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Pronunciation : Lake
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F. laque, fr. Per. See Lac.]
Definition : Defn: A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Lake
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. G. laken.]
Definition : Defn: A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Lake
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [AS. lacan, l?can, to spring, jump, lac play, sport, or fr. Icel. leika to play, sport; both akin to Goth. laikan to dance. sq. root120. Cf. Knowledge.]
Definition : Defn: To play; to sport. [Prov. Eng.]

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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Lake
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea, Icel. l?gr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. Loch, Lough.]
Definition : Defn: A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean. Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland. -- Lake dwellings (Arch?ol.), dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See Crannog. -- Lake fly (Zo?l.), any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larv? live in lakes. -- Lake herring (Zo?l.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii). -- Lake poets, Lake school, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and lakists. -- Lake sturgeon (Zo?l.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food. -- Lake trout (Zo?l.), any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout (S. fontinalis), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See Namaycush. -- Lake whitefish. (Zo?l.) See Whitefish. -- Lake whiting (Zo?l.), an American whitefish (Coregonus Labradoricus), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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