lazy 
Lewdly complalnest thou, laerie Indde, 
Of \\iiit- is H i :;rkr l..i making thcc sadde. 
x/ir inter, Mhep. t'al., February. 
Wicked condemned ini'ii will over live like rogucx, nm! 
nut fall to work, but be /"-'// nnd spend victuals. /tacon. 
2. Characterized by or characteristic of idle- 
iii ss or sluggishness; languid; tardy; slow: as, 
a In?!/ yawn; IH~II movements; a tn:.y stream. 
Call on the lain leaden-stepping hours. Milton, Time. 
Lazy guy. HCC TO.V'. Lazy weight, scant weight. 
Iliilliif'flt.=Syn. Indolent, fiu-rt, etc. (Ht-r i<fU'); tiiliitury, 
slack. 
lazy (la'zi), v.; pret. and pp. lusted, ppr. lazying. 
KToty, a.J I. intninn. To act lazily; laze; move 
idly, listlessly, or reluctantly. [Colloq.] 
So we w.mM put in the day, laftjing around, listening 
to the stillness. 5. L. Clement, Huckleberry Finn. 
II. trans. To waste or spend idly. [Colloq.] 
We lazied the rest of the pleasant afternoon away. 
The Century, XXXI. 197. 
lazy-back (la'zi-bak), n. and a. I. n. 1. A 
high back-bar attached to a seat as a support 
for the back. It is sometimes made so as to be 
removable. [Colloq., U. S.] 2. An iron rest 
placed over the fire to support a frying-pan, 
etc. I fright. 
II. . Having a reclining back, as a chair. 
A lazy-back chair makes a capital observing-seat. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXX. 748. 
lazy-bed (U'zi-bed), n. A bed for growing 
potatoes, in which the potatoes are laid on the 
surface of the soil and covered with earth taken 
out from trenches on both sides. This mode of 
planting potatoes is now chiefly confined to Ireland, but 
was common in early Scottish husbandry. It is of practi- 
cal use only for spade husbandry. 
lazyboard (la'zi-bprd), n. A short board used 
by teamsters to ride on. It is placed on the 
left of the wagon-bed, between the front and 
rear wheels. 
lazybones (la'zi-bonz), n. A lazy fellow; an 
idler. [Colloq.] 
lazyboots (la'zi-bots), n. Same as lazybones. 
[Colloq.] 
lazy-jack (la'zi-jak), n. In meek. engin., a jack 
constructed on the same principle as a lazy- 
tongs, consisting of compound levers pivoted 
together. A screw and nut are generally used to operate 
and extend the jack in lifting weights. The instrument 
h;is nearly gone out of use, being almost universally su- 
perseded by the hydraulic Jack. 
lazy-pinion (la' zi- pin* yon), n. A pinion not 
keyed to a shaft, but turning on a bearing and 
serving merely as a transmitter of motion be- 
tween two other wheels or pinions without af- 
fecting their velocity-ratio. See idle-wheel. 
lazy-tongs (la'zi-tdngz), n. sing, and pi. A kind 
of tongs or pincers consisting of a number of 
pairs of levers 
pivoted together 
at the middle and 
hinged to one 
another at the 
ends, the exten- 
sion of which, produced by bringing together 
the scissors-like handles, enables one without 
change of position to pick up an object at a 
considerable distance (whence the name). The 
same principle of construction baa many applications, as 
in safety bridges or gates between cars, on ferry-boats, 
etc., formed of levers pivoted together at several points. 
It is used also in some forms of elevators, extension gas- 
lamps, etc. It was first described by Roberto Valturio, 
who died about 1482. 
lazzarone (laz-a-ro'ne; It. pron. lat-sii-ro'ne), 
n. ; pi. ifuraroM (-ni). [It., a beggar, in form 
aug. of lu::nro, a beggar, leper (referring to the 
hospital of St. La~arus in Naples, which serves 
as tneir refuge, or ult. to the oeggar Lazanm in 
the parable): see /a;r.] One of those mem- 
bers of the poorer classes in Naples who eam a 
scanty subsistence :is messengers, porters, and 
occasional laborers, or by fishing, but have no 
fixed habitation, and spend the most of their 
time in idling and begging. 
L. B. An abbreviation of the Latin (New Latin) 
HinwiliiiiiTiix l.iiirraniin, Bachelor of Letters. 
Ib. An abbreviation of Latin lihru, pound, used 
as a symbol for pound in weight. Sometimes 
written Ib. 
1. c. An abbreviation (a) in printing, of lower 
cn-ie (that is, small letters, as opposed to capi- 
tals); (6) of the Latin IIM-H citato, in the place 
ciftd : used to avoid repetition of a citation or 
reference already given. 
le 1 (le). [F. Ic, OF. le, lo = Sp. Pg. In = It. lo, m., 
OF.'F. Sp. Pg. It. la, f., def. art.; cf. OF. F. il, 
he, = Sp. Pg. el = It. il, def. art,; < L. ille (ace. 
il/iini, nont. illud), OL. olle, ollus, he, that, used 
in LL. ML., and hence in Rom., as the def. art.] 
