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layperson
  • n  someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
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layup
  • n  a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
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lazar house
  • n  hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
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lazaret
  • n  hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
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lazarette
  • n  hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
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lazaretto
  • n  hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
  • n  a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
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lazarus
  • n  the person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb; this miracle caused the enemies of Jesus to begin the plan to put him to death
  • n  the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar
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laziness
  • n  inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
  • n  relaxed and easy activity
    the laziness of the day helped her to relax
  • n  apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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lazio
  • n  an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea
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lazy daisy stitch
  • n  long chain stitches arranged in flower patterns
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lazzaro spallanzani
  • n  Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799)
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lbf.
  • n  a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
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