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Lauric
- - Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel (Laurus nobilis).
Laurin
- - A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.
Laurus
- noun - small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves
Lavabo
- noun - a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression)
Lavage
- noun - washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water
Lavash
- unknown - A thin flat bread of Armenian origin
Laveer
- - To beat against the wind; to tack.
Lavers
- noun - (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
- Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)
- edible red seaweeds
- seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
Laving
- verb - cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash one's face and hands; "She freshened up in the bathroom"
- wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"
Lavish
- adjective - characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"
- expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"
- very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain"