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<h1>Lacing</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La"cing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A lace; specifically <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Bridge Building)</fld> <def>A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.</def>

<i>Waddell.</i>

<h1>Lacinia</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La*cin"i*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. L. <plw>Lacini\'91</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., the lappet or flap of a garment.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf</def>.

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxill\'91 of insects.</def>

<h1>Laciniate, Laciniated</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw><hw>La*cin"i*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>La*cin"i*a"ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Lacinia</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Fringed; having a fringed border.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot. & Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.</def>

<h1>Laciniolate</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La*cin"i*o*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Lacinia</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute lacini\'91.</def>

<h1>Lacinula</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La*cin"u*la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Lacinul\'91</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, E. <plw>Lacinulas</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A diminutive lacinia.</def>

<h1>Lack</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>Lack</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>lak</ets>; cf. D. <ets>lak</ets> slander, <ets>laken</ets> to blame, OHG. <ets>lahan</ets>, AS. <ets>le\'a0n</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; <as>as, a <ex>lack</ex> of sufficient food</as>.</def>

<blockquote>She swooneth now and now for <b>lakke</b> of blood. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Let his <b>lack</b> of years be no impediment. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lack</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>Lack</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lacked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lacking</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To blame; to find fault with.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Love them and <b>lakke</b> them not. <i>Piers Plowman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.</def>

<blockquote>If any of you <b>lack</b> wisdom, let him ask of God. <i>James i. 5.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lack</h1> <Xpage=823>