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The French definite article masculine (includ- 
ing the old neuter), much used in Middle Kng- 
lish in names of French type, as Julian le Long, 
William If Bon, etc. (many of which survive in 
modern English), as well as in modern French 
names. It occurs contracted and unrecognized 
in linijot and other words. 
In September KIM; the walls of the friary (of the Augus- 
tine or Hermit friars, WarrlngUm, Cheshire. Knglandl wit- 
nessed a singular scene, for "Messieurs Johan If Botiller, 
baroun de Weryngton, Nichol te Vermmn, ... sat three 
days tn examine witnesses in the friary church." 
Quoted in Bainest Hist. Lancashire, U. 224. 
le 2 (le), n. See IP. 
-le 1 . [Formerly also and in some instances still 
-el; < ME. -le, -el, etc. ; partly < AS. -ol, -ul, or -el, 
partly < OF. -el (< L. -ellus, etc.) or -le (<. L. -ilis, 
etc.), or -al, -el (< L. -alls), or other forms.] A 
suffix or termination of very diverse origin, and 
now usually without obvious significance, oc- 
curring in adjectives or nouns of native Eng- 
lish origin, as in fickle, mickle, brickie, brittle, 
etc., cockle, prickle, knuckle, etc., shackle, etc., 
or of other origin, as in battle 1 , battle 2 , bottle 2 , 
buckle 2 , mettle, etc. See the etymology of such 
words. 
-le 2 . [< ME. -le. -el, with inf. suffix -ten, -elen = 
D. -elen = G. -em; ult. a var. of -er*, a freq. suf- 
fix. Cf. -fcl.] A suffix of frequentative, or ori- 
ginally frequentative, verbs, as babble, gabble, 
cackle, crackle, humble 1 , mumble, ramble, scram- 
ble, scribble, etc. It is equivalent to -, as in gibber, 
jabber, etc. It Is more or less confused with similar suffixes 
of various origin, as in tremble, trouble, hamblet, etc. 
lea 1 (le), a. and a. [Formerly also lee, dial, lay, 
leu (in comp. in local names, -leigh, -ley, -ly); < 
ME. ley, lay, leye, leygc, < AS. ledh (gen. leas. 
dat. led), m., ledh (gen. dat. ledge), t., unfilled 
land, a lea, meadow, pasture, = MLG. lo. loch, 
loge, lage, loye, LG. loge = Flem. loo (as in Water- 
loo) = OHG. loh, MHG. loch, G. dial, loh, a low 
plain, a morass, = Lith. laukas, an open field, 
= L. lucux, a grove, wood (orig., according to 
etym., a glade, a 'clearing'), < lucere, be light, 
lux, light: see lucent and light 1 . Thus lucus, 
though said to be so called a non lucendo," is, 
regarded as a 'clearing,' really lucus a lucendo. 
See hti-H-i a non lucendo.] I.n.1. Open,untilled 
land, usually in grass, or pasture-land; a mea- 
dow or grassy plain ; a stretch of level fields or 
commons. 
A lady gaye, 
Came ridand ouer a longe lee. 
Thomas of Eraeldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 98). 
Two children in two neighbour villages 
Haying mad pranks along the heathy leat. 
Tennyton, circumstance. 
Hence 2. Any field; any level geographical 
surface. 
And bad hym holde hym at home and eryen his leyet, 
And alle that halpe hym to erie to sette or to sowe, 
Or any other myster. Piers Plowman (B\ vii. 5. 
When two warlike Brigandines at sea, 
With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell nght, 
Do meete together on the watry lea, 
They stennne ech other with so fell despight. 
Spmter, F. Q., IV. it 16. 
3f. Fallow land ; lealand. 
II. a. Unfilled ; fallow : said of land. Com- 
pare lealand, layland. [In this use chiefly prov. 
Eng.] 
Ml londis of vertues liggen al lay. 
Hymm to Viryin. etc. (E. E. T. S.\ p. 70. 
The land It may lie Iff. 
Death of Party Seed (Child's Ballads, VI. 141). 
Let wife and land 
Lie lay till I return. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Pilgrimage, 111. 3. 
lea 2 * (le), n. [< ME. ley, < Icel. le = Sw. tie = 
Dan. In', a scythe.] A scythe. Catholicon An- 
glicum, p. 211. 
lea 3 (le), n. [A var. of lay 1 .] 1 . Same as lay 1 , 8. 
E. H. Knight. 2. One of the sets of alternating 
threads into which the yarns of a loom are di- 
vided by the harness system so as to form the 
shed. 
leach 1 !, *nd v. See leech 1 . 
leach 2 (lech), v. t. [Also leech, letch (and latch) : 
see letch 1 , latch 2 .] 1. To wash or drain by per- 
colation of water; treat by downward drain- 
age: as, to make lye by leaching ashes (the 
most familiar use of the word) ; the rains leach 
a gravelly soil. 2. To remove by percolation; 
drain away : as, to leach the alkali from wood- 
ashes. 
leach 2 (lech), n. [< leach 2 , t-."] I. A separa- 
tion of lye, or alkali in solution, as from wood- 
ashes, by percolation of water. 2. The mate- 
rial used for leaching, as wood-ashes. 3. A 
deep tub with a spigot inserted in the bottom, 
lead 
used in making potash. It holds from G to 8 
bushels of woiiil-M-'n -. 
leach 3 , n. See /< - 
leach*t (lech), n. [< ME. lechc, < OF. lesche, F. 
i, fi,i', a slice, shive.] A dish, of various kinds, 
served up in slices. It was sometimes a jelly 
flavored with spices. 
