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<h1>Lappish</h1> <Xpage=830>

<hw>Lap"pish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.</def></def2>

<h1>Lapponian, Lapponic</h1> <Xpage=830>

<hw><hw>Lap*po"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Lap*pon"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Laplandish; Lappish.</def>

<h1>Lapps</h1> <Xpage=830>

<hw>Lapps</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt>; <sing>sing. <singw>Lapp</singw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></sing>. <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.</def>

<h1>Lapsable</h1> <Xpage=830>

<hw>Laps"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Lapsible.</def>

<i>Cudworth.</i>

<h1>Lapse</h1> <Xpage=830>

<hw>Lapse</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>lapsus</ets>, fr. <ets>labi</ets>, <ets>p</ets>. <ets>p</ets>. <ets>lapsus</ets>, to slide, to fall: cf. F. <ets>laps</ets>. See <er>Sleep</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>lapse</b> to indolence is soft and imperceptible. <i>Rambler.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Bacon was content to wait the <b>lapse</b> of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.</def>

<blockquote>To guard against those <b>lapses</b> and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us. <i>Rogers.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Theol.)</fld> <def>A fall or apostasy.</def>

<h1>Lapse</h1> <Xpage=830>

<hw>Lapse</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lapsed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lapsing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.

<blockquote>A tendency to <b>lapse</b> into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has <b>lapsed</b> into the burlesque character. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>lapse</b> in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>To become ineffectual or void; to fall.</def>

<blockquote>If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it <b>lapses</b> to the king. <i>Ayliffe.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lapse</h1> <Xpage=830>

<hw>Lapse</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.</def>

<blockquote>An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's <b>lapsing</b> the term of law. <i>Ayliffe.</i></blockquote>