lavender 
Hence (6t) To put In pledge ; pawn. [Old slang.) 
To lay to pawne, as we say to lay in lavender. Florin. 
Good faith, rather than them shouldst pawn a rag more, 
I'll lay my ladyship in lavender, If I knew where. 
Marttun, Jmuain, and Chapman, Eastward Ho. 
II. a. Of the color of lavender-blossoms ; 
very pale lilac. 
A pair of latnultr glovea which fitted her exactly. 
Yatef, Land at I .;. - 1 , 1. 219. 
lavender 2 (lav'en-der), v. t. [< luvciuletQ, n.] 
To sprinkle or scent with lavender. 
The solemn clerk goes lavendered and shorn. 
Hood, Two Peacock! of Bedfont, HI. 26. 
It shall be all my study for one hour 
To rose and lavender my horslness. 
Tennyson, Queen Mary, IU. 5. 
lavender-cotton (lav ' en - der - kot ' n), n. See 
cottoH 1 . 
lavender-drop (lav'en-der-drop), n. Compound 
tincture of lavender. 
lavender-oil (lav'en-der-oil), n. See lavender"*. 
lavender-thrift (lav'en-der-thrift), n. The sea- 
lavender, Stntice Limonium. 
lavender-water (lav'en-der-wa"ter), n. A li- 
quor used as a perfume, composed of spirits of 
wine, essential oil of lavender, and ambergris. 
lavendreyt, . An obsolete form of laundry. 
Halliioetl. 
laventine (lav'en-tin), . A thin silk, used es- 
pecially for sleeve-linings. 
laver 1 (la'ver), . [Formerly also lavor; < ME. 
laver, favour (= D. lavoor, > G. lavor), < OF. la- 
vor, lavur, laveor, laveour, lavoir, F. lavoir, < LL. 
Utvatorium, a place for washing: see lavatory,] 
1. A basin, bowl, trough, or cistern to wash in. 
The laver mentioned in the Old Testament was a large 
basin which stood upon a foot or pedestal in the court 
of the Jewish tabernacle, and subsequently in the temple. 
and contained water for the ablutions of the priests, and 
for the washing of the sacrifices in the temple service. 
Basyns, favours eek, or men hem bye. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, L 287. 
Thou shall also make a laixr of brass. . . . Aaron and 
his sous shall wash their bauds and their teet thereat. 
Ex. xxx. 18. 
Itgushes into three ample lamrt rals'd about with stone. 
Evelyn, Wary, NOT. 12, 1844. 
2. In her., a colter or plowshare when used as 
a bearing. 
laver 2 (la'ver), n. [< L. laver, a water-plant, also 
called sio.] 1. Either of two species of algee 
of the genus Porphyra, P. laciniata and P. vulga- 
ra, known in Ireland and Scotland as sloke or 
sloakan. They are used as food, either stewed or pickled, 
and eaten with pepper, vinegar, and oil; and they are said 
to be useful in scrofulous affections and glandular swell- 
ings. Also laeerwort. 
2. A dish composed of one of the above algoe 
or of some similar seaweed. See later-bread. 
Green laver, Ulna latiasima and If. Lactuca, used for the 
same purposes as Porphyra laciniata or P. vulyarii, but 
inferior. Purple laver, a general name iu England for 
plants of the genus Porphyra. 
Iaver 3 t, . [Cf. lave 1 , v. ., 2.] Hanging. 
Let his (aver lip 
Speak in reproach of nature's workmanship. 
Mm--:'"//, Satires, v. 169. 
laver-bread (la'ver -bred), n. A sort of food 
made from green laver ( Viva latissima) : some- 
times called oyster-green. 
laverock (lav'er-ok), . [Also lavrock, leverock : 
see lark 1 .'] An obsolete or dialectal form of 
lark 1 . 
There mighte men see many flokkes 
Of turtles and lanerroket. Rom. aj Rote, 1. 662. 
