launch 
3. To move or cause to slide from the laud 
into the water: as, to launch a ship. 
They goe abord, 
And he eftsoones gan launch his barke forthright. 
Spenser, F. IJ., II. xi. 4. 
With stays and cordage last he rigg'd the ship, 
And roll'd on levers, launch'd her in the deep. 
Pope, Odyssey, v. 3S2. 
4. To send out into another sphere of duty, an- 
other field of activity, or the like : as, to launch 
one on the world. 
And so, without this belauded prudence, . . . into that 
wide friendless . . . world the poor writer was launched 
again. f'arster, Goldsmith, u. 2. 
5. Naut. : (a) To lower suddenly on the fid (a 
topmast or topgallantmast which has been s way- 
(6) To move (heavy bodies, as casks, 
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word is now used only in the corrupted form laup (lap), v. A( 
lawn (see lawni), or, as mere F., in the form laura (la'ra), n. 
lande: see landed] A plain sprinkled with 1 ^- !* 
trees or brush ; an open space between woods ; 
a park. 
In a launde upon a hill of flouris 
Was set this noble goddesse Nature ; 
Of braunchis were hire hallis and hire bouris. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, L 302. 
Loe from the hill above on th' other side, 
Through the wide lawnds, they gan to take their course. 
Surrey, ^Eueid, iv. 
laurel 
A dialectal variant of loup 1 , leap*. 
[< Or. /.avpa, an alley, lane, 
A Forest-Nymph, and one of chaste Diana's charge, 
Imploy'd in woods and launds her deer to feed and kill. 
Draytm, Polyolbion, ii. 89. 
Under this thick-grown brake we'll shroud ourselves, 
For through this laund anon the deer will come. 
""-*., 3 Hen. VL.ffl. 1.2. 
later a cloister, hermitage, monastery ; akin to 
AajiiiptvBog, labyrinth: see labyrinth.] In early 
monachism, an aggregation of separate cells, 
under the control of a superior, the inmates 
meeting on the first and the last day of each week 
for a common meal in the refectory, and for 
common worship in the chapel, on other days 
dwelling apart from one another, every one in 
his cell, engaged in some light manual occupa- 
tion. Smith, Diet. Christ. Antiq. 
Lauraceae (la-ra'se-e), n. pi. [NL. (Lindley, 
1833), < Lauras + '-acete.] A synonym for the 
Laurinea>, still much employed. 
lauraceous (la - ra ' shius), a. [< L. laurus, lau- 
rel, + -aceous.] Of or pertaining to the laurel 
family, Laurineai (Lauracea;). 
spars, etc.) by pushing. 6t. To lay out or I au nd 2 t, An obsolete form of lawn*. 
plant, as leeks, in trenches. Halliwell. [Prov. launder (Ian'- or lan'der), n. [< ME. launder, lauret, [ME., < OF. laure (= D. lauwer = 
" .] laundere, lander, a contr. of lavander, a wash- MLG. lortbere) = OHG. lor(peri), MHG. lor- 
erwoman : see lavender*.] 1 . One who washes ; 
a washerwoman or washerman. 
A launder, a distaff, a spinner, or whatsoever other vile 
occupation their idle heads can imagine and their weak 
hands perform. Sir- P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
2. A gutter or channel for conveying water; 
intrans. It. To leap; skip. 
Who lukes to the lefte syde, whene his horse launches, 
With the lyghte of the sonne men myghte see his lyvere. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), L 2560. 
2. To move a ship from the land into the water. 
He said vnto them : Let us goe ouer vuto the other syde 
of the lake. And they lanched forth. 
Bible of 1551, Luke viii. 22. 
. . 
(bere), I6r(ber), G. lor(beere) = Dan. laur(bair) = 
Sw. lager(bar)), laurel, < L. laurus, laurel. Cf. 
laurel.] Laurel. 
Take of the laures bayes feel and greete 
Palladius, Uusbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 59. 
specifically, a channel or trough, generally laureate (la're-at), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
made of wood ? in which water is carried in any 
desired direction. 
Jr _. laureating. [< L. lanreatus, crowned with 
For, launching on the nimble wings of thought, desired direction. laurel, as if pp. of *laureare (> It. laureare = 
Forthwith to her designed port she saUs. _ ^ ^ ^ launder (Ian'- or lan'der), v. t. [Formerly also p g- Sp _ lam-ear), < laurea, the laurel-tree, < 
lander; < launder, n. ; but partly also < laun- i a ureus, of laurel, < laurus, laurel : see laurel.] 
' dry.] 1. To wash and iron, as clothes; dour. 
