Lazy

la'zi, adj. disinclined to exertion averse to labour sluggish tedious. adv. La'zily.— «. La'zine , state or quality of being laz> [M. E. lasche—O. Fr. lasche (Fr. Idche), slack, weak, base —L. lax us loose.) Lazzaroni, laz-a-rfl'ni, n name given to the lowest cla es in Naples, who used to live an idle outcast [It., from Lazarus.] Lea or Ley, lc (obs. Lay), n. a meadow: gra land, pasturage. [A.S. leak cf. prov. Ger. lohe loh found also in place-names, as Waterloo = water-lea.] Lead, led, «. a well-known metal of a bluish-white colour the plummet for sounding at sea a thin plate of lead separating lines of type:—pl. a flat roof covered with lead —v.t. to cover or with lead: (print.) to separate lines with leads. n Leaa-poix'oning, poisoning by the absorption fate, far me, h6r mine Leap-frog and diffusion of lead in the system. [A.5. Ger. loth.] Lead, led, vd. to shew the way by going first to guide by the hand to direct to precede to allure. v.i. to go before and shew the way: to have a tendency: to exercise dominion,—pr.p. leading pa.t. and Pa.p. led. —«. first place precedence direction guidance [A.S. laedan, to make to go, causal form of lid an to go Ice. leida, Ger. leiten, to lead.] Leaden, led'n, adj made of lead: heavy dull. Leader, led'er, n one who leads or goes first a chief the leading editorial article in a newspaper principal wheel in any machinery.