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<hw>Lan"guish*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who languishes.</def>

<h1>Languishing</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guish*ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Amorously pensive; <as>as, <ex>languishing</ex> eyes, or look</as>.</def>

<h1>Languishingly</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guish*ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a languishing manner.</def>

<h1>Languishment</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guish*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of languishing.</def> " Lingering <i>languishment</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.</def>

<h1>Languishness</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guish*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Languishment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Languor</h1> <Xpage=828>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any enfeebling disease.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Sick men with divers <b>languors</b>. <i>Wyclif (Luke iv. 40).</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Listless indolence; dreaminess. <i>Pope</i>.</def> " German dreams, Italian <i>languors</i>."

<i>The Century.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.</syn>

<h1>Languorous</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guor*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Languor</er>: cf. F. <ets>langoureux</ets>.]</ety> <def>Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>Whom late I left in <b>languorous</b> constraint. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To wile the length from <b>languorous</b> hours, and draw The sting from pain. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Langure</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"gure</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To languish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Langya</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"gya</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <ety>[Native name Anglicized.]</ety> <def>One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus <spn>Ophiocephalus</spn>, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also <altname>walking fishes</altname>.</def>