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Thesaurus: lake

A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.

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  1. n. A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
  2. n. A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
  3. v. i. To play; to sport.
  4. n. A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
  5. n. a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
  6. n. a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
  7. n. any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
  8. A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually byprecipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminiumhydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
  9. n:100 n. a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land n. a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal n. any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments