lakes
/leɪks/ · noun
Meaning
- A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- A large, landlocked stretch of water.
- A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
- A pit, or ditch
- An offering, sacrifice, gift.
- Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- To present an offering.
- To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
- A kind of fine, white linen.
- 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.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
- To make lake-red.
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