Lake

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  • noun. A pigment consisting of organic coloring matter with an inorganic, usually metallic base or carrier, used in dyes, inks, and paints.
  • noun. A deep red.
  • noun. A large inland body of fresh water or salt water.
  • noun. A scenic pond, as in a park.
  • noun. A large pool of liquid.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Play; sport; game.
  • noun. A contest; a fight.
  • noun. A kind of fine white linen.
  • A dialectal form of leak.
  • noun. A body of water surrounded by land, or not forming part of the ocean and occupying a depression below the ordinary drainage-level of the region.
  • noun. A relatively small pond partly or wholly artificial, as an ornament of a park or of public or private grounds.
  • noun. A stream; rivulet.
  • noun. A pit; den.
  • To become laky, or like a lake (pigment) in color. See laky.
  • To cause to resemble a lake (pigment) in color; specifically, discharge (the hemoglobin) rapidly from the erythrocytes into the blood-plasma.
  • To play; sport; trifle; “lark.”
  • noun. A pigment formed by absorbing animal, vegetable, or coal-tar coloring matter from an aqueous solution by means of metallic bases.
  • noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of lack.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvæ live in lakes.
  • noun. the cisco (Coregonus Artedii).
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. See Whitefish.
  • noun. an American whitefish (Coregonus Labradoricus), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish.
  • noun. A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate
  • noun. A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
  • intransitive verb. To play; to sport.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Fine linen.
  • noun. A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
  • noun. A large, landlocked, naturally-occurring stretch of water.
  • noun. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
  • noun. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
  • verb. To make lake-red.
  • noun. An offering, sacrifice, gift.
  • noun. Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
  • verb. To present an offering.
  • verb. To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
  • noun. a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
  • noun. any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
  • Word Usage
    "Beyond lake Winipic, the canoes have to pass along many rapids, and through several small lakes, called _Cedar lake_, _Mud lake_, and"
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    pigment  
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    Ache  Blake  Drake  Haik  Jake  
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    Miles  a'  bay  beach  bow  
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