Leach,. . . a kind of Jelly made of Cream, Islnglas, Sugar, 
Almonds, Ac. Handle Holme. 
leach*t, t. [< ME. lechen, leschen, slice; from 
the noun.] To cut into slices; slice. 
Seyne bowcs of wylde bores, with the braune lechude. 
Marie Arthurs (E. E. T. 8.JP| L 188. 
leach 5 (lech), n. Same as liilrli'-'. 
leach 6 (lech), n. Same as leash. 
leach-craftt, n. See leech-cmft. 
leacherH, See leecher. 
leacher 2 (Ie'ch6r), n. A leach-tub or leaching- 
vat. 
leacher't, leacheroust, etc. Obsolete spellings 
of lecher, etc. 
leaching-vat (le'ching-vat), n. A leach-tub. 
leach-line, n. See leech-line. 
leachmant, n. See leechman. 
leach-trough (Iech'tr6f), n. See the quota- 
tion. 
At the salt works In Staffordshire, they take the corned 
salt from the rest of the brine with loot or lute, and put 
it into barrows, the which being set in the leach-trvugtu, 
the salt drains itself dry, which draining they call leach- 
brine, and preserve it to be boiled again as the best and 
strongest brine. KenneU, .M.S. Lansd. 1038. (HalKmll.) 
leach-tub (lech'tub), n. A wooden vessel in 
which ashes are leached. It has the form of an in- 
verted truncated cone, with a perforated false bottom 
which is covered with straw. In the true bottom is a tap 
for the removal of the liquor, which is received in a tank 
below. Also called leaching-vat. 
leachy(le'chi),a. [< leach 2 + -y 1 ."] Liable to be 
leached: allowing water to percolate through, 
as gravelly or sandy soil. Also letchy. 
lead 1 (led), v. ; pret. and pp. led, ppr. leading. 
[< ME.terff (pret._/e<Me,_/flrfrfe), < AS. l&dan 
__ 
(pret. latdde, pp. lieded, Iced) (= OS. ledjan = 
OFries. leda = 1). leiden = MLG. leiden, leden 
= OHG. leitan, MHG. G. leitcn = Icel. leidha 
= Sw. leda = Dan. lede), lead; a factitive verb, 
connected with lad (= Icel. leidh, etc. ), a way, 
course, journey (see lode 1 ), < lidhan = OHG. 
lidan = Icel. lidlia, go, = Dan. lide = Sw. lida, 
glide on, wear on : see/i'Mt 3 .] I. trans. 1. To 
go before as a guide ; guide the steps or move- 
ments of; precede or accompany in order to 
show the way to; conduct: as, to lead the blind; 
a star led the three wise men to Bethlehem. 
And zee schulle undirstonde that oure Lord Jean, in that 
Nyghte that he was taken, he was ylad in to a Oardyn; 
and there he was first examyned rlghte scharply. 
JlandeniUe, Travels, p. 13. 
Moses . . . led the flock to the backside of the desert. 
Ex. ill. 1. 
2. To be at the head of; direct or control the 
movements or actions of; command: as, to lead 
an army or an expedition ; to lead a mutiny. 
The kynge Arthur hath well be-sette the lordship that 
he hath yow yoven to lede and gouerne his peple. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.X lit. 304. 
Assemble thou 
Of all those myriads which we lead the chief. 
Milton, P. L.,v. 084. 
Specifically, In miuie : (a) To conduct or direct, as a hand, 
orchestra, or chorus. (6) To act as a principal performer 
in, as an orchestra or chorus : said of the principal first 
3. To go before or in advance of; take the lead 
of or in ; go or be first in : as, the g_ray horse 
leads them all; he leads his class in mathe- 
matics; to Ira 'I the dance. 
A-qneynte the weel with Prudence, 
He ledtih alle vertues out A inne. 
Hymns lo Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.X p. >. 
For her I made the Song : the Dance with her I lead. 
Prior, Solomon, It 
And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest 
Levjh Hvnt, Ahou Ben Adhem. 
We sit In solemn rows on each side of the hall, and are 
apparently waiting for some one to lead us in prayer. 
C. If. Stoddard, Mashallah, xviii. 
4. To cause to go or act ; draw on ; induce; in- 
fluence: as, to lead one astray; this leads me 
to refuse. 
The king is not himself, but basely led 
By flatterers. ShaJc., Rich. II., II. 1. 241. 
All before him was anxiety, uncertainty. He had cut 
himself adrift: he was on the great stream. Whither 
would it lea,i him ? KimjiUy, Hypatia, L 196. 
5. To conduct in a way or course ; draw or guide 
in a mode of acting or thinking: as, to lead a 
stream of water through a field for irrigation; 
to lead one's thoughts into new channels. 
