This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...intreasure, to stow; to lay up treasure, to thesaurise; to lay out money, to disburse or dispurse; to lay on, to inflict, to impose; to lay flat (fall down) to prostrate. LAYER, S. Stratum; the act of laying layer upon layer, stratification. LAZINESS, s. Indolence, pigricude, torpor, torpitude, accidie. LAZY, a. Indolent, lither, murcid, retchless, desidiose, desidious; lazy fellow, grouthead, lounger, lubbard or lubber, loord, lungis, micher; lazy and very haughty person, lordan or lordant. LEAD. s. Old name given to white lead, ceruse, psimmytheon or psimmythium; red lead, minium; lead and silver as found in their native mixture, plumbagine; one who works in lead, plumber. LEADER, s. Chieftain, demagogue, premier. LEADING p. (Principal or chief) especial, inductive; the act of leading back, retroduction. LEAF. s. Large leaf used for that of a ledger, folio, (see book); any plant which springs from the seed, with only one leaf, monocotyledon or monophyllon. LEAGUE, s. Conjunction, alliance, combination, confederacy; relating to a league, federal. LEAN, a. To make lean, to emaciate, to macerate; lean, gaunt, meager, haggard, marcid, macilent, tabid. LEANING./. The ancient posture of leaning at meals, accubation; fitted to a leaning posture, discubitory; the act of leaning at meat, discumbency; the act of leaning or lying, recubation, recumbency. LEANNESS, s. Marcor, marcidity, macritude. LEAP-YEAR. s. Bissextile or intercallary; the adding of a day to the year as in leapyear, embolism; leap from one thing to another, transilience; leap, croupade, curvet, gambol; a skip or leap from one horse tu another, desulture; sort of leap in which the heels are over the head, summersault or summerset. LEAPING. . Salient, saltant; of or...