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laky en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈleɪki/
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Etymology

From Middle English laky, equivalent to lake + -y.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a lake.
   • By bulwark, line, and battlement, And flanking towers, and laky flood , Guarded and garrison'd she stood 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
2. Of the color of a lake pigment; murky.
3. Transparent; said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

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