society for the advancement of natural knowledge; and the Society of Antiquaries for promoting the study of antiquities. The eleemosynary sort are such as are con- stituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms, or bounty, of the founder of them, to such persons as he has directed. Of this kind are all hospitals for the main- tenance of the poor, sick, and impotent: and all colleges, both in our universities, and out of them."- Black stone : Comment., bk. i., ch. 14. lay-day, s . One of a certain stipulated number of days allowed to a freighter or charterer of a ve el for loading or unloading cargo. lay-vicar, s. One of the officers of a cathedral whose duty it is to sing that portion of the music of the services which can be performed by laymen or men in minor orders. In some of the old cat he- drals they formed a corporation, often jointly with the priest vicars. In many cathedrals the vicars choral were formerly in priest's orders. With cer- tain exceptions, in the new cathedrals lay-vicars are not in holy orders, and are merely stipendiary singers. *lay-woman, s. A woman not under vows. *layd, pret . & pa . par . of v . [LAY, v.] *lay-en, s. pl . [LAY (2), 8.] 1. One who or that which lays; as bricks or eggs "The oldest are always reckoned the best sitters and IMG:content-0421.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0422.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0424.png:[blocks in formation] Lazarus, the beggar in the parable.] [LAZAR.] The poorer cla of Neapolitans, who idle about, depending for their living upon odd jobs, such as running me ages, acting as occasional servants, fishing, . lb., s . [An abbreviation for Lat. libra =a pound lea-rig, s. A gra y ridge. ( Scotch .) *leach (1), s . [LEECH (1).] stance is the ash-leach. In the bark-leach, the bark is contained between two perforated horizontal partitions in the leach, the lower one having a coiled steam-pipe for heating the contents. The either direction by means of pipes furnished with menstruum may be forced through the bark in 2. A quantity of wood-ashes through which water leach, leech, lětch, v . t . & i. [LEECH (3), s.] A. Trans.: Τo wash, as wood-ashes, by causing water to percolate or pa through them, and thus separate the alkali from them. B. In trans.: To pa through by percolation. leach-tub, s. [LEACHING-VAT.] IMG:content-0425.png:[blocks in formation] 3. ( Pl .): A flat roof covered with sheet-lead. 4. The came of a diamond-paned or lattice-case- ment. [CAMES.] IMG:content-0426.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Min .: The same as CERUSSITE (q. v.). lead-chloride, s . IMG:content-0427.png:[blocks in formation] Bot .: Slate gray, with a slightly metallic luster. lead-comb, s . A comb made of lead, used for the purpose of darkening the hair.