Now lav'rocks wake the merry morn, 
Aloft on dewy wing. 
Burnt, Lament of Mary Queen of Scots. 
Sandy laverock, the sand-lark or ring-plover, . 
hiaticula; also, the common sandpiper, Tringoidei hypo- 
leucus. Also called water-laverock. 
laver-pot (la'v&r-pot), n. In her., a ewer when 
used as a bearing. 
laverwort (la'ver-wert), n. Same as laver"*, 1. 
lavic (la'vik), a. [= F. lavique; as lava + -/<.] 
Relating to or like lava. 
lavish (lav'ish), a. [Early mod. E. also (appar. 
by corruption) lavis, laves, laras; also in another 
formation lary 1 , q. v. : < ME. 'lavish, lavage; 
< lave 1 + -is/**.] 1. Expending or bestowing 
with profusion; profuse; prodigal: as, to be 
lavish of expense, of praise, or of blood. 
She. of her favourite place the pride and Joy, 
Of charms at once most lavish and most coy. 
Crabbe. 
He was ambitious of acquisitions, but lavish In expen- 
diture. PretcuU, Fcrd. and Isa., I. ir>. 
2. Unrestrained; wild. 
In al other thing so light and lare* [are they] of theyr 
tonge. Sir T. More, Works, p. 250. 
3375 
When his headstrong riot hath no curb, 
When rage and hot blood are his counsellors, 
When means and larith manners meet together. 
Shak., -1 HIMI. IV., Iv. 4. 64. 
Lewd and lanth act* of sin. Hilton, Com us, 1. -IG6. 
3. Expended or bestowed with prodigality or 
in profuseness; existing in or characterized by 
profusion ; superabundant. 
Let her have needful, but not lacith, means. 
S/ut.,M.for.M.,ii.2.24. 
For lavish grants suppose a monarch tame, 
And more his goodness than his wit proclaim. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit, I. 886. 
The eyes that smiled through lavish locks. 
WkMier, Hermit of the Thebaid. 
4. Bank, as grass, etc. Halliwell. [Prov. Eug.] 
=Syn. 1 and 3. Pro/uie, etc. See extravagant. 
lavish (lav'ish), r. t. [< lavish, a.~\ To expend 
or bestow with profusion ; give or layout prodi- 
gally : as, to lavish encomiums on a person ; to 
lavish money on a friend, or for gratification. 
Where western gales eternally reside, 
And all the seasons lavuh all their pride. 
Addison, Letter from Italy. 
Even as a war minister, Pitt is scarcely entitled to all the 
praise which his contemporaries lacished on him. 
Macaulay, William Pitt 
lavisht (lav'ish), . [< lavish, v.} Waste; squan- 
dering. 
.-IK-II lavith will I make of Turkish blood. 
Marlince, Tamburlalne, II., i. X 
Would Atropos would cut my vital thread, 
And so make larith of my loathed life. 
Wily Beguiled (Hawkins's Eng. Dramas, III. 323). 
lavisher (lav'ish-er), n. One who lavishes; one 
who expends or bestows profusely or exces- 
sively ; a prodigal. 
Ood is not a lavither, but a dispenser of his blessings. 
Fotherby, Atheomastlx, p. 189. 
lavishly (lav'ish-li), adv. In a lavish manner: 
with profuse expense ; prodigally, 
lavishment (lav'ish-ment), n. [< lavish + 
-men?.] The act of lavishing; profuse bestowal 
or expenditure ; prodigality. 
Ah, happy realm the while 
That by no officer's lewd lavishmeiti, 
With greedy lust and wrong, consumed art. 
P. Fletcher, Purple Island, vi. 
lavishness (lav'ish-nes), n. The state or qual- 
ity of being lavish ; profusion ; prodigality. 
First got with guile, and then preserv'd with dread, 
And after spent with pride and larishnesse. 
Spetuer, F. Q., II. vit 12. 
lavoltt (la-volf), . [< lavolta.] Same as la- 
volta. 
