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<blockquote>A rising up of the <b>laity</b> against the sacerdotal caste. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of a layman.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Ayliffe.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.</def>

<h1>Lakao</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>La*ka"o</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Sap green.</def> <mark>[China]</mark>

<h1>Lake</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>Lake</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>laque</ets>, fr. Per. See <er>Lac</er>.]</ety> <def>A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; <as>as, madder <ex>lake</ex>; Florentine <ex>lake</ex>; yellow <ex>lake</ex>, etc.</as></def>

<h1>Lake</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>Lake</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. G. <ets>laken</ets>.]</ety> <def>A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Lake</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>Lake</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>l\'becan</ets>, <ets>l\'91can</ets>, to spring, jump, <ets>l\'bec</ets> play, sport, or fr. Icel. <ets>leika</ets> to play, sport; both akin to Goth. <ets>laikan</ets> to dance. &root;120. Cf. <er>Knowledge</er>.]</ety> <def>To play; to sport.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Lake</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>Lake</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>lac</ets>, L. <ets>lacus</ets>; akin to AS. <ets>lagu</ets> lake, sea, Icel. <ets>l\'94gr</ets>; OIr. <ets>loch</ets>; cf. Gr. <?/ pond, tank. Cf. <er>Loch</er>, <er>Lough</er>.]</ety> <def>A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.</def>

<note>&hand; Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean.</note>

<cs><col>Lake dwellers</col> <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld>, <cd>people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland.</cd> -- <col>Lake dwellings</col> <fld>(Arch\'91ol.)</fld>, <cd>dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also <altname>lacustrine dwellings</altname>. See <er>Crannog</er>.</cd> -- <col>Lake fly</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus <spn>Chironomus</spn>. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larv\'91 live in lakes.</cd> -- <col>Lake herring</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the cisco (<spn>Coregonus Artedii</spn>).</cd> -- <mcol><col>Lake poets</col>, <col>Lake school</col></mcol>, <cd>a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also <altname>lakers</altname> and <altname>lakists</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Lake sturgeon</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a sturgeon (<spn>Acipenser rubicundus</spn>), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food.</cd> -- <col>Lake trout</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. <spn>Salmo fario</spn>; in the United States, esp. <spn>Salvelinus namaycush</spn> of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout (<spn>S. fontinalis</spn>), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called <ex>lake trout<ex>. See <er>Namaycush</er>.</cd> -- <col>Lake whitefish</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Whitefish</er>.</cd> -- <col>Lake whiting</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>an American whitefish (<spn>Coregonus Labradoricus</spn>), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish.</cd></cs>

<h1>Lake-dweller</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>Lake"-dwell`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <cref>Lake dwellers</cref>, under <er>Lake</er>.</def>

<h1>Lakelet</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>Lake"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A little lake.</def>

<i>Southey.</i>

<h1>Lakeweed</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>Lake"weed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The water pepper (<spn>Polygonum Hydropiper</spn>), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.</def>

<h1>Lakh</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>Lakh</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Lac</er>, one hundred thousand.</def>

<h1>Lakin</h1> <Xpage=825>

<hw>La"kin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Ladykin</er>.</def>