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Latch. 160 Laundress.
1607. The Puritan, ii. 1. A fine
gallant Knight of the LEAST FEATHER.
LATCH, verb. (old).—To let in.—
New Cant. Diet. (1725); GROSE
(1785) and Lex. Bal. (18i1).
LATCH-DRAWER, subs. (old).—A
thief who stole into houses by
drawing the latch.
1362. LANGLAND, Piers Plowman,
p. 143. Thank lyers and LATCHE-DRAWERS
and tolleres knocke, Let hem abyde tyl
the bord be drawe.
LATCH-PAN, subs. (common).—The
under-lip : TO HANG ONE'S LATCH-
PAN = to pout ; to be sulky.
LATE-PLAY, subs. (Westminster
School).—A half-holiday or holiday
beginning at noon.
LATH-AND-PLASTER, subs. (rhyming).
—A master.
LATHER, subs. (venery).—The sexual
secretion, male and female.
Cf. LETCH-WATER. Hence, LATH-
ER-MAKER = the female pudendum.
For synonyms see CREAM.
Verb. (common).—To beat ; to
thra3h. Also LEATHER (q.v.).
1849. Punch's Almanack. To dream
of soap betokens a combat in which you
may expect to get LATHERED.
LATHY, adj. (colloquial).—Thin.
1748. WEST, Abuse of Travelling,
The which he tossed to and fro amain,
And eft his LATHY falchion brandished.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.
LATHY. . . . a LATHY wench, a girl
almost as slender as a lath.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1858. B. TAYLOR, Northern Travel,
204. A LATHY young man. . . . was
struggling. . . . to right himself.
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
LATITAT, subs. (old).—An attorney.
—GR0sE(1785); Lex.Bal.(18 ii);
1\IAT8ELL (1859). [From an obsolete
form of writ].
1771. FOOTE, Maid of Bath, i. I
will send for Luke LATITAT and Codicil,
and make a handsome bequest to
the hospital.
LATTER -END, subs. (common).—The
breech. For synonyms see MO-
NOCULAR EYEGLASS.
LATTICE. See RED LATTICE.
LATTY. See LETTY.
LAUGH. To LAUGH ON THE WRONG
(or OTHER) SIDE OF ONE'S MOUTH
(or FACE), subs. phr. (colloquial).
—To cry.
1811. Lex. Bal., S.V. LAUGH.
1823. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.
LAUGH.
1826. BUCKSTONE, Death Fetch, i.
4. Snapsch. (Aside.) And have a pretty
family of them about my ems the first
time I'm left alone in the dark, who
would soon make me LAUGH ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF MY MOUTH, I fancy.
1837. CARLYLE, Diamond Necklace,
Hi. By and bye thou wilt LAUGH ON THE
WRONG SIDE OF THY FACE.
LAUNCH, subs. (old).—A lying-in ;
BUST-UP; EXPLOSION.—GROSE
(182 3 ).
Verb. (old: public school).—See
quot.
1865. G. J. BERKELEY, My Life, MC.,
i. 129. I had [at Sandhurit about 1815]
to undergo the usual torments of being
LAUNCHED, that is having my bed revcrsc...d
while I was asleep ; of being thrown on
the floor on my face, with the mattress
on my back and all my friends or foes
dancing on my prostrate body.
LAUNDRESS, subs. (old).--T. A bed
maker in chambers ; and hence (2)
a SMOCK SERVANT (q.v.).