Dictionary: LAN – LANZ

► LAN! int. an exclamation and mild oath; Lord! → 1857 Eng. dial.
► LANARIOUS adj. belonging to wool → 1656 obs. rare
► LANARK vb. to lark → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANARY n. a wool-house; a warehouse or storehouse for wool → 1727 obs.
► LANC n. a Lancashire man → 1870 Brit. navvies’ sl.
► LANCASHIRE GLOVES n. hands without gloves → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANCASHIRE LASS n. a glass, a tumbler; usually plural → 1880 Brit. rhyming sl.
► LANCASHIRE LASSES n. glasses, spectacles → 20C Brit. rhyming sl.
► LANCASTRIAN n. a native of Lancashire, England → 1888
► LANCE n. 1. a branch of a tree, a shoot → 1300 obs.
n. 2. a leap, bound, dash → 1375 obs.
n. 3. the penis → 1622 sl.
n. 4. a cut, incision, slit → 1669 obs.
n. 5. a hypodermic needle → 1952 US drug culture sl.
vb. 1. of leaves, fire: to spring forth, to shoot up → 1300 obs.
vb. 2. of pain: to shoot → 1300 obs.
vb. 3. to fling, to hurl, to throw a dart, etc.; to shoot out the tongue; to put forth blossoms → 1300 chiefly poetic usage
vb. 4. to throw out a tale, words, etc.; to utter → 1300 obs.
vb. 5. to bound, to spring, to move quickly, to rush → 1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to launch a boat → 1515 obs.
vb. 7. to make a dash or stroke with a pen → 1588 obs.
vb. 8. to swindle → 1908 US sl.
vb. 9. of a man: to copulate with → 1960 US sl.
► LANCE-COMICAL n. a lance-corporal → 1946 Brit. army sl.
► LANCE-CORPORAL TOWROPE n. a driver mechanic → 1939 Brit. army sl.
► LANCE IN REST n. the erect penis → 19C Brit. sl.
► LANCE-JACK n. a lance-corporal or lance-bombardier → 1912 Brit. sl.
► LANCE-KNIGHT n. a highwayman → 1590 cant
► LANCE-MAN n. a highwayman → 1592 obs.
► LANCEMAN-PRIGGER n. a highwayman → 1590 cant
► LANCEMENT n. the act of lancing or cutting; an incision → 1658 obs.
► LANCE OF LOVE n. the penis, esp. the erect penis → 19C Brit. sl.
► LANCINATE vb. to pierce, to tear → 1603
► LANCINATING adj. chiefly used of pain: acute, darting, piercing → 1762
► LANCINATION n. 1. a cutting, a lancing → 1630
n. 2. piercing pain; acute agony → 1649
► LAND n. 1. the country, as opposed to the town → 900 obs.
n. 2. a pew in a church → 1925 Sc.
vb. 1. to bestow land upon → 1624 obs.
vb. 2. to throw a bridge across a river → 1637 obs.
► LAND ABOVE! int. an exclamation → 1965 Amer. dial.
► LANDAGE n. landing, coming ashore → 1470 obs.
► LAND ALIVE! int. an exclamation → 1865 Amer. dial.
► LAND-A-MASSY! int. used to express surprise, dismay, etc. → 1917 Amer. dial.
► LAND-BAIST vb. to lambaste, to beat, to thrash → 1975 Amer. dial.
► LAND-BERG n. a glacier → 1853
► LAND BIRD n. a landlubber; a person having no experience at sea → 1827 US nautical sl.
► LAND-BORN adj. native → 1589 obs.
► LAND-BRED adj. 1. brought up on land → 1591
adj. 2. native, indigenous → 1596
► LAND-BREEZE n. a breeze blowing from the land seawards → 1667
► LAND-BRIST n. surf → 1375 Sc. obs.
► LAND-BURST n. a succession of a few breakers at change of tide, or at intervals during a storm → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► LAND-COUPER n. one who buys and sells land → 1830 Sc.
► LAND CRAB n. a landlubber’ a person having no experience at sea → 1861 US nautical sl.
► LAND-DAMN vb. ? to make a hell on earth for a person → 1611 obs.
► LANDAM-LANTAN vb. to reprimand sharply; to rate → 1777 Eng. dial. 
► LAND-DOCTOR n. a professional valuer of land → 1808 Eng. dial.
