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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.
  2. Interior; pertaining to the internal affairs of a corporation or society, or confined to its members.
  3. n. A bosom friend; a confidant.
  4. n. One who is receiving nurture or education; specifically, a resident at a university.
  5. n. Eccles., a piece of cloth, originally a towel of fine linen, later a piece of silk or damask and often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the lap of a bishop, during mass or ordination, to protect his vestments from the consecrated oil. A similar vestment used by the Pope is called a subcinctorium.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the lap
  2. n. A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests
  3. n. obsolete A bosom friend.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.
  2. n. obsolete A bosom friend.
  3. n. (Ecol.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests.

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