Knowledge, n. 1. Apprehension, comprehension, perception, understanding, discernment, judgment.
2. Learning, erudition, scholarship, enlightenment, lore, acquirements, attainments.
3. Cognizance, cognition, notice, information.
Knuckle, v. n. Yield (obsequiously), submit, cringe, stoop, crouch, give up, knock under.
Knurly, a. Knotty, knotted, knarled.
L
Labor, n. 1. Toil, work, exertion, effort, pains, drudgery.
2. Travail, parturition, childbirth, delivery.
Labor, v. n. 1. Toll, strive, drudge, work, exert one's self, take pains.
2. Suffer, be afflicted, be distressed.
3. Travail, be in travail, be in labor.
Labored, a. Elaborate, studied, carefully wrought.
Laborer, n. Workman, operative.
Laborious, a. 1. Industrious, sedulous, assiduous, diligent, toiling, hard-working, painstaking.
2. Difficult, arduous, onerous, toilsome, tiresome, wearisome, fatiguing, irksome, hard, Herculean.
Laboriousness, n. Toilsomeness, difficulty.
Labor of love, Gratuitous service.
Labyrinth, n. Maze, perplexity, intricacy.
Labyrinthian, n. Mazy, confused.
Lacerate, v. a. Tear, sever, mangle, rend, lancinate, laniate, claw, tear asunder, tear to pieces.
Laceration, n. Tearing, rending.
Laches, n. pl. (Law.) Negligence, remissness, neglect of duty.
Lack, v. a. Want, need, be in want of, be in need of, be destitute of, be without.
Lack, v. n. 1. Be in want.
2. Be wanting.
Lack, n. Need, deficiency, destitution, want, scantiness, insufficiency, scarcity, dearth, default, defectiveness, shortness, shortcoming, deficit.
Lack-brain, n. Simpleton, dunce.
Lackadaisical, a. Sorrowful (affectedly), sad, melancholy, gloomy.
Lackaday, interj. Alas.
Lackey, n. Footman, footboy, errand-boy.
Lackey, v. a. Attend (as a servant), wait on, dance attendance on.
Laconic, a. Short, brief, concise, succinct, compact, sententious, terse, pithy, curt.
Laconical, a. Short, brief, concise, succinct, compact, sententious, terse, pithy, curt.
Lacquer, n. Varnish (of shell-lac).
Lacquer, v. a. Varnish (with lacquer), japan.
Lactescence, n. Milkiness.
Lad, n. Boy, stripling, youngster, youth, schoolboy, yonker, young man.
Lade, v. a. 1. Load, freight.
2. Dip, bale.
Lading, n. Freight, cargo, load, burden.
Lady, n. 1. Mistress, matron.
2. Woman of rank, woman of distinction.
3. Woman of refinement, well-bred woman, genteel woman.