► LANDED adj. thrown from a horse → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► LANDED FORK END UP adj. thrown from a horse head first → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► LANDED ON HIS SOMBRERO adj. thrown from a horse head first → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► LANDER n. 1. a very hard blow → 1902 Eng. &  Amer. dial.
n. 2. a fall on the ground, as when skating → 1925 Sc.
n. 3. a spacecraft, or part of one, which is designed to land on the surface of the moon or a planet → 1961 
vb. to idle; to leave off work → 1877 Eng. dial. 
► LANDERLY adv. landward → 1902 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► LAND-EVIL n. an epidemic → 1440 obs.
► LANDFALL n. a windfall → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAND-FEATHER n. a bay or inlet → 1582 obs.
► LANDFOLK n. the people of a land or country; country people,  rural population → 1000 obs. exc. Sc.
► LAND-FRIGATE n. a harlot, a strumpet → 1611 obs.
► LAND-GATE adv. by land → 1536 Sc. obs.
n. 1. way or passage over land → 1637 Sc. obs.
n. 2. (usually as ‘landgate’) a long and narrow piece of land → 1726 obs.
► LAND-GATES adv. towards the interior of the country → 1768 Sc.
► LAND HO! int. a cry of sailors when first sighting land → 1840
► LAND-ILL n. an epidemic → 1500 obs.
► LAND IN A SHALLOW GRAVE vb. to be killed and buried without ceremony → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► LANDING GEAR n. the legs → 1941 US aviators’ usage
► LANDISH adj. 1. belonging to the land or country; native → 1300 obs.
adj. 2. of the commons or common people → 1489 obs.
► LAND-JOBBER n. a person who makes a business of buying and selling land on speculation → 1745 
► LAND-JUNKER n. a country squire → 1840
► LAND KNOWS! int. an exclamation → 1965 Amer. dial.
► L AND L n. rest and recreation (Liquor and Love) → 1969 US jocular usage
► LANDLADY n. 1. a mistress → 1600 obs.
n. 2. the proprietress of a brothel; a madam → 1939 US sl.
► THE LANDLADY’S n. a brothel → 1879 US sl.
► LAND-LASH n. a heavy fall of rain accompanied by high wind → 1820 Sc.
► LAND-LEAPER n. a criminal vagabond, subsisting on pilfering and often disguised with fake sores and similar blandishments; one who runs up and down the land; a vagabond; fig.  a renegade; an adventurer → 1377 obs.
► LAND-LEAPING adj. vagabond → 1377 obs.
► LAND-LINE n. the outline of the land against sky and sea → 1875
► LANDLOOKER n. 1. a land agent or speculator → 1840 Amer. dial.
n. 2. in logging: one who surveys and estimates standing timber → 1891 Amer. dial.
► LAND-LOPER n. 1. a criminal vagabond, subsisting on pilfering and often disguised with fake sores and similar blandishments; one who runs up and down the land; a vagabond; fig.  a renegade; an adventurer → 1500 now chiefly Sc.
n. 2. a wandering tramp; a vagrant → E17 sl.
n. 3. a land-lubber; a freshwater seaman; a landsman → 1694 obs.
► LAND-LOPING adj. wandering, roving, vagabond → 1577 obs. exc. Sc.
► LANDLORD n. 1. God → 1635
n. 2. the head of a family where one is a guest; one’s host → 1824 Sc.
► LANDLORD HALO n. a notably dim light, as in the hallway of a slum apartment block, but also elsewhere → 1980 US sl.
► LANDLORDRY n. landlords as a class → 1597 obs.
► THE LANDLORD’S BOTTLE n. a bottle of liquor circulated by the host after the first supply for the guests at a party has been exhausted → 1804 Sc. obs.
► LAND-LOUPER n. one who roams about the country idly or to escape the law; a vagrant, a vagabond; fig.  a renegade; an adventurer → 1500 now chiefly Sc.
► LAND-LOUPING adj. wandering, roving, vagabond → 1577 obs. exc. Sc.
► LAND-LUBBER n. 1. a wandering tramp; a vagrant → E17 sl.
n. 2. a sailor’s term of contempt for a landsman → 1700
► LAND-LUBBING adj. belonging to a countryman → 1810 Sc.
► LANDMAN n. 1. a man of a specified or indicated country → 1000 obs.
n. 2. a countryman, a peasant → 1300
n. 3. one who lives or has his business on land, as opposed to a ‘seaman’ → 1480 obs.
n. 4. a man having landed property → 1562 obs.
