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  • lawful
    [cf. Krio loful pikin legitimate child KED; OED, of offspring: born in lawful wedlock, e.g. "lawful issue"] adj. (of children) legitimate: I'm the
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  • law:
    more than the law allow [cf. OED law custom; customary rule or usage obs.-1535] phr. more than proper or customary:
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  • laughing bird
    (San Sal.); laughing pinder (Andros); laughy (Black)  [cf. Irel. laughing gull the herring gull EDD; cf. OED laughing in the names of
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  • laugh: Oh Lord, I can't laugh
    phr. I could die laughing. (Exuma)
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  • lau
    /law/ [etym. uncertain, but cf. Sp. bacalao /bakáláw/ codfish, or various locally important food fishes W3] n. a long fish (sp?)
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  • latrope
    [from heliotrope?] n. the small-leaf wild fig, Ficus perforata. (Adelaide)
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  • latrin
    /látrin/ [cf. OED latron obs. Scots variant of latrine] n. a privy, (Exuma)
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  • lated
    [Car.; Gul. idem (Writers' Program 1940:31); OED, belated poetical; Brit. dial. North idem EDD] adj. 1. late; behind time: 1936
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  • last of all
    [OED, (at) the very last] adv. phr. finally: 1925 Each one want the other to begin. Last of all they
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  • last name
     ["A person's surname is referred to as his . . . first name because he was born with it" (Otterbein
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