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LAKE, v.i.

To play; to sport. North of England. This is play, without a prefix.

LAKE, n. [L. lacus. A lake is a stand of water, from the root of lay. Hence L. lagena, Eng. flagon.]

1. A large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth. It differs from a pond in size, the latter being a collection of small extent; but sometimes a collection of water is called a pond or a lake indifferently. North America contains some of the largest lakes on the globe, particularly the lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior.

2. A middle color between ultramarine and vermilion, made of cochineal.


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LAKE, v.i.

To play; to sport. North of England. This is play, without a prefix.

LAKE, n. [L. lacus. A lake is a stand of water, from the root of lay. Hence L. lagena, Eng. flagon.]

1. A large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth. It differs from a pond in size, the latter being a collection of small extent; but sometimes a collection of water is called a pond or a lake indifferently. North America contains some of the largest lakes on the globe, particularly the lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior.

2. A middle color between ultramarine and vermilion, made of cochineal.

LAKE, n.

A name of all those colors which consist of a vegetable dye, combined by precipitation with a white earthy basis, which is usually alumina. – Ure.


LAKE, n. [G. lache, a puddle; Fr. lac; L. lacus; Sp. and It. lago; Sax. luh; Scot. loch; Ir. lough; Ice. laugh. A lake is a stand of water, from the root of lay. Hence L. lagena, Eng. flagon, and Sp. laguna, lagoon.]

  1. A large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth. It differs from a pond in size, the latter being a collection of small extent; but sometime a collection of water is called a pond or a lake indifferently North America contains some of the largest lakes on the globe, particularly the Was Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior.
  2. A middle color between ultramarine and vermilion, made of cochineal. – Dryden.

LAKE, v.i. [Sw. leka; Dan. leger; Goth. laikon.]

To play; to sport. North of England. This is play, Sax. plegan, without a prefix.


Lake
  1. A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
  2. A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  3. To play; to sport.

    [Prov. Eng.]
  4. A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

    * Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean.

    Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland. -- Lake dwellings (Archæol.), dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See Crannog. -- Lake fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvæ live in lakes. -- Lake herring (Zoöl.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii). -- Lake poets, Lake school, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and lakists. -- Lake sturgeon (Zoöl.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food. -- Lake trout (Zoöl.), any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout (S. fontinalis), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See Namaycush. -- Lake whitefish. (Zoöl.) See Whitefish. -- Lake whiting (Zoöl.), an American whitefish (Coregonus Labradoricus), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish.

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Lake

LAKE, verb intransitive

To play; to sport. North of England. This is play, without a prefix.

LAKE, noun [Latin lacus. A lake is a stand of water, from the root of lay. Hence Latin lagena, Eng. flagon.]

1. A large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth. It differs from a pond in size, the latter being a collection of small extent; but sometimes a collection of water is called a pond or a lake indifferently. North America contains some of the largest lakes on the globe, particularly the lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior.

2. A middle color between ultramarine and vermilion, made of cochineal.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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ORB, n. [L. orbis.]

1. A spherical body; as the celestial orbs.

2. In astronomy, a hollow globe or sphere.

3. A wheel; a circular body that revolves or rolls; as the orbs of a chariot.

4. A circle; a sphere defined by a line; as, he move in a larger orb.

5. A circle described by any mundane sphere; an orbit.

6. Period; revolution of time.

7. The eye.

8. In tactics, the circular form of a body of troops, or a circular body of troops.

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ORB, v.t. To form into a circle.

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