Laccadives
a group of 14 coral islands in the Arabian Sea; about 200 miles W. of the Malabar bar coast; between lat. 10° and 14° N.; area, 744 square miles; pop. about 10,000. about 10,000. The cocoanut is the chief plant, and Def plant, and coir (cocoanut fiber) the staple product; this and jaggery, cocoanuts, copra, tortoise-shell, and cowries are carried over ve corried over to the mainland by the men. The group was discovered by Vasco da Gama in 4 Gama in 1499. The N. islands are attached to tre attached to the Madras district of South Kanara; South Kanara; the rest belong to the rajah of Canna- Dish of Cяпляnore, but since 1877 have been administered by the collector of Malabar. The people are Mohammedans of Hindu descent, their language Malayalam, except in Minikoi, which properly belongs to the Maldive group and retains its language.
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Lace Bark
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) the inner bark of Lagetta lintearia, one of the Daphnads. The English name is given because the bark, when macerated and stretched laterally, resembles coarse lace, and in Jamaica, where the tree grows, is made into caps, ruffles, etc. The negroes make durable clothing from it, and the white inhabitants utilize it for ropes and cables. Also the name given in New Zealand to the genus Philippodendron. LACEDÆMON. See SPARTA. LACERTA (lā-sur-tä) ("The Liz- (The Liz ard"), one of the eight constellations constellations added to the original ones by Hevelius in ones by Rovellus in his "Introduction to Astronomy" in 1690, onomy" in 1690, or rather one of the eight which have which have survived, for he added 10 in all. It is full. It is not a conspicuous one, the brightest star test star being of the fourth magnitude.
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Laches
in English law, a word used to denote negligence or undue neg indue delay, such as to disentitle a party to a arty to a particular remedy or to relief.
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Lachlan
a river of East- ) river of Eastern Australia, rising in New South in Now South Wales, to the W. of the Blue Mountains; total length about 700 the Blue Mountains: miles. It is joined by the Murrumbidgee, the united united stream afterward falling into the Mur- Murray.
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Lackawanna
a river which runs ich runs through the N. E. part of Pennsylvania Ivania and flows into the Susquehanna at Pitts- Pittston; length about 50 miles. Great quantities at quan of the best anthracite coal are mined coal are in the valleys adjacent to this djacent to this river.
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Lackawanna
a city of New York, of New York, in Erie co. It is on the Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Southern the Lehigh Valley, and other railroads. other railroads. Its industries include the manufacture of steel, bridge works, blast furnaces, and coking plants. It has St. John's John Protectory, an orphan asylum, and a hosa hospital. Pop. (1910) 14,549; (1920) 17,- 17 918.
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Laconia
a Greece. See SPARTA.
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Laconia (City of New Hampshire apshire)
a city of New Hampshire, apshire, the county seat of Belknap co. It is It is situated on both banks of the Winnepe- The Winnenesaukee river, and on the Boston and Boston and Maine Railroad. It is an attractive summer place and has also important industries, including the manufacture of cars, lumber, hosiery, machine shop products, paper boxes, knitting machinery, etc. It has a State home for feebleminded children, a home for the aged, opera houses, a hospital, a public library and park. Pop. (1910) 10,183; (1920) 10,897.
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Laconia (Former name rname for a tract)
a former name rname for a tract of country granted by royal y royal patent to Ferdinand Gorges and John and John Mason. It was bounded by the Merri- Merrimac and Kennebec rivers, the ocean, and an, and the so-called River of Canada. The The present State of New Hampshire formed a considerable Ha formed portion of Laconia. The The colony was of short duration.
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Laconic
a term applied to the style adopted by the Spartans, or Lacedæmonians (whose country was called Laconia), who endeavored to confine themselves to a sententious brevity in speaking and writing.
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Laconica
Sometimes called Laconia by the Romans, a country of Peloponnesus . Laelaps (The Storm Wind). He was personified as the swift dog which Procris had received from Artemis ( Diana ), and gave to her husband Cephalus . When the Teumessian fox was sent to punish the Thebans, Cephalus sent the dog Laelaps against the fox. The dog overtook the fox, but Zeus ( Jupiter ) changed both animals into a stone. Laelius, C. The friend of Scipio Africanus the elder, who fought under the latter in almost all his campaigns.
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Laconicum
among the ancients, the semi-circular end of a bath; a stove, for the purpose of heating the sudatories or sweating-rooms of a bath. The use of the dry bath is said to have been prevalent among the Lacedæmonians.
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Lacquers of Various Tints
To 32 ounces of spirits of turpentine add 4 ounces of the best gum-gamboge, to the same quantity of spirits of turpentine add 4 ounces of dragon's-blood, and to 8 ounces of the same spirits add 1 ounce of annotto. The three mixtures, made in separate vessels, should be kept warm, and as much as possible in the sun, for three weeks, at the end of which time they will be fit for use; and any desired tints may be obtained by making a composition from them with such proportions of each liquor as the nature of the colors desired will point out.
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Lacroix
JULES (lä-krwä'), a French poet, dramatist, and novelist; brother of P. Lacroix; born in Paris, May 7, 1809. He wrote numerous romances; a volume of poetry "Les Pervenches" (The Periwinkles: 1838); several dramas; and "The Year of Infamy" (1872), a collection of patriotic poems. He died Nov. 10, 1887.
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