lake

1. 1

   A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.

   • These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].
2. 2

   A large amount of liquid.

   • a lake of wine
   • So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
3. 3

   A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.dialectal

4. 4

   A pit, or ditch.obsolete

syn. lake · loch

1. 1

   An offering, sacrifice, gift.obsolete

2. 2

   Play; sport; game; fun; glee.dialectal

syn. lake · loch

1. 1

   To present an offering.obsolete

2. 2

   To leap, jump, exert oneself; to play.NorthernUKdialectal

   • The agent was of course the Boggart, and it soon became their sport (which they called laking with Boggart) to put the shoe-horn into the hole and have it shot back at them.
3. 3

   To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.

1. 1

   A kind of fine, white linen.obsolete

syn. lake · loch

1. 1

   In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.countableuncountable

   • The colour scheme of the North British Railway—dark gamboge for the engines and lake for the coaches—looked very smart when new and clean, but these shades did not possess good wearing qualities.
2. 2

   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.countableuncountable

   • The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.

syn. lake · loch

1. 1

   To make lake-red.