lansium

[From Malay (?) lansey.] Bot.: A genus of Meliaceæ, tribe Trichiliese (q.v.). There are five sepals, five petals, and ten stamens combined into a tube. The berry is five-celled. Lansium domesticum is the lansa, langsat, lanseh, ayer-ayer, and be get i an. Its fruit is yellow externally, though whitish within. lăns-que-nět (qu as k).s. [French, from German (& Dut.) landsknecht a foot-soldier, from Ger. lands (for landes , gen it. of land land, country), and knecht =knight.] 1. Mil .: A German common soldier, originally one belonging to the infantry, raised by the Emperor Maximilian toward the end of the fifteenth century; afterward, a soldier of fortune; a soldier who gave his services to any one who paid highest. The name became corrupted into lance-knight (q. v.). an upper tier of windows. (3) The light, open erection on the top of a tower. "The lanterne that crowns the dome." Eustace : Italy , ii. 82. 2. Calico -print.: An apparatus by which steam is applied to cloths in order to fix the colors with which they have been printed. The lantern has a frame with tender-hooks, Lantern of Ely Cathedral. from which the cloth is suspended in a zigzag manner; and a penthouse, with a pyramidal roof, incloses the frame and cloth, shutting in the steam around them. 3. Founding : A hollow, perforated core of large diameter relatively to its length. Magic Lantern : [MAGIC-LANTERN.]