📖 L — The English dictionary · page 9

lawful — Everyday, meaning 1: Lawful means allowed by the law, legal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lawful can also mean obeying the law or right according to rules.↗ Example: It is lawful to ride a bike on this path.↗ · The police must use only lawful methods.↗ · She is the lawful owner of the house.↗ · Fishing here without a licence is not lawful.↗ · Citizens have the lawful right to vote.↗ · In the story, the knight was lawful and fair.↗ · The first care of Adrastus was to aid Polynices in regaining possession of his lawful share in the government of Thebes.↗ · But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, (Prophets EZK.18.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.↗ (Prophets EZK.33.19, JPS 1917)↗ · When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all My statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.↗ (Prophets EZK.18.19, JPS 1917)↗

lawfully — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that is allowed by the law; legally.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) In a way that is properly allowed by rules or official authority.↗ Example: The police can lawfully stop a car that is speeding.↗ · The land was lawfully bought by the council.↗ · They were lawfully married in a small church.↗ · You may lawfully fish here if you have a permit.↗ · Citizens can lawfully protest in a peaceful way.↗ · The money was lawfully earned.↗ · The shop must lawfully display its prices.↗ · He was lawfully entitled to the reward.↗ · You ought to know that I can't marry you at such a time, or, at all events, can't marry you lawfully.↗

lawgiver — Everyday, meaning 1: A lawgiver is a person who makes the laws for a people or country, such as a wise leader long ago.↗ Example: The lawgiver wrote rules for the whole city.↗ · Moses is often called a great lawgiver.↗ · The old king was a fair lawgiver.↗ · For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our Lawgiver, the LORD is our King; He will save us.↗ (Prophets ISA.33.22, JPS 1917)↗

lawless — Everyday, meaning 1: Lawless means not obeying the law; wild and out of control: a lawless gang of robbers.↗ Example: The lawless robbers ran wild in the hills.↗ · In the old days the land was lawless and dangerous.↗ · The lawless giant laughed at the rules.↗

lawlessness — Everyday, meaning 1: The state of having no law or order; a time when people break the rules and nobody keeps control.↗ Example: The town fell into lawlessness after the sheriff left.↗ · Police stopped the lawlessness in the streets.↗ · The tale tells of wild lawlessness in the forest.↗

lawmaker — Everyday, meaning 1: A lawmaker is a person who helps make laws, such as a member of a parliament or congress.↗ Example: Lawmakers voted for a new road safety law.↗ · People choose their lawmakers in elections.↗ · We wrote letters to our local lawmaker about the park.↗ · Lawmakers argued about the new rules for many hours.↗ · A senator is a lawmaker in the United States.↗ · Lawmakers must listen to the people they represent.↗

lawn — Everyday, meaning 1: An area of short, neat grass, usually in a garden or park, that is cut regularly.↗ Example: Dad mows the lawn every Saturday.↗ · Please keep off the lawn; it has just been seeded.↗ · We played croquet on the lawn.↗ · The lawn is 10 metres long and 6 metres wide.↗ · Blackbirds pull worms out of the lawn.↗ · Stay away from the lawnmower while it is running.↗ · The lawn turned brown in the dry summer.↗ · Daisies were growing all over the lawn.↗ · The animal was fiery and spirited; they galloped round the lawn.↗

lawyer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is to know the law, give advice about it and speak for people in court.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Someone who argues very cleverly (you sound like a lawyer).↗ Example: My aunt is a lawyer who helps families.↗ · The lawyer spoke to the jury in court.↗ · You need a lawyer to help with the contract.↗ · He wants to be a lawyer when he grows up.↗ · "You argue like a lawyer!" said Mum.↗ · The lawyer read the rules very carefully.↗ · I know that he never married, I believe he became a lawyer.↗

lay — Everyday, meaning 1: To lay is to put something down carefully, often flat: «lay the baby in the cot».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hen lays an egg when the egg comes out of her body.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To lay the table is to put out plates, knives and forks for a meal.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To lay bricks or carpet is to put them in place.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Lay» is also the past form of «lie» (to rest flat): «He lay on the grass».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Lay can also mean to bet, so "I lay she is loaded" means "I bet she is loaded.".↗ Example: Each hen lays 1 egg a day.↗ · 5 hens lay how many eggs in a week?↗ · He lays 40 bricks an hour.↗ · She laid 6 plates on the table.↗ · Please lay the table for dinner.↗ · Turtles lay their eggs in the sand.↗ · He lay on the grass and looked at the clouds.↗ · Lay your coat on the bed.↗ · "Well, I lay she's loaded, boss.↗ · And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a meal-offering.↗ (Torah LEV.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.↗ (Torah EXO.7.23, JPS 1917)↗ · He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?↗ (Torah NUM.24.9, JPS 1917)↗ · I lay my hand upon my mouth.↗ (Writings JOB.40.4, JPS 1917)↗ · How long will ye lay snares for words?↗ (Writings JOB.18.2, JPS 1917)↗ · My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.↗ (Writings PRO.7.1, JPS 1917)↗

