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Lammermoor – Lanner

Lammermoor

or LAMMERMUIR (-mür') HILLS, a range of Scotch hills stretching in a generally E. direction from S. E. Midlothian to the German Ocean at St. Abb's Head, and forming part of the boundary between Berwick and and Haddington shires. Highest summit Lammer Law, 1,733 feet.

Lamont

DANIEL SCOTT, an American executive officer; born in Cortlandville, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1851; was educated at Union College and engaged in journalism; private secretary to President Cleveland in 1885-1889 and Secretary of War 1893-1897, then vice-president of Northern Pacific R. R. Co., died 1905.

Lampman

ARCHIBALD, a Canadian poet; born in Morpeth, County Kent, Ontario, Nov. 17, 1861. He was a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto (1882), and after 1883 held an appointment in the Postoffice Department at Ottawa. He published two collections of poems, "Among the Millet" (1888), and "Lyrics of Earth" (1895). He died in Ottawa, Feb. 10, 1899.

Lancaster

DUCHY OF, a territorial hereditament of the British sovereign, and to all intents his private appanage. It is in Lancashire, mostly, and one of the titles of the King of Great Britain and Ireland is Duke of Lancaster.

Lancelet

Amphioxus lanceolatus, a transparent and iridescent fish about three inches long, with a fin extending nearly from the snout to the hinder extremity. The skeleton is imperfectly developed, the blood colorless; no proper skull or brain. It has affinities to the Ascidian. Its movements are active. It is found in temperate and tropical seas.

Landfall

the first sighting of land in the course of a voyage, or the land so sighted or discovered, as, the landfall of Columbus in Guanahani, in the New World.

Land of Bondage

a Scripture name for Egypt, in allusion to the harsh treatment received by the Israelites dur ing the latter part of their sojourn in that country.

Landon

MELVILLE DE LANCEY (pseudonym ELI PERKINS), an American humorist; born in Eaton, N. Y.. Sept. 7, 1839. Among his works are: "History of the Franco-Prussian War" (1871); "Saratoga in 1901" (1870); "Thirty Years of Wit" (1890); "Eli Perkins on Money" (1895). He died in 1910.

Langford

JOHN ALFRED, an English author; born in Birmingham, England, Sept. 12, 1823. He was prominent educator and publicist in his native city. Among his works are: "Religious Skepticism and Infidelity" (1850); "English Democracy" (1855); "Poems of the Fields and Town" (1859); and "Heroes and Martyrs, and Other Poems" (1890). Died 1903.

Langside

a S. suburb of Glasgow.

Here, after her escape from Loch Leven , Queen Mary's forces were totally defeated by the Regent Moray, May 13, 1568. A monument (1887) commemorates the battle.

Lankavatara

one of the chief religious works of the Buddhists, which treats of their religious law, and of some of their most abstruse philosophical problems.

Lanner

the Falco lanarius, a species of hawk, especially the female of the species, the male being called a lannative of Southern neret. It is a Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia, and was much valued in falconry.