I cannot sing, 
Nor heel the high larolt. 
Shak., T. and C., iv. 4. 88. 
lavoltat (la-vol'tft), n. [Also, erroneously, lu- 
valto; < It. la votta, the turn: la, the (< L. ilia, 
that) ; volta, a turning round : see vault, n J A 
lively round dance, of Italian origin, popular in 
England in the time of Elizabeth and Utter. It 
probably resembled the polka or the waltz. 
For lo ! the liveless Jacks lavaltoes take 
At that sweet musick which themselves do make. 
Urume'e Songs (ed. Kail), p. 133. (Ilalliu-eU.) 
They bid us to the English dancing-schools, 
And teach lavoltai high, and swift corantoa. 
Shot., Hen. V., lit 6. 33. 
lavoltat (la-vol'ta), v. i. [Also, erroneously, la- 
volto; < lavolta, n.} To spring or whirl as in 
the lavolta. 
Do but marke him on your walles, any morning at that 
season, how he sallies and lanolins. 
Xashe, Lenten Stutfe (Hart. Misc., VI. 164). 
lavolteteret (la-vol'te-ter), n. {FoT'lavoltateer, 
< lavolta + -t- (a mere insertion) + -eer.] One 
who dances the lavolta ; a dancer. 
The second, a lavoltetere, a saltatory, a dancer with a kit 
at his bum ; one that, by teaching great madonnas to foot 
it, has miraculously purchased a Hounded waistcoat 
Beau, and Fl., Fair Maid of the Inn, IU. 1. 
lavoltot, r. i. See larolta. 
lavort, lavourt, Obsolete forms of laver 1 . 
lavrock (lav'rok), n. A variant of laverock, for 
lark 1 . 
lavy 1 (la'vi), a. K lave 1 + -y 1 . See lavish.] 
Lavish ; liberal. Halliwell. [North. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 
lavy 2 (la'vi), n.; pi. lavies (-viz). Same as lamy. 
law 1 (la), n. [< ME. lawe, laghe, lage^ lake, < 
AS. lagu (rare, the usual words being <E, L. jus. 
and dom, L. decretum, statutum) = OS. lag = Icel. 
log (for *lagu), law (cf . lag, a stratum, order), = 
Sw. lag = Dan. lov, a law (cf. L. lex (leg-), a 
law, from the same ult. root); lit. 'that which 
lies' or is fixed or set (cf. G. gesetz, AS. geset- 
nes, a law. dom, a law, doom, Or. Scauof, law, L. 
law 
Ktaiutum, a statute, all of similar etymological 
import), < liri/iiii (prct. lii'ij), lie: see lie 1 .} 1. 
A nile of action prescribed by authority, espe- 
cially by a sovereign or by the state: as, the 
laws of M n n n ; a laic of Qod. 
We must define Lawn to be Rules of Conduct which we 
are morally bound to obey, ... or, more briefly. Command* 
imposed by Itlghtful Authority. 
//. Sidginct, Methods of Ethics, p. 269. 
Our human lavi are but the copies, more or less Imper- 
fect, of the eternal lam so far as we can read them, and 
either succeed and promote our welfare, or fall lad bring 
confusion and disaster, according as the legislator's Insight 
has detected the true principle, or has been distorted by 
Ignorance or selfishness. Froude. 
Specifically (a) Any written or positive rule, or collec- 
tion of rules, prescribed under the authority of the state 
or nation, whether by the people In its constitution, as the 
orijanic lav, or by the legislature In its statute lav, or by 
the treaty-making power, or by municipalities In their or- 
dinances or by-laus. 
It Is essential to the idea of a law that it be attended 
with a sanction ; or, In other words, a penalty or punish- 
ment for disobedience. A. Hamilton, Federalist, No. 15. 