layer — Everyday, meaning 1: A layer is one flat level of something lying on top of or under another, like a layer of a cake.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A layer is a thin covering over a surface, like a layer of dust or paint.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To layer is to put things in layers, like layering clothes in cold weather.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A layer is a hen that lays eggs.↗ Example: The cake has 3 layers.↗ · Each layer of the box holds 12 eggs.↗ · The wall has 20 layers of bricks.↗ · How many cans are in 4 layers?↗ · A thin layer of dust covered the old book.↗ · The Earth has three main layers: crust, mantle and core.↗ · Wear layers on a cold day so you can take one off.↗ · The ozone layer protects us from the Sun's rays.↗ · Put a layer of jam between the two cakes.↗ · Then the magpie put another layer of mud over the twigs.↗ · And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.↗ (Torah EXO.16.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew round about the camp.↗ (Torah EXO.16.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Meroz has associated these ‘three books’ with what she regards to be the three original textual layers of the SY, woven together after their composition into a single work by an editor.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

laying — Everyday, meaning 1: Laying means putting something down, usually flat or carefully, like laying a book on a table.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hen laying eggs is making eggs come out of her body.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Laying a table means putting plates, knives and forks on it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Laying bricks, tiles or a carpet is putting them in place to build or cover something.↗ Example: Each hen is laying 1 egg a day.↗ · He is laying 8 tiles in each row.↗ · 6 hens laid 30 eggs this week.↗ · They are laying bricks for a wall.↗ · Please help me by laying the table.↗ · The turtle is laying her eggs in the sand.↗ · Workers are laying a new road.↗ · She is laying the baby in its cot.↗ · This he did, laying the meat on the platform.↗ · And when Joseph saw that his father was laying his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.↗ (Torah GEN.48.17, JPS 1917)↗ · They encourage one another in an evil matter; they converse of laying snares secretly; they ask, who would see them.↗ (Writings PSA.64.6, JPS 1917)↗ · For He hath brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city, laying it low, laying it low even to the ground, bringing it even to the dust.↗ (Prophets ISA.26.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And Baasa the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasa smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.↗ (Prophets 1KI.15.27, JPS 1917)↗

layoff — Everyday, meaning 1: A layoff is when a company stops employing workers, often because there is not enough work or money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sport) A period when a player is not playing, often because of injury.↗ Example: The factory announced layoffs of 200 workers.↗ · After the layoff, Dad looked for a new job.↗ · Layoffs worried many families in the town.↗ · The striker returned after a long injury layoff.↗ · The company tried to avoid layoffs.↗ · The news reported layoffs at the car plant.↗

layout — Everyday, meaning 1: A layout is the way the parts of something are arranged, such as the rooms in a house, the streets in a town or the shops in a mall.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A layout is also the way words and pictures are arranged on a page or screen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A keyboard layout is the order of the letters on the keys.↗ Example: The layout of the new school is easy to follow.↗ · I changed the layout of my poster so the title is bigger.↗ · The museum map shows the layout of every room.↗ · Most English keyboards use the QWERTY layout.↗ · The layout of the town is like a grid.↗ · The magazine has a bright, clear layout.↗ · We drew a layout of our dream bedroom on squared paper.↗

laze — Everyday, meaning 1: To relax and do nothing much, in a lazy, pleasant way.↗ Example: We lazed on the beach all afternoon.↗ · Don't laze about, there's work to do!↗ · The cat lazed in the sun on the windowsill.↗ · On Sunday mornings Dad likes to laze in bed.↗ · The Rat and the Mole lazed in the boat.↗ · We spent a lazy day lazing by the river.↗

lazily — Everyday, meaning 1: In a lazy way, without effort or energy: «He lazily picked up a pen.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Slowly and gently, in a relaxed way: «The river flowed lazily.».↗ Example: The river flowed lazily past the meadow.↗ · The cat stretched lazily in the sun.↗ · The Rat and the Mole drifted lazily downstream.↗ · He lazily copied the answer without thinking.↗ · Smoke rose lazily from the chimney.↗ · We spent the morning lazily in our pyjamas.↗ · The Leopard was about to lose his temper when the Fox got up, yawning lazily.↗

laziness — Everyday, meaning 1: Laziness is not wanting to work or make an effort, even when you are able to.↗ Example: His laziness meant the homework was never finished.↗ · The grasshopper's laziness left him hungry in winter.↗ · Leaving the dishes out of laziness made Mum cross.↗ · Laziness is not the same as being tired.↗ · She fought her laziness and went for a run.↗ · The cat's laziness was funny; it slept all day.↗ · Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood.↗

lazy — Everyday, meaning 1: Lazy means not wanting to work, try hard or move about.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lazy also describes something slow and relaxed, without hurry («a lazy Sunday», «a lazy river»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lazy can describe careless work done with little effort («lazy writing»).↗ Example: Don't be lazy; help me tidy up.↗ · The lazy cat slept in the sun all day.↗ · We had a lazy Sunday morning in our pyjamas.↗ · The teacher said my handwriting was lazy.↗ · We floated down the lazy river at the water park.↗ · The lazy grasshopper had no food when winter came.↗ · He is not lazy; he is just tired after training.↗ · A lazy eye is an eye that does not see as well as the other one.↗ · Bestir yourself, you lazy old Giant!↗