3. To move or come into new relations; enter 
upon a different course or career; make a trans- 
ition: as, to launch into the world, or into a 
wide field of discussion : often with out : as, to 
launch out into extravagant expenditure. 
Our young poet launched out into all the excesses of re- 
fined debauchery. Goldsmith, Voltaire. 
He enjoys a great fortune handsomely, without launch- 
ing into expense. Steele, Spectator, No. 49. 
To launch It outt, to flaunt. 
When you love, launch it out in silks and velvets ; 
I'll love in serge, and will out-go your satins. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, ii. 1. 
launch (lanch or lanch), n. [Also lanch; < ME. 
launche, lawnche; < launch, v.] It. A sudden 
leap ; a skip. 
Lawnche o[rj skyppe, saltus. Prompt. Pan., p. 290. launderer (liin'- or lan'der-er), n. [Formerly 
2. The sliding or movement of a boat or ves- also landerer; < ME. lawnderer; an extension of 
sel from the land into the water; more par- launder.] Same as launder, 1. 
ticularly, the sliding of a newly built ship from of ladies, chamberers, and launderers, there were aboue 
the stocks into the water, on ways prepared three hundred at the least. Holinshed, Eich. II., an. 1399. 
for the purpose. 3. A large boat; specifically, Another sect . . . which are Landerers, nor may they 
the largest boat carried by a man-of-war, gen- or their posteritie be of other function, 
erally sloop-rigged and pulling from sixteen to furch *> Mg"mage, p. 493. 
twenty-two oars. A howitzer can be carried in laundress (Ian'- or lan'dres), n. [< launder + 
the bow or the stern. 4t. A lancing. Doxies, -ess.] A woman whose employment is the wash- 
by washing, starching, and ironing : now used 
especially of laundry-work on a large scale. 
It [a beard] does your visage more adorn 
Than if 'twere prun'd, and starch'd, and landered. 
S. Sutler, Hudibras, II. i. 171. 
2t. To wet ; wash. 
Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, . . . 
Laundering the silken figures in the brine 
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears. 
Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 17. 
3t. To cover, as a metal, with a thin wash or 
film. 
Ill bring thee, rogue, within 
The statute of sorcery, . . . and perhaps thy neck 
Within a noose, for laundring gold and barbing it. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, i. 1. 
ing and ironing of clothes ; a washerwoman. 
Go, take up these clothes here, quickly. . . . Carry them 
to the laundress in Datchet-mead. 
Shak., M. W. of W., ft. 3. 156. 
What hart can feele least touch of so sore launch? 
Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Love, 1. 162. 
5. A trap used for taking eels, etc. [Prov. 
Eng.] -Steam-launch, a large boat propelled by steam- i all _j r .__i niin' or lan'drpsl i K laur 
power, used principally for the transportation of passen- launOTCSSt Uan - or Ian ares;, V. I. IS K 
dress, n.] To practise washing and ironing. 
A metal Sir H. Mount, Voyage to the Levant, p. 26. 
traaaal f\f Imivtdwr /"I YI ' j-ii loM '/lt*i\ > T\l 7/7W.W./1 
gers. 
launching-tube (lan'ching-tub), 
tube fixed in a torpedo-boat or other vessel of laundry 
war, through which automobile torpedoes may 
be launched against an enemy. Also called 
torpedo-tube. 
launching-ways (lan'ching-waz), n. pi. Tim- 
lan'dri), .; pi. laundries 
PIT, bi 
slices; 
Launching-ways. 
f, slip-ways, or sliding-ways; K, K, rib-bands to a 
' " 
eways; P, poppets, posts rising from the sole-pieces 
'B, building-blocks; DP, dagger-planks; SH. si 
inner shores, by which the ways are held in their places. 
ends of the poppets P rest 
from slipping by cleats C. 
(-driz)7 [A contr., after launder, of ME. la- 
vendrie, < lavender, launder, a washerwoman: 
see launder, n.] It. The act of washing; a 
washing. 
Chalky water is too fretting, as appeareth in laundry of 
clothes, which wear out apace. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
2. A place, as a room or a building, where 
clothes are washed and ironed; an establish- 
ment where laundry-work is carried on. 
Whan he is wery of that werke thanne wil he some tyme 
Labory in a 'lauendrye wel the leugthe of a myle. 
Piers Plowman (B), xv. 182. 
[In the following passage the word is ludicrously put for 
launder: 
There dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the man- 
ner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laun- 
dry. Shak., M. W. of W., i. 2. 6.] 
