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lasalle
  • n  French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687)
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lascar
  • n  an East Indian sailor
  • n  a volcano in the Andes in Chile
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lascaux
  • n  a cave in southwestern France that contains Paleolithic paintings
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lasciviousness
  • n  feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
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lasek
  • n  a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea
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laser
  • n  an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
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laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis
  • n  a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea
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laser-assisted subepithelial keratomileusis
  • n  a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea
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laser-guided bomb
  • n  a smart bomb that seeks the laser light reflected off of the target and uses it to correct its descent
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laser printer
  • n  electrostatic printer that focuses a laser beam to form images that are transferred to paper electrostatically
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laser trabecular surgery
  • n  eye surgery that makes many tiny laser burns in an area that will increase the drainage of aqueous humor
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lash
  • n  any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
  • n  leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
  • n  a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
  • v  beat severely with a whip or rod
  • v  lash or flick about sharply
    The lion lashed its tail
  • v  strike as if by whipping
  • v  bind with a rope, chain, or cord
    lash the horse
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lasher
  • n  a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip
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lashings
  • n  a large number or amount
  • n  beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
  • n  rope that is used for fastening something to something else
    the boats were held together by lashings
  • v  beat severely with a whip or rod
  • v  lash or flick about sharply
  • v  strike as if by whipping
  • v  bind with a rope, chain, or cord
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lashkar-e-jhangvi
  • n  a Sunni Muslim extremist group in Pakistan that collaborates with al-Qaeda; the armed wing of Sipah-e-Sahaba
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lashkar-e-omar
  • n  a terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda
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lashkar-e-taiba
  • n  a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India
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lashkar-e-tayyiba
  • n  a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India
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