a. & adv. Less. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lace. See Lace. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A baked dish of layers of lasagna{ 2 } pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables; -- a popular dish of Italian cuisine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. large flat rectangular strips of pasta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Per. & Hind. lashkar an army, an inferior artillery man, a cooly, a native sailor. ] A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower. [ East Indies ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Loose; lascivious. [ Obs. ] “To depaint lascious wantonness.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Lascivient. ] Lasciviousness; wantonness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lasciviens, pr. of lascivire to be wanton, fr. lascivus. See Lascivious. ] Lascivious. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lascivia wantonness, fr. lascivus wanton; cf. Gr. la`stauros lecherous, lh^n to wish, Skr. lash to desire. ] 1. Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions. [ 1913 Webster ]

He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Shak.

-- Las*civ"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Las*civ"i*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or habitual condition of feeling an excessive or morbid sexual desire.
Syn. -- prurience, pruriency, carnality. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>v. i. [ imp. & p. p. lased p. pr. & vb. n. lasing. ] [ by back-formation from laser. See laser. ] To give off a beam of coherent light; -- of a laser. [ PJC ]