(b) An act of the supreme legislative body of a state or na- 
tion, as distinguished from the constitution : as, the con- 
stitution, and the lairt made in pursuance thereof, (e) In 
a more general sense, the profession or vocation of attor- 
neys, counsellors, solicitors, conveyancers, etc. : as, to prac- 
tise lair, (a) Litigation : as, to go to law. 
Dare any of you. having a matter against another, go to 
lav: before the unjust? 1 Cor. vi. 1. 
2. Collectively, a system or collection of such 
rules. Specifically (a) The principles and regulations 
of human government in their application to property 
and conduct ; those general rules of external human ac- 
tion which are enforced by a sovereign political author- 
ity (Holland) ; the aggregate of rules set by men as politi- 
cally superior or sovereign, to men as politically subject 
(Austin) ; rules of human conduct prescribed by established 
usage or custom, or by a constitution adopted by the peo- 
ple, or by statutes or ordinances prescribed by a legislative 
power, or by regulations of Judicial procedure, or recog- 
nized and enforced by Judicial decision. Modem differ- 
ence of opinion as to the proper definition of law chiefly 
results from the fact that writers of the analytic school, 
proceeding by an analysis of the usual mental conception 
of law under monarchical government, have commonly 
denned it as in essence command by a superior to an 
inferior ; and as perhaps the larger part of modern law 
such, for instance, as the law of negotiable paper and 
of contracts generally does not consist of commands or 
prohibitions, this definition is supported by the argument 
that what the sovereign permits lie commands, or at least 
indirectly commands, shall not be prevented. Writers of 
the historical school, on the other hand, tracing govern- 
ment by law back to its early development have defined 
law as essentially consisting of what Is judicially ascer- 
tained to be usual and regular. In either view it is agreed 
that a true law in the sense of jurisprudence Is one which 
deals with a class of things, acts or omissions, as distin- 
guished from particular commands and awards. Law, as 
it actually exists In modern society, is the aggregate or 
system of rules by which a political community or conge- 
ries of communities regulates or professes to regulate the 
conduct and the rights and powers of its members and its 
own Interference with their freedom ; and any rule answer- 
Ing this description is, if authoritatively promulgated, a 
lair. Every new judicial decision, also, is part of the law 
in the sense that it actually regulates conduct rights, or 
powers. (6) The system of law. of ten slightly personified : 
as, in the eye of the law; in the custody of the law; the 
laic presumes or intends. 
No man e'er felt the halter draw, 
With good opinion of the law. 
J. Trumbutt, McFlngal, ill. 490. 
(e) The Mosaic system of rules and ordinances. 
Think not that I am come to destroy the (air, or the 
prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
Mat T. 17. 
Hence (rf) The books of the Bible containing this sys- 
tem ; the books of the law. 
After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers 
of the synagogue sent onto them. Acts xiiL IS. 
(e) The preceptive part of the Bible, especially of the New 
Testament In contradistinction to its promises. 
And worche many Myracles, and preche and teche the 
Fey the and the Laice of Cristene Men unto his Children. 
Manderillf, Travels, p. 1. 
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of 
Christ till. vi. 2. 
3. A proposition which expresses the constant 
or regular order of certain phenomena, or the 
constant mode of action of a force; a gen- 
eral formula or rule to which all things, or all 
things or phenomena within the limits of a 
certain class or group, conform, precisely and 
without exception; a rule to which events 
really tend to conform. A mere empirical formula 
which satisfies a series of observations sufficiently, but 
would not bold In extreme cases, is not considered as a 
law. A special fact is not a law ; bat a subordinate prin- 
ciple, as that planets revolve in ellipses, Is or Is not a law 
according to the shade of meaning with which that word 
I see another law in my members, warring against the 
(air of my mind. Rom. vii. 23. 
The law* of nature are the rales according to which 
effects are produced ; but there must be a cause which 
operates according to these rules. The rules of naviga- 
tion never steered a ship, nor the tow of gravity never 
moved a planet Reid. 
