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Laurinol
- - Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Laurace) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.
Lausanne
- noun - a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center
Lawrence
- noun - a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
- English actress (1898-1952)
- English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
- English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
- Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
- United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
- Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
Lawsonia
- - An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.
Lay Into
- verb -
- hit violently, as in an attack
Leadenly
- unknown - in slow or laboured fashion
Leadings
- noun - the activity of leading; "his leadership inspired the team"
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
Leafings
- noun - (botany) the process of forming leaves
Leanings
- noun - a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"
- an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
- the act of deviating from a vertical position
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
Leapings
- noun - a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards