Laager
in South African campaigning, a camp made by a ring of ox wagons set close together, the spaces be neath being filled up with the baggage of the company.
LAALAND (lā'länd), or LOLLAND (lol'land), a Danish island in the Baltic, at the S. entrance to the Great Belt, 36 miles long by 9 to 15 broad; area 445 square miles. The surface is remarkably flat, and the soil exceedingly fruitful; forests of beech and oak cover up- Capital ward of 50 square miles.
Maribo; largest town Nakskov; pop. of island about 70,000.
LABARUM (lab'-), the standard of Constantine the Great, adopted by him after his conversion to Christianity. It was marked with his seal, which consisted of a monogram of the first two letters (X P) of the Greek name of Christ, interlaced and crossed. Sometimes the X, instead of retaining its ordinary position, is placed upright and surmounted by the P. These letters are often accompanied with the Greek alpha and omega, and circumscribed with a circle.
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