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Webster 1913 Edition
Lake
Lake
(lāk)
, Noun.
[F.
laque
, fr. Per. See Lac
.] 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.Lake
,Noun.
[Cf. G.
laken
.] A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Lake
(lāk)
, Verb.
I.
[AS.
lācan
, læcan
, to spring, jump, lāc
play, sport, or fr. Icel. leika
to play, sport; both akin to Goth. laikan
to dance. √120. Cf. Knowledge
.] To play; to sport.
[Prov. Eng.]
Lake
,Noun.
[AS.
lac
, L. lacus
; akin to AS. lagu
lake, sea, Icel. lögr
; OIr. loch
; cf. Gr. λάκκοσ
pond, tank. Cf. Loch
, Lough
.] 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.
☞ 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
(Archaeol.)
, 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
(Zool.)
, any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus
– Chironomus
. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvae live in lakes. Lake herring
(Zool.)
, 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
(Zool.)
, a sturgeon (
– Acipenser rubicundus
), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food. Lake trout
(Zool.)
, 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 (Salvelinus fontinalis
), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout
. See Namaycush
. Lake whitefish
. (Zool.)
See
– Whitefish
. Lake whiting
(Zool.)
, an American whitefish (
Coregonus Labradoricus
), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish.Webster 1828 Edition
Lake
LAKE
,Verb.
I.
To play; to sport. North of England. This is play, without a prefix.
LAKE
,Noun.
1.
A large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth. It differs from a pond in size, the latter being a collection of small extent; but sometimes a collection of water is called a pond or a lake indifferently. North America contains some of the largest lakes on the globe, particularly the lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior.2.
A middle color between ultramarine and vermilion, made of cochineal.