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Definitions

Adjective

1. 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"

2. 2
   Of the color of a lake pigment; murky.
3. 3
   Transparent; said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

Synonyms

All synonyms

cardinalcarminecerisecrimsonfieryflaming

Example

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"By bulwark, line, and battlement, And flanking towers, and laky flood , Guarded and garrison'd she stood"

Etymology

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

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