► LAND-MARCH n. 1. territory bordering on another country → 1614 obs.
n. 2. a boundary → 1859 Sc.
► LAND MARINE n. a policeman → 1853 US nautical sl.
► LANDMASTER n. a proprietor of land, a landowner → 1795 Sc.
► LAND-MEAD n. a tract of meadow land → 1577 obs.
► LAND-MERE n. a boundary of land → 1603 obs.
► LAND-METE n. a measurement of land → 1608 obs.
► LAND-METER n. a land-measurer or surveyor → 1582 obs.
► LAND-METSTER n. a land-measurer, a surveyor → 1714 Sc.
► LAND-METTER n. a land-measurer, a surveyor → 1726 Sc.
► LAND NAVY n. beggars who pose as impoverished seamen → M19 sl.
► LAND-NECK n. an isthmus → 1618 obs.
► LANDOCRACY n. the class of people which owes its controlling position in the country to its possession of landed property → 1848 jocular usage
► LANDOCRAT n. a member of the landocracy → 1893 jocular usage
► LAND OF BEHEST n. land of promise → 1300 obs.
► LAND OF CAKES n. Scotland, arising from the fact that oatcakes were an important item in the fare of the rural population → 1669 Sc.
► LAND OF CHERRY BLOSSOMS n. Japan → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF DARKNESS n. Harlem, New York City; hence, the Black district of any city → 1930 African-American sl.
► LAND OF FRUIT AND NUTS n. California → 1940 US sl.
► LAND OF GOLD n. California → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF GOOD! int. an exclamation → 1965 Amer. dial.
► LAND OF GOODNESS! int. an exclamation → 1965 Amer. dial.
► LAND OF GOSHEN! int. an oath and an exclamation → 19C sl.
► LAND OF HEAVEN! int. an exclamation → 1965 Amer. dial.
► LAND OF HOPE n. soap → 20C rhyming sl.
► LAND OF KAIL n. Scotland, where broth is a national dish → 1826 Sc.
► LAND OF LIBERTY! int. an exclamation → 1957 Amer. dial.
► LAND OF LOVE! int. an exclamation → 1957 Amer. dial.
► LAND OF MANNA n. Utah → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF MIGHTY! int. an exclamation → 1965 Amer. dial.
► LAND OF MOSES! int. an exclamation → 1965 Amer. dial.
► LAND OF PERPETUAL SUNSHINE n. California → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF REGRETS n. India → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF SCOTS n. heaven → L19 sl.
► LAND OF THE BIG BX n. the United States (BX = Base Exchange) → 1970 US Air Force sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE BUCKSKIN n. Virginia → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE CAJUN n. Louisiana → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS n. Vermont → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE LEAL n. the realm of the blessed departed, heaven → 1798 Sc.
► LAND OF THE LIVING! int. an exclamation → 1885 Amer. dial.
► LAND OF THE LONG WHITE SHROUD n. New Zealand → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE MORMONS n. Utah → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE RAG-HEAD n. India → 1942 Amer. sl., derogatory (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE ROUND DOORKNOB n. the United States → 1970 US military overseas usage
► LAND OF THE SETTING SUN n. Japan → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE SHEEPHERDER n. Wyoming → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE SQUAREHEAD n. Germany → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE THISTLE n. Scotland → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE WOODEN HAMS n. America → 19C Aust. sl.
► LAND OF THE WOODEN NUTMEGS n. America → 19C Aust. sl.
► LAND OF TWANG n. the United States → 1900 Aust. sl.
► THE LAND OF WHIPPERGINNIE n. 1594 – a nickname for purgatory → sl., obs.
► LAND ON vb. to scold; to reprimand; to rebuke or take decisive action against → 1910 US sl.
► LAND ON A PEBBLY BEACH vb. to be short of money → L19 sl.
► LAND ON ONE’S FEET vb. to survive a difficult situation → 1950 sl.
► LANDOWNER n. a dead person; someone who ‘owns’ and occupies a grave → 19C Brit. & US colloq.
► LAND-PASSAGE n. an isthmus → 1601 obs.
► LAND PIKE n. a free-running or half-wild hog, or a more inferior breed of hog → 1841 US jocular usage
► LAND-PIRATE n. 1. one who robs on land; a highwayman → 1609
n. 2. a literary pirate → 1670 obs.
n. 3. a thieving prostitute → E19 sl.
► LANDPROP n. a landlady or landlord → 1936 African-American sl.
