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Layshaft
- - A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal-combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some marine engines, a shaft, driven by a small auxiliary engine, for independently operating the valves of the main engine to insure uniform motion.
Laystall
- - A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.
Laywoman
- unknown - a non-professional woman; a female member of the laity
LAYWOMEN
- unknown - 1. Females who are not a clerics
2. Females lacking professional or specialised knowledge of a subject
Lazarets
- noun - hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
Lazarite
- - One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.
Laziness
- noun - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- idle
- inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
- relaxed and easy activity; "the laziness of the day helped her to relax"
Lazuline
- noun - a light shade of blue
Lazulite
- - A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina and magnesia.