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(las-ér-til/i-i), n.pl. [NL., ta, lacertus, a lizard: see Lacerta.] An order of reptiles, including the saurians proper or lizards, as the monitors, iguanas, geckos, chameleons, ete., and excluding the crocodiles. The order thus agrees with the old order Sauria divested of its non-conformable types. The Lacer til i a have a scaly body mostly elongate, and usually 4 well-developed limbs, which, however, may be reduced to 2, or apparently to none, in which case there may be rudiments of a shoulder-girdle or hip girdle. The vertebrae are biconcave in the Gecconoidea and Uroplatoidea, but generally procelous, and have but one facet on each side for the articulation of the ribs, which are usually few in number, some of them being always attached to the sternum. The heart is tripartite, with two auricles and one ventricle. The anal cleft is transverse. The mouth is not dilatable, as it usually is in Ophidia or serpents, and the usually simple teeth are generally acro- 3322 lacing-cutter dont or pleurodont, not fixed in distinct sockets. The eyes The law also determines that in the king can be no are normally furnished with two or three movable lids. negligence, or laches, and therefore no delay will bar his The animals are oviparous or ovoviviparous, mostly diurnal right. Black stone, Com., I, vii. in habits, and agile in movement; they average but a few Laches of entry, a neglect of the heir to enter. inches in length, with some signal exceptions, as am on Laches?2 (la’kez), nN. [NL. (‘Thorell, 1869).] A the monitors or varanoids and the iguanas. Only the Helo derma tide are known to be poisonous. The Lacer til i a genus of spiders: same as Laches is, a name pre have been variously subdivided. An old division is into occupied in herpetology. 3 suborders, Fi ilinguia, Brevilinguia, and Vermitlin-