► LAND RAIN n. rainfall → 1950 Amer. dial.
► LAND-RAKER n. a vagrant, a tramp → L16 sl.
► LAND-RAT n. a term of abuse for a person → 1632 obs.
► LAND-REAK n. fog arising from the ground → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAND-ROAK n. fog arising from the ground → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAND-RUSH n. landslip, landslide → 1549 obs.
► LAND SAKES! int. a euphemism for avoiding ‘Lord sakes’ → M19 chiefly US
► LAND-SAKES ALIVE! int. an exclamation → 1909 Amer. dial.
► LAND’S ALIVING! int. an exclamation → 1906 Amer. dial.
► LANDSCAPE-WORKER n. one who paints landscapes → 1598 obs.
► LAND-SEA n. heavy breakers on the shoe → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► LAND SECURITY n. unauthorized absence → M18 sl.
► LAND’S END int. an exclamation → 1980 US students’ sl.
n. an out-of-the-way place or an unimportant village → 1950 Amer. dial.
► LAND-SHARK n. 1. a ruffian, a thug → 17C sl.
n. 2. a person, esp. a lawyer, who preys avariciously upon seamen ashore → 1769 nautical usage
n. 3. a custom house officer → 19C sl.
n. 4. a policeman → 19C sl.
n. 5. a land speculator → 1829 
n. 6. a free-running or half-wild hog → 1840 US jocular usage
n. 7. land-grabber → 1857
n. 8. a moneylender; a usurer → M19 sl.
► LAND-SHUT n. a flood → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAND-SIDE n. the shore → 1533 obs.
► LANDSLIP n. the sliding down of a mass of land on a mountain or cliff side; land which has so fallen; a landslide → 1679
► LANDSLIPPY adj. characterized by landslips or landslides → 1893
► LANDSMAN n. a native of a particular country → 1000 obs.
n. 2. one’s fellow-countryman → 1598
n. 3. one who lives or has his business on land, as opposed to a ‘seaman’ → 1666
► LAND-SPEECH n. a language, tongue → 1250 obs.
► LAND’S SAKE! int. an exclamation → 1834 Amer. dial.
► LAND-STEAD adj. provided with landed property → 1688 Colonial usage
► LAND-STRAIT n. an isthmus → 1601 obs.
► LAND-SWELL n. the roll of the water near the shore → 1812
► LAND-TIDE n. the undulating motion seen in the air on a hot day → 1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LAND-TRAP n. an unfortunate speculation in land → 1801 
► LAND-TRASH n. broken ice near the shore → 1856
► LAND-TURN n. a land-breeze → 1676 obs.
► LAND-URCHIN n. the hedgehog → 1601 obs.
► LANDWARD adj. having country manner, rustic; awkward, uncouth → 1725 Sc.
n. 1. a country dweller, a rustic → 1821 Sc.
n. 2. the country; inland parts → 1845 Sc. 
► LANDWARD-BRED adj. country-bred → 1816 Sc.
► LANDWARD MEN n. rustics as distinguished from citizens → 1853 Sc. 
► LANDWARDNESS n. rusticity → 1882 Sc.
► LANDWARD TOWN n. a farmhouse in the depths of the country;  a country house → 1790 Sc. 
► LAND WARM IT! int. an exclamation → 1931 Amer. dial.
► LAND-WASTER n. a prodigal; a spendthrift → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAND-WATERS n. rivers overflowing and flooding the land → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAND-WAY n. a way or path over land → 1250 obs.
► LANDWAYS adv. by land → 1792 Sc.
► LAND-WINKLE n. a snail → 1603 obs.
► LAND WITH ONE’S BUM IN THE BUTTER vb. to have extremely good fortune → 1971
► LAND WORM n. an earthworm → 1967 Amer. dial.
► LANDY! int. an exclamation → 1877 Amer. dial.
► LAND-YOUNKER n. a country squire → 1603 obs.
► LANDY SAKES! int. an exclamation → 1966 Amer. dial.
► LANE n. 1. a sluggish stream of water; also the smooth part of a stream → 1825 Sc.
n. 2. a person easily imposed upon or cheated; a victim; also, one who is foolish or socially unsophisticated → 1933 US sl., esp. African-American & criminals’ usage
► THE LANE n. the throat → 1553 sl.
► LANE-BORN adj. country-born, rustic → 1834
► LANE-ENDS n. crossroads → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANEING n. a lane → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANEOUS adj. pert. to wool → 1676 obs.
