Baccalaureate :: Baccalaureate (n.) The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges..

Baccalaureate :: Baccalaureate (n.) A baccalaureate sermon.

Baccalaureate :: Baccalaureate (a.) Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.

Laura :: Laura (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.

Lauraceous :: Lauraceous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc..

Laurate :: Laurate (n.) A salt of lauric acid.

Laureate :: Laureate (a.) Crowned, or decked, with laurel..

Laureate :: Laureate (n.) One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.

Laureate :: Laureate (v. i.) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities..

Laureated :: Laureated (imp. & p. p.) of Laureat.

Laureateship :: Laureateship (n.) State, or office, of a laureate..

Laureating :: Laureating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laureat.

Laureation :: Laureation (n.) The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title..

Laurel :: Laurel (n.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay..

Laurel :: Laurel (n.) A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels..

Laurel :: Laurel (n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel..

Laureled :: Laureled (a.) Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate..

Laurentian :: Laurentian (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills..

Laurer :: Laurer (n.) Laurel.

Laurestine :: Laurestine (n.) The Viburnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths..

Lauric :: Lauric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel (Laurus nobilis)..

Lauriferous :: Lauriferous (a.) Producing, or bringing, laurel..

Laurin :: Laurin (n.) A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids..

Laurinol :: Laurinol (n.) Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Lauraceae) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.

Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

Laurite :: Laurite (n.) A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

Laurone :: Laurone (n.) The ketone of lauric acid.

Laurus :: Laurus (n.) A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger L. Canariensis of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs, were also referred to the genus Laurus..

Roquelaure :: Roquelaure (n.) A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century..

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