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Lamming
- verb - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
Lancing
- verb - move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore"
- open by piercing with a lancet; "lance a boil"
- pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
Landing
- verb - an intermediate platform in a staircase
- arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
- bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
- bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"
- cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
- deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
- reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"
- shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
- structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
- the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface); "the plane made a smooth landing"; "his landing on his feet was catlike"
- the act of coming to land after a voyage
Lansing
- noun - capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River
Lapling
- - One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.
Lapping
- verb - covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
- lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
- move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open"
- pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand"
- take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
- wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"
Lapsing
- verb - a failure to maintain a higher state
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"
- go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
- let slip; "He lapsed his membership"
- pass by; "three years elapsed"
- pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana"
Lapwing
- noun - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
Larding
- verb - add details to
- prepare or cook with lard; "lard meat"