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   lap up
         v 1: take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the
               cub licked the milk from its mother's breast" [syn: {lap},
               {lap up}, {lick}]

English Dictionary: leave off by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lavabo
n
  1. a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression)
    Synonym(s): washbasin, handbasin, washbowl, lavabo, wash-hand basin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leave off
v
  1. come to an end, stop or cease; "the road leaves off at the edge of the forest"; "leave off where you started"
  2. prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
    Synonym(s): exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
    Antonym(s): include
  3. stop using; "leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
life buoy
n
  1. a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material
    Synonym(s): life buoy, lifesaver, life belt, life ring
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lip off
v
  1. speak spontaneously and without restraint; "She always shoots her mouth off and says things she later regrets"
    Synonym(s): lip off, shoot one's mouth off
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lop off
v
  1. remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
    Synonym(s): cut off, chop off, lop off
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Labefy \Lab"e*fy\, v. t. [L. labefacere; labare to totter +
      facere to make.]
      To weaken or impair. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Life buoy}. See {Buoy}.
  
      {Life car}, a water-tight boat or box, traveling on a line
            from a wrecked vessel to the shore. In it persons are
            hauled through the waves and surf.
  
      {Life drop}, a drop of vital blood. --Byron.
  
      {Life estate} (Law), an estate which is held during the term
            of some certain person's life, but does not pass by
            inheritance.
  
      {Life everlasting} (Bot.), a plant with white or yellow
            persistent scales about the heads of the flowers, as
            {Antennaria}, and {Gnaphalium}; cudweed.
  
      {Life of an execution} (Law), the period when an execution is
            in force, or before it expires.
  
      {Life guard}. (Mil.) See under {Guard}.
  
      {Life insurance}, the act or system of insuring against
            death; a contract by which the insurer undertakes, in
            consideration of the payment of a premium (usually at
            stated periods), to pay a stipulated sum in the event of
            the death of the insured or of a third person in whose
            life the insured has an interest.
  
      {Life interest}, an estate or interest which lasts during
            one's life, or the life of another person, but does not
            pass by inheritance.
  
      {Life land} (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life
            or lives.
  
      {Life line}.
            (a) (Naut.) A line along any part of a vessel for the
                  security of sailors.
            (b) A line attached to a life boat, or to any life saving
                  apparatus, to be grasped by a person in the water.
  
      {Life rate}, the rate of premium for insuring a life.
  
      {Life rent}, the rent of a life estate; rent or property to
            which one is entitled during one's life.
  
      {Life school}, a school for artists in which they model,
            paint, or draw from living models.
  
      {Life table}, a table showing the probability of life at
            different ages.
  
      {To lose one's life}, to die.
  
      {To seek the life of}, to seek to kill.
  
      {To the life}, so as closely to resemble the living person or
            the subject; as, the portrait was drawn to the life.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buoy \Buoy\, n. [D. boei buoy, fetter, fr. OF. boie, buie,
      chain, fetter, F. bou[82]e a buoy, from L. boia. [bd]Boiae
      genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae.[b8] --Festus. So
      called because chained to its place.] (Naut.)
      A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark
      a channel or to point out the position of something beneath
      the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
  
      {Anchor buoy}, a buoy attached to, or marking the position
            of, an anchor.
  
      {Bell buoy}, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be
            rung by the motion of the waves.
  
      {Breeches buoy}. See under {Breeches}.
  
      {Cable buoy}, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in
            rocky anchorage.
  
      {Can buoy}, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron,
            usually conical or pear-shaped.
  
      {Life buoy}, a float intended to support persons who have
            fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to
            save them.
  
      {Nut} [or] {Nun buoy}, a buoy large in the middle, and
            tapering nearly to a point at each end.
  
      {To stream the buoy}, to let the anchor buoy fall by the
            ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.
           
  
      {Whistling buoy}, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown
            by the action of the waves.
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