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Largesse
- noun - a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously
- liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit
Lathered
- verb - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- exude sweat or lather; "this unfit horse lathers easily"
- form a lather; "The shaving cream lathered"
- rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
Latterly
- adverb - in the recent past; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also"
Laureate
- adjective - someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath
- worthy of the greatest honor or distinction;
Laureled
- adjective - crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory
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)
Lawyerly
- - Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity.
Leadenly
- unknown - in slow or laboured fashion
Leavened
- verb - cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
- made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form; "leavened bread"; "well-leavened"; "yeast-leavened breads"