Laundry blue, (a) Indigo blue, (b) Soluble Prussian 
blue. 
uides; laundry (Ian'- or lan'dri), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
ef "ano! l aun dried, ppr^ laundrying. [< laundry, n. Cf. 
1 . To put a wreath of laurel upon the head of ; 
crown with laurel, as formerly in conferring a 
degree in a university. 
About the year 1470, one John Watson, a student In 
grammar, obtained a concession to be graduated and lau- 
reated in that science. 
T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, II. 129. 
Obverse, the bust of the king laureated and draped ; in- 
scription, "Georgius III. Dei Gratia Eex." 
N. andQ., 7th ser., VI. 388. 
2. To invest with the office of poet laureate. 
Pope. 
laureate (la're-at), a. and n. [Formerly also 
laureat; < ME.' laureate = OF. lauree, F. laureat 
= Sp. Pg. laureado = It. laureate, < L. laurea- 
tus, crowned with laurel : see laureate, v.] I. a. 
1. Crowned with laurel as a mark of distinc- 
tion; decked with laurel. 
Fraunceys Petrark, the laureat poete, 
Highte this clerk, whos rethoryke swete 
Enlumined al Itaille of poetrye. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Clerk's Tale, L 31. 
Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, 
And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, 
To strew the laureat herse where Lycid lies. 
Milton, Lycidas, 1. 151. 
2. In numismatical descriptions, wearing a lau- 
rel wreath: said of a human head, a bust, etc.: 
as, the head of the emperor Nero, laureate. 
Poet laureate, formerly, a poet who had been publicly 
crowned with laurel by a sovereign or some other eminent 
person in recognition of his merits ; also, a student in a 
university who had been so crowned on receiving an hon- 
orable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric; 
now, in Great Britain, a salaried officer of the royal house- 
hold, of whom no special duty is required, but who formerly 
was expected to furnish an ode annually for the sovereign's 
birthday, and to celebrate in verse great national events. 
The office of poet laureate seems to have existed with in- 
terruptions from the time of Edward III. or IV., but was 
first made permanent in 1630. 
II. n. 1. One crowned with laurel; a poet 
laureate ; an officially appointed or recognized 
poet. 
Ah think, what poet best may make them known ! 
Or choose, at least, some minister of grace, 
Fit to bestow the laureate's weighty place. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 379. 
2. In the musical conservatories of Paris and 
Brussels, a pupil who gains the Prix de Borne. 
laureateship (la're-at-ship), n. [< laureate, n., 
+ -ship.] i. The dignity or office of a laure- 
ate; the post of poet laureate. 2. In the Eng- 
lish universities, formerly, a degree in gram- 
mar, including poetry and rhetoric: so called 
because the person who graduated was pre- 
sented with a wreath of laurel. Halliwell. 
laureation (la-re-a'shon), n. [= It. laurea- 
eione ; as laureate, v., -T- -ion.] The act of 
crowning with laurel; the act of conferring a 
degree in a university, together with a wreath 
of laurel an honor formerly conferred for ex- 
cellence in grammar, including poetry and rhet- 
'The upper launder, v.] ' To launder. [Colloq., U. S.] 
e prevented laundry-maid (lan'dri-mad), n. A female ser- 
vant who works in a laundry. 
bers built up on each side of a ship, for the laundryman (liin'dri-man), n.; pi. laundrymen 
bilgeways to slide on in launching. (-men). A man employed in a laundry ; a man 
launchways (lanch'waz), n. pi. Same as launch- engaged in the business of washing and ironing 
*WW- clothes: as, a Chinese laundryman. ~^or a noUce of Skelton's ZaurmMon at Oxford the Rev. 
laund 1 1 (land), n. [Early mod. E. also lawnd, laundry-Stove (lan'dn-stov), n. A stove adapt- Dr. Bliss obligingly searched the archives of that univer- 
launde, lawnde, rarely land, lande ; < ME. launde, ed to tne needs of a laundry, especially one de- sity, but without success. 
lawnde, < OF. lande, launde, F. lande = Sp. Pg. signed for the heating of flat-irons and polish- T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, III. 268, note. 
It. landa, a heath, a waste; prob. not < Teut. ing-irons. In one kind there is a cone-shaped laurel (la'rel or lor'el), n. and a. [Formerly 
land, laud, but rather of Celtic origin: cf. Ir. top, against which the irons rest on fixed sup- also lawrell; < ME. "laurel, loral, loryel, lawriall, 
land, later laun, a thorny or spiny bush. The ports. loryel, var. of laurer, lorer, lori/ger = I), laiuier, 
