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<hw>Lack"ey</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.</def>

<blockquote>A thousand liveried angels <b>lackey</b> her. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lackey</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>Lack"ey</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lackeyed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lackeying</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.</def>

<h1>Lackluster, Lacklustre</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw><hw>Lack"lus`ter</hw>, <hw>Lack"lus`tre</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A want of luster.</def> -- <def2><tt>a.</tt> <def>Wanting luster or brightness.</def> "<i>Lackluster</i> eye."</def2>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Lacmus</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>Lac"mus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Litmus</er>.</def>

<h1>Laconian</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La*co"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan.</def></def2>

<h1>Laconic, Laconical</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw><hw>La*con"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>La*con"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Laconicus</ets> Laconian, Gr. <?/<?/, fr. <?/<?/ a Laconian, Laced\'91monian, or Spartan: cf. F. <ets>laconique</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense <i>laconic</i> is the usual form.</def>

<blockquote>I grow <b>laconic</b> even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His sense was strong and his style <b>laconic</b>. <i>Welwood.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching.</def>

<blockquote>His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that <b>laconical</b> discipline pleased him well. <i>Bp. Hall.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed; pithy.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Laconic</er>, <er>Concise</er>. <i>Concise</i> means without irrelevant or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of <i>diffuse</i>. <i>Laconic</i> means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness.</usage>

<h1>Laconic</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La*con"ic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Laconism.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Addison.</i>

<h1>Laconical</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La*con"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>See <er>Laconic</er>, <tt>a.</tt></def>

<h1>Laconically</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La*con"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a laconic manner.</def>

<h1>LaconIcism</h1> <Xpage=823>

<hw>La*con"I*cism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Laconism</er>.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>