lady of pleasure
         n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
               {prostitute}, {cocotte}, {whore}, {harlot}, {bawd}, {tart},
               {cyprian}, {fancy woman}, {working girl}, {sporting lady},
               {lady of pleasure}, {woman of the street}]

English Dictionary: laudably	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lady palm n any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lady Peel n British actress (born in Canada) (1898-1989) [syn: Lillie, Beatrice Lillie, Lady Peel]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
late blight n blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
late-blooming adj of plants that bloom during the autumn [syn: {autumn- flowering}, autumn-blooming, fall-flowering, fall- blooming, late-flowering, late-blooming]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
late-flowering adj of plants that bloom during the autumn [syn: {autumn- flowering}, autumn-blooming, fall-flowering, fall- blooming, late-flowering, late-blooming]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
laudability n the quality of being worthy of praise [syn: praiseworthiness, laudability, laudableness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
laudable adj worthy of high praise; "applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence" Synonym(s): applaudable, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
laudableness n the quality of being worthy of praise [syn: praiseworthiness, laudability, laudableness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
laudably adv in an admirable manner; "the children's responses were admirably normal" Synonym(s): admirably, laudably, praiseworthily, commendable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lead plant n shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore Synonym(s): leadplant, lead plant, Amorpha canescens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Leadbelly n United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949) [syn: Ledbetter, Huddie Leadbetter, Leadbelly]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leadplant n shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore Synonym(s): leadplant, lead plant, Amorpha canescens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
let fly v fire as from a gun; "The soldiers let drive their bullets" Synonym(s): loose off, let fly, let drive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Labrador \Lab`ra*dor"\, n.       A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of       Newfoundland.          {Labrador duck} (Zo[94]l.), a sea duck ({Camtolaimus             Labradorius}) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly             common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to             be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878.                      {Labrador feldspar}. See {Labradorite}.          {Labrador tea} (Bot.), a name of two low, evergreen shrubs of             the genus {Ledum} ({L. palustre} and {L. latifolium}),             found in Northern Europe and America. They are used as tea             in British America, and in Scandinavia as a substitute for             hops.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ladybird \La"dy*bird`\, n. [Equiv. to, bird of Our Lady.]       (Zo[94]l.)       Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus       {Coccinella} and allied genera (family {Coccinellid[91]}); --       called also {ladybug}, {ladyclock}, {lady cow}, {lady fly},       and {lady beetle}. {Coccinella seplempunctata} in one of the       common European species. See {Coccinella}.          Note: The ladybirds are usually more or less hemispherical in                form, with a smooth, polished surface, and often                colored red, brown, or black, with small spots of                brighter colors. Both the larv[91] and the adult                beetles of most species feed on aphids, and for this                reason they are very beneficial to agriculture and                horticulture.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Latibulum \[d8]La*tib"u*lum\, n.; pl. {Latibula}. [L.]       A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Latibulize \La*tib"u*lize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Latibulized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Latibulizing}.] [L. latibulum hiding place,       fr. latere to lie hid.]       To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to       retreat and lie hid. [R.] --G. Shaw.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Latibulize \La*tib"u*lize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Latibulized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Latibulizing}.] [L. latibulum hiding place,       fr. latere to lie hid.]       To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to       retreat and lie hid. [R.] --G. Shaw.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Latibulize \La*tib"u*lize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Latibulized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Latibulizing}.] [L. latibulum hiding place,       fr. latere to lie hid.]       To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to       retreat and lie hid. [R.] --G. Shaw.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Latifoliate \Lat`i*fo"li*ate\, Latifolious \Lat`i*fo"li*ous\, a.       [L. latifolius; latus broad + folium leaf: cf. F.       latifoli[82].] (Bot.)       Having broad leaves.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Latifoliate \Lat`i*fo"li*ate\, Latifolious \Lat`i*fo"li*ous\, a.       [L. latifolius; latus broad + folium leaf: cf. F.       latifoli[82].] (Bot.)       Having broad leaves.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Laudability \Laud`a*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. laudabilitas.]       Laudableness; praiseworthiness.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Laudable \Laud"a*ble\, a. [L. laudabilis: cf. OE. laudable. See       {Laud}, v. i.]       1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as,             laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.          2. (Med.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition             to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of             the body; laudable pus. --Arbuthnot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Laudableness \Laud"a*ble*ness\, n.       The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness;       commendableness.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Laudably \Laud"a*bly\, adv.       In a laudable manner.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d;       akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding       lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123]       1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic             metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily             tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with             little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets,             etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible,             forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of             solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L.             Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena,             lead sulphide.          2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as:             (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.             (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate                   lines of type in printing.             (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs;                   hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne                   plates.                               I would have the tower two stories, and goodly                            leads upon the top.                     --Bacon          3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in             pencils.          {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its             leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.]          {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight             between a hand lead and deep-sea lead.          {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in             water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav.             Encyc.          {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water.                      {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or             Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead,             formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or]             Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}.          {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead.             See {To arm the lead} (below).          {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}.          {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead.                      {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}.          {Lead line}             (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a                   deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning.             (b) (Naut.) A sounding line.          {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.          {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead.             Same as {Massicot}.          {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is             graphite (black lead).          {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha}             ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States,             where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore.             --Gray.          {Lead tree}.             (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous                   tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from                   the glaucous color of the foliage.             (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a                   solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip                   of zinc in lead acetate.          {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende.          {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder,             consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing             several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or             cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass.          {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite.          {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead.          {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a             sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature             of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav.             Encyc.          {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding             lead for ascertaining the depth of water.          {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a             white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of             white paint.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Soap \Soap\, n. [OE. sope, AS. s[be]pe; akin to D. zeep, G.       seife, OHG. seifa, Icel. s[be]pa, Sw. s[?]pa, Dan. s[?]be,       and perhaps to AS. s[c6]pan to drip, MHG. s[c6]fen, and L.       sebum tallow. Cf. {Saponaceous}.]       A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather,       and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by       combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths,       usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium,       potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic,       palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf.       {Saponification}. By extension, any compound of similar       composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent       or not.          Note: In general, soaps are of two classes, hard and soft.                Calcium, magnesium, lead, etc., form soaps, but they                are insoluble and useless.                            The purifying action of soap depends upon the                         fact that it is decomposed by a large quantity of                         water into free alkali and an insoluble acid                         salt. The first of these takes away the fatty                         dirt on washing, and the latter forms the soap                         lather which envelops the greasy matter and thus                         tends to remove it.                        --Roscoe &                                                                               Schorlemmer.          {Castile soap}, a fine-grained hard soap, white or mottled,             made of olive oil and soda; -- called also {Marseilles,             [or] Venetian, soap}.          {Hard soap}, any one of a great variety of soaps, of             different ingredients and color, which are hard and             compact. All solid soaps are of this class.          {Lead soap}, an insoluble, white, pliable soap made by             saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; -- used             externally in medicine. Called also {lead plaster},             {diachylon}, etc.          {Marine soap}. See under {Marine}.          {Pills of soap} (Med.), pills containing soap and opium.          {Potash soap}, any soap made with potash, esp. the soft             soaps, and a hard soap made from potash and castor oil.          {Pumice soap}, any hard soap charged with a gritty powder, as             silica, alumina, powdered pumice, etc., which assists             mechanically in the removal of dirt.          {Resin soap}, a yellow soap containing resin, -- used in             bleaching.          {Silicated soap}, a cheap soap containing water glass (sodium             silicate).          {Soap bark}. (Bot.) See {Quillaia bark}.          {Soap bubble}, a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a             film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something             attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.                         This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. --J. C.                                                                               Shairp.          {Soap cerate}, a cerate formed of soap, olive oil, white wax,             and the subacetate of lead, sometimes used as an             application to allay inflammation.          {Soap fat}, the refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses,             etc., used in making soap.          {Soap liniment} (Med.), a liniment containing soap, camphor,             and alcohol.          {Soap nut}, the hard kernel or seed of the fruit of the             soapberry tree, -- used for making beads, buttons, etc.          {Soap plant} (Bot.), one of several plants used in the place             of soap, as the {Chlorogalum pomeridianum}, a California             plant, the bulb of which, when stripped of its husk and             rubbed on wet clothes, makes a thick lather, and smells             not unlike new brown soap. It is called also {soap apple},             {soap bulb}, and {soap weed}.          {Soap tree}. (Bot.) Same as {Soapberry tree}.          {Soda soap}, a soap containing a sodium salt. The soda soaps             are all hard soaps.          {Soft soap}, a soap of a gray or brownish yellow color, and             of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the             lye from wood ashes. It is strongly alkaline and often             contains glycerin, and is used in scouring wood, in             cleansing linen, in dyehouses, etc. Figuratively,             flattery; wheedling; blarney. [Colloq.]          {Toilet soap}, hard soap for the toilet, usually colored and             perfumed.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lithiophilite \Lith`i*oph"i*lite\, n. [Lithium + Gr. [?]       friend.] (Min.)       A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of       triphylite.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lithobilic \Lith`o*bil"ic\ (-b[icr]l"[icr]k), a. [Litho + bile.]       (Chem.)       Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric       acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it,       obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lithofellic \Lith"o*fel"lic\, a. [Litho- + L. fel, fellis,       gall.] (Physiol. Chem.)       Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid,       resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal       concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of       antelope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lithophyll \Lith"o*phyll\, n. [Gr. li`qos a stone + [?] a leaf:       cf. F. lithophylle.]       A fossil leaf or impression of a leaf.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Loathful \Loath"ful\, a.       1. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. [bd]Loathful             eyes.[b8] --Spenser.          2. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.                         Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Loo table}, a round table adapted for a circle of persons             playing loo.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Burbot \Bur"bot\, n. [F. barbote, fr. barbe beard. See 1st       {Barb}.] (Zo[94]l.)       A fresh-water fish of the genus {Lota}, having on the nose       two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.       [Written also {burbolt}.]          Note: The fish is also called an {eelpout} or {ling}, and is                allied to the codfish. The {Lota vulgaris} is a common                European species. An American species ({L. maculosa})                is found in New England, the Great Lakes, and farther                north.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Loudful \Loud"ful\, a.       Noisy. [Obs.] --Marsion.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Leadville, CO (city, FIPS 44320)       Location: 39.24678 N, 106.29378 W       Population (1990): 2629 (1519 housing units)       Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 80461
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Leadville North, CO (CDP, FIPS 44375)       Location: 39.26009 N, 106.31099 W       Population (1990): 1757 (778 housing units)       Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Lithopolis, OH (village, FIPS 44086)       Location: 39.80497 N, 82.81123 W       Population (1990): 563 (225 housing units)       Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
let floating          A {program transformation} used in {functional       programming} to implement {full laziness}.   E.g. the function          f x = x + sqrt 4          can be expressed as          f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t          but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can       automatically transform this to          t = sqrt 4       f x = x + t          Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated       at most once, rather than every time f is called.   The general       idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the       top level) as possible to maximise sharing.          (1997-07-09)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
load balancing          Techniques which aim to spread       tasks among the processors in a {parallel processor} to avoid       some processors being idle while others have tasks queueing       for execution.   Load balancing may be performed either by       heavily loaded processors (with many tasks in their queues)       sending tasks to other processors; by idle processors       requesting work from others; by some centralised task       distribution mechanism; or some combination of these.   Some       systems allow tasks to be moved after they have started       executing ("{task migration}") others do not.   It is important       that the {overhead} of executing the load balancing       {algorithm} does not contribute significantly to the overall       processing or communications load.          Distributed scheduling {algorithm}s may be static, dynamic or       preemptive.   Static algorithms allocate processes to       processors at run time while taking no account of current       network load.   Dynamic algorithms are more flexible, though       more computationally expensive, and give some consideration to       the network load before allocating the new process to a       processor.   Preemptive algorithms are more expensive and       flexible still, and may migrate running processes from one       host to another if deemed beneficial.   Research to date       indicates that dynamic algorithms yield significant       performance benefits, but that further (though lesser) gains       may be had through the addition of process migration       facilities.          (1995-03-13)