Do we say lac or lack

lac 363 occurrences

Excursions to the Lac de Lourdes, &c. LOURES (1445 ft.).A village in the Hautes-Pyrénées, 17 1/2 miles from Luchon and 3 from St. Bertrand de Comminges (see Chapter XI.), for which it is the station on the railway between Luchon and Montrejeau, and carriages await trains. Hotels.

The native merchants have from one lac to one and a half.

Mollior cuniculi capillo, &c. [5402] "Lydia bella, puelia candida, Quae bene superas lac, et lilium, Albamque simul rosam et rubicundam, Et expolitum ebur Indicum.

Idem praestat Topatius annulo gestatus, dexterum lupi testiculum attritum, et oleo vel aqua rosata exhibitum veneris taedium inducere scribit Alexander Benedictus: lac butyri commestum et semen canabis, et camphora exhibita idem praestant.

that will rise to-ward the skies, And float a-bove the li-lac tree.

In trade fabrics are always described in the plural, and the Z in Chintz is no doubt a perversion, through misunderstanding, of the terminal S. Lac is another Indian word which has retained its own meaning, but it has gone beyond it and given rise to a verb "to lacquer.

Lake Michigan, called by the early voyagers Lac des Illinois, is next in size to Superior, being 320 miles in length and 100 in breadth, with a circumference, including Green Bay, of 1300 miles.

Having concluded my affairs at St, Peters, I determined to return to the basin of Lake Superior, by ascending the river St. Croix to its source, and passing across the portage of the Misakoda, or Burntwood River, into the Fond du Lac Bay.

"Since that battle was fought, a body of one hundred Sioux have attacked a fortified camp of the Mille Lac and Snake River band, and killed nine men and one woman.

Wrote to Rev. D. Greene, Missionary Rooms, Boston, giving my opinion respecting the establishment of a mission among the Odjibwas at Fond du Lac, Lake Superior.

She adds: "The son of this Bonga was the late Bonga, who died as a comme, at Lake Winnepec, of the Fond du Lac Department.

"You mention the receipt of a letter from Mr. Greene, relative to the field at Fond du Lac.

The Sioux, who had committed pretty bad Indian murders amongst the Chippewas, were in great numbers about Lac qui Parle, and there was no avoiding them.

Cuidam misero lac desideranti, ad mulgendum se praebuit!'See p. 153.

DAME DU LAC, Vivienne le Fay.

" Dame du Lac, Sebille (2 syl.).

It is the dungeon of Ardrossan, in Ayrshire, where Wallace had the dead bodies of the garrison thrown, surprised by him in the reign of Edward I. Douloureuse Garde (La), a castle in Berwick-upon-Tweed, won by Sir Launcelot du Lac, in one of the most terrific adventures related in romance.

"the foragn country," and the unwedded mother of Sir Galahad by Sir Launcelot du Lac.

(In Fond du Lac commonwealth reporter, Sept. 7, 9-10, 1940) © 7Sep40, A5-115672; 9Sep40, A5-115673; 10Sep40, A5-115674.

Le Lac d'Annecy.

..7.33 Fond du Lac.

LAC, a term employed in India for a hundred thousand, a crore amounting to 100 lacs, usually of money.

2½d.; a lac of rupees equals 100,000.

Wife of Hygelac, 18. HY'GE-LAC.

Illtreated by Reynard, 37; psalm-singing of, 38; slain at Malepartus, 46; head of, 47; Reynard confesses murder of, 48; Reynard's excuses for murder of, 49. LAN'CE-LOT DU LAC, SIR.

lack 4209 occurrences

He don' look lack a black man somehow er nuther, an' yet he don' look lack a w'ite man; he 's too dahk, an' his hair's too curly.

He don' look lack a black man somehow er nuther, an' yet he don' look lack a w'ite man; he 's too dahk, an' his hair's too curly.

He don' look lack dese yer niggers roun' yere, ner yet lack a w'ite man.

He don' look lack dese yer niggers roun' yere, ner yet lack a w'ite man.

"Po' boy," she said, "he doan feel lack he 's be'n eatin' nuff to feed a sparrer.

"He come jes' befo' Sherman," said Needham, after a few weeks, "lack John de Baptis' befo' de Lawd.

You kin jes' bet me and Mars Dick gwine git 'long jes' lack I wuz own boy ter Mars Dick.

As though there was a poundage of joy and additional muscle in self-mastery, the frame of the chestnut filled, his neck arched, and there came into his eyes that gleam which no man can describe and which for lack of words he calls the light of the wild.

It seems that the Doctor attended a dance one evening in a dress coat, the quality and lack of quantity of which were a flagrant indication of a sparse, not to say extremely needy, wardrobe.

The Bachelors' Cotillon fell through for lack of interest, they said, but I have my doubts on that score.

If Jack had known that until his coming her wrist had been all right, and that it had not become disjointed until he rang the front door bell of the Barbett house, he might not have been so pleased as he entered the item against Judge Barbett in his book, nor would he have wondered at the lack of inflammation.

In just what respect she showed her splendor, save in her regal lack of manners and the marvellous coloring of her costumes on her Sundays out, was never perceptible, but one thing that was wholly clear at the end of a three-weeks' service was her independence of manner.

"I lack many things, Madam," he resumed at length.

"I do not lack honesty even with myself, and I do not lie even to a woman.

I think it should be enough for a man's happiness to possess a sufficiency and to lack nothing that the body requires, and I hold that everything in excess brings anxieties and trouble and jealousies.

Necessities you have in sufficiency and you lack no measure of esteem.

As a result they were filled with pride, and thinking that he had fled, both because of the defeat and because owing to a lack of provisions he was turning aside to a city that was off the road, they abandoned further progress to pursue after him.

It may, however, be said in extenuation of the lack of hospitality on the part of the missionaries of which he complains, that many of the early residents and European visitors to New Zealand were of an undesirable class, and that they exercised a demoralising influence upon the Maoris.

Masculine coarseness and lack of chivalry are also revealed in such abuse of woman as Aeschylusin the favorite Greek manner, puts in the mouth of Eteocles: "O ye abominations of the wise.

The father-in-law of Alcestis, in his indignation at his son's impertinence and lack of filial pity, exclaims that what made Alcestis sacrifice herself was "want of sense;" which is quite true.

While considering the love-affairs of Africans, Australians, and other uncivilized peoples, we were dealing with races whose lack of intelligence and delicacy in general made it natural to expect that their love, too, must be wanting in psychic qualities and refinement.

The unwomanly lack of coyness which Medea displays when she practically proposes to Jason, expecting him to marry her out of gratitude, is copied after the Nausicäa of the Odyssey.

But what repels modern taste still more than this artificiality and lack of inspiration is the effeminate degradation of the masculine type most admired.

You will be led forth beside the waters of comfortyou will lack nothingyour cup will be full.

'Where's the bad character?' 'Gumbile,' answered Macgregor, who would not for worlds have betrayed his friend's lack of skill with the rifle.

Do we say   lac   or  lack