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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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.
  2. To wet or mingle with urine.
  3. n. A contraction of lanterloo.
  4. n. In ichthyology, the lance.
  5. n. An obsolete preterit of lend.
  6. n. Specifically, Ammodytes americanus. See sand-eel, 1.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Aged urine.
  2. v. transitive, obsolete To flavor (ale) with aged urine.
  3. n. UK, dialect, Northern England Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Prov. Eng. Urine.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (Ammedytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammedytes Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.
  3. n. obsolete See lanterloo.

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of earlier land ("urine"), from Middle English land ("urine"), from Old English hland ("urine"), from Proto-Germanic *hlandan (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland ("urine"), Norwegian land ("urine"). (Wiktionary)

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  1. urine

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  2. por
  3. agis
  4. haddie
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  2. axlotl
  3. octopi
  4. hake
  1. sumam
  2. oritur
  3. child
  4. sprat
  1. ianuam
  2. abalone
  3. hyb
  4. krill
  1. 000-gallon
  2. author
  3. bannock
  4. Nata

rhymes (35)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Ant
  2. Brandt
  3. Brant
  4. Grant
  5. Kant
  6. Levant
  7. Quant
  1. ant
  2. aunt
  3. brant
  4. cant
  5. chant
  6. dant
  7. decant
  1. enchant
  2. gant
  3. grant
  4. implant
  5. incant
  6. levant
  7. pant
  1. plant
  2. quant
  3. rant
  4. recant
  5. replant
  6. sant
  7. scant
  1. slant
  2. stant
  3. supplant
  4. tant
  5. transplant
  6. trant
  7. zant

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lanterloo
  1. land
  1. launce
  1. gallantly
  1. lantify
  1. sand launce
  1. tobias fish
  1. gallant

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Words tagged ‘lant’

  1. lanterloo

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  • ruzuzu Also see lanterloo. Sep 15, 2011

  • sionnach See waulking. Mar 25, 2009

  • sionnach saltpetre makers and fullers need your lant

    Then there was the German obsession with angel's piss, a substance thought in Teutonic myth to be the elixir of life. This ultimately led to plans to invade England, which - in a hilarious etymological misunderstanding - was erroneously believed to be the source of the coveted 'Engel-lant'. Jul 22, 2008

  • bilby Some of the sources mention one of its uses as a flavouring for beer. Now THAT's a sustainable industry. Jul 22, 2008

  • chained_bear ... No. No, I don't think so. But it is used repeatedly in a comedy song by Stan Freberg, a spoof of Lawrence Welk, called "Wun'erful, Wun'erful."

    I don't think it has the same meaning.

    Probably for manufacturing chemicals like saltpeter and black powder, I would guess. Jul 22, 2008

  • bilby Manufacturing ... what? Actually, might be better not to know. Hey c_b, is this you-know-what? Jul 22, 2008

  • sionnach Stale urine used in manufacturing. Jan 6, 2008

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