► LANERLY adj. lonely, alone, reserved in manner → 1823 Sc.
► LANEY adj. pert. to a lane → 1876
► LANGAR n. the lash of a whip → 1847 Eng. dial. 
► LANGEL ► LANGELL n. 1. a woollen rug or blanket → 1324 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. a hindrance → 1892 End. dial. 
► LANGER adv. long ere, long since → 1303 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
► LANGERIN n. languishing, the state of feeling bored → 1958 Sc.
► LANGERN vb. to languish, to lie sick → 1440 obs.
► LANGERSOME adj. boring, tedious, tiresome → 1880 Sc.
► LANGLE n. a long, lanky person; anything long and loose in movement → 1931 Ireland & Sc.
vb. to involve, to encumber, to curb, to restrain, to hamper, to frustrate → 1713 Sc.
► LANGLINS adv. 1. lengthwise → 1768 Sc.
adv. 2. in a slow, long-drawn-out manner → 1835 Sc.
► LANGOLEE n. the penis → 19C Brit. sl.
► LANGOT ► LANGOTE n. the strap of a shoe; a shoe-string → 1856 Eng. dial. 
► LANGREL adj. tall, lanky → 1608 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LANG SYNE adj. of long ago, of yore, ancient → 1798 Sc.
adv. long since, long ago → 1500 Sc.
► LANG-SYNER n. a person who lived long ago → 1843 Eng. dial. 
► LANGUAGER n. 1. a verbose person → 1483 obs.
n. 2. one versed in languages → 1570 obs.
► LANGUE n. a tongue or language → 1330 obs.
► LANGUE DE BOEUF n. a spear or staff weapon with a broad, triangular, double-edged blade → 1450 
► LANGUEFY vb. 1. to make faint or languid → 1607 obs.
vb. 2. to become weak or languid → 1734 obs.
► LANGUENT adj. that is sick → 1510 obs.
► LANGUESCENT adj. growing faint or languid → 1837
► LANGUET n. a spatula → 1611 obs.
vb. to chatter, to talk idly → 1430 obs.
► LANGUID LADY n. a bluebell → 1915 Amer. dial.
► LANGUIFIC adj. that makes weak or faint → 1727 obs.
► LANGUIFICAL adj. that makes weak or faint → 1656 obs.
► LANGUISH vb. 1. of light, colour, sound, etc.: to become faint → 1626 obs.
vb. 2. of health: to fall off  → 1729 obs.
► LANGUISHANT adj. languishing, suffering from languor → 1674 obs.
► LANGUISHNESS n. languor, languid condition → 1540 obs.
► LANGUISTER n. an interpreter → 1713 Amer. dial.
► LANGUOR n. 1. disease, sickness, illness → 1300 obs.
n. 2. mental suffering or distress; pining, sorrow, affliction of spirit → 1300 obs.
n. 3. woeful plight; distressed condition; sad case → 1300 obs.
vb. to languish → 1350 obs.
► LANGUORMENT n. a state of languishing → 1593 obs.
► LANGUOROUS adj. distressful, sorrowful, mournful → 1490 obs.
► LANGWIDGE n. languor, languishing → 1887 Sc. 
► LANI adj. 1. intellectually sophisticated → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
adj. 2. moneyed, rich, wealthy → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
adj. 3. showy, arrogant → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
n. 1. a boss, an employer → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
n. 2. a White person; a rich person → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
► LANIARIOUS adj. butcher-like → 1651 obs.
► LANIARY n. a ‘shambles’ ( a butcher’s slaughter-house) → 1623 obs.
► LANIATE vb. to lacerate; to tear in pieces → 1721
► LANIATION n.  a tearing like a butcher → 1623 obs.
► LANIE adj. 1. intellectually sophisticated → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
adj. 2. moneyed, rich, wealthy → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
adj. 3. showy, arrogant → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
n. 1. a boss, an employer → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
n. 2. a White person; a rich person → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
► LANIFEROUS adj. wool-bearing → 1656
► LANIFIC adj. 1. wool-bearing → 1693 obs.
adj. 2. busied in spinning wool → 1806
► LANIFICAL adj. wool-bearing → 1693 obs.
► LANIFICE n. a spinning or weaving of wool → 1626 obs.
► LANIFICOUS adj. wool-bearing; working in wool → 1721 obs.
► LANIGEROUS adj. wool-bearing; woolly → 1608
► LANIONIOUS adj. pert. to a butcher → 1656 obs.
► LANIPENDIOUS adj. engaged in weighing or spinning wool → 1656 obs. rare
► LANK adj. hungry → 1883 US sl.
n. 1. a lean creature; a spent herring → 1861 Sc.
n. 2. a Lancashire man → 1870 Brit. navvies’ sl.
n. 3. the groin; the flank; the hip-joint → 1876 Eng. dial. 
n. 4. a lanky or lean person → 1881
n. 5. a dingle which is not very steep → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. to make lean or emaciated → 1804 Sc.
► LANK DOWN vb. to become sparing or frugal → 1935 Amer. dial.
► LANKIBER n. a sheltered residence → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANKIN adj. lanky → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANK INSIDE adj. hungry → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LANKISH adj. somewhat lank → 1689 obs.
► LANKISTER-LOUP n. the game of leap-frog → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANKIT n. a short lane → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANKITY adj. long and slender, lanky → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANKREL adj. over-tall and thin; lanky → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANKY adj. 1. of hair: somewhat lank → 1670 obs.
adj. 2. belonging to Lancashire → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 3. hungry → 1992 Amer. dial.
n. a native of Lancashire → 1877 Eng. dial. 
► LANKY-LONG-LEGS n. a term of derision for a thin, shapeless, overgrown boy → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANKY-LOO n. a term of derision for a thin, shapeless, overgrown boy → 19C Eng. dial.
► LANNER n. the thong or lash of a whip → 1787 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
vb. to whip → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANNIKY adj. lanky → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANNOCK n. a long, narrow piece of land → 1825 Eng. dial. 
► LANNOCKING adj. slender, lean → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANSY SAKE-A-PETER! int. a common exclamation with women → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LANT n. 1. stale urine; specifically stale urine for use as a cleaning agent → 1000 colloq.
n. 2. commotion, confusion → 1825 Sc.
n. 3. a dilemma, a standstill → 1866 Sc.
n. 4. a cheat → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 5. a sound thrashing → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to urinate→ 1000 colloq.
vb. 2. to cheat, to leave one with some awkward responsibility; to leave on in the lurch → 1780 Sc.
vb. 3. to put in a dilemma, to bring to a standstill → 1823 Sc.
vb. 4. to mock, to jeer, to gibe at → 1861 Sc.
vb. 5. to delay; to keep waiting; to disappoint → 1882 Eng. dial. 
vb. 6. to vanquish, to beat → 1902 Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
► LANTAM-RANTAN vb. to reprimand sharply; to rate → 1777 Eng. dial. 
► LANTED adj. defeated; disappointed → 1882 Eng. dial. 
► LANTER vb. 1. to be late → 1872 Eng. dial. 
vb. 2. to foil, to impede, to hinder → 1928 Sc.
► LANTERED adj. hard-pressed, distracted, harassed; beaten → 1870 Eng. dial. 
► LANTERN n. a lighthouse → 1601 obs.
► LANTERN AND CANDLE-LIGHT n. the old cry of the London bellman at night → 1600 obs.
► LANTERN AND CANDLE MAN n. a bellman → 1592 obs.
► LANTERN-JAWED adj. having a long, thin face, giving a hollow appearance to the cheeks → 1699
► LANTERN-JAWS n. long thin jaws giving a hollow appearance to the cheek → 1711
► LANTERN LEAVES n. a buttercup → 1900 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► LANTERN-LIGHT n. 1. the glass panes of a lantern → 1848 Eng. dial. 
n. 2. the late evening tide → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANTERN-LILY n. the daffodil, Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANTERN-MAN n. the will-o’-th’-wisp → 1855 Eng. dial. 
► LANTERN-PUFF n. a hurry; petulant haste → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANTERN-SWASH n. 1. excessive perspiration → 1790 Eng. dial. 
n. 2. a great fright; a state of consternation → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANTERN-SWEAT n. excessive perspiration → 1894 Eng. dial. 
► LANTIFY vb. to wet with urine → 1652 obs.
► LANTING adj. weakly, incapable → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANTLE n. a small piece → 1902 obs. (Bk.)
► LANTORN adv. at a distance → 1790 Eng. dial. obs. 
► LANTRUN n. a lantern → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LAN-TUN n. London → 1892 Chinese Pidgin (Bk.)
► LANTY n. one who is late; a slowcoach → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LANTY-PIE n. the punishment of having the ears and hair pulled → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)