Part 582

Shak.

And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.

Pope.

Lan"guish*er (?), n. One who languishes.

Lan"guish*ing, a. 1. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

2. Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.

Lan"guish*ing*ly, adv. In a languishing manner.

Lan"guish*ment (?), n. 1. The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak.

2. Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.

Lan"guish*ness, n. Languishment. [Obs.]

Lan"guor (?), n. [OE. langour, OF. langour, F. langueur, L. languor. See Languish.] 1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

2. Any enfeebling disease. [Obs.]

Sick men with divers languors.

Wyclif (Luke iv. 40).

3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. " German dreams, Italian languors." The Century.

Syn. -- Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.

Lan"guor*ous (?), a. [From Languor: cf. F. langoureux.] Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. [Obs. or Poetic]

Whom late I left in languorous constraint.

Spenser.

To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain.

Tennyson.

Lan"gure (?), v. i. To languish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lan"gya (?), n. (Zoöl.) [Native name Anglicized.] One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes.

Lan"iard (?), n. See Lanyard.

La`ni*ar"i*form (?), a. [Laniary + -form.] (Anat.) Shaped like a laniary, or canine, tooth. Owen.

La"ni*a*ry (?), a. [L. laniarius, fr. lanius butcher, laniare to tear in pieces: cf. F. laniaire.] (Anat.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.

La"ni*a*ry, n. [L. Laniary, a.]

1. The shambles; a place of slaughter. [R.]