lagonite

[Ital. lago =a lake; n connective, and suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: An earthy mineral occurring as an incrustation at the lagoons of Tuscany. Color, ocherous yellow. Composition: Boracic acid, 49-5, sesquioxide of iron, 37'8, water, 12.7, corresponding to the formula, Fe2O33BO3+3HO. 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The with Dut. leger =a couch, a lair, from liggen to lie; M. H. Ger. leger ; O. H. Ger. legar ; Ger. lager , from O. H. Ger. liggan =to lie; Goth. ligrs =a couch, from IMG:content-0329.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0330.png:[blocks in formation] At a council held at Rome in 502, laymen were pro- hibited from interfering with the affairs of the Church. lāive, lāve, s . [LEAVE, v.) The rest; the remain der; the residue, whether of persons, things, or number. 1. To blame; to find fault with. 2. To lack; to be wanting, to fail. IMG:content-0331.png:[blocks in formation] on the bottom of the lake. This plan was chiefly fol- lowed where the bottom of the lake was of soft sand, giving no hold for the piles. Timbers, similar to the one here reproduced, are known to be at the bottom of several of the Swi lakes, so that this mode of construction may have been widely spread. (3) Fascine : Here the nece ary foundation for the platform was obtained by layers of sticks, or the stems of small trees. (The chief authorities are Keller, op.cit.; Dr. Heer ( Die Pflan- (Dredged from the Lake zen der Pfahlbauten ); Rüt- imeyer ( Die Fauna der *lāk-er, *lāk-Ist, s. [Eng. lak (e); -er, -ist.] 1. A poet who describes lake scenery. 2. A member of the Lake-School of poetry. *lake'-wake, s. [LICHWAKE.] lā-kin, s. [See def.] A contraction or diminu- tive of ladykin (q. v.); the Virgin Mary. *lāk'-Ish, a. [Eng. lak (e); -ish.] Wet, moist. *lakke, v . t . [LACK, v.] Lăksh-mĩ, Lŭksh-mēe, s. [Sansc.] Hind. Myth.: The wife of Vishnu. She is the godde of wealth, beauty, and pleasure. lāk-ў (1), a. [Eng. lak (e) (1), s.; -y.] Of or per- taining to a lake or lakes; like a lake. IMG:content-0332.png:[blocks in formation] I. Lit .: The young of the sheep. "Yon wanton lamb has cropt the woodbine's pride." Mason: English Garden, ii. IMG:content-0333.png:[blocks in formation] the Lamas. Under his succe ors the dignity of abbot at Sakya became hereditary, the abbots IMG:content-0334.png:[blocks in formation] the Thibet an monastic reformer, appeared in Lhasa, and at his death, in 1419, he left three immense monasteries with 30,000 monks. The two things on which he insisted were, (1) the observance of cel i- bacy, and (2) simplicity in dre . About the middle of the fifteenth century, the Emperor of China acknowledged the leaders-the Dalai Lama and the Pantshen Lama-as titular overlords of the Church and tributary rulers of Thibet. They were abbots of the monasteries at Gedun Dubpa near Lhasa, and Krashis Lunpo in Further Thibet, and their suc- ce ors still exercise the same rights. Both are looked upon as incarnations-living in heaven, and appearing on earth in an apparitional body. When one dies he is supposed to become incarnate in some male child born about that time. There is a hier archy corresponding in a marked degree to that of the Roman Church, and Huc & Gabet describe the principal act of religious worship as wonderfully like a high-ma . The political authority of the Dalai Lama is confined to Thibet, but he is head of the Buddhist Church throughout Mongolia and China. ( Rhys Davids , in Encyc . Brit .) la-ma-ist, s. [Eng. lama; -ist.] One who pro- fe es lamaism (g.v.). la-măn-tin, la-men-tin, s. [Fr., probably de- rived from the native name.] [MANATEE.] La-marck-işm, s. [Named from Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Mounet, Chevalier de Lamarck, born at Bazentin, in Picardy, August 1, 1744, died in Paris, December, 1829.] Biol.: The system of Lamarck, who believed in spontaneous generation and development, being Lambert Lăm-běrt, s . [Named after Lambert, a botanist, who wrote a monograph of the genus Pinus.] Lambert-pine, s . Bot .: Pinus lambert i an a, a gigantic tree, discovered by Douglas in New Albion. Trunk, lofty and erect; leaves five, rather stiff, bright green, with no sheaths; cones very large and pendulous; seeds large and used for food. lamb-le, s. [Eng. lamb; dim in. suff. -ie =-y.] A little lamb, a lambkin. "The third came up, hap-stap-an'-lowp, As light as ony lambie ." Burns: Holy Fair. tlămb-Ing, s. [Eng. lamb; -ing.] A brood or breed of lambs. "Stone had also done very well, his lambings had been good."-A. G. Grant: Bush Life in Queensland, ii. 173. lămb-kill, s. [Eng. lamb; -kill.] Bot.: An American name for Kalmia an gust i folia . lămb-kin, s. [Eng. lamb ; dim in.suff. -kin .] 1. A little or young lamb. "A sable ewe each leader should provide, With each a sable lambkin by her side." IMG:content-0335.png:[blocks in formation] the Havers i an canals. 2. Botany : (1) Sing .: A corona, dividing into several foli. aceous, erect scales, in Sitene, . (2) Pl .: The parallel plates on the under side of the pileus in Agaric us. 3. Zool. ( pl .): The thin plates constituting the gills of the Lamellibranch i at a (q. v.) or any other structure. la-měl-lar, a. [LAMELLA.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Composed of or disposed in thin plates or scales. 2. Bot . Having two little plates at the point, as the styles of many plants. 3. Zool.: [IMBRICATE, a .]