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<h1>Kytomiton</h1> <Xpage=820>

<hw>Ky*tom"i*ton</hw>, <tt>n.</tt><ety>[NL., from Gr. <?/ a hollow vessel + <?/ a thread.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>See <er>Karyomiton</er>.</def>

<h1>Kytoplasma</h1> <Xpage=820>

<hw>Ky`to*plas"ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a hollow vessel + <?/ thing molded.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>See <er>Karyoplasma</er>.</def>

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<h1>L</h1> <Xpage=821>

<hw>L</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <p><b>1.</b> <def>L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a <i>semivowel</i> or <i>liquid</i>. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Ph\'d2nician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to <i>r</i> and <i>u</i>; as in pi<i>l</i>grim, pe<i>r</i>egrine, co<i>u</i>ch (fr. co<i>ll</i>ocare), a<i>u</i>bura (fr. LL. a<i>l</i>burnus).</def>

<note> At the end of monosyllables containing a single vowel, it is often doubled, as in <i>fall</i>, <i>full</i>, <i>bell</i>; but not after digraphs, as in <i>foul</i>, <i>fool</i>, <i>prowl</i>, <i>growl</i>, <i>foal</i>. In English words, the terminating syllable <i>le</i> is unaccented, the <i>e</i> is silent, and <i>l</i> is preceded by a voice glide, as in <i>able</i>, <i>eagle</i>, pronounced <i>\'be</i>\'b6<i>b'l</i>, <i><?/</i>\'b6<i>g'l</i>. See <it>Guide to Pronunciation</it>, &sect; 241.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.</def>

<blockquote>For 50 the Romans used the Chalcidian <it>chi</it>, <?/, which assumed the less difficult lapidary type, <?/, and was then easily assimilated to L. <i>I. Taylor (The Alphabet).</i></blockquote>

<h1>L</h1> <Xpage=821>

<hw>L</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An extension at right angles to the length of a main building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter <boxtype>L</boxtype>; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direction of the length of the main building; a wing. <altsp>[Written also <asp>ell</asp>.]</altsp>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles</def>. <altsp>[Written also <asp>ell</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>La</h1> <Xpage=821>

<hw>La</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians.</def>

<h1>La</h1> <Xpage=821>

<hw>La</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>interj.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Lo</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by <spn>you</spn>. <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by <i>me</i>; <as>as, <ex>La</ex> me!</as></def> <mark></mark>

<h1>Laas</h1> <Xpage=821>

<hw>Laas</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A lace. See <er>Lace</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Lab</h1> <Xpage=821>

<hw>Lab</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OD. <ets>labben</ets> to babble.]</ety> <def>To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Lab</h1> <Xpage=821>

<hw>Lab</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A telltale; a prater; a blabber.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "I am no <i>lab</i>."