Laurel - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: laurelLaureled
Crowned with laurel or with a laurel wreath laureate...
Laurels
Laurels, pieces of gold, coined in 1619, with the king's head laureated; hence the name....
Lambkill
A small American ericaceous shrub Kalmia angustifolia resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers called also calfkill sheepkill sheep laurel etc It is supposed to poison young sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food...
Laureate or laureat
Laureate or laureat. [fr. lauera, Lat.] an officer of the household of the sovereign, whose business formerly consisted only in composing an ode annually, on the sovereign's birthday, and on the new year; sometimes also, though rarely, on occasion of any remarkable victory, Warton's Hist. of English Poetry. The annual birthday ode has been discontinued for many years. the title is derived from the circumstance that in classical times and in the Middle Ages the most distinguished poets were solemnly crowned with laurel. From this the practice found its way into our universities; and it is for that reason that Selden, in his Titles of Honour, speaks of the laurel crown as an ensign of the degree of mastership in poetry. A relic of the old university practice of crowning distinguished student of poetry exists in the term 'Laureation,' which is still used at one of the Scotch Universities (St. Andrews), to signify the taking of the degree of Master of Arts....
Bay tree
A species of laurel Laurus nobilis...
Daphnomancy
Divination by means of the laurel...
VerbarKalmia
A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers Called also mountain laurel ivy bush lamb kill calico bush etc...
Lauraceous
Belonging to or resembling a natural order Lauraceaelig of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage and including the laurel sassafras cinnamon tree true camphor tree etc...
Laureate
Crowned or decked with laurel...
Laureation
The act of crowning with laurel the act of conferring an academic degree or honorary title...
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