Vocabulary : Laevulose to Lagenae
Laevulose : See Levulose.Lafayette : The dollar fish. ;; A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
Laft : p. p. of Leave.
Lafte : imp. of Leave.
Lag : Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. ;; Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. ;; Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. ;; One who lags; that which comes in last. ;; The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. ;; The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. ;; A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine. ;; See Graylag. ;; To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. ;; To cause to lag; to slacken. ;; To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4. ;; One transported for a crime. ;; To transport for crime. ;; The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in
