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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
2. (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
3. (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
4. 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.
5. A large amount of liquid.
6. (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
7. 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.
8. (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
9. (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.

Verbi

1. (obsolete) To present an offering.
2. To make lake-red.
3. (dialectal, Northern, UK) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
4. Subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.