Laciniate Leaf of fer- 
btna qfficiHali$. 
lacinia 
(l:i-sin'i-ji). .; pi. laciniii- (-6). [L., a 
lappet, iliip, ;is of a garment, dewlap, a small 
pirco or part; <!'. (ir. /</i,ir, arent, rending: see 
lacerate.] 1. In ftuf., n long Nlash or incision 
in a leaf, petal, or similar organ; also, one of 
the narrow lobes or segments resulting from 
such incisions. 2. In I'liium., the apex of the 
miixillii, especially when it is slender and blade- 
like, as iu many Coleoptcra. See galca, 1 (&). 
Klrby applied this term to the paraglosste ami labial palpi 
of becs,diaUuKuiHhinKthefonneras{aciiua:i>i<erivre>,and 
the latter as laciaiiv cxterwrt*. 
3. [cap.'] A genus of mollusks : same as Chfimti. 
Humphreyx. 4. [cap."] A genus of protozoans. 
laciniate (la-sin'i-at), a. [< NL. *lacini<it . 
L. lacinia, a flap, etc.: see lacinia.] 1. Adorned 
with fringes. 2. In hot., ir- 
regularly cut into narrow 
lobes; jagged: said of leaves, 
petals, bracts, etc. 3. In 
sool., lacerate ; slashed or jag- 
ged at the end or along the 
edge ; incised as if frayed out ; 
fringe-like. 
laciniated ( la-sin 'i-a-ted), a. 
Same as laciniate. 
laciniform (la-sin'i-fdrm), a. 
K L. lacinia, a flap, + />*;/, 
form.] In sool. and lot., 
fringe-like ; laciniate in form : 
applied by Kirby to the teguloo 
of insects when they are long, irregular, and like 
a fringe on each side of the body, as in Lithosia. 
laciniola (las-i-ni'o-la), n.; pi. laciniola; (-le). 
[NL., dim. of lacinia'.'] A minute lacinia. 
laciniolate (la-sin'i-6-lat), a. [< NL. 'lacinio- 
latus, a dim. form of *laciniatus: see laciniate.] 
In bot., finely fringed; marked with minute la- 
cinifB. 
laciniose (la-sin'i-os), a. Same as laciniate. 
lac-insect (lak'in'sekt), n. One of several coc- 
cids, or homopterous insects of the family Coc- 
eidte, which produce the substance called lac. 
Ordinary commercial lac is the product of Carteria lacca, 
an Asiatic species. C. larrece, C. nte.ricana, and Cenwxxiw 
guercus are North American species whose lac has not be- 
come commercial. After long dispute, most chemists and 
entomologists are agreed that lac is a secretion of the in- 
sect, and not of the plant which the insect punctures. 
lacinula (la-sin'u-lS,), .; pi. lacinuhe (-le). 
{NL., dim. of L. lacinia, a nap: see lacinia.] 
nbot.: (a) A small lacinia. (6) The abruptly 
inflexed acumen or point of each of the petals 
of an umbelliferous flower. 
Lacinularia(la-sin-u-la'ri-a), n. [NL., <la- 
cinula + -aria.] A genus of tubicolous roti- 
fers or tube-inhabiti ng wheel-animalcules. They 
have the Intestine bent upon itself and opening upon the 
side of the body opposite to that on which the ganglion 
Is placed, and the horseshoe-shaped trochal disk fur- 
nished with two circlets of cilia, one before and the other 
behind the mouth. See cut under trochal. 
lacinulate(la-sin'u-lat),o. In bot.: (o) Having 
small lacinia. (6) 'Provided with lacinute : said 
of umbelliferous flowers. 
Lacistema (las-i-ste'mil), n. [NL. (Swartz, 
1788), < Or. Xaiu'f, a rent, 4- arrjfta, a stamen.] A 
genus of tropical American shrubs, constitut- 
ing an order by itself, the Lacistemaceae, having 
monochlamydeous hermaphrodite flowers in 
slender spikes which are sessile and usually 
fascicled in the axils of the alternate, short- 
petioled, entire leaves. Sixteen species have 
been described, ranging from Mexico and the 
West Indies to Brazil and Peru. 
Lacistemaceae (las'i-ste-ma'se-e), n. pi. [NL. 
(Lindley, 1846), < Lacistema +' -acew.] A small 
natural order of dicotyledonous apetalous 
shrubs, allied to the Euphorbiacea;. The flowers 
are in catkin-like spikes; the fruit Is a 8-valved capsule. 
Only a single genus, Lacistema, is known, with about 16 
species; they are natives of tropical America. 
Lacistemeae(las-i-ste'me-e), n.pl. [NL. (Mar- 
tins, 1824), < Laci.tteina + -ea;.] Same as La- 
. 
lack 1 (lak), n. [Early mod. E. also lake; < ME. 
tefc, lac, lake, lakke, defect, failing, fault (not 
in AS.); of LG. or Scaud. origin: cf. MLG. lak 
= MD. lack, D. lak, blemish, stain; Icel. lakr, 
defective, lacking. Eolations uncertain: see 
the verb. Prob. not connected with leak. Cf. 
lag 1 .] 1. Want or deficiency of something 
requisite or desirable ; defect; failure; need. 
I made some excuse by lacke of habilitie, and weakenes 
of bodie. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 20. 
And of his friends he had no lack. 
Sir Hugh oftheOrime (Child's Ballads, VI. 250). 
What I hae done for lack o' wit 
I never never can reca'. 
The La* Quid ffight (Buchan's Ballads of North of Scot- 
[land. II. 127). 
3323 
He that gathered little had no lack. Ex. xvi. 18. 
Let bis lack of years be no impediment. 
Shale., M. of V., iv. 1. 162. 
2f. Want of presence; a state of being away; 
absence. 
Whilst we hero, wretches ! wall his private lack [personal 
absence), 
And with vain vows do often call him back. 
Lady Pembroke (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 204). 
3f. A want; defect; a blemish; especially, a 
moral defect ; a fault in character. 
Ood In the gospel grymly repreueth 
Alle that lakken | blame j any lyf, and lakkei ban hemselue. 
Fieri Plowman (B), x. -202. 
It. A fault committed ; an offense ; a censur- 
able act. 
If I do that lakke, 
Do strepe me, and put me in a sakke, 
And In the nexte ryver do me drenche. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 955. 
6f. Blame; reproach; rebuke; censure. 
He did not stayue ne put to lacke or rebuke his royall au- 
torltie In geuing sentence. 
Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 197. 
lack 1 (lak), v. [< ME. lakken, lack, blame; cf. 
OD. laecken, fail, decrease, D. taken, blame ; Dan. 
lakke, draw nigh, approach : see lack 1 , n.] I. iw- 
trans. 1. To be wanting or deficient; come 
short; fail. 
Feradventure there shall lack five of the nfty righteous. 
Gen. xviil. 28. 
Ham. What hour now? 
llor. I think it lacks of twelve. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. I. 4. 
2f. To be absent or away ; be missing. 
Welle-come, Edwarde, oure son of high degre ! 
Many yeerls hast t lion lakkyd owte of this londe. 
Political Poemi, et. (ed. Furntvall), p. 5. 
3. To be in want; suffer need. 
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. 
Ps. xxxlv. 10. 
H. trans. If. To be wanting to ; fail. [Origi- 
nally intransitive, the object being in the da- 
tive.] 
Hem [Hagar and Ishmael] gan that water taken. 
Gen. and JSxod., L 1231. 
2. To be in want of; stand in need of; want; be 
without ; be destitute of ; fail to have or to pos- 
sess. The direct object in this constmction was former- 
ly the subject, what is now the subject (nominative) being 
originally In the dative. 
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. 
Jas. L6. 
Good counsellors lack no clients. 
5Ao*., M. for M., L 2. 110. 
"What d' ye lack'" he cried, using his solicitations. 
" Mirrors for your toilette, my pretty madam. . . . What 
d' ye lackf a watch. Master Sergeant?" 
Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, 1. 
3f. To suffer the absence of; feel the depriva- 
tion of; miss. 
Thereat the feend his gnashing teeth did grate. 
And griev'd, so long to lacke his greedie pray. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vll. 34. 
Orl. For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee. 
Ros. Alas t dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours. 
Shak., As you Like it, iv. 1. 182. 
I shall be lov'd when I am lack'd. Shak., Cor., iv. 1. 15. 
4. To blame ; reproach ; speak in detraction of. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
No derocioun 
Hadde he to non to reven him his reste, 
But gan to preyse and lakken whom him leste. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 189. 
6. To beat. Also lacky. [Prov. Eng.]=syn. 2. 
Lack, Need, Want. These words have come to |>| 
each other a good deal by figurative extension, and have 
considerable variety of peculiar idiomatic use. To Joe* is 
primarily and generally to be without, that which is lacked 
being generally some one thing, and a thing which is de- 
sirable, although generally not necessary or very impor- 
tant. 
lack 2 (lak), v. t. [Perhaps another use of lack 1 , 
v. t., 5.] To pierce the hull of with shot. 
[Rare.] 
Alongside ran bold Captain John (Hawkins], and with 
his next shot, says his son, an eye-witness, "lacked the 
admiral through and through." 
Kingdey, Westward Ho, xxvlil. 
lack 3 (lak), n. See lac*. 
lack" (lak), v. t. [< lacks, i ac 2, .] To lacquer; 
treat with lac. [A trade use.] 
lack*. [Cf. alack, lackaday.] Used in the ex- 
clamatory phrase Good lack. See good. 
lackadaisical (lak-a-da' zi-kal), a. [< lacka- 
daisy + -ic-al.] Sentimentally woebegone ; lan- 
guid; listless; affected. See extract under lack- 
thought. 
A lackadaisical portrait of Sterne's Maria. 
3tri. Qon, The Snow-Storm. 
lackadaisically (lak-a-da'zi-kal-i), atlr. In a 
lackadaisical manner. 
lack-luster 
lackadaisy (lak'a-<la-y.i ), inter j. A ludicrous ex- 
II-MMOII of laclcaaay. llalliwell. 
lackadaisy (lak'a-da-zi), a. [< lackadainy, 
iiiiu'j.] bame as lacka(laiiil. 
lackaday (lak'a-da), intcrj. [Abbr. of alack- 
dilni/, l/(ri tlif '/"//.] An exclamation of sor- 
row or regret ; alas ! alas the day ! Also lawk- 
a-day. 
lackall (lak'al), n. [< tact 1 , v., + obi. all.] 
One who is entirely destitute ; a needy fellow. 
LackalU, social nondescripts, with appetite of utmost 
keenness which there is no known method of satisfying. 
Carlylt, CagUostro. 
lackbeard (lak'berd), n. [< tacfci, p., + obj. 
beard.] One who has not yet a beard. 
For my Lord Lack-beard there, he and I shall meet ; and, 
till then, peace be with him. Khak., Much Ado, v. 1. 186. 
lackbrain (lak'bran), n. [< lack 1 , v., + obj. 
iifiini. } One who lacks brains, or is deficient 
iu understanding. 
What a lack-brain Is this ! By the Lord, our plot Is a 
good plot as ever was laid. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., U. 8. 17. 
lacker 1 (lak'er), H. [< tact 1 , e., + -erl.] One 
who lacks. 
The lack of one may cause the wrack of all ; 
Although the lacker* were terrestrial gods, 
Yet will they ruling reel, or reeling fall. 
Sir J. Dana, Wlttes Pilgrimage. 
lacker 2 , . and v. See lacquer. 
lackey (lak'i), . [Formerly also lacky. lacquey, 
laquay, laguey; = D. lakkei = G. lackei, lukn, 
lakai = Dan. lakei, < OF. laquay, F. laquais, 
earlier laquais, laquays, laquoys, lacais, lacays, 
laccay, lacquct, also alacay, alague, a soldier, a 
lackey, footman, < Sp. lacayo = Pg. lacaio, a 
lackey (Pg. lacaia, fern., a female servant ; on 
the stage, a soubrette) ; origin uncertain ; per- 
haps < Ar. luka, fern, lak'd, worthless, servile, a 
slave; cf. laku', lakf, servile, Idkffi, slovenly. 
According to Diez, connected with Pr. lacai, a 
gonnand, and ult. with It. leccare = F. lecher, 
lick: see lech, lecher, and lick.] 1. An attend- 
ing servant ; a runner ; a footboy or footman ; 
hence, any servile follower. 
A memoria : he that Is the princes remembraunce. A 
pedibus : a foote man or lackey. 
ElioUt Dicttonarie, 1559. (Kara. ) 
A very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian foot- 
boy, or a gentleman's lackey. Shak., T. of the 8., 111. 2. 73. 
I saw a gay gilt Chariot, drawn by fresh prancing horses ; 
the Coachman with a new Cockade, and the lacqueys with 
insolence and plenty in their countenances. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 44. 
2. A lackey-moth. 
lackey (lak'i), v. [Formerly also lacky; < lackey, 
] I. trans. To wait on as or like a lackey ; at- 
tend servilely; serve as a menial. 
A thousand liveried angels lacky her. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 466. 
The artificial method lin poetryl proceeds from a prin- 
ciple the reverse [of the unconventional], making the 
spirit lackey the form. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 402. 
U. intrans. To act as a lackey or footman ; 
give servile attendance. 
What cause could make him so dishonourable 
To drive you so on foot, unlit to tread 
And lackey by him, gainst all womanhead ? 
Spenier, F. Q., VL U. 15. 
Youth and Health, 
As slaves, shall lackey by thy chariot wheels. 
Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, ii. 1. 
lackey-moth (lak 'i-nu'ith), n. [So called from 
the color ana appearance of its striped wings, 
compared to a footman's livery.] A bombycid 
moth of the genus Clisiocampa, especially C. 
in 1 a. -it fin, a common European species. The moths 
have the fore wings either yellow crossed with brown 
fttripes, or brownish-red crossed with yellow stripes ; the 
hind wings are paler and unstriped. The caterpillars are 
striped, and live in masses on trees under a web ; whence 
corresponding American species are known as tent-cater- 
pillars. The ground lackey -moth Is C. cattrensit. See cut 
under Clinocampa. 
lack-Latin (lak'lat'in), n. [< lack\ r., + obj. 
Latin.] One who is ignorant of Latin. 
They are the veriest lack-latittfi, and the most nnalpha- 
betical ragabashes. 
Discovery of a Kew World, p. 81. (Kant.) 
lack-linen (lak'lin'en), a. [< tocfc 1 , c., + obj. 
linen.] Lacking linen or decent apparel; beg- 
garly. 
You poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack linen mate I 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., U. 4. 134. 
lack-luster (lak'lus'ter), a. and n. [< lack, e., 
+ obj. luster.] I. a. Wanting luster or bright- 
ness ; dull ; languid : said of the eyes. 
He drew a dial from his poke ; 
And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, 
Says, very wisely, "It is ten o clock." 
Shak., As you Like it, U. 7. 21. 
II. . A want of luster, or that which lacks 
brightness. 
