(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. ᵂᵖ

(ergative) To fasten (something) with laces. / (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink). / (transitive) To interweave items.

(particularly anatomy) A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone. / (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.

A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want. / (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

(transitive) To be without, to need, to require. / (intransitive) To be short (of or for something). / (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.

Archaic form of lakh.

(biochemistry) The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.

(intransitive) To secrete or produce milk

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of lactic acid / Ellipsis of lactate ion.

(organic chemistry) 2-hydroxy-propanoic acid (CH₃.CHOH.CO₂H), a syrupy liquid, soluble in water; found in milk, wine and many fruits; used as a food additive and in many industrial applications.