Definition of lap

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Lap (n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury..

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Lap :: Lap (n.) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working..
Lappic :: Lappic (n.) The language of the Lapps. See Lappish.
Teeuck :: Teeuck (n.) The lapwing.
Glazer :: Glazer (n.) A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc..
Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.
Leucosoid :: Leucosoid (a.) Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa..
Stag :: Stag (n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti..
Lapidary :: Lapidary (a.) Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation..
Lepidoptera :: Lepidoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored..
Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..
Supraloral :: Supralapsary (n.) A Supralapsarian.
Pewit :: Pewit (n.) The lapwing.
Scincoidian :: Scincoidian (n.) Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidae or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink..
Lap :: Lap (n.) The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap..
Repair :: Repair (v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune..
Lapidist :: Lapidist (n.) A lapidary.
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
Elapsed :: Elapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Elaps.
Water Dock :: Water dock () A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum..
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed..
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