lant

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Vig'i-lant, watchful.

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  1. Urine; especially, stale urine. Stale urine, or lant, has been much used as a detergent in wool-scouring on account of the ammonium, carbonate it contains. Though still used, it has been largely supplanted by ammonia, sodium carbonate, etc. The use of sulphurous acid, and of ammoniacal liquors in the form of lant or stale urine, is known (from drawings on the walls of Pompeii) to have been practised by the Romans. Spons' Encyc. Manuf., I. 509.
  2. To wet or mingle with urine.
  3. A contraction of lanterloo.
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  • But a major portion of the items on the list are quite standard today: of specific words to avoid, we know of no modern injunctions against bogus, collided, compete, donate, and many others; of substitutions, we find quaint such interdictions as casket (for coffin), jubi - lant (for rejoicing), official (for officer), pants (for pantaloons), reliable (for trustworthy), and quite (when prefixed to good, large, etc.). —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1
  • "Just wanted ta let you know I was ready to earn my keep. —  Myth Conceptions
  • Vig'i-lant, watchful. —  McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
  • "lant," (Ammodytes americanus). —  Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
  • Roweth enites near the lant, —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
 

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  1. Var. of land.
  2. from lant, n.
  3. Abbr. of lanterloo.
  4. A variant